The Rare Gem

a burden or responsibility

I sat at the dining table with mom and dad but today everyone was silent even the servant and specially mom she would always ask me questions or just talk in general but today the silence was overwhelming i put my fork down and look at them mom had a distressed face while dad had a blank expression

I was about to say something when mom spoke

Maria:darling is something wrong?

Yvonne:huh?

Maria:lately you have been in the library for hours and you even stopped eating sweets darling i know you are more mature than other kids but there is no reason for you to be this mature we are your parents and til you become independent we are responsible to take care of you

I was shocked i tried to form words but none came out but then I hear dad speak

Claude: you're a child so there is no need for you to act too mature if anyone hurts you I'll make sure that will be the last day that person is breathing so you can depend on us don't suppress your emotions

I looked down at my lap

Yvonne:then...Then wouldn't i be a burden?

Maria:darling you where never a burden to us and never will be.

Yvonne looked up with her glossy eyes she had tears running down her face

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Black hair swayed in the wind as a little girl fell to the floor.The eyes that once beamed with warmth where now lifeless cold and hollow like her soul had been ripped out of her body

Arms and legs covers in bruises and a dirty dress with looked like a old rag

"You bitch!!you useless waste of space!! your nothing but a burden! pouring your eyes out everywhere now because of you the authorities have known about the orphanage now I won't let you get away with this!!"

Screams of pain where heard from the room the voice of a child

The door broke open as the police come in they open the door to see a girl black hair flowing on the floor her body was beat up and a man slowly picksthe girl up and puts a blanket on her

The man soon took her in and that man was the person she deemed as her savoir the angel she was waiting for put her happiness was short lived when the man was shot and killed she was once again put behind gates this time in another orphanage when she turned 18 she was allowed to go out on her own

Still life kept throwing pain suffering and betrayal at her she never experienced a family she never had someone to love her care for her

She was always labeled as a burden someone who did not deserve to live....

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Claude was surprised Yvonne had never cried but now seeing her face like this made his heart ache

Maria was quick to be on her side she held her in her arms Yvonne wrapped her arms around her

Claude too comes beside her and gently comforts her

Claude:i don't know how you got the idea that you are a burden too us but I reassure you that you will never be a burden too us

Yvonne:really?

Maria:yes darling..

Yvonne:i am sorry..

Claude:there is no need to apologize