**"Happy birthday to you"** **** **** **"Happy birthday to you..."** **** **** **"Happy birthday dear-"** **** **** **"Emilie?"** ** ** **** ** My niece looks up at me, a knife on her Snow White themed table cover. ** **** **** **** ** "Sweetie, it's not safe to have knifes around without adults with you." ** **** **She shakes her head, pointing to the corner of the room. I stare at the pink wallpaper, then back at her.** **** **"What do you mean?" ** **** **She looks at me, annoyed. As if I should know what her toddler tantrum is about to be about this time.** **** **"Mr. Midnight."** **** **Not this again...why can't she be a normal child? ** **Play Princess.** **** **Make friends.** **** **Be sweet.** **** **Not get on my FUCKING NERVES.** **** **Just as soon as I raise my fist it's lowered again. ** **** **.... ** **** **.... ** **** **Wait-** **** **I'm thrown to the ground, a silhouette of a man growing closer and closer... ** **** **...** **** **...** **** **I can't see anything, I can only hear giggles.** **** **Until I can't.** ****