It's been ten years since I met that girl with blonde hair, and her beautiful face has never slipped from my memory.
I was walking through at park with my beautiful litel boy one day. I had had a girlfriend,but she has left, and left the kid to me. He is a one-of-a-kind kid, with drk brown hair and choclatey brown eyes, he is five years old, he's got lots of friends. And we were at the park playing, nobody was there, I'm not sure why. There's usually tons of people there. Maybe it was fate, maybe just coincidence. But it was the most beautiful day of the year. The leaves were falling around us, covering the ground with beautiful blankets of warm gold, and passionate red... It was amazing. The sun was just setting, and my son, Johnny, was sitting on the swing watching it, when a woman and her little girl walked up the path, and sat on the bench. I couldn't see the womans face, but I had this feeling that everything was going to change, and that something unexpected would happen, and this woman was why.
My son and I sat, and played on the swings for awhile then another woman walked up and sat on the opposite side of the child. She had familiar blonde hair, and when she spoke I felt a tingling go down my spine.
"How is she? How is Emily? Thank you so much for babysitting her...I had to work." She said softly.
"Don't worry Caryn, it's fine. Emily was fine all day." The woman with the little girl said.
I decided it was rude to eavesdrop, so I talked to Johnny for awhile. I went over to sit on the bench that was unoccupied. The first woman that showed up with the child got up and walked away a few minutes later, and the little girl went to play on the swings. That was when she met Johnny.
The little girl and Johnny played for about fifteen minutes, when Johnny came over to me.
"Daddy, can Emily come to the park with us tomorrow? Pleeeeease?" How could I say no to those cute little puppy dog eyes, and that sad little pout he used when he wanted something?
"Well, Johnny, that's up to Emily's Mommy, you'll have to ask her." I said.
The little girl named Emily's mother came over to me. We shook hands.
"I think it's a great idea for Emily and Johnny to play together again tomorrow, that is, if it's alright with you." She said. She looked familiar, like I knew her from somewhere... But where? I wasn't yet sure. We sat on that bench and just watched the children play for about and hour. By then it was starting to get dark, so I decided to take Johnny home, it was a Friday, but you never know who you'll meet in New York at nighttime. I stood up and yelled to Johnny, the woman stood up and called Emily over too. We shook hands and then it hit me. We both said each others names at the exact same time.
"Caryn."
"Tony."
We talked a lot more after that, and we're now married. With three children, Johnny, Emily, and one that we had together, Julia. We're very in love. Or at least as in love as a Greaser and a Soc from different sides of town can be.