When someone thinks about a family, they think of people willing to do anything to protect one of their own, but not me. Whenever family is brought up, I think of people willing to exploit their own to get what they want and people who will take in an orphan for a few weeks, giving them false hope, before returning them to the orphanage.
Wait, I forgot to introduce who I am. Well, my name is Skye, formerly Mary Sue Poots and I am currently 25. I am what you would call an orphan, but I don't live in an orphanage anymore, not since I was "adopted" by this organization that you may not have heard of. What this organization does is "adopt" orphans who look pretty but not pretty enough to be missed by people when they show up missing. By now, you may be asking "What is the name of this organization?" and are hoping that I disclose that information, but I'm afraid I can't do that.
Anyways, back to who I am. I am one of those orphans who would usually get fostered by people who seem like nice people when out in public, but are pretty nasty when enclosed in close quarters. When I was alone with one of my foster parents once upon a time, I saw and felt things that normal 5-year-olds should never witness or feel. I would occasionally be adopted by nice people and they would keep me around for a few weeks, but they always send me back after my job is done which is usually just sitting there, looking pretty but being well behaved. After a few times of having to go through being adopted and being brought back to either orphanages or foster families, I gave up on the hope that I would once have a family who would protect me like I was one of their own.
Ever since I was little, I had these words written across my left arm that read "Don't worry. I'm here, little one. Shhh." When I ask my foster parents, teachers, or the head of the orphanages I lived with about the words scribbled permanently across my arm, they always waved me off, saying that it was unimportant and that I would never be able to find out what it meant because I was always going to be unsuccessful in life.