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The Park, Sunday Late Morning

"Dude, I hate the outside," April complained to her daughter as Hillary determinedly began to assemble a picnic on the ground. April didn't have a whole lot of picnic stuff lying around, so the blanket from her bed was now being laid out across the grassy ground for them to sit on, and a bunch of waffles and whipped cream and other breakfast stuff had been acquired from the diner on the way here. The one concession that Hillary had made to April's actual preferences was that this picnic was taking place late in the morning, rather than at eight like Hillary had originally wanted it.

"I know," Hillary chirped at her. "But I don't, and your apartment's all stuffy and boring. And I wanna toss a ball for Cliff."

Cliff, rather than looking eager at the mention of a ball, was happily dozing on a corner of the blanket.

April groaned. "Cliff hates the outside too," she told her daughter. "And grass is touching my ankle and I think I'm getting a rash. I hate this."

Hillary gave her a very unimpressed look. "Just an hour, Mom," she said -- not whining or pleading at all, because her voice was too firm for that, but just looking at April in a way that made it hard to argue with her.

April, on the other hand, was whining. "Fiiiiiiiiiiine."

[[open park!]]

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Breakfast for Boaz and her new little brother had been a FEAST of doughnuts and apple fritters and muffins. And milk, of course, because that was healthy, and healthy was important. Even to an Akatsutsumi!

After, they totally forgot about going back to the hotel and instead ended up at the park. Boaz was taking advantage of the open flat space to practice her ~~somersaults~~ gymnastics, showing off to Lasumi's giggling and clapping. And MonMon, of course.

"Look look Boz! I can too! Look!" And the three year old leaned over to try to do his own tumble. He was unable to go further than leaning on his head, though.

"Good job, Lasumi!" Boaz cheered him on and then ran over to help push him over the rest of the way.

[GYMNASTICS!]

"I AM QUEEN OF THE WOOOOOOOORLD!" Ellie was standing at the top of the slide, arms out, and then flopping down on her stomach to slide down head-first.

"You're going to land on your heeeeead," Cadence called from the swings, making a face.

Vlad was at the bottom to catch Ellie and swing her up to the ladder again. "Your Majesty is still breakable. Slide down on your butt, kid."

Was he ready to help a three year old and a stuffed monkey? "Nex! Meeeeee! Meee!"

"Gotcha, kid." Vlad swung him up on the ladder, and asked, "Want me to hold onto your buddy while you slide?"

Lasumi shook his head squealing happily as he was lifted up. "MonMon likes slides!" It was amazing how adept the boy could be, climbing the last rung to get up while not once losing grip of his monkey. You'd think it was a superpower. "He goes fas'too!"

Vlad held his hands in the air, amused. "I won't stop him, then. This is my little sister, Ellie." Except for when she was his big sister. Heh.

Lasumi leaned forward grinning happily. "HI ELLIE! I'm Lasumi! An' I'm not little. I'm big cause I gots my own room an I had choco'milk inna big cup for brekfas wif DONUTS!!"

Cause Boaz was the BEST!

"Hi Lasumi!" Ellie ran over and started chattering from the bottom of the slide. "This is Vlad he's big and he's not mean he's just funny, and Mommy calls him names 'cause he teases her, and Daddy's gonna be here soonish and hey I want donuts, Vlad." Inhale. "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?"

More donuts?

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?!" Lasumi leaned even further over to add to HIS NEW BFF's request.

"Wouldn't you explode from more sugar?" Vlad had to ask, wondering how he was meant to resist that much weaponized cuteness.

(Kenzi coughed "*karma*" somewhere).

"Ask Mom when she gets here. You know she loves that."

"Mommy's coming?!" Lasumi practically threw himself down the slide!

(or so he thought, in reality, he was scooting down as best he could and making swooshing noises while waving MonMon's arms.)

"Ours. I have no idea about yours." Vlad was trying not to snicker.

"Mommy's bringing foooods. We'll share," Ellie promised, then hugged Vlad's leg. "Right? Sharing's good!"

"Mommy hadda go work." Or something. He didn't really remember; just that she wasn't around when he woke up. "An' Momomama isn't 'lowed to make brekfests a'cause Mommy says she's grouuuunded!"

