One-Shot 14: The Park

"Wait for meeeeeee!" Jacob called after his twin sister as she ran into the park. He held onto the hem of his mother's sundress.

"Then come on you sissy!" she yelled across the park.

Jacob looked at his mother for permission. She smiled and thought how good he was compared to Hailey who would bounce all over the place with her hyper-ness that almost never went away. Her smile almost faltered in remembering all those times when they'd be in the car and no matter where they were going, even if she knew if they were there or not she would always ask, "ARE WE THERE YET?" and Katie would want to tear her hair out but then remember that it was Travis' fault that she inherited his hyper-ness and his annoying personality that she hated but loved at the same time.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" Katie asked, pushing the stroller forward. "Go on little soldier." (Oh how ironic that nickname would be 12 years from now)

He looked hesitant but then let go of her dress and bolted after his sister and tackled her. "Just don't murder her!" Katie called to her son. She went over to the closest bench and watched her children play while rolling the stroller back and forth to keep the baby asleep.

It only felt like yesterday that that baby in the stroller was born. It felt like hundreds of monsters were attacking but it was worth it. They were given a beautiful baby girl who only had a slight defect. Color blind in one of her eyes. But otherwise, she was perfect.

But people have ideas of perfect but she was her idea of perfect as well as her other children. She hated it when other mothers would go up to her and say, "I feel sorry for you, having a mute son and a mental daughter. That must be hard on you not to have a perfect child like mine."

Gods, she hated the audacity of some of those women. She would have to bite her tongue so she wouldn't say something like, "At least my children don't have a bitch for a mother." Usually she would just calmly say, "My children are perfectly fine and living their life to the fullest thank you very much."

She looked over at her children to see if they were doing fine and not killing or maiming other children or their twin (well she didn't have to worry about Jacob but Hailey… Well that was another story). Jacob was just sitting with another child with a piece of chalk in his small hand while drawing something and Hailey was dangling from the monkey bars and swinging from bar to bar with ease. If only she could do that while climbing trees.

Katie remembered the countless times where Hailey would fall out of a tree in their backyard or front yard and crush her brother who was there as her spotter per say. Actually most of the time she would make him sit there and talk to her while she scaled the tree and then fell. She knew all the times she shouted from the house for her to not fall were in vain but they felt like they needed to be said. And all those times Hailey would yell back, "OKAY MOM!" and then 15 minutes later she would hear screaming from the backyard or front yard of both twins. Hailey screamed because she was falling and Jacob shrieked (he couldn't really scream, he just make dinosaur noises) because he was being crushed by his sister.

Oh the things her children did.

She looked around at the alarming amount of mothers who hovered over their children. It was a small park that was fenced in but yet they hovered over their kid like they were delicate little feathers. Sure, you had to watch your kids but you didn't need to hover over them with their every single move.

A woman dragged her child with her and sat next to Katie. "Stay here Cassidy!" she ordered.

"But Mommy I want to—"

"No, stay here."

The child sighed and plopped herself next to her mother.

"You know, you don't have to hover over your child 24/7." Katie said softly. The other woman snapped her head towards Katie.

"What do you mean?" she asked. "I do not hover over my child!"

"Well if your kid want to play on the swings then let them play on the swings." Katie replied.

"Do you know how many dangers are out there? I am not going to let my daughter be in danger. Would you let your kid be in danger?" the other woman asked. Katie almost scooted away from her because the other woman looked kinda crazy.

"Well it's unhealthy to constantly try to solve all of your kid's problems and keep them under your wing 24/7." Katie answered, digging back into her memories of that course she had to take for extra credit about the phycology of children and parenting. "It could lead to social problems and—"

"And how do you know this?" she snapped back. Katie subconsciously rolled the stroller closer to her and further from the crazy mother.

"Because I took college courses on this subject," she said back, not backing down. She was biting herself in the butt for even starting up this conversation.

Then she dug herself out. "HAILEY, JACOB! COME BACK HERE!" she yelled getting up, waking up the baby that she tried hours to put to sleep.

The two children cocked their heads up in surprise and ran to their mother. "We're leaving." she stated, getting up and walking to the exit, ignoring the glare from the other mother.

"Buuuut whhhhy?" Hailey complained, dragging her feet. "We just got here! I didn't beat up anybody!"

"Beating up people is bad," Jacob intervened, hiding behind his mother's dress in fear that he was going to get his butt kicked.

"Not when you're the one beating the person up!" Hailey chirped. "Now why did we leave so early?"

"Kids, let me give you a life lesson," she started. "Never try to talk some sense into people who won't take it."

The two twins looked at each other confused.

"Okaay Mom, we will." Hailey lied, well she didn't lie since she had no idea what her mom was talking about.

Yea, I know, I half-assed it I'm sorry. But I felt bad for not posting so I threw this mess together. Anyway, thanks for reading and review please!