Day 148 - 658 words - Prompt: a backyard

Alistar never did learn exactly where crowley lived, but Eve had the next best yard to play in once it was clear Alistiars mother was very much not renegging on her exit of the neighbor hood children.

Just as well - alsitars yard might have been the largest - with the most wonderufl places to explore -but it wasn't exactly filled witht hte things most children liked for their play time - like swings and slides and te such. and since alistar was the youngest child of the Phaelle household, there was little change of such play equipeemnt ever being installed.

but eve! her family had a wonderful play set-up. atleast, according to crolwey and adam's reactions. and eve seemed so very proud of showing it off, so surely, it must be. alastar would just have to take their words for it.

and.. he did like swings. maybe not to the access that his peers did - he certainly had no intentions of jumping off anything, so there for there was no need to try and go higher or fast enough to accieve any distande like his friends.

he'd been worried -t he first time thy'd gone to play at eve;s. alistar didn't get on well with his classmates at school, and while his mother naver gave any indiacation one way or another on him acting like his peers- alistars siblings where quite vocal about their family being above such shinanigans, and therefor, so should alistar. when they'd played int he Phaelle Garden, it had been fine - adam and ever where happy to make up their own adventures, and alistar had been incuded in every senario. he'd been worried - moving to eve's - that he wasn't oing to be welcom eanymore. he didn't really understadn how the new rules worked, and he was worried that the new crolwey would outshine him, leaving him forgotten as his play group moved past what he was comfortable with.

it had happened all to oftenbefore after all.

they still invided him, but... well, alistar found that the trio's new adventures where much more alighted with what colwey wanted to do - often dangerous, ridicous things; climbing on the outside of the strucutes, hanging upside down of support beams, doing down the slide head first, and , of cource, jumping off the swings.

it finally came to a head when crowley insisted that if alistar was going to swing, he needed to swing like a proper child - and had started to push alistiar much faster then he was comfortable with. the three started to chant for him to jump - crowley refusing to stop pushing until he did.

eve kept assuring him it was fun, adam standing out a ways, betting alistar could jump as far as he was. crowley keeping up his momentem, not allowing him to stop no matter how he tried to drag his feet.

he did finally - if only to make it stop. only - he'd never jumped form a swing before, especially not a moving one. his arms didn't quite know hoe to let go, and he fell more than jumped. his feet did touch down first, but he was thrown to his side quickly after that, not so much rolling as tumbling head over heels.

he landed not far from adam, the boy the first to his site to roll him onto his back as he tried to crul up and hide the tears. he felt humlitated more than anything - the pain woulnd't come until later.

eve was next, having stopped to retrieve the show he'd lost upon landing. as adam helde him sit upright, she quietly put his shoe back on for him. crowley had made it halfway to him but had stopped, looking worried.

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i din't want to jump

I jsut wanted you to have fun

I was having fun! i.. not everyone needs to be recklase to have fun!

It wasn't recklase, it was swings!

just.. you go to fast for me, corlwey