THE NEXT DAY
At 2:45p.m. Fitz was standing in the parking lot waiting for the children to be released. Olivia called earlier saying the girl's foster parents are letting her join him for the day. The parents waiting for their children stared dumbfounded at the president while a few reporters stood their distance taking pictures waiting for something to happen. The bell Rang and the children took off to their parents and some stood with their teacher waiting for their ride. Destiney walked out of the school with a little girl who looked to be both white and black and a boy on her other side carrying 3 backpacks. She hugged Tom and he nodded she walked up to Fitz as Fitz got on one knee to hug her. Destiney pulled away,
"This is Alice my new best friend the one I told you about last night and this is Johnny my other best friend I told you about him too." Destiney said sweetly. Fitz shook the shy young girl and the eager young boy hand.
"Can you guys get your stuff I want to play with Derek?" Johnny said looking at Derek at the playground as soon as they grabbed their bag he dashed off.
"So today we will go to a school with kids just like you and have fun we'll go to my home and eat and do whatever you'd like. Is that ok?" Fitz looked at each girl.
"Yeah it's ok, right Ali?" She nodded in agreement. They all got in the car. Fitz asked what they wanted for dinner they agreed on a whole lot of cheese and ham pizzas. They pulled up to the school not too long after Fitz got off the phone with the chef.
"When we get out, there's going to be a lot of people with cameras and phones and just people screaming and even trying to get close to you. All you have to do is smile, wave, and stay close to me. Okay?" The girls nodded. Fitz stepped out and the crowd outside the school went crazy he stood and waited for the girls to take each one of his hands and theirs and they walked, smiled, waved and, stayed close.
Fitz gave a wonderful speech. After the speech it was ice cream time. Fitz, Alice, and Destiney gave the kids ice cream then ate some. They sat down eating it when Destiney whispered something in Alice ear.
"What if he gets mad?" Alice asked worried about the consequences.
"He won't I promise." Destiney smiled mischievously and they both sat on either sides of him.
"Hi girls." Destiney & Alice took a finger full of ice cream rubbed it all on his cheeks and ran off. They fell in the grass laughing at his face when they finally calmed down he was standing right in front of them. Before they knew it he was tickling them and rubbing his sticky cheeks all over there's. Soon they were all on the ground laughing. They got up all sticky and tired. They ran around with the others spraying water guns for a hour. They didn't leave until 4:30ish. Once they were in the car the panic set in.
"Oh no my hair is curly and clothes are sticky they're going to kill me." Alice started to cry. Fitz and Destiney tried to comfort her but she just wouldn't stop crying. So Fitz called Olivia,
"I don't know what to do. She just freaked."
"What happened?" Olivia asked and Fitz went over their day which she watched then he told her what happened when they got in the car. Olivia thought about a solution and one hit her.
"Come by my job. I got clothes here for Destiney in case of an emergency and Abby can straighten her hair. I have things for that too. We have a washing machine so I can wash their clothes and bring them with me when I leave."
"And I get to see you" Fitz beamed
"And I get to see you" She sighed.