Who: Step and Open
When: mid morning
Where: park
What: Step is watching the people again

Sometimes Step did wish he was a little bolder. Perhaps even a little less scatty or timid. Sometimes he did almost wish he wasn't, him. He was watching all these people playing together in the snow having fun and wished he had the nerve to join them.

Step whined softly. Why did Carolyn have to show him affection just to leave? He had never known what comfort and love and care felt like. So he had never felt as though he had been missing out on anything. But now he knew just how wonderful it felt to be shown tendernes. Now he missed it terribly. He felt very lonely. They say it is lonely at the top, perhaps just as lonely as the bottom?

He long ginger hair blew about in the breeze and he smiled softly watching the little kiddies build snowmen.