How Molly started out at point A, Recess at her school, to point B, here, was something she couldn’t wrap her mind around. Her very first thought was panic and then she followed a ginger striped kitten indoors to a library. It took her an hour or so to finally catch the kitten but since she did she hasn’t put the pet down since. And now, for the first time in a long time, she’ll be able to have a pet (Mohinder’s lizard didn’t count; it tried to bite her every time she’d tend to it).
When Nathan approached her, the kitten cradled in her arms, her blue back pack was at her feet and the different shades of blue school uniform clung to her tiny form. Brown hair was tied in two identical, tight French braids that were slowly, but surely, becoming undone due to her ‘kitten chase’ an hour-or-so prior.
At least, it felt like an hour.
When Molly’s face broke out into a wide grin, her eyes did, too. “I remember you!” And she did, all the time. She remembered the Senator lifting his younger brother off the ground and into the air, a soft boom followed thereafter. She remembered looking at the sky with awe; she truly walked amongst a hero--that’s what she thought at the time, anyway, and that’s exactly what she thought four months later. She wanted to throw her arms around him and tell him just how much of a hero he was to her, but she didn’t. Instead, she allowed her smiling face to do the talking.