Anagenisi fiddled with the small diamond placed on the delicate thin silver chained bracelet that rested, with little weight at all, her small, pale wrist. Twisting it in between her fingers, the cool edges that were cut so sharp and even on the diamond felt smooth. She found herself often doing this, and every time she had laced the small diamond between her fingers she felt a slight ting of a warm feeling of home. She held the diamond up to the small stream of light that shown light the rising of the morning sun through the small window, in the equally small room she was in. The dust particles visible through the light fluttered down softly then disappeared were the light cut off. Something as simple as the dance the dust that only the light may show seemed too, like the diamond, an eerie sense of beauty. The diamond itself glittered in an elegant way as the light seeped through the colorless hard rock state it possessed. Her already calm self, seemed to get even more relaxed as she just gazed upon the diamond. She had been found in a basket as a baby with this diamond. She had no idea if it was her birth parents who had left it with her, or if it was just a fluke it was found with her.
“Anagenisi, get your demonic self into the kitchen, and don’t murder a fly while you’re at it.” The screeching yells of her slightly schizophrenic foster mother, Kara, broke the trance the mysterious diamond held on her soul.
Strands of her long pale snow like hair cut in front of her vision as she lashed her head over to the slightly cracked open door of her bedroom, where the slightly whimpered yells seeped in from, in a rattling rage. She found that Kara’s voice was always a whimper of some sort. That woman seemed to be afraid of almost everything. Anagenisi seemed to be a target for the woman’s rage, be it may that the woman thought she was an evil spirit coming to murder her. She probably only got that idea because she was so pale in every way, her hair, complexion, and her light blue eyes that if made sense of seemed clear. Anagenisi also seemed to keep to herself most of the time, and seemed deep in thought and only spoke to the woman if spoken to. The only reason the woman must keep her around is for the checks they pay her to keep me here. She was the worst foster parent up to date.
Pushing herself up off her bed, she slipped through her doorway and walked down the dark painted halls, were the corners to every door way or turn had a pillow taped to it. She seemed to be afraid of even the softest corners now. As she arrived into the cluttered kitchen, she could easily spot the haggard old woman in the robe back into the corner waiting for her. Staying by the door way, careful not to approach the terrified woman, she spoke in her soft Voice and said “Yes?” She could almost see a quiver going up Kara’s spin. Anagenisi wasn’t a scary looking person. She was just a loner most of the time so no one approached her, the only person who ever seemed scared of her was this woman.
“Go to the market and get me more milk, will you?” Kara asked in her whimpered tone. Giving a small smile Anagenisi replied easily and simply, saying “Of course.” Turning away Anagenisi made her way down the steps, and opened the door. Just before shutting it she heard Kara yell “And don’t be gone long!”
Breathing in the fresh air, she gave a small smile, and began walking a little ways down the road. The market wasn’t far from the small run down house she lived in. she just had to cut through central park which was only a block down. Making her way down the side walk, she saw many people pass by in rushes. It always seemed like everyone was in a rush, how stressful that must be. Many different people as well, men in suits carrying brief cases, mothers in jog attire with little baby in high tech strollers, kids on their skate boards, or rich girls with hand bags clutched in their claw like hands, designers clothes on every inch of themselves, anda cell phone held up to their ear in another. It made Anagenisi’s own clothes a sheer white button up shirt and plain dar jeans, seem very plain and cheap.
Sometimes it made Anagenisi grateful she couldn’t afford such electronics and such. She found entertainment and beauty in the simplest things, like nature, or just sitting on a bench over looking lakes, things like that. “Miss, do you have any spare change?” a grungy old voice seeped through her unaware self, and she looked down lightly startled. There sitting n the dirtied poorly concreted ground, sat a man with a scrappy bearded, tussled long hair covered by a toque, and the tired green eyes that were once probably very lively as a young child.
“Oh,” Anagenisi smiled giving a small breathless laugh “You startled me. “ She spoke in the same soft tone of hers. Pulling out of her back pocket a five dollar bill that was supposed to be for the mil, she handed the money to the man without hesitation. Trusting people in this town has probably not the best thing, with all the muggings by handing money to the homeless. But this man seemed sweet; she could see the once small boy in his needed face. He gave her a toothless grin, and without another word, she walked off giving a smile and a wave to the man.
Without that money now she really had no need to go to the store, but she would spend a few minutes in central park and just tell Kara that when she had gotten to the store the five dollars must have fallen out of her pocket. She hated the fact that she would have to lie, but it was for the greater good and they could most likely wait another day for a jug of milk.
As she made her first steps into central park, her wandering eyes engulfed the warm sight around her. She always loved to be around trees, and not the tall buildings and construction sites that you mostly see around New York.
A voice caught her attention through the giggles and talk of the other people around her. Turning her head over to look at a girl who was a few feet away, looking up in a tree, she walked over and tapped her on the shoulder lightly. She had asked if someone was alright, and she realized now why considering it seemed like someone was up in the tree. “I don’t mean to intrude” She said in a polite concerned voice, as she began fiddling with the diamond on her bracelet, Turning her head now to look at the girl in the tree, she asked “But is she stuck?” She had seen this situation many times before here, kids or teens climb up the higher up tress and then find that they can’t get down, and it often just takes someone to help guide them down.