Katherin was a shy, sensitive girl who spent most of her time alone. The only person she could talk to was her mum. They were very close. It was only them, no one else no friends or family. For these and many other reasons Katherin had been bullied since she was very young. She mainly received verbal abuse, there favourite insults were 'cold', 'emotionless' and 'freak' this was because she never responded when people talked to her, she knew they wouldn't get on. She had a very good judge of character and the people she had to work with weren't people who she could trust. She was highly intelligent and decided to take steps to ensure that the people were not violent towards her; she had reached a third dan black belt in karate. The people at her school only found this out when she put one of the most ferocious rugby players into the emergency room without breaking a sweat. After that day they all just ignored her. She liked it that way.
On Katherin's fourteenth birthday her mum took her to the cinema to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, it was the most fun she had had in years. Then her world got turned upside down. They were walking home and decided to take a shortcut. Katherin heard something moving nearby but thought nothing of it. Then suddenly four masked men jumped out at them from a garden. One of the men grabbed Katherin's arms and legs before she had chance to act. She noticed the man walking towards her mum had a huge knife in his hand, possibly a hunting knife. He grabbed her mum's hair.
"Where's my money bitch?" he demanded. Her mother was white in contrast to her dark brown hair.
"W-what money?" she stuttered meekly. Katherin thought she knew what was happening and this man's behaviour confirmed this. It was drugs. Her mum was an addict. Katherin didn't think it posed this kind of a threat.
"Is this about your problem?" She asked her mum, she got ignored
"I-I don't have any money." She crocked in tears. Then it was as if everything slowed down. The man with the knife smiled and told her how she could pay him back; when she refused he lunged towards her.
The men fled. Katherin was ready to follow them but she saw her mum. She was clearly in pain. There was blood rising in her throat, yet some how she managed to croak
"Remember, I will always love you." Whilst clinging on to Katherin's shirt. Slowly her grip slackened as she died in her daughters arms. Katherin walked home in a daze. Was it all real... or was it all just a terrible nightmare?
When she opened the door to her tiny apartment she kicked a thick envelope.
"Huh, where's this come from?" she murmurs picking it up carefully. It was addressed to her, but how could it have arrived so late? After standing behind the closed door for a few minutes she decides to go and sit in her mum's room. She glanced around the main room, how many times had she seen her mum sat in the arm chair with bloodshot eyes after she had given in. This was where she thought she would find her mum. Dead.
As she entered her mums room the smell of must have mint hit her like a brick wall. She lay on the bed and opened the letter. As she read it in her head it confused her so she read it aloud
"dear Katherin Redbird. We are aware of your current situation; your mother has left you a note that is concealed within this envelope." She stopped to feel for the second envelope, sure enough it was there. She read on "your mother knew something bad could have happened to her at any moment so she put your name down for Wammys House, a boarding school for gifted orphans like yourself we must test you to see what level you are at. We will send our best three students and one of our teachers tomorrow if you decided to come, we will be phoning at half past eleven. Signed Q. Wammy. ... Who's that?"She looked at the clock. Five minutes until they phoned. She pulled a photo album out from under the bed and turned to the back. There lay a picture of her and her mum that was taken that morning. Katherin remembers the note of her mum "dear Katherin, keep this with you always, don't blame yourself, and remember I'll love you forever as I love you now, love mum" Katherin instantly knew this wasn't forged as it was written in her mothers untidy scrawl. She folded the piece of paper up and walked over to her mother's jewellery box. She took out a locket that her mum used to wear all the time and sealed the note in it and fastened it around her neck. The phone began to ring, she looked at her clock. It was exactly half past eleven.
"hello." she mumbles monotonously not wanting a stranger to know she is upset. "Katherin speaking"
"hello Katherin, i'm Q. Wammy. Have you decided to enrol at Wammys house?"
"Yes but first I would like to know how you knew."
"Knew technology Katherin, I watched the little dot which was your mothers life fade."
"What time will you be here?"
"Ten o'clock tomorrow morning and it will be roger that we will be sending."
"Ok is that all?"
"Yes, good bye."
"Goodbye" she put the phone down and went to bed. 'Tomorrow will be an interesting day.' Kat thinks to herself as she wraps the blanket around herself.
