Chapter 8

Introduction of Butterfly

 

Butterfly

 

            Butterfly is her name. She is a teenage girl. On her own for a few years now as her mother and father divorced. The dad left them and never came back never contacted her. The mom became depressed and she did a lot of drugs. The men that came around her used her until she didn’t even care about her little Butterfly.

 

 

Butterfly’s mother jumped from one man to the next each time one would leave another one would be there to take his place. The men were inappropriate when it came to her. She made sure they would not stay around long. She chased them off by whatever means it took. She even burned one man’s apartment down. He kept her mom strung out so bad and let his friends use her. One day, the last time she saw her mother, she came home from school to find that her mother was leaving with her new man’s friend to party in Vegas. She said to “tell that man that she found someone new and oh by the way honey, you’re on your own. Joey said you can stay at his house for as long as you want to. Just don’t eat all of his food.” Then she got in the car and left.

 

Not willing to put up with strangers any longer and be around people that she felt didn’t care about her she grabbed her meager belongings and went to find a place she felt was safe. She managed to find a rundown house that no one bothered to go to. It had a fireplace and the water would run. She kept warm at night with the fire and she found things she could use to heat water in and do things to survive on a real basic level. She was mostly dirty looking and she would steal food and clothing, as she needed it. She had survived in this place for a few years after her mother left.

 

She was a loner but there were kids her age that she let crash there from time to time. They were usually runaways and kids that had abusive parents. She would make sure they had a place for a short time but would make them leave or get help from someone else. Something she was unwilling to do herself.

 

Butterfly had just had a real bad day in school. She had been causing problems with some brainy kid and had just slapped this girl around to get her money. The girl told on her and she had just been expelled from school. She was supposed to tell her mother and her mom was supposed to go to a conference over this but she only could guess where he mother was.

 

Today of all days there was something going on in the city. She didn’t know what but people were out gathering at the schools. If it had not been for pure curiosity she would not have been with this group of people and shackled. She would have been free and surviving on her own. No one would have known she was an Intruder and would have kept living like she had been.

 

If she had kept her nose out of the school and if no one had spotted her she would have moved on, but they grabbed her and forced her to go into that room with all of those strangers and made these bizarre markings appear on her. She thought they looked pretty cool! Now she was a prisoner in this god-forsaken place full of people she didn’t trust or respect.

 

Butterfly was extremely angry at ending up like this. She knew better than to go to any school or establishment with any authorities around. They were always interfering with her life.

 

She watched carefully to what was going on at all times and felt like she could come up with a solution to escape this prison.

 

They had been in this convention center for a half a day and then things started to change. They had been fed and housed for now in these groups that they had started with.

 

She saw two cute girls that were playing cheerfully and cautiously. She wished she had sisters to be with too.

 

Lilly approached her and said kind of shyly, “Hi, were you bad? How come they have you tied up?”

 

Butterfly shook her head no and said very quietly, “I will run away if they let me out.”

 

“Oh.” Said Lilly. “I have a pin; can I try and get you out?” Lilly loved tricks

 

Butterfly giggled, she liked this girl.

 

A noise arose in the background. They were being moved, but this was different, they were separating the children from their families