The K. I. D. In Me

Barbie

Chapter 1: Katherine

I was walking down Main Street just as any other day. The stores were open in there beauty, the candy parlor was making its fresh batch of succulent candy. The smell flowing through your nose so that you could taste the delicacy of the of the chocolate that covered the fluffy white marshmallows toped with a thin layer of nuts that made a crunch when you ate it. Sleeping Beauty's Castle made the empty of people park look extraordinary and in the heart of Disneyland was the statue of a man and a mouse. The two founders of the park and all the joy of Disney wrapped up in one.

The massive Matterhorn Mountain with its snowy caps sending a sudden chill of curiosity down my bones it was one of the first rides and one of Disneyland's many icons. The cool morning breeze hit my face blowing my platinum blonde hair around it swirling around like seaweed caught in a current. I stood there taking Disney in like every other morning but what are you going to do, walk around the park like a mindless idiot and stand in line when the park doesn't even open for another hour? The ominous gray cloud stretched over the castle an the mountain covering it like a blanket.

I looked around to see the employees starting to file in thought their entrances and the park started to live. Had my hour gone by so fast, just standing, staring at the evil that I sensed in the happiest place on earth? The gates opened an I moved out of the way of the many people who wanted to get their picture in front of the statue. I knew something was wrong, the cloud just hovering over the castle and the mountain, this is where happiness was at its center but who knows what is going on today. Wait didn't the weatherman say we would be getting storms that came from the coast of Florida? That must just be the answer a storms a brewin'.

I walk on through Fantasyland going past Snow White's wishing well, dropping a few coins in even though it was all the money that was on me. I kept on walking on passing the Dumbo ride and continuing on to the Matterhorn ride. I stood in line listening to others peoples conversations, hearing them say that they knew everything about Disney even though they could probably only tell me the basics like that Disney opened in 1955 and that the Haunted Mansion turned forty on August eighth, 2009, while I could tell them everything.

You see I know everything it's my job. Technically sense I am only fourteen Disney couldn't give me a real job, so my job is to mix in and be the expert on Disneyland and make sure that all the employees are doing their job and be the best they can be. I've been working here for six months now.

You wonder why I'm not in school? Well that's simple by the time I was ten I had graduated from every Ivy league school in the U.S. and every school in California having varies of degrees and masters. I stayed at the orphanage for three years not going to school because no one would take me. The real reason was I outsmarted even their best teachers and the fact that I made all the other students fell like they were idiots because a seven year old knew more than they did in their senior year of Harvard. By that time I knew everything because school was so simple so I learned everything about Disney, scandals , mysteries, truths and smarts I had everything. I came here, actually forced here by my caretaker but I was gladly excepted. Everyone in the park now knows me and well they all call me kid or Kat because Katherine can be hard to remember so that's what I'm called by the seniors that work here the newbies are lucky if they ever get know me personally.

I got to the front of the line and was asked how many were in my party, and as always my lonely answer was one. The ride ended and I did my rounds asking where certain attractions were, and when the best time for Fantasmic was. The usual day of my job.

It was around noon so I walked down Main Street heading to my locker to get some lunch only to see a little girl and getting tripped by an older boy standing on the sidewalk with his friends. Knowing that it was the end of May, this boy must be celebrating his graduation. And the little girl fell on the ground spilling her ice-cream on the ground and scraping up her leg, the boys were laughing and that's when I walked over. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a man with white hair watching my every move towards the girl. But hey it was probably just my imagination.

"Are you alright?" I ask the little girl.

"It hurts and now I don't have any ice cweam," she said in the way only a young child can say with tears coming to her eyes.

"Where's your mommy so I can get her for you," I asked gently watching the boys flee the scene of the crime.

"Inside the ice cweam store," was her simple response. I picked her up and took her to her mom and helping them into first-aid. I gave her a Disney gift card for the ice cream and told her I would be back in an hour to see them again and make sure everything was alright.

You see those boys were headed straight for Space Mountain which had a forty minute wait. You see being a undercover employee can be fun all I have to do to punish people like this when I have the chance, being all powerful is incredibly fun. I waited in the shadows of the exit and saw the boys getting in to the final stage of the boarding process and that's when I pounced. They got into their seats and I walked over.

"Excuse me boys but you have to get out of those seats right now," I said to the boys who tripped the girl.

"Why what did we do?" he asked like the big shoot he thought he was.

"You were caught on film injuring another guest at the park and for that you are being asked to get out of those seats nicely and if not done so in three seconds I will have to ban you from all rides this second."

"Look you dumb blonde, you don't work here I see no badge or anything that says you're the boss of me so just get out of here if you know what's right for you." I pulled my jacket aside and showed him what he called 'I'm the boss of you' badge.

"Look, I can either throw you out of the park now or we can work it all out and I wont have to call up your parents." The boys stepped out of the car and I escorted them in to the front of the park to the security area. I put them on a bench told them of their acts and took away their tickets and called up their chaperones and parents. They learned the hard way to not bully people. I went to go meet up with the little girl and her family to tell her that the boys had been punished and I gave her and the rest of her family an express fastpass, which contained a fastpass for every ride in the park. And out of the corner of my eye I saw the white hair man smiling at me, this time I was not imagining anything.

The man started strolling down Main Street. Watching me as if I was doing a test that was very important. I just ignored him, people look at me like any other person right now, what's so special about me that makes me a target to watch.

I go to the corn-dog cart and waited in line to get my o so healthy dinner. It was around six but since I haven't officially taken my break I could rest for for an hour or two. I grabbed dinner and headed towards my spot for Fantasmic it was right in front of the Pirates of the Caribbean, but in front of the water's edge. It was the best seat in the whole park for this show or it was if you aren't a V.I.P. the true best spot is on the dream sweets porch personally built for Walt and his V.I.P. I would only dream of what it could be like to watch the show from there.

It was starting to get dark now and the show was going to start momentarily everyone was wearing their glow sticks and getting prepared for the show. I watched as the show progressed seeing Peter Pan fly, the Princesses' dance, and the final sequence between Micky and the villains.

This was the first show of Fantasmic with the new and improved Maleficent Dragon, but something was defiantly not right Micky fell down. I had a feeling in the bac of my mind that Micky was doing what he was suppose to do but the dragon was fighting on it's own, but I believed that it was this guys first show so he might have gotten a few things wrong. The dragon blew her flames of fire at Micky trying to destroy him in a single blast. This guy needed help but what could I do, I'm all the way over here and have no way to help. That's when I heard a voice in the crowd cry, "Come on Micky fight! You can beat her, you have the power of Disney on your side!" I looked around the crowd looking for the one who had yelled out the encouraging words. The only thing I heard though was the person next to me say, "Why are you yelling so loud?" I had said the words, I had cried out trying to give a word from the side lines, this was how I could help.

"Well someone has to say something to Micky he needs all the help he can get," I replied and shouted on, "Lets go Micky, lets go!" the I clapped my hands twice. I started again hearing another voice, a child's voice join the chat, then another and another until I had the whole crowd chanting with me. Micky stood up and amazingly took the sword of truth and vanquished the dragon with out even trying that hard, it almost looked like the dragon had given up like it couldn't fight even if it tried. We all kept chanting helping the progress of the fight, and then I felt like I was being watched s I turned around an there out of the corner of my eye was the man with the white hair. The show ended with all the characters coming out on the steam boat and dancing while Micky did some fire works and some water tricks. I looked for the man but he was now where he had vanished into thin air. I walked out of the park with the fireworks exploding behind me, I knew that I was running late getting to the orphanage and I was not really welcomed home but that's why I'm here in a place that I care about.