This entire chapter is going to be a flashback. Make sure you read the previous chapter before you begin reading this one.

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Jackie Tarpes sat with two little boys in the park. One was around two or three, the other was about five. The two-year-old had sandy-blonde hair, the most beautiful blue eyes, and the most charming smile that matched his father's. The five-year-old had dark, rusty-red hair, brown eyes, and a somewhat cute smile. Jackie was leaning over the two-year-old making funny faces and causing that little smile that she loved. The five-year-old was sitting there licking up an ice cream on the other side of her. "Can we go play on the playground, Jackie!?" asked Jacob, the older boy.

"Of course, Jake," she said with a smile as she picked up the baby and walked with Jacob to the playground just across the street. "Now be careful," she warned wiping off his mouth with a previously white but now chocolate-y napkin.

"I will, Jackie, don't worry!" he said in an innocent, little-kid voice. He ran up the stairs and onto the playground to begin his fun. He went down the slide several times before going across the monkey bars twice. The other little one sat on the bench with Jackie, his nanny. She had accidentally double booked herself as a nanny for today. Both father's had needed a nanny. She had been signed out to watch Jacob first but she just loved her other little one's smile and his father's smile that she couldn't refuse. She had asked both parents. Neither cared. They thought the boys might get a long and have someone to play with. They hadn't been getting a long very well. Jacob kept seeing the other boy as a threat who was taking Jackie's attention away from him. The two-year-old was too young to notice the way Jake eyed him, watched his every move. The way Jacob flinched whenever the boy smiled and got even more of Jackie's attention. Jackie had been his nanny first and then this new comer had come in and taken all the love she had ever given him away. He had tried to gain her attention all day but thus far none of his plans had prevailed.

Jealousy.

The little boy standing on the jungle gym had been no match for the deadly poison that had infected him this morning when he had first seen his nanny walk up to his house with the little boy in her arms. Another plan formed in his head as he realized he had left the stuffed teddy bear he had brought with him on the bench across the street. She didn't care about him. He would go get it by himself! If she cared she would stop him and take him back to get the teddy; if she didn't he would go by himself. He was a big boy, in his mind, and could do anything. Jackie was busy watching the blonde boy giggle as Jacob took his first few steps he had a smile on his face and a glint in his eye. The sunlight played along his face showing the small dimples that allowed his smile to be cute in a way. The sun against his hair was like fire. He was on the sidewalk before Jackie even looked up from the other boy. He was now taking his beginning steps onto the street. It was empty enough except for a slow-moving ice cream truck about 30 meters away from him, heading his direction. He looked both ways like he'd been taught by both Jackie and his daddy and finally skipped his way across the street.

Jackie looked up and around. 'Jacob,' she thought as she scanned the playground. She had been so caught up in the other little boy she hadn't thought to remind him not to leave the playground. As she looked around frantically, beginning to panic, she noticed fire-y red hair across the street. 'Jacob,' she sighed in her head. She stood up with the other boy in her arms and began to walk toward the street. As she reached the sidewalk at a steady pace the little boy was already starting his way back across the street. He forgot to look both ways. The ice cream truck had picked up speed now and was only a few feet from him. "Jacob!" she yelled just as he turned to see the ice cream truck honking at him. It had seen him too late and couldn't stop in time. He died two weeks later in a hospital bed with his father sitting next to him holding his hand. They were the only family the two had. Now Jacob was gone. And his father was alone.

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There ya go. Can you guess who the other little boy is? I bet you can. Please R&R.