PrixyGoldstar

She is strange.

She is mysterious.

She walks alone.

She eats alone.

She does everything alone.

Wherever she goes, calamity happen, maybe that's why her parents abandoned her in a castle, she had thought.

The only one who was there for her like a mother died when she was seven.

What surprised everyone was how she was able to survive alone, in the castle.

Everyone tried their possible best to avoid her and she was already used to it until the school Playboy took interest in her life.

"I heard you killed everyone that comes your way. I bet you wouldn't wanna hurt this pretty face." He said smiling to her.

She raised her head to his height with no emotions in her eyes. 

"Leave my way."

"What if I don't?" He challenged.

"Then I won't tell you to hurry home and avoid the coming death of your grandma." She said pushing him aside.


A week later, he walked to her with bandage wrapped around his arm.

"The accident really happened. Can I be your dog?" He said.

Everyone was surprised to see their school young master turned to slave.

"What will I gain working with you?" She asked him one day.

"You can gain nothing but my heart and body." He said.

She looked at him and wondered if there is anyone as shameless as this young master.

He really want to pull her out from the darkness and especially from that CURSED CASTLE.

The girl from a Castle.

As the boy stared at the girl, he could only pity her. No matter how he tried to play with the the child, she was not responding.


"Reuben!" Someone shouted from outside.


He was surprised someone could come here by this time and more surprised that his name was being called.


"Reuben!" The voice became clearer and he immediately recognised his mother's voice.


"Mom!" He said and ran timidly to the down stairs. He ran out of the castle and his mother saw him.


"Where are you coming from?" His mother asked as she bent to his height.


"From that castle. A little baby Is there. She is so cute and doesn't even seems to have strength. Mom take her with us, please." He said sadly and his mother was shocked.


"This castle?" His mother said. She remembered she watched some news on their TV before she left California in the noon about a mysterious child who cried and the people in the town died, but she wasn't sure if it was real.


"Let's not go back into that place." She said frighteningly, having an ominous feeling about the castle.


"Mom, why? She could die anytime soon." He said with his childlike voice and his mother couldn't resist him.


"The child you've never met. How could a small girl like her be dangerous? Mom please." He begged.


"I am not taking her with me. That's final." She stood on her words.


"Mom, then just feed her milk please. She is hungry." He pleaded and was near to cry.


His mother eventually followed him into the castle. 


They got into the castle and she saw the milk that was there in the feeder. It wasn't covered at all.


"This is unhealthy, Reuben. How do you expect a little girl like her or anybody to drink that uncovered milk?"


Reuben felt sad and looked around if he is going to see another means. He eventually saw a sachet of powder milk.


Jane couldn't reject her son's offer looked for a bottle of of water and she mixed the milk with water. She fed the baby and pet her. When she eventually slept, she laid her on her crib.


"But there is nothing I'm going to do about it." Jane said.


"No. LET US GO, REUBEN!" His mother said harshly and he dropped the idea and walked forward sadly.


They were walking out of the castle when they met Mary.


"We came to attend to the baby. You abandoned her all alone, it's bad."Jane said.


Mary didn't talk and felt guilty the more. How could she live a day old baby all alone? If not that her daughter called her, she wouldn't leave the innocent girl. 


She blamed her father in her head and wondered how a father could abandon his own child.


"I'm sorry. And thanks for taking care of her." Mary said with tears.


Mary was shocked because the girl never had a name.


"We haven't named her." She said with a smile.


"Sure." Mary agreed. She didn't think she has name in her head to give her.


"She should be Theodora." He said with a smile.


"Huh?" Jane and Mary said simultaneously and wondered how he got the name.


"Her name is Theodora because she is a gift from God." He said with a smile.


Jane couldn't help but smile on how wise his son is.


"Let's hurry, it's almost 6 am. So, I'll be able to catch the early morning bus to California." Jane said.


They bid each other farewell while Mary entered the house. She was moved to tears as she saw the innocent girl smiling in her sleep. 


"I'm sorry. Your parent failed you, I shouldn't do that too. I will be your mother till you grow up." She said.


"Who said so? Ahhhhhhh!" The spirit woman laughed hysterically.


She won't be saying this, if she knew what the future has in plan for her.


Her name will be Theodora.