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Chapter 1: The Flashback

(A/N So since I was impatient and cant focus on one thing, this book will not be a sequel so also takes place in 2015, but has no ties to Comfort ok got it)

It all started when I was 10 on a trip to Disneyland. It was my first time. I always wondered what it would be like but the actual experience was more than imagined. All the characters I always watched on tv, those who entertained me for the few years I had been alive, can see me beyond the colored screen.

We went and explored all the rides and it was the best time I had ever had. People may say that I was too old, or too old to enjoy it the way I did. But you can never, I repeat, NEVER, be too old to explore the magical world of Disney.

That experience is like Hogwarts but for kids and less gourish.

I insisted on going on the famous splash mountain because whenever my friends attend DisneyWold, they say it was the best part of the park. If anyone were to rate this place it would be me. I am the ultimate rater.

As we stood in the long line I was excited and couldn't stop bouncing up and down. I have never been more excited about anything, ever in my life.

As we were about to get in line, gunshots went off in the park and everyone was screaming and started ducking.

We didn't know where it was coming from but I knew they were close by the distance of the shot echo.

Mami did say I always had a keen ear for sound.

She told me, "Bumblebee, I want you to listen very clearly and I need you to remember these instructions."

I nodded as I started to get very nervous, looking around to see if the shooter got any closer.

"You see that man over there E?" She pointed at one of the Disneyworld workers who were gathering children, I'm guessing taking them to a safe location.

I nodded, "I want you to go over to him and follow every single word he gives you Erin." She looked at me with worried eyes knowing I had an act for not following rules, exactly to the point.

"Pero mama, I don't want to. If I leave you I don't know if I'll ever see you again. Por favor mamá, por favor no me hagas." It was a very known habit of mine to switch from English to Spanish when I was nervous.

I could feel the tears start to well up in my eyes. I wasn't one for a known habit of crying, but when necessary I would definitely shed the most.

"Hey, hey look at me," She said softly lifting my chin to look at her, changing my graze from looking at the ground, trying to hold my eyes of tears, to looking directly in her eyes.

I could see her hurt. She knew what was going to happen as she could always tell. I loved to call her my "own little Doctor Strange." "I don't want to tell you everything will be alright, but I can promise I will do my best. I can promise things will get better. Now I want you to promise me that you'll go with that man and the other children because it isn't safe here right now."

I took her words into consideration. I trusted mama. I knew whatever she said was true. It had to be. I believed it was true because that was the only thread of hope I had left at this moment right now.

I nodded, my chin still in her hand. She smiled, "That's my girl. Ok ir a ponerse al día con los demás." She smirked and smacked my butt and hugged me for the longest. "Just no matter what happens, I love you mi hija." She pulled back, tears suddenly appearing on her face, and wiped my own.

She kissed my forehead and turned me around to head in the direction of the group.

That's how I knew everything was going to be ok. Because whenever it was my saddest time, she always knew that some reassurance was needed to set the world right.