Allegory?

There was once an orphanage for girls. It had had many girls housed within it over the years, all without parents, all needing love and reassurance.

This is a story about an argument between two of the girls, Izzy and Tina, about some toys. Tina said that Izzy had taken her toys. Izzy said that Tina had left the toys deliberately, and that it was her turn to play with them, and that they were her toys originally anyway. There had been fighting between the two girls over this for a long time, sometimes resulting in serious injuries, but neither were willing to back down; they both insisted that the toys were theirs, and theirs only. Izzy was stronger than Tina, and usually hurt Tina worse than Tina hurt her when they fought, but Izzy had been bullied before, many times, and didn't want to admit that she was acting in the same way.

Some of the older girls had tried to intervene in the fight. Britney had been chosen by the Orphanage Council (which supposedly represented all the girls in the orphanage) to be in charge of the disputed toys, but it hadn't worked. Sam, maybe the most influential girl in the orphanage, had tried to get Izzy and Tina to agree to share the toys, but no agreement could be found that satisfied everyone.

Some of the girls, when thinking about this ongoing battle for the toys, remembered a girl that had once lived in the orphanage, called Jess. She had been kind, gentle, and sensible, not afraid to tell off other girls if they were acting wrongly, but always wanting the best for everyone. Her willingness to speak out had made her unpopular, and had even led to a serious assault on her, but those who remembered her thought that if anyone could have solved this dispute, it would have been Jess. No-one was sure where she was these days, as she seemed to have left the orphanage.

What the girls didn't know, or had allowed themselves to forget, was that Jess wasn't an orphan, as they were. Her father owned the orphanage; he was the one who provided the meals that turned up every day, the clean bed linen, the heating, the lighting. He and Jess had agreed that Jess should visit the orphanage, so that she could be an example of how someone can behave if they know that they have a father who loves them. Her actions had indeed led to hostility from some, but others remembered her with fondness and admiration, even considered her to be their role model.

It was her father's plan all along to offer adoption to all of these girls, if they were willing, so that they would truly become his daughters, and know that he was a father to them as he was to Jess.

Of course, the solution to the dispute between Izzy and Tina would most likely be that they should forgive each other for the hurts they had caused, agree to share the toys fairly, and ask the owner of the orphanage if they could both be adopted, becoming true sisters.