Maggie laughed a little too loud when Charley made the kissing gestures in the air between them as she saw the all too amorous couple. "That looks gross, why do grown-ups enjoy it?" She placed her hands over her mouth to stifle herself in case she was caught observing them, not that they seemed to care. She reached down and adjusted the rope around her leg, pulling her socks up as high as she could to reduce the amount of chafing.

The race began about half a second earlier than Maggie anticipated and the stronger girl almost flipped her over backwards before she caught her from behind with her arm and the charged forward like girls possessed. Charley's legs were a little longer than hers so the gait was natural enough to make the youngster feel funny. She began to giggle as Charley followed her commands with a fun laugh. She couldn't remember a time when she had giggled so much and it carried her all the way through the short distance it took to cross the line where the two girls finally collapsed as the balance they had somehow borrowed from Merlin expired.

As they hit the ground, she could completely forget that she was only here because the alternative was imprisonment in that place across the lake. "That was so much fun... did we win?" She lifted her head up past her friend to look over at the rest of the party. The little girl was in tears because daddy didn't make them win, the amorous couple had finished and wandered off oblivious. She looked at the other pairs and nobody seemed to have declared themselves winners yet so maybe it was them? The prize was a pair of chocolate rosettes that Maggie would certainly enjoy getting her hands on.