Sarah Jane took off after him laughing and running as fast as she could. When they got to the swings she climbed onto one and turned around to him. "Will you give me a push please before you get on?"

"Sure," he said, and pushed her a couple of times to get her going, then jumped on the swing next to her and pushed off, trying to swing as high as he could. "Bet I can swing higher than you," he said.

"Bet you can't," she answered him, then began pumping her legs to go higher. After a few minutes she looked over and saw that he was going way higher than her. His long legs and strength gave him far more leverage than Sarah Jane. She looked down and realized that she was way higher than she thought and though she would never admit it to anyone, she was a bit afraid of the height she was at. But she didn't say anything, and kept pumping. She was not going to let this young Doctor tease her or say he was winning because he was a boy. She got enough of that from the boys at school.

The Doctor spent a few minutes just enjoying the sensations, wondering if he'd be able to actually propel the swing over the top of the bar. Might be dangerous. Even better, he thought, and pumped harder. Then he got past the 90 degree mark and started dropping vertically on each swing, causing a large "thump" to the swingset itself, and started to reconsider.

Sarah wasn't sure if she was more frightened for the Doctor or herself. Before she could say anything though, an attendant showed up and gently took charge.

"I'm sorry young man, but you're swinging too high, I'll have to ask you to slow down please," she said as she stood next to him and waited. She was obviously an attendant.

The Doctor put his feet to the ground to slowly stop himself and put his head down. "Yes, ma'am," he said.

Sarah jumped off the swing with relief as soon as she slowed down. When she saw how disappointed the Doctor was, she ran to his side and put a hand on each of his shoulders. "You won," she whispered in his ear.

He looked up at her shyly. "You mean it?"

She nodded. "You went way higher then me. My legs were too short to beat you," she whispered again.

He put his head up and beamed at her. "That's OK, you'd have beat me if I was shorter. Come on, let's find something else cool to do."

The two of them ran eagerly around for the next two hours exploring the rides and games, stopping to try each one. Sarah Jane won almost as many times as the Doctor did.

They were taking a break and catching their breath when Sarah looked over at him and realized that even though he was almost the same age as her there was still something special about him. "Do you know what I like the most about you," she asked him.

He rolled up on one elbow from lying on the grass and looked at her. "What's that?"

She propped herself on one elbow in imitation of him. "You don't mind if I like the same games that you do and you're nice to me even if I win sometimes. The boys I go to school with are always teasing me because I like their games better than the ones the girls play. I'm always getting called a tomboy," she frowned. "I think girls should be able to do anything boys can, do you?"

"Of course!" the Doctor said without even thinking. "You know what I like about being with you?"

She smiled at him. "No, what?"

"I don't have to win all the time. The boys I went to school with always felt like winning wasn't just everything, it was the only thing." He smiled. "I like that I don't have to worry that you'll think I'm a weakling if you beat me."

"Oh, I would never think that. I think you're very brave. Do you know what my Auntie told me?" Sarah didn't wait for an answer. She was wound up now. "She says that being brave is being afraid and trying anyway. She says the only failure is the failure to try and do your best. What do you think of that?"

"I think you're aunt is great," he said. "And you are too." He climbed to his feet and held a hand out to help her up.

She took his hand and stood up. "What should we do now?"

He pointed to what looked like the centerpiece of the "Let's Be Friends" area of the park, a series of small purple and blue mountain peaks rising out of the ground. "Let's do THAT."

Sarah Jane followed him till he stopped in front of what looked like a giant game. It seemed to be some sort of board game. She walked up to a sign next to it that said the game was called "Rolling Bouncing Bubble Maze."

She read it out loud. "To play, enter the number of players on the control panel below. Then you must each take turns jumping on a color block. You must follow the directions when the game piece in front of you turns over. Think fast or you'll lose your turn."

She looked at the Doctor. "Want to play?"

"All right," he said, "do we play on the same team? I don't want to play against you."

"I don't mind, besides, it's just us so I suppose we can play just for fun."

"Nah, let's play as team." He pushed a button on the control panel labeled team.

Sarah stood next to him and waited. In a moment two bubbles appeared. The instructions popped up. "Jump in," it said. Sarah picked the purple one and jumped into it. The Doctor jumped into the bluish green one.

"This is exciting. Now what," she called out to him.

"I don't know!" he shouted back.

Soon an instruction popped up in front of them. 'Don't get tagged, but try and bowl over your opponent' it read. Suddenly two androids appeared and began to head toward them.

"OK," he called to her. "Just run towards them and see if you can knock them over." He began to run toward the androids, making his bubble roll faster and faster in their direction.

Sarah Jane watched the Doctor for a moment and started to imitate him, but then realized that a droid was barreling down on her. She quickly rolled away from it as far as she could, turned around and rolled back at it as fast as she could. In less than a minute, she 'bowled' it over. She turned to see where the Doctor was. He was standing in his bubble looking pleased at the downed droid next to him.

"That's it!" he shouted. "Now let's go for it!" He started rolling towards two more androids who had appeared on the other side of the playfield.

In about fifteen minutes the playing field was littered with droids lying on their sides.

"We did it," Sarah shouted with glee. "We beat them!"

"We sure did," the Doctor said, smiling. "You're cool."

"If she's so cool, why don't the two of you play against us," said a boy who was about the Doctor's height but much wider than him. He was standing next to another boy who was about the same size as he was.

"OK," the Doctor said, unconsciously squeezing Sarah Jane's hand. "We will, won't we Sarah Jane."

Sarah Jane looked over at him and gave him a huge confident smile. "You just bet we will, Doctor."

"You're on," said the boys as they stepped up to the start button, pushed it and jumped into their bubbles. One was blue, the other red. "Hope you don't mind, but I set it on a higher level. The one you were playing is for beginners."