Sinedd's journey
Sinedd's five years old and he's in an Akillian orphanage how will the young boy fare?
Sinedd looked up at the receptionist –a kindly, old, Asian woman with her hair tied up in a bun- with fear in his eyes, this fear was the thing the old lady noticed.
"There, there don't be afraid" she said as she came out from behind the desk.
Sinedd stared at her, a guarded look in his eyes as soon as she came near.
"Your names Sinedd right?"
Sinedd stared at her.
The old lady coughed slightly then knelt down in front of the child.
"My names Ada" the woman said.
Sinedd continued to look at her is expression wary.
"Are you hungry?" Ada asked.
Sinedd shook his head, it was a quick and short response but it was a response nonetheless.
Ada smiled and stood up.
"Okay…then do you want to meet your new friends?"
Sinedd shook his head again.
Ada looked at him confused.
"You don't want to meet your friends?"
Sinedd rubbed his wrist and stared at the ground.
Oh…he's shy Ada thought to herself, a kind smile lit her features and she offered her hand to the boy.
Sinedd stared at the wrinkly hand suspiciously then he looked up at her curiously.
Ada nodded and tossed her head at the hand, telling him to take it.
Sinedd stared at the hand- considering- then slowly slotted his tiny, pale hand into Ada's soft warm one.
He was very cold; Ada noted with a touch of annoyance at the social worker's carelessness she began pulling the boy towards a door.
Sinedd complied and walked with her to the door but once they reached it he began pulling back.
Ada turned away from the door to look at him.
"What's up hmm?" she said.
Sinedd stared at her; he was frozen like a rabbit, his eyes wide with horror.
"Don't worry, they'll be nice" Ada reassured the boy then she pushed the door open to reveal a playroom.
Several children looked up, there must have been about twenty in the large room, most of the children bobbed back down to continue with what they had been doing before being interrupted but some children stared at Sinedd curiously.
Sinedd rubbed his wrist again and stared at the ground, shamefully as if he was being told off.
"Okay?" Ada smiled at the boy before pulling the door open and leaving Sinedd with the children.
"Who are you?"
Sinedd looked up to see a large ginger child with a piggy nose and an abundance of freckles glowering down at him, the kid must have been about 8 or so.
"My names Sinedd" Sinedd answered stonily.
"Well my names Bub and I'm the boss of this orphanage ok?"
Sinedd simply glared at 'Bub', he wasn't one to be pushed around and Bub was annoying him already.
"I said ok!?" Bub shouted suddenly thrashing out and pushing Sinedd.
Sinedd landed on his bottom, he glared up at Bub then suddenly threw himself at him, smacking Bub's cheeks and forearms as hard as he could.
"Ow! Get off me!" Bub squealed, he wasn't used to being challenged and this attack had caught him off guard.
"Hey!"
Sinedd felt himself being lifted off the ground and suddenly he was eye level with a pretty blonde woman.
"Hey! Why you attacking Bub hey?" she asked.
Sinedd glared down at the floor, the woman's hands were digging into his armpits and it hurt, he wriggled until she set him back down.
"That's not a good way to start the day is it?" she demanded looking from Sinedd to Bub and back again.
"Now you two apologise" she said.
"I'm sorry Sinedd" Bub said turning and offering his hand to the smaller boy.
Sinedd glared at Bub's hand and turned away, his nose in the air.
The blonde lady tutted.
"Off you go Bub" she said then she turned back to Sinedd.
"Your new aren't you? My names Cassie, what's yours?"
Sinedd glared at the ground.
"My names Sinedd" he replied, he didn't like Cassie she had taken Bubs side.
"Why did you attack Bub, Sinedd?"
A look of shock passed over the boy's face and suddenly he was glaring defiantly up at Cassie.
"He pushed me" he replied.
"Oh" Cassie was lost for words, there had been a lot of venom in those three words and Cassie was unsure who to react.
"Oh ok well just don't do it again ok? Next time come and tell me"
Sinedd was back staring at the ground again, but he nodded.
With this assurance Cassie left to go deal with a little girl who was crying in the corner as she went she cast a curious look back at this strange new little boy.
