Adventures in Swepan & Growing Up: Saturdays are the worst (optional & open)

[a_peaceful_aura]

Saturday Yuya’s mother is in charge of the play group. Six children have the run of the park while the woman chats with some man. He has a nice green aura, much better than Yuya’s father. Yuya’s father’s aura has a slimy black spot right where his stomach should be and it makes Taiki a little ill if he stares at it too long.

But Saturdays are the

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[wasplisbeth]

ooc: may wee!lisbeth step in? I never know if it's rp appropriate when not in a comm or what not. Lisbeth is not pleased with someone picking on Taiki.

wrong journal :| I seem to do this often, oops.

[dainty_ofcourse]

OOC: Of course! All my posts are open for play/commentary unless otherwise stated :)

Plus you and Lisbeth are much fun. Feel free to step in any time.

[wasplisbeth]

Nobody pushes her friend down like that, no matter what Taiki did and really what could a six (and a half) year old really do that was so horrible? Nothing the warrants pushing him down into the mud that's for damn sure. Lisbeth doesn't even give Shuya a chance to reach the group of kids that will surely close rank around him. She gives him a shove, hard, "don't push my friend." That's all she needs to say frankly, he can stay down or he can get back up but she's said her peace and moves away from the great big bully to help Taiki get his backpack back.

She doesn't make any move past the shore, he seems to have it covered but she wants to be able to step in if needed.

[a_peaceful_aura]

Shuya does indeed stay down. The kid is flabbergasted by the strange girl's action; he was just trying to stick up for his little sister. Besides, that Kayashima kid is creepy as heck (because hell is a bad word and his sister will tell on him).

Taiki is oblivious (as always) to the happenings further inland and doesn't notice Lisbeth until he's slogged back onto shore. Both he and the bag are now wet and muddy -though it doesn't seem to bother him much as of yet.

"Hello." Lisbeth gets a small happy smile as he trudges up to her; he's a bit distracted with opening the zipper on his bag and peering in to examine the extent of the damage inside.

[wasplisbeth]

"Hello," she responds to Taiki, ignoring what's going on behind them because it is of no importance to her now. Instead she is interested in Taiki and to make sure that he's okay, however it's hard to tell seeing as though he is now dripping wet and a little muddy. He seems fine, he's not crying, he's not bleeding. When people are crying and or bleeding that generally means that a person is upset.

Leaning forward she looks down at him and what's in his bag, "did anything in your bag break?"

[a_peaceful_aura]

Apparently Yuya's mother is a horrible supervisor. Taiki's mother (and probably Child Services) would be appalled.

Taiki just hums a little at her question, glancing from the bag to the gaggle of kids -- it makes him uncomfortable when they all stare at him like that. Next he turns and looks over his shoulder at the small hedge of shrubs nearby.

"Come with me." Taiki just assumes Lisbeth will follow. He turns and marches for the bushes, jeans soaked from the knees on down and open bag held against his chest (saturating his coat). When he gets to the line of shrubs he disappears on through; if Lisbeth decides to accompany him then on the other side she'd find a tiny little space -- just enough room for two or three pint-sized recluses.

[wasplisbeth]

"Sometimes," she concedes. Most bullies don't like to be put in their place. "It depends on what's important to you. Most of the time if you put the hurt on someone everyone else will leave you alone." However she can't imagine him putting the hurt on anyone and she doesn't want him to get hurt, that's not her intention at all.

Watching him with his stickers on the cube she seems to give up on getting the cube back in any working order. It's his anyway.

[a_peaceful_aura]

"'On what's important to you'?" Taiki tilts his head, not understanding what she means by this.

[wasplisbeth]

"Some people don't care if they're pushed around. Some people don't want to be pushed around." She's not exactly talking about him in the first statement. In her head there are some people who continue to get hurt but won't do anything to stop it and she doesn't understand it.

[a_peaceful_aura]

"I don't want to be pushed." He is very sure of this. His things keep getting ruined and his hand hurts. ...And he's wet.

This is not a very good day.

[wasplisbeth]

Mad as in angry mad or mad as in crazy? She's not crazy, she hates it when people call her crazy because she's not crazy! She's about to actually ask that question when Yuya's mom comes up to them and grabs Taiki's elbow which Lisbeth finds completely inappropriate.

Stepping up she puts her own, cold, slightly damp hand on the woman's wrist.

"You're bad at your job, you should have been watching Taiki and you were not." She tells her point blank. It's clear that she was supposed to be watching the kids but was not. "Leave him alone, I'm taking him home."

long and late post. sorry.

[a_peaceful_aura]

The woman is stunned at the little girl's audacity. Her jaw works a few moments before she finally finds words.

"No, he needs to stay here with the rest of the children. He can't go off by himself -- it's dangerous." Since the panic of the escaping charge has passed, she relaxes her grip on Taiki's elbow -- but ignores Lisbeth's hand. Just as she begins to pull the boy back towards the bench, Taiki acts.

He pushes the lady away, just like Lisbeth told him to do.

Though it doesn't actually work out so well -- he is quite small and she has a son of her own. Taiki is picked up around his middle and tucked under one of her arms, his bag snatched up with her free hand.

It doesn't happen very often; he is an unnaturally quiet and well-behaved child most days. But over the past hour he's been pushed around, scraped up, his bag was thrown in the lake, his things were ruined, and now he's being manhandled. He just wants to go home with his friend.

Taiki does the six (and a half) year old boneless wiggle, squirming until he's free.

totally okay I had to go on an airplane anyway.

[wasplisbeth]

No is such an ugly word sometimes, of course Lisbeth hears it a lot but that doesn't mean she has to like it. And she doesn't especially not in this case. The nerve of this lady! She is telling them what's best for Taiki especially since she wasn't watching him and he got all pushed down in he mud? Adults are stupid, and Lisbeth pretty much goes on and tells her that.

"You're stupid, he's with me and it's not dangerous." And she's about to do something stupid (Lisbeth, not the mom) when she scoops Taiki up like a piece of unyielding wet luggage. Except Taiki is wiggling and as he slips free the woman is distracted and Lisbeth takes the opportunity to grab Taiki's bag and then his hand.

"Lets run!"

[a_peaceful_aura]

Taiki is completely out of his element now; he's never blatantly disrespected and disobeyed an adult like this. All he can think about at the moment is the need Need NEED NEED to get home and when Lisbeth speaks up he obeys.

He holds her hand tight and they're off. His once-white canvas shoes are squishing -still completely soaked with water- but he's running as fast as his little legs will take him. Now both Yuya's mother and the man she was talking to are after the duo, panicked as they chase Taiki and Lisbeth towards the street.

"T-t-there!" He gasps out, bouncing and pointing as they run. Taiki wants them to go between two shops, down a narrow alley. He'll not be taking the round-about way back to his house today -- direct route only.