Gossiping Ghosts & Classless Vampires
Chapter One
Child Of Duty: Modern Warfare
When does innocence grow jaded?
People claim that liability belongs to responsible individuals; however, if you don’t acknowledge your actions, then nothing you accomplish is truly of your own cognizance. Take kids, for example. They don’t necessarily have the acumen to realize if their natural actions are inherently good or bad. They are merely aware of the extreme spectrums of human emotions; hunger, joy, fear, love, pain - these things are instinctively known.
Many things are to be said about the fate of a child as they become an adult, but some things are inevitable. For instance, when a child is raised with joy in their life they will likely find joy in life, and learn to return it in kind.
The children would never know of a joy warmer than the one they knew spending their summers on the second floor of Charles Saunders parents' mansion. For them, it was a breezy joyride through the city of Scarlet Park, heading east towards South Crown. It could’ve been Europe for all they knew, it didn’t matter. It was the experience of their own personal paradise that they traveled for.
The ground of the second floor was adorned with plush pillows and sheets, goose-feather bean bags, along with large bouncy balls and balloons. The walls were decorated with glow-in-the-dark stars and signs that read things like ‘Never-Never Land’ and ‘First Star Until Morning’. The housekeepers were minding the children while tossing cotton clouds, which would fly into the air for the children to catch and play with. Eavesdropping, they’d laugh gleefully as their parents got shitfaced on the first floor in the study while speaking openly of mergers and infidelity.
The children would eventually fall asleep on a large piece of shaggy sherpa carpet, all crowded and almost piled on top of each other. Not even an earthquake was capable of waking them up, as they slumbered undisturbed. The real world, in all of its intricacies, was a place they knew nothing of and cared nothing for. Nor should they.
After all, they were just kids...
