Slowly, Mia came to accept the fact that Rebecca was no longer going to be staying with her in the orphanage, she was going to have new parents.
“Mia” Rebecca knocked on the room door to get Mia’s attention.
“Aren’t you supposed to be leaving with your parents soon?” Mia replied not taking her eyes off the book she was reading.
“Yes they will be here soon. You know Miss Melinda said I could come visit you here if it was okay with my parents” Rebecca sat next to Mia who didn’t raise her head up to look at her.
“Okay that’s nice” Mia shrugged and dropped her book to leave the room.
“I will miss you” Rebecca rushed towards Mia and embraced her tightly.
Mia didn’t reciprocate as she just stood there and let Rebecca wrap her hands around her.
“You will be fine” Mia left the room, as soon as Rebecca finally let go of her.
Melinda who had stood by the door watching the whole thing with a long face left the room, she just couldn’t stand to see a child suffer the way Mia was suffering.
After Rebecca left, Melinda tried her best to get Mia adopted so she could get love from both parents but that didn’t work out, they all just kept turning her down.
“Here is the little angel I was telling you about ” Melinda brought Mia out of the room to show a lovely couple that was seated on the couch.
“She is really a beauty!” The lady exclaimed and stood up to meet Mia.
“What’s your name, little girl?” The lady inquired, not noticing the fact that Mia was looking away from her.
“Her name is Mia,” Melinda quickly responded.
“Let the little girl speak” the man who noticed Mia’s complete absence of mind, stood up from his chair and went to carry Mia who kept on kicking her legs in the air to be brought down before she finally ran away.
“I can explain” Melinda spoke, trying to cover up Mia’s mistake.
“We have seen enough. We have other orphanages to try, let’s go honey” the lady gestured for her husband to leave with her.
“Mia, why did you do that? They are the sixth couple that have rejected you this week, no wonder you are the only child left in the orphanage” Melinda scolded a terrified Mia who wasn’t paying any attention to what she was saying.
Many years went past and Mia was 14 already. Melinda had finally decided to get married and she was ready to move in with her soon to be husband in Italy where he had decided to settle down. Miss Joyce was already married and she also moved to another country, the only person that was left in the orphanage was Mia and Melinda was contemplating on how she was going to break the news to Mia. She wanted to sell the orphanage so Mia would have to be transferred to another orphanage.
“Mia” Melinda knocked on the door of Mia who was busy observing a broken bulb.
“Can I come in?” Melinda asked Mia who moved back a bit. Melinda didn’t wait for a reply before entering Mia’s room.
“You know I am going to get married soon right ?… and my husband wouldn’t let me adopt another child while I am pregnant already” Melinda was stroking Mia’s hair as she sat beside Mia on the bed.
“I know about the transfer” Mia replied and looked at her for a second before looking away again.
“How did you know?” Melinda was surprised because she had never mentioned it to Mia before.
“I heard you talking about it on the phone. I have to go and dispose of the bulb now, it’s broken” Mia left the room. Leaving Melinda lost in the forest of her own thoughts.
On the day Mia was meant to be taken to another orphanage after returning from school, she was stopped by a man who was putting on a casual T-shirt and trousers
“Hey darling Mia, do you want a biscuit?” The man tried to grab Mia’s hand.
“How did you know my name?” Mia became curious.
“That is because I’m a good friend of your mummy and daddy. They have asked me to bring you to them” the man smiled at Mia who didn’t trust him. She didn’t want to keep talking to him so she made an attempt to walk away but then the man dragged her back and two hefty looking men dressed in black came from behind and covered her mouth.
She raised her head to look at them and discovered they were the same people that came to her house. Although she was younger back then, she can never be able to forget their faces.
“Stop! leave me” she kept yelling, before she bit the hand of one of them and ran away but she was soon caught. A man who was walking by saw the whole thing and started to fight with the guy that was dragging Mia towards his open car but he was hit on the head with an iron rod by one of his accomplices, but the man didn’t fall unconscious as expected. It wasn’t an easy struggle, his clothes got torn and many burnt marks could be seen on his body.
The men weren’t going to give up, one ran to their car and brought out a gun to shoot at Mia’s savior, he was shot but didn’t bleed. Now Mia was scared of the man as well, seeing that the man didn’t bleed they all ran for their dear lives. Now it was Mia and the man, for some reason Mia began to move away from this strange man who made very strange body movements.
He was closing his eyes and bent his head towards his right so his shoulder was touching his face.
“Please take this Mia” the stranger stretched out his hand which looked like it was fading. Mia seeing the strange occurrence moved backwards from him. The man slowly began turning into to dust.
“I am running out of time” the strange man whispered and dipped his hand in his pocket to bring out a necklace which had an oval shaped red emerald embedded in it.
“Daddy loves you, take it and don’t ever take it off” he said before he turned into complete dust leaving the necklace on the floor.
Mia looked at the necklace on the floor and used her finger to tap it, it didn’t do anything. She thought about it for a while and finally she put on the necklace and walked away
Mia picked up her school bag and began her walk home as if nothing really happened.
“Mia are you okay?” Melinda asked a disturbed looking Mia.
Mia just walked into the building and took off her uniform.
“Where is it? Where is it?” Mia began to panic as she was searching for something.
“What are you looking for Mia?” Melinda walked in on Mia that didn’t even look up as she began to scatter the whole place, she turned her school bag upside down making all her books fall to the ground.
“Mia, you have to calm down. What are you looking for?” Melinda walked up to her and began to clean up the mess she created.
“My pen, where could it be?” Mia began to scatter the books that Melinda had just picked up from the floor.
“Stop Mia just stop. It’s just a pen, I will get you another one please just stop, you are creating a big mess” Melinda pleaded as she picked up the book once again. Mia began to hit her head with her palm.
“I don’t want another pen. I want my pen, I want my pen” Mia screamed and threw her dressing table on the floor.
Melinda had enough of it, she just couldn’t take any more and she slapped Mia across the face. But that didn’t stop Mia from messing up the whole place. Melinda just left her to continue with her nonsense. Now Melinda was more than convinced that she needed to get rid of Mia. Even if her husband were to agree to her adopting Mia, she still won’t be able to keep up with her. Although Mia couldn’t find her pen and she concluded it fell off from her school bag while she was struggling with those men.
The transfer was successful and Mia found herself in yet again another orphanage. Only this time, people who ran the orphanage cared less about what Mia wanted. Her file clearly showed that she had autism but that didn’t give her any special attention. She was treated almost like other kids except she was seen as a liability.
“What’s your problem? If you don’t want to eat then don’t waste our food okay? you reject” one of the ladies scolded Mia after she threw a plate of food on the floor.
The lady had been forcing Mia to eat and she was just not going to have any of it. All the kids at the orphanage tried their best to avoid Mia in every possible way. Some of them even said Mia was insane.
They even tried to get Mia transferred to another orphanage but no orphanage would want a child with autism, they made excuses such as they are very difficult to handle, they may result to violence. Alot of them even came up with several stories that weren’t true just to avoid taking Mia in. So Mia was stuck in a place where she was rejected and hated by almost everyone.