MILIEU

Everyday, Sora and Tai leave the school house together and head down to the park to play while they wait for Tai's mother to come pick them up and then to drop Sora off at her house.

STORY

Tai and Sora sat down of one side of the sea-saw and were eating a few rice cakes Sora had packed from her house for the two of them to eat after school. Tai stuffed the last of his rice cake in his mouth and wiped the power from it on Sora's dress, grinning sheepishly

"TAIIII!" whined Sora as she wiped the power from her dress, only to make it worse by adding powder from her own fingers to the mess.

Tai wrapped his coat closer to him as a cold breeze passed through and he muttered "I'm sorry, Sora…"

"Its okay" she said cheerily as the last of the power was wiped from the white fabric.

"So. What do you want to do?" asked Tai

"Mum…" Said Sora as she finished her rice cake

Usually the kids would play on the monkey bars but today it was too cold and it would freeze their fingers.

"Lets play Grown-ups!" she exclaimed hopping off the sea-saw.

"That's a good idea," said Tai as he too got off the seesaw "where do we start?"

"Well…" said Sora 'as-a-matter-of-factly' "We start off by waking up!" and with that she turned around and strode off toward the slide where she laid down on its cold metal surface.

Tai walked over and stared at the slide, noticing that there was no room on it for another.

"Where do I sleep?" he asked

"On the ground. We got mad at each other last night so you have to sleep on the floor." Said Sora. She had seen her parents do this.

"O-kayy." Muttered Tai as he settled himself on the ground below the slide

After a Few seconds Sora the rooster called out "COCKADOODLE-DOOOOO!" as she sat up and stretched her arms out. "Good morning husband Tai. Did you learn your lesson?"

"Yeah, but I'm really mad that I had to sleep on the ground!" he hollered at her playfully as he flung a handful of woodchips at her and ran off laughing.

"TAIIII!" she yelled as she sprinted after him around the playground.

Tai ran to the lone swing and grabbed it, but before he could push off, Sora stopped in his path, panting; Her face flushed and her cheeks rosy, she said, "I want to swing…"

Tai was not about to give up his seat, so he pushed the swings ropes away from him so that there was a gap in between them and him. "Get on" he said

Smiling, Sora climbed up on his lap and stuck her legs through the gap, but she looked confused. "Do grown-ups play spider?" she asked puzzled.

Tai pushed off the ground and said "umm…" The swing came back down and Tai kicked off the ground again, pushing the swing up higher faster but as he did so, Sora fell forward.

…

They soon stopped Rocking and none of them had moved. Sora and Tai's eyes were both open with shock and stared right back into each other's. Sora pulled away from the kiss and was silent. Tao still hadn't moved. And as they sat there, stationary, it began to snow, small, round, and cold, they fell on the two children.

Tai's mother walked in through the parks gate and called for her son. Tai snapped out of his trance and looked around. "Coming Mom!" he called as Sora pulled her legs out of the swing to let Tai up so they could go.

As they walked down the sidewalk through the settling snow, holding each other's cold hand like they always did, Sora whispered to Tai "Maybe we could play Grown-up's tomorrow?"

Tai looked up at her and blushed. "Sure."