Somewhere in Neverland

Don't you see what you do to me

Alex laughed as Kirsten pouted on Harry's naughtiness. He knew it well, but he was far more sure that Kirsten can handle it. If she could handle Jack, Alex felt like she could handle someone like Harry.

Jack suddenly showed his phone to Kirsten's face. A typical Jack.

"Wow." Kirsten responded with a poker face and her eyes fixated on the image in front of her. It was their picture again but now with a different caption, Epic fireworks with my totally rad girl (and Alex and Lisa :D)

"Aaahhh!!" Jack screamed like a little girl. "I'm so happy right now."

"Oh well! Let's just see what happens next." Kirsten said as Jack shows it to Alex and Lisa.

And Kirsten was unconsciously waiting for the next thing to happen that night. Inside her head, she's thinking of paparazzi, tomatoes flying to her face and looks of disgust among the fireworks night crowd.

But as soon as the first light brightened the night sky, it was like breaths were held, converstions paused, and nothing mattered but the fireworks display. Lisa and Kirsten sat on the bean bag that Jack brought from Harry's unit while Jack and Alex sat on their asses on the grass.

The fireworks painted the sky in different bursts of colors. The millisecond delayed sound of the explosion from the sky was music to their ears. There was nothing more majestic than the show that they all looked forward to.

After the fireworks show, land entertainment came running into the main stage almost immediately. They all stood up and walked closer to the catwalk style stage. Jack lowered his back to make Kirsten piggy back on him.

"I can see just fine, you know?" Kirsten said as she put one leg onto his open palm.

Jack swiftly stood up to his full height and made Kirsten hold on to him properly, "The view's better here, you know?"

"So should I carry you too?" Alex asked Lisa but she just laughed at the idea.

"I'm a bit tired already actually. I think I need to stay at the bean bag." She said apologetically to the three, especially to Jack who was so excited to watch the stage performance like a kid.

Jack turned around, with Kirsten still on his back, and walked towards their first spot. "Sitting on top of your car looks great!" Kirsten said as she looked back to Lisa and Alex. Lisa smiled back at her and nodded in agreement.

For the next hour, the two ladies sat comfortably with popcorn and tall tumblers. Lisa reached out for Kirsten's hands and whispered, "Does this really look great to you?"

Kirsten faced her with utter confusion, "Yes, of course. Why would you ask that?"

"Well.." Lisa looked at the other two and cleared her throat, "I just thought that maybe you were just adjusting to my situation or something like that."

Kirsten chuckled in disbelief. "So this was what they were feeling back then."

"What?" Lisa asked, not getting sense out of her words.

"Well, way back when I was still, uhhh, pregnant, they were always a bit protective and would even adjust their drinking parties! Jack was the one doing that mostly, he wouldn't leave me with other people easily. And I would ask them the way you just asked me." Kirsten said as she quickly raised her shoulders in surprise followed by closed eyes and bit lips.

"They never change, huh? And now you're doing the same. You're really a part of them now." Lisa said as she patted her back. Kirsten's eyes grew wide with Lisa as she pulled back her hand with something slimy and sticky on it.