Title:The title of your piece is good for me, A great start of everything is its new beginning.
This reminds me of the beauty in every morning - and that enticed me to read and picked your piece.

Plot and Format - The format is good to me, it has proper paragraphing, incidents are in detailed and that makes reader somehow really understand it.

Setting - if its properly well written, with the correct chosen of words, it makes a nice and balance imagery, and it will not seems to be redundant or overdone.The setting of your story is good, the words created are well.

Length - A proper length of a story can enticed a reader also to read, but sometimes a story even if its long if the words that are delivered was good it will not seem to be long and boring, but even if its short it will seems to be long if its not properly done which makes the reader bored.The length of your story is just good for me, because it makes me to be a part of it,the words that you delivered makes me feel and see emotions of the characters.

Grammar and punctuation - I didn't see any word that can distract the flow, and no doubt arise.

just only the word amounts on the second paragraph.

..small amounts of time in his presence....

maybe you can eliminate the s there.