Kenzie Cooper

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So it's coming to the end of the summer holidays and me and my family are having a picnic in the park when we see a girl maybe 8 years older then me sat underneath a big oak tree with a sketch pad in front of her. I gasp in shock as she moves to put the pad down and from behind the pad is what looks to be a 8 month old baby boy.
My mum gives me a funny look and follows my gaze. "Awww that's adorable. That's how you were when you were his age. You'd sit soo still and just be soo content being outside with me." I give her a wide smile and go back to eatin my sandwich, keeping the young mum and her baby in my eyesight.
A while later and everyone is still in the same spots the only thing that's different is that the young mum is lay on her back with her baby's back pressed against her front looking up at the beautiful cloudy sky. Every now and the young mum will lean up and whisper something in the baby's ear and the baby will roar with laughter making the mum giggle also.
The young mum starts to look at her watch at 10 minuet intervals and looking expectingly round the park, catching my eye every now and then with a small smile. She's about to check the time again when it rings. "Riles, where are you?" I hear. "You said to meet you in the park and then kept delaying me I've been in the park for hours now with Austin looking at clouds and drawing his face." She says with a mixture of anticipation and happiness. As her friend on the other end of the phone, Riles, replies and we, as I see my mum keeping an eye on her as well, see the young mother roll her eyes in a sarcastic way. "What do you mean you were getting me a surprise?... Riles I can't close my eyes I have a baby to watch over, he's obsessed with butterflies lately." She says as Austin takes off in a crawl in our direction eyes set of the fluttering butterfly not far from him. "Hold on Riles gotta get him."
She gets up really quick with her phone between her shoulder and ear and scooped the baby off the ground, kissing him one the cheek before realising how close he had gotten to our picnic. "Sorry. When your not busy they're angels but the minute you do something else all of a sudden they know how to move about again... my names maya, and this is Austin." She says raising her hand out to us. We shake back when she reaches out Austin's tiny hand and giggles as her baby lets out a gurgle.
"I'm Leanne and these are my children Kacey, Kai," pointing them out before locking eyes with me and saying " and this is my youngest Kenzie. And don't worry I remember especially with Kenz she just wouldn't sit still at all." I look down at my hands blushing.
Maya is about to reply when we hear. "SHORTSTACK!" Maya's eyes widen and her phone abandoned as she lets it fall from her shoulder and spins around. We all look over as well and see a brunette standing near a very tall man in an army uniform.
"Ohmygosh!" I hear fall from Maya's lips as she settles Austin against her chest. I see my mum getting teary eyed but all I am is confused. That is until maya sets out in a slow run as the man drops his bag and opens his arms... then it finally hits... its Austin's dad!
As maya collides with the army man the brunette yells "YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!" And maya lets out a big hearty laugh.
"Lucas... how are you... what are..." She stutters as Austin lets out a content sigh from his place between his parents.
He says something that we can't hear but maya flushed and leans into him smiling. We don't really hear from maya again as she sits with her family back by the oak tree. When we pack up to leave.
*3 weeks later*
Being back after my summer holidays was exhausting yet exciting especially when I saw I had art on my timetable for the first time that week.
As I walked in the class I see a short blonde woman writing on the board her name. Maya Hart. As she spins round I have to hold in my gasp. It's maya from the park! I smile as she notices me and recognition covers her eyes.
"My name is Miss Hart. But you can call me Maya. Today as a little ice breaker were all gonna draw something that means something to us and then we explain why it's so important to us... okay?" She gets a bunch of nods and smiles as she practically bounces behind her desk.
*45 minuets later and everyone has something drawn*
"Okay! Who wants to go first?" No one volunteers so maya says... "okay I'll go. This is a picture of my baby who is almost 9 months old, and this is my fiancée Lucas. He's in the army so when he came home on leave we were at the park and it was still light out but the baby was getting sleepy so we agreed to 10 more minutes and as we were about to leave he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him." Practically all the girls in class swooned at the story, and everyone was blown away at the drawing maya presented. She was then bombarded with questions which she answered. "So how old are you?" "22" "Hiw old were you when you met Lucas?" "I was 14" "where did you meet him... I bet it was a super nice place." "Nope actually I met him when I was on the train with my best friend Riley and I was trying to set her up with a boy and we needed to know whether he was single so I went up to him spoke to him asked him out then dumped him walked back to my friend and told her he's single..." she said as if it wasn't a big deal as she looked up and saw the shock and confusion on everyone's face she elaborated. "They realised that they were more like brother and sister and that me and Lucas actually liked each other more then he liked Riley I like uncle boing." "Uncle Boing?!" Was passed around the room. "Riley has this uncle whose like 3 years older then us and I thought I loved him. Till I realised he was just another jerk and that he was using me. Lucas comforted me and that's when it clicked."
I smile a soft smile and I see the memories cloud her eyes. "Anyway!" She continues. "Back to your art work!" She was so enthusiastic about everyone's art. I knew we'd all learn a lot from Maya, about art and life, in the years yet to come.

* I kind of rambled on this one... been having a tough time trying to find inspiration so I'm open to suggestions of scenarios * also thinking about doing an AU piece of CSI NY only one chapter but it's really long so let me know if you actually want it...

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