Taylor House
Taylor was standing outside in the front of her house, waiting for Eric to pick her. Thered car approached and stopped in front of her house. She opened the car door and got inside the car.
"You're three minutes late Myers"
"Sorry, shall we go now?" Eric asked and Taylor nodded.
Silver Hills Park
The park is quite crowd since it was Sunday and people were taking a break from the work that made them tired and stress. Eric and Taylor sat on a bench in front of the lake; it was filled with duck and swans. Taylor leaned on his shoulder.
They were chatting about Eric's work but Taylor stopped him, not wanting to talk about the serious stuff.
Taylor felt a tap on her shoulder and spun around. "Jen!"
She got up and hugged Jen. "Jen! I miss you so much! How are you?"
"I'm fine thanks and you?"
"I'm fine too thanks! Are you alone?"
Jen shook her head "No, I'm here with Wes and Jessica. Oh there they are" She waved toWes and Jessica over to where they were. Wes came over to them holding Jessica.
Jessica was Wes and Jen's four month old daughter, she inherit her mother's hair color; brown.
Suddenly Wes and Jen remember something. They forgot to bring Jessica a of bottle milk, it was still in their car. Jen had a good idea…
"Taylor, if you don't mind would you take care of her for a while? Wes and I need to go to the parking lot, we want to bring her bottle milk that left on our car"
"I don't mind" She nodded her head and she carefully took Jessica.
Wes and Jen headed to parking lot. Taylor sat again and stroked Jessica's hair. Eric poked J essica's cheek, making Taylor smile. "Do you want to hold her too?"
"Yes" he answered. Taylor handed her to him.
Eric bounced Jessica on his knee, however Jessica became fussy, and she was not happy with it and felt uncomfortable. Eric quickly stop bouncing her and rubbed her back, trying to calm her down but she still fussy and then she started to cry.
"Shh" He tried to calm her down. "It's alright Jessica its uncle's fault so please stop crying okay?" Eric muttered.
However it was useless, she kept crying and got louder, Taylor couldn't stand to see Jessica cry. In order to make Jessica stop crying Taylor started to sing a song that she know for so long. Jessica finally stopped crying. After that she's fall asleep, Taylor chuckled after she saw Jessica sleeping. She kissed her forehead.
"Phew" Eric said glad that Jessica was sleeping. "Where's the song from?"
"My childhood friend, she liked singing and she taught me"
Ten minutes after that, Wes and Jen came back, Eric carefully handed the baby back to Wes.
"Thank you for taking her for a while" Jen said as she rubbed her daughter's cheek. "Did she behave?"
"Yes" Eric answered. "I bounced her and she started to fuss and then crying"
"Sorry Eric, I forgot to tell you that she's not very good with people she doesn't know."
Eric rolled his eyes "Now that makes sense"
"But how did you manage to make her stop crying?" Wes asked curiously.
Eric taped Taylor's shoulder "Taylor, started singing and then Jessica stop crying"
Jen saw her watch, it was 12 o' clock "Wes, shall we go now?"
"Yeah we should go, we promised my father we'd lunch with him today."
"Take care" They waved their hands at each other.
"How about we go out to lunch too?" Eric asked.
"Sure" Taylor answered.
After they finished their lunch Taylor felt she don't want to go home yet. She wanted to spend her time with Eric. Eric felt the same thing, for him it would be a waste if they ended their date after lunch. Eric remembered that today a new book written by his favorite author had been released.
Book would be a good reason to spend time with her.
"Say, don't you think it would be a waste if our date ended after lunch?"
Taylor nodded. He was glad that Taylor had agreed, but he wondered what they should do next.
"Let's go to a bookstore, today a new book written by my favorite author was released"
"Bookstore? That's a good idea. I've been meaning to get some new books I'm bored with the books I have and I want to buy some new ones.
"Glad that you like to read. If not you might've ended up waiting outside the bookstore"
"Oh you"
Silver Hill Bookstore
While waiting Eric queue in cashier line, Taylor still browsing to search the books she want to buy, however she still not found it yet. She noticed a book in the children's section and went over to look at it. It was a picture book the title read: The Legend of Animarium, she started at it. She was surprised to see it reprinted since it was an old book she had read as a child.
Taylor shook her head and without hesitating, she grabbed the book. Eric snuck up behind her.
"You scared me." She told him, she hadn't noticed him walk up to her.
Eric takes the picture book from Taylor and read the title. "The Legend of Animarium huh? Sounds interesting. You wait here, I going to pay for this."
"Hey wait—"
"It's alright. Just think of it as gift for our date."
"Alright then, I'll wait at outside"
Taylor went outside and saw two siblings playing together they seemed close, deep inside her she felt sad and envy.
If that never happened maybe she would still alive and…
She shook her head slowly. What already happened was in the past it already happened and she couldn't change it even she wished she could.
She feels someone tapped her head. It was Eric, she took in his hand. "You're late"
"Really?" Taylor nodded. "Taylor, is something wrong? You look so sad"
"It's only your feeling" She answered softly.
"Here your book" Eric pass it to Taylor.
"Thank You"
"You're welcome, any place you want to visit more?"
"No" she answered and then she looks her watch it's 4.00 PM.
"Do you want to back to your home?"
"Yes"
Taylor House
"Thank You Eric, today was fun"
"You're welcome" Then they kissing each other.
"See you again Eric" Someday I will tell you why I'm sad today.
After Eric left Taylor open the plastic book and read the picture book, she glanced through the page.
This books what I suppose to read to her.
She closes the book and put it on bookshelf.
I know it. She wont revived even I wished it.
"Brace yourself Taylor" She murmured "This isn't like you".