Unbreakable

My family came over, and met my other family. They seem to get along quite well. We finished eating, and now they are telling every single embarrassing story about me, and it’s really annoying. Tokyo is looking at me with playful, brown eyes, and a wagging tail. “Come on darlin.” I pick him up, and call killer.

“What are you doing with my babies?” Ashley asks.

“We’re going to play outside.” I say in a baby voice to the dogs.

“Make sure they don’t get to dirty.” He sighs.

“They’re dogs, they’re supposed to be dirty!” I laugh, and walk out the door. I lead them out back, set Tokyo down, and start running. They yipp, and run after me. “Catch me if you can boys!” I yell. Killer nips at my heels, and I run faster. I have a huge cheesy grin on my face, and I’m laughing like a maniac.

I feel a tap on my shoulder,“Tag you’re it!” I turn around to see CC running away.

“Oh it’s on.” I smile. I take off after him, and laugh harder.

“Catch me if you can Tummy!” He calls over his shoulder.

“I wanna play.” I hear Jake say.

I look around for him, and find him standing by the tree in our yard. “Oh you would would you?” I run at him, and tag his back. “You’re it!”

“What? Tum that’s not fair!” he whines.

“All’s fair in love and war Hun.” I grin.

“You’re not going to beat me at this too!” he starts to run at me, and I notice the GoPro strapped to his chest.

“Bring it on!” I laugh. He starts to run faster, and I run around to the front of the house.

“Having fun?” Andy smirks from the porch.

“Boatloads.” I smile.

“Kamikaze!” I look to my left, and see Jake coming at me in a dead sprint. I laugh harder, and run around the other side of the house.

“Jake, Tag me.” I hear Andy say. Oh fuck no! I’ve seen Andy run, and it’s like watching a fricken gazelle. “I’m gonna get you Tum.” He teases.

“You’ll never catch me alive!” I cry, and run at a dead sprint away from him.

“We’ll see about that.” I turn my head, and see him right behind me.Do something! I wait until he is about an arm’s length away, and then I do a really fast spin, and run in the other direction. “The fuck is this shit?” He yells.

“I’m the undefeated tag champion.” I laugh.

“I’m playing!” Jinxx calls.

“I’m watching!” Sammi exclaims.

“We’re playing too!” I hear Stephen say.

“Freeze tag?” I ask Andy.

“Freeze tag!” He yells. We look at each other again, laugh, and start running.

“That looks intense.” Jake comments.

“It is, why don’t you join?” Andy smirks, and runs at Jake.

“You asshole.” He scoffs.

“Don’t worry Jake, I’ll save you!” I baseball slide under him, and start running again.

“You’ve still got it.” Uncle Derek smiles.

“I still got it.” I nod.

I see a little girl standing on the sidewalk holding a woman’s hand. “Mommy Mommy I wanna play!”

“Sorry sweetie, but you can’t just ask someone to play tag with them at their house.” Her mother explains.

“Why sure she can.” I say. “I’m Laci.” I hold out my hand for her to shake.

“I’m Christine, and this is April, we live next door.” She grabs my hand, and shakes it.

“Then you’re practically family.” I smile. “We’d love to play with April, and you’re welcome to play too, or you could go sit on the porch with Sammi and my brother.”

“Yay!” April exclaims. “Who’s it?”

“April!”

“She’s fine,” I laugh, “Really we would love to have your company.”

“Alright then.” Christine sighs, and walks to the porch.

I crouch down to her level, “We’re playing freeze tag,” I explain. “Do you know what freeze tag is?” She nods. “Okay, do you see that guy right there?” I point to Andy, and she nods again. “That’s Andy, and he’s it right now.”

“Okay!” She smiles, and takes off into the yard. Andy tags Jacky, and sees April. She screams, and starts running away. “No don’t tag me!”

“I won’t if you tell me what your name is.” He laughs. He’s got that smile on his face that we only see every once in a while, and it warms my heart.

“Promise?”

Andy crouches down, and hold out his pinky. “I pinky promise.”

She gives him a cautious look, then walks over to him. “My name is April Julie Anderson.” She smiles, and locks her small pinky with Andy’s.

“Well April Julie Anderson, do you want to help my tag?”

“Yes!” She exclaims.

“Okay, the first person that we’re going to get is her.” Andy points at me, and April gets a devilish grin on her face.

“Oh no please don’t send April after me!” I cry.She laughs, and starts running after me. I take off in a jog. “You’re so fast!” I pant. I start to slow down a bit, and flail my arms around. “I’m. So. Tired.” I pant. She laughs harder, and I slow down to a walk. “I can’t go on any longer.” I dramatically fall to the ground, and she tags me.

“I got you.” She laughs.

“Good job April!” Andy cheers.I stand up, and brush off some of the mud. April starts to take off after Jinxx.

“Oh no!” He exclaims. “She’s gonna catch me!” She taps his back, and giggles. “No!” Jinxx stops, and shakes his head. “You’re way too fast it’s not fair.” I look up at the porch, and see Christine smiling.

“Don’t worry Jinxx I’ll save you!” Ashley dives under Jinxx, “Wow it’s really muddy out here.”

“You’re telling me.” I laugh.

He looks at my mud covered body, and laughs. “You mud wrestled and didn’t let me watch?” He whines, and wraps his arms around my waist.

“Yupp that’s definitely what I was doing.” I smile.

Andy runs up behind Ashley, and taps him on the shoulder. “Get a room you two.”

“Way to go.” I tease.

“Hey I would rather be stuck like this than any other way.” He smiles.

“You’re so corny.” I laugh. He bends down, and kisses me sweetly.

“Hey, keep it PG you two!” Sammi yells.

I twist my trunk around to face the porch, “They kiss in Disney!” I retort. She rolls her eyes, and goes back to talking to Christine.

“Good job April, we got ‘em all.” Andy hold up his hand, and they hi-five.

“Can we play again?” She asks.

“Why don’t we just play regular old tag?” I ask.

“Okay!” She exclaims.

Ashley taps my shoulder. “No tag backs.” He runs away, and the dogs start chasing him. I looked around t o see who I wanted to get, and my eyes rest on Greg.

“For Barbara!” I cry and sprint at him.

“Oh you’re still not mad about that are you?” He calls over his shoulder.

“I built her, yeah I’m still mad about it!” Barbara was my motorcycle, i built her myself. One night Greg stole her to go to a party, and he ran into a tree. Thank God I was able to fix afterward, but it still bothers me.

“Come on TUm can’t we talk about this?” He asks with me on his heels.

“No.” I football tackle him to the ground. “No tag backs.” I get up, and walk away.

“I was really hoping that you wouldn’t be as strong anymore.” He groans.

“I just benched two hundred and fifty-four pounds, I’m stronger than I’ve ever been.” I smirk.

He just shakes his head. “Damn.”

Notes

This chapter was so much fun to write! Thank you all for being patient, and a special thank you to @AshesToAshes13 , @Tsubaki_Purdy_66 , @BlackIris , and @IzzieDeadnow for being super duper extra supportive