We'll Be Watching You, Amber STORY ON HOLD!

I Want My Mommy!

I'm running...something's chasing after me! Mommy please come and save me, please, mommy come and take me away! I'm so scared, the red people are running after me...mommy! I can't run anymore, I can't breathe, please! I'm gonna fall, there's a big hole in the ground, I'm gonna fall in the pit and drown please mommy save me! What did I do wrong? Why do I have to be like this? They're catching up to me, I can't run any faster...help!

Mommy!

"MOMMY!" I screamed as loud as I could. Where am I, where's my mommy, I want her now!

A person ran into the room and next to me. She was short and had a white dress with a red cross on it and she had a little funny hat on her head. She had long black hair and she was not my mommy.

"Shh, it's okay Amber...shh, you're in the hospital sweetie. I'm your nurse, Emma. Everything's gonna be alright."

The nurse held me in her arms and kissed me all over my head. She rocked back and forth and quieted me down, saying how everything's gonna be alright.

"Where's my mommy? Why am I here?" I asked the nurse, pulling the covers closer to me. It was cold in this little grey room, it was nothing like home. It was cold and smelled like purple pills and it was scary.

The nurse sat down on my bed and smoothed my hair down.

"Oh, poor sweetie. It's okay, you're going to be okay. You're in the hospital, you just had surgery. Remmember?"

No, I don't! The only thing I can rememmber is that the mean nasty old doctor put a needle in my neck and it hurt! Where's my mommy?

"No, I don't. I already asked you, where's my mommy? She's s'posed to be here and be with me, now you go out and find her and bring her here."

The nurse patted my cheek. "No, that's not how it works here baby. Oh dear, she didn't tell you did she? You've been here for a week now darlin', fast alseep in this little room. You were in a coma."

I know what a coma is, it's when you go to sleep for a long time without waking up. But Emma is a big fat liar because I wasn't sleeping for a week.

I started to cry.

"Now now, no need to cry. I'll explain everything. Oh...this is so sad honey, I promise you this is not your fault, okay? Your mommy...she's not coming back."

What?

"Your mommy had to leave you here with us, Amber. She's not coming back, she went to live with her boyfriend for a while. Your daddy, well, he's gone too. They...don't think it's best for you to live with them anymore so they brought you to us."

Emma is a big fat LIAR.

"No, stop it, stop lying, I want my mommy and my daddy, you stop telling lies!"

Emma held me closer and shushed me again. "You're going to stay with us for a while, baby. Maybe a long time but that's okay, we'll take care of you. And one day, we're gonna find you a nice family to take care of you. But for the meantime, you stay here and live with us, and soon we'll bring you and loads of other kids just like you to a place. You're going to live with them over there and they'll take care of you. These kids, well, they're special, like you, Amber. Okay?"

I said nothing for a long time, but nodded afterwards. She smiled.

"Good! Well, we might as well bring you breakfast huh? It's already 8 in the morning. I'll call the doctor in a while, but first let's clean you up."

She picked me up and carried me to the bathroom. It was in the corner of my little room and it had a shower and a small towel next to it.

Emma put me down and said, "Now you just wait here one moment and I'll call the other nurses to help me, m'kay? Guess what, I'll give you a big girl job to do. You have to make sure the temperature is nice and warm, and it's your job to control the hot and cold water. Now you can do that, can't you?"