This idea came to me, so I wanted to write it out. Here's a teaser... Future chapters to be published if reviews are favorable will be: Tequila Makes Her Clothes Come Off, and Hitch.
As always, I don't own any of these wonderful characters!
Jane swings back and forth on the swing set. She's watching her little brother, Frankie, in the sandbox. She has a big sponsibility. Ma always says to, 'watch out for your little brother.' or 'take care of Frankie.' It all means the same thing. Protect Frankie. Ma is over on a bench with baby, Tommy. He's no fun yet. Kinda just lays around. Jane gets off the swing to make sure Frankie's not eating anything from the sand.
"Hey, Frankie. Whatcha doing?"
"Digging."
"Need any help?"
Frankie looks to his big sister. He hands her an extra shovel.
Jane looks up from digging and sees the prettiest girl she has ever, ever seen heading toward the sandbox. She has pretty yellow hair and is a dress. A DRESS at the playground. She's carrying some sort baby doll. In a moment, the pretty girl is sitting on the edge of the sandbox. Jane looks into the girl's pretty green and brown eyes.
"Your eyes look like pretty marbles."
"My governess says they are called, hazel."
"Oh." Jane thinks for a minute. Ma always says to be polite and introduce yourself. She sticks out a sand covered hand. "Hi, I'm Jane Rizzoli."
The yellow haired girl tilts her head and looks at the dirty hand. She shifts her baby doll to her other arm and reaches for Jane's hand. "I'm Maura Isles."
Jane nods. "This here is my little brother, Frankie. Frankie! Say hello."
Frankie looks up briefly. "Hi."
Jane looks at Maura. "You can play with us if you want."
Maura chews her lip. This girl was being nice to her. Maybe she really wanted to be friends? Maura wasn't used to kids her age being nice to her. Maura nods to Jane and gently puts her baby doll on the ground to help the Rizzoli siblings dig.
A group of loud boys come near the sand area and start to kick sand on the smaller kids. Jane looks over and see that her Ma has her back turned, changing baby Tommy's stinky diaper.
"Cut it out, Joey!"
"Who's gonna make me, Rizzoli!"
Joey Grant kicks more sand and some gets into Frankie's mouth. Jane leans over her brother to protect him from more sand. "Spit it out, Frankie. You're ok."
Jane hears her new friend Maura cry out. "Let go of my baby!"
Joey sneers. "What kind of doll is this?" He holds it above his head so she can't get it. Maura begins to cry.
Jane sees Maura crying and hates that bully, Joey Grant.
"Joey! Give her back her doll!"
"Who says? You? Roly Poly Rizzoli gonna make me?" Joey laughs.
Jane feels mad. Really, really mad. She clenches her teeth and lowers her head and she rushes Joey. Just as she gets to him, she pushes out her arms and knocks him to the ground. She jumps on his chest and holds her fist under his nose.
"You stop being a meanie, Joey, or I'm gonna punch you right in your nose and make it bleed."
"Ok, ok! Get off me!"
Jane gets off and grabs Maura's doll. She walks over to Maura to hand it to her.
"Here ya go." Maura pulls the doll tight to her chest and hugs her. She wipes the tears from her eyes.
Maura hears her governess calling to her, but before she goes, she leans forward and kisses Jane on the cheek. "Thank you, Jane. You're my hero!"
Jane stands there for a moment. She watches over, protects, takes care of her brother. She has just been called a hero. She grabs Frankie's hand and runs to her mother.
"Ma! I'm a hero!"