The Sound of a Beating Heart

Day One

"G-Gabriella?" He asks in disbelief. I nodded.

"Why ar-re you here?" He asks.

"Same as you." I reply and hug him. After I had saved him, we had become friends. He was pale as a ghost though as of right now. Mr. Richview looked at his watch.

"I should get going." I said, kind of sad that I'd have to leave him but I had to.

"See you tonight." I smiled and playfully punched his arm. I left the office and stood in my position at the furthermost right of the room. Not a moment later, kids of all ages flooded in. Soon, everyone was ordering and the band was starting to play. I took in the child friendly environment and remembered everything about it.

I look at the stage. There was a kid really close to the stage. It looked like he wanted to get up there. I kind of stalked over to the stage where the kid was in the shadows. The kid placed a hand on the stage and lifted his knee to get onto it. I quickly walk over to the kid and gently grab him off.

"You can't go up there." I said to him. He looked at me with big brown eyes and a small sad frown.

"Why?" He wanted to know. I smiled. He was just like me.

"Its not safe up there. That's all. I wouldn't want you getting hurt. Here," I glanced around the place looking for any sign of misbehavior or getting too close to the animatronics. I reached into my pocket and gave the kid twenty tokens to play in the arcade. "Go and win something for yourself." The kid nodded and walked to the arcade with a large smile on his face. He was so much like me.

In the distance, I saw a kid being beat up. I was about the stalk off to where the scene was when someone tapped on my shoulder. I turned around and they gasped. It was someone I didn't know and it was an older woman who looked to be around her early fourties, late thirties.

"You're the little girl who saved my son." I clicked in my mind that it was Jeremy's mother. I smile, and nodded.

"Could you excuse me for a minute please mam?" I asked. She smiled and nodd. I sstalked off towards the scene and tapped on the larger boys shoulder. He looked up, confused. He looked at me and got a bit angry.

"Jamie I-" The kid started but stopped. I already had the kid. I was gently but firmly holding onto his shoulder as he hung his head low. I had already talked to him. 

"Let the kid go." I said, motioning to the scrawny kid underneath him. The bigger kid shook his head.  I didn't want to use force but it looked like I had to.

"Look, you have to let him go or else I can get you banned from coming here." I said. It wasn't a threat, it was a fact. I knew Mr. Rickview was watching over me. The big kid snorted.

"As if. You're just a security guard. Only the boss can get me banned. And, I don't even see him anywhere." He was poking fun at Mr. Richview. That wasn't good. I sighed as I forcfully picked the kid up off of the scrawnier one and stood him next to me. It was clear on my face that I didn't like using force on children. Just then, Mr. Richveiw strode up.

"I'll take it from here Miss Gabriella." He assured. I nodded and helped the small kid to the office where the first aid box was. I took the box down and opened it, checking to make sure I had all of the right supplies before checking him. I then checked him over. He had only a bunch of bruises in places from the beating. I noticed that his shoulder was bleeding.

"Do you mind if I move your shirt just a little?" I ask him. He shook his head, letting me remove the cloth from the bloody sight. The blood was oozing out of a bite mark.

"Stay here." I instructed him. He nodded and I left to the girls bathroom. I washed my hands and dried them. I grabbed extra paper towls and wetting them with water from the sink. I retired with the wet towel and gently pressed it again his wound. He winced a bit but I could tell the pain subsided from him as his eyes were no longer clouded with it. I smiled at him and he smiled back.