Ferris Wheel

"Daddy, I want to go on the big ride!" a little girl cried as she pointed at the Ferris wheel.

The contraption was known to be one of the highest Ferris wheel in the world and Paul was thoroughly surprised when his three year old daughter pointed at it and declared she wanted to go on it rather than the other way around.

"You're not scared, Ariana?" her mother asked as she looked at the ride. Dawn wasn't afraid to admit that she wouldn't have the guts to go on if she were her daughter's age.

The purple-headed girl shook her head and pointed at it again. "I wanna go on it!"

Leaf giggled as she saw the little girl pout at her father in order to persuade her father to on the ride and made her way over to the Shinji family with her daughter and Gary, who was carrying their one year old son, in tow.

It was the a rather sunny, yet not so hot day for summer, so the gang had decided to make a trip to the amusement park at Nimbasa City since it had been a rather long time since they had seen each other. With work in the way nowadays, they rarely had the chance to get together and just hang out. Now that they each had kids of their own, it was harder, but it didn't held them back from doing what they wanted to do.

"Why don't we all go on it?" Misty suggested as she looked at the contraption before turning to her son, who was being held by his father. "What do you think, Daniel? Do you want to go on it with Mommy and Daddy?"

The little boy's eyes widened at the height of the ride but nodded nonetheless when he realized that he would have his parents with him, making his father grin.

"Alright, let's go line up!" Ash announced before making his way over with Misty in tow, prompting everyone else to follow.

Paul was set on not going with everyone else, however when his daughter was about to cry about not being able to sit with her father and Dawn couldn't stop her, he gave in and picked her up before following the gang over to the line.

"I heard the view is really nice," Mandy said as she got into the line.

Elliott, who was standing next to her, nodded in agreement. "I heard that you can see all of Nimbasa at the very top."

Hearing this, the ten year old girl squealed in excitement before turning to her parents and clasped her hands together in front of her chest.

"Daddy, can I please ride with Elliott?"

He raised an eyebrow and exchanged a look with Leaf, who only giggled in return at their daughter's request. When looking at Leaf proved to not help him with his answer, he sighed and nodded, being not able to resist the pout. Mandy smiled and went back to Elliott to share the good news with him, who told his parents about the plan afterwards.

Once the two were back to their chatting, Drew and May their over to Leaf and Gary, who were playing with their son. Gary caught Drew's smirk and turned his attention to him.

"If your son tries to do any funny business, you can bet that-"

"They're ten, Oak, calm down. And it's a Ferris wheel. If he wants to do something stupid, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't do something in public and in broad daylight," Drew retorted with a flick to the fringe.

May and Leaf merely exchanged glances before shaking their heads at their husbands and started chatting amongst themselves while their friends were doing a little bit of catching up themselves with each other.

"I can't wait to see the day when Gary has to face the fact that Mandy and Elliott will a couple," Leaf mused aloud. "I can just imagine him interrogating the poor boy to no end every time he comes over when the two start dating."

May laughed along with her friend and patted her inflated belly, smiling. "I can't wait until Stephanie comes. I'm sure that Elliott's going to take really good care of her, so Gary wouldn't have to worry if he's going to treat Mandy right," she said jokingly.

"I'm pretty sure Gary's going to be paranoid regardless," Misty responded from behind Leaf with Dawn by her side. "He's way too overprotective over his little girl."

Dawn nodded in agreement. "I think it's a guy thing because even Paul shoots the boys a nasty look whenever they even as so give Ariana a little glance."

And with that, the four grown women started to talk about the things their husbands did, caught up with each other on how their lives were going, and just talking about their other plans for the later months to come. And then, it was their turn for the Ferris wheel.

The carts were designed to be gondola lifts so it was able to fit four people in one, though it was possible to get a cart for two since the contraption was known to be a couples-only ride, which Gary was unaware of since it was a new ride of the amusement park and he didn't kept up with news like that.

Each family was able to have a cart of their own, save for Mandy and Elliott who had the cart to themselves, much to the dismay of Gary. Because he, Leaf, and Aiden were in the cart before the two, he kept his eyes drawn to the cart after them to make sure the boy didn't try to do anything to his daughter.

"What would you do if he tried anything anyway?" Leaf inquired as if she had read his mind about his plan. "We're in a moving ride and can't get out unless the door opens."

Regardless what she said though, he still kept his eyes glued to the two and Leaf couldn't help but sigh and smile at him. As the cart continued to make its way up to the top, she played with her son, who was staring out at the scene and clutching on tightly to her after seeing how high he was from the ground.

"It's ok, Aiden," she cooed softly. "Mommy and Daddy are here, ok?"

And once she said that, they had reached the top and Leaf was in awe with the scene before her. From the top, she was able to have a magnificent view Lostlorn Forest and Marvelous Bridge, the most advanced bridge of the region. Due to the perfect weather of summer, the water under the bridge appeared to be a lighter shade of blue, which Leaf thought wasn't even possible because she had never seen the water from up so high.

The forest, from her view, was just a field of trees that looked greener than she had thought. From her view, she was also able to see the waterfall in the forest, a sight she always wished she was able to see but wasn't able to until today.

When Gary didn't hear anything else from her or his son, he turned his attention back to them and saw them mesmerized by the scene before them, making him smile as he made his way over to them to wrap his arms around her waist.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" he whispered as he rested his head on top of head. He felt her nod and continued. "Let's go on a picnic next week at Lostlorn. I wanna see the great waterfall myself."

At this, the brunette turned to face him, eyebrow raised. "A group picnic or just us two?"

He smirked and kissed her gently before pulling away all too quickly, much to the brunette's dismay. While Gary was comfortable with PDA around the kids, Leaf wasn't. However, because her son was only one and her daughter was in a different cart, she didn't feel all that uncomfortable.

"Obviously just the two of us, Leafy," he said before the ride came to a stop, which would probably explain why he pulled away so quickly. "We haven't had time to ourselves lately."

She smiled and giggled before agreeing with him. "You're right. Maybe we can get May and Drew to babysit for us. That way, Mandy and Elliott can spend more time together."

At that, Gary's left eye twitched before saying what always said when he was positive of the answer.

"Hell no."

So obviously this was trash but I really wanted to work on something and let you guys know I'm alive. I can't describe to save my life and I can't write stories.

BUT YEAH, each one-shot will either focus on one ship, two, or the whole group, or the kids! I still don't know how to write it. Like should I write it where it follows the kids' age or out of order (i.e. one chapter they're ten, and the next they're like fifteen, and the next will be six) IDK BC I GET A LOT OF IDEAS AND THEY'RE ALWAYS DIFFERENT AGE SITUATIONS SO IDK. HELP ME.

Review! I'd love to know what you thought of it and if I should continue! I'll try to update soon! Hopefully before I leave for Chicago :3 AND ASK ME STUFF ON ASK FM! AHAH I answer anything so feel free to leave an ask!

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