I'm Lily Madwip, and this is the end of the beginning.

Look who it is! I'm Lily Madwip and I'm an orphan, boohoo, boohoo!

That's Lisa Welch. Lisa's stinking Welch. She should be an Alunibin, but apparently the

angels did something to wipe her memory of being dragged into the veil. She's as

unbearable as ever. Her squad of jerk girls giggle and cover their mouths like

they're trying to hide the fact that they're clearly laughing. Maybe they do

because they know they'll never have teeth as perfect as Lisa's and it

embarrasses them to show it. I didn't know having your parents die was

something to be embarrassed about. Says Simone. She puts her hands on her hips

and glairs at the jerk squad. Good ol' Simone. Only one of the jerk girls

looks ashamed of herself. Ashlyn Peppers. She can be nice sometimes. Her face turns

red and she looks away from Simone and me. Belisa just snorts with her stupid

button nose and smirks with her perfect mouth.

Why are you even here? Lisa says at me. Shouldn't you be off in an orphanage somewhere?

She looks me up and down. Nice face by the way. I touch my cheek. There's a bit of a

scar on it from when she cut me in her knife-ite. Of course she doesn't

remember that or she'd probably have bragged about it to all her friends. I'm not

going to bother explaining to her that I'm currently living at a centre for

children with no families who are entering the foster care system and it's not

calls an orphanage. I'm not going to bother explaining to her that I'm currently

living at a centre for children with no families who are entering the foster

care system and it's not called an orphanage. Sometimes I want to call it an

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