?'s P.O.V.

I was cold. I was alone. I was lying in the rain, with tears streaming down my cheeks, and no one to comfort me. I was trying to think about what had just happen. Everything went so fast... the day had started off so well for me, yet, I end up becoming an orphan. On my birthday...

*Flashback*

I woke up this morning, feeling like I could do anything. I got out of bed to go brush my hair and looked at myself in the mirror in my room. There, I saw a girl fox, wearing a white night gown and white gloves. Her fur was sky blue, her shoulder lenght hair the same color. Some of it got in her face, hiding her right eye completely. She also had silver eyes, but the thing that stuck out the most was her two tails...

I sighed at my reflection.

'I'm so different from all the other foxes.' I thought. 'I mean, they're all orange, or yellow, I'm blue! They got got one tail, and I got two! I don't even look like my own parents!'

Actually, I never saw my father. My mom said he ran away after I was born. He probably didn't want a abnormalty like me in his life. After my birth, mommy build a house deep in the forest, far away from civilization, so that I could be happy, and raised me there. So, as you can guess, I never had any friends. Besides, even if I did, they would never understand how it feels to be me. I'm just too different...

My dark train of thoughts got interrupted by the sound of my mother's voice, telling me to come downstairs. I ran out of my room, down the staircase, and into the kitchen, only to find my mother, standing next to the dinning table, with a pile of pancakes on it.

"Happy birthday, sweetheart!" she said.

"Oh, thank you mom!" I said happily, as I ran towards her and gave her big hug. She knows that I love pancakes in the morning! When I released her, she smiled and said:

"I made breakfast for you."

"You're the best, mom!" I replied as I sat down at the table. It's true, she IS the best! Even if she doesn't look like me at all, I still love her. She had dark brown eyes and light orange fur. She was very tall, and always wore a light pink dress with yellow flowers on it. I know it looks kinda weird, but that's one of the many reasons why I love my mother: she's not scared of others opignions. She would wear lots of strange outfits, and then go to town with them. I wish I was like that: not caring about what other people would think of me...

While we were eating at the table, mother said:

"Angel, dear, I just remembered somthing: we're all out of cheese."

"Oh, that's because I ate it." I answered with my mouth full.

"Already?! But I only bought it three days ago!" she exclaimed with wide eyes. I swalowed my food.

"He he... I guess we'llbhave to get some more then," I said, with a sheepish smile on my face. So, I guess it's pretty obvious now. My favorite food is cheese! I mean, how can you NOT like it? It goes with everything!

"Well honey, if you want, I could go to town and get some for you. How about that?" She asked.

"That sounds good." I replied, stuffing more pancake down my throat.

"Now, are you sure you'll be ok? I mean, it might take some time before I come back home." my mom asked, in front of the doorstep, as she put her purple coat on. We both knew that the city was really far away from, and it would take about an hour to get there,and come back.

"Don't worry mom, I'll be fine," I answered as she pulled me into a hug, which I gave back. I saw her open the door and leave the house, into the forest. I stayed next to the door frame. I saw my mother turn around towards me, walking backwards and putting her hands around her mouth.

"Alright then! Be safe!" she yelled.

"Ok, I will!" I yelled and waved back.

I decided to stay in my night gown for the day, for plenty of reasons. The first one is that, I do this every year on my birthday. the second, is that my gown was really compfy.1q But mostly, it's because I was to lazy to change into something else. Besides, no one was going to see me like this, except for my mom, of course.

Speaking of her, about half an hour after she left, I saw her through the window in my room, running towards the house.

'Wow! That was fast! How did she get from the city to here in so little time?'

I climbed down the stairs to see my mother quickly open and close the door, locking it. She was leaning against it, with a scared look on her face, panting. I started to get scared myself when she said:

"Angel, we're leaving."

"What!? But why?" I asked, almost yelling.

She walked towards me and held me tight in her arms, saying calmly:

"This place is too dangerous for you now."

"But why?" I asked, still hugging her, confused. Mom let go of our embrace, but she kneeled down so she'd be at my height and put her hands on my shoulders. She sighed before looking at me strait in the eye. She took a deep breathand said:

"Honey, I met some bad people on my way to the store. They wanted to hurt you, so i ran back here as fast as I could. I think I lost them, but I'm not sure, they might come back here."

She let go of my shoulders. I looked at my mom with fear

"B-but, why would they want to hurt me?" I asked.

"I... I don't know, but I know a way for you to be safe." she finally said.

"H-how?"

She went upstairs. I was going to follow her, but she came back down as fast as she climbed up. She was holding my doll, who looked alot like me. It had icy blue fur, light blue buttons as eyes, two tails and a head that was WAY to big for its body.

'What is she going to do with that?' I wondered. I didn't have time to ask, since my mother already left the stairs, and into the kitchen. As she was tinkering with my toy, she explained what she had in store:

"Here's the plan: I'll distract them while you'll run in the forest."

"What! No, I won't leave you!"

"But you'll have too." she replied firmly.

I had never seen her like this before. She was never that... severe with me. Suddenly, we heard a noise. We both turned around and saw that the front door was being banged on. A few more hits, and it would be knocked down. Mother quickly grabbed my hand. She had my doll in her left arm, which was wrapped in a brown blanket. We headed to the back of the house. Once outside, she kneeled down to look at me.

"Now, you listen to me, Angel. I'll go around the house, and you will run into the woods, and whatever you do, don't turn around. Don't come back for me. Just. Keep. Going."

"No! I wanna stay with you!"

"Your a very special girl, Angel. Always remember that..." and with that, she gave me one last hug before she ran towards the front porch.

The last thing I saw of her was the terrified look on her, as she carried my doll... dressed as... me...

That was when I realized how serious this had become: my life was in danger, and she was risking hers to save mine! I wanted to stop her, but it was too late. There was nothing left for me to do.

Except maybe one thing.

Run.

And so I ran, into the forest in our backyard, and started crying for the loss of my mother.

'I'm never going to see her again, and it's all my fault. It's all my fault...' I kept thinking.

The pain was so great, that I couldn't think of anything else: hunger, thirst, sleepiness, and even the fact that I didn't have shoes on. They were all forgotten, as if they weren't even there. All was ignored as I ran...

*End of Flashback*

It started to rain, and I was still running in the forest, far away as possible from my home. I had trouble breathing because I've been crying for hours. My feet were exhausted from running non-stop, barefoot.

Suddenly, I tripped and fell on a huge rock. My head hit the surface, but it didn't hurt that much. The rock was kind of flat, so I just lied there, not even bothering to pick myself up. I mean, what was the point? I lost my mother, the only person I had in my life, became an orphan and was forced to leave the place I grew up in, all because of some mean people who wanted to hurt me! All of this, in only one day! And now, I'm lost in the woods. Great!

I kept on crying, my tears mixing up with the rain drops.

'Mom...'

I let myself get wet as I drove off into a deep sleep.

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