JSM - Edition Two

L ove I s T hicker T han B lood - continued Lily was now a normal girl with dreams. She went to a good school and had a few close friends. She had a boyfriend but it wasn’t like he was the captain of the football team and she was the Homecoming Queen. They were just normal. Barbara cut everyone a piece of cake as they all sat around the dining table. “I would like to give a toast to my Mum and Dad. When they adopted me they gave me everything I could ever wish for. The best thing they gave me was a family. If it wasn’t for them I would still be stuck in that torture zone and instead of a party, they would be kicking me out to go live on my own. So, thank you Mum and Dad!” Lily announced, toasting everyone with her first glass of champagne. Everyone cheered and clapped. “We’ve got one more surprise for you!” stated Gary, pulling Lily outside with everyone following. They all stared as the garage door opened. Behind it was a new sparkly red Mazda and right behind the car was her adopted brother Buddy and his band, playing their new hit song, ‘Falling Stars’ which was currently number one on the charts. Lily gasped, jumping in the air and turning around and pouncing onto Barbara and Gary to give them a big hug. After their moment everyone started to dance to the music. Lily wished all her friends and adopted family farewell as they all drove away into the starry night. Later that night while Lily was in bed she felt like something was wrong and it was keeping her from going to sleep. After a fair amount of hours Lily finally realised what this feeling was. She felt disappointed. She felt that the whole world was thinking that she was lazy because she was now eighteen and she didn’t have a job and she had never had a job. She had been living off Mr and Mrs Wilkerson’s savings. She felt awful. She tried to go back to sleep telling herself she would find a job in the morning and she would start as soon as she could. Instead of falling into deep sleep dreaming of all the fun she had that night, she got more curious as the night went on. What job would she get? Would she stay in it until she retired? Would she have to move overseas? These questions scurried through her mind until she couldn’t handle it anymore. She jumped out of bed and headed downstairs to the computer. She knew that she wanted something that she was really passionate about so she could stay with it forever. She looked at the Cadbury Chocolate industry as an option, since she loves chocolate, but it wasn’t her. She then looked at being a doctor but remembered she faints whenever she sees blood. She looked at everything you could possibly think of from a teacher to a clown. Nothing seemed right. Now she was stuck. It felt like the whole world was rejecting her. Without even realising, she dosed off. Barbara tiptoed down the stairs as the sun rose. She saw Lily face down on the computer. First, Barbara continued to tiptoe and just went around Lily, but she couldn’t help it so she tiptoed back and had a quick look at Lily’s searches. There was like a million tabs open and it didn’t take long for Barbara to realise that Lily desperately wanted a job. She didn’t want to interfere but she took away all the open tabs and created three new ones for Lily to wake up to. Lily always talked about what it was like to be in the orphanage and she always said that nobody should ever be put into her situation. So Barbara decided to put up first the ‘Miracle Foundation’ website, which is helping struggling orphanages that need to get the right resources to look after the orphans properly so they can live to their fullest. ‘Miracle Foundation’ also finds local women in third world countries and encourages them to be mums and take orphans in. On the second tab she put the ‘Better Place’ website which is helping orphans with health and security from abuse. The last website she put up was ‘UNICEF’ which is helping orphans in many ways like finding them homes and saving them from abuse.

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