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Long Gone
A girl around fifteen years old stares into the night sky. Stars glow everywhere making the earth light up. She looks at every single star thinking, "All the people that I have loved are up there." She lays down in the grass and listens to the bugs. She falls asleep.

"Mamma! No! Dont leave me!" The woman is fading away right before her eyes. Sad eyes, arms spread wide, still fading. The little girl turns around. "Papa, Please! Show up! I need you! I have no one else!" Her father shows up 2 days... good, one more you can do it. He doesn't show up the third day. He forgot about me. He didnt love me. He never kept his promises. He Abused me. I hate him. I have no one else. My uncle is an alcoholic and I have to live with him. He gets in jail and now I'm an orphan. Except I won't be in an orphanage. I will run free.

The girl wakes up. Great. Another nightmare of her life flashing before her eyes. She gets up and starts to head to a tree to get some honey. Sure, might risk getting a couple of bee stings, but that is the most common food that she has. After the honey she goes to get some water and look at the bee stings she got. Only five. World record for her. After drinking some water she starts to run again. Her life of running so no orphanage could take her. She ran until her legs felt like jello. she climbed a tree and sat on a thick...