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Little Lora was sitting on her bed, in her private room, in the dormitory. The Highness Royal College's dormitory had rooms for every student in the college. The dormitory was divided into two parts. The left side was the girls' dormitory and the right side was the boys' dormitory.

Every room had two beds, two study tables, and one attached bathroom. Since Lora's father had a higher status in the country, Lora got a single room for her, even though she did not like it. She wanted friends But they were afraid to be friends with Lora because the headmaster had imposed many rules on her at her father's request.

"Why don't you like me, papa?" Little Lora whispered to herself. No one was around to listen to her or comfort her. Drenching her cheeks, big two teardrops fell from her eyes.

"You also don't like me, mama... If you ever love me you would have not left me." She began to cry. A hairpin that belonged to her mother, which she had stolen from her father's office room, was clutched in her small hands. "I miss you, mama."

She was only one year old when her mother died and her father sent her to school when she was 5 years old even though she disliked it.

"Lora?" The head warden entered her room. "What are you doing?" Lora hid her mother's hairpin slowly without paying attention to it.

"What happened?" She looked at the head warden's face with sorrowful eyes but the head warden was someone who did not have any feelings as others said.

Lora was not afraid of that ferocious woman. She had seen more vicious in her father. But she did not show it.

"I think I expect an answer from you." The head warden got her attention again. Lora slowly lifted her head. Even her innocent face did not soften the head warden's, solid heart.

"I... I fell on the ground." Lora spoke slowly shuttering her words. She felt uneasy and hopeless feelings.

"You even can't walk properly. Such a crybaby!"

The head warden of the girl's dormitory poked a hole in Lora's tiny heart with her unkind words.

"I did not fall willingly." Lora spoke up not looking at her. She wanted to say what her heart said.

"Are you arguing with me now?" The head warden's face looked so messed up and looked like Annabelle at that time. It was disgusting and hateful to Lora.

"I... I... did... not..." Lora scattered her words rubbing her hands together.

"Make sure you won't make the same mistake again. This is the first and last time."

The head warden feared little Lora away. Lora was shaken by her tone and sound. Lora's eyes were filled with tears again. She downed her head. She wanted to cry but she was feared by the head warden.

That woman looked at Lora's face again and went out of her room. She slammed Lora's door with her fullest strength.

A few tear drops fell out from Lora's eyes. She lay on her bed and cried slowly, soundlessly.

Ding... dong... ding... dong...

Lora woke up to the sound of her alarm. Her tears had dried on her face. She got up from bed before, the head warden came into her room again.

She got angry with her father. He gave her so much unwanted attention. Especially of that self-willed, rude warden.

"I want all of you to behave like girls!" That head warden shouted while walking among lined-up girls with the stick in her hand. She scared away everyone with that stick.

Lora had her head down since she did not want to get others' attention.

"Remember our motto." Head warden shouted again.

"Behave like a girl." All the girls who were lined up in the base of the girls' dormitory said with the maiden.

"Go ahead." The head warden said calmly pointing her stick to the entrance door. All went out in a line without a single 'hmm' sound.

"Oh.... look at who we have here." Lora had another headache other than the head maiden.

That was Raluca. She was an arrogant girl and hated Lora. Lora tried to stay with her as a friend since the very first day, but it was worthless and meaningless.

Raluca had two friends who stayed beside her every time. They helped and encouraged her in every situation. Especially when they torture someone.

They were together every time and everywhere. They all were mean to every student except those who had higher, richest states and who were handsome.

First of all, they start their games with same-age students. But when time fled they had chosen some seniors for their own kind of dirty happiness.

At first, Raluca just hated Lora without a reason to hate her and play with her.

"Oh! little tangerine."

Raluca and her friends were always so stuffy with their words. Little Lora did not know why they called her tangerine.

She kept arm's length with them. Lora avoided Raluka and her friends as she did not hear anything.

"Aah!" When Lora was avoiding Raluca, feeling belittled, she pulled Lora's hair. Lora felt a lot of pain in her head. She held her head with both hands.

"You can't avoid me!"

Raluca shouted. All the kids in the classroom looked at them gasping.

"Have you gone mad Raluca? Leave my hair!" Lora shouted in pain with teary eyes. Raluca did not give up. She hated everyone, who was better than her. Raluca's parents had higher status in the country but Lora's father had more higher status than Raluca's parents. Even though she was aware of that fact, she secretly bullied Raluca. Since Lora didn't use her father's power, Raluca took advantages of that.

"Are you so much proud of your gross hair that much?" Raluca swung Lora's hair, pulling it.

"Leave my hair!" Lora asked in an inaudible voice as she was in pain.

"Why should I ?" Looking at her friends Raluca asked Lora.

"Should we cut this long hair of yours?" Lora was frightened when Raluca's friends accepted it nodding their heads and laughing at her.

"No, No, No, please!"

Lora cried panicking. She wanted to stop but Raluca's two friends held her tightly.

"Why not little tangerine?" Raluca asked Lora dramatically.

"You should learn your lesson." Lora cried more as Raluca talked, and others laughed.

"This is your punishment for avoiding me."

Raluca aimed her hand out and her friend lay a scissor on her palm. She grabbed it and cut Lora's waist-length hair, near her shoulder.

"No..." Lora's voice was raised and other students gasp their mouths. Lora ran away.

"Mama..." She was facing the mirror in the restroom, grabbing her hair. She felt nothing but the tears kept falling out of her eyes.

Lora touched her hair with her both hands, looking at the mirror from time to time. She wept. Her tears blended cheeks had turned red from crying for too long. Some senior girls came into the restroom and Lora wiped away her tears.