Lasumi finally made it to the bottom of the slide and jumped down, his arms (and MonMon) flying into the air with a hoot of victory before he was bouncing and making obvious 'again' motions at the big boy Ellie liked.

"Oh, I get it, I'm just the ladder substitute," Vlad said, picking Lasumi up and perching him on the slide again.

"You're silly," Ellie said, giggling. "Lasumi do you have a big brother? They are con-veeeeni-ent." Ellie's favorite word this week.

Lasumi squealed happily as he was lifted. He turned to look back at Ellie with a huge grin. "Nope! I gots a Sin anna Momomama anna Mommy anna MonMon!!" said MonMon was now waving at Ellie and dangling over the edge.

Sort of like Lasumi was now doing himself, trying to get closer to look at the bigger boy. "Hi Conveeenyent! You inna wonton noodlz or 'dopted like Sin?" oooh! He leaned further over the edge, bouncing. "You can come home wif us!!"

"Careful there, little dude." Vlad reached out to make sure the little boy didn't fall. He snickered. "I wasn't adopted. Mom said she won me at a ring toss." Mom said a lot of things, sometimes.

Ellie nodded hard. "And she bought me at the baby store! But that's just silly. I grew in her tummy! She thinks about it and goes OOOOOOOWWWWW!"

"A store! Wassit Wongs?" Lasumi, being a ~~Lance~~... ~~Akatsutsumi~~... Lasumi, of course took Conveeenyent's reaching as an invitation to jump.

"No, Babies 'R-- LOOK OUT!"

Vlad dove and caught Lasumi, then asked, "Why the hell did you do that, kid?"

"FLYING! AGIN! AGIN!" Lasumi squirmed happily. At the question, he stilled, blinking up at him with a head-tilt. "A'cause?"

Victim of his genes, Vlad, sorry.

Boaz had followed Lasumi to the playground area and made immediately for the swings.

"Hi!" she smiled at the other girl as she climbed onto an empty swing and began to pump. "I like your hair!"

"Thanks!" Cadence grinned at the younger girl, guessing she was about Ellie's age, or maybe a little older. "Is that your little brother there?"

"I wish mine was curly."

She nodded at Lasumi. "He's sort of my brother? I don't have a Lasumi back home, just here. I gotta look after him though because his mom is my mom."

Akatsutsumi logic. Or, you know, being six.

She pumped her legs more and sent herself higher. "I wish he was really my brother; I like him. And his Sin is nicer than mine." Had she mentioned she had a Sin in her world? No? Probably because her Sin was older and not very playful.

Cadence matched her, not going too high so the littler girl could keep up. "Sin? Hunh. That your sister?" She pointed to Ellie and Vlad. "My older brother, sort of. I don't really have one. And my little sister, kind of. Don't have one of those either. But they're pretty cool." Even if Ellie kept reading her mind without asking, but she was too teeny to really resent it.

"So you only have brothers and sisters here, too?"

She was going as high as the big girl!

"Sin is Lasumi's real big sister. She stayed with her other mom last night so I don't know where she's at right now. The Sin I know doesn't have a little brother. Miss Dinah adopted her like mom adopted me."

Cadence was mostly following this; it helped that Vlad and Ellie had talked about the last time they visited. "Yeah, only brothers and sisters here. It's my first time. I'm liking it." She leaned back so her hair almost dragged on the ground, but not quite, 'cause ew. "Adoption's cool. Maybe I can talk my mom into adopting a little sister for me."

What was cool was the big girl swinging like that!

Boaz slowed as she stared and then tried it herself... And slid right off the seat and to the ground, head first.

"/ow/"

"You okay, kid?" Cadence straightened and hopped off the swing to crouch down next to the little girl. "Let's see, are you bleeding?" That was about the only thing mom checked on consistently.

"I'm okay!" Really, that was almost instinctual for her to say.

"I don't get hurt sometimes." She sat up, slightly stunned, and rubbed her head. At the mention of blood, she pulled her and away and looked, then bent in the other girl's direction. "I don't see any. It just hurts." Ow. Ow. Ow.

"How come you can do it and I can't?"

"I'm taller," Cadence said, wincing a little and rubbing the little girl's head gently. "My legs balance it out when I do that. I should've said something, sorry."

Boaz pouted at that explanation and kicked her foot a little, stirring up some of the dirt. "Mom says I'm not gonna be small forever, but it feels like it."

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