"Daddy," Alex said tentatively, pulling on his father's hand to bring his attention away from the tiger prowling in the cage in front of them. "I'm hungry," he complained. Charlie nodded understandingly, himself having been hungry for the past twenty minutes but he couldn't bring himself to interrupt his wife and daughter's excitement.
"I'll go tempt Alice away with the promise of ice cream and burgers, you go guilt your mum, okay?" His son - a chief mischief maker and master of getting what he wanted - smirked, his plan already being plotted and almost every alternate scenario being prepped for too. This was the dangers of having a mother with a brain larger than humanly possible as well as two uncles who lived to cause havoc.
"Mummy," Alex whined, his bottom lip jutting out in a pout. "My belly hurts." She immediately knelt down to his level, her hands cupping his cheeks so she could look at him better. If there was anyone who could read through his lies, it was her.
"Why does it hurt sweetie?" she asked, rubbing it soothingly.
"Because i'm hungry." She didn't doubt him and when her own stomach rumbled, she finally agreed that it was time for lunch. She put her excitement on a back burner - begrudgingly - because she hadn't been to a zoo since she was a little girl, no older than ten and this was her kids' first visit.
After lunch, both Hermione's and Alice's excitement returned full force and they dragged both male members in the family to enclosure after enclosure. They aww'ed at the baby elephants and they giggled at the monkeys that bounced around their enclosures and they ooh'ed at the tigers and other big cats that prowled around.
It wasn't until the end of the day that Alex asked a question that made her day.
"Where were all the dragons?"
I didn't like this prompt but I wrote this short thing anyway.
