The thought of my parents still taunts me to this day, they died right in front of my eyes, scaring me for life, seeing them fall to their knees, begging for mercy when I was a baby but I remember it so vividly, they never got to see me grow up, I was in and out of foster homes like wildfire, I would stay for six months then off I was again, they all said I was "Too difficult to handle", but all the families I was given to, for the life of me, I could not connect to or feel happy with, not to mention none of them actually knew my past and how much it damaged me, I never had any friends, I had enemies though and lots of them believe me, but as soon as I hit eighteen I was out of foster care and thrown to the curb to provide for myself, it made me stronger but begging on the streets isn't a good look, I would earn about a dollar a week since not many people risked two glances at my pitiful fortune, but there wasn't much I could do, this was my life, whether I chose to accept it or not, the flashing images of my parents every time I tried to sleep, the whispers about me from Kalon to Kalon, the cold breeze in the wind always coming to greet me were all apart of it, I do not wish this fortune on any other living soul, they don't deserve to live in such conditions, to this day I'm still lost, I have no family, or friends, but what I do have is the teddy bear my parents gave me when I was born, I consider him my only family, and his name is Oscar. Oscar is a crimson red bear with a blue eye accompanied with a sewn on button where the other used to be, he has stitches on his left leg from where a dog had torn it off and one of my foster mothers fixed, I never allowed him to be washed no matter how dirty he was because he had a distinct smell, a nice smell, which reminded me of my dear father, he has a little black bowtie around his neck made of the softest silk known to Kalon kind, this particular silk is extremely valuable, but even then I refused to give it up, on the bottom of the right leg was my name, embroidered into it by hand with gold thread. Oscar has been my only family for twenty years now, he is the only thing that got me to keep trying no matter what happened to me, no matter what foster home I was in, no matter how much I was, he always told me to stay strong, that is why I'm still here. I have him to thank for everything he has done for me, although he doesn't speak, I couldn't ask for a better family.