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Natalia loved her family, it was just her her mother and her father. They doted on their little Flame, a reference to Natalia's bright red hair. They would do anything to ensure their daughter's future, including inviting Uncle Ivan into their house. After all, they only wanted the best for their little Flame. Natalia was a bright child. She ran around and knocked into all the furniture and the adults knees. She loved her family, especially when, a year after Uncle Ivan moved in and when Natalia turned 5, mother told her they were going to have a new baby boy. Natalia was overjoyed.
Then the unthinkable happened six months later. While Uncle Ivan had run to get food from the market, mother had supposedly knocked over a lamp with her big belly and before Natalia could put down her teddy bear, the house was ablaze. As it happened, Uncle Ivan came back just in time to grab Natalia and get her outside. Mother and Father and the baby brother burned as Natalia breathed in soot and watched the fire destroy her life.
Ivan couldn't care for Natalia and the parent's wills had burned so she was placed in an orphanage. Ivan promised he would come get her as soon as he could get a job, and Natalia, in all her naivety, believed him. Natalia stayed at the orphanage for one month before she realized that there were no friends to be had there. She was there for three and a half before she started to doubt Ivan. By her fourth month, Natalia was starving, picked on, and had lost hope almost completely.
She waited for another month of starvation before Ivan fulfilled his promise.
She later wish he would've forgotten her and left her to die in the orphanage.
Natalia always had been an optimist.