Recollections
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What were they thinking?
Just ask yourself,
What were they thinking?
"When he was oncerned for me, and I brushed his hand away."
"When he embraced me and told me not to think that way."
"When he handed me the first present he ever gave me."
What were they thinking?
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First Ice cream.
The summer air was hot and humid. Rico didn't know how Jean could stand to wear a suit in this weather. She herself was wearing a short puffed sleeved blouse. It was girly , and not her style, but it helped to keep her cool a little bit.
"Let's go Rico." Jean ordered. Rico obidiently turned to follow her handler.
"Yes sir"
She put her cases in the back of Jean's car then strapped herself into the front seat. She didn't know why he ordered a day pass. He normally never took her out.
"Jean, what are we ding today?" She asked.
"We're going to go check out a tip. We had to get a day pass because it was asked as a personall favor of me." Jean replied.
"Oh." Rico didn't feel disappointed. She wasn't expecting anything other then work. In fact she felt kind of releived. She would'nt know how to deal with her handler if they went out for fun the way Henrietta and Jose did. She fidgeted in her seat trying to shake away the hot sticky air in the car. Jean must have noticed that she was uncomfortable , and turned the dial on the Ac up a little more. Rico loked at the face of the radio. The clock read noon. The day pass sadi they would be out till four. "I wonder why we have so much time." Rico thought to herself. She sighed quietly and then turned her gaze to the scenery rolling by. Little girls with their families were everywhere, but for soem reason she didn't desire to be one of them.
"Hey. Rico" Jean said. Rico turned to face him.
"Yes?"
"Since we have some time...would you like to grab some ice cream or something? It would make you feel better in this weather" He muttered. Just by lsitening to his tone of voice, Rico could tell that he felt akward asking her. She just decided not to make him feel any worse and just smiled.
"Okay."
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Surprisingly , the line at the parlor wasn't at all that long. However it looked like they had extra people working that day. When Jean and Rico came up, she started at the board trying to decided what she would prefer to have. Though, it wouldn't matter if Jean picked something for her. After all, when he offered her a tip for fun she wasn't going to take it for granted.
"I'll have just a single scoop vanilla . No cone" Jean said. The girl behind the counter began scooping ihs out, and the next server stepped up.
"Rico. Hurry and order." Jean said. Rico snapped out of her trance and looked up at him with a slight blush in her cheeks.
"I-I don't know..."She said. She let her eyes fall to the floor as if she was ashamed.
"You have no idea?"
"N-no. I've never had ice cream before..." She whispered. Jean knelt down to her level. Now she was just embarressed.
"Is strawberry fine then?"
She didn't know why, but when he spoke she reminded of how Jose treated Henrietta. Even the way he talked, and the faint smile he had on reminded her of his brother. As a reply she simply knodded. He came back up and looked at the server.
"Single scoop Strawberry. With a cherry on top"
When they took their seats, simply stared at her ice crean as she ate it. She thought she wasn't going to have to put up with something like this, but since it came as a surprise she was even more nervous.
"Rico. How's your studying going?" Jean asked. She forced herself to look her handler in the eye.
"There is some stuff I don't understand. Math is pretty hard...but I-I have triela and the others to help me so it's not to bad." She said. Jean smiled faintly again.
"Thats good"