Disclaimer- nothing but the story itself is mine (and even that is heavily influenced by a book that isn't mine, but I didn't copy)
PROLOGUE
A crowd watched as the house burned. The firemen had arrived, but were too late to save the house or anyone inside. It was a large house and the couple who lived there were very wealthy. The man owned a large company and ran it with his brother, but nothing was known of his home life other than he was married and his wife had no living family.
They were intensely private and only a maid and a cook who both lived with them and the brother had ever known the secret kept within those walls. The brother was away on a trip for several months and could not be reached. The maid and the cook had died in the fire along with the couple.
So, when the fire had been put out and the bodies of the couple and the servants were brought out, it was said that everyone who lived there had died in the fire, and that was what was on the evening report.
No one knew that under a bush in front of the house near the street, a small redheaded three year old sat, quietly waiting for his parents to come find him. He sat and watched as the fire burned his home, and wondered why it was taking so long for his mother and father to come out. If they didn't come soon they would get burned wouldn't they?
He waited as the firemen put out the fire.
He watched as an ambulance came screaming down the street.
He listened as the police arrived and kept the crowd away.
Then he fell asleep.
When he awoke he saw that the fire was out, the firemen were gone, the police were gone, and the crowd that had been watching was gone. He crawled out from under his bush and went into the ruins of his home, hoping to find his parents. Instead there was a lady. She, after finding out he had livedin the burned down house,and remembering there was a brother to the man who lived here, she took the child with her thinking his uncle would pay a large ransom to get him back.
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Two years passed and despite her many attempts, she was unable to find a way to contact the uncle. He had not returned to the city as far as she could tell, and no one in the company believed her story of him having a nephew. So she took the boy and left him in the woods outside the city, deciding she didn't want to take care of him anymore.
She told him to stay there because nobody wanted him.
So there he stayed, waiting, for what he didn't know, but he stayed.
Well, I was reading one of my favorite books, and got this idea for a story that I just had to start writing, so I did! I am still writing my other story, and should have another chapter for that out soon, but I really wanted to start on this one. Maybe this will helpstop my writers block for the other one. Well, More of this will probably come before the other, but, well, there it is.I would like to know what you think if you'd like to tell me.