Short Story: The Orphanage Queen

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The Orphanage Queen Time passes, year after year and as a result, nothing stays the same. Imagine that you are living with a wealthy standard and all of a sudden all of your happy moments while you were wealthy are gone with the wind. Unexpectedly an opportunity may spark up and take you from poverty to a high living standard again. No matter what we are and what way we are living in we will all return to one condition at the end. Regardless of whether you are rich or poor, in under a second your life may be finished. The kindhearted mother named Elizabeth, who had those adorable dimples on her cheeks and that awesome dependable father who is very tall and masculine called John. The grandmother was called Isabella, with a pure white face, …show more content…
Certainly she agreed with slight happiness that Margret lives at the grandmother’s house. Day after day Lily felt depressed because of her aunt was strict on her she treated her in a very poor way and that everyone thinks she is a generous person but actually she is mean. Anything Lily had done by mistake the evil aunt punishes her locks her in a room without any nutrition. Then the evil aunt decided to get rid of the oppressed Lily and she makes a phone call to the orphanage and informs them …show more content…
By the time they arrived the orphanage a great woman called Tina greeted her. She lived in the orphanage always dreaming of having that magnificent castle full of jewelry along with everything she wished for. After a few days later of her stay Lily suggested to her supervisor that she wants to study, and then. Tina accepted and gave her some options of universities. Lily chooses a government boarding university. Day by day she attends classes and that day came when she met a new friend called Sasha which was dark skinned, curly hair, light brown eyes and quite short. They started knowing each other more every day. When Lily became 17 she said should I tell my story to Sasha? After questioning herself and thinking she actually did tell her the bitter story. Sasha felt really sorry for her and recommended that she would like Lily to stay with her at her own apartment. Lily was thinking how would she be dependent on herself? When she was boarding everything was available. Both lived peacefully and became more than best

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