"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." 
– Semisonic

Bubbly giggles fill the hallway as the nurses as the doctors rush to take their places inside the hospital room.

A woman lies on the hospital bed, her eyes fluttering open to the sound. A smile blooms on her face as she looks at the baby laying down on her chest.

The infant smiles at her mother as if silently understanding the emotions passing through them.

 A man silently peeks through the hospital door, an amused chuckle escaping him at the sight of his wife making funny faces at their newborn child.

 He looks up at the doctor for confirmation to get closer, once the doctor nods his head the man gently walks up to the hospital bed to have a closer look at his child.

 He looks in mock offense as the baby looks up at her father and sticks her tongue out at him.

The man looks at his wife with amusement.

 "Her attitude and looks remind me of you"

 His wife removes her gaze from her husband to look at her child.

"She does doesn't she?" She said as she lifted a finger to softly touch the baby's nose and laughed when the baby scrunched her face.

 "Wouldn't it be nice if we name her after you? Naomi?" The man suggested.

"Of course dear, I do not object" Naomi's mother said, chuckling softly.

 Naomi's father's face lit up in excitement. "A beautiful name for our beautiful child".

Naomi bought joy to her parent's lives.

Her giggles and her laughter lightened up everyone who had the pleasure of hearing them.

Her parents were fond of her and did everything they could to make her happy. Naomi learnt to walk fairly quickly and before they knew it she could speak as well.

Naomi was a bright little girl, so cheerful and happy.

 A child so graceful and pretty.

Now a four year old child, her parents sent her to a kindergarten to learn new things as all children do.

 On Naomi's first day of kindergarten, she met a boy whom she got along with very well.

 Damian.

 They both clicked with each other and very  quickly became best friends. Naomi was always with Damien after that day, always doing everything together.

Painting, drawing, and she even ate lunch at school with him next to her.

 While she was sad that she couldn't visit his house since Damian didn't let her. She didn't let that affect her and continued to play with him.

She loved spending time with someone of her age, and to finally get a friend for the first time made her heart soar in leaps and bounds.

They both became the closest of friends and promised each other to be there for each other no matter what happened or how old they became.

Too bad Damian didn't get the chance to grow up.

It was Naomi's seventh birthday.

 That day was supposed to be the day when Damian would visit the small treehouse she and her father had built together during the past few weeks for both Damian and Naomi.

 She was proud of her work and couldn't wait to show her friend what she had helped build for the both of them.

Damian shouldn't have come.

As Damien was walking on his way to go to Naomi's house, he got hit by a driver who didn't see him.

 She saw it all happen.

 She ran over to the fallen body wondering why her friend didn't get up.

The last time Naomi ever saw her best friend was at his funeral.

At the time she didn't understand that Damian would never come back, she waited for him day after day at school, so they could both walk together on their way home like they always did.

But she soon realized he was truly gone.

It was all her fault.

If she had just warned him of the car passing by.

If she wasn't so happy to show him the treehouse to actually pay attention to her surroundings.

This wouldn't have happened.

Her first and last friend wouldn't have died.

She was the reason for someone's death.

At the mere age of seven.

A few years later Naomi burned down the treehouse that was built for Damian.

 She couldn't bear having to be reminded of her actions that day.

The guilt was eating her from the inside, and she apologized profusely to Damian's parents.

Despite accepting her apology she could almost feel how tense they became every time she bought up the topic of Damian to them.

Naomi's face was illuminated by the lights from the camera monitors as she watched the scene replay over and over.

She couldn't live in the same world as the person who had killed her best friend.

 It wasn't only her fault but the fault of the driver's as well.

 Which was why she was inspecting the security cameras in the Camera Control Room in the area to try figure out who that driver was.

The body of the security guard she had punched unconscious lied outside the control room.
 
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Blood dripped down the knife she grasped tightly in her hand.

A sick smile spread on her face as she looked down on the dead body of the loved one of the person who murdered her best friend.

It was a choice between her death and the death of the driver.

 She needed to be alive to keep the memories of Damian safely with her. She couldn't kill the driver since she wanted him to suffer as bad as she did.

 So she took away from him the one he would have loved.

Her eyes swept upon a lone picture of a family of four on the kitchen counter. The picture was splattered with blood but she could make out the image of the man and his family.

A picture of a father with his wife and two young identical twin boys. The young boy- the one she had killed. Had pretty blue eyes and fluffy blonde hair in the photograph.

It was suck a stark contrast to the boy lying on the kitchen floor with his body covered with blood and shards of broken glass from the glass he had held in his hand that shattered as his body had fell.

The driver's name, Ethan, she had figured out.

Had now lost one of his sons.

He had lost something precious to him. 

Just as she had.

And she would never regret this day.

 But would remember it for the rest of her life.

 
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