A Child's Eyes

• Bonnie Hearse-Kroehn, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2015

Have you ever wondered why babies and young children will look into space and suddenly smile? If you ask them they might say "some ones there". Of course you might just say or think that it's their imagination or an imaginary friend. But in reality it's something far from that, in reality someone IS there. Watching you and that child waiting for when you leave to speak to them or to take them. Where you say? Well, let’s just say that when you meet the child next perhaps when there older. They won't be the same, yes they will still stare into space but this time they will talk to the figure that likes to stick to the shadows. Now babies on the other hand, they think that you can see the figure so they don’t cry or fret. The figure will tell them to do stuff that you never thought was possible for a kid to know about, to hold a weapon. To make the world how it is in their eyes. The world in now how it is in there eyes, in a child's eyes.