He lights up when Bobby and Athena arrive with Harry and May in toe. May sits behind the booth in Buck’s chair and happily eats cupcakes, paid for by Bobby. Harry on the other hands goes in search of Denny and Chris on the playground. Bobby gives him a hug and Buck smiles big and wide. “Thanks for coming!”
“Hey, baby.” Athena says, looking over his table. He leans down to allow her to place a kiss on his cheek.
“Hey, ‘Thena,” He glances over at Bobby who is inspecting the display.
“Why don’t you just call her mom already?” May asks with a catty grin, tossing a cupcake wrapper into the trash.
Buck is saved from responding by the appearance of one of the counselors.
“Hello, you two must be Mr. Buckley’s parents. Its so nice to meet Chris’ grandparents, I’m glad you two are already getting so active in the school. We love our little community.” May from her spot behind the table appears absolutely delighted by the turn of events.
Buck isn’t sure who is more shell shocked: himself, Bobby, or Athena. Athena recovers the quickest, “That’s us.” Buck feels a bit like a teenager all over again while Athena and Bobby talk about Buck’s accomplishments, or lack there of in front of the table of sweets.
“You’re the talk of the bake sale, people are raving about those cupcakes.” The counselor tells him and Buck feels himself blush in embarrassment. “Anyways, just wanted to introduce myself, thanks for coming out tonight.”
“Where’s Eddie?” May asks, around a mouthful of cupcake, now unimpressed by the havoc the counselor had wrought after the lack of drama. “Also if anyone asks about ages, I’m just going to tell everyone Buck had a teen pregnancy.”
“You’re worse than Hen and Karen,” Buck threatens throwing a napkin at her head.
“I take that as a compliment. Now, where’s your fiancé?”
“Wandering,” Buck says, ‘He went to check on Chris earlier but he hasn’t come back yet.”
“He abandoned you, are you sure he’s the one?” May teases and Buck comes around the table to attack her. She giggles and screams when he throws her over his shoulder and heads towards the doors where he knows there’s a fountain.
A few of the other parents and staff look at them fondly. He holds her over the fountain while she scrabbles to hold on to him, apologizing and shouting and giggling.
When the return they’re both wiping away tears of laughter. That’s the moment Eddie chooses to show back up.
“Hey Cap, Athena!”
Buck turns and sees Eddie closing the distance, there’s a smudge of strawberry something on his cheek like maybe he’d been off eating sweets not created by Buck himself.
“Are you cheating on me with another pastry? Is that what took so long?” Buck accused teasingly.
