16. The orphanage

Esmeralda's POV:

I stare blankly at the sky watching the clouds gather and disperse. Watching how they exist by just fleeting through the sky. They floated around with no worries, no heartaches but simply pure beauty.

I wanted to be like that. To have no care in the world, nothing but just existing.

However, humans were tasked with the responsibilities bestowed upon them by the society and biblically, the actions of the first humans, whether they liked it or not. They had to do some things, experience unfavourable sufferings and go through the hell called life.

It has been made especially harder for people like me who came to this world only to be abandoned. We are expected to course through life alone and loveless, rejected left and right by people we care about. And we're expected to make something good of it.

Wow.

This was a nightmare I wouldn't wish on anyone.

Weeks have gone by and still, I am nowhere closer to finding out about my origin. I have not the faintest clue who