A day out with Jerry

Jerry’s been living in the child services shelter for months. He’s been treated well. But it is like solitary confinement. He does play with the other kids in the center’s playroom. But he rarely gets out of the building.  Once he played in the garden area. He likes gardens.

As part of her evaluation, Anat had to take him to the park. Ann was with them.  No one was allowed to take a child out on their own.  Too much of a risk. Things were going well. Jerry ran right to the slidin’ pond. He slid up and down for what seemed like hours.

Alas, it was only 15 minutes. Anat pushed him on the swings. Ann stayed in the background.  He heard the jingling of the ice cream truck. His eyes lit up and he had the widest smile.  Anat wasn’t sure if she should buy him a cone. Of course, she did. Jerry got it all over his face and clothes. Like a good mom, Anat pulled some paper towels out of her Fendi bag and cleaned him up.

Then he screamed he had to go potty. Anat took him to the lady’s room.  She made sure he wiped and washed his hands.  While this was going on, Ann a few park benches away reading a book on her Fire. As they exited the bathroom,  all seemed well.

Jerry ran back to the swings.  As they approached he was hit with pieces of glass.  He screamed.  Anat shielded him. Ann was so nose deep into her reading she heard nothing.  Anat was scared. She was doing so well. She finally had her life in order. She was dating and people liked her.  She would stop at nothing to lose this.  But she didn’t want anyone to know of her powers.

But she had no choice. She saw Jay sprinting towards her and Jerry. She unleashed an onslaught of dates.  She followed with apricots. She held back on her mightiest weapon, the raisin.  But she knew she’d have to unleash those. 

Jay was knocked down. But he got right up. Jerry was clinging to Anat. He started screaming. He said he can’t go back to Jay. He kept yelling how daddy hits him and punched his mom. Then he said his mom wasn’t much better to him.  He started to shake. He fell down.

Anat unleashed the raisins.  People were fleeing the park.  Normally the nut jobs would be standing there with their phones snapping photos. But the fighting was so intense.  People were getting caught in the crossfire of glass and dried fruit. Blood was everywhere.

Ann was jolted out of her reading when a piece of glass hit her Fire.  She pushed it off and looked around. She saw a once full park now empty. She saw pieces of glass and dried fruit flying through the air. She saw Jerry standing by the bathroom grabbing Anat’s leg. She saw Anat waving her arms. She prayed they were okay.

She saw Jay charging at them. She jumped up.

Dust got into her eyes.  She started scratching them.  She shut momentarily shut them. 

Anat unleashed the raisins. She nailed Jay in the head.  She fired again at his shoulders.  He went down.

She prayed her texts were answered. Out of nowhere came Marc and Alana.  They were standing over Jay firing away with their weapons.

Anat saw Ann. She and Jerry ran toward them.

Alana called the police. She kicked Jay several times. Marc got down on top of Jay and started punching him.

Jerry smiled at Ann and told her how much he loved Anat. He said she was more of a mommy than his own.