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Episode 7:

The Childhood I can mostly remember Part 3:

New Orleans, Ten Years ago:

I was just staring out of the hole in the wall. There were so many different things out there. I just wish I knew what they were. That scary woman left in a green hard looking thing and left us in the building.

After a while, Wilma came in with a sort of no funny business look on her face. What does she want? She touched my head and looked at it for some friend. "Come on. We have an appointment to go to." she said. Where are we going? "Come on, we have to be there by noon." she said. With that, I came to her and she took my right hand. "Miss Hedge won't be back for about two hours, but we need to be done and back before then." she said.

When walked outside I was in complete awe. There was so much wonderful sights, smells, and sounds. I wanted to explore and see them for myself, but Wilma had a firm hand on mine. We walked along a long blue thing with large white things with turning circles on them were on of it. It was very pretty. The sounds I heard were a perfect pattern and it made me want to move.

And that's what I did. I moved my hips left and right and tapped my feet in rhythm to it. "What are you doing?" Wilma said half laughing, "You silly goose." I must have looked funny to her, but moving like this to these sounds feel so familiar and natural to me. "Come on, we're going to be late.

Awhile later, we arrived at a building that was on top of large thick sticks. "Well, this is the place. I think the office is on the first floor." Wilma said. We walked up to it and she touched a small circle on the wall and there was a dinging sound.

A moment later, a woman with a long brown fuzzy thing parted into two parts came out. She looked at us weirdly and then she said. "Yes, I can help you?" she asked. "This girl had an appointment at noon." Wilma said. "What? Are you two alone? Where Miss Hedge?" she asked. "Um…she had a more pressing matter so she asked me to escort her here?" Wilma said. That's not true, why is she saying that?

"You?" the woman asked. "I'm the oldest so I'm the most responsible." Wilma said, "Miss Hedge told me to make sure I get all the important matters of her appointments and she'll take care of them." "alright then, I'm Himeko Franklin and I'll be… what's her name? oh! Never mind, I forgot that she forgot!" she said. Half-laughing, "Anyway come in…?" she said. –"Wilma Edwards." Wilma said. "Okay, come in." Himeko said.

It was such a nice place, the walls were white in a calming effect on me. There was an opening in the wall that showed the long blue thing. There was large objects on the floor, made of tough yet soft stuff. There were also many different things on the walls, and things on those things.

"Alright the first we should do is try to figure out the cause of the amnesia." Himeko said. "Well it can't be due to a head injury, because I checked and it seems perfectly fine." Wilma said. "It appears so, it could also be a difficulty with her brain, like a tumor, brain inflammation, a stroke, a seizure, lack of oxygen to the brain, possible drug abuse, but not likely, or disease. It is more likely to be due to emotional shock or trauma." Himeko said. "What do you mean?" Wilma asked. "Well there could have been a crime, an accident, or some other horrible incident where she could have seen someone die." she said.

After they finished talking, Himeko did a bunch of things to me and she made a deep breathing sound. "Well, her brain's perfectly fine. So it must be the third." she said. "Well what can be done?" Wilma asked. "Basically she had transient global amnesia, which means she has forgotten everything, her name, events, and especially who she was before she got amnesia. There's no treatment for her, it's possible she will remember on her own, but we can help her along. Basically, all she needs is tender loving care. We can give lessons about the alphabet, numbers, speaking, what is what, you know the basics." Himeko said. "I doubt she will get tender loving care back at the prison." Wilma said to herself. "What was that?" Himeko asked. "Nothing?" she said. Why is she doing that again?

Then we heard a loud scary sound that sounded like something was breaking from somewhere else in the house. Himeko got up and left in a hurry. We followed after her out of worry.

There we saw a man with yellow fuzzy stuff on his head, wearing a brown thing around his body, down on the ground on four of his limbs. Those same wet things from Jill's eyes were falling out from his eyes and landing on the ground. There was also many different shapes of a clear hard thing and color balls connected to green stick, pieces of it were scatted along with the clear hard stuff.

"Jacob! Honey! What's wrong?" Himeko asked worried. For a while, Jacob just stayed there making very sad sounds and those wet things kept falling. "What's wrong?" Himeko asked again. "It's my friend, Hikaru, I just found out that he and his wife were just killed a few days ago. His whole town was wiped out." he said between sobs.

"Oh my gosh! What happened?" Himeko said, shocked. "I don't know, their town is a little remote. So, not many would know about it." Jacob explained. "I'm so sorry, Jacob." Himeko said, putting her arms around him.

