Post by Athena Achilles on Nov 18, 2014 18:48:12 GMT -8
Athena pushed her almost uneaten dinner away from her. It seemed that it had been weeks since she had eaten properly, but her mind was too full of questions about her family for food to be of any interest to her. She had thought about them a bit over the years, but after her talk with Amber, she had decided that she was going to find the answers she wanted. She would go to the library, all she needed was their names so that she could find if they... she had any other family!
Leaving the cafeteria, she made her way to the library. Smile at the librarian she made her way to the computer terminals and sat down at one of the machines and brought up the newspaper files. Gone were microfiches now that people had internet, unless of course the information you wanted was from decades ago, and then the old way was probably better.
She started looking through the obituaries of the year she was born and then those of the year before and after, as the year she was told she had been born had brought up nothing, but the surrounding years didn't give her anything either. She drummed her fingers on the desk, and then snapped them as she thought about the fact that her parents had died in a car accident, there might even be a report on the accident - and it would hopefully give her names to look up.
An hour later she was looking at an article that had her frowning, this was not what she had expected to find online. She couldn't believe that she had been lied to for so many years. Surely she was old enough to know the truth about how she had ended up as a ward of the court. She angrily brushed at a tear that slid down her cheek, she wasn't going to cry for them, she was too angry at them for that, and there was no way that she was going to start crying because of them!