"Parents? What're they?" Kyle said as he looked up at the old man staring at him, he looked 70-80 years old and had a walking stick with him.
The old man stared at Kyle in shock for a bit then finally let out a long sigh, he realised that Kyle didn't have any parents and seemed like a orphan from birth, how tragic.
"Haaaa, kid what's your name?" He said to him after the long sigh.
Kyle looked at him with caution, but at as he looked into the eyes of the old man and only they were filled with warmth and care so he told him.
"It's Kyle, Kyle Reid." Kyle replied back to him.
The old man stared off into space for a few moments then looked back at Kyle and said.
"If you want a place to live, follow me Kyle." The old man said to Kyle as he turned his back and walked off, he wasn't that fast as he had to use his walking stick to hold himself up from falling over.
'What?' Thought Kyle as he watched the old man slowly walk off, it took a bit for his mind to process what he just had said, but when it did he got up and followed after him.
'I won't have to sleep on the streets anymore? Fine with me.' He was thinking as he walked up beside the old man to follow him wherever he was going, though it didn't appear to him that following someone you don't know could be dangerous, but he trusted his instinct and those kind eyes.
"My name is Edward, Edward Vincent and I'm 78 years old." He said to Kyle once he had saw that he decided to follow him.
He side-eyed Kyle and saw him just looking straight down at the floor, he didn't seem to care what his name was and only wanted somewhere to live and to eat from the looks of it.
"What's your age boy?" He asked Kyle.
"I'm 10 years old." Kyle said back to the old man.
"Oh? How long have you've been living on the streets for?" He asked back.
"Only a couple of days." Kyle replied
"Huh? Where were you staying before that?" The old man asked with a bit of shock, he intially thought Kyle grew up on the streets and lived there, but the old man didn't know the dark truth of that foster home.
"I was living in a foster home." Kyle replied without any changes in his expression.
"Why did you leave?" He asked
"Reasons." Kyle said one word and no more came out of his mouth, he was unwilling to speak about what happened.
"Oh." The old man also didn't say another word as they just walk side by side in silence for the rest of the walk to wherever they were going.
They were walking for a good 15 minutes till they reached a small rural area where the houses were only 1 stoor high, bungalos.
The neighbour hood was quite quiet actually and not many houses had cars parked in front of them, but anything would be better than that foster home that he was living in for his entire life.
They were walking down the road and some grannys in the neighbour hood were saying hello to the old man as if they were long time friends, none of them seem to notice Kyle as he was very quite throughout the entire walk and had his head down not speaking a single word, they continued to walk down till they reached the house 34.
It was a bungalo like every other house in the area and had a green fresh lawn infront of it, the grass was reguarly cut and the flowers were watered every day, there was a stone brick path way leading up to the steps that also led up to the front door.
There was also a small little gate at the entrance of the property to keep the dogs out, they opened the little gate and walked on the brick path way up to the door.
The old man made rustling noises as he searched through his pant's pockets in search of his keys, after a bit he found his keys and pulled them out, it was a golden coloured brass key and it was used to unlock the front door of the house.
He put it into the brass lock and turned, a click noise came out and the door was unlocked, he pushed it open and and freshing smell of roses came out, the old man smiled at the smell as he took a big waft of it in, after bathing in it for a couple of moments he stepped in and took of his shoes.
"Remember to take of your sho- Oh you don't have shoes, nevermind." The old man was about to remind the silent Kyle to take off his shoes, but then once again remembered that Kyle didn't own any shoes and just basically had rags covering him for clothes.
Kyle's face was pretty dirty also as he only had a shower every couple of years because he wasn't allowed to reguarly, his face was dirtied and his black hair was greasy beyond imagination.
"Go and take a shower, there's body wash and shampoo in there you can use, I'll also get you some clothes later." The old man directed him towards the bathroom as he told Kyle he could use the body wash and shampoo to clean himself, he told him he'll get clothes for him later too.
