Have you ever heard the phrase “terrible twos?” It basically means at the age of 2 children figure out how to act out. It's in our nature to want to do things we are not supposed to. If you think about it most of history is just random people doing things they weren't supposed too.
My mother was a very busy person. In the small town we lived in she thought of herself as a queen. Which means she had no time for me. She had a maid take me to school, help me with homework, basically be my mum. Then when I was around 5 I got into a fight at school. Instead of being a good mother she decided she didn't want me to ruin her “reputation,” so she put me on a plane by myself at age five. I had an escort, but they didn't talk to me the entire time. I didn't know where i was going at the time i thought i was going on vacation. As the car pulled up to the brick rusted looking mansion an old woman stood outside waiting for me. She wasn't like one of those happy old ladies that baked cookies. She had a plain outfit on, and held a long ruler. I knew what the ruler was for, because the maid used to hit my hands with it anytime I made a mistake. I was already scared at this point. The escort threw my bags out from the trunk and drove off. I bent down and picked up the clothes that had fallen out, when the elder woman approached me. “On your feet.” She said with a firm voice, I got up quickly and dusted my knees. “Follow me.” She said and walked to the front door. I wondered if I should grab my bags but I was too afraid to ask.
Everyday I waited for my mum to come back and apologise for sending me to hell. But she never did…
It's now 15 years later and I'm still here. It's hard to explain what it's like here, it's kind of like a prison, except you don't get to leave. Most of the girls here have never seen the outside world. I still kind of remember what it's like out in a city. The loud cars, the crowded markets, the smell of the coffee factory etc… I never did get my suitcase, rumour is Madam Marie keeps a room full of our stuff but we haven't found the room. In the Dellbrick Academy there is over 100 rooms and 20 confusing/plain hallways.
Every hallway looks the same, red carpet, old boring wallpaper and an oil lantern on a table. It's old fashioned here, none of us have phones, TVs, and some of the rooms don't even have lights. We all wear the same uniform every day we have a day outfit and a night outfit, and at the end of the day you wash it or you have nothing to wear the next day.
Once a month we get to go to the beach that's an hour away. But of course it's an unknown beach so it's just our academy there, sometimes the boy academy joins us down there but not all the time.
Other than that every day is the same.
The bell rings at 5am we get dressed, meet in the dining hall, eat breakfast then go to school. The school is one giant room in the basement with hundreds of desks and the teacher uses a microphone to teach.
At 1pm we have lunch then chores. I like doing chores because I get to pet the horses and other animals we have in the backyard. At 3pm we were all sent to our rooms to study for the next day. At 5pm we make then eat dinner, then by 7pm lights out. Sounds fun right?
I got lucky because my roommate Andie is the best roommate I could ask for. She's 16 like me but she's only been here for 5 years. She has long brown hair and she's a little bit on the overweight side. But she's really smart and sometimes does my homework for me, she never gets in trouble and she has my back.
“Do you know what Crystal said to me?” She said with an attitude walking into the room, “She said i look like Fammy, the pig from out back! I told her that she can take her opinions and shove it up her behind.” “No you didn't” “Your right i didn't, but i thought it.” She said flopping onto her bed. “How was your day?” “The usual.” I said continuing to draw, “If you keep drawing the outside world Madam Marie is going to suspend you.” She said, looking at what I was doing.
Getting suspended means you have to sit in this tiny room with nothing but brick walls surrounding you until your suspension is over. I've been in the suspension room for a week one time, you really start to go crazy the longer you stay in there. The longest anyones ever been suspended was 19 days. Her name was Ellen and she had problems controlling her anger sometimes. Until one day she threw her bowl across the dining hall attempting to hit Madam Marie. After her suspension was over none of us saw her again, we saw her through a window being forced into a cab, but no one knows what really happened.
We like to create conspiracies here when we have nothing else to do. Like that Madam Marie hides our belongings, some of the girls here think Madam Marie is a ghost.
“Are you excited for tomorrow?” “Tomorrow?” I said confused, “The lake trip.” “Oh, sure.”...