Human Kid (II)

4.

"Here!" Ashley closed her eyes and smiled as she handed over an ice cream cone to Ryan.

He looked at the vanilla flavored ice cream she held out for him to accept.

"What?"

Ashley was one human being that confused him so much.

She opened her eyes and blinked, "It's yours!"

"Why?" Ryan questioned annoyed. They came to the park to solve a case not to bask in the sunshine.

"Cos I got it for you silly!" she laughed.

"You wasted your money," Ryan snorted coldly and looked the other way.

Ethan folded his pants up to his knees and plunged into the frosty fountain water.

He folded up his blue cloth arm sleeves and crouched to pick pennies that had been thrown in the water.

Andrew was using a device to track footprints beside the berry bush.

Suzanne stood beside him, peering at the device curiously.

"Ryan, I discovered the reason why you're not nice! It's because you're not surrounded by nice things, so here....we'll start from this! The number one favorite nice thing on the world! Ice cream!" Ashley smiled and extended the cone again.

Ryan got up from the bench he was seating on and walked towards where Andrew had squatted, running some tests.

Suzanne sighed.

It was truly a beautiful day; the sky was blue, the birds were singing, lots of kids running around, owners with their pets, a man reading a newspaper nearby smoking pipe.

The huge fountain was standing gloriously.

The black berries were ripe and delicious looking, ready to be eaten. They weighed the shrubs that held them down.

Suzanne sighed again as she stared at Ryan.

His face was partly red, out of annoyance, as he tried to concentrate on what Andrew was saying.

He bent to Andrew's height and a lock of his dark blue hair fell partly on his face. He pushed it back with his left hand and pointed at a device Andrew was holding.

His eyelashes seemed longer and Suzanne was so attentively focused on him that she noticed every time he blinked.

His pinkish lip curved upwards slightly when Ashley showed him the cone again and said something to him.

He looked so perfect.

His sturdy hand grabbed the cone and flung it in another direction before he turned back to Andrew.

Ashley followed the flying cone in horror. It landed in the bushes, she bent to look for it.

Ryan snorted as he glanced at Ashley.

Very briefly his eyes flickered to where Suzanne sat. She sat up quickly and looked at him eagerly but he just rolled his eyes and looked away, returning his gaze back to what Andrew was doing.

If only he'll notice me. She sighed.

"Hey Suzanne!" Ethan cheerfully called as he got out of the fountain.

She threw him a bad look.

"Stop interfering with my moment Ethan," she told him and turned to look at Ryan again.

Ethan came to stand in front of her, obstructing her view of Ryan. He was oblivious of what was going on.

"Huh?" He scratched his hair.