a superhero Christmas

chapter 2

henrys p.o.v

as I walked into junk'n'stuff, I saw gootch behind the counter wearing a santa hat. so was his plant. everything was all ready for Christmas. I greated gootch as I walked back to the elevators. I screamed as I fell down the elevator on my way to the man cave. as the doors opened, I saw ray standing there with a red shirt on.

"merry Christmas!" he said in a cheerful voice, as I looked  around the mancave, I noticed it was decorated as well.
"not for 24 more days!" I said in a sarcastic cheerful voice as he did.
"whats with you?" he said now looking annoyed.

"why didn't you tell us we were doing community service at an orphanage" I said crossing my arms.
"come on, don't think of it as community service, think of it as....giving to the poor!" he said grabbing my shoulder.
"um...what exactly are we giving?" I said taking his hands off my shoulder. "uh...a chance...to meet us!" he said in the same cheerful voice as before. I just rolled my eyes and sat down on the circular couch with a sigh.

"dude, what's your problem? we're just doing some nice things for the less fortunate kids in swellview. since when is that a bad thing?" he asked sitting next to me.
the thing he doesn't know is that I had a bad background with orphanages.

I was in an orphanage a while when I was little, I was about 9 and piper was 4. we both had abusive parents who will beat us everyday. then suddenly our house caught on fire one night. our parents died in the fire. piper and I were rescued by firemen. we had to go to the hospital because we both were badly burnt and breathed in to much smoke. later, when we found out our parents died, we were soon tooked to a orphanage. we were there for 2 years. no one wanted us... we tried to make friends, but I got bullied because of my ugly burns on my arms, legs and face. finally one day, this couple adopted us. they were really nice. I love them alot. luckily piper was to young to remember everything that happened, she does know shes adopted but she doesn't remember about the orphanage, thank god!! but sadly for me, I don't think that memory will ever go away. this is why I hate the orphanage...

I was staring into space when my thoughts were soon interrupted by ray waving his hand up and down in front of my face and calling my name. I soon snapped out of it.
"kid, you ok?" ray asked in a calm voice.
"yea...yea I'm fine" I sighed.
"you sure? cause it looks like you were thinking about something. whats wrong?" ray asked scooting closer. this conversation was getting uncomfortable for Me so I wanted to get out of it.

"so what time should I be here tomorrow?" i asked trying to change the subject.
"uh...about 7." ray said.

"k, bye!" I said running to the elevator.
"uh...bye?" ray question with a wave of his hand. tomorrow is going to be stressful.

hey guys, happy december 2nd! this chapter explains alot so I hope you like it!