Chapter 7

Bob and Pete were siting at a swing set talking with each other, as they knew each other their entire lives. The boys were talking about their lives before they were sent here. They were just in a major fight not too long ago and they were trying to ease the tension that had just occurred.

Pete speaks,” I do not want to down grade what you went through but at least it was not as viscous as my jump into the orphanage.

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Pete had fought for his life against two evil women that were operators within the poorly run orphanage. He had killed one himself after his horrible beating. Pete was utterly worn out after the battle and his back was hurting him abundantly. He was leaning forward on his knees grabbing the short railing overlooking the sight of the broken body of his attacker. The young lad was doing all he could to breath after the beating. Every breath hurt him when he inhaled and he was doing all he could so that he would not lose his breath. His back had been cut open by the assault from the first evil woman.

The dead woman was laying on her broken head upside down with her but up in the air. A pool of blood was forming under the dead body. Pete’s back was drenched in his own blood after the whipping that he had received.

Kids could be seen rushing out of several doors and unto the walkway near the railing.

The kids gasped at the sight of the fallen orphanage worker since they would never thought that within a million years that one of the orphanage workers would die. Yet, alone this evil worker and her sister.

Then the children stopped their gazing upon the woman and shift it over to Pete.

They all gasped out of shock when they saw him. No one went against the orphanage

workers and lived to tell the tale. The kids all then put two and two together and they were taken back by Pete’s mere presence.

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In a sudden fury, several adults come rushing through a series of several doors on the first floor and they were all horrified at what they all saw.

It was their coworker and her neck was clearly broken from the fall from the second floor.

Pete could hear the adults say all sorts of cuss words and some that he had never heard of before in his short life.

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The kids grow afraid of the angry adults and rush back into their rooms. The children gently shut the doors behind them as they jump into their beds as they never left. Some of the children fake snore so they would put on a presence of sleeping.

Pete was not so lucky since he could not move due to his wounds and his lack of energy.

As if in unison the workers all look up at the bloodied Pete and stares holes through the boy. If looks could have killed, then he would had died right then and there. They hated the boy for the simple fact that he dared to try to survive. Pete had killed the first woman but it was in self defense and nothing more.

Pete knew right then and there that these people were not to be trusted with even a single Rindat

coin(Urano money)

One of the workers spoke,”We will have to get rid of this brat or the others might feel that they can rebel as well!”

Another worker second the motion.

Loud foot steps could be heard coming from the nearby room and all the workers stop cussing. Pete could had heard a pin dropped if he had not been breathing so hard.

A door flies open almost off it’s hinges.

It was a large man that was at least six foot four and over four hundred and five pounds.

Pete looked at the large man and saw the huge muscles of the large man. The boy looked

at the man’s face and he was horrified.

“The man’s face was that of a demon!”,thought Pete.

On top of the large man’s head were two horns and red flames.

Pete could not believe what he was seeing and did a double take.

His eyes did not lie to him and saw the true nature of the large man.

This man was one of the great shadow’s many workers that much Pete figured out. The lad had heard of such people but never believed them to be true.

At least until this very day that is.

The large man looked at the boy and pointed at him. The man eyes pierced right the very core of

Pete.

Pete wished that he had the ability to turn invisible, so that he could escape this repulsion.

Pete was so startled by the man that he had fainted and let go the wooden railing.

The large man spoke,”Clean up this mess and send the boy to the hospital ward. I want him to return back to good health!”

But one of the workers interjected,” But Mr. Damion, he killed one of our own! We must not allow to cause a rebellion among the children!”

Damion’s face turn bright red out of anger.

The man spoke,”Those two infernal Salina twins were too gung ho and killed too many of our products already. I can not cover up any more deaths this quarter. The brat has done us all a favor. Grab him and get him back well or I will start killing you all! Do not question me again or else you want to face the consequences!”

The rest of the adults said,”Yes, Mr. Damion!”

The workers all rushed up to Pete and rushed him to the hospital ward of the orphanage.

