The Broken Detective:Dollhouse (Book 1)

Chapter 4,Lily Price

The girl excitedly ran to where her school bus was parked to take her to Rotherby School,it was a miserable looking bus,it had thousands of fragments of paint falling of off the rim,the left side of the bus was dirty beyond thought,there was several water marks that looked like they had been there for at least 17 years,the wheels were incredibly worn,the rubber was almost as flat as a pancake,as Rose stepped into the bus,she felt herself slip...her breath stopped for a split second,she soon heard voices giggling behind her,

"Haha!Look that girl just slid over!"

Another girl then shouted out,

"What an idiot,some girl she is!"

Several children started to laugh,Rose felt overwhelmed with emotion,she felt like she would burst out crying at any moment,but the loud voice of the driver soon pierced her back to reality,she observed him,he was a shabby gentleman,probably in his late 50s or so,his hat was falling to pieces,he had mended it,she could tell that,but not very well,the sewing work was poorly done,his uniform reeked of body odur,the girl covered her mouth like she was about to be sick,the smell was that revolting,

"Alright...listen you little worms...I don't want any talking from any of ya...if I hear a single giggle I'll squash each and every one of you like a grape...am I understood!"

The children shuddered with fear stricken into them,thier tiny little legs were like jelly,thier hearts pounding out of thier chests,one of the girls stood there like a meerkat on alert for danger,she was valiant suprisingly,for her age,she was only 5,the same as Rose,her hair was as red as fire,she had brown eyes that were like chocolate as smooth as when it was made in a factory,her skin was fair and extremely well cared for,to her suprise,she walked toward Rose on the bus,and daintily sat next to her,in a quiet polite voice she said,

"My name is Lily,Lily Price and how'd you call yourself,ehh..."

Rose replied with haste,

"Rose,Rose Jennifer Saunders,its nice to meet you Lily,I haven't got a lot of friends."

Lily looked pitiful at Rose,she felt a great sadness for someone she had only just met,the girls tears dripped onto her grey,dull,rough skirt,she could feel it to,the atmosphere of Rose's silent crying was like a silent pindrop,nothing could be heard,it was as if time itself had stopped,the wheels on the bus were clanking and clanging,it disturbed the children greatly,they all were a bit shaken by the racket of the old bus,Rose looked behind her,there were some children giggling and laughing again,she overheard an inch of the conversation,

One whispered,

"What a wierd girl!"

Another then proceeded to put in thier statement of the poor child's looks,

"Heavens,her hair is like straw!"

"It has no texture to it at all,Hahaha!"

All of the other children on the bus then joined in,Rose was overwhelmed,the bus stopped,the girls chucked her out of it,she hit her head on the ground,it hurt her more than a thousand snakes biting at a single person,she ran and disappeared into,what looked to Lily like,under the stairs of the Rotherby School entrance,the other children began to chase her down to the stairs,Lily ran after Rose...