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Christmas was never a goodtime. It was always sad and dull
here. I visit these kids each year, bringing them presents. Crystost Orphanage,
run by Gillian Greenlyn. They loved it when I came to visit, and this year I
brought the team with me.
“ Hey guys!” I laugh as I get attacked by the kids with
hugs. The smiles on their faces are the brightest smiles you will ever see. It
doesn’t matter where you are, you will never find someone who could smile quite
like these guys. And the best part about it, is that these kids, they have
nothing. No family, no toys and no friends but the people with them.
As the kids let me go I crouched down and picked up the
youngest, Timmy, and put him on my shoulders, and stood back up again.
“ I brought some friends, but be careful, they might tickle
you if your not careful, “ as I said the word tickle I reach up and start
tickling Timmy’s tummy.
“ Argh! Scar stop!” Timmy was laughing so hard, calling stop
in between laughs.
“ Okay,” Putting Timmy down I walk back towards the door and
open it for the team. All of them are smiling and carrying bags of toys.
“ Hey guys, Scar has told us a lot about you,” Raven says
going over to one of the girls and putting the Santa hat she was wearing on her
head. “ Is it true you helped him catch Tondron one time?” Raven had a huge
smile on her lips.
There was a chorus of “yes” coming from the kids before us. One of the girls went up to Knight and gave
him a small hug, of which he returned and picked her up to sit on his back.
“ Well, we brought you guys some gifts,” for the next couple
of seconds all you could hear was the sound of cheering, “ But first, I’ll
introduce my friends,” I walked over to Whitenoise and stood beside her, “
This, is Whitenoise” White ruffled my hair and the kids laughed. Moving along I
walked towards Apollo.
“ This is Apollo, and next to him is Raven,” Leaning
forward, I block the view of my mouth from Raven and Apollo and stage whisper
to the kids “ they’re dating, feel free to tease them,” The kids start laughing
again and Raven moves to give my shoulder a slight slap.
“ And last but not least, is Knight and Clockwire,” I motion
to each of them and almost immediately after Clockwire moves forward and sits
down with the kids, one of the boys sat in her lap. She just smiles and give
him a hug.
“ How about we hand out some presents?” Whitenoise grabs
Clockwire’s bag from where she left it as well as her own, and moves to the
kids.
“ Sounds like a plan,” Knight says and the rest of us follow
suit, going to sit with the kids. I go to where little Timmy and his friends
are and sit by them. All of us are spread out around the room, giving out
presents. Each were either wrapped in a blue or pink wrapping and had a name on
the front. We made sure to give each present to the right child and give them a
hug and candy cane too.
I left little Timmy’s present to the last. This year was his
first year without his parents, so I wanted to get him a special gift. I did
this every year when there was a new child at the orphanage. Gillian loved the
fact that I was always here, helping the kids through losing their family and
keeping them fit and healthy. Not to mention happy. She also loved that there
was always something the kids could look forward to every week.
As I passed Timmy his present, his eyes went wide and
started to shine. I knew that it meant he was close to tears, remembering the
last time I came how he had been having nightmares and burst out crying. I
patted his back and nodded to let him know it was okay to open it.
Inside the wrapping was a new teddy, complete with the Omega
costume (he’s always looked up to Omega) and sitting behind the bear was a
frame of him with his parents at the last city fair.
Timmy let his tears run down his face, but he was smiling
all the while. Whispering me a thank you and hugging me tightly, the bear
forgotten squished between our stomachs.
I rubbed his back and told him that he could always come to me. And that
everything was going to be fine.
Sitting back, he looked me in the eyes and smiled, a big
toothy grin.
“ Thank you Scar,” and with that he ran off to go and show
some of his friends the new bear and his parents. Carrying both clutched to his
chest, scared they would break if he dropped them, or vanish.
I smiled as I looked around the room, watching all of the
kids laughing and showing off their present.
The team all had smiles on their faces, laughing with some of the kids
and playing with them.
Knight had a couple of girls on his back and one clinging to
the front of his top while he told them, and the group of kids infront of him,
a story. Probably about what he did last month, in the fight against one of his
cities villains, but it didn’t seem to matter because the boys close to him
hung on his every word.
Raven was braiding a girls hair, while another was doing
hers. She had a small group of girls around her telling her about them and all
sorts of things. I heard her tell them
about her family, and how she has a new family now, the team.
“ But how your team be your family?” one of the girls asked.
“It’s because we’re all so close. Friends, they can be your
family too. It doesn’t matter about blood. As long as you share a close bond,
those people will be your family,” Raven told the girls smiling warmly.
Continuing to look around the room I see Whitenoise and
Clockwire playing a game of tag with a group of the kids in the backyard.
Chasing each other through the snow laughing, and throwing snowballs. No one seemed to mind the cold.
I see Apollo showing a few of the older boys how to pick up
girls. I openly laughed at that one.
Gillian comes over to me and pats my shoulder. “You did good
Scar, never forget the amazing things you do for these kids,”
I turn to her and nod. I then reach back into my bag and
pull out a small gift for her.
“ This is for you,” I say handing the present to her.
Watching her questioning look as she unwraps it and sees a spa day voucher and
a cheque for ten thousand dollars for the orphanage.
“ Scar! I can’t take this much money!” She tries to hand the
cheque for the money back over to me. Lifting my hands up to refuse, “ You can,
because the team and I ran a few fundraisers and got this much money, so you
could help more kids,”
Gillian hugs me tightly and I can hear the soft sniffles.
“ And when you take that spa day, the team and myself would
be happy to look after everyone for the day,” I finish as she pulls away
looking at me tears in her eyes.
“ You heroes really are the best people in the world,” she
laughs and hugs me once more.
“ I’m sorry we can’t stay until later tonight, but we have
the charity ball. However, we have arranged for a full meal to come here around
6:30 so everyone can have a nice Christmas dinner,”
“ Scar!” I turn to see Raven walking over, “ We have to
leave in a few, so we were going to say goodbye to everyone,”
“Okay,” I turn to Gillian once again and say a quick good
bye before wolf whistling to get the attention of everyone. The kids from
outside come in and the team joins me by the door.
“ We have to go now guys,” I say sadly.
“ But, we’ll be back before you know it,” Clockwire promises
them getting a hug from a few of the kids. The all say a goodbye and thank you
before we leave.
* * *
That night at the charity ball, all of us made a speech
about how all of the night donations would be split so all of the orphanages in
every city would get some money to help them through the next year.
By the end of the night we had raised over $4,000,000.00
ready to be given to each of the orphanages that next day.
All of us slept well that night knowing what a good thing we
were doing. Not only were we fighting the bad guys but we were also helping the
people who needed it most.
Anyway, i hope you all enjoyed it. Please leave a comment about what you liked, didn't like, or any suggestions for the stories i am writing ( Heroes Core and Fallout 16) or a short story you want me to write.
Shout Out to Cathiee Terriea whose birthday has been and gone. But still, Happy Birthday! And see you at school next week! And you should all check her blog out http://thesearethesidesofme.blogspot.com.au/
See you all next time!
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