Ashley was nervous to say the least. It had been a long time since she’d talked to Chris, let alone seen him face to face. She was glad he wanted to be in the girls’ lives, but she couldn’t help but wonder for how long this time. she tried not to judge him for his actions, especially since she hadn’t put in the effort to update him on the girls herself. She always kept in contact with his mother, though. She still had a decent relationship with her ex-in-laws and she was alright with that. She assumed his mother passed on the information about the kids, but wasn’t quite sure.
As she arrived at the park she got more nervous, but hid it the best she could so it didn’t show. She gave the girls a reminder to behave and not throw sand, but she knew the little one wouldn’t listen since she was still in the learning phase. Ashley got the girls out of the car and made sure Libby was holding onto her finger and told Mikayla to walk beside her, but the second they got to the grass, the one-year-old darted out in front of her and started running away from her, most likely to an animal or the play ground but Ashley wanted her to at least see her father before she got dirty. “Olivia Nicole Evans!” she shouted, running after the toddler, Mikayla in tow because she knew she was supposed to stay right next to her mother. Ashley finally caught up to Libby when she tripped over her tiny feet and she picked her up, turning her around to face her as she made her way over to Chris when she saw that he was walking over to them. “I’m gonna remember every single time you run off and when you’re old enough you’re grounded for a week for every time–you don’t run off like that, you know better,” she said running her hand through her own red hair. “I’m gonna have an aneurysm before I die of old age,” she said before looking at Chris. “Hi. Catch the show? She does this every time I let her walk.”
The little Chris had heard about how the girls and Ashley were going was from his mother, who would sometime hints about what his ex-wife would tell him. But he never asked to know more, not that he didn’t want to, he just thought it would be better for everyone if he wasn’t in the picture. The man had felt like he wouldn’t e enough, that this wasn’t a role he could take and be good at. And it meant too much for him to just suck at being that figure. Moreover he knew for sure that Ashley was always there for the little girls, and would be much better out without his messed up self. But that was before, he had worked on himself now and he thought he could take on this, he wanted to, probably more than anything. It always felt weird when he was in Boston with his family, his nephews, and just being there playing with all of them while he wasn’t even there for his own kids.
The man tried not to smile at the fact that the little toddler was running away to play, knowing that wasn’t something to do as he had often been yelled at by his sister for encouraging his nephew to do so by laughing when he wasn’t listening to her. It was a weird feeling to hear Ashley call out Olivia, hearing her name, with his last name once again made him looked back at reality. How could he just have went away? That was probably something the man would never forgive himself, even if he would work on it being better, those years away would always be something he would regret. Chris stayed silent as Ashley told off the little girl. It probably wasn’t easy for the woman, dealing with her career and the two girls at the same time. But from what he saw she did it amazingly well. “Well if it makes you feel better, my nephew does the same. It’s either a toddler thing, or it’s just an Evans thing.” He tried to joke, his hand going though his short hair nervously.
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