"I killed someone"
The silence that followed was painful for Michael as he never dreamed he would ever tell this story to anyone.
Eventually Sarah replied and asked in her boss mode voice "what happened".
"You must understand that I have never told this story to anyone, not even Tommy and Sophie know."
"I don't like to think about this as it's a painful memory."
"If you did not have the ability to do a background check on me I would off never revealed this however since you do have the ability you deserve to know."
"As you already know from earlier I grew up in a children's home, apparently my parents died when I was a baby because my first memory's are in the home."
"It was a loving home, filled with happy memories even tho it was poor in bad shape because we had little money."
"the home was run by three women, two of which where getting on in years while the third was about as old as we are now."
"we had barely enough food to keep us going day to day and only the handouts of the left overs from the local shops that where not sold helped us get by."
"occasionally rich or famous people would come to the orphanage to pose for the press claiming that they where doing volunteer work to help the poor children without parents when in fact they did nothing except stroke there own ego's."
"i remember one time a female celebrity, some well know actress I think came to the orphanage and pretended to play with the children in the playground until a girl splashed her dress with mud from a puddle as it rained the night before."
"I can still remember the shrill scream the actress made like nails on a chalk board as she screamed at the girl calling her names like trash and scum of the earth and that we should all die as the world would be better off without any off us."
"After that fewer and fewer visitors came, am guessing because the female celebrity probably told other famous and rich people not to bother with the orphanage after that."
"None of the kids cared because the famous people never truly played with us or interact with us and only pretended to when the cameras were out."
"The older ladies however got worried, I remember over hearing them on night talking in there office, I woke up because I needed to toilet or something and as I walked past the office its door was slightly open, they said something about how those celebrities always donated something when they came."
"Even tho it was never much compared to what they claimed to have donated every little helped."
"So anyway over time we all grew older, occasionally someone was luck enough to get adopted by that was very rare."
"When I got old enough I started to help the ladies out more and more because the two older ones where really getting on in years and where finding it hard to move around much."
"With all the help I put in I kind of because a leader to the other kids even if they were older than me, if they had problems they came to me for help first."
"When I was what 13 maybe 14 I am not sure a real estate company approached the ladies trying to purchase the land to build some flats or something, the ladies of course refused as where would the children go."
"The company kept returning and increased there offer by the smallest amount each time and the ladies refused."
"It's silly really if the real estate company had just offered to build a replacement orphanage else where then chances are they could have got the ladies to agree without offering anything else but they never did."
"So this continued for what about 6 months before the company got annoyed and one day the man who came was different than the normal lady they sent to negotiate."
"This man did not make any increased offers he just came with a warning, move out or else."
"Well the ladies refused and the man left saying we would be sorry, the ladies tried to report it to the police however they did not care about a bunch of orphans and just gave false promises like, we will investigate but don't hold your breath."
"A week or so after and no one from that company had bothered to come but we still lived our poor lives like we had until that night it happened."