They WILL Be Unbroken

-Kai's POV-
It was after school on Thursday, me and Andy were getting ready for bed. We sat facing each other, foreheads together and noses barley touching. Sometimes we would just sit there like that till one or both of us felt sleepy. But tonight Andy had different ideas.
"Ever since I first saw you, there has been something about you thats been bothering me. There's something about you, something sad, and barren. You have the eyes of someone who has been to Hell and back in their lifetime." Andy said all of this in a voice barley above a whisper. "If you don't want to talk about it, I understand. But I'm curious."
"About what?" My own voice coming out choked.
"You your life, the places you've been, the things you've seen."
I smiled crookedly, "I've seen a lot of things in my short life, most of them horrible, some of them nice though."
"Like what?" Andy asked. I closed my eyes and began too tell my story.
"I was born in Cairo,in 1996. I was born on the street, down an ally, the same kind of place I was conceived when my mother was raped. My mother barely survived. She handed me over too an orphanage and told them why she didn't want me, three days later her body was found. She had the business card of the orphanage she gave me to on her, so the police identified her body by that. When I was five the orphanage I lived in burned to the ground. Somewhere along the line through the chaos of the relocation, one little five year old was forgotten about. So I lived on the street, stealing from bins, stores and people, till I was ten, when my parents found me. They were in Cairo, setting up some connections with foreign banks. They took me in and raised me with their two year old son, Thomas. until that point I hadn't had a name, so they called me Kai. Meaning sea in Japanese and Hawaii, cause they found me by the docks. I loved living with them. For one year my parents home schooled me, teaching me how to read and write, basic arithmetic. Everything I would need to go into year five. (A/N I'm using Australian ages, sorry if this confuses anyone!) I went, and found that I didn't belong. I couldn't find anyone who liked the same things as me. Anyway two years later I went to High school, I started getting bullied, I started cutting. In year 8 (A/N She's 14 at this point) I got hit, and fell down. I heard fighting above me then saw someone standing over me, holding out his hand. I recognized him, he had a reputation for being a tough fighter. My school was pretty rough, he stood me up and said, "Hi my name is Josh Harrison, I am gay and my favorite band is Black Veil Brides. Would you like to be my friend?" I admired his audacity, and courage for stating who and what he was without question. I agreed and he started me how to defend myself. It was great, no one messed with us, we could do what we wanted, dress how we wanted, we could let go and be ourselves. I loved it, me and Josh made a pact under Saviour that we were done with cutting, and that if we ever suspected the other of doing it, we would comfort them and guide them through it. Then, when my brother turned 18 he signed up for the army. He was sent out for active service in Afghanistan. That year some drama happened between Josh and his boyfriend. Josh hit rock-bottom, he practically moved in and I looked after him, I wouldn't let him be alone because I knew he would just try and join his boyfriend, kill himself. Then Thomas died. We had been really close. So I left. I ran away. I was gone for two months. I was used to living on the streets, I was fine. When I came home, my parents took me back in. I settled down and gave my all to my studies, too make up for lost time. Then, well as they say, is history." I finished my story and gazed up into his comforting blue eyes.
"You are so strong, living through all that, and coming out the other side still fighting, I don't know if I could do it. He raised my wrists to his lips and kissed them, we lay down and slept.

Notes

Aww poor Kai! In my head, she was going to sneak into the army an her brothers place, but it didn't work out that way. I think this chapter is shorter than normal, but I can't tell...