I couldn't help feel sorry for him, I walked up to him, and placed my hand on his shoulder. He lifted his head up to look at me, and then suddenly he backed away in shock, which confused me. "Juuri?" he said, dumbfounded. "Juuri?" Himeko asked shocked. This was really weird, his face went really white when he saw me. After a while, he calmed down and went quiet. "It was just my imagination." he said sadly.

"Anyway, Mrs. Franklin, we need to get back." Wilma said, "When will her next appointment be?" Mrs. Franklin asked. "Oh, I can call Miss Hedge and give her the date and time." she said. "No, I mean…the phone is dead, so you can email her the information instead. You got the email address right?" she said. "Well yes." Himeko said. "Thank you, bye!" Wilma said quickly.

With that, Wilma grabbed me by the hand and we moved very fast back to that place. Why was she in such a hurry? When we got back, that scary women was there. "Where have you been?" she said in a mad tone. "We were just playing in the alley." Wilma said. "Weren't you supposed to clean the laundry?" she asked. Wilma went quiet.

"Well as punishment, you will be sent to the basement and won't have any dinner." she said as she used her finger to point into the house. Wilma sighed sadly and went inside. "As for you, I'll give you a freebie since you're new." she said, "Now get inside!" I immediately ran inside out of fear. I think understand Wilma was acting so strangely, Miss Hedge wasn't going to be happy about this. So I guess, we have to keep this away from her.

A Few Weeks Later:

For the next few weeks, Wilma arranged all the appointment with Himeko. She told her the dates which were on the days that Miss Hedge was away. Mostly when she gone all day. Jacob was doing a little better since the first day. Seems like whenever I come, he perks up a bit, that's what Himeko said anyway. But Wilma probably could do better, every now and again, Miss Hedge would punish her.

Himeko had been working with me to help me gain back my functions and perhaps regain my memories on my past, if not my knowledge of what is around me. It was pretty much the basics, what objects start with what letter, and how many are in what group. By now, I can name pretty much anything in any room. But that's what was really troubling us, my inability to talk. No matter how hard I try, I couldn't get a word out. Himeko thinks it is because I have somehow locked my words away, same as my memories.

"Very good… oh I wish I knew what to call you. Anyway, you can take little break now. I got some other work to do so why don't you stay in the living room for now. I nodded and got out of the big chair and walk into the room.

There on the sofa was Jacob. He was looking at picture frame with a distant and sad look. I got closer to him and we both jumped a bit when he saw me. "Oh hey there, don't mind me, I'm just reminiscing some good times about my good friend." He said wiping off what I believe are tears.

"Why don't you come sit down with me?" he offered, patting his left hand on the spot on the couch nest to him. I came up to the couch and climbed up to the couch and sat down. We just sat there in silence, waiting for one of us to speak first.

"Sorry about the other day, you see I've just found out that my friend and his entire town was destroyed. When I saw you, you looked so much like his beloved wife who also died, I thought you were her for a moment." he said. Now I understand, why he acted so weird. "He was my best friend, you really can't be in a bad mood with him around. And he loved his wife very, very much." he said, with his eyes filled with a faraway look, maybe remembering the times he shared with his friend.

"That very good friend once said that girls are born princesses, in fact he said that his beloved wife was a Yuuki, a tender and gentle princess." Jacob said. Yuuki? That sounds very familiar, then I heard someone saying it, to me. Is that my name, Yuuki?

That's when something triggered inside me. "Yu…Yuu…Yuuu…Yu…" I tried to say. "What? What did you say?" Jacob asked, flabbergasted, "Honey! I think you should come in here!" "What is it?" Himeko asked concerned. "I think she's going to say something." her husband answered. "What?" she said kneeling next to me. "What was that about someone going to say something?" Wilma asked when she heard the commotion. "Yu…uu..uk..ki. YUuki. Yuuki." I said.

Then they went all excited like a baby saying its very first words. "Yuuki, Yuuki." I repeated. "Yuuki? That's Japanese for snow or courage right?" Wilma asked. "I think you might be thinking 'Yuki', this version is spelled with an extra u, and it means tender and gentle princess. I was talking about it and she suddenly started saying it." Jacob said. "Yuuki." I said, pointing to myself. "I could me wrong, but maybe that's her name." Wilma said. "Yuuki." I said, nodding. "What a pretty name, suits you well." Himeko said.

"Hey Yuuki! What's my name?" Wilma asked. "Wi…il…lm…ma, Wilma, Wilma!" I said pointing to her. "I can't believe it! This is a miracle!" Himeko said. "I guess all it could was to mention to get her to talk again." Jacob said.

