"It's okay. I'm sure you'll find your parents." Said Alessa.
"I don’ think I want to. Not anymore. I mean, they abandoned me, so, who’s to say that, even if I did find them, that they would even want to know me? They didn’t even bother contacting this place since leaving me here.” He spread out his arms, from the tall brick wall to the playground. Then, he placed a hand on hers. “Alessa, everything okay?”
Alessa smiled. Kevin still understood her – could read her like a book, even as she actively tried to hide herself from him. He persisted. “Tell me, Alessa, what happened?”
So she let it out. At first she wasn’t sure how much to tell. She started with small things, like her life with her aunt and uncle, but soon she was moving onto bigger things and she couldn’t stop despite herself. L
