Chapter One.
Sometimes you can sit outside all day and think. Just think.Thinkabout your life, and what you did wrong with it. My name is Aleezé and I am an orphan. When I was little, my parents decided they would be able to do nothing with a child, and left me. They left me at a cold orphanage at the heart of London. When I was little, I would pretend that my parents where off on a spectacular adventure, leaving me at the orphanage so I wouldn't encounter the dangers they would. And that one day they would soon come back for me. But my story didn't go that way. And it never will
After I gave up on my parents I would pray that one day something spectacular would happen to me. Something so out of the ordinary, something to make all the other kids at the orphanage extremely jealous. Because they knew, and I knew that no one in their right mind would ever want to adopt me, it just was like that.
I am now eleven. Eleven years old. The kids say that they'll have to take me out and shoot me, like they do at the pound with dogs that got to old and don't get adopted. It makes sense too, and every nightI pray that the staff at the orphanage won't barge in andlead me to my death.
I have one friend, her name is Michelle. She is eleven like me. But the kids don't tell her that the orphanage will shoot her; like they say it to me. Michelle is beautiful. She is the most beautiful girl ever to walk the earth. The only reason she hasn't been adopted yet is because she is the pickiest girl as well as the most beautiful. Not one of the many families that wanted Michelle has gotten her. No one good enough for her,and, sometimes I think that even I am not good enough.