"Girls! Girls! Get into bed immediately!" screamed Miss. Mulberry, the headmistress of the Kellington Orphanage.
She was a fat, hunched over, mid-aged woman,
with dark, graying hair. Among the orphans she was the cruelest lady in Queens, New York. As Miss. Mulberry's voice echoed throughout the halls, girls of all ages
stormed out of the washroom and into their worn, tattered beds. The room was long and cold and each bed was perfectly aligned across from each other on each side of the room.
Miss. Mullberry stood at the door, counting the girls to make sure they were all present. When her eyes fell upon two empty beds at the end of the row, her eyebrows rose.
"Maura! Kelly! You hooligans!"
Meanwhile:
Maura and Kelly were on their way back to the dreadful building they called an orphanage. They walked side by side. Maura was about 5'6 in height.
She had long brown hair and green eyes. Kelly was about 5'7 with dirty blond hair and blue eyes. Both were sixteen years of age.
"That was great! I love going to shows in Manhattan." Said Maura. "Yeah, that was one of our greatest sneak-outs ever!" replied Kelly. As the years passed by at the orphanage,
both girls received the reputation for escaping the orphanage.
They arrived in front of the huge metal gates which surrounded the orphanage. It was a dark and dreary building with long green vines covering the exterior. The yard was unkempt, the chilly November air blowing dead leaves along the tall, un-cut grass. The only light that shown within the grounds were the glistening candles in the dirty, tinted windows.
Maura and Kelly found a loose board in the fence and went threw, quietly tip-toeing to the side window. As they neared the building, a dark figure loomed on the front step.
"Have a nice night girls?" Said Miss. Mulberry. Maura and Kelly practically jumped a mile as they heard the stern voice of their headmistress. "Follow me." she said coldly as both girls eyed each other with a worried look.
Maura and Kelly sat in the musty office of Miss. Mulberry. She came close to the girls' faces. "I'm appalled at you!" she said as some of her spit shot on to Maura's face.
"You have done this one time too many. Frankly, I'm sick of it. I have already called the police and they will be picking you both up early tomorrow morning. I can not have
you hooligans running around on our fine streets. Now get out of my site!" Yelled Miss. Mulberry as she shooed the girls from her office.
The girls got up and walked out of her office. "I'm not rotting the rest of my life in prison!" said Maura.
"What are we gonna do?!"
"I think we should get outta here. We can wait till everyone's asleep. We'll go to Manhattan and make new lives."
"Do you think we can pull it off?"
"It's the only way. So we escape… Tonight!"