Melting The Ice
By Armonia
Chapter 1: Meet Grim
Grim stared out the window of the train watching the scenery fly by. The brown haired sixteen year old been on the train for months now traveling from one city to the next with the rest of the orphan children. They've been traveling with an organization that is trying to show off these kids in hopes of getting them adopted but the adults wanted the little children, not the teenagers. Grim never got her hopes up but it did hurt that she kept getting looked over. So, she decided to pack up her things and head to New York City.
New York City?, she thought to herself. The organization didn't get to New York yet but she wanted to go somewhat that is entirely new. In every city that she's been in, she always got in trouble with the law. Grim blamed it on getting passed over for a six year old brat. She's actually never allowed to step foot in certain cities. Going to a new place, she thought, can be good for me…hopefully.
Grim's real name is Edna Kane but she preferred Grim. Someone took a look at her and said, "Boy, ain't this girl grim looking", and it stuck. Her father was a cop and her mother worked in a bar as the organization's people once told her. One night, her father and mother had relations in the alley behind the bar. When Grim was three, her mother was murdered by her boyfriend. She was told that she never smiled since she's been with the organization. Grim can't remember the last time she smiled a true smile, not just a forced one. Her earliest memory of her mother was…when was it?, she thought. Well, it mustn't have been a good one if she can't remember. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes. New York can do me a world of good, she thought.