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Her Name Was Bobby: Smiling Critters Oneshot

Two years . . . It was crazy to think he'd lived in this town for two years now. From a young age, Sunny had always been the center of attention everywhere he went. From his band all the way to his modeling career. At some point, the spotlight started to dim for him. So when Kickin brought up moving into town where he could be with his brothers, and try something new, he moved immediately.

After two long grueling years, he'd finally managed to finish his nursing schooling. It started out as a hobby. Helping the elderly at retirement homes as a volunteer. But now he could really get into Hospice and care for the elderly properly. Sunny loved being around old people. They were sometimes far nicer than anyone his age.

About three weeks prior, Dogday recommended a hospital nearby to apply to. And of course, he was accepted immediately. Today was to be his first day.

Sunny practically swung out of bed. Firey determination pumping his blood. With a killer outfit and some stunning makeup, he was practically ready to go . . . Oh wait . . . Breakfast!

Dogday jumped at the sound of his front door opening. Peering from the kitchen, he saw his brother strut through to the kitchen doorway.

“Mourning Angel~!” Sunny chirped.

“Hiya Sunny. Lemme guess. First day of work and you forgot breakfast?” He passed his brother a plate of food.

Sunny sat and munch happily as a response. He always forgot something! Dogday chuckled to himself.

“Say. Speaking of the hospital? Have you met Bobby?”

Bobby. Dogday and Kickin had a gracious number of friends. The only ones he remembered were Catnap and Picky. So, he shook his head. Not really interested in meeting the guy.

“Bobby is the head nurse of the hospital! You should say hi!”

Sunny took one last bite and headed towards the door. “I'll think about if that's my boss or not.” And he headed out the door and to work.

. . .

A few hours into the day and Sunny was already sore. He didn't really mind it though. The staff in hospice were really nice and patient. And the elderly were, for the most part, sweeties. As he was bottling pills, he reached for his left shoulder rubbing out some pain that was there.

Nurse Nip walked up behind him and grabbed his shoulder. “Hard day?”

“Nah. Its just some pent up tension. Thats what hard work'll do.”

“Mm okay. You should probably have the head nurse check that out though.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Well we don't want the new star nurse to keel over after the first day right?”

“Hahaha! True. Well, let me finish up here and I'll see . . . Umm . . . Who again?”

“The head nurse! Bobby Bearhug!”

Bobby. Dogday mentioned that earlier. He was a little annoyed to have to see someone he wasn't keen on meeting, but he kept his promises to his bros.

Sun suppressed a groan and gave the other nurse a thumbs up before they left.

. . .

The head nurses office was on the top floor. Rather than going up the stairs, Sunny decided to take the elevator. The elevator chimed as it reached his floor. The doors opened and he stepped inside. He had planned on a silent ride on his way to see the nurse, but he oddly felt eyes on him.

Sunny curiously looked down next to him through a side eye. There was a girl, another nurse in the elevator with him. Her uniform looked slightly different so he could tell her position was different. The girl was looking up at him.

Their eyes locked for a moment. Both curious of the other. “You're very pretty.” Was the words that broke their silence.

Sun now fully turned towards her. “What did you say?”

“Haha. Sorry. Was that too blunt? I just think you're very pretty. I've never seen such a colorful bird before.”

“Oh. Thanks.” He was known to be a charmer. A smooth talker. But when it came to flirting or compliments, he flopped hard. His forte was getting people to do what he wanted. So it was safe to say he didn't know what to do when the girl complimented him.

Sun's first thought was to compliment her back. She was substantially shorter than him. Though he was very tall compared to most. The girl was a bear in a deep red coat of fur. Like fine wine. He couldn't say that though. Perhaps something else? Her blush? Her hair? Her smile? . . . No.

Often when he attempted to establish relationships in the past, he came across as either creepy. A lot of the time, his pride and vanity made him look full of himself. Nobody ever gave him a chance . . . It was the reason he spent so much time alone or with the elderly.

So, he said nothing. Afraid of making her uncomfortable in such a small space. Suddenly, he felt a hand run through the feathers of his right arm. He had to force himself not to ruffle and fluff up at the touch. His head swung down facing the nurse admiring him.

Both her hands went up the length of his arm. Her eyes looked up at him through her eyebrows. The look was sultry, making Sunny nervous. He couldn't tell if she intended for the interaction to be so personal.

“You really do have nice feathers. I like the colors. And you're so fluffy!” She gave him the biggest smile. Sweet and elite. “I haven't seen you around before. Are you new?”

“Y-yeah . . . I'm the new hospice nurse . . . Sunshine. But e-everyone calls me Sunny.”

