I sat in the corner of the room feeling dread rise within me as I heard their high pitch girly giggles and designer shoes clatter across the corridor getting closer to the play room where I sat huddled in a corner with the book of photographs of my mother and father who had died soon after I was born,although none had ever told me why so I guess this was the closet thing I had to my parents.I froze as the girls filed in,it was them happily skipping across the wooden floorboards which creaked under their weight as the rain outside battered against the window.

"Oh look its the freak!"A blue eyed,blonde haired girl who went by the name of Lily pointed to me looking round to her friends excitedly.A brown haired younger girl stepped out and kicked my foot but I didn't dare look up for I had made that mistake before.

"Get up squirt!"The girl yelled and kicked me again but I ignored the pain in my shin and tried to concentrate on the sound of the rain hammering against the window.

"Can you hear me?"The girl asked kneeling down so that she was "eye level" with me.

"Unfortunately"I replied miserably and the girls laughed.

"Be lucky freak that you can still hear we are gonna cut your ears off soon"The girl said getting closer to my face which focused on anywhere but at her.

"You always hold this book its so tatty and old"The girl commented flicking the black leather photo album with her finger making me flinch ever so slightly not that she would have noticed.

"Leave me alone!"I grumbled getting agitated.

"Ooh do you hear that girls she says for us to leave her alone"The blonde haired girl said and grabbed my hair pulling me up so that I was standing up but then she realized that I was taller than her so she bent me over and dragged me out of the room as some of the younger orphans of Wools Orphanage stood by and watching with their mouths agape.

"You will learn Clara Pevensie that none messes with Lily Partridge"Lily raised her voice as she dragged me round the hallways by the hair.None made any move to stop her when it came to bullying we had to deal with it ourselves.Lily led me off to a corner and threw me into a wall as I made contact with the wall I smacked my head and my book fell to the floor a few meters from me I reached to get it but was too late.

"Oh no you don't!"Lily yelled as she stood on my hand causing me to scream out in pain as she snatched the book up from the floor and opened it releasing my hand from under her foot as I stood quickly trying to get to my book.

"No please!"I begged as she ripped up the photos into shreds right before my eyes but before she could rip up anymore she froze her smirk faded and she faced someone who I could not see.

"Leave her alone!"The voice yelled and the girls dropped my book and ran off back to the safety of the playroom.I slid down the tiled wall and put my head in my knees beginning to cry only stopping to look up when I felt a hand go on my back.I looked up into a pair of dark black eyes and found out that my savior was a boy.

"Why did you help me?"I asked as the boy tried to soothe me.

"I get bullied too so I know how it feels"The boy replied, I smiled wiping away my tears and standing once more before tidying up my hair as it had gotten tangled by the girls dragging me along the corridors.I stuck out my hand for the boy to shake and for a moment he looked at it his raven black hair shining in the faint light of the only light in the corridor but none the less he shook my hand and smiled weakly.

"I am Clara.Clara Pevensie it is very nice to meet you sir"I said in my most posh and polite voice that I could muster.

"And I am Tom.Tom Riddle it is very nice to meet you too"He said in a polite and posh voice and I laughed a little.

"You have a very posh voice Tom"I said and he smirked a little his eyes lighting up,I stopped laughing however when I noticed that at my feet there was my photo album with my pictures ripped up to shreds beside it scattered everywhere.Tom must have followed my gaze because he crouched down and looked up at me sadly.

"This meant a lot to you?"He said in his now accented voice.

"It was the closet thing I had to parents"I replied softly smiling a little but it faltered and tears welled up in my eyes.

"Its too late now though whats done is don-"I said but stopped when Tom began to hold his hand over the scattered pieces of the pictures and as if by magic they went back together again and Tom smiled up at me.

"You didnt even touch them"I said crouching down and touching a picture which was fully back together again.I realized that he must be like me so I stood up as his eyes pierced into mine and I looked to the light on the ceiling making it turn off so that we stood in the pitch black, I had turned the whole orphanages lights off and now everyone could be heard screaming and having a mini heart attack at which I smiled but I put the lights back on revealing a snake stood next to Tom he had been watching the snake but now he had returned his gaze to me meeting his black eyes with my blue ones.

"Your like me aren't you"Tom said and I nodded.

"They always have these doctors in to look at me,I'm not mad!"I said picking my book up off the floor and hugging it against my chest.

"Thank you Tom I am glad there is someone nice around here, I don't have any friends you see all the girls think I am a freak and they don't just think it they call me it too"I said and saw sympathy cross Toms eyes and face.

"I am your friend"Tom said softly smiling a little but before we could say anything else Mrs Cole had come up the stairs to find us and the snake stood in the corridor but when I looked again it had disappeared Tom had probably done something to hide the snake.

"What are you two doing up here its late get to your rooms at once!"Mrs Cole shouted and shooed us off as we walked quickly in different directions she was scared of us.

"Good night Tom"I called out when I stopped at my door and Tom smiled.

"Good night Clara sleep well"He said before I opened my door and walked into my room closing it quietly behind me.I fell asleep that night feeling not so lonely in this big world.