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Mattia sets Dante down slowly.

"Hi" Mattia falters.

"I'm go play! Bye bye papa!" Dante runs in the direction of the seesaw. Mattia waves to Dante as he leaves.

"Hand-full, isn't he?" The woman pipes in. "Yea, I guess." Mattia stands there awkwardly infront of the middle aged woman.

"Don't worry, I won't bite." She winks.
"Uhh, ok them." Mattia cringes.

"Quite young, aren't you?" She tuts.

Mattia rolls his eyes.

"Look, if you're gonna bother me, don't." He sighs.

She gives a weird face.
Mattia assumes it's her annoyed expression.

"I have done nothing if the sort!" She huffs.

"Sorry, when people ask that question it usually leads to me being judged." Mattia apologizes.

"Hmmm.." she hums. "I just wanted to say how great you are for taking your son to the park while your girl is busy." She looks him in the eyes innocently.

He looks at her wanting to not be in this stressful situation.

"His mother isn't around." Mattia says annoyed.

"I'm sorry for your loss." She buds in.

"She's not dead!" He gives her side eye.

"Oh, what happened." He nosy woman asks.

Mattia looks as if he's about to burst at this woman's absurd behavior.

"Mind your own damn business lady!" He gets agitated.

The woman looks distraught.

"Language young man! How rude this generation is!" She stomps off with her ugly ass children.

Mattia looks towards the seesaw wanting to find Dante and leave.

Dante's not there.

DANTES NOT THERE

It's like an alarm set off in Mattias head

He ran towards the seesaw

"Excuse me, little girl. Did you see a boy here?" Mattia ask hoping she doesn't think he's a pedo.

She takes a minuet to think

"Yesh, I did." She looks at him.

"W-where'd he go?" Mattia begins to worry.

"Why should I tell you, mishter." She says with a lisp.

"He's my son, I can't find him." Mattias eye are almost bulging out of his head.

"I don believ you." She crosses her arms.

Mattia wants to scream at the top of his lungs.

Mattia backs up slowly, his eyes looking everywhere

"DANTE! DANTE! WHERE ARE YOU?" He yells

Parents looking at him like he's crazy

He runs around looking

"DANTE, ITS NOT FUNNY! DANTE!" Mattia's sanity slowly leaving his body.

His anxiety increases

The thought of having no one left scares him

"Hey!" He whips his head around

Mattia sees a short boy walking to him with Dante holding his hand.

Mattia runs toward them crazy fast.

"Dante! Dante! Oh my god!" Mattia grabs him in his arms tightly and lifts him up.

Mattias eyes snap towards the small boy infront of him.

Slightly surprised at how much he has to look down at him.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Mattia starts. "It's ok, really. I saw him wandering on the outskirts of the fence around the playground and he started coming to me." The small boy tells the latter.

Mattia looks at Dante

"What did I say about running off?" Mattia says sternly. "What about stranger danger?" Mattia adds. "I'm sorry. But, you said stay away from creepy old people." Dante tears up slightly.

"But, why him? You never go to strangers. I specifically said not to run off." Mattia scowls.

"Cause he's pretty, not creepy. He's not old either." Dante protests.

Mattia rolls his eyes. "Still, I've gone over this." He points his finger at Dante.

Mattia sighs.

"Listen, I'm sorry. Names Mattia, sorry to bother you." Mattia apologizes again.
"It's ok, promise. Name's Kairi. I wasn't doing anything except watching my niece anyways. She's over there with her mom so it's fine." Kairi tells him.

"Wait," Mattia thinks. "How old are you?" Mattia wonders. Kairi looks like he's heard that for the 10th time today. "I'm 23." Kairi says.

"I'm literally three years older than you, holy shit." Mattia says. "What? You already got a kid?" Kairi looks shocked.

"Eh, long story." Mattia says. "Well I think I'm going to make him go home." Mattia refers to Dante. "Oh yea." Kairi giggles.

Kairi suddenly stops when he sees Mattias face.

"What?" Kairi looks nervous.

Mattia thinking about how cute that was.

"That- th-you know what, I'd like to buy you a drink as a thanks, honestly." Mattia offers. "That sound pleasant." Kairi agrees.

"I think Dante likes you anyways, so I could bring him." Mattia says. "Sounds good." Kairi says giving him is number.

Mattia nods as thanks.

"Well we'll be going. Say bye Dante." Mattia waves bye. Dante waves bye.

"Bye bye pretty boy!" Dante cheers.

I promise it'll get better

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