Luna (Empress continued)

Cress's Day (2)

Thorne hangs up and I turn to Liam still smiling, I feel a whole lot better now that I have seen ad talked Thorne. I might just call him back to see that handsome face of his.

"Can I go back to play now? I made a new friend." He smiles proudly as if he has just defeated someone. 

I nod, "Sure just be careful, and if you get hungry I have some food over here."

He nods standing up, "Okay."

I wave.

He waves and starts to run towards the play equipment

I lay back down on the mat and drift asleep. 

....

Something kicks my foot with quite a bit of force. My eyes fly open and my hands instantly fly to my stomach. 

I look to the person who kicked me. It is a woman, slightly older than me looking down at me with a sneer. She cackles, "Of course, you're his mother. Everything makes sense now."

I push my self up as fast as possible trying not to appear weak even though that is exactly what I am. "What are you talking about?"

"Well, "She says turning away from me arrogantly, "That little boy of yours push my son off of the slide."

I gasp, "Liam?"

She roles her eyes, "Yes, woman. Liam."

"Um, okay." I stand up still kind of shaky from my nap.

She grumbles under her breath and starts to walk over to where Liam ran off to. 

As we near the children's part of the park I see two people, Liam and another boy. Liam is standing up, his arms crossed over his chest looking down at the boy with distaste. The other boy, is laying on the ground holding his knee and rocking back and forth on the mulch. 

"Um, Liam, what happened here?"

He frowns at me and then back at the boy. "I pushed him."

"Liam," I breath, "Why did you push him?"

He glares at the boy, "He said something that was mean."

"That doesn't mean you get to push my precious little sweetheart over." The woman says coldly stating to help her son up.

'If you cared so much about him you would have helped him before getting us' I think to myself barely holding it inside.

Liam glares at the woman too but stays standing in the same spot casting dirty looks in every which direction. 

"Um Liam," I hold out my hand to him, "Maybe we should go back over to blanket now." I glance back at the lady with a tight smile, "Sorry about that."

She roles her eyes and watches us around the corner.

I collapse down on the blanket and look at Liam, "What was that all about Liam?"

He shrugs pulling some grass out of the ground with a look of guilt on his face. "I don't know, he was being mean."

"How was he being mean?"

Liam looks up at me, "He was saying mean things about you....so I pushed him onto the ground."

Suddenly I don't feel so bad, I start to smile, "So he just got what he disserved?"

He looks at me with uncertainty, "Maybe."

"Well, if you're worried about me, I am not mad at you. Okay?"

He nods his expression becoming less and less dark by the second.  "Okay."