Games, food and fireworks

The two girls exited the restroom and sauntered over to the boys who had been keeping them company. Bailey doing his best to walk how Candi was describing with a small swing to his hips, a narrower stride and turning feet slightly inward, shoulders back and stand up straight. That was a lot of things for Bailey to remember and do all at once, but did the best he could.

When they got close enough Ryan and August stood up meeting them, August had a stupid happy grin on his face while Ryan had a slight smile and gave a wink to Candi saying. “Still have some time for us or should we be off?” taking an extra few steps Candi placed one manicured nailed hand on Ryan’s chest and got up on her toes inside the pink converse kissing him on the cheek.

“I’ll be in town for like a week, the four of us can make the time to see each other gain. That sound good to you handsome?” Ryan blushed and nodded to the pretty green-eyed girl. “For you, anything.” he responded.

“That sounds good, we will figure out the details later.” August said glancing over to Candi and then back to Bailey before reaching over a pulling her into a light hug. While Bailey stood there dumbfounded hands out to the side, not used to so many people touching him. When August pulled, he looked at Bailey in the eye huge smile on his face, he was still taller that Bailey even in the three and a half inch wedges at his six-foot height. The two lingered there looking at each other, August not sure if he should kiss her again, while Bailey was terrified, he was going to kiss him again. The moment was lost from indecision when Candi called over to Bailey. “Stop making moon eyes at him and let's go girl.” reaching his hand back behind his head, scratching it August laughs. “Okay see you two around, bye Bailey.” he says before walking away with Ryan the two pushing each other and laughing.

“You have it bad for him, don’t you?”

Bailey’s eyes grew large and answered to quickly “NOoo!” the wide-eyed look and the quick denial was not enough to convince Candi otherwise. “No? So, you want to date Ryan then. He is cute, hmm. I did want him for myself, but for you Bailey we can swap.”

“That is not what I want!” Bailey couldn’t believe he was having an argument with this teenager about what boy he wanted or didn’t want to date, this was insane. “Yeah, I know girl, I know who you want. It is written all over you and all over him before he wiped it off while we were freshening up.”

“Kill me now!” Bailey said looking up into the sky, this was just to much for him.

“Not on a day like this! Let's take some selfies real quick before we go, it is just super nice out today.”

The two took a few photos each in different poses with each of the cameras on their phones, and when they finished Candi sent over the pictures to Bailey and asked for the ones, she took to be sent over to her. Looking down at the photos Candi sent over he saw one extra. One of him sitting in August’s lap, one arm wrapped around his shoulder the other on his chest and their lips pressing together.

“Candi, when did you take this!?”

“Duh girl, I took it when you were trying to breath though his lungs. Now what is your insta account name so I can tag you?”

“No, Candi you shouldn’t have done that, and I don’t do social media.” Bailey said deleting the incriminating photo. Candi pouted for a second or two both being sad for Bailey being such a shut in, with her pale skin no way did she spend much time outside and not having any social media, who does that, and why she would be upset at the super cute photo. It did come to her, maybe her mom was strict in some ways her dad wasn’t.

“Its like no prob Bailey, I can get you setup and I wouldn’t tag you in that photo. That’s just for you to look at when you want to remember.” Candi said as she put away her phone.

“Time for some more fun with my bestie!” Candi exclaimed before taking Bailey’s hand and intertwining their fingers and starting off, with Bailey having little choice but to keep up. As they went to sign up for the three-legged race and wander around some of the games that were setup, like ring toss, cornhole, horse shoes, and at one point Candi stopped to text someone back home. The small break from her was much needed, she was exhausting to be around. That with the unfamiliar height of walking in her shoes, that he was sad to think he was not bad at moving around in anymore, the weight of the breast forms moving with every step and the erotic feel of the panties. If he wasn’t taped back, he was sure Candi would have felt his hard on the last time she hugged him, and having a hardon while tucked back was not a comfortable feeling. When Candi was done shooting off a few texts to some friends back home she looked over to her new friend, who was playing with her hair as she looked out at some boys playing flag football. Walking up to her Candi bounced her hip to Bailey’s brining him out of his reflection. Candi pointed at the boys saying. “Guess you have a type doncha girl?” looking to where Candi was pointing then back to her, Bailey tried to keep his cool. “That is not my type, I like...” Bailey thought to Mandy. “Like any one I date to be tall, smart, older and in good shape.”

“Well, I think your August fits the bill nicely, and I like them to be smart too. Some lucky girls have both brains and beauty, we at least have beauty.” Bailey only smiled and nodded thinking how he really wanted a drink right now.

