Slides, getting know you and hooligans

“Here let me get that for you sweetie.” Amanda said as she wiped off some of the chocolate ice cream from Bailey's chin near the corner of his mouth. Bailey gave her a look but she only smiled in return. The frozen treat was the best part of the horrible day so far and her doting on him didn’t change that, and he knew she was getting some enjoyment out of pretending she had a daughter, so he figured he could give her a little and smiled at her in return. When everyone was done she could see Candi was bouncing her leg, full of energy and ready to go while Derrick looked a little sleepy and Bailey looked content to just sit in the shade under the umbrella. “Okay, I see some of us are ready for some fun. Let us go apply some more sunscreen before we have some fun.”

After a short stop back at the cabana for another round of sunscreen on the three pale individuals the group split up, much to Bailey’s chagrin he was with Derrick. When they were alone Derrick looked over at the blonde teen and smiled at her, thinking about a frown he saw on her face earlier when looking at the dress cover for her bathing suit after swapping with Candace. “Bailey, I didn’t ask you before if it was okay if I call you princess like I was with Candace and your mom, I meant to ask you earlier when you didn’t seem happy. You have had a hard enough day and I wouldn’t like to add to that. What would you like me to call you?” their time together had just started and Bailey was already hating it. He didn’t want to offend the guy considering everything that was on the line, and he really didn’t want to be nice to the man that was hitting on his girlfriend right in front of him, while he could do nothing about it. “You umm Bailey is fine, but like you can call me princess if you like, Mommy calls me that sometimes.” Bailey really didn’t want the degrading term to be used, but if he called him by name and Candi princess she might say something and he didn’t want to set her off on something. Derrick was glad to hear she enjoyed the moniker, even if she did seem apprehensive to hear it from him and figured they just needed to get to know one another a little better. He wasn’t sure how a long distance relationship could work with Mandy, but he did know he needed the approval of her daughter for anything to happen.

“Tell me princess, where to first? The wave pool, some slides, the lazy river?” The wave pool was out, not wanting to see that life guard from earlier. The slides would be best Bailey thought, just not the last one he went on, once was more than enough after what happened. “Maybe like some more slides, the last one didn’t go so well, but umm you know I can be on my own. You can totally go spend time with Candi.” shaking his head Derrick gave the girl a sad little smile. “Afraid not, we can’t trust that security guard not to find a reason and it looks like we have one little problem here that you did not notice.” Derrick said pointing to the id badge around Bailey’s neck. “Seems they put you down as a minor, so you need to be accompanied by an adult. No problem with that though, we get that taken care of the next time we meet up with your mom or I can tell them I’m your dad and have it changed.” Going back up to the desk and convincing a teenager that he was an adult while looking the way he did was not something Bailey wanted to do, or have this guy claim to be his father. “No, that is like okay and stuff. What girl doesn’t lie about being younger.” that comment made Derrick laugh. “Sure enough Bailey, sure enough. Let’s head off and have some fun then.” Derrick said, ushering them off to the closest water slide, though on the way and in line it seemed to Bailey that he sadly wanted to get to know his daughter’s friend.

“Candace tells me the two of us have a few things in common. Like Candace you are secretly a bit of a nerd with superheroes and Lord of the Rings and how we both enjoy riding.” Looking up to the older man Bailey nodded, it was much more mainstream now to like super heroes now that Marvel had dominated the box office, but Lord of the Rings was a tougher sell. “Yeah like the movies were good, I always loved Aragorn, how he is an outsider that becomes the leader of men. Viggo did such a good job and had the perfect look too, and did you know he loves horses. He even kept his horse from the movie after it had surgery.” to Derrick the comments coming from a teen girl sounded more like she had a crush than just talking about an actor she liked. “And like yeah used to love riding. My dad would take me out all the time, it was our time together. He taught me to ride and how to take care of our horse Cherry, but she is gone now. My dad had to like sell her to pay for medical bills before the end, I umm really haven't gone riding since.” by the end talking about Cherry and thinking of the illness that took his parents away Bailey was holding back tears. Putting a hand on Bailey’s shoulder Derrick gave a little squeeze. “It's okay princess, I’m sure you will be able to ride again soon. Just remember everything he taught you and you will never be without your dad. Through his lessons he will live on through you.” Bailey just nodded, not trusting himself to keep it together if they stayed on the topic too much longer. “Candace isn’t much of a rider, though she loves feeding the horses apples and treats. It has been almost two years now, but she fell off the saddle, I caught her, but she isn’t big on being up high. I used to clean out stalls in the summers and in return the stables I worked at let me ride, back when I was in high school. Shoveling shit for free riding lessons wasn’t so bad in hindsight.” The idea of Mega Corps South West Regional Manager shoveling shit was an amusing one to Bailey. “Care about smiling when talking about shit, might give someone the wrong idea.” Bailey teased.

