chapter 17

A few moments later, the head is thrown back out the window unto the street as screams can be clearly heard from across the street.

The family then finds some boards inside the house and boards up the window.

The naked man screams out in horror as he drops to his feet with his hands clinched into fists.

Grandma had stopped her praying due to all the screams emitting from the naked man.

She was taken back by the sight of the naked when she sees birthmarks on the man's back. The back had a white colored pigment than was lighter than the rest of the man's dark skin.

Grandma's eyes about pop out of her head when she sees a nearly identically birth mark on the man's back to her grandson.

Grandma speaks,"Joe is that you, honey?

The large man turns around with tears in his eyes as he grabs up the old woman into his large arms.

There was several hundreds of ghettos scattered all over the vast land of the Urano faction's massive territory. This group had about fifty percent of planet Rindat's land mass. There was several factories that were erected to help support the "war effort" against the "evil" Ibor faction. The people were given constant propaganda to get them to work until they dropped dead. The lower class were made to feel terrible if they did not work until they dropped.

People were forced to work until they dead and they left many a child behind, as too many of the faction's lower class worker died all too young. Orphans were becoming all too common these days on planet Rindat.

Pete was one such orphan that was left behind when his parents had died to overworked. The boy lived in an old worn down orphanage that over one hundred children lived in uncomfortably.

The small orphanage was five to six times the allotted housing capacity and it was a large fire hazard to all the children that had to dwell within in the rundown dump. All those that tried to escape were forced to go without food for three days on top on being physically abused.

The leaders of the institution could care less about the people that they were paid to care for but only care for the paycheck that it gave them.

The proprietors beat the children with whips and rods to give them "character". Children were whipped nearly to death over something innocent as simply spilling milk. The children lived in constant fear of retaliation from the adults at the orphanage.

The children were given a poor excuse of an education at the institution and most was not able to learn anything from the piss poor teachers. Most of the children were illiterate but would pretend that they could read in front of the teachers. Once a year, inspectors would come to check up on the orphanage. The children were forced to put on a dog and pony show to fool the would be inspectors. The month before the inspection children would work day and night to get the orphanage in shape enough to pass inspection. It worked hook, line, and sinker every single time and within a few hours the inspectors would leave for another year. Then the children would get mistreated all over again.

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Bob was another lad that stayed at the same horrible home as Pete did. Bob was not very popular since he was both short and fat.

Most of the kids, would go" Squeal piggy piggy piggy! Squeal piggy piggy piggy!" when Bob got near them,

Bob yelled back at first at the terrible comments, but after some time he would ignore all the ugly comments.

The boy was naturally very chunky and he could not help how his body weight was distributed.

Bob was slower than a one legged sloth and none of the kids wanted to play with him on their sports team. He was always left the lone man out.

The one thing that Bob had better than everyone was his very good eyesight. The other children ignored this good trait and decided to focused on all of his negative traits. People often do not like to focus on the good things of life and focus only on the bad traits.

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Pete was always a very tall child we compared to other kids and he was also very lanky as well. His body was like that of a bean pole.

At the orphanage, Pete played all sorts of pranks on others, including on both the kids and

adults. Pete was always in trouble, but he did not fear being punishment. He even enjoyed the negative attention, since someone was actually paying attention to him once in his life after his parents had died. The boy was always causing trouble for the orphanage's owners. It was like clockwork and everyone knew that it something was going to happen. The adults dreaded the wait until Pete acted out especially if the lad acted well for a few days. The adults would begin to squirm, until he finally disobeyed.

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Pete's parents were both factory workers before they died due to being overworked by their heartless bosses. His parents worked up to one hundred and thirty-six hours a week for months at a time. They were both in their mid twenties when they were found dead at their work stations mere days a part. The couple were both died for days before they were found. Days went by before the staff finally figured out what to do the bodies.

Safety standards at the manufacturing plant were next to zero and people being killed daily by faulty equipment. Rats were gnawing on the couple when they were found by their coworkers.

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Pete was home alone for days when he decides to go to his parent's workplace. The boy would go home by himself after school until they arrived when they returned late that night to just have to leave early that morning. He was told to go straight home after school and to never leave the house alone was he got there. Pete was worried about his folks and ran to the old factory anyway after a few days.

When the boy finally arrives at the factory hear a commotion and was curious to what the hub bub was all about. He fought his way through the crowd to his utter horror. It was his dead parents lying next to each other like mere sacks of potatoes. They had bite marks all over their bodies

due to be eaten upon by the factory's many hungry rats.

Pete ran over to the corpses and tried to wake them up but he did not realize that they were

already long gone. He was lost in his grief and did not even know that he was hauled away by some of the factory security guards. He was thrown roughly into a well worn van and taken to where he is at the present, a slum of an orphanage.

His parents' bodies were thrown into the factory's incinerator and burned in the flames as if they were trash. Pete was given no help with his grief at the orphanage and he was in his new found hell.

Pete was crying when he entered the establishment and attacked by one of the children.

He was hit in the side of his head with a large rock as soon as he entered the crummy building.

Pete fell to his side and clasped his blood drenched head.

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Bob's parents were both miners in one of the Urano faction's many infamous deathtraps, mines.

They were named Robert and Roberta and they were both only around four feet tall. They were forced into the deepest, narrowest mine shafts. The pair could get into nooks and carnies that most miners six foot plus could not enter into. They were forced to risk their lives to mine precious metals needed for the Urano war effort. If they did not do it then they would be branded as traitors by the Urano government. Robert and Roberta were very good miners but they were paid next to nothing. The Urano faction was very cheap in paying it's blue collar workers.

One morning as always Bob was fed and given hugs and kisses by his parents. Then they left for work in their rugged miner's outfits.

Roberta spoke to her husband as she walk with her husband," Robert, I do not know what is up

but something is wrong, I just do not what."

Robert spoke," It must be your womanly intuition talking to you."

Pete was on the ground grasping at his bloodstained head as he was in sheer bewilderment of what has just happened to him.

One of the orphanage's staff grabbed out Pete off the ground as they begin to curse at him.

The rude lady staff member spoke,"We do not put up with crybabies here at Urano's Best Orphanage! The sooner that you learn that the better!"

Pete fought against the evil woman but she pulled out a syringe from her coat pocket. She then jabbed the lad in his left shoulder with the syringe.

Pete passed out into his slumber.

The delivery driver that dropped off Pete to the orphanage throws a clipboard at the female staff member's feet.

The man speaks."I don't care if you kill the brat I need you to signed that piece of paper so that I can get my money!"

The female staff member laughs as she picks up the clipboard signed all the lines next to the big "X"'s. The man catches the thrown clipboard from the staff member.

The driver returns the laugh and returns to his van. The drives off into the sunset.