Kyle just nodded and walked into the bathroom and locked the door behind him, he walked over to the counter and picked up a bottle with a label on it saying 'Shampoo'
He checked it out for a bit then put it back down, he took of his rags and turned on the shower, the water ran down his scarred body as the hot shower water steamed up the whole bathroom.
Meanwhile off far away
Inside an office styled room as a beautiful woman was leaning on a brown shiny wide wooden desk with a hand on her head as she was contemplating something unknown, it was a decently sized room and there was wooden door the same material that the desk made out of straight infront of her at the end of the room.
"Head! News on the location of your child!" A woman came barged through that wooden door saying loudly.
"W-w-what!? Where is he!!!" The beautiful woman was stunned for a few seconds and then stuttered on her first word, but she quickly recollected herself and managed to reply to the woman who had just barged in.
She had a work attire on with black leggins and a black skirt with a black shirt on top, she also had high heels on and somehow still was able to rush and barge in, impressive.
"Reporting to head! We were able to successfully get the answer out of one of the staff members at the hospital, and she had said he was transported to a foster home in the UK, London." She said as she bent one leg down into a neel.
"And!!?" The woman said urgently as she was very eager to find her child.
"We are currently searching for him as the woman gave us the exact location of the foster home!" The woman on the ground reported to her.
"Okay, good work!" The woman on the chair said to her as she signalled her away.
That woman was Lila Enderson, the one that her baby; Kyle taken away from her 10 years ago. She had been always trying to locate him but she had to take it slow since they were searching in the Aliyah's territory, and after 10 long years she had finally got a clue on where he was and possibly even find him.
"My child, I'm comming to save you." She muttered to herself as a tear of happiness dropped down from her face, she was so happy that she will be finally meeting her beloved child once again.
But she soon fell into contemplation once again, 'Will he forgive me?' She thought, because at first she didn't even want to have him as her child and even sent him off to a foster home, but then wanted him back and was not able to take him back. She sent him off to a foreign country without any Mother or Father to take care of him.
'Does he hate me?' She thought as well, many thoughts were being brought up and she was having a war inside her brain, fighting against those thoughts and her own emotions.
'Even if he does, I will surely give him the motherly love that he never got.' She thought as she clenched her fist tightly till it trembled.
"Haaa." she sighed heavily as she flopped down onto her desk, she soon dozed off as the stress these pass years laid down heavily on her, and now the news of her child location has been reported allowed her to have that long needed rest, and yes, she did sleep throughout those 10 years but they horrible as she would have nightmares about things happening to her child.
After a couple of hours since the woman who had reported Kyle's location came in, she barged in once again and woke up Lila.
"Head! There's good news and bad news!" She said to Lila as she once again kneeled down on one leg.
"What're they?" Lila said with a worried look on her face.
"The good news is that, we found the foster home where your child was being held." She said with an awkward expression on her face.
Lila got very excited but then it died down quickly since there was bad news involved also.
"What's the bad news?" She asked with a worried look on her face once she spotted the awkwards expression on the other woman's face.
"The bad news is, once our men barged into the home, they were greeted a lot of blood on the walls and a horrible smell of dead bodies, they searched the house and found 2 adult bodies and many dead kids." She said with an horrified expression.
Suddenly Lila went pale as a ghost, she was white as paper and her mouth was opened in shock and would not close, then the tears flowed like a river as they streamed down her face and landed on the wooden floor with thud.
She was about to faint, but then suddenly more news came out that brightened her up a bit, but she was still worried.
"But there wasn't any child that was 10 years old in that group, so head's child is still alive!" She said.
Lila patted her chest in relief as those words bounced back and forth in her head, but she suddenly looked at the woman kneeling down with a worried look once again, and asked her.
"Where is he then?" She asked her.
"That, we do not know currently but we are doing investigations and we will find him soon." She said to Lila in an attempt to calm her down and make sure she doesn't faint.
"Okay." Lila said as she wiped off the sweat on her white forehead as she sat back down onto her chair as she once again fell back into contemplation.
