Chapter 2 Trials

Eight years later at the orphanage home. "Look miss Sinclair, I saved this spider from grumpy old Mrs Harris. She was about to kill it",Kim said. Coughs weakly,"oh Kim, when will you stop being naughty? You keep on getting on Mrs Harris bad side every single time",miss Sinclair said weakly.

"That is because she is always so rude and mean. I don't like her at all",Kim said stubbornly. "You will have to learn how to get used to her, because when I am gone,she will be in charge. You don't want her to treat you badly, do you?",miss Sinclair advised her.

"Not really. What do you mean by when you are gone...you are not planning to die,are you?!! You promised me that you will get healthy, you promised",Kim said franticaIlly. "Relax Kim, I am neither going to die now nor am I planning on it",she assured her.

"Then what do you mean?",Kim asked confused. "You know how bad my health state is at the moment",Kim nods her head affirmatively,"well in a week time, I will be traveling to India to continue my treatment there. It will be much better for me there, I can guarantee that I will recover much faster when I am there", miss Sinclair said.

"What!! No,no, no...why can't you just stay here and continue with your present treatment. You will get better here, you don't need to go to the other side of the world just to get better",Kim hurriedly said.

"That is what the agency wants, they paid for all this. And to be completely honest, I am really okay with it. If I stay here any further with the condition I am in currently, then I may end up dying",she stated. "This is just so unfair",Kim said and ran out of the room.

"Why can't she just stay".."no Kim, don't be selfish,miss Sinclair really needs this. You love her don't you?".."yes I do, that is why I do not want her to leave me. She is all I've got".."then what if she stays and her condition ends up getting worse, and she dies. What are you doing to do,huh?".."no,no,no!!!", Kim shouted out loud and started slapping her cheeks, to enable her snap out of the conversation she was having with her conscience.

"Are you all right, you seemed to have lost it?",a boy who had been watching her act insanely since asked. "Why do you care!" looks at him carefully," and who are you? I have never seen your face around here before", she asked.

"My name is Drew Miller, miss Sinclair's nephew",he replied. "Nephew???",she muttered. "Um,yeah, you don't know what a nephew means? Well,it simply means....",he said mockingly.

Quickly interrupts him, "shut up! I know what a nephew means dum dum. I was just surprised that is all". "Why are you surprised",he asked.

"Well because I've known miss for a long time now, and she has never mentioned having any nephew at all",she replied.

"Well, you don't need to know everything about her,do you? You are not related to her in any way",he said and walked away. "How rude. He better hopes he doesn't run into me again or he will regret it",grits.

A week later, miss Sinclair was finally set to leave for India. Everyone at the orphanage home gathered to bid her farewell.

"I am sorry Kim, I really am ",miss Sinclair apologized to Kimberly. "Why? You should not be, I admit that it will be hard for me to cope without you here. But I'll strive through because that's what you taught me, to be strong and brave",Kim said firmly.

"I will definitely miss you my little one", miss Sinclair said and gave a faint smile. "I will await the day that we both would meet again",Kim said and they both hugged each other. "Time to go sis, you don't want to miss your flight, right?"?",Mrs Miller said. "Goodbye Kim ",miss Sinclair said has she left.

After miss Sinclair left, life in the orphanage home became torture for Kimberly. She got bullied by the younger kids there. They made fun of her, saying things like,"she was too old for the orphanage home ","no one was ever going to adopt her","she was going to end up marrying the orphanage home " and other hurtful words.

Mrs Harris was no exception, she made life very hard for Kimberly. She gave her punishment a lot, for no better reason, sometimes she didn't give her any food.

"I can't keep living my life like this anymore. I have been stuck in this dump for too long now", looks around the compound,"I have no clue whatsoever how the outside world is. If no one is going to adopt me, I may as well just run away but I have to think of way too not get caught".

Just then, she noticed a car drive into the compound. Inside the car was Mrs Miller and Drew. Suddenly a plan popped into her head.

"Good day Mrs Miller, how is miss Sinclair doing?", Mrs Harris asked. " The doctors said her condition is improving ",Mrs Miller replied. "That is really nice to hear. So what brings you here today?", Mrs Harris asked again.

" I just came by to get my sister's remaining stuffs. If you don't mind, I will be going to her room now", Mrs Miller replied and walked away with Drew. "Just because you are young and rich doesn't mean you will talk to me in that manner ",Mrs Harris said in a low tone. Kimberly who had been eavesdropping for a while now laughed.

Drew decided to take a stroll around the building while his mom gathered all if miss Sinclair's stuffs. On his stroll around the building, he spotted a girl with a big bag, trying to open his mom's car boot with a pin.

"Hey! Stop that you thief. I will report you to the head warden and you will be in big trouble",he said. "Oh no, please don't",the girl said.

