"Aunt Annie, can you do a cartwheel?" Katia asked as she danced around the park bench her mother, aunt and Auggie were seated on.
"In fact I can," Annie stood up patting both Danielle and Auggie on the leg.
Annie stretched a little got a running lead and did 2 cartwheels and a back walkover.
"Show-off!" Danielle yelled from the bench.
"She's just excited to see the girls," Auggie laughed as he sipped his coffee.
"She really is fearless," Danielle sighed.
"She is very brave, that doesn't mean she's fearless," Auggie corrected.
While Auggie and Danielle talked, Annie was helping Chloe and Katia perfect their form, all 3 of them ending up in a giggling heap.
"She has been looking forward to this for weeks," Auggie mentioned.
"I'm glad it worked out, the girls miss her so much."
"Well it is mutual," Auggie grinned.
"I am also glad it worked out so I could actually witness this," she soon realized her hand gesture was wasted on Auggie.
"I assume you mean our relationship."
"Annie is happy Auggie, for the first time in forever she is truly happy and I can only assume it's because of you. I hear it every time we talk."
"Well, that also is mutual. It is a good thing we have, she and I."
"I knew it, when I met you all those years ago. I might not have known the whole story," Danielle remained vague about their work, "but I knew you were the guy she was always skirting around."
"Skirting around?" Auggie was now intrigued.
"I could tell she was pining away for someone, she never said anything but I knew there was someone. Then when we were in Stockholm and everything went bad it was you that got us out and I could hear it in her voice, she loved you then."
"I really didn't know that then," Auggie now knew how hurt Annie had been then.
"Well, it all worked out for the best," Danielle wrapped it up with a warm hand on Auggie's arm as the 3 giggling girls approached.
"Mom, can we get ice cream?" Chloe asked as Annie flopped on the bench.
"Sure. We'll be right back," Danielle grinned and left the 2 of them alone on the bench.
"Cartwheels Walker?"
"What can I say, I'm a kid at heart," she leaned in and kissed his cheek.
The End