I woke up in the morning by the slap of an older orphan, I couldn't complain about it, no one here seems to care except miss Elys, and even if I did , miss Elys can't do much , but I have to endure it for now, until I find a Martial art master , I don't think anyone would want to teach me for free so I'll have to work for money next holliday, I dressed up and sneaked out before the bully would pick on me again on my birthday , "papa, please, papa help me" , I froze in place, I just heard child's voice crying now, I looked back, but there is nothing except the boys fighting each other, I wore my slippers I sneaked out, I went to the girls dorm room waiting for Alina , I knocked on the door, few minutes after I was welcomed by an older orphan in her 16 her name was Ivette Esteban she was the beauty of our town, her dark black curly hair down to her elbows, that matches her very white skin and her big beautiful black eyes , she was wearing a red dress today, she looked to me and said "Ali...? oh you must be Alina's twin brother, are you looking for her ?" she said with a smile, as I was about to say yes "The weather good today huh?" I replied , what wrong with me, she let a chuckle out
"yeah it is, she is sleeping now, would you want me to wake her up ?"
I blushed at my stupid reply I nodded, so I won't say another stupid thing
after 10 minutes of waiting at the door, Alina finally came out , sleepy, disordered, I looked at her desperately , "didn't we agree to wake up early?" I said furiously
"I did" she responded
"Ivette said you were asleep"
"this...." she took my hand and dragged me out , I called for her to stop , she didn't listen to me until we were in the secret garden that is located in the forest behind the orphanage, nobody has access to except for us and Joel , there is a wall of thorny branch the only way to access is by the little hole between two big rocks where the branches are cut by us -joel and me- hidden with bushs , I left to the pastry shop to get the lemon cake i bought yesterday , there i met Joel leaning on the wall, "happy birthday" he wished to me
"thanks" I grinned "why are you here ?"
"just to make sure you won't escape ,my mother already made a chocolate cake , you don't need to buy one " he said
"for that, I always buy it a day before, so I won't wait long here , and the teachers wouldn't suspect me since I come back early, they just know I go to the woods to play"
" then just grab it with you and let's go to my house"
"I need to make sure that Alina will come with us, then , if she ever changed her mind on coming to your place, she can have this cake "
"she is in the garden right?"
"the woods" I corrected, if one day we are overheard , they'll only know we go to the woods,
"hahahahah" that was a creepy laugh comings from Joel, I turned to him and saw him calm "why did you laugh" I said annoyed "it's not funny"
he looked at me suspiciously "what do you mean" he replied
"did .. did you hear that ?"
"hear what ?"
" forget it "
we walked out way to the 'woods'
we entered the garden, Alina was playing on the swing Joel made for her "happy birthday" he said "hi Joel" she looked at him cheerfully, she jumped from the swing running toward us
she was a bit weird, she never done that kind of things , she is scared of falling or injuring herself, but she did act this way before , I sometimes don't understand her.
to make it short, Alina had to accept again Joel's invitation since she forgot about it again , and she was very happy this time
we went together there , there was a woman on the door who is potentially Joel's twin sis but older, it must be his mom, the resemblance was huge.
his mother made a chocolate cake written on it our names, except that my name wasn't spelled right 'Lenushika' she already did her best so I didn't complain, his father came in later and his focus was on Alina who always changes her mood, but he didn't say anything about it ...
the day went well, we were welcome to their home anytime, something other villagers wouldn't say
In the garden, me and Alina started reading the book "Madman Athanasius "
the book actually criticize the saint
that he actually created the monster with black magic , people says he used his daughter blood, other people say, he used her bones , or that he used his daughter's body ,
the illustration showed a kid body shape White eyes long curly hair to te ground , it was a bit scary , the book also says that this monster, started eating people's souls every night , thus he sacrificed himself and it denied that the monster isn't his creation, the book fully accuse Athanasius for creating, the Athanasia , that's the monsters name , because of whatever blood relation or magic relation they have , people passed his name to this monster, even tho in other stories I heard it's because he sacrificed himself they gave the monster his name , I didn't think he might be involved with the monster this much, I wanted to know more about it .
to be continued