Kristan Leclerc
8/29/13
Ms. Stuckey
Bricaloge
As I walk into the office, I see a gray coach leaning against the wall on the right, a green healthy plant and a coat rack next to it, then a reception desk straight ahead. Michel directs me straight ahead with his hand then to the left. I look up and gaze at so many things with intense and widening eyes. I have never seen an office before except the principal's office. It looks like a group of friends sitting down, doing their own thing at a party. Except it was a very quiet party. As Michel and I are walking toward his manager's office, he suddenly stops me at the reception desk and says very loudly, "Hello everyone. I would just like to make an announcement. This boy that I found out in the rain is freezing and would like some hot cocoa. Jim and Ally will you please, since-"
He is cut off and Ally and Jim go to me and take me into the break room saying "Yeah, O definitely." They hold me so tight and rub their hands up and down my shoulders while they walk me to the break room." It felt so good like my mom was their getting me away from danger.
Michel says "Thank you. So he will be spending the day with us until his parent or guardian shows up. I don't want any of you to give him a bad time or be mean to him in any way. Ok."
Even though I was in the break room getting warmed up I could still hear the co-workers complain. Co-worker says, "Does that mean you will send Jim and Ally to take care of me if I come in cold and wet?"
Michel says, "Come on! He's a little kid, he hasn't grown up yet. Be reasonable!"
A coworker in his early twenty's stands up and says "I'm technically still a kid if I come in cold, wet, and scared will I get taken care of?"
Michel is getting very frustrated and feels like he is being pushed into a corner, so his natural reaction is to point both his hands out fully widened and say, "Fine! If you want to get cold, wet, and frightened then go ahead. But right now that kid is our first priority!" The coworkers look offended by what Michel said but don't seem surprised at it. I don't think this is the first time Michel has done something crazy like this.
Moving into the break room, Jim and Ally are making me feel at home. Jim is making me hot coca with marshmallows and Ally is getting me dried up with a towel. I don't have any other clothes here and this office doesn't have a dryer. So Ally just tries to pat me down and soak all the water out with a towel. While Jim is bringing the hot cocoa to the table, Ally sees a huge scratch mark on my leg. Her face immediately turns shocked and worried like a cat that just saw really interesting. She motions Jim to come here and says, "Jim." Jim walks over to me with the hot cocoa and sets it down. "Look at this", Ally says. Jim all of a sudden had the same look Ally made within a second of looking at my leg.
Jim says, "I'll go get the first aid kit." I want to look at my leg to see how bad it was but I also don't want to look at my leg seeing Ally and Jim's faces. I remember bumping my leg against a wooden fence while I running in the rain. Then tripping and falling down. But I didn't feel anything. It didn't feel like I got a huge scratch on my leg. When Jim comes back, he and Ally put hydrogen peroxide on my cut, clean it up, put Neosporin on it, and then bandage it up. All of us go back to Jim's desk and drink hot scocoa. Ally goes back to her desk, Jim gets back to work, and I play computer games.