Hot Starry Nights

*Kindergarten*

  My parents helped me into my class. I didn't know how to go there, I have never been there before. The room is big and tall and there are more kids here. They are all with their parents. My momma takes me to the teacher. She said her name is Ms. Blake. She has a boy name for her last name. My older brother is named Blake. Blake is eleven and I'm five. I'll be six soon! Momma says my birthday is a special day, especially my eighteenth.

  My momma tells me to go to dadda and he's talking to someone scary. The scary person has a kid too. His hand is holding onto the kid's shoulder. The kid tells him it hurts and the man says to be quiet.

  The kid looks very pretty. He has light brown hair, and it's curly like momma's hair. He's wearing a white shirt and blue pants. He looks like an angel, but he's hurting. Momma says that angels are beautiful and the ones on earth fell from heaven. His fall hurt, because he hurts. She also said demons come from a bad place, and they are mean. The person holding the angel's shoulder is a demon.

  I go to dadda and hide behind him. The demon smiles at me. I hug dadda's leg and look at the fallen angel. He's looking at me, and he asks for my name. I give it to him and tell him he's very pretty. The demon frowns and squeezes his shoulder more. The demon looks at me. He says don't call another boy pretty. It's wrong. But why? The angel looks less sad now. I want to make him happy. I tell the demon that he's wrong. I tell him that the angel is very pretty and very sad.

  The fallen angel takes the demon's hand off of him and hugs me. It feels warm, unlike momma and dadda's. I hug him and the demon pulls him back and they walk away. The fallen angel's hand falls slowly from mine.