Like i said in the last chapter i will use and change the real names but do not worry, i think you'll understand the reason why either now or later on in the chapters.
Ten years after they left Hakane at the front of the doorstep at the Domen family she had mostly the same thing each day. As fast as she could walk, talk or even carry things she was forced to do things around the house like she was a maid.
Hakane didn't really care that much because she had a roof over her head, got food ir at last the left-overs but it was better then nothing at all. The Domen family may be rude and give her as little space as possible they still takes care of her. She haven't been in school but they got her some books to read and learn and sometimes helps her but that's only so she can help around more and be more useful.
Right now she was in a deep peaceful sleep and away from all the mean people that was in the house with her. Away from all the yelling, pain and the scores she was forced to do. A calm dream about living with a family who cares and gives her an own room to play in, good food on the plate and can laugh and be happy like any ordinary child with a family can.
There isn't many children around this place and it's not like she can go out and play with them either anyway so why would she care now?
She was woken up by a click at the small door into her room and light reaches into the closet she sleeps in. She looks around the room, hoping she were somewhere else but when she realize she was still with the Domen family she turns exhausted.
Her eyes looks at the small toys she had and the books that was sorted next to them. There wasn't much in there but enough for Hanake to feel comfortable at least.
It didn't take long before she heard a loud irritated and repeatedly knocked on the door. "Up! Get up!" The woman outside the door shouts as she continues to knock on the door. The woman was Puyumi Domen and were a tall woman with brown short hair wearing a pink long-sleeved with a brown fishbone pencil skirt that reaches her knees and wore a white apron.
Puyumi sighs before she smacks the door annoyed that she always have to wake the girl up all the time. "Now!" With that she walks walks through the door that leads towards the kitchen and the livin-room. Hakane sits up and pull the thread that turn the light on with a light clicking sound.
She really didn't want to be here but she had no choice and nowhere else to go. Her mid-back black hair was messy but she didn't really have any time brushing it through and only reached for the hair ties that was laying in different colors behind her and and grabbed a blue one with white stars on it.
Sighing tiredly she pulls her hair up and ties it together with the hair tie, flinching each time the tangled hair pulled at the rots and made her feel a slightly pain from it.
She soon heard footsteps that made dust fall down on her face and tickled her nose irritatingly but she knew exactly who the person were that ran down the stairs. Hakane was wearing a white tank top and light blue shorts that may be the only clothes she have but she cleans them when she have time.
She groans when the boy stops midway and then ran back up and starts to jumped up and down harshly and made more dust fall down from the stairs. "Wake up, cousin! We're going to the zoo!" She looks up and rolled her eyes dramatically.
'Of course we are. They do everything to make you happy' Hakane thought when her cousin Daidai continue to stamp until he saw her about to get out of her room and rushed down laughing and pushed her back into the closet. She fell on her back and a quick pain of electricity shot through her back as the door was kicked close.
She was so close to just throw her fist right at his face but she knew she would get in much trouble of she even yelled at him. Groaning once again in pain she took a deep breath and forced herself up and out her room.
"Oh, here he comes, the birthday boy!" Mrs. Domen cooed when she saw Daidai coming through the door. Daidai was a tubby boy and wore a red long-sleeved with light grey pants and brown short hair just like his mother. "Happy birthday, son." She heard the Daidai's father Vandarin congratulate him from his position next to the table looking directly at his son before Hakane walked in.
Puyumi and Daidai giggled at each other, both excited over the presents and hugs the boy close to her when Hakane got to the stove where the delicious aroma of bacon was in the air and made her stomach rumble of hunger but she controlled herself as the woman glared daggers into her head.
A perilous glare that told her that if she undermine this day she'll definitely pay and she didn't complain. "Why don't you just cook the breakfast, and try not to burn anything." She told him unpleasantly and she obeyed the request that more sounded like an order and took over the stove and the cooking of the bacons. "Yes, Aunt Puyumi."
Her eyes were focused on the cooking as she moved the bacons around to not burn them or get stuck on the frying pan but she could still hear what Aunt Puyumi says.
"I want everything to be perfect for my Daidai's special day." She cooed as she turned him around and covered his eyes and started walking towards a pile of presents in different forms and sizes.
Hakane walked towards the plates and took her time placing the bacon on it when she thought they were cooked enough but Vandarin was not a patient man. "Hurry up! Bring my coffee, girl!" He ordered the girl who sighs and place the frying pan down and went to get the men his coffee. Vandarin had blond short hair, mustache and was a bit larger around his waist. "Yes, Uncle Vandarin."
Puyumi lead Daidai to the family room and takes her hands away from his son's eyes so he could see all the presents but e wasn't smiling and the black-headed girl knew exactly why. "Aren't they wonderful, darling?" She awed at the spoiled boy but he turned towards his father and glared, demanding the answer.
"How many are there?" He spit out aggressively as the girl came with the of coffee like Vandarin ordered and started to pour it i to the cup. "Thirty-six. Counted 'em myself." He proudly answered but he exploded in just a few seconds.
"Thirty-six?! But last year last year I had thirty-seven!" Daidai yelled furiously while Hakane frowned. 'At least you get presents.' She thought but didn't say anything out loud. The father looked at his son nervously not knowing exactly what to say at this situation.
"Err. Yes, well, some of them are quite a bit bigger than last year." He tried but it didn't calm down the boy who looked like he was red in anger. "I don't care how big they are!" He yelled at him and Puyumi tries to calm her son down.