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Bob spoke,” That was freaky, Pete! You are much tougher than I had first believed!”

Pete smirked at the boy’s comment.

Bob decided to leave the issue at where Pete had left since he did not have the desire to reopen the emotional wounds of his new found friend.

Bob spoke,”I would like to share my story too.”

Pete looked over to Bob and said,”Well, shoot Bob, I am listening.”

Bob begins to tell his story to Pete.

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Bob walked across the retched institution and the children begun to snicker around as if they were telling each other an inside joke.

Some time later one of the kids speech to him,”What is your name, Porky?

Bob said,”My name is...”

Then Bob comprehended that he was being insulted. He then remained silent as he walked away from the rude boy.

As Bob walked away the boy begun to squeal like a pig while other people chanted,”Piggy! Piggy! Squeal Piggy!”

The boy paid the children no heed since he could not change the fact that he was fat. He had always had a slow metabolism.

The orphanage workers went out of their way to create dissension among the children so they would not unite against the workers. The workers enjoyed creating conflict among the children as one enjoyed playing a fun video game.

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The hazing goes on for several days and Bob had somehow been able to keep his cool. He was taught by his parents that he should not let others make him mad and thus make

his foes glad. Bob would not given them the satisfaction of giving them what they had wanted.

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A couple days later, Bob is walking outside he is blasted with mud balls. He was hit in the face by the clumps of mud, sticks, and rocks.

The blow hurts and Bob falls unto his butt.

The children continue to assault him several more mud balls. Bob does even cry or make a noise as he was assaulted by the other children.

About one minute later, the attack ends as the children laugh at the sight of the mud covered Bob.

The lad gets up and walks away, which shocks the attackers. They had no one so gentle tempered before and the children were frozen like statues. They failed to get a rise out of the young boy.

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Pete was laying on his belly with a IV strapped in one of his arms. All sorts of chemicals was being pumped into the young teenager’s body. The lad started to wake up and that he was in a large hospital room with sections separated by only a curtains that hanged from the tall ceiling. The lad forces himself to the side of the bed.

He groans,”How long had I been out?”

A voice speaks,”About three days you had been out. You had nightmares during the first day and the nurses had to give you a lot of drugs to get you to sleep silently. You had keep everybody up by the yelling and they were very mad at you.”

Pete said,”Oh! I was just thinking out loud but thank you anyway.”

The voice spoke,”You are welcome.”

Pete then comprehends what just had occurred.

He spoke,”I am to too tired to get up so I will trust that you are not just my imagination. You are going to give you the benefit of the doubt.”

The girlish voice giggled,”You are not crazy! I do really exist but you will have to take my word for it. Can you do it?”

Pete hurt as he laughed and let out a groan of pain.

Pete spoke,”Yeah I can do it, just do not make me laugh.”

The voice spoke,”What is wrong? Did I do something terrible?”

Pete grimaced as he spoke.”I forgot my back was hurt and it hurt me to laugh. Do not feel so bad.”

The voice gasped,’Oh, I am sorry! I did not know that your back was hurting you.”

Pete spoke,”It is okay, no blood no foul. I had been through worse.”

The voice seem relieved by the boy’s comment and gave off a sigh.

Pete asked,”What is your name, if I may ask?”

The voice spoke.”My name is Cindy and what is your name?”

He spoke,”My name is Pete.”

Cindy spoke,”Pete that is a good name. I like how that name sounds.”

Pete jested,”I find that Cindy is not a bad name ether.

She spoke,’Hush and lay back in bed, the nurses are coming.”

He did as he was told and lad back down on his belly. He acted like he was simply sleeping.

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Bob was trying to wash his mud covered clothes off in a bathroom sink while being clothed

only in his boxers and wife beater. The boy had his shoes sitting under the sink laying freshly cleaned. He finally gets the clothes cleaned the best he could and rings it out into the sink. He

puts his clothes back on wet or not and continued on his day. He had nothing else to wear for the rest

of the day. The kids at the orphanage were only given one set of clothes to wear until bedtime no matter what, when they are given their pajamas.