After killing enough time, the two went over to the race area and taking the rope to tie around their legs to one another. People started to line up and Bailey looked down. “I can’t run in these; I would only fall.” Candi lightly slapped her friend's shoulder. “Then take them off you ditz, when we go shopping, we will get you some more heels so you can practice. With those legs you should always being wearing heels, girl.” sitting down Bailey untied the white ribbon from his feet removing the heels and stepping onto the grass in his white socked feet. Candi wasn’t going to have trouble running in the converse, but she took them off too. Candi tied them together and then looked around and spotted both of their parents participating down the line. “Hey look its our parents, don’t they like look like a cute couple?” looking back to Bailey, she saw the girl looking down the line the other direction and on the side lines was August, it looked like they were looking at each other. “Hey girl snap out of it; our parents are over there.” Bailey shifted his gaze from a pair of twenty something co-eds that were tied together wearing skimpy clothing near the end of the line and looked to where Candi was pointing. “Hey daddy, hey Miss Best!” Candi yelled and waved.

Bailey smiled sheepishly and gave a timid wave to Derrick and his girlfriend when Derrick yelled past a few people to them. “Do you think you can beat your old man when I have Amanda on my side!? With a gleeful smile that seemed to light up her face Candi called back. “If it was just Miss Best maybe, but you are old daddy. You, like, don’t stand a chance!” the joyous girl looked to her friend and continued. “We have to beat them now. Here hold me like this.” she said she wrapped her arm around Bailey’s waist. “When we start use your outer leg first and move our bound one when I say the word now. That way we stay in sync. We can win no problem!”

The sound of a little pop gun toy sounded and the racers were off. The various people lurching and stumbling forward or even tumbling to the ground. Derrick and Amanda were fast to take the lead, it looked like they had devised a stratagem of to move as one. The girls trailed in third place, Candi’s angelic sweet voice saying “Now, now, now.” every time they needed to move their tied-up appendages. The fast pace gave Bailey a new experience, running with breasts. The bounce and pull of them was controlled by the pink lace bra he wore, but it didn’t stop the movement. The distraction was not a welcome one, but the sight of his girlfriend ahead of him with another man’s arm wrapped around her made his blood boil and worse he could hear her unrestrained joyous laughter, that seemed contagious with how Derrick was reacting. If it wasn’t for the steady cadence of the girl's voice next to him saying “Now.” he may have just stopped all together. Instead, he found himself trailing behind the woman he loved seeing her be happier than he had seen her in a while in the arms of another man, while he played make believe as a teenage girl.

That could have been it for the race, the power couple going to be the clear victors if it wasn’t for the pair in second place. They took a tumble and as they fell a collision occurred toppling all four. With five quick strides the teens overtook everyone and passed the finish line. Candi reached down and pulled off the knot holding them together and looked to her friend grasping both her hands, palm to palm “Eeee! We won, we won! Oh my god we won girl!” she said bouncing up and down “Like we totally did, all thanks to you bestie.” replied Bailey trying to not **** on his own words. Coming up to the winners Derrick pulled his daughter into a large embrace picking her up off the ground and spinning her around. “You sure showed your old man didn’t you pumpkin?” the teenager squealed in joy letting out laugh. “Daddy, put me down.” when he did she smiled at him and kissed him on the cheek. “You two almost had us, but my secret skill makes me the winner!”

Placing a hand on Bailey’s shoulder to get his attention Amanda gave her teenage girl looking boyfriend a hug when he turned to look and whispered to him. “You okay sweetie, you look frazzled?” laying his forehead on her shoulder he whispered back. “Today has been long, can we go?”

“I’m sorry dear, I appreciate what you have done for me, we just have to stay longer. Being part of management, I have to stay to the end. You can sit by me when the fireworks go off at sundown, okay sweetie? Pulling back from the hug he nodded.

The mother daughter interaction was much more subtle than the father daughter one, but just as sweet to anyone able to see it. Bailey was feeling a little better after hugging his girlfriend, even if the feeling wasn’t what he was used to with having the breast forms. The relief was short lived because August came running up with both the girls' shoes in his hands only stopping way to close to Bailey for his own liking. Bailey went to raise one hand to both stop him and wave and opened his mouth to say hi when the larger man wrapped his arms around him and pressed his lips to his own puffy lipstick covered mouth. The kiss wasn’t long, but was not chaste either. When he pulled back August had that goofy smile once more. “I should have done that earlier. Oh and I bought you, your shoes.” he said holding out the wedges to Bailey and the sneakers to Candi.

“August, I see you have umm met my daughter. Looks like you two are getting along.”

“We sure are Ms. B! I mean Ms. Best.” the excitement in his voice going down just a notch when he corrected himself to be more police and formal.

