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It was late in the
She sits in the corner of the alyway, watching the others pass by her almost frozen body. A cough roars from her mouth, she can't take being this extremly ill anymore. She pulls her soaked red hair back behing her shoulder, and looks up at the crying sky.
"I wonder if mum will ever find me?" She wondered, hoping they would soon. It's been five days and she's been hungry for so long. Some tears formed in her eyes, she couldn't take being this lonely. 'remember, stay put, if you keep on walking you'll get even more lost, then there wont be any hope!' She thought to herself and curled up into a ball, trying to keep herself at least a little bit warm.
She placed her chin on her knees. Finaly the tears worked their way out from her eyes and rolled down her face. She burried her face in her arms and softly cried, hardly even a sound was heard from her. From a distance, it looked like she was laughing from her shoulders bouncing up and down. As the little girl cried, her hope started to fade, little by little, until the next day peeked over the horizone. Then, it was gone.
"Am I really going to die here all alone?" She asked herself, then started coughing wildly. She gagged and leaned forward, throwing up what little foot was left in her stomache. The rain now started to fall harder upon the girls cold body. There was nowhere for her to go, and no shelter anywhere from the deadly rain. "They're not looking for me.... They probably left me behind! They never loved me.... They liked her more, it was always about-" She tried to force the next words out, but her cough pushed out before she even began to breathe. "...Her..." she finaly managed to get out, but only in the softest whisper. She grabbed a hold of her chest, and fell to the right on her side. She rolled over on her stomache, then got back up on her knees. The little girl forced herself up on her feet, but almost fell over from being so week without food. She stumbled out of the aly and onto the sidewalk. People looked at her and had a discusted look upon their faces. She was dirty, and smelled awful, her hair was in many knotes as well.
"So gross..." One of the men said.
"how awful!" Called out another.
"Isn't there an orphanage?" One of the mothers asked a man
"Eew, that smell!" Complained a little boy to his mother.
The look in her eyes was heartbreaking. She's never felt so worthless in her life. She ran down the sidewalk as fast as she would, faster than most girls her age could run. In less than two and a half hours of twists and turns threw the streats she collapsed, bashing into another child. It was alittle boy that looked only two years older than her.
"Hey.." He quickly turned around so see the little eight year old on the ground, gasping for air. He leaned forward, towards her body, and held his hand out towards her so he could help the poor child up on her feet.
She reached up and grasped his hand, using it to pull herself up. She stumbled again as she stood, then leaned on the boys shoulder.
"Th...thank you... So much..." She forced, then gazed up and faintly smiled up at him.
'She's lost, it's too easy to tell...' He thought as he looked down on her. "Follow me." He said, taking her hand again and making her follow him.
After what seemed to be five minutes, they reached a flight of stairs that headed downward into the ground. It was in the center of a dark, dirty, and cold alyway.
"I've lived down here for awhile." The boy said, guiding the girl down the stairs. " We have out ways to keep it from flooding, and from keeping stray people out..." He said, picking up a large thick board that was laying next to one of the walls as they walked down and placed it up at the top.
'fifty...fifty one... Fifty two... Fifty three steps...' The girl counted in her head. She raised her head and gazed at a large blue door.
"Come in." Was all the boy said as he pushed open the door and stepped inside.
'how odd... I dont even know his name and he's giving me shelter?' she wondered with a confused look upon her blue, cold face.

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