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The Big Announcement

The rain is drizzling on the glass window as I sit on my wheelchair trying to get a look at the stars which are hidden by the smokey black clouds.The room feels pretty warm but the outside wind coming from the window that is not properly closed tells me that tonight the temperature is going to be pretty low outside.Well looks like I won't be seeing the stars tonight.

It has become a habit of mine to watch them before dinner Ma used to say everyone becomes star after they die to keep watch on their loved once whom they left behind.
Apparently,my mom thought that people becoming ghost is too childish which used to make me chuckle because let's be honest people becoming stars sounds way more childish to me.

I laugh to myself when I realise tears are seeping out from my eyes and onto my cheeks. The whole star theory which used to make me laugh at Ma has now become the only link between me, Ma and my sister Haelyn.

Haelyn, my younger sister committed suicide just two weeks after my mother died in a car accident two years ago.

I am wearing a white floor length cotton night gown with a light blue shrug on top of it.On my wrist I have a gold and silver bracelet on which belonged to Ma. I turn my wheelchair towards the mirror and see my reflection in it. My straight brown hair with hazel highlight are tied in a braid which were earlier tied by Mrs Baker ,a caretakerr here and the only person I trust now.

A sudden knock cuts me from my chain of thoughts.

Oliver stands still at door and asks "May I come in, Miss Grey?"

I nod and he grabs my wheelchair to take me to dinner hall.

Oliver is another carer and psychiatrist here at "HOME". He must be in his late twenties or early thirties and have charms which if I was the old me I would have definitely fallen for.

We pass through lobby where pictures are hung of nature and old people.One of them sure looks like Hitler which makes me wonder why his portrait is hanging but who cares?!

As I enter the hall, I see everyone patients,old folks and people who were abandoned or have no reason to live.Maybe I am also abandoned by my father but I don't talk about it.

I sit beside Henry (an old man in his seventies). According to doctors he is mentally unstable but I know its not true. He is in shock...shock for loosing his wife just like I am. The only difference is his shock took away his ability to think and mine took away my ability to do anything i.e. I can't walk and the movement of the rest of my body is very little except my hand which after 10 months of continuous practice can finally lift enough for me to be able to eat on my own.

I eat carrots  and drink chicken soup with mashed potatoes. I don't get the logic between the ensemble but apparently our cook at "HOME" more like an asylum is obsessed with this. So what can we do..we eat it every single day.

After finishing dinner, I wait for someone to take me to my room.

But suddenly Mrs Lavinia comes at the raised platform in the hall with a mic probably to give a lecture.

"The night cannot get more worst." I mutter under my breath.

She starts..
"Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you had a great dinner"

"Nope we did not" I say to myself.

"As you can see Mr Richmond Sr has helped us and many like us by building this  "HOME" 25 years ago. We all are indebted to his gratitude which he has shown towards us .Therefore to mark the 25th anniversary of "HOME" , he and his family will be paying a visit........"

All the words jumble up inside my head after the last sentence.

They are coming to destroy the peace of my life.Why are they coming??
I want calmness and definitely this won't be happening if they will be coming with tons of reporters.

The Richmore more of a Dick-more stories starts.How he helped us to live our life here at "HOME".

To live?? Seriously??
This place is where people come to die when they are done with life.

I HATE MY LIFE SOMEONE PLEASE KILL ME!!

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