Just an orphan

"Hey George, hope your mom didn't leave you again tonight" a kid yelled from across the room, and the other kids erupted with laughter.

George was an orphan, he grew up not knowing his parents.

His mom died immediately after she gave birth to him, and his dad, well he didn't get to know his dad.

All he was told was his dad left shortly after his mom's demise. As for where he left to, that was a mystery, no one knew his whereabouts and even how he left, it was just as if he disappeared into thin air.

George had nightmares almost every night, and always mumbled while sleeping, thus making his peers see him as crazy and making fun of him in the process.

In all his nightmares, George always dreamed about his mom dying while giving birth to him.

Although he couldn't see her face in his dreams he still knew it was her, cause in every of his dreams, before she dies, she always says the same thing.... his name is George, then she dies.

Well he didn't know any other family member whose mom died while giving birth to him and asked to name him George, it was just him, wait he didn't have any family members, what was he even thinking.

Why mom, he always asks himself, why did you have to die, now i don't get to live a normal life like others, I'm stuck in this awful orphanage, being treated like crap.

Now George was sixteen years old, it was high time he left the orphanage. Once you were sixteen, you had to work and earn a living for yourself.

If you had a magical​ ability, great for you, you would be hired depending on your type of ability.

If it was suitable for warfare, then you would be hired by the army and fight alongside great strong soldiers on the front lines​.

Or if it were a healing ability, you could work in the hospital, or also be hired by the army to heal wounded soldiers.

And if you were strong and good with the sword, you could be in the kingdom's army or protect voyaging merchants from bandits.

George neither had a magical ability nor was he strong and good with the sword, so as far as the community was concerned, he was practically useless.

And this increased the hatred and the taunts from his peers making life more miserable than it was for him.

"I mean was it my fault i don't have an ability" he thought. It was really frustrating for George.

Today was the day he had to leave, the day his suffering began..."George make sure you don't forget anything there"a short plump woman in her mid fifties said. She was the mistress of the orphanage, and she too despised George cause of his uselessness.

At least others either had magical abilities or they were skilled with the sword but him, he didn't deserve to be called a human being again.

And so she wanted him out of her orphanage as soon as possible, along with all his properties, she had been tolerating his lazy ass for sixteen years now and no matter how much she urged him to step up he was to lazy to.

But that wasn't the case, George had tried all the possible means available to either get abilities or master the art of swordsmanship, but to no avail!!

He packed all he had, three trousers, two shirts and two oversized boots he got from a friendly hunter that dropped by at the orphanage the other day.

Before he left, the mistress of the orphanage whose name was Rose hurriedly came and dropped something wrapped up in a paper in his hands.

"What is this"?? he asked as the woman​ was leaving just as fast as she came, avoiding him as if he was a plague, but George had already gotten used to this kind of treatment.

"A parting gift from your mom, just before she died she asked for you to have this when you come of age".

"What kind of mom gives her child a useless artifact as a parting gift" she mumbled under her breath.

But George still heard her and felt more worse now his mom too gave him a useless gift??.

But he didn't let that get to him as this was the first and possibly only thing he got from his mom.

He put the paper in his pocket, as he wasn't really in a haste to open it as it was pretty useless, just like him too.

Where was he going to now? he didn't have an idea but at least his parents lived in a house right?? he would ask miss Rose for directions.

(Knock knock) a knock was heard on the door of the orphanage, "what do you want again useless crap, unless you have found a way to get an ability or you have become stronger don't knock on this door again" she said and was about to close the door when George shouted"please i need directions to my parents house".

Miss Rose stopped midways,"what did you just say kid"? George repeated himself again, this time more slowly "please could you show me the directions to my parents house"? he asked gently.

"Hey guys looks like that loser is trying to sweet talk his way back into the orphanage" one of the boys said. "I trust the mistress, she would never let a loser like him in here again" another said and they all laughed.

George could​ clearly hear them as they were saying it loudly enough for him to hear, although he was used to this kind of taunts, it still hurt him deeply cause there was nothing he could do about it cause he was weak.

The mistress realizing George wasn't trying to get back into the orphanage, eased up a bit and then proceeded to direct him towards his parents house.