Chapter 2
Reason for Fear: Fire!
Four floors down in the kitchen a cook left a fire burning. She warmed her hands over it as she been cleaning fish that had been iced for the past 15 minutes.
She heard her name being called by the manager. He sounded angry and irritated and so as to not make him any angrier because she might loose her job, she hurried out forgetting to turn the gas off.
2 minutes later a little girl walked in. She looked about 4 and so did not know the danger she was going cause. As she walked in her foot knocked a bottle down. This knocked another plastic bottle down which knocked a big glass bottle down.
Normally a small plastic bottle wouldn't be able to knock a big heavy glass bottle down but this one did. The glass bottle fell and smashed into little pieces onto the floor. It spilled a blue liquid everywhere.
She looked at the damage for some time before loosing interest and walking away. She saw a book that had fallen that had fallen on the floor. She started to tear pages from it. Behind her the bottle that had marked kerosene, continued to spill on to the floor making a giant puddle that spread throughout the kitchen.
The girl continued to tear the pages from the book until she saw the fire. Like all four year olds she was curious and so walked towards it. She reached out and started to turn the knobs making the fire greater and greater.
She did not notice the other bottles of kerosene that were being lifted up into the air by some invisible force and being thrown everywhere throughout the kitchen. It was also being thrown around on the floor making the puddle bigger and bigger until it filled the whole kitchen and seeped through the doors as well.
The little girl continued to watch the fire. She then started to make the paper into scrunched balls and threw them at the fire. The paper caught fire at once and fell on the other side and onto the floor and coincidentally fell on to then puddle. The fire started to spread.
The girl continued to throw ball after ball at the fire and they continued to fall on to the puddle making the fire bigger and bigger. When she finally turned, she saw the fire, screamed and started to cry.