She looked up at Michael, her hand still resting on Jack's face. The girl became restless and darted away from her to retrieve her bucket. She returned with it and looked at Michael carefully as he held out a toy towards her. She took it from him, put it in her bucket, and headed back towards her corner of the sandbox. Melanian climbed out of the sand and brushed her jeans off. Upon Mel's displacement, Jack turned and looked at her mother, but after noticing that she didn't move anywhere, she continued playing dutifully.
"You've given it to her now, you can go." She said, folding her arms. Moments later, Jacqueline walked over to her mother and clung to her leg, the little sand pail clutched in her hand and the bumblebee toy stuffed in it. Jack looked at Michael curiously and then spluttered and giggled.