“Well that is nice... but you do have their shoes mixed up dear, Bailey’s are the sneakers.” a small look of confusing was on his face when Candi popped into the conversation. “We like traded shoes, and now she is wearing shoes like you! I do love the brown leather wedges you have.” this entire moment felt surreal. Her boyfriend just got kissed by a boy, one they both know and he was wearing heeled shoes. She needed to find April.

“Now let us get the picture of the winning girls over here!” someone yelled out, one of the company's project managers was taking on the role of picnic coordinator and held out an expensive looking camera. “Bailey, that is us!” Candi said grabbing the still shoeless Bailey and pulling him along to get their photo taken. “Now give me the biggest smile you two, now a little more. Now how about one where you two pose, you look a good deal a like. Face each other and stand say a foot apart. Now place your palms together and hold hands that way, good, good. Now both of you look at me and lean forward closer together, yeah that’s good. Lastly both of you kick back one of your feet, bend at the knee, yes perfect. Now big smiles!” with a few clicks of the camera and some shutter sounds the armature photographer looked pleased. “How about just a few more, but with your parents?”

Amanda shook her head and was ready to turn down the request when Derrick spoke up. “That would be fun, what do you say Amanda. A nice photo to remember today?” the man's smile could melt an iceberg with its warmth so she agreed.

The first shot was of them lined up from left to right Candi, Derrick, Amanda, Bailey. The second he had the girls stand in front of their parents and for the last few he had them over to a bench. Amanda and Derrick sat on the bench sitting close and turned at an angle so their bodies and looking forward, with the girls below sitting on the green grass below, their legs pulled together and to the side pointing to each away to the sides of the bench, their hands folded in their laps and looking forward and each parent placing a hand on their daughters' shoulder, everyone smiling. The last was the same pose, but with the girls tilting their heads up as to look at their parents, and the parents tilting their heads down to look at their daughters, each doing so just enough so the photo still got their faces in frame.

“Was that fun, it was like we were models Bailey!”

“It was, like, super.” he replied sarcastically.

When Candi picked up both of their shoes to put them back on, she went to hand the wedges to Bailey when Amanda spoke up. “It was sweet of you to try and help her match me dear, but you can keep your shoes.” her smile never wavered though. “It’s, like, okay, I have so many shoes at home and Bailey looks so cute in them, don’t' you think so!?” The problem was Amanda did think so, the overly girly look on Bailey bothered her a bit at first not liking the persona they chose. As she looked at him now though it was growing on her, she saw more and more of the daughter she wished she had when she had the chance when she was younger.

“Don’t fret about it Amanda, Candi has more shoes than I can count. Why don’t you let Bailey keep them, a gift. To be fair, I’m not as smart as you with your accounting background. Besides Candance is right, they do look cute on your daughter. Just like yours look good on you.” to Amanda it felt like Derrick might be a master at making her blush with compliments. Back at home Bailey gave them to her, but they were always more like him saying “Nice ass.” or “Look at those lips, they are gorgeous.” but then it was followed by a request for a blow job. Maybe that was partially her fault, the relationship was mostly physical being how she started dating him to help her feel young.

“Bailey can keep the shoes, but not because of your flattery mister. Now girls let us all go get something to eat.”

The group headed to covered pavilion that had a assortment of picnic foods. Bailey grabbed a hotdog, and then went to get a burger in the next bin when Amanda put her hand over his. “Slow down sweetie, remember rule number one today. Let us see about some salad. Candi had cut a burger in half and placed one on her plate and the other on her dads. “Like what's rule number one?” they had not been quite enough and Bailey once more went wide eyed like a doe in headlights. “Bailey recently lost some weight and asked me to help her keep it off, that is all dear.” Amanda chimed in thinking quickly.

“Don’t look scared girl like a big secret got let out, you look good. I wish I had a mom that would look out for me like your's does.” plastering a fake smile on his face Bailey moved his hand away from the hamburger he really wanted. “Mommy is great at giving me direction.” the three girls picked up some salad to go with their meal and all sat down on a bench together. When Amanda looked at Derrick’s place she frowned, seeing a burger he grabbed, the half a burger Candi put on his plate and French fries. “I will be right back.” Amanda said getting up getting a small bowl of salad and walking back, putting it down in front of him. “You need to eat some greens to mister.” Derrick went to rebuttal when Amanda cut him off. “No back talk, you have a daughter to raise and you have to be healthy to do that.” with a soft chuckle Derrick gave in, but if he hadn’t the second wave of the attack from his daughter would have done him in. “Yeah daddy, I need my family here with me.” she said leaning into him.

If hearts could melt from emotion his would have, the pride that welled up inside him from his daughter's love, mixed with the feeling of loss from his now long passed wife. “Okay, okay. You two win, and no Bailey I don’t need a third wave of attacks from you too.” Bailey had no intention of speaking up about the subject, but was glad he wasn’t the only one that had to suffer. “Good thing we are only here for a week or you three would ruin my reputation as a carnivore.”