For the rest of the session, Himeko had me named various things in the house. Then she had me say sentences like "This is a vase and those are flowers." Himeko was very pleased with the results, decided it was a wrap up for now.

"Any way Wilma, I need Miss Hedge to pay for the bills." Himeko said. "Oh really…" Wilma said, biting her lip and looking right and left nervously. "What's wrong?" she asked, "Wilma if something is wrong you should let me know." "Nothing's wrong! I'll talk to her later! Let's go Yuuki!" she said nervously, dragging me out the door.

We rushed back to the Girl's Home, trying to get there before Miss Hedge got back. I'm not sure if Wilma can take any more punishments. We were able to get there, and we thought that she didn't see us. But she was waiting for us in her office. "Where have you been you two?" she asked. "We were playing in the…alley." Wilma said.

"Really are you sure that you were playing in the alley or at a psychologist's office?" she asked, holding out a piece of paper. "What's that?" Wilma asked. "That would be the bill for all the appointments for the new girl. I didn't have her do any appointments, which would be a waste of time and money." Miss Hedge said.

"Well I had to do it, I had to see if Yuuki wasn't mentally sick and to help her get her memories back!" Wilma snapped. "Yuuki? Who's Yuuki?" she asked. "That's her name." Wilma answered. "Whatever." Miss Hedge said, "The point is that you sneak out of this place without my knowledge. For that, you must be punished. For you Wilma, you will be sent to the basement without dinner or breakfast. NOW GO!" she shouted. With that, Wilma hanged her head and walked out of the office. "GO!" She shouted.

"As for you, you will do all her chores without food and you will not go to bed until you finish them. Starting with picking up this office, it's a pig sty." she said as she headed towards the door, "Oh and don't forget to clean the room with this small brush." She dropped a toothbrush on the floor and left.

I have just about had it with this woman, she has no right to treat people this way, something needs to be done about her. But how can we do it? She so much bigger than we are and it will especially me, since I'm the smallest. Perhaps the answer will come soon. I think like the wind keeps blowing without anyone's permission, we should not give up no matter what others believe. Somehow, that feels familiar.

As I picked up the objects in the rooms, I heard a sight ringing sound. I looked around and noticed vibrating underneath the sweater on the desk. I walked over there and picked the sweater up, just as the ringing stopped. Turns out it was the phone. "Miss Hedge, its Mrs. Willgood. There's a new girl coming to the Girl's home at 1'o clock and I just wanted to let you know." the answering machine answered.

Then a thought struck me, why didn't Miss Hedge show Mrs. Willgood around this place? Just then. Jill came in. "Hey how are you doing?" she asked, "I heard what happened and I just wanted to check up on you." "Um Jill?" I said. "Did you just talk?" she asked stunned. "Why didn't Miss Hedge show Mrs. Willgood show her around?" I asked. "Well um…Because if Mrs. Willgood finds out that she's been mistreating us, she'll convince her superiors to have her fired and get someone else to replace her. She can do that. That's why she makes up the serious homeschooling act." she answered after recovering from the shock.

Then an idea came to me. "Then maybe we should get her to see her true colors!" I said. "What?" Jill asked. I got on my tippy toes and press the delete message button to erase Mrs. Willgood's message. "What are you doing!?" she asked in a panicked tone. "If Miss Hedge knows that she's coming, she be prepared. If we keep her at bay before Mrs. Willgood comes, we can catch her off guard." I explained.

"That actually might work." Jill said, "Come on, Miss Hedge's asleep, we can talk to the other girls about this plan and then to Wilma once she gets out." We raced up the stairs to work on the plan that will free us from that witch.

The Next Day at the Franklin House:

"THEY ARE ONLY CHILDREN! THAT MONEY WAS FOR YUUKI, NOT FOR THOSE CHEAP RAGS YOU CALL CLOTHES! YOU DIDN'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE COSTS! WHAT WAS MOST IMPORTANT WAS THAT YUUKI GOT BETTER! OH YOU HEARTLESS WITCH!" Himeko yelled into the phone and then slammed the phone, huffing deep breaths of frustration and disgust.

Jacob was sitting on the couch peacefully reading the morning paper, and his wife's screaming put him in a stunned state. "Um Honey…is something wrong?" he asked a little scared to ask.

"Yes there's most certainly is! That was the woman who takes care of the girls in the Girl's Home, you know, the place where Wilma and Yuuki are staying. Well, I have just found out that she wasn't going to do anything about Yuuki's care or any of the girls' care for that matter! She was just going to let little Yuuki suffer on her own! So the reason Wilma was acting so weird was because she was taking matters into her own hands! AND THAT CALL WAS ABOUT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE COSTS AND TO ASK US TO EXCUSE WILMA FOR HER IMPUTANCE!" she answered.