He thinks to himself,” Mom, Dad, give me patience. These children are so mean to me and I can

not help if I am fat. You were both fat yourselves and short but you were both good people! The other kids were thrown into this place just like I was, so I will not hate them for lashing out in anger of this place. They are just putting their hate of this place unto me.”

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Pete genuinely like to be in the hospital ward since it meant that he could talk to Cindy on the other side of the privacy curtain. The pair would talk for hours, except when the nurses came to do their rounds. Cindy was almost always treated first among the two and always for a longer time.

After such a visit, Pete asked,”Why is that you are given more time than me?”

Cindy sounded upset when she spoke,”I just have a bad stomach bug and it can contagious. That is all.”

Pete spoke,”That is why we must only talk through a curtain.”

Cindy sighed with relief.

“I just did not want you to get sick like I am. This bug makes me sick for at least three fourths of the year at a time.”

Pete spoke,”What is the name of the bug?”

Cindy seemed surprised with the question, as if she had not expected to have to give a response.

Pete spoke,”I am sorry that you had been given twenty questions so I will let you fill in what you will and not due to my pressuring.

The girl started to cry.

He asked,”Did I do something wrong?”

She spoke,”It is just that no one ever showed me such concern, before in my entire life.”

He spoke,”Those tears must be happy tears then?”

She spoke,”Yes, it must be happy tears.”

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One week later, Pete’s wounds healed so that he had to leave without being able to tell Cindy goodbye.

Pete hated to leave Cindy behind but he had no choice in the matter. He had been able to see the scars of the vicious attack on his back. It was a terrible memory, but now Pete associated it with the time he shared with Cindy. Yet, after the deaths of the orphanage workers he now had to watch P’s and Q’s from now on. It was not time yet to rebel, but it was time to just go with the flow. He must the in’s and out’s of his new found prison if he was to escape it one day.

“That day will soon come,” thought the young boy.

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Pete and Bob were sitting on two broken chucks of concrete in the wasteland that was the playground.

Pete spoke,”I remember going to the old time deli once a month, and the subs were so good!”

Bob spoke,”Yeah, I had the chance once in while for a pot of chili once in a while. We ate it for days on end.

Pete spoke,”Let us try the new slingshot that I was given as protection money.”

Bob asked,”Protection money?”

Pete smiled.

Bob said,”What did you do?”

Pete spoke,”Some of the kids that beat you up the other day were afraid that I would not attack them again, so they gave this slingshot to keep the peace.”

Bob smiled.

Pete set up five tin cans in row on a beaten down bench.

The tall boy had gathered five stones to fire at his targets. Pete only got one out of five on his first try. He gathered up the stones and set back up the knocked over tin can.

Pete spoke,”It is your turn now, since you are the reason we even got it.”

Bob hesitated at first but soon took the slingshot from Pete. He aimed and hit all five targets on his first try.

This amazed both boys and they were both speechless for several seconds.

Pete spoke,”Wow! You are a natural sharpshooter!”

Bob spoke,”I am?”

The chunky lad had never realized before that day, how good his eyes really were.

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Cindy was not truly an orphan like Pete was, but it would probably had been better for her. Since she was the daughter of the man who scared Pete, the administrator of the facility, Damion. She had been not exempt from the fiend’s constant abuse.

Cindy’s mother was named Cindy Loo and she had not been a willing participant in the exchange of DNA. She had been forced by Damion to keep the baby and hide the pregnancy. The cruel man had delivered the baby girl himself as he strangled the mother to death.

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Damion processed the dead body in the orphanage basement and buried the bones and unusable parts under the dirt floor in the basement. The basement floor was then covered in wet cement. The next day, Damion fed the human meat to the children, while he eagerly watched everyone eat the food like it was it was the best BBQ that they had ever had. The staff did not know what was up, but most did not eat the BBQ because they knew something was up. Damion was never kind to anyone without a motive in mind.

