Chapter Two

Bonnie's mom had put him in Bonnie's backpack as soon as her daughter was out of her car seat.

Now Bonnie wasn't prone to losing toys, Woody knew that by a long shot, but he understood Bonnie's mom's concern.

In a kindergarten classroom, toys could get lost easily. The cowboy recalled that from when Andy was in kindergarten, meeting a G.I. Joe and a Barbie who craved for their owners that accidentally left them behind.

He hadn't had the heart to say that they weren't coming back, hoping the same scenario wouldn't happen again as Bonnie's backpack was placed in a cubby.

Bonnie seemed to be doing okay for now, having Woody relax against her notebook before looking out of the clear part of the backpack and waved at the toy who had waved at him.

An Elena of Avalor toy. Maybe it was the flower hair clip that gave it away but Woody knew the show as Bonnie watched it often enough to have the toys reenact an episode or two.

The Elena doll turned back to her position after smiling softly at him as what appeared to be her owner's hand gently taking her out of the backpack she was in.

Woody laid back against Bonnie's notebook again, hoping his kid wouldn't need him at the moment. It wasn't that he didn't care about her, quite the opposite, but Bonnie had to be a big girl just as her mom and dad tried their hardest to preach to her about.

Even if she didn't get it.

Bonnie didn't like icebreakers.

She didn't like people she didn't know period.

She wanted to stay with Miss Emily, someone she knew and it seemed like another kid did too by the way they were gripping Miss Emily's leg.

"Gabriel, this is Bonnie," Miss Emily smiled warmly, once she loosened his grip on her leg. "Bonnie, this is Gabriel."

"Hi," Bonnie muttered, not giving him eye contact.

"Hi yourself," Gabriel said.

Bonnie frowned, realizing that he wasn't using eye contact either before smiling as she spotted his cubby.

Gabriel seemed like any other boy with a boy themed backpack before looking at his desk. She noticed a doll sitting on it next to his papers and notebook.

That was weird. A boy with a doll? That made her think of Andy, a friend who occasionally visited her to play with her and his old toys.

Except Andy was a grownup in college.

Bonnie looked up, seeing Gabriel sprint towards his desk and put the doll in his backpack.

She didn't understand. What did she do wrong? What did she do to make Gabriel do that? Mommy and Daddy always liked her being curious.

Was being curious wrong now?

Well that was a disaster, Woody thought to himself as Bonnie took him out of her backpack.

Bonnie was a good kid but had trouble with personal space unless she knew someone. While the cowboy knew she didn't mean to upset Gabriel, even he could see through the clearing of the front of her backpack how uncomfortable the boy was.

But in his position, his heart would've broke if he had one as Bonnie hugged him and cried before feeling his pull string being pulled.

"You're my favorite deputy!"

The one line from his voice box, her favorite line that always cheered her up, had Bonnie burst into tears.

Now for Woody, that was unexpected yet heartbreaking.