After about three slides, one that they rode twice Bailey had to admit he was having fun, so long as he could stay focused and keep from remembering how he looked. Derrick as a romantic rival or as someone he had to treat as an adult and him not one was infuriating, but as just another guy… Bailey could see himself drinking a beer and watching a movie with. The conversation kept slipping away from the fun topic and back to him wanting to get to know Bailey. “Tell me what is one thing you always wanted to do, but never did or could? For me it is skydiving, I’m not afraid of heights like Candace, but the idea of jumping out of a plane when it is perfectly fine seems a bit to much, yet the thrill of being in freefall sounds amazing.” Derrick gave such an adrenaline masculine answer Bailey figured he should give a girly one like he was expecting, something he was sure Candi would be into. Thinking for a second while they waited in line for another line Bailey was trying to come up with something good, the pause making Derrick wonder if she was considering if she should trust him with the knowledge or not. “Dancing, like when I was little I wanted to be a ballerina.” Bailey wasn’t sure if he could have given a more typical girly response than that and by the smile on the guys face he seemed to have bought it. “Aww, that is sweet. I’m sure you would make a beautiful ballerina. My Candace could never do anything like that, poor girl just isn’t coordinated enough for it. She once failed for tryouts for cheerleading, wish she had a friend like you around to console her that day.” Bailey let out sigh, it was somehow worse he chose something even his bubbly daughter didn’t do.

After that slide the two stopped off to use the restroom and it seemed Derrick needed a bit more time than Bailey. Hanging out on the side of the building waiting Bailey closed his eyes trying to keep the events of the horrible day, and week from piling up on him and pushing them from his thoughts. While doing so Bailey was interrupted by a pair of male voices. “What do we have here, a sexy little lady taking a nap?” Opening his eyes Bailey saw one larger male standing over him, his arm lending on the wall and him leaning down close to Bailey blocking his way forward and view of the bathrooms, while the other stood to his side, both looked to be late teens early twenties. “Just get lost, I don’t want to deal with kids.” Bailey was tired and figured if he just stopped pretending to be the ditzy girl and be rude for once things would be different, but even without trying anymore he was too used to talking like a girl. “Here that, she thinks we are kids, how about we go over to the bushes or into one of the changing rooms and we can show you how much of men we really are.” The one looming over Bailey said reaching down to grab Bailey’s wrist. “No.. let go of me asshole!” Bailey cried out as the larger male started to pull Bailey further back from the line of sight of the rest of the park. “Get off me!” Bailey was panicking at this point, these two were literally pulling him to a secluded spot planing on **** him, he punched and kicked but between the two he couldn’t get away. Bailey was pushed to the ground now around a bend, he wasn’t sure if no one could hear him or no one cared. The situation suddenly changed when he saw Derrick moving up behind the smaller of the two men grabbing him by the back of his hair and tossing him into a bench. “Huh?” was all the second male got as he turned to look at the noise before a large hand clamped around his throat and pressed his body to the back of the building pinning him there and cutting off his flow of air. “You two shit stains pretending to be human’s will listen to me. When I let go the two of you are going to run, if I see either of you again this encounter will feel like a pleasant memory. Clear?” the guy he was pinning had his eyes bulging but he managed to nod. When the grip was gone he fell to the floor coughing and as fast as he could grabbed his friend who seemed dazed and got away as fast as he could.

Derrick bent down to help Bailey to her feet she looked at him still stricken with panic and tears welling in her eyes and started to just heavy sob. Derrick wrapped his arms around Bailey trying to comfort her and wishing Mandy was here. Bailey wept and wept, his mind reeling at what just happened and kept happening. The first day he ended up kissing and making out with a man, then later having that same guys dick in his mouth. Each of the thoughts brought heavier and heavier crying and out right wailing. Today he gave a titty fuck and was almost dragged off to be ****, he was sure they would going to find out the truth and everything fall apart. Once the truth came out Derrick wasn’t going to protect him from the security guard and after what happened earlier the cops would absolutely be called and.. And now after seeing how Derrick could handle himself physically Bailey didn't even want to consider what he would do to him for being around his daughter, pretending to be another girl. Pulling away from Derrick Bailey leaned onto the wall and heaved dryly for a second before throwing up the contents of his stomach, letting loose the ice cream that tasted much better earlier.

With that out Bailey breathed heavily and looked to Derrick who was pulling out his phone from his pocket, it looked like it was covered in a plastic bag that they sold at the park to protect phones from the water. “No, don’t call Ma… don’t call Mommy. Please.. Don’t tell anyone what just happened!” Derrick could still see the fear mixed with embarrassment in the girl. He knew many victims blamed themselves or feared reprisal. “Bailey, honey it is okay. You aren’t in any trouble, that wasn’t your fault. We can get the security to arrest them or at least ban them from the park.” Bailey shook his head enough that some of this blonde hair pulled from his already loosening braid. “No, no one please.. I can’t have anyone know. Not even Candi, please… don’t tell anyone.” Bailey begged the man, the last thing he wanted was for others to know what happened to him. Let alone his girlfriend, she was having fun pretending to have a daughter but he didn’t think she would respect him after what almost happened, he knew he wouldn’t respect a guy that let that happen to them. “If you are sure, it can be our secret. I disagree, but I will respect your wishes. Now come here for another hug, I think you could use one or three.” moving forward Bailey let himself be pulled into a big embrace and as much as he didn’t want Derrick to hug him, it was reassuring to be held by someone that literally saved him.