It was common knowledge among the staff that the administrator was a sexual deviant. He raped the prettiest girls in the orphanage and got them all pregnant, so that he would receive more money from the Urano government by taking on more babies in the orphanage. Most of these babies were lists as babies of Jane Doe’s as was done to Cindy. No one in the community ever questioned what Damion had made known as it was the gospel truth.

Cindy had given birth to several children by her father, by the time she was fourteen years old.

It was a sad truth that was a dark cloud over her entire life.

Damion had told her that she was a whore, despite she was an underage girl being raped by her own father.

Damion spoke,”Cindy, if you ever be seen by those in the outside world they will hate you because only bad girls had sex as a minor! They will call you a slut! You will be killed if you tell

anybody about your babies. You must not do it!”

Cindy had somehow was not robbed of her sweet demeanor no matter what hell she was put through.

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Pete was like a breath of fresh when he entered her life and she cherished his company. she had no disease but was far into a pregnancy, when she first spoke to the young teenager. She waited to see what he looked like, but she believed falsely that Pete would curse her if he saw her.

Pete was such a nice boy to her despite being nearly murdered and gave the young the positive attention that she had always craved all her short life. Cindy was the victim of sexual abuse and she had gotten no sympathy from the facility nurses. They treated as only a means to earn money and nothing more. Pete treated her like she was human being that had value and she cried silently when Pete was removed from the medial section of the facility.

Pete one day took Bob aside away from other kids in the yard.

He spoke silently,”I need a favor from you, Bob. Because, I found a way to get into the ventilation system. I need you to watch my entrance in so that no can find out about it and seal the vent behind me. There is something I need to get to without anyone but us knowing to what we are doing.”

This was a lot for Pete to ask of Bob but the boy knew that he still owned his friend a favor, after he saved him from getting beat worse than he had been by some bullies. Bob made the decision to not ask any questions, about the reasons behind the decision to do this and just do as he was asked.

Bob said,”Okay, I will do it but how will you get back out?”

Pete smiled a rare smile during those days which surprised Bob.

The scarred lad said,”I am glad that you had asked since I did not think to plan that far into advance. You will walk around the orphanage as normal and check up on the entrance after two hours.

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Pete was able to get back down the ventilation shaft and Bob rigged it that it looked like it had bolted down firmly as before. But, it would still be easy enough for Pete to get back out.

The sharp eyed lad started to walk around as the boys had planed and they had hoped for the best.

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Pete spent over an hour getting a feel for the venting system of the orphanage and he was covered in dirt and rat droppings. He was about to give up when he saw a white floor through a ceiling.

Pete thought,”I have finally found it!”

Pete saw that there was no nurses in any of vents he looked down so he had gotten the courage to exit the vent into a storeroom. He had washed himself in the janitor drain and put on a fresh set a clothes that he carried in a small shopping bag. He knew that Cindy had some sort of illness and he did not want to make any more worse than it already was.

Pete walked out of the janitor’s closet and hope that he did not get caught by one of the

infirmary’s many nurses.

He walked around the infirmary for a few minutes when he hears a cough. The voice sounded familiar but he could not pin it down.

The voice was that a young woman.

Pete gasps,”Cindy, is that you?”

The voice stops coughing and yells,”Pete? Why on Rindat are you doing here! You could get punished for breaking into here?”

He had a look of sorrow on his normally calm demeanor.

Pete spoke,”I just had to speak to you once again!”

Cindy is torn between what she had been told by her father, Damion and the new revelation that her new found friend had brought.

She demanded,”Pete, I missed you too but you have to get out of here before the nurses come back from lunch. They will be here any minute now!”

Pete spoke,”But Cindy.”

At that same moment, the nurses all burst back into the infirmary.

Pete instantly reacts, jumps through the curtain, lands on the bed next to Cindy. Pete then hides

under the blanket laying face towards Cindy. The hospital bed was twin so his body was pressed towards the body of Cindy. She had a big belly but Pete could tell that it was not fat tissue within her stomach.