Shocked,"you!! The crazy girl from last time",he said. Rolls her eyes,"I have a name you know. Kim_ber_ly... just three syllables. So it's going to be easy for you to pronounce, right?",she said mockingly.

"Hahaha, how funny. What the hell are you trying to do to my mom's car? Do you steal when you get bored?, he asked. "Any idiot would be able to tell from my big bag and me trying to jiggle the lock of this boot open, that I am obviously trying to run away", she said and hissed.

"The fact that you indirectly insulted me just makes me want to march right over to Mrs Harris office and expose you ",he jokingly said. "I am sorry, please don't. She will probably give me nothing to eat for three days and make me do majority of the hard chores. Please don't ",she pleaded.

"Woah, chill I was only joking",sighs and looks up"so she is that cruel to everyone,huh?",he asked. "Nahh, only to me tho. Although she does not treat some of the kids that way, she just has a thing with enjoying torturing me",she said.

"And why is that? You stole her savings? You tried to poison her? You killed her pet?, he asked. "Um,yeah. I actually killed her pet but to be honest,it was just a mistake. Two years ago,she brought this really cute black cat here. I was very fond of it but I hated the fact that it's fur was just too black. So one day, I sneaked her cat away and tried to dye it's fur in a big tub of water, filled with purple dye. Long story short, the cat ended up drowning. I guess that cat just couldn't swim",she said and sighed.

"You are a really sick person. Cats can't swim, they hate water. Then who the hell dyes a cat's fur and purple for that matter. Have you ever seen a purple cat?",he asked.

"Not really but I would love to see one, someday ", Kim replied. "So why are you trying to runaway?",he asked. "If I stay here any further, I may end up killing myself or someone ",she replied.

"Oh!",he muttered surprised. "So please help me. Open your mom's car boot please,I promise I will get off as soon as possible ",she begged him. "Are you sure you will be able to survive in the outside world on your own?",he asked.

"Yes. I am a tough girl, do not underestimate me just because I am short and small. You got that?",she said in a bossy manner.

"Drew,where are you?!", Mrs Miller called from inside the building. "Quick, get in. I'll make sure to leave it open okay",he hurriedly said. "Thanks, thanks a lot",she thanked him and then got into the boot.

After about an hour drive from the orphanage home, Mrs Miller got pulled over by a cop. "Good day officer, how may I help you?",she asked politely. "Nothing much really, I just find it quite suspicious that your boot is slightly open. Is there a dead body in there or did you kidnap someone?", the cop asked.

"No, I didn't do any of such thing ",she replied. "Then if you don't mind, I would like to search it", the cop said. "Go ahead",she approved and got down from her car.

"Oh no, she is definitely going to get caught for sure. What should I do",Drew said aside to himself. "See, there is nothing in here. I guess my son over there hadn't closed it well. So can we go now please?",she asked. "Yes. Sorry for the trouble ",the cop apologized.

"She is gone? She did say she was going to get off quick though. I hope she is somewhere safe, if only she had waited longer, she would have been able to get off in the city ",Drew thought to himself.

"Hey kiddo, what are you doing wandering in the streets all alone? Where are your parents?",a big able bodied woman asked Kimberly. "Lana,why don't we just take her and then charge her parents if they want her back ",the woman on the left side suggested.

"You could have just easily said, we kidnap her and then demand ransom from her parents. Simple and short",the woman on the right side mockingly said.

"Hey, I am no little child okay. I understand very clearly what you all just said right now. And sorry to spoil your business but this kiddo is an orphan ", Kim said not bothered.

"If you are an orphan then aren't you supposed to be in an orphanage home? There is one not that far from here", Lana stated. "I am..but I escaped"gives a sly smile,"and before you ask me why. Just know that I was totally mistreated, tortured and disregarded there. If I wanted to remain sane, I had to leave there at once",she explained.

"Wow, you've got guts kiddo, I think I like you",Lana said impressed. "So what is your name?",the woman at the right side asked.

"My name is Kimberly, Kimberly Perkins ",she replied. "Kimberly, I'm Lana"points to the woman on the left side,"she is Sam and the other is Jane. So where are you heading to, now that you have escaped, Lana asked.

"I don't really know but I will figure something out",she replied. "Look, we are boxers, we were only joking about the kidnapping stuff. Why don't you come with us, what do you say?", Lana said.

"Going with you guys?",Kim said with a questioning look on her face. "I will put it straight to you kiddo. I love your bold attitude, literally everything about you at the moment.We are willing to take you in. You have nowhere to go,so what do you say,huh? ", Lana said.

"Are you in or not?",Jane added. "I'm in. I mean what have I seriously got to lose. Also, I'm in this more for the boxing part. You guys are gonna teach me, right?",she inquired. "Sure thing kiddo. Sure thing ",Lana replied and smiled.