"Madam told you to come." One girl told Lora, crossing her arms. Lora was frightened by her voice. It was not too rude but it was not even friendly.

"Me?" Lora pointed a finger at herself and asked that senior. That senior girl sighed at her words.

That senior girl was a student who had the best results in college. She was the best student with the best marks. She studied the hardest subject in college and she was a pro in martial arts. Everyone knew her as soon as someone said 'Norisha'.

"There is no one other than you." Norisha felt sympathy for Lora when she saw her drained face from crying.

"Which madam called me?" Lora asked in a low voice. She wanted to wail but she held back and downed her head, rubbing her hands together.

Norisha and the other girls went near her. They felt sorry for her and angry about Raluca. But they could not do anything regarding that incident. They had high rules and they had zero evidence to prove the nasty actions of Raluka.

Other students never dare to provoke Raluca. They were afraid to incur her wrath.

"The head madam." Norisha said it patting her shoulder. As soon as Norisha said those three words, Lora looked at her instantly in horror. It did not take a second to refill her eyes with tears.

"I did not do anything." Lora took short breaths hardly.

"It won't be serious Lora. Please don't cry." Norisha tried to convince her. "I also think so." Norisha's friend helped to convince her.

Lora looked at them. "Don't be afraid. Everything will be fine." Norisha and her friends did not know what to say but they tried at least to be a help to concern Lora.

Lora nodded. "Thank you." She smiled at them and left the bathroom.

"Can't we do anything more?" Norisha's friend asked looking at Lora leaving. Norisha sighed.

"We can if we had proof but I don't think so." One friend replied. "Poor girl." Norisha and her friends went to their classes.

Lora strolled as she could. She did not want to go to the principal madam's office. She felt a disaster was coming for her. She never knew what life had already planned for her.

'Bad things happen because good things have to happen.' She was mesmerized by something she had heard before. So, she also thought when something bad happened to her, that was because good things were coming.

But still, she did not see any good thing. Day by day only happened bad things to her. She was waiting for to happen good things in her life even for once.

"May I come madam?" Lora knocked on the door of the Principal's office. Her hands trembled. Her assistant opened the door and smiled at Lora friendly.

"Come in." She told and Lora went inside hesitantly.

She lifted her head up and took a step back. Her father was sitting on a couch in front of the principal's desk.

"Papa!" Mr. Emmet, Lora's father stood up when he saw her. Lora ran to him and hugged his leg. She began to cry.

"Papa, when did you come? I don't want to be here Papa... Please take me with you."

Although he was mean to her, as soon as she saw him, her father, she began to express her grief automatically. She wanted him to hug her back and melt her sadness away. Fathers were meant to give daughters their shoulder to cry on, console them, and make them strong.

"Papa?" Mr. Emmet grabbed her by the arms that were hugging him and pulled her away. Lora looked at him uncertainly. Her weeping had stopped. she could not think about anything besides 'Why?'.

"What did you do to your hair?" His voice was rude. Lora started to hiccup. She was scared as hell. She thought he would punish her.

"I... I... di... did..." She faltered.

"Speak properly!" Mr. Emmet shouted. Lora was stunned by his voice. Even the principal was shocked.

Lora pursed his lips as possible as she could to stop crying out loudly. Her father took a deep breath.

"You deserve a punishment." Pointing a finger at her, he scared the little girl.

"Papa... I.." She tried to explain to him what happened but he did not want to listen. He was a handsome man but what was the use? he was desperately rude to his little daughter.

"You have to learn how to behave."

He picked up on again her. Lora said nothing and turned her head down not lifting for the whole time. Her father, Mr. Emmet, and the principal choose a punishment for her bad behavior as they said.

Lora was extremely disappointed in her father. He did not even give Lora a chance to speak up and clear things up. He believed what he heard and already had made the decision that Lora was the one to blame.

They chose to suspend Lora from the art class for a week as punishment. She was already punished. Lora was pessimistic about experiencing all those things. She had been banned from all things and now she could not take the art classes which she had enjoyed so far.

"Mama... I don't want to be here..." Lora curled up on the bed. This day could not get worse. Even though this can not be described as the worst day of her life, she cried her eyes fell out.

She resented God and begged her mother to take her to where she lived. It was hard for a 12-years-old girl to bear.

"I should go." Lora made up a plan while crying. She decided to run away from the dormitory. She planned it for a week, searching all things up. She could not be happy there, no matter how hard she tried.

She wanted to escape. As she had no friends and no one really cared about her, she had taken advantage of them. Having a single room was an added advantage for her. She thought to run away in the night like 11 o'clock.

They had strict rules but it was easy for her to draw a sketch on her mind because she had researched everything. She opened the window of the bathroom and climbed using the commode.

She was wearing sweatpants since it was the easiest runaway suit. She placed her foot first on the window sill and also the other foot. Lowing her upper body, she sat on the window sill and jumped. It was so easy because she was on the ground floor.

There was a little garden around the building so were the bushes. Taking advantage of them, she went ahead hiding.

The Highness Royal College was so huge and there were little gates from place to place. She went near one. Lora knew all were locked and they were digital locks. She had memorized the tapping sound of one of them when a guard opened it.

Lora tried tapping all the numbers to listen to their sound and tried it.

"Yes." After a few attempts, she was able to open the lock. She was thrilled to step out of college.

She walked on the path aimlessly. She saw many food stalls beside the road, and she wanted to try them one by one but she had no money. She did not get upset with that because she thought she still managed to run away.