*SLAP* Ow! " Get up you worthless little brat!! There's work to be done and then you have to go to school!!! Are you even listening?!?! GOD DANGIT MADELEINE, GET UP!!!!" Miss Amanda grabbed me by the thin sheet she calls a dress and throws me to the ground, hitting my head on the nightstand in the process. No doubt there's gonna be a bruise there. My name's Maddy and in case you haven't noticed, my life SUCKS! I'm an orphan, my little siblings are clueless as to how I've become "so clumsy", and I'm bullied at school as well as home. Home. Is there really a place like that for me? No, and there never will be. At least, that's what I thought, but maybe I was wrong.