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this is how i made up the name 'the abandoned bride', from a story i wrote a while ago.

The story behind the abandoned bride
By Errorz

With wedding bells ringing in the church, Tammy long wounded what it would be like to wear the most beautiful dress and walk down the else with her beloved man. Her mother had long told her that she would not possible be able to afford a wedding dress and that her daughter would grow up in a factory like all the others.

It was the year 1756 on 16 February. Tammy, a servants girl and only just 12 worked from day ‘till night cleaning the floors and windows. She didn’t think much of it. Her mother made it as fun as possible, making Tammy toys in her spare time and playing games with her, but at the slender age of 36, Tammy’s mother died the doctors suggested poising but no conclusion was made.

After the death of Tammy’s mother, the house owners of which Tammy lived decided to move. They could not be seen looking after a servant’s girl so they dressed her up in the finest clothes them could spare and sent her into the streets.

At first Tammy couldn’t make anything of the situation. But then, as the night grew darker, she started to realise that no body was going to help her, so she set of to wander the streets in the dark night of which her previous owners had stranded her, and their pet dog mochi, as they could not take the dog moving as he had grown a bond between him and Tammy, therefore he would always return to her.

Tammy knew the streets pretty well, because for the first year of her life, her mother would often leave her to find food and Tammy would roam the streets, finding her way home in time.

In her travels as a youngster, she had come across a hut in which stranded children lived so that was her first stop.

Rapping twice on the wooden door, she stood back and stared at the floor, only to find a young boy, around her age answer.
“hullo, wot you want, eh?”
“hello.” Tammy replied “have I come to the right spot? I believe that this was once a shelter for abandoned children?”
“Ai, it is still missy, but we got donations of cash to build it up, nah it called a children’s home, and ran by adults, it is….why? You wanting somewhere to stay?”
“That would be great.” Tammy said with a trickle of joy in her voice.

She walked into the big hallway which was now full of toys and gold. The crowd of a hundred children stopped. There was then a huge cry from way back of the crowd
“TAMMY” it shrieked
Out bounded a teen lad, around 15, and came running up to Tammy with open arms.
“Dear lord, Tammy, bless this be you?”
“If the lord be blessed then it is I”
“Oh Tammy, I have missed you dearly, I though you had a home?”
“No, my dear mother died but hours ago, I have none”
The boy sighed and looked at the tall lady
“Ma?”
She looked down at Tammy and smiled “it would be an honour to have you in out household!”

Tammy was shown to a small room, no bigger than 5ft by 7 ft but she didn’t mind, as long as she had a roof over her head for mochi and herself and of course, had a bed.

“Tammy” the boy asked “pray tell me, do you remember me name?”
“Ai I do, that be the name that I used for a year, kenshi…kenshi be it?”
“That it be. Kenshi Felton”

For long had Tammy felt something for this boy, he fitted her match for a mate perfectly and she hoped that someday, she would be with him, but because her mother and father passed away, it was illegal for them to marry, which cropped up in a conversation and made Tammy cry

“My mother once told me that I would never get married” she cried to kenshi one night “she said I would work for the rest of my life in a factory, day and night, I don’t want to do that kenshi. I want to have children and live with the man I love. I want to live with you…”

She stopped in her sentence for she knew that something wrong would happen if she said it, but kenshi had figured it out

“..I want to live with you” he spoke softly and gently pulled Tammy closer and kissed her.

“It is wrong” spoke Tammy “the only real way to be together is by changing names and having a new family…”
“Then that is what we shall do!”

That they did, and with haste, grabbing as little, but as many valuable items in their path whilst running out of the door.


With carving knifes and paints, they crouched in a shed and changed their physical appearance. They also changed the look of their outfits, incase children from the house spotted them.
The items they had picked up were used o alter their outfits, trying to make themselves look more sophisticated. It worked as they walked past several people from the home and nobody noticed the friends in disguise.

The couple shared two joyful years together until kenshi walked into the night with another, younger woman.

Once Tammy had passed, legends wrote that she waits in the after world, waiting for her long love, waiting to renew their vows as she never lost love for him. But to this day, she is named in history as Errorz of Gaia.