Jacob had a look on his face that looked like she was yelling in his face. "Well, that would explain a lot!" he said, "you know, I have heard that woman doesn't care about the Girl's Home and uses what money she gets for shopping at expensive stores and feeds the girls table scraps and makes them do all the chores! They are practically miniature Cinderellas!" "That woman should be fired and be forbidden to go anywhere near children!" Himeko yelled, hitting her desk.

Jacob took a deep sigh, got up from the couch, walked over to his wife, and put his hands on her shoulders. "Calm down Himeko, I know you're quite passionate about kids and I can understand why you're so angry, seeing that we haven't been able to had one of our own yet." Jacob said.

Himeko forgot her anger for a moment and went quiet. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to go there." Jacob said. "It's okay. I guess it is kind of lonely living without a child. When those girls came here, I guess I kind of thought of them as daughters." she replied. "I understand." he said giving her a big hug. After a while, they separated.

"Anyway, there is no way that I'm am going to leave those girls to suffer the witch's wrath! I'm going to march myself over there and give that woman I piece of my mind!" Himeko said, marching out the door. "Whoa Hime! Honey, let's not do something we will come to regret." Jacob said as he chased after her. "TOO LATE FOR THAT!" she replied.

At the Girl's Home:

We have just told a reluctant Wilma about our plan and we are going to put it into action. First we will get Miss Hedge into a room and keep her there until we have Mrs. Willgood in another room. Then we'll release Miss Hedge and let her reveal her true colors.

How to get Miss Hedge to stay inside a room until we get Mrs. Willgood will be a real challenge, but Wilma said that she will handle it. She went up to her room and knocked on her door.

"What is it?" she asked in a foul mood. "There's um…a package in your office for you, it was too heavy to carry so we just left it there." Wilma said. "Oo, must be that new dress I ordered from the shop." she said excitedly. She rudely shoved Wilma to the side and rushed to the office.

Wilma closely tailed behind to put the plan in motion as was everyone else. Miss Hedge entered her office and looked around for her package, but saw a small package on the desk. "That can't be it, it's so sma…" she said as she opened the box to find a small gray mouse wriggling its nose and squeaking. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed and fainted dead away. "I knew that would get her quiet enough to get Mrs. Willgood in place." Wilma stated.

Knock! Knock! Knock! "That must be her right now." Jill said. "Alright, everyone get into position!" Wilma said as some of the girls grabbed some mops, rags, and brooms while the rest hide. Some of us even gotten some of Miss Hedge's most expensive clothes and brought out the ironing equipment. Then Wilma went to the door to answer it.

"Hello Mrs. Willgood, I'm Wilma." She greeted. "Hello dear…where's Miss Hedge?" Mrs. Willgood asked. "She's on a very important call, so she asked me to show you around." Wilma said. "I see. Well this is Lizzy. She's just lost her parents, so please help her out." she said. "Of course, would you like to have a look around?" Wilma offered. "Certainly, dear." she said.

As they went in, Mrs. Willgood couldn't help but notice the clothes that some of the girls were working on. "Those look mighty expensive for a social worker's salary." she stated. "Careful! The label clearly states that this dress is dry clean only, it is pure silk after all." May said aloud on purpose.

"Why are those girl ironing a silk dress? Aren't these girls supposed to be going through this serious home-schooling?" Mrs. Willgood asked. "Oh there's too much she gives us to work on to study." Wilma said.

GRROOOWWWWLLLLL! A stomach growl, it was Jill's. "Oh sorry, I haven't eaten anything since yesterday morning." she said. "Why?" she asked, "Are you too busy doing all this work?" "Doing something wrong is more like it." Wilma added. "Isn't a timeout more than enough?" Mrs. Willgood said, "Well anyhow, I really need to talk to Miss Hedge now."

Miss Hedge wasn't ready to be reveal yet and she needs to catch her in action. Wilma needed to do something fast. "Oh she's right though this door." Wilma said. Then she pushed her into the closet.

"What's going on?" Mrs. Willgood asked nervously. "Oh sorry, this is the wrong room, and the door's stuck." Wilma said. "OH NO! THIS ISN'T GOOD! I'M CLAUSTERPHOBIC!" Mrs. Willgood informed. "Oh…." Wilma said, realizing that she needed to work fast, "Don't worry, you'll be out soon enough. Maybe you should call someone from your office, like your boss." Then we heard Miss Hedge banging at the office door. It was time for the last stage of the plan.