“SUNNY!?” She stopped and stared at him wide eyed.

The elevator chimed and the door opened to the top floor. Sun was dragged out and led down the hall.

“By any chance, do you know Dogday? Or Kickin Chicken?”

“They are my little brothers. Why? You know them?”

The little bear spun around on her heels and gave him a silly smile. Expecting him to guess. “Didn't DD tell you something about meeting someone today?” She chimed.

It took Sunny a moment, but when it hit him, he felt his face turn red. When DD mentioned his friend Bobby, HE ASSUMED BOBBY WAS A DUDE! Not some cutie . . . In a nurses outfit no less. He cursed his brother internally. The last thing he wanted to do right now was scare her off, but he couldn't help but like her.

Once outside her office, Bobby asked, “So! Is there anything I can help you with while you're here?”

Sunny almost completely forgot about it. “One of the nurses recommended I see you about some tension in my shoulder.” . . . It was only after saying it that he REALLY thought about it.

“YOU DON'T HAVE TO THOUGH! IT'S NOTHING!” He was praying she would let him go.

“WHAT!? Get your behind in here now! I'll have that checked out in a jiff.” Bobby grabbed his arm again and dragged him to the couch in her office. Why was it so easy for this lil mini bear to drag him???

. . .

The next thirty minutes was torturous. They had a really good conversation and Sunny's original doubts had easily been squashed. But he was falling. HARD. And how could he not!? She was perfect. Super polite, great personality, beautiful and well composed. His problem here was that he couldn't say any of it. They'd just met! She'd think he was a sleaze if he said what he really thought of him.

The worst part was the intimacy of the situation. Sun and Kickin had a habit of having their feathers ruffled at the slightest touch. Bobby's hands were on his shoulder for a good portion of his visit. It made hiding his delight near impossible. When she was done, she prescribed him a minor pain killer and sent him on his way.

Walking home, the only part of his wonderful first day that stayed on his mind was Bobby. Her name wouldn't leave his head. Her touch had a phantom shadow imprinted on his body. Nothing about those thirty minutes left his head. He didn't even notice Kickin had walked up next to him.

“SUN!”

“AH! Kickin!”

“Lmfao! What the hell's on your mind?”

The brothers stopped by DD's house where they met up with their brother on his porch. “How was work? You meet Bobby?”

Bobby. The name stirred excitement he couldn't contain. “YEAH! Why didn't you introduce us sooner!?” Sunny began to ramble uncontrollably.

DD and Kicks looked at each other slowly. The realization slowly but surely sinking in. Sinister smiles started creeping on their faces.

Sunny hadn't noticed his brother's on point suspicions. He rambled as he thought of her. The perfect girl from the elevator who was stealing his heart. Sun wondered if this was love at first sight. The thought that he still had so much to learn about her was exhilarating. Bobby. Her name was Bobby. And for the first time in his life, he was truly in love.

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5 Syrian families didn't know what they'd find in Canada. They found the perfect town.

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On Sept. 21, 2016, after enduring the terror of the Syrian civil war, a year living as refugees in Turkey, and nearly 27 several hours of flying, Samah Motlaq, her spouse, Talal, and their two young kids touched down in the small lakeside community of Gander, Newfoundland, on the east coast of Canada.

An iceberg floats off the coast of Newfoundland. Picture by Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

Motlaq was not sure about leaving Turkey. She favored her life there, and her little ones have been last but not least settled after years of uncertainty and upheaval. But their family members experienced buddies in Gander who urged them to sign up for them halfway throughout the globe.

"Actually, all I realized about Canada is that it is quite cold in winter but [that] the options for living [have been] significantly greater than in Turkey," Motlaq claims.

However, she was not certain how welcome her family members would be in a small city and overseas society in a region she'd by no means visited. Little did she know that welcoming newcomers experienced very long been Gander's model.

fifteen years before, Gander played host when approximately seven,000 airline travellers have been grounded there on the early morning of Sept. eleven, 2001.

When American airspace was shut next the assaults on New York and Washington, D.C., 38 planes have been pressured to land in the city, whose airport is home to a single of the greatest runways in the location — a legacy still left above from an era when aircraft experienced to make regular refueling stopovers on their way to and from Europe.

With almost nothing but their hand baggage, tourists from 6 continents stepped off their planes to uncover meals, garments, shelter, and community waiting around for them.

Stranded travellers from all-around the globe electronic mail their kin from Gander Academy on 9/eleven. Picture by Scott Cook/The Canadian Press.

Because opening its doors that day, the city has been profiled in many articles or blog posts, a Tom Brokaw documentary, and even a new Broadway musical — "Occur From Away."