Pete had just jumped in bed with Cindy so that he would not be spotted by the incoming nurses.

Just a moment later, a nurse went in the curtained off section that Cindy had been put in. Pete was sweating profusely due to the fear that he would be caught. Cindy’s face was red as an apple.

The nurse said nothing and just checked the stats on Cindy's medical machine

Pete was clenching his fists, so hard that his knuckles were turning white.

Cindy spoke,”Please, do not leave yet!”

Pete thought,”I am done! I could not take any weapons with me!”

The nurse stopped and walked back like the young lady was wasting her time.

Cindy spoke,”Please, close the curtain behind you, that outside room lights hurt my eyes.”

The nurse spoke,”Whatever,” as she did as she was asked. The nurse left for the nursing station that was out of earshot.”

Cindy spoke,”Why are you doing here, Pete? You can’t be here, because the administer will

kill you if he finds out that you are here with me.”

The lad jumped out from under the many blankets and wiped the sweat off his brow.

He spoke,”I had to see you again, I do not care what happens to me.”

Pete held the pregnant teenager’s hand but Cindy pulled her hand away in disgust.

Cindy spoke,”I did not want you to see me since I am so hideous!”

He was taken back by the young lady’s comment.

Pete smiled at the comment.

Cindy put her hands in her face and started to cry.

She said,”Do not make fun of me.”

His face shifted from a smile to a look of bewilderment.

He spoke,”I smiled because you said you were ugly, when you are the prettiest blonde headed girl that I had ever seen.”

Cindy wiped her tears with a tissue and looked to her friend’s mystified face.

Pete’s face was completely solemn and without any guile.

Cindy was completely speechless, since her rapist father had always put her down to the point where she had given up.

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It was a few years ago, and she had just had her first period. The nurses had told her father of what had occurred and he was eager to see Cindy. The young girl was “raised” in the nursing ward and knew very little of her body or the world around her.

Damion walked in the room to seeing Cindy crying on the bed with her face in her hands.

The tall man grabbed the girl, like she had just done something wrong.

He raped her for the rest of the day after beating her black and blue.

That day, Cindy’s spirit was broken.

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Cindy cried,”Pete, I am a pregnant slut and nobody loves me! Nobody ever did!”

Pete started to cry along with the young woman.

He spoke,”I would not judge you even if you were what you claimed to be, since you helped me

when my back was healing up. You gave me a reason to live after getting beaten nearly to death. I had nobody as well when I met you. My folks died while working, I was then kidnapped, and forced into this hell!”

Pete turned his back to Cindy while still seating on the side of the hospital bed. He lifted his shirt and revealed the whip scars on his back. To how, the lad did not bleed to death, she did not know.”

Cindy was completely in awe of how Pete could be so cheerful, despite his constant suffering.

She put her slender hand on his back and gently rubbed his back out of both in an attempt to try to comprehend what she was seeing and also to comfort her friend.

Cindy asked,”Who did this to you?”

Pete spoke with his back still facing the pregnant girl,”I do not know the name of who had done

this but it was some evil woman that once worked here.”

Cindy spoke,”What happened?”

Pete spoke,”She beat me with a whip and I fought back. I beat her to death with a chuck of wood and her twisted sister fell off a balcony to her death.”

Cindy gasped,”You actually fought back? You can do that?”

The young woman had been brainwashed by her father and his underlings her entire life, so rebellion was a new concept to her.”

She broke the gaze on the lad’s back when she heard him cry up. She rolled over to his side of the bed and saw the young man beside himself with grief.

Cindy thought to herself,”He is as depressed as I am! He cheered me up despite all his suffering he was going through himself. She put her head on his shoulder to try to comfort him, he returns the gesture with an arm around her side.

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Bob was getting nervous, while pacing through the playground.

