Births

"Ah, don't leave me mom",

Once again, I woke up screaming from the same nightmare I always have on rainy days.

My name is Ayo, don't ask about my last name because I don't have one anymore, It's the name my Mom "Susan Murdock" gave me and the only thing I have left.

Well I know am different, ever since the day I was taken into the "Warm Embrace Orphanage" at the age of four where I spent most of my life. You're thinking don't I have any other family members, well they left me because no one knows who my Father is they say am the shame of the family so they abandoned me well I hold nothing against them even though they made sure to make it clear I should never come running to them for help.

Am I ashamed of being an orphan you'll ask?

That is simple, within the orphanage everyone's the same in the sense that we all have no one left or we've been abandoned. I was taken from one foster home to another all through my time at the orphanage.

There was my first foster home, when I was seven my foster parents were pretty thoughtful people they never let any of the children staying with them feel unwelcome or not loved. As for me I like staying alone, keeping to myself you could say am the lone wolf but you know it was the best and only time I can say was a good memory, as for the rest of my time till I turned fifteen my life was a very soul crushing experience but I lived past it Until a few months ago before my sixteenth birthday when I thought it couldn't get worse "Hahaha Oh how wrong I was"

It started when I was still attending Raven Academy in the City of Licht; right that's where I grew up, it's the "City of Light", back to the story, I was reading my favorite fantasy novel as usual, Michael Andrews came to bully me again and this time I was unlucky enough to be caught and beaten up. Well what can I do except suck it up and laugh before going to the restroom and wash the blood stains off my face and my shirt. I read fantasy novels because they were so interesting and the only thing that was keeping me sane at least because the characters in the book had it worse than me.

I was on my way back to the foster home am staying at when I saw some cat or at least that's what I thought it was and how wrong I was, I went in to get a closer look and instead get attacked viciously by that cat scrapping and giving me my first taste of true fear. I managed to run away but on getting to the house Mr. Carira my foster father was home and drunk again and I tried to find a way to avoid him

"Hey Ayo where are you coming from?" he asked me

"We had extra lessons" I told him, but he saw some blood from my little exchange with the cat and exploded with vicious words

"You better not be lying to me boy" he asked

"No sir I wouldn't dare"

Then he starts laughing and gives me a kick to my stomach before pouring his whiskey on my injuries, my foster siblings were upstairs and immediately hid the moment they saw him hit me afraid they would be next, but that's life I got caught and given a taught a good lesson.

At night I could sleep because every time I closed my eyes I was reminded of the day I last saw my mother, and whenever I fell asleep I kept seeing that cat laughing at me with a dark humanoid figure standing behind it telling me to run that I was in danger and I couldn't get a wink of sleep that night. I kept thinking about that dream over and over again on my way to school the next morning and I couldn't help but feel unsafe and I kept looking around me being all skeptical and I saw that cat again the first thing that came to my mind was to run and fast.