In 2016, Gander opened its doors as soon as all over again.

For numerous people who aided the stranded travellers in 2001 by planning meals, donating the contents of their closets, and taking them into their households, welcoming refugees displaced by war in Syria was a no-brainer.

"I actually assume that this has been the most rewarding expertise of volunteering because 9/eleven," claims Diane Davis, a retired elementary university instructor in Gander and a member of the committee coordinating the resettlement.

Davis, who alongside with various of her fellow academics encouraged a character in "Occur From Away," aided launch the committee in early 2016 with the aim of bringing five Syrian family members to Gander.

thirteen-year-previous Wiaam Maymouna watches the functionality of "Occur From Away" in Gander on Oct 29. Picture by Diane Davis.

In early June 2016, the committee received recognize that the to start with family members would be arriving in just two weeks. Thus began a mad dash to ensure the houses have been thoroughly furnished and stocked with meals ahead of they arrived.

"We felt as if we are at home from the quite to start with second," Motlaq claims. Hers was the fourth family members to get there in city — with a fifth nevertheless on its way.

The users of the committee have been applied to scrambling. Just about each particular person on it, Davis points out, experienced been included with housing, feeding, and transporting the "airplane people today" on 9/eleven.

"One day after the attack, an previous woman came to me at my office at Walmart and she hugged me and said, 'Do not be afraid. We appreciate you and we are with you fellas.'" — Samah Motlaq

"I have been able to reveal to [the refugee family members], 'You’re not the to start with people today we have aided,'" she claims. "'This is the way a community is effective collectively. These are the sorts of items we take treatment of.'"

Resettling the family members in Gander, Davis points out, is also an chance to revitalize the city, which has evolved into a "retirement community" in recent years.

"We’re a province that has an aging demographic," she claims. "We’re a province that has a declining population. We’re a community that has work and housing. We’ve bought a great, powerful university process here."

As a previous educator who life throughout the avenue from her previous classroom, Davis has taken the direct in obtaining the refugee kids, who vary in age from 2 to thirteen, modified to their new university.

"I retired in June on a Friday and the to start with family members arrived on a Tuesday. So retirement was three days very long," Davis claims.

New Gander people Iman Halawany and her spouse, Samer Maymouna, view their son Abed in his kindergarten Xmas program. Picture by Diane Davis. Images applied with authorization.

Her function involves almost everything from translation to registering the little ones for lessons to liaising with the mothers and fathers in scenario of emergency. When a single boy was obtaining in regular hassle because he couldn't inquire for assistance, Davis wrote her cellular phone number in his notebook and, with the assistance of Google Translate, defined that whenever he needed nearly anything, he could demonstrate it to his instructor.

For Motlaq, who was born in Palmyra, Syria's cultural money, living in silent Gander has been an adjustment from big-town life.

Whilst she misses the activity, she is grateful for her new job at Walmart and the safety, silent, and fellowship of the community — notably after a deadly shooting that claimed 6 life at the Islamic Cultural Middle in Quebec.

"One day after the attack, an previous woman came to me at my office at Walmart and she hugged me and said, 'Do not be afraid. We appreciate you and we are with you fellas,'" Motlaq claims.

The dialogue still left her with a profound affection for her new adopted home. "I realized that day that Canada signifies humanity and equality irrespective faith or race."

5 months ahead of "Occur From Away" opened on Broadway, the cast and crew flew to Newfoundland for two VIP performances in the Gander hockey rink.

Diane Davis and spouse Leo McKenna at the premiere of "Occur From Away" in New York Town. Picture by Diane Davis.

Ahead of the demonstrate arrived, Davis questioned Irene Sankoff, the musical's co-writer, for tickets for the 8 Syrian older people. The creation responded with tickets for all four family members, like the kids.

Outlining the notion of the functionality to the newcomers, numerous of whom have limited English techniques, was a problem at to start with.

"They weren’t certain if they have been heading to see a hockey sport," Davis claims. Right after displaying them parts of the NBC documentary, they began to hook up their expertise to that of the "airplane people today" fifteen years before.

The group also fulfilled the cast and innovative team of the demonstrate — numerous of whom continue on to guidance the resettlement energy with economical support and, this past December, a trove of Xmas items.

"Santa Claus brought [the little ones] sleds this year," Davis claims. "That may possibly or may possibly not have occur by way of New York."

For the family members just obtaining their footing, the guidance has been invaluable. But for all those who do talk English, like Motlaq and her spouse, it was the functionality, with its information of obtaining community amid chaos, that resonated the loudest.

"It is related to our tale," she claims.

"We came from away too."

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