Bob thought,”Hurry up, Pete! We have bed check tonight and we can not be late! What is taking

you so long? It is starting to get dark and you have you to hurry!”

Two boys start to yell,”Piggy! Piggy! Piggy!”

Bob paid the boys no heed until they were almost upon him.

One of the boys yell,”What is up, faggot?”

The other boy spoke,”Where is your lover?”

Bob turned around to see the two boys charging him.

The chubby lad pulls out his trusty slingshot and flings two rocks that landed between the eyes of each of the boys’ eyes.

The two boys fall unto their back, writhing out with pain with a huge welt between the would be bullies’ eyes. Bob runs over to the boys and kicks them both in their head.

The boys are knocked out cold.

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Pete and Cindy were in a tender embrace, when the girl asks,”Pete, do you hate me?”

He turned over to his friend and said,”No, I do not hate you! You are one of my only two friends here in this place.”

Cindy was opened mouthed by the response and said,”Who is the other one?”

Pete spoke,”He is my sharpshooter, Bob. He is not very fast but he has the sharpest eyes I have ever seen.”

Cindy spoke,”You have to leave before the nurse or he….”

A look of dread envelopes the pregnant girl.

Pete could not help but see the genuine horror on Cindy’s face, but he knew that he had to get back before bed check. He would be put in the isolation ward if he was late.

He did not want to leave but he knew that he could not live Bob hanging.

Bob was walking towards the vent where Pete was supposed to return from, when he hears grunts coming from the exhaust vent. He opened up the vent and helped pulled Pete out, who was covered head to toe in dust.

The two boys both cough as they wiped the dirt off them. Bob sealed the vent back up with a screwdriver, as the boys wiped the dirt off.

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Bob and Pete were siting on their well made beds awaiting their monthly bed checks so that they could go eat their dinner that night.

Pete thought,”I am glad that I got to see that she was okay and I was surprised to see that she

was a mother to be. I heard of girls my age having babies, but she was basically a shut in. Who could be the father? He never saw any men around her when he living there.”

Pete spoke,”There was no man that could had could be around except...”

He could not help but ponder to who had free reign on the property and he finally put two and two together. The boy was sweating profusely at what he was finally realizing.

Pete thought,”It has to be that demon that runs the place! It has to be! There is no other males that could be the father!”

The lad was in horror as he finally understood the sad truth about his friend, Cindy.

“Pete! Pete,”yelled the woman numbering the kids in the orphanage.

He returned to his senses and yelled out,”Here!”

The woman was holding a clipboard as she said,”I do not care if you starve tonight or not.”

Pete walked to the dining hall. He got in line and received some food consisting of gruel and a hard piece of bread for his trouble.

Bob was not too far behind him and they ate in their usual table. The two boys always hated their meals, except when the inspectors were excepted to arrive and they got real food for once.

This was a special case, since they were hungry after all their effort to see Cindy this day.

Bob spoke,”Did you find what you wanted? You do not have to tell me if you do not want me.”

Pete spoke with a smile,”Yes I did find what I wanted to find, but it did not want to be found.”

Bob looked puzzled by the comment but left the matter alone for now.

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It had been a week since Pete had last seen Cindy and he was worrying about her a lot. He had felt that her pregnancy had not been through mutual consist. That night he had a dream of Cindy sleeping in her bed, when Damion walked in.

Cindy awoke while screaming when her father turned to a demon. Damion then beat her and

raped her.

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Pete woke up covered in sweat, while struggling to breath.

Bob was at his friends side with a hand on Pete’s shoulder.

Bob spoke,”You were just having a nightmare. You are okay, because the nightmare can not hurt you.”

Pete mumbled,”We have got to save her. You can not suffer one more day of abuse!”

Bob asked,”What are you talking about, Pete? Let me help you, since you are not alone.”

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Pete spent several minutes explaining who Cindy was and his experiences with her.”

Bob spoke,”That is messed up, my friend. What are we going to do?”

Pete looked at his friend with a strong intensity as he said,”We are set this hell hole ablaze!

