Chapter 3

when I entered the orphanage hall, I saw my new girl friend lily trembling as if waiting to be punished. And I also saw Ray and Leo standing in with the director, when they saw me they told me how lily took my dolls away walking in the woods when Ray and Leo was on there way back to the river.

I was really upset because, if she asked me for the dolls I will have given them to her, maybe not the one Ray gave me when we just became friends. And I really don't know why did she throw it in the woods. when I asked her knowing what she has done, she looked at me angrily I got scared knowing my friend was angry at me, but why. Ray and Leo came front shielding me.

After this incident I didn't even try to make friends with girls. Both Ray and Leo told me that they were enough for me to be friends with. lily too got punished for stealing and damaging others things by not giving her evening snacks for two days.

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Ray's family mansion is really big and beautiful, they renovated it this year I'm now six years old, everytime I'm around both Leo and Ray but I didn't ask them both about there family. Today I came to know that Ray was scolded and punished by his father for his bad behavior at home so, they sent him to grandpa's house for reflecting on his behavior.

Eventhough he was nine years old he still didn't think about going back home. When I'm four years old I started going to school with them, they were two classes above me. Ray and Leo seems to attract more attention in school but it didn't stop them from studying, they were really the class toppers. Ray's grandpa tells him to go back to the city for his studies instead of staying in this small village and I don't know if it is because of us but Ray always says that he didn't want to go back to see his father's face.

Between the three of us Leo is only one who doesn't tells us about his past, and whenever there is a talk about family's his face gets sickly pale and shows a blood drained face, from the director I know that his parents were dead, so he was left here to live by their relatives who can't take care of him.

Leo is the one who is older than us all, eventhough he is same years old as Ray but he is older than him by seven months, he is also the one who is more matured than us. Ray is the type of person who is arrogant than anyone I have known, but he is surprisingly kind inside with his arrogant exterior and he ignores everyone and really is cold-hearted, like there is no one matters to him. Leo is considerate and gentle person but he can be surprisingly be stubborn and when it comes to certain events he seems cold-hearted.

Today is Leo's birthday, it's when he turns ten years old, every year I give Leo and Ray gifts birthday cards with flowers in them or handmade bookmarks. And this year I thought of giving Leo, a bottle of 100 origami stars as gifts. surprisingly I can't find him anywhere in the orphanage when I went asking the director he told me that someone from his relations came looking for him and he went with them to the city. Eventhough I was really disappointed not seeing but I'm still happy knowing he will be happy to spent his time with his relatives.

But after Leo came back he seems often absent minded so, I thought maybe he was upset about coming to the orphanage rather than being with his relatives. To cheer him up I took the gift I prepared for him, and went near him.