"Release the Hedge!" Wilma said. With that, I opened the door and Miss Hedge fell out flat on her face. "WHAT WAS THE BIG IDEA OF LOCKING ME IN THERE WITH THAT HORRIBLE MOUSE?!" she yelled. Sticking to the plan, we all giggled to annoy her and get her mad. "WIPE THOSE SMIRKS OFF THOSE UGLY THINGS YOU CALL FACES!" she yelled.

Lizzy whimpered at her yelling and that's when Miss Hedge saw her. "WHO IS THIS BRAT?! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" Miss Hedge asked furiously. "She's the new girl." I answered innocently, "Didn't you get the message?" "I never got any message about this…YOU NEGLECTED TO TELL ME?!" she asked angrily.

"Well she would be better anywhere but here." I said bluntly. "Like the streets because that where vermin like you brats belong." Miss Hedge said. "Heartless witch." I said. "WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" she yelled. "I called you a Heartless Witch, because that's want you are. You wouldn't even paid for the medical costs for them." I repeated.

Believing that her anger was at her peak, Wilma released a slightly calmed, yet irritated Mrs. Willgood out of the closet. "LIKE I PAY A CENT FOR YOU VERMINS! BUT YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS! NOW I HAVE ANOTHER ANNOYING DIRTY MOUTH TO FEED!" Miss Hedge yelled, "and speaking of food, NO FOOD FOR THREE DAYS FOR ALL OF YOU! AND NONE OF YOU WILL GO TO SLEEP UNTIL ALL OF THE CHORES FOR THOSE THREE DAYS ARE DONE AND YOU WILL ALL SLEEP IN THE BASEMENT!"

Then she heard someone clear her throat from behind her. Miss Hedge turned around and went white as a sheet when she saw who was behind her, the person that will undo her. "Oh hello Mrs. Willgood, what brings you here?" Miss Hedge said with a nervous tone. "Oh nothing, I was bringing this 'brat' to this home for 'vermins that would be better off in the streets'." she said, letting on that she heard everything. "Oh I was just teasing. You know I love these …little…angels." Miss Hedge lied through her teeth.

"That's not what it sounds like to me!" a loud male voice said. "Mr. Bihorn?" Miss Hedge said nervously. "Oh I forgot to mention, I was calling him about my situation in the closet and with all your screaming, he heard everything as well." Mrs. Willgood said. "Well then, you may consider yourself unemployed now. Mrs. Willgood will take over this girls' home."

Too shocked to speak. Miss Hedge just stood there. Mrs. Willgood had to guide her out of the building, just as Mr. and Mrs. Franklin were walking in, curious about what's going on. "We will send your things later." Mrs. Willgood informed as she closed the door with a dazed Miss Hedge standing outside.

"I take it that all this was to let the truth be known about the real Miss Hedge?" Mrs. Willgood asked. "Sorry about that." Wilma said. "Well if it helps you girls, it was worth the lack of oxygen in the closet. You were quite brave to come up with this plan, young lady." she said. "Actually, it was Yuuki's idea, she's the girl you brought last time you were here." Wilma said.

She bend down to my eye level, looking please. "Well, that's pretty brave for someone so small." She said, patting my head. Then she noticed Mr. and Mrs. Franklin were behind her. "Oh hello there, I'm Mrs. Willgood, sorry for all the commotion, who might you be?" she asked, after straightening herself up. "I'm Mrs. Himeko Franklin, I'm the psychologist looking after Yuuki, and this is my husband, Jacob." She answered.

"Oh well, if this is about the bills for her treatments, I'm sorry but we're kind of at a financial mix up from the owner caretaker." She apologized. Mrs. Franklin ushered her husband into a corner and had a whispering conversation with him. About five minutes later, she came back to face her. "Actually, consider the bill free of charge." Himeko said, "Because me and my husband have decided to adopt Wilma and Yuuki.

"Really?" Wilma asked, "I always thought would stay here until I was eighteen, because adults always go for the younger and cuter kids." "Well, anyone can see that you and Yuuki are really closed, it would be a shame to separate you." Mrs. Franklin answered. Mr. Franklin nodded, "I couldn't agree more." He said.

Both me and Wilma squealed with excitement and rushed into the arms of our new parents. And that was the start of my new life with Wilma, and Jacob and Himeko… No with my new Mom and Dad, and my new older sister. They may not be my real family, but they're all I have now.

*Don't forget to read my own One-shot of a version of Vampire Knight Episode 15, 'A Different Course of Action'. Please comment and Review of what you like of it. And thank you for your patience.

Don't forget to read, comment, review, and recommend my other fanfictions to others, you might just like them as well.