Bob put a hand over Pete’s mouth to keep the whole room from knowing to what they were planing to do.

Pete whispered,”Will you help me?”

Bob looked at his friend while raising a thumbs up sign.

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The boys spent the next day stealing all forms of burnable materials.

They started to burn them in the old wooden floor basement of the orphanage. The Bob and Pete decided to set the building on fire, during the evening staff change when the adults were paying the least attention.

Everyone was taken by surprise and all of the children were led out of the horrible place by Bob and Pete. The children had no time to fight, since they would all burn alive if they tarried.

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Pete yelled,”Bob, we have got to get Cindy out of here!”

Before Bob could respond a voice spoke,”You are not going to do any such thing since you two are to be found burnt to death!”

The two boys both turned to their rear and saw a large man bursting out of the seams in anger.

It was Damion!

The boys were standing silent frozen in their fear. Damion was not a man to be fooled with.

Pete was punched in the jaw and knocked out cold by the blow.

Bob pulled out his trusty sling and prepared to aim at Damion's head.

Damion laughed at the boy’s would be attack and said,”Give me your best shot.”

Bob obliged him with two sharped rocks to his eyes.”

The evil man let out an intelligible curse and clutched his eyes, due to pain. He ripped out the rocks out of his bloodied eye sockets.

Pete awakens to see that bob had staggered his foe. He spits out some blood and a few teeth as he returned to his feet. He knew that he had to take advantage of the foe before help could arrive. It would be too late then.

Pete yelled,”Only trash prey on children and those weaker than themselves! You are the biggest pile of sissified trash that I ever seen in my life! Come and get me! You will never hurt Cindy or anybody else ever again! Come and get me, you *&^%$!”

Damion managed to follow Pete’s voice and was almost on top of him. Pete then knelled to the ground. He pulled out a homemade knife and gored the man in the groin.

Damion fell forward with his hands around what was left of his privates.

Bob and Pete were lost in the moment, when they see Damion get shot repeatable in the back of

his now hole filled head.

The boys jumped to safety before the next five shots were fired.

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The boys did not dare move until they heard the sound of a clicking gun trying to fire a

nonexistent bullet.

After a minute, Pete and Bob had gotten the nerve to see who had killed Damion.

They saw a young lady covered in a bloodied hospital gown

It was Cindy!

Pete sees that Cindy is still trying to shoot Damion as he try to stop her.

Pete ran over to her aid.

The two struggle as he yells,”It is me, Pete!

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Just after the battle with Damion, Cindy, Pete, and Bob are still in shock.

Cindy is still firing at Damion when Pete takes the gun from her hands. She sliced his face with her long nails as he put his hand on Cindy’s shoulder.

Pete yelled out loud,”Cindy we have got to get out of here before we burn to death.

She held her friend tenderly as she cried profusely.

This took Pete by surprise since Cindy had been abused by her father, a man. She had given Pete the benefit of the doubt that he would not hurt her.

Cindy looked up to her friend and said,”What are we going to do?”

Pete hugged her gently,” I do not know, but we will find a way.”

He knows that she is half naked, so he takes his shirt off, and covered her up the best he could.

Bob yelled,”Pete, we got to get out of here!”

Everyone runs away as fast as they can as Pete carried Cindy on his back. The trio then

vanished into the nearby inner city.

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They ran over to an abandoned building. The next day the two boys awoke to Cindy crying.

Pete walked over to Cindy and put a hand on her shoulder. She hugs Pete like he was her only friend.

Cindy cried,”He killed my baby by crushing it into pieces with his bare hands! What are we going to do?”

Pete spoke,”Bob and I are going to find a way to survive.”

Bob was looked over by the troubled Cindy.

He said,”Hi, I am Bob! I am glad to finally see you Cindy!”

Cindy could not help but break out into laughter. Soon, all three were laughing in unison.

Cindy grabbed Pete and held him close as she cried unto his bony shoulder.