A day in the park

[gazzi]

Lucille walked along the cobblestone path of the park not really caring about anything. It was a nice day, with a cloudy sky and warm temperatures. The trees were beginning to change color as spring turned into fall, but it was still quite beautiful. There were many people at the park today. A mother pushing a stroller power walked by in her sweats, a young boy was yanked along by a large dog, and some high school kids were playing Frisbee in the grass. Not to mention the people who weren’t there for fun. A man in a clown suit was selling balloons. Lucille decided she would get one, just for fun. Who didn’t like balloons, right? She walked up to the clown and got her wallet out of her pocket. Lucille didn’t like to carry a purse, so in her left pocket she kept her wallet and in her right she kept her phone. She didn’t carry anything else. Lucille didn’t understand the need to have lip gloss, shades, an extra shirt, and all that other stuff girls carried around in purses. She only needed money and a phone, and that’s what she carried. She paid for her balloon, which was blue, and walked on.

After a few more minutes of walking, she noticed an ice cream stand. What goes better with a balloon than ice cream? She walked over to the stand and asked the girl behind it to give her vanilla. Vanilla was her favorite flavor. It was refreshing, and didn’t leave that sticky feel in your mouth that chocolate did. Sometimes she would go for cookie dough, but vanilla was her favorite. It was nice and plain. She walked the cobblestone path laughing inwardly at herself. Look at her, she was a 17 year old grown girl, and yet she was walking through the park with a balloon and an ice cream cone. She couldn’t feel like more of a child, but she didn’t mind. It was nice to be carefree sometimes, even if that meant acting like a child.

About a quarter mile ahead of her she saw a large tree. She remembered climbing that very tree when she was younger. Well, she had a balloon and ice cream, so why not tree climb as well? It only took her a few minutes to reach the tree, and by the time she did she had finished her ice cream. She tied her balloon to one of her belt loops and began to climb; using the same branches and foot holds that she did when she was younger. It was great, she couldn’t remember the last time she had climbed this tree. Nothing like a trip down memory lane to put you in a great mood, right? Once she had reached a branch that could support her, she sat down. She was about fifteen feet into the tree. She could see so much more from here. The sand box across the park with the little kids in it, the wishing fountain, even the parking lot and the community pool. She wondered why she didn’t come to the park more often, why had it all of a sudden become an uncool place once she became a freshman? It really didn’t make any sense. She enjoyed the park, after all.

[Cody]

It was nice. To finally be off on your own, on your own wings for once. Were the world was carried only by yourself and no one else could help or take it away. This is how Cody felt right at this moment. He had finally broken free of the foster homes and was making a living and a name for himself n a world that cared only about money and value. But he knew there had to be more to it then just that. There had to be.

With a light sigh, arms crossed on the back of his head, the unidentified shifter wiggled his feet back and forth while lounging on the grass of the park. Pale blue eyes were trained up to the small white lingering clouds splotted against the bright blue sky that stretched out over head. It was a nice day, peaceful and uneventful. There had to be one uneventful day in the course of a couple weeks, or else everything just drained a person away. It was nice to just relax.

Closing his eyes against the brightness of the sun Cody let out another light sign before a 'Watch out!' entered the air and before he could part his eyes a Frisbee landed over his head and made him blink quickly with surprise. Sitting up and holding the white round object he looked around the for thrower and smiled when they ran up to him and asked him repeatedly if he was alright. After reassuring the teen that no harm was done he handed the toy back to him and looked around.

His eyes suddenly rested on a girl high up in a tree right above him, swaying slightly. Crocking his head to the side, he watching with a soft grin on his features. "Hey you, up there! Having fun?!" He called cheerfully, always jumping into making conversation.

[gazzi]

Lucille continued to look around the park, taking in everything she saw and remembering things from when she was younger. She held her legs close to her chest and smiled to herself. It was nice up in the tree.

"Hey you, up there! Having fun?!"

Lucille looked down to see a boy standing almost under her. She smiled, “Yeah, wanna join me?” She laughed slightly. She felt good seeing somebody her age at the park, because before not it had just been young children and their parents, and the occasional 25 year old or something. In any case, these were people she could really care less about, and didn’t really want to hang with. This guy though, he seemed cool. She was glad that he had noticed her.

She examined his appearance. He had many piercings, but it really didn’t bother her. She was thinking about getting a nose ring, maybe she could ask him about it. Lucille actually liked people who were slightly different; it made her feel more comfortable, because she was slightly different herself. She had never thought of herself as popular, but not as dorky either. She was simply the middle class. She had a solid group of friends and she enjoyed the fact that she wasn’t known by everybody in her school. It was nice to be unknown.

She skooched over on the tree branch to make room for the boy if he decided to climb up. “What’s your name?”

[Cody]

|| BTW Cody only has one piercing and it's not shown on any of this pictures. ^^ ||

[gazzi]

Oh? I thought I read that he had eye brow piercings and stuff. And I guess I got him and the other guy in the pictures confused then.

Just ignore it? She didn't say anything out loud about it.. I don't want to change it..........

[Cody]

Cody's grin only became wider as the girl acknowledged him and he waved again standing up while brushing off his pants. "Sure!" The shifter called up, his features bright and happy before his pale blue eyes moved towards the tree. Sticking out his tongue in concentration the boy was trying to figure out how exactly he was going to get up that tree. Finally, after about a minute of humming and hahing the pup jumped up to the first branch.

Hanging there, looking around quickly, he swung his legs and hauled his body up the branch and proceeded to do so until he was about a foot under the girl. With a slight pant he latched onto the branch she was sitting on and climbed his way up, the grin never leaving his face. A light sheen of sweat covered his brow which he wiped away with the back of his hand and looked over to her, smirking.

"Haven't climbed a tree in a while... Wow! We're really high up!" Pale blue eyes would then glance around and take in the scenery. Then when he heard her question his head would turn and he would hold out his hand. "My name's Cody. What's yours?"