Bella Rose - District 10 CB - fin

The fire ravaged the house we once lived in.  It was like maternal instinct took over, and I jumped up out of my bed.  I was the light sleeper of the family, usually waking up over small noises that you would hear through the house.  The smell of smoke clogged my lungs, and I felt like I was going to suffocate.  The only person I was worried about was my sister Marley, and how I was going to survive.  I pulled a cloth over my mouth and held it over tightly, wading to the flames to get to the door.  I panicked, trying to get out of the house as fast as I could.  And then I remembered that my family was still nowhere to be found.

Maybe they got out already?

I didn’t know.

I reached the outside and threw the cloth to the side, breathing in the crisp air that I so desperately yearned for.  I was on the ground before I knew it.  In my blurry vision, I saw my sister run out of the house as well.  She passed out, and watched in horror as it all burned to the ground, with my parents in it.

So now it was just me and my sister, orphaned black.  Scared.  The rag tag bunch we lived with were all orphans too.  Catastrophes of things that we couldn’t control.  I was one of the older ones, and with that, came the responsibility of making sure they stayed alive.  No matter what.  They called it "The Pound" which I found was fitting for us.  A collection of lost pets we were.