Sinedd's journey
Sinedd's risked it he's gone out to play football with the kids, will they accept him!? Let's hope so :)
Sinedd yanked the large doors open and looked around, down a long icy staircase there seemed to be a snowy football pitch, it had indeed stopped snowing as the tall man had said.
Sinedd began running down the slippy staircase towards the pitch. But the stairs were a bit too icy for the boy and he slipped and went falling down the last remaining stairs on his bum.
Sinedd stood rubbing his bum and in pain looked up to see –to his relief- the footballers hadn't seen that shameless display.
"Hello" He said.
The footballers stopped there were 6 of them varying in age from around 6 to 12.
A large boy stepped forward in front of the others he was around 12 years of age.
"Hi…who are you?" He asked.
Sinedd smiled. "My names Sinedd, can I play?" He nodded at the football that one of the other boys were holding.
The 12 year old looked at him sceptically. "Are you any good?" he enquired.
"My first social worker said I'm the best footballer since Aarch" Sinedd declared proudly.
The 12 year old nodded. "Okay you can go on mine and Melanie's team" he said.
"Melanie? Girls don't play football!" Sinedd said incredulously.
A small girl around 6 or 7 with shaggy black hair not unlike Sinedd's stepped forward hands on her hips.
"Oh yeah?" She challenged. "Then why am I playing?"
Sinedd shook his head confused.
"C'mon" said the 12 year old. "Let's play"
The children ran on to the pitch and 'the referee' (a boy of around 8) threw the ball into the sky, Sinedd watched in awe as Melanie won the ball then skilled past the remaining player, then netted the ball.
"I'm sorry" Sinedd said as Melanie began making her way back to her position. "I guess girls can play football"
Melanie stopped and beamed at him. "Don't wuwi about it" she assured him. "How old are you?"
"I'm five" Sinedd said as the other kids began playing again.
"I'm 6; do you want to be fwends?" Melanie asked.
"Not like girlfriend and boyfriend?" Sinedd checked; worried.
"Haha no" Melanie giggled. "No just fwends…or best fwends if you like?"
Sinedd nodded beaming at his new best friend. "Yes lets be best friends"
"Oi pipsqueaks c'mon start playing football! I thought you said you were the next Aarch Sinedd, so show me!" The big 12 year old was calling from goal.
Sinedd and Melanie laughed then Sinedd snapped into action, he tackled the ball swiftly from an advancing opponent then nutmegged the next one, then he shot on goal, scoring, it was now 2 nil.
Melanie and Sinedd high fived, Sinedd was red faced and cold but he didn't care he was having fun.
"Kids its lunchtime!"
Sinedd and his new friends looked up to see the tall man calling, his head hanging out of the door.
A few minutes later Sinedd was seated on a long table with Melanie by his side.
"Is the food good here?" Sinedd asked worried (he was pretty picky).
"It's alwight yeah" Melanie replied, smiling reassuringly at her new friend.
Sinedd smiled back.
"Here you are" Said Cassie setting down a plate of rice and curry in front of Sinedd.
Sinedd stared at it.
"Tuck in" Cassie said smiling.
Melanie watched as Sinedd stared at the curry in front of him.
"Do you not like cuwwy?" Melanie asked.
Sinedd shook his head keeping his eyes on his curry.
Melanie bit her thumb.
"Cassie"
Cassie stopped and turned to look at Melanie.
"Cassie, Sinedd doesn't like cuwwy" Melanie informed the pretty blonde.
"Oh ok then, Sinedd what do you want?" Cassie asked smiling.
Sinedd shrugged.
"Pizza?" Cassie offered.
Sinedd nodded.
"Okay I'll go get that for you" Cassie smiled and left the dining room.
Melanie began tucking in and Sinedd watched her. "Thank you" he said smiling shyly.
Melanie looked up and grinned back. "No pwoblem we're fwends"
"Here you are" Cassie set down the pizza in front of Sinedd and the happy boy got stuck in.
After dinner it was time for baths, Sinedd's eyes popped wide open, he didn't like bath time.
"What you wowying about Sinedd? Bath time's good" Melanie smiled, she'd already had her bath and was all kit out in her pyjamas.
Sinedd shook his head and stroked his wrist.
"Ok whose next?"
Sinedd hid behind the beanbag he'd had in his sights that morning.
"C'mon Sinedd you're next"
The tall man yanked Sinedd up and brought him to the bathroom.
Sinedd watched as the tall man began running the bath for him then made a break for it, running butt naked through the halls.
"Sinedd? Sinedd!? Get back here Sinedd!?"
Sinedd didn't stop and continued rushing down the hall, he burst into the playroom rushed past a giggling Carrie and friends and jumped behind the beanbag.
He felt a yanking at his ankle and suddenly he was hanging upside down in the air, eye level with the tall man.
"C'mon Sinedd bath time"
Sinedd lay in his bed in the boy's dorm, he hadn't found the bath to be as bad as he'd initially thought but he would still try and resist if he could.
It was 8 pm now but it was already pitch black, Sinedd didn't like the night time at all, he always had nightmares, were flashing images filled the sky and mummy and daddy were lost again and again.
Tears trailed down Sinedd's cheeks and he turned to the side reaching for his rucksack, he dug deep down and eventually reached his favourite toy Bubbly, Bubbly was a toy fish made of a sack material, Sinedd had made it himself with a little help from his first foster mum.
He had liked his first foster mum she had been warm and kind but she had gone away to.
Hospital just like mummy and daddy.
The person in the bed next to him suddenly snorted shocking the life out of Sinedd, the darkness surrounding him discomforted him and he didn't like it.
Eventually the help of Bubbly and his fatigue from the day got to him and Sinedd closed his eyes.
Well that was Sinedd's first day at the orphanage; it was all right wasn't it? But he's got school tomorrow will it be good?
