3 Settling in {}

They gave me a tour of the place. The orphanage was quite big. There were about 50 bedrooms in the orphanage and 100 kids including me. For them to assign rooms is by two kids in the same room.

There were kids younger than me, they were about 5 years younger than me. So I was the oldest in there. Because I was older, I shared a room with a 2-month-old boy. I didn't care but this also meant the adults trusted me with this baby.

They told me that he was abandoned in front of the orphanage. When I first met the baby, He was crying, but all of a sudden it stopped and looked at me and stretched out his hands wanting me to pick him up. So I did, the caretaker was surprised because he never stopped crying since he was left here. The only time they could relax was when he finally fell asleep.

So I took care of him during the time. He didn't want me to leave him, although I had to go to school. So I told him I'll be back soon to take care of him and to be good with the caretakers.

My school was a normal school but we had to wear uniforms. At this point I am in middle school, my class are all advanced classes, I had karate and band. I had to buy an instrument and the caretakers were fine for buying one for me. I tried out for one and I chose the clarinet. For karate, we went to a dojo for that. So far, the school was alright till a new kid came. The new kid was a boy and all the girls like him except for me for many reasons, 1) we arrive at the same time and I can't get through the crowd of girls at the entrance, 2) he sits next to me and when I want to go somewhere to eat, a wall of girls is blocking me to go to the door, so I use the windows. Although we're, three stories up. And 3) I just don't like him.

Oh yeah, about that window thing in my old family made me practice martial arts and all kinds of stunts. So falling from 3 floors wasn't far, compared to what I had to fall from at home. And plus nobody sees me jump because they're so focused on the new kid.

Never really got his name because I always space out and those will come at some random point.

Anyway I don't need to care about him, I just need to focus on my own problems to deal with. 1) Taking care of the baby that we decided to call Su Juliu, 2) my grades, 3) cooking, and 4) cleaning. So I ignored him the whole time.

The best thing that happened in school so far is that I sit at the back and near a window, this helps me more of spacing out more. I absolutely love it.

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Thank for reading.