Her parents weren't usually gone for this long.
They left every day, only staying a few hours at most.
She hated it when they left her there but they always promised to come back.
If only they would stop crying so much when she asked to come home with them.
They kept telling her to be brave, to find peace and sleep.
She didn't understand, she was scared and surrounded by strangers all the time.
Most of them weren't visited daily like she was and they all said how lucky she was.
She never saw it as lucky, how could she be lucky if she was there and not home?
Many times she tried to walk home but there was a large black dog that guarded the exit.
The strangers around her said she had to stay where she was or the dog would eat her.
Judging by the size of it she reckoned it had eaten a lot of people.
It didn't stop her from longing to go back though.
Her next plan was to pretend she was safely in her room and hope she would appear there.
She'd seen some strangers just vanish but they said she was too new to be able to do it too.
As her dad had said "Trying is better than nothing." and so she practised visualising her home.
Sometimes she almost felt her fluffy rug under her feet, nobody seemed to notice.
She tried every day and it began to work.
Last time she tried she was briefly there, saw her dad sitting on her bed crying.
He won't be sad when she comes home, everything will be fine again.
One last try tonight and she hoped she would remain at home forever.
Her parents visited her again during the evening and she tried to tell them she was coming back.
They looked scared, her mum even yelled at her to "just stay put, for god's sake why won't you go?!"
It was upsetting, why didn't they want her there, why did they keep leaving her here?
She promised to stay there but she never said how long she'd stay for.
After they left she began her exercise of picturing her room in every detail.
She was still upset from her mum's harsh words and didn't remember everything right.
Ended up in her best friend's room watching her bang her head against a wall until she crumpled.
After a few minutes she stood up again and turned around as a door unlocked downstairs.
Her friend had such a hard time after she'd left to the place full of strangers.
The two young girls smiled, glad to be together again.
One finally reunited with her dearest friend and the other no longer alone among strangers.
They linked arms and ran out of the window as a woman's heartbroken shriek filled the air.
They left every day, only staying a few hours at most.
She hated it when they left her there but they always promised to come back.
If only they would stop crying so much when she asked to come home with them.
They kept telling her to be brave, to find peace and sleep.
She didn't understand, she was scared and surrounded by strangers all the time.
Most of them weren't visited daily like she was and they all said how lucky she was.
She never saw it as lucky, how could she be lucky if she was there and not home?
Many times she tried to walk home but there was a large black dog that guarded the exit.
The strangers around her said she had to stay where she was or the dog would eat her.
Judging by the size of it she reckoned it had eaten a lot of people.
It didn't stop her from longing to go back though.
Her next plan was to pretend she was safely in her room and hope she would appear there.
She'd seen some strangers just vanish but they said she was too new to be able to do it too.
As her dad had said "Trying is better than nothing." and so she practised visualising her home.
Sometimes she almost felt her fluffy rug under her feet, nobody seemed to notice.
She tried every day and it began to work.
Last time she tried she was briefly there, saw her dad sitting on her bed crying.
He won't be sad when she comes home, everything will be fine again.
One last try tonight and she hoped she would remain at home forever.
Her parents visited her again during the evening and she tried to tell them she was coming back.
They looked scared, her mum even yelled at her to "just stay put, for god's sake why won't you go?!"
It was upsetting, why didn't they want her there, why did they keep leaving her here?
She promised to stay there but she never said how long she'd stay for.
After they left she began her exercise of picturing her room in every detail.
She was still upset from her mum's harsh words and didn't remember everything right.
Ended up in her best friend's room watching her bang her head against a wall until she crumpled.
After a few minutes she stood up again and turned around as a door unlocked downstairs.
Her friend had such a hard time after she'd left to the place full of strangers.
The two young girls smiled, glad to be together again.
One finally reunited with her dearest friend and the other no longer alone among strangers.
They linked arms and ran out of the window as a woman's heartbroken shriek filled the air.
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