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Apr 29, 2019 Chapter 1
My story is about how the homeless people are being treated unfairly. A Security Officer shows kindness to a young man living on the streets.
He heard every word she said but he didn't respond, very few people ever talked to me. Living on the streets you learn to do whatever it takes and for him, it was not speaking to people.
He started to move slowly, so as not to wouldn’t spook her. That was a lesson he learned from the streets. When you move too fast people assume you’re going to attack them or rob them. But people had nothing that he wanted, he just wanted to be left alone. And since he didn’t speak most people regarded him as being retarded just plain garbage.
His name was Michael and he slept on the street because he was homeless. Most people never get close enough near him, and that was ok with for him.
Michael continued to stir and she just stood there, waiting. She looked like someone's mother. She didn't speak to him out of fear as some did, but with concern and compassion. She was a security guard, he knew that from the dark brown patch on the sleeve of her light brown uniform shirt.
Her eyes were dark brown, they had so much love and concern in them. She looked mature and carried herself with confidence. Her voice was softly filled with compassion. It was as if she only wanted him to be safe, not just gone out of her sight.
Life was funny here it was early Tuesday morning, and Michael was lying on the hard-cold concrete floor, at the drive-thru bank. People wanted him gone, just to move on out of the way. But she was different, she had a concern for his safety. Michael thought she was someone's mother.
A cold wind blew his way, the wind-raked over his dark brown wavy hair. That let Michael knew it was time to move on down the road. He began gathering up my stuff, an old dark green army blanket he used for cover. A black backpack he used to store a few of his belongings in. Michael also used his backpack as a pillar to rest my head on.
Michael stood straight up and bent back a little to stretch out the kinks out of his back. She took a step backward to give him room to maneuver, her foot almost missed the curb. She quickly caught herself before she fell. Michael was thinking to myself, 'if she falls and hurts herself they will blame me.' Most of all he didn't want her to get hurt, she was after all someone mother.
After he finished stretching, Michael slung his backpack over his shoulder and slowly began walking up the street. Leaving behind any traces of her, but he still thought, 'she must be someone’s mother.'
Halfway up the street, Michael heard someone calling him, asking the question most people asked, ‘Do you have somewhere to go?’ He immediately turns around and saw her eyes, her deep brown eyes. Michael looks at her waiting, for something? Slowly he turns and began walking back up the street. Before Michael was out of earshot she calls out, "you know you can go to the Salvation Army."
Like most homeless people living on the streets, Michael had been to every shelter in the city. And truth be told it's safer on the streets. So he just kept walking until he got to the corner of Market Street, the main downtown street. Michael was heading for Miller Park, another well-known place for people like him. But his thoughts remain on her, 'she must be somebody's mom.'
As Michael continued on his way he thought about her waking me up, anyone else would have been a jerk about it. Because most people viewed the homeless as a nuisance and garbage. Michael took a quick glance backward and all he could see was a shadowy figure in the darkness. He figures she was on her way, checking the door for the downtown area.
"Oh no," a thought occurred to him, 'Scott, she was going to run into Scott. '
Scott was not welcome among the homeless, he was just too crazy. Scott had problems and Scott didn't like people. The truth was Scott hated people, he blamed anyone and everyone. Scott had major anger issues. Scott blamed people for him being on the street.
Something about his girlfriend who cheated on him with his best friend. And then it was the company that let him go after so many years of service. That he lost his job so he could no longer pay his mortgage. The final straw was the bank repossessed his house.
And so all and all Scott blame everyone for what happened to him, his hatred of people was frightening. Scott had been thrown in jail more times than anyone could count. He considers a security guard like cops. The only good cop was a broken one, Scott would say. And every time they arrested Scott he made sure they regretted getting him, he fought like his life was on the line, Scott was messed up. Michael wondered about the nice security lady. “What if she tries to wake up Scott as she did for me?”
He turned around and began to pick up my pace, he had to reach her before she tried to wake up Scott. “She’s somebody’s mother he couldn't let her wake up Scott.”
Michael hurried up the main street, Scott usually slept in one of the store doorways. As he rounded the corner he saw an old grocery cart, 'it’s Scott's.' And then he saw a patrol car drive up, it had the same logo that she wore on her sleeve. The car pulled right in front of the store where the cart was, and the door swung open.
She stepped out, looking over at Scott. As she stepped up on the sidewalk she reached in her holster and took out a big industrial flashlight. “Oh no Scott would assume it’s a weapon," Michael said with alarm in his voice. Michael knew that he had to act fast, his pulse began racing, and he could hear my heart beat faster. She stepped closer and bend down toward the figure sleeping, he screamed out as loud as he could, "S T O P",,,,,
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