Judging by their facial expressions, I knew exactly what the problem was. But on Nadia's hand, she was completely clueless. I felt terrible for her, she was suffering because of my actions. At that point I just wanted to leave, so I did. I went to my class feeling depressed, it seemed that Nadia had followed me. She sat next to me and asked,"Is it okay if I ask what had happened?"
I answered,"No, it's fine I don't mind." She pulled a chair and sat beside me. Then she asked me to begin. I stared at the floor for a while, then started explaining everything from the start," On the date of 2007, November 19. I was born, but turns out my mother, her name is Lila Osward. She gave birth to me at the age of 12, she was molested by a criminal. But decided to have the child, I wish she never did that."
I clinched my fists tight and continued," My mother's parents in the other hand, didn't want me. So, they decided to leave me at and adoption centre. I was taught everything there, the employees were my true parents. But one day, miraculously a family of three arrived in the adoption centre. This was when I was nine years, I was adopted by the Johnsin family. My new parents were quiet rich, a big house, a fancy dog, and even a butler. It seemed they had a daughter aswell, Dima Johnsin. At first she wasn't really friendly towards me, but time after time she began treating me better. After a few years, we started getting along. It was like having an actual sibling, and actual family."
I trembled just by thinking about it. Nadia asked,"What's wrong? Are you okay?"
My legs were shaking, I somehow controlled them and continued," B-But one day, it all just... crumbled away like dust. Turns out there had been a fire outbreak in the house. It was a normal evening, I was doing my homework like always. But suddenly I hear a huge crash, followed with a loud scream. It seemed that the sound came from downstairs, I rushed downstairs and saw Dima...sh-she was crushed by the ceiling. And there was a huge fire coming from the kitchen. I scream from the top of my lungs. I tried to ask for help, but nobody was home. My parents would arrive late at home, so I decided to call for the butler. He rushed in hearing my screams."
I started tearing up, just remembering those past memories were messing with my head. Nadia started getting worried about to me, so she held my hand. I gathered myself together and proceeded," The butler rushed to call the cops leaving me alone. After a while he returned, but at that time it was over. I couldn't even see Dima, the fire started catching up around the whole house. At that point we couldn't even get out, the fire had caught up to the door. Slowly, the smoke from the fire started to get suffocating. The butler was quite old, so he passed out immediately. I tried waking him up, but didn't work at the slightest."
I was getting out of breath, so I took a deep breath and continued," Suddenly, I hear the cop siren's. They quickly kick the door open and begin rescuing me and the butler. But as that was happening, I informed the offices that there was Dima still stuck inside. Unfortunately, the fire was too dense so they had to wait. After a while, the fire was completely distinguished. Then the officers started investigating the area, while that was happening I wondered why my parents were late. It was well over their working time. But soon after, my curiosity was answered by the officers. It seemed that there were three bodies buried under the debris. They stated it as being a little girl, and a middle aged male and female."
At that point, I couldn't control my emotions, tears started falling off my eyes. But I couldn't stop anymore, I somehow gathered the courage and continued," As soon as I heard that, I knew what had happend. I thought I could live happily, but I couldn't be more wrong. Later, the police started gathering evidence, and they ended up with a conclusion of stating me guilty of the accident. I was young, I didn't understand anything that was happening. The next day I was put to a trial, but because there was nobody who ever knew me except my parents. It seemed I would be kept in a special prison made for children. But as the decision was about to be made, the butler...turns out that the butler was the one who did it. He was planning to kill everyone in the house, including me. But when he saw me suffering, he couldn't just stand there. So, he admitted his crime."
"As there was nobody who could take care of me, the government decided to provide me with some money every month. They also found a cheap room for me on rent, and just left me alone. When I was first given the money, like any other kid I wasted it all buying chocolates and snacks. Which I ended up finishing under an hour. But after that I realized how important that piece of paper was, the next time I decided to save up to buy actual food. I even learnt how to cook pretty well at a young age, even so the money wasn't sufficient. There were countless nights where I would sleep with an empty stomach. After years of having trouble with money, somehow I graduated middle school. After that I got a job at a grocery store, and enrolled here. But when I entered the school for the first time, everyone seemed to know me. Turns out my parents where really important people of some huge company, soo the news of them passing away got quite famous. And it also turns out that people think it's actually my fault that the accident happened, which made them dislike me."
"And that is why I am hated in this school.",I finished talking, then I thanked Nadia for listening my story. I slowly looked at her, and I saw her in tears. It seemed as it was too much for her, well I really couldn't blame her. But then all of a sudden, Nadia grabbed my hand and said while sobbing," I knew it was you, I knew it was you all along. Robert, it's me...Dima."