Chapter 1.4.: The day We get to know ourselves

Chapter 1.4

It's been few days since we were told that 'Number 53b' has gone missing. Someone being missing was not the new thing for us so no one doubted it. And today we were told that Sarah fall into deep grief and is remorseful so she won't be back to orphanage for now. 'Number 53b' was the calling name for Sammy. Except by Sarah and few others, we were always called out by our numbers given to us by others working in orphanage.

I was still scared so I spent most of my time on my three storey bed in my cabin. After almost two weeks of that incident, one day when I was siting on my bed and looking at the other bunk bed in front of my bed where Sammy used to sleep, I suddenly felt a hot sensation on my face along with a crisp loud sound, I came back to my senses. I heard someone was calling me.

"Are you deaf?" a man shouted standing before me

"N..n..no..no.." I said with moistened and scared eyes, I was still feeling the burning sensation on my face.

"Heeeh…. you bastards have forgotten your place. Now that bitch is gone, I'll teach you swines your true place" muttered the man.

'Is he talking about Sarah but isn't she just busy with dealing Sammy's matter? How come she has left' I thought and wanted to ask that man but my mind suggested against it.

"And you bastard, I always thought that you must be a golden egg seeing the way that bitch used to pamper you. Now you are going to tell me is there any reason behind it or she just took fancy of a foreign face" the man said.

"I d..don't ow" came out from my mouth, while my head was still full of questions and my face burning.

"It seems like…"

Just as he was about to say something again, an abnormally thin man came running with his face blooming in a weird disgusting smile.

The thin man said something taking his mouth close to the man's ear, after hearing which his face also bloomed in the same strange disgusting smile and he said "Hahaha Where is it? Show me the video."

The thin man took out his mobile and started showing him something. It was that video. Right after he finished watching that video, he turned towards me and said "Think about it carefully, if you told me why that bimbo used to pamper you so much then I'll also not make you do anything otherwise you'll have to work even harder than other bastards" then he left.

I went outside and found that there were almost no one in the orphanage of my age and above. The ones who are staying behind are either cleaning or doing other stuffs in the orphanage.

Later in night I found out that they were being sent out for begging or pickpocketing or other illegal stuffs and initially when many of them refused, they were beaten and even were threatened that whoever refused will have their hands and legs broken.

It's been a month since those changes happened in orphanage and Sarah was still not back and I was doing cleaning orphanage. Suddenly I heard a huge commotion outside the toilet, when I went to see and saw a lot of policemen were standing before the 'thin man'. Among those policemen there also stood a boy, a familiar one, I know that boy, he was Sammy standing next to a man, I have seen before, he was the Inspection Officer who used to come every year for inspecting the Orphanage. But he doesn't look good like before, his face was slightly pale-ish now, he look a little weak but there was a serious expression on his face. Sammy saw me and waved his hand towards me. I did the same with a smile on my face and suppressing my confusions and questions. Sammy came to me and was about to say something when I heard some hurried footsteps and saw a policeman was coming from a distance and little far behind him were also some policemen coming toward here but they had someone handcuffed with them. He was the new Caretaker of the orphanage who threatened me that day but today he was bleeding from his mouth and patches of dirt all of his clothes. Looking at him it seems like he fall somewhere.

"Captain, we didn't find that woman here but we have found lot of cash in the office, please come and take a look and this man climbing out the boundary of orphanage" said the policeman who reached first "He is the new caretaker".

"Let's go and see and bring both if these men, they need to answer some questions" said one of the policeman who was referred as Captain by other one.

When they left I asked Sammy what's going on.

"You know when that day I tried to run away from here, that night I was found out by that woman and a man with him. They almost killed me that night, thankfully I fall unconscious and the next day I found out that I was in hospital and the Uncle was standing before me along with some other people. They asked me many questions about how I was living in here and how I get those injuries and if I know the names and faces of other who had suddenly went missing. I told them everything. There was even a guy recording everything I was saying" Sammy told me. While saying Uncle he peeked to the Inspection Officer.

"Then where were you all the time then" I asked curiously.

"At first I was at hospital for few weeks then I went to live at the uncle's place and right now I'm staying there.

When I heard that I didn't felt jealousy this time but a relief, I felt there was some kind of burden on me which suddenly left me.

After that we talked for a little while. Some policemen left after few hours while the Inspection Officer and some other policemen stayed behind that day. The next day, we were told that this orphanage is being sealed and we were placed in some other orphanages. It was the night of that day when Sammy asked me a very strange question.

"Jim do you want to live in a new house?"

"Of course, it's my dream to have a house of my own, where I can live and stay however I want, where I didn't have to kept working the whole day" I replied.

"Ummm… today Uncle asked me if I wants to live with him"

"What? That's so good for you" I said while hiding my shock and maintaining a smile on my face.

"But I refused"

This time I had many words in my mind, far too many to come out of my mouth so my mouth was just open.

"I said I want to be with you and asked if you can also come"

This time I trembled, this was too much for me to handle I didn't know how to respond.

"Want to stay with uncle and me"

"Yes" came out of my mouth without me knowing it.