I never could stand sitting by when others needed help. Maybe it was
because I wasn't brought up in the orphanage from before I could remember.
I remember rightly enough that there was a life beyond the walls, I used to
live there. With my mother and father and kindly aunt, me and my sister
and our cousin played in the back garden. I lived there the first eleven
years of my life, my parents even sent me to the local school. Don't even
think you are more important then the next fellow and never fail to lend
your hand. These were the mottos of my mother, and we were all taught
that. I never considered anything bad could happen, but of course it did.
We had come back from the cinema and it was late, later than we usually
were allowed up but it was a special treat. We made it into the front hall
when we heard creaking, the grownups told us to hide. In a matter of
seconds, three shots rang out with three dull thuds... bodies hitting the
floor. I had gotten the younger two inside but I was still out, I quickly
closed the door to keep them from finding my only family. From the
darkness a patchy shape formed, the man grinned a wicked smile. "Their
Daughter," and from behind someone knocked me unconscious. When I woke,
the police were all over the house and I saw the three dead bodies.
"Kanna, Beth" I mumbled. The doctor looked at me strangely, "Who?" "The
closet, my sister" I said coming closer to reality. "There is no one else
here dear," It was then that I dedicated myself to my mother's principles
and to find out how to even the score.
