...Authors note ... I have desided to rewrite this as i waswnr happy with it so hope this is better and Merry christmas everyone
It was a bitterly cold day in the small town of south park in Colorado and a blizzard had been promised for later yet it had been snowing most of the day on and off and the temprutures were below minus and most sensible people were indoors on such a bad day but a few were brave enough to venture out mostly last moment chriistmas shoppers or people heading to parties early or trying to get away for a few days for a christmas break so their was a few people out and about but mostly in warm cosy cars and those who were on foot were bundled up in warm clothes so rhey wouldnt feel the cold and already over a foot of snow lay on the ground and a few snowflakes were in the air again
Aslo on a street corner the salvation Army played christmas carols whist collecting for charity ty their was a fat man dressed as santa ringing a bell and yelling " Merry christmas everyone ' and only a few people stopped by to listen to the carols or say hi to Santa but mostly those who were out were in a rush running like crazy with bags and packages as if it was the last day and the shops would not open again for months nard to belive the stores were only closing for like 2 days the way people were carrying on and voices of people shouting and arguimg over the last must have toy could be heard
Also out on that bitterly cold day against her will was a tiny painfully thin little girl and she was wandering the cold dark lonely streets shivering as she was only wearing a very thin cotton summer dress what was way to small for her and came to the tops of her knees and was so worn with age it started to rip a little and it had short sleeves and the dress was filthy and offerd no heat at all and also on her feet she wore a pair of old worn open toed and heeled sandles so her feet were blue and numb with the cold and the little girl had no warm coat scarf hat gloves or boots that the other people were wearing on this cold day to protect the against the bitter cold winters day truth was the little girl could not afford them well that was what her father had told her so she had to make do with what she had and brave the cold otherwise if she complained well she dreaded to think what would happen so she just did what she was told otherwise shed be beaten by her crule father but warm clothes and food was a luxury for the little girl as she was freezing and staving as she had nothing to eat in over a day and her empty stomach growled in protest but she tried to ignore Sad thing was the little girl's life had gotten worse since her poor mom had died earler that year although her mother had a drink and drugs problem she always looked out for her daughter and tried to protect her and showed her kindness unlike her no use of a father but worst thing was the year before she had lost her Gauidan Angel her beloved older brother who always took care for her and even called her princess and was so good to her and loved her with all his heart
Kenny had died of a musculer disease noone knew what caused it as hed always been healthy and their was anther older brother who had gone off the rails so to say as kenny always kept hiin in order and since kenny's death Kevin had gone wild so to say and now he was in the jail and would not be out till May they wanted to teach him a lesson so he would not be home for christmas and as for the father stuart he had now washed his hands of him and before he went to Jail Kevin was living with his girlfriend at the trailer park and the father Stuart well he was a wast of space so to say a no user drunken alcaholic who was never sober and always ended up lying drunk in the gutter and also getting into fights with people and since his wife died he had gotten 100 times worse and he didnt give a damn about his little daughter and a lot of times he told her he hated her and wanted her to die too and also he hit her a lot he was very handy with his fists and abused his family and would often take his belt off to kenny beating him stuart just didnt care apart from himself and where his next drink was coming from and the little girl remeberd lots of times when Kenny had to go and look for their father and drag him home drunk from some bar and for hours later their parents would fight so theird be shouting swearing doors being slammed things being smashed and next day their mother would be coverd in bruises and would lie for him saying she fell over something really no child should see that but these children did nearly every day from a very young age but since his wife and kenny died Stuart took his anger out on his little daughter who was only 7 years old now but could pass for a child of 5 or 6 she was so tiny and thin a bag of bones really and so much sadness in her big brown eyes
Little Karen MC cormick wanderd through the dark streets shivering in the blizzards that now come and batterd against her and icy cold winds bit through her thin pale flesh turning her tiny feet hands and little sad face blue with the cold and her thin short summer dress was usless really as it gave no heat so Karen had to keep moving to try and keep warm otherwise shed freeze to death and also she carried with her an old batterd brown bag that she tresured as it once belonged to Kenny it was his old school bag and in the bag was a bottle of water a half eaten pop tart a tiny polly pocket doll that was like 5 inches big and her beloved pink rag doll her only dolls she owned and old very much tresured naked GI Joe doll that was kenny's only toy and a very much tresured photo of herself Kenny and their mum in happier times though the photo was dreased and old now Karen loved it that was her only posessions she had and she loved them dearly probably not worth much but to karen they were priceless and also in the bag was a few boxes of matches
Karen was selling matches for a dollar a box but sadly noone had bought any as the felt the did not need them as most people had lighters now and hardly used matches so they never really gave karen a second glance she may as well been invisable really and poor karen felt very sad and miserable and her stomach was still growling as if demanding to be filled and causing karen pain but Karen very much doubted shed be eating anything today infact Karen had not eaten properly since her mother had died so she was so so skinny to the point of anorexia as had lost quite a bit of weight
As she was so so cold Kaen shood have gone home really but she darent go home not till she sold her matches and get the money as she knew her father would beat her in a drunken rage if she went home empty handed and any money that was ever made he would take it and spend it on drink and maybe a take away and she ate what was left over from his meals the cold food what he did not want and yet he had drooled over but it was better than nothing to karen and also the house was not much warmer than the cold streets due to unpaid electricaty bills the power was cut off so the house was freezing cold had bad dampness so smelled bad and no hot water or hot food and they could not even wash their clothes unless it was in cold water and they took 2 days to dry
As she wandred through the town Karen paused a bit to listen to the soft strains of Silent night played by the salvation army one of karen's favriouts before they launched into a christmas song Mistletoe and wine so Karen stayed and listended to that with a gew others but feeling the cold tryijg to freeze her uo Karen moved on again hoping to sell more matches before the stores all closed as the people would go home as the stores closed 4.30 and it was now after 3 so she had to try and catch the shoppers if she wanted to get some money to give to her father
As karen wander through the cold dark streets she was not realy looking where she was going and suddenly she heard 2 voices shouting at her in a crule way and karen turned round to see 2 boys she knew on bikes one had brown spiky hair the other had cropped dark hair and both looked very mean and scared karen
Well thats that chappy done more to come