A fun day ((Claira))

[crane]

Gary laughed but let his older sisters Janey and Shirley drag him to the karaoke stand. He didn’t actually fight them. Gary wasn’t a very good singer, but he was good enough for a karaoke. Or for a camp out singing night with friends.
Shirley picked the song and as music started the three relatives enjoyed themselves while singing it. After finishing the song Janey and Shirley left. Janey for her shift as a waitress that started at 3 PM, Shirley had to go to her book-club session.

Hugging her sisters Gary decided to stick around for a bit more. It was a fun day – somekind of a big mall was doing this festival on the beach, so there was a karaoke stand, stalls, luck-games, live performance later. Gary didn’t care much for the mall, but the active day here in the park fun.
Buying himself a hot dog Gary retreated to a swing to eat in peace. His stomach had been grumbling loudly already. Eating the hot dog Gary smiled at the people bustling around the park. Some were here with families having a picnic, some had game for the festival or fair or whatever it actually was.

Watching as little kids rode a small tour with ponies Gary finished off his hot dog while throwing a little of the bread for birds. Grinning as two birds got into a fight over one piece of bread-crumb, Gary wondered what to do now. Should he stay around for a bit more or should he go home? Pondering over the matter a bit Gary continued throwing small pieces of bread-crumb to birds.

[bekka]

Claira ran ahead of her parents, who were holding hands and laughing at the things in the fair. She ran to a cotton candy stand and turned to her parents, a wanting look in her eyes. Samantha looked at Claira and sighed, Mathew laughed. Claira pouted comically and Samantha shook her head, laughing.

Five minutes later, Claira walked through the fair, a large purple and green cotton candy puff on a stick clutched in her hand. She tore a bit and shoved it into her mouth. As she played with other children and went on a few rides, like the Ferris Wheel, she caught a few words of her parent's conversation.

"It's good for her to get out," Mathew's voice said quietly, Claira knew they meant her.

"Yes, especially when she just found out about... you know... that school and her real father. Its nice for her to feel normal again," Samantha answered. Claira suddenly felt sad. That's the only reason why they let her come to the fair? So she could feel normal again? Claira didn't want to be near her parents so she ran off to swing on a swing set. She sat down next to a boy and ate some more of her cotton candy, hoping her parents wouldn't find her.

[crane]

Gary laughed at the birds small fights and rustle as they competed for bread-crumbs. Gary tried to be fair and make sure every bird got some piece, but it wasn’t that easy. Some birds were just quicker and snatched the pieces of bread away from other slower birds. Gary figured that it was the law of nature.
The bread ended far to quickly. The birds would have eaten more and Gary would have enjoyed watching them eat longer too. Most of the birds flew away while some stayed and started looking for food on the ground near by.

A young girl ran to the swinging set and sat down next to Gary as she ate colorful cotton candy. Gary smiled at the girl and pushed his own swing to move a little. The girl seemed sad for some reason. Gary wasn’t sure why he thought that the girl was sad. She wasn’t crying, but he had a feeling that the girl was sad. It was kind of the same way he would feel when Lindy had hurt herself or when Lindy was sad. A smile appeared on Gary’s face as he thought of her younger sister.
“Is everything alright? You seem a little sad?” Gary asked the girl next to her gently. Maybe this girl was someone’s little sister too.

[bekka]

Claira jumped when the boy next to her talked to her. She turned, her eyes surprised. He seemed nice enough. Claira was having bad luck with new people. Pyro had been extremely mean, but maybe this guy was nice and maybe he's not a wizard... she didn't need to meet anymore wizards. She put on a smile, not really believing it.

"Just... upset, is all," she couldn't lie. It wasn't Claira, but she could tell the truth, "I'm fine, though..." she said it quietly. She now noticed tears in her small eyes. She brushed her fingers undernieth her eyes and smiled, more believable now.