Back at the Edward's house.
Kyle just had finished up showering and looked like a whole new person, he was completely clean now and had a nice smell radiating from him.
His once greasy beyond imagination black hair was now clean and shiny looking, his lower body was covered in a towl and his upperbody was bare, you could actually see his skin now but he was quite pale because he did not come in contact with the sun that much in his life up till now, also the scars that were on his body were more visable now.
Edward had just finished slicing up some fruits and placing them on the table for Kyle as he walked out and saw him coming out of the shower, he stood in shock as he looked at the several scars on Kyle's body.
'Those monsters! How dare they lay a hand on a child!!' Thought Edward as he tightly clenched his fist in frustration, he was angry at how poorly Kyle was treated back at that foster home, but also happy at the same time that he was able to bring him home.
"What's wrong?" Kyle said to Edward as he looked at the tightly clenched fist.
"It's nothing, there are freshly cut fruits on the table over inthe dining room for you to eat." Edward said as he waved his hand and directed Kyle towards the dining room to eat.
"Hm?" Kyle walked in and saw freshly cut fruit on a plate on the table ready for him, but what caught his eye was, there was fruit that he didn't even know about there also!
"What are these yellow circular things? And these red squares?" Kyle asked Edward as he pointed towards a sliced up banana and watermelon cubes.
"Oh, the yellow circular shaped fruit is called a banana, they're good for you and taste nice also. The red squares is chopped up watermelon." He told Kyle as he smiled.
'Oh, a banana and watermelon? They look nice.' Thought Kyle, well anything would look nicer than that horrible glob of waste that he had to eat everyday, he picked up some sliced up banana with his hand and began to eat it.
'This tastes good.' Kyle thought as he continued to shove more into his mouth and swallowing the chopped up banana, he then moved onto the watermelon and that tasted wonderful also, anything was taste amazing after having to eat basically dirt for years
"Have some orange juice also." Edward presented him a glass of orange juice to go with his meal.
Kyle looked at it for a bit then decided to taste it, the second a drop of orange entered his mouth and landed on his taste buds he gulped the whole thing down, anything better than that muddied water was also better.
He also hadn't eaten in days and he drank the water that melted from ice in his mouth, so he was extremely hungry and ate the fruits in a couple of minutes.
"Do you want some more?"
"No, I'm full."
'He's full? He looks like he hadn't eaten in days.' Thought Edward but decided to go with what Kyle said as he trusted him when he said he was full, anyways he could always just go and get more food himself.
"Okay, I'll go out and get you some clothes now, do you mind waiting here?" Edward said to him as he prepared to go out to get Kyle some clothes, Kyle couldn't go with him currently as he only had a towl covering his lower body and you can't really go out in that.
"It's okay." Kyle replied to him.
Edward nodded then prepared to go for the door, he was about to turn the handle and walk out when suddenly it burst open and he was flown onto the ground a good 2 metres away.
A group of men rushed in with bullet proof vests, helmets, gasmasks and guns, they did a quick scan for anyone and saw that there was a child looking like 10 years old and an old man lying on the ground in pain.
"That's him!" One of the men pointed at Kyle as they all shifted their gaze towards him, they were like lock on missiles.
"W-what?" Kyle was confused as he stepped back.
"Capture him and bring him back to head!" A man who seems like the leader said to the rest of the squad.
They all then rushed over to Kyle as they were going to capture him, Kyle stepped back once more then tried to make a run for it to the back door of the house.
"You're not getting away!" One of the soldiers took out what it seems like a tranquilizer and shot Kyle right in the back, Kyle fell to the ground with a bang and he was soon carried out by the soldiers.
The last man out suddenly looked at Edward and said.
"You didn't see anything." As he pointed his machine gun to the floor next to Edward and made a warning shot, he then disappeared like everyone else and Edward was just left there lying on the floor in shock.
"What the fuck just happened?" He said out loud.