Savior | ?*REWRITE*? MELLO X OC

Chapter Thirty-Five: Goodbye, Tobi

There's a large dinner table in the dining room, and a giant case full of plates with flowers all over them. A giant painting goes across the wall, trees and flowers all over it with a gold frame. It's so nice and pretty.

Our bedrooms are across from each other, and Sarah introduces us to the other kids. There's five of them, two girls and three boys. The girls are Molly and Mary, they're twins but not identical. They have orange hair and freckles, and Mary wears purple glasses with butterflies on them. They're 8, only a little older than me!

Mail goes into the boys room, our foster parents told us to stay in our rooms until dinner is ready. I wonder what we're having! Maybe something good.

My bed is in the corner of the room, and I have clean blankets and pillows. They're pink and comfortable. They left me a toothbrush, soap, and said there's shampoo and conditioner in our bathroom. Molly and Mary are quiet, and they sit in their bunkbeds while they read their books. There's butterflies on the walls and pink curtains on the window, I don't like pink much but it's nice. There's a hole in the wall, but I'm surprised there's only one.

"You two are twins? My brother and I are Irish twins! It means we were born within a year of each other." I say to them, and Mary hops down from her top bunk. She's sitting next to me on the bed, and I'm nervous.

"That's cool," Mary's voice is raspy, but she sounds nice. "I like your shirt."

"I like your glasses, they're pretty." She thanks me, and we talk quietly.

"A-are Todd and Sarah nice?" I ask her quietly, and Molly shoots us a glare.

"Sometimes, but if you be good they won't punish you. They don't hit too hard, unless you mess up. I missed a spot cleaning the table and Sarah smacked my face, it hurt but I shouldn't have missed a spot. Stay away from Todd." She says quietly, and I get more nervous. I want Mail. I'm scared now.

"Why?"

"He's..not nice. If he tries to take you into the basement, don't go. Go find Sarah and ask her for another chore, it's better than the basement." I want to know what's in the basement, but I don't want to ask because I'm scared. Why can't I stay with my brother? I don't want to be alone.

I cried already. The boys are really mean, and one of them pulled my hair after dinner. Mail hit him in the face, and Todd smacked him so hard his cheek is red. The boy who pulled my hair got hit too, and Sarah told me if I cried she'd give me a reason to. Just like Mommy and Daddy did.

They made us pray before dinner, and I hated it. I never did it before and I got yelled at for not doing it right, and because I didn't eat my broccoli. I didn't like it, it tasted awful. Now I can't have a snack tomorrow but that's okay. At least we got food. I'm in the bathroom now, crying and I don't know how to turn the shower on. I don't want to ask Sarah, but maybe Mary knows.

"Mary? C-Can you help me turn the shower on?" She huffs as I ask her, but she helps me.

Mail said goodnight to me and tucked me in, and Todd yelled at him to get out. I'm crying quietly, and I want a hug. I thought they would be nice here. I don't want to get yelled at or hit. I want to know if my mommy is okay, and where they took daddy. He probably went to jail again, but I don't care that much.

Daddy is an asshole. That's what my brother says.

Mary and Molly are asleep, and so is everyone else in the house. Todd and Sarah's bedroom is downstairs, and the house is really quiet. It's not like it is at home, there's always parties or fighting and it's loud. I'm not used to the quiet. I fall asleep to yelling every night, and this is different for me. I hope Mail is okay, I wonder if he wants a hug too.