"Oh, now, now, now. This is what we're going to do, is that when we go out we're going to buy you two new presents! How's that, Pumpkin?" The mother promised while the girl glared at him for getting spoiled. No way he would be able to live alone when he moves or if he moves.
Later the same day they all hurried out the house and into the car. " This will be a lovely day at the zoo. I'm really looking forward to it." Puyumi says happily and got into the car. Daidai in the backseat and the wife in the front and Hakane was about to get in but Vandarin closed the door before she could.
"I'm warning you now, girl. Any funny business, any at all, and you won't have any meals for a week. Get in." He warned the girl who just stares blankly at him before getting into the car, just like he ordered.
At the zoo students were walking out two and two in green uniforms and their teacher talking to some of them. Others were just walking either out or into the reptile house.
Hakane stood in front of a large boa constrictor watching the snake she thought was sleeping with the rest of the Domen family. She had a sweater over to not look like she just got up from bed. They all looked at the snake boringly besides the girl. "Make it move!" Daidai ordered as he stared at snake in front of him.
Vandarin raps the window to the boa like he tried to scare it. "Move!" He ordered like the snake would do just as he said making the girl roll her eyes at him annoyed that he always thought he could order everything and think they would obey.
The snake still didn't move making Daidai angry and made him raps the window even harder and even made Vadarin wince in thought that he would brake the window. "Move!" He ordered before Hakane stoped the abuse. "He's asleep!" She clarified.
Daidai stares at the snake some more seconds in case it would do something but when nothing happened he groans annoyed. "He's boring." He says before turning away to walk towards another enclosure while his parents walked away as well and left Hakane alone with the snake much to her relief.
After making sure they aren't looking his way he looks at the snake. "Sorry about him. He doesn't understand what it's like, lying there day after day, having people press their ugly faces in on you." She apologized and saw something she never saw before.
The snake blinked at her direction and made her gasp surprised. "Can you...hear me?" she asked not believing what she was seeing. Maybe this is a trick or maybe her head is messing with her. Either way the snake nod its head at her and raise up to look at her into the eyes better.
"It's just...I've never talked to a snake before. Do you...I mean...do you talk to people often?" The boa shakes its head as the tongue was moving out and in like it was happy to finally speak to someone that understands. "You're from Burma, aren't you? Was it nice there, do you miss your family?"
The snake turn its head towards a sign and she follows its direction to look at what the snake was staring at and saw the the three words that made her frown sadly. On the white sign inside the cage stood "Bred in captivity" It was just like her. They were the same even if they were different spices.
Hakane knew how the snake was felling. "I see. That's me as well. I never knew my parents, either." They stared at each other before Hakane heard shouting behind her but just thought he saw something else. "Mummy, dad, come here! You won't believe what this snake is doing!"
Before she knew it she made impact with the hard and cold floor that would possibly make another bruise on her body and it really hurt. Why was he always pushing her and shoving her away when she started to do something? it was irritating.
While Daidai put his whole face and body against the glass Hakane glared intensively at him and could nearly feel how her head started to hurt by the anger that boiled inside her.
That's when it happened, the glass just disappeared and Daidai fell into the enclosure and into the water that splashed around him and made him completely cold and wet. Hakane smiled at the sight while Daidai sat up confused and gasped in terror when he saw the snake slither out of the enclosure in front of him. Daidai's eyes never moved from the snake as it landed in front of the girl and nodded a bit.
"Thankssssssss" The snake hissed gratefully of getting out of there and finally being able to know how it feels like being free. The black-headed girl looked at the snake, feeling cold sweat form on her hands and forehead before she answered. "Anytime."
With that the snake slithered off and scared the people around him. Hissing but he didn't stop moving. "Snake!" a man yelled when he saw the boa moving on the floor and caused panic to occur.
Daidai gets up and tries to get out but as fast he reach for the handle to get over his hand touches something that's separating him from the outside.
The glass was back and trapping him inside the enclosure. As fast as he realize that he was stuck he starts to pound on the glass, trying to find the way out of there. "Mum, mummy!" He shouted and catches his mothers attention and as fast as she saw him she screamed so loud that Vandarin flinched before he saw why and Puyumi rushed forward felling the glass like trying to figure out how he got there.
"Mum, help! Help me!" The boy pleaded as the mother was scared and confused at the situation. "My darling boy! How did you get in there?!" She asked worriedly and made Hakane smile and was about to giggle when she saw the father's furious glare that was definitely directed at her. "How did you get in there? Daidai, oh, Daidai!" Puyumi continues to scream.
It didn't take long for the employers that worked there got the boy out and they were quick to get home.
Puyumi opens the door and leads a chocked and wet boy inside wrapped into a warm blanket that they would never even care about giving her if she was freezing or sick. "It's all right. It's all right." Puyumi comforted before they disappeared into the living-room and kitchen.
Vandarin threw Hakane in and closed the door forcefully behind him before he took a handful of her black already messy hair that made her wince and wanted to crawl away but could't. She gasped in pain and tried to remove the hand but failed and was forced to feel the pain. "What happened?" Wanting to know exactly what happened but Hakane could't explain.
"I swear I don't know! One minute the glass was there and then it was gone! It was like magic!" She explained but Vandarin scoffs before he open the closet, threw her in and locked it afterwards. "There's no such thing as magic!" He claimed and closed the hole where she could look out.
"They never believes me." She muttered irritated before she sat down.