Kail looked around the clearing again. She handed Taith a sandwich and moved the fruit closer to answer his question. “No, I don’t really come here much. We’ve had some family picnics here and my cousin and I loved to hide in the grass when we were little and have my sister come to find us. I remember it sometimes, but I haven’t been here at all since I was a little girl.”
Kail though back to those golden days of childhood. It seemed odd to her that it all seemed so perfect. Growing up hadn’t been anything but ordinary, with its problems and trials, but the days like picnic here seemed almost like a wonderful dream. She sighed remembering that soon after their last picnic Tia, her older sister, decided to move out. She was a grown woman and hadn’t been trying to hurt her family, but it’s not what her mother wanted and while she tried to be patient with Tia’s unusual need for solitude, at least unusual in Mura, her mother didn’t really do family things anymore because the “family” was gone. Kail didn’t understand that thinking because just Tia moved across town and they saw her all the time. Come to think of it Kail would have to remember to thank Tia for making it easier for her to have her own space. It hadn’t been such a big deal when Kail had wanted to follow her sister and leave her grandmother’s house for a place of her own. Hum.
Kail looked at Taith, eating and watching her, and picked up a sandwich herself and took a bite. “Sorry to be distracted,” she apologized after swallowing. I was just thinking about my family and being here as a little girl.” The violet of her eye’s lightened up as she smiled widely and turned her body into Taith’s, leaning her back against his prone form and turning to look intently into his blue countenance. “Today, though, is all about us.” She smiled and ask him “do you remember being a child? Before, I mean. I would have liked to have seen you as a child. You are so serious now, maybe you would have been silly sometimes as a little boy. Do you remember?”