"Something wrong?" She asks softly and I clear my throat.
"Not really, just that I'm not used to be in a place like this. It's so-" I think for a moment.
"familyish?" I say, though I really don't think it's a word. She frowns and seems to get what I'm saying.
"If you want we can-"
"No!" I exclaim and some of the parents look at me.
"Er, I mean it's not that I want to leave. I just never thought I'd ever be in a place like this. Much less with you." She smiles then reaches for my hand until she seems to think of something. She places it back on her lap and I sigh. Either she realized we were in public or that she was married. She's about to say something until a sweaty Tommy runs over.
"Will you throw the ball for me Faith?" He asks happily and my eyes widen.
"Me? Why me? What happened to your friend?" I ask confused.
"He had to leave." He replies sadly.
"He just wants you to play with him." Buffy whispers but I still don't get up. Then I see the eyes. He's got that my puppy got run over look on his face and I can't help it, I give in. He cheers and Buffy smiles at me as we walk over to the field.
"So you just want me to throw it then?" I asked and he nodded. I threw the soft yellow ball underhand to him and he giggled as it landed in his arms. He held the ball in his hand just smiling at me and I began to wonder if he was going to throw it.
"Isn't this the part where you throw it back?" I asked him and he shook his head and turned around. He started to run and I looked behind me to see B cracking up. Somehow I know she knew he would do this. I began to run after him as he headed for the playground and climbed up the slide. I stood in front of it as a bunch of kids came down the slide giggling. He popped his head up and waved at me.
"You know you can't stay up there forever right?" I asked.
"Uh huh, can too." He replied and two other kids came to see what was going on. They whispered to him and he whispered back. Okay so munchkins are plotting on me.
"Plotting on me T?" I call up to him and he stops to look at me.
"I'll have to get you then!" I yell and start to run up the stairs after him. Yeah, so some people probably thought I was crazy for being on a jungle gym with a bunch of kids but at the moment I didn't care.
I chased him around for awhile, just letting him get away but then I decided it was time to catch his sneaky little butt. He was just standing around looking for me when I scooped him up, didn't even see me hiding behind the pole. He giggled as I threw him over my shoulder.
"Faith! Put me down!" He laughed.
"Uh uh, not gonna happen T."
"Hey!" He yelled to the kids he was talking to before and the next thing I know I got a two squirts hanging on my legs as I walk. I looked over to B and noticed her talking to some other chick.
"What'd ya say we go see what your mom is up to?" I asked him. Even though he really didn't have a choice since he was slung over my shoulder. I walked towards B and she stopped talking to whoever to look at me. Both of them started laughing hysterically as they saw the two kids I had on each leg and Tommy over my shoulder.
"What?" I asked sheepishly and they stopped to catch their breath.
"Faith, this is Tina. She's a friend I made when I moved here." She waved at me.
"Hi." I said.
"Tommy is going to stay over her house with Samantha tonight." Buffy said.
"Oh, you got a kid too, huh? Where's she at?" I asked and she pointed to a brunette girl wrapped on my leg.
"Oh." I said and looked at the girl who let go of me to greet her mother. Pretty soon a lady came over to me.
"Excuse me but why do you have my child?" A woman asked.
"Hey, your kids got me lady." I laughed but she didn't think it was that funny as she grabbed the boy and walked away. Didn't bother me though, I had feeling in my legs again. I put Tommy down as well and he handed the ball over to me.
"I think you won." He said and tried to give me the ball but I wouldn't take it.
"Nah, keep it for next time." I said and his eyes lit up.
"Next time!" He exclaimed and I rustled his hair.
"Yeah." I looked over at Buffy and she stood.
"Well, Tina I'll see you later. Thanks for taking Tommy."
"No problem. He keeps Samantha busy so I'm not complaining."
"Be good sweetie." She said as she bent down to hug him and give him a kiss. She leaned back up and he spread his arms to me.
"What?" I asked.
"Hug." He said and jumped up a little. I kneeled down and he wrapped his arms around my neck as I slowly put my arms around him.
"Bye T." I said and pulled back just as he gave me a kiss on the cheek.
"Bye Faith." I know I must've been wearing this big ass grin cause of the way Buffy was looking at me. She pulled on my sleeve and waved bye to Tina as we exited the park. We entered her car and she started up the engine.
"So, did you have fun then?" Buffy asked me and I looked at her from the corner of my eyes and muttered.
"Maybe."
"I'll take that as a yes." She looked at the clock radio and smiled.
"Four o' clock. We still have three hours to kill. What'd you think we should do?"
TBC…