“Omnivore.” Amanda corrected. “You see what I mean, ruining the reputation already!” he saw the look of annoyance on Bailey’s face, but took it for confusion. “An omnivore is someone who eats both plants and animals to sustain... To live off of, honey.” the look of annoyance could have continued or grown darker from being talked to like that, but instead it was replaced with shame. So, Bailey just looked down at his place and started to eat his meal, taking solace that at least he was able to get a hotdog.

Cleaning up from the meal Amanda was throwing the paper plates away when she was able to catch up with April. “April, there you are. I would say I was looking everywhere for you, but even I have been distracted.” throwing away a plate herself smeared with the remains of ketchup April smiled at her boss giving a knowing smile. “A good distraction I hope, one with a handsome older man that is going to sweep you off your feet and away from your job, so I can have it.”

“Funny, and closer than I would like to admit to your joke. We have talked a good deal about me moving up. It isn’t a done deal, but he seems confident it will be mine. So long as nothing major goes wrong while he is in town, I think the job is mine.” the start of the sentence was said with a level almost monotone voice, but it grew into a warmer one as she couldn’t contain her smile.

“Speaking of things going wrong, did you know your brother kissed Bailey?” April’s eye brows shot up, that was not something she expected to hear.

“That might be my fault, I lost track of the girls and with me having to run one of the events earlier I kind of asked him to keep an eye on your daughter. I told him to not hit on Candace so he didn’t spoil our chances, but I didn't think to warn him away from Bailey. Though hey, look on the bright side, if they fall in love, we can be family, right? Bailey Ann Gates has a ring to it.” she moved her hands in a way to indicate like the name was in lights on a billboard.

“Funny, you have jokes today it seems.” Amanda gave her friend and assistant another monotone response, though the stone expression faltered when April gave her a large toothy smile.

“I guess a daughter of mine could do worse.” the two shared a laugh before having to go separate ways again.

The meal came to a close and soon the sky started to darken, the four made their way back to the picnic blanket Derrick had setup earlier. Each of them laid on their backs looking up into the sky, Derrick laid next to Amanda, but Candi took the spot Bailey was going for so he ended up on the end. As the controlled explosions pushed back the darkness with the multicolored lights. The fireworks display had just started with a few small pops of white light when Candi leaned over and gave Amanda a hug that she was not expecting. “Thank you for today, you are nice and beautiful. I’m glad me and daddy got to spend the day with you and Bailey.”

“Awww.” the sound escaped Amanda’s lips her heart quavering. “Spending the day with such a well mannered young lady and your father has been a blessing.” the girls hug got a little tighter before she rolled over on her back to watch the light show above.

Derrick turned his head to whisper to Amanda. “Candace is right, I’m not sure what I should watch tonight, the fireworks or you, they are both beautiful.” it was like the man thought this was a romance movie and every time he said something like that it made Amanda feel a little giddy and brought a blush to her cheeks. She playfully slapped Derrick's chest. “You hush and watch the fireworks; Mega Corp is paying enough for it. The light display picked up its pace, with some high and low exploding white lights and much larger explosions of greens, purples and reds popping and expanding in the sky to join the enhance the soft glow of the moon and stars hanging above. As it all came to crescendo Amanda noticed something in the corner of her eye and turned her head seeing Derrick watching her with a soft smile. His green eyes looking into her blue ones and he whispered to her “I made my choice what to watch.” not wanting to give in to the sudden rush of feelings, and reminding her self she has a boyfriend and she loves him. So, she steeled herself and gave the man a stern look and pointed at him and then up to the sky before turning back to watch it all finish.

With everything coming to a close the Connors walked the Bests back to their car. Candi gave Bailey a warm hug with her initiating it. Derrick did the same to Amanda and then gave a light hug to Bailey. “It was a pleasure to meet you young lady, thank you for keeping Candace company.” while he said that to the disguised man Candi gave a similar hug, she gave bailey, but said to her. “You are the best Ms. Best!” The goodbyes finished they were climbing into the car when Candi called after Bailey. “I will talk with daddy about the mall tomorrow, text you later!”

The car doors closed Amanda looked to Bailey. “What about the mall tomorrow?” looking confused Bailey was honestly able to say. “Not sure, but she is a teenage girl.. Don't they like the mall? Can we just get home, it seemed like I did a good job helping you, but I’m ready for this to end and I need a drink badly.” letting the subject drop Amanda put the car into reverse to pull out of the parking spot and head home when she said to Bailey. “Let us get home, today had been a long and confusing day.”