A Day in the Park

Chapter 2

You drive slowly so Liam doesn’t lose you on your way to your house. Once there, you open Chloes door and get her out. You all walk up to the door and you open the door. The smell of lavender hitting your faces. You smile because it’s you favorite smell. You look over at Liam and see that he has a small smile on his face. Chloe goes straight to her toys and sits down and plays. You walk to the kitchen and ask Liam if he would like anything to drink. “Sure” he replies. “I have water, sprite, and juice.” “I’ll have some water please.” He responds.

Chloe comes running in and asks Liam to come play with her. He goes and leaves you to cook. You get all you ingredients out and start to cook the Hamburger. You get everything else ready. You hear someone coming into the kitchen. You look behind you and you see Liam holding a picture. You drop everything and just crawl to the floor crying. It was the picture that was of the day you graduated college. That was the night that Kayla started drugs. It was in the back where you couldn’t see it anymore.

“Whats wrong Kenzie?” Liam asks while sitting on the floor about to hug you.

That's when Chloe walks in. She sees you crying which never happens and runs to you and crawls on your lap.

“What wrong pancakes?”

You just sob louder knowing that Kayla will never be able to see Chloe grow up. Liam takes Chloe out of your arms and takes her to her room and turns on Dora. He returns and pulls you onto his lap. He just lets you cry until you smell your hamburger burning. You slowly get up but Liam stops you and goes to turn it off. You calm down enough to get back to cooking dinner. “Can I help?” He asks. “Could you peel the butternut squash and chop in cubes?” “Sure. Where are the tools?” “Over in that drawer.” He goes and gets what he needs. You work like this for a few minutes. “I’m sorry” you say. “You don’t have to be sorry Kenzie.” “Yes I do. I don’t cry. I haven’t cried about what had happened and seeing you with that picture…. It just hit me.” “Is that the day she died?” He asks. “No. That was the day I graduated college. That was the day she became pregnant with Chloe. That was the day she started using drugs.” He stops what he was doing and comes to you and pulls you in for a hug. You didn’t know what to do. You usually don’t let people touch you. You felt so comfortable, like you belonged in his arms. You needed him at that moment.

You push away saying that dinner needs to be put into the oven or you’ll never going to eat tonight. You finish up dinner and put it in the oven. You and Liam go and get Chloe to go play out in the yard. You see lighting bugs out and you all go and catch them and see who can get the most. Both Liam and I let Chloe win. Lying in the grass and knowing that today couldn’t get any better. Liam walks over and lays right beside you looking at the stars. He rolls over and grabs your hand, and kisses it. That’s when Chloe comes and lays right in between you two. You look over to Liam and smile and mouth “Tickle?” On three you and Liam tickle Chloe and she starts giggling up a storm.

You hear the timer going off and you get up to get it out of the oven. You call Liam and Chloe in for dinner.

“Go wash your hands Chloe.” You say.

“But I don’t want to pancakes.” She says

“Go do it now or no dessert for you.” You respond.

“Fine” Chloe says while stumping off.

“You too mister” you say to Liam.          

“But I don’t want toooo” Liam says with a pouty face.

“Go or you don’t get dessert either.”

“Fine” he says but comes to you instead. You are taken aback by this movement. He holds your face and leans slowly down but right before his lips touch yours he asks “May I?” You couldn’t breathe; you were holding your breath, so you nodded. He kisses you with the most sensitive intentions. You pull back after a minute or two. The two of you look at each other in the eyes and just knew that everything was going to be ok. He breaks eye contact to look down. You follow his line of site and notice that Chloe is pulling on his pant legs.

You hear “Why are you doing that to pancakes?” You couldn’t help but laugh at that the question. Liam turns to you with redden cheeks. He looks back down to Chloe and says “Kenzie and I were kissing. Is that ok with you?” Chloe stands there and thinks for a moment. “As long as she doesn’t cry again it is ok with me.” You stare at the 2 year old that is holding onto Liam and is just astonished by what she just said. Liam looks at you and asks “Will you cry if I kiss you again?” Unable to speak by what both Chloe and Liam just said you kinda just stood there. Liam leans over and kisses you and Chloe gasps but she realizes that I am not crying so she starts giggling. She moves in-between you two and pushes the two of you away from each other. “I’m hungry pancakes!” Chloe whines. We all sit around the table and start to eat.

“Dinner was great Kenzie” Liam says while taking the plates to the sink. Chloe has run off to go play some more before bed. “Thanks. You don’t have to clean up. Go watch some TV.” You respond. “I would rather clean up with you.” Liam responds. “Will you clean up while I get Chloe ready for bed than?” You ask him. “My pleasure” he answers.

You go off to get Chloe a bath and pajamas on with a smile on your face.

You finally got Chloe to sleep. You go to the kitchen and see it spotless. You look around for Liam but he was not there. You head to the door and notice there was a note saying that he got called to the hotel. He is sorry for not saying good bye. He left his number on the note. You text Liam to thank him for cleaning up the kitchen. You head up stairs to get ready for bed yourself.

While getting ready for bed you couldn’t stop thinking about what had happened that day. Once your head hit that pillow though; you were out like a light.