A 7 year old girl sat alone on a bench outside the large building drawing on a piece of paper.
Putting all her effort in making her drawings perfect, she didn't realize three girls approaching her.
"Black witch!!!"
The poor girl raised her head sharply to see the girls she dreaded.
"What'cha drawing?!"
Rhoda a girl with shiny brown hair and black eyes asked, she was the same age as the girl drawing. Looking at them quietly without saying a word angered the leader Jacquiline, and she snatched the piece of paper the girl was holding and gave it a look before she smirked with satisfaction.
"What an ugly sight! you can't even do a thing right, Valeria. How pathetic!"
Raising the paper up, she tore it into many pieces before throwing it at Valeria.
"Such a waste of time."
Commented Tabitha who was the same age as Valeria. Jacquiline was a year older.
"Black people are dummies and lack talent."
Rhoda spat the words out before she harrumphed. Valeria who sat there looking at them shifted her eyes down staring at the pieces of the paper she drew on. Standing up she wanted to walk away when Jacquiline pushed her to the ground.
"Where do you think you're going witch?"
Jacquiline asked, annoyed at the girl's behaviour. Witch was the nickname given to her by them due to her eye colour. It was very rare to see a brown skinned girl with blue eyes. Especially in Brookfield. Getting up from the ground slowly, Valeria dusted her brown gown before saying.
"Am quiet buh am not stupid not to know what you're up to." For her age she had a sharp tongue. Jacquiline's eyes widened in annoyance, after all this was not the first time Valeria spoke back at her. Raising her hand she slapped her. The other two girls smiled in triumph at the slap given to Valeria. Giving Valeria a sharp look, Jacquiline warned her.
"Am not your senior for joke, okay?"
After warning her, Jacquiline and her friends left laughing. A tear slide down valeria's eye not because she was angry at them, but because she wonder why she deserved such cold treatment. Her caretaker sister Joycelyn warned her to never take insults or actions rashly. She told her that it will only make people feel that their judgement was right.
Picking up her pencil she headed back inside the orphanage home.