Sinedd surveyed his surroundings, his onyx eyes fell on a beanbag in the corner of the room far away from the other children, he began making his way there, the beanbag was in his sights when suddenly he was waylaid by a little girl with blonde hair.
"Hello!" She shouted right in his face.
Sinedd grimaced then stuck his tongue out at the girl –this usually worked- but the girl just giggled.
"You're strange" the girl announced before sticking her tongue back out at him.
Sinedd stared at her aghast; no one stuck their tongue out back at him!
"My names Carrie what's yours?" The girl continued.
Sinedd was fed up with giving his name out so remained silent glaring at this obstacle in his path to the beanbag.
"You got into a fight with Bub didn't you?" Carrie said, she was evidently not worried by the lack of replies Sinedd was giving her and seemed more than happy to continue babbling on.
Sinedd looked around her and saw to his annoyance that two little girls had stolen his beanbag, Sinedd looked back at the girl to see her staring expectantly at him.
"What?" He said his tone lit with annoyance.
"Do you want to be my boyfriend? All the cool girls at school have them" Carrie sighed as she explained what Sinedd had missed.
Sinedd stared at her in utter horror and disbelief.
"Is that a yes?" Carrie asked shuffling forward towards her current item of affection.
Sinedd backed away, the idea of letting this girl touch him made him want to scream.
"No!" He managed to choke out.
"Whhhhyyyyyy?" Whined Carrie.
"Cuz you're…a girl!" Sinedd gulped, he didn't like girls, from his point of view they were all loud, chatty freaks and Carrie seemed no different.
Carrie laughed loudly so the majority of the children in the playroom turned to look at them, Sinedd looked around sheepishly, the children who now realised that this loud noise had been emitted from an area where the new boy was, were now very interested their curiosity sparking up.
"And you're a boy so what?" Carrie grinned.
Sinedd glared at Carrie and attempted to push her out the way, he hadn't pushed hard but Carrie fell to the floor and began wailing.
"Shh!" Sinedd tried in vain to shut up the girl, he waved his hands in front of her face but to no avail the girl continued screaming.
"Ok…ok! I'll be your…boyfriend if you just shut up!" Sinedd hissed.
Carrie stopped wailing immediately.
"Really!? Well that means you live with me c'mon I'll show you, your new home!" Carrie said jumping up and grabbing Sinedd by his hand, she began dragging him to a Wendy house in the shape of an igloo.
"Here it is…home!" Carrie declared.
Sinedd stared at the 'home' he grabbed his hand away from Carrie's and stared rubbing his wrist.
Carrie ran in ahead then popped her head out of the opening.
"You'll go to work everyday and I'll cook and clean!" She declared delightedly.
"I don't have a job" Sinedd said rubbing his wrist again.
Carrie laughed. "Get one then!"
Sinedd smiled. "Okay I'll be a footballer! I'm wicked good at footballing!"
Carrie's face dropped and she shook her head forcibly.
"No a footballers a stupid job, you should be a fireman or something" and with that Carrie retreated into the igloo.
Sinedd stared dumbly at the house wondering what to do now that he'd been left to his own devices, he wondered idly if it was still snowing and if he would be allowed out in said snow.
"Hello little man what are we up to then?"
Sinedd gasped he was looking up at the tallest man he'd ever seen, immediately he retreated into his shell.
"What you doin'?" the man asked gently.
Sinedd stared up at the man, he had kindly eyes so Sinedd decided to trust him.
"I want to go play football" Sinedd admitted.
The man laughed. "You fancy yourself the next Aarch eh? Well it just so happens that a few of the kids are playing football outside right this minute, you wanna go join them?"
Sinedd nodded. Suddenly a notion struck him. "Is it still snowing?" he demanded.
"Uh no I think it's stopped now" the man said scratching his head.
"Oh…where are they playing?"
"Just outside that door" The man said pointing at a large door with two high up windows at the side.
Sinedd ran to the door, suddenly eager to play with the other kids, he loved football more than he loved life, football was his life.
He stopped by the door but eventually his eagerness overrode his fear and he pushed the door open.
Woah one of Sinedd's first encounters with the opposite sex didn't really give him a good first impression eh? Lets hope he has a good time with those fellow footballers eh?
