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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Love stories / Romance
- Subject: Love / Romance / Dating
- Published: 12/27/2021
A good day at the Park.
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He had been watching her for a while. She was cute, her brown hair neatly wrapped with two long braids that hung just below her shoulders. She had freckles on her nose. She seemed to enjoy watching everyone at the skate park flashing by on their skateboards, or bikes. But she never moved from the picnic table. Once in a while her Mother would come over and say something, and then return to the skate park to watch her other two children. And then…
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“Hello.”
It was a soft hello. A shy hello. A warm timid caring hello. She liked it. So she answered back to the thin young boy who had suddenly appeared at the end of the picnic table.
“Hi.”
It was a soft hi. A shy hi. A warm timid caring hi. He liked it.
“My name is Kevin.”
“Nice to meet you, Kevin. My name is Katey.”
With that they reached out like a couple from an old black and white movie from the forties and shook hands. Except the handshake turned into holding hands. For somehow they both forgot to let go of each others hands. He sat down next to her in order to not look silly standing in front of her not letting go of her hand. Not realizing she wouldn’t have cared how they looked to anyone else. Truth be told, neither would he.
“Do you skate?”
He waved his hands to include all the kids (and more than a few adults) skateboarding, BMXing, trick bike riding, and yes…a few with skates on their feet too.
Her face fell, but just a bit. She pulled up her jeans to mid calf. She was missing a foot. Just a plastic leg with a shoe where the foot should be.
“I can stand and walk, but that’s about it.”
He looked over across the parking lot to where the swing set was set up.
He looked back at her with a big smile.
“Can you swing?”
She followed his eyes over to where he was looking. She saw the swing set. She giggled.
“If you push me.”
“Deal.”
He didn’t have to give her a hand up. His hand had never left hers since the handshake. So he just pulled her up along side himself as he got up. He left his skateboard leaning against the picnic table leg. She waved at her Mother, pointed to the swings, and mouthed: “I’m okay.” Then she hobbled next to him with nary a limp.
Her Mother watched as the thin boy and her daughter went to the swings. Her eyes grew shiny as she noticed they were holding hands and chatting the whole way over to the small park with the swing set. Her eyes grew wide as the thin boy pushed her daughter on the swing with hidden wiry strength. Her daughter fairly flew up into the sky. Her laughter reaching even over where her Mother was standing.
An hour later she gathered her two small boys, tired out from their time at that park. She walked slowly with the two boy over to collect her teenage daughter. The thin boy was swinging gently with her daughter perched on his lap. They were still chatting. Both of them were smiling, their world existed only inside the limits of the chains on the swings. Anything beyond that was out of their awareness. So they never noticed her Mother and Brothers until they heard her brothers shriek the kind of jerk greeting only ten year old little brothers are capable of.
“Look! Katie’s got a boyfriend!”
“Did you kiss him yet?”
Her Mother shushed the little guys immediately.
“Mark! Timothy! You mind your manners.”
The thin boy merely smiled and said:
“Yes, she does have a boyfriend…his name is Kevin. And no, we haven’t kissed…yet.”
He felt Katie squeeze him in a hug that reminded him that they would kiss …some day.
Her Mother merely smiled at them both.
A few minutes later, and five out of the six swings were occupied, as they all raced to hit cherry bumps first.
It was a good day at the Park.
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