Cotty sat on her bed looking up at the ceiling the question had been posed to her. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" In all honesty, Cotty hadn't thought much about growing up. She kinda liked being a kid, the idea of growing up and getting responsibilities of her own were scary. Her siblings were already being torn apart a fact she knew would only worsen as they got older and their own lives would take form. She didn't want to grow up, she wanted to stay a kid forever. That was how she realized exactly what she had to be. A worker at the orphanage, sure it wouldn't pay much but it would be fulfilling. She would never have to be alone, and she would get to spend her whole life playing. Her only fear was kids climbing on her and violating her strict no touching rule. She supposed she could always tell them not to but did kids ever listen anyway? Well that was it she would work in the orphanage and help kids that were left behind like her and her siblings. Maybe she would even adopt a few on the way but who knew. All that she knew was that it was time, for her to grow up. For her to move on into bigger and better things than pointing at stars or scribbling in color books, she'd always be a kid at heart but even though she couldn't be on the outside she knew it would never change.
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