Happy Birthday Too...

Chapter 11

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Back with Dom and Adele

10 minutes later, Adele and Dom had parked up in the town centre, they both jumped out of the car and took the brief five minute walk from the car park to the shops. Once they had hit the shops, Dom decided to announce his plan of action.

"Right Adele, plan of action! First we get the decorations, so balloons, sashes, banners and stuff for the games! Secondly we get little favours, seeing as they're both having girls, we can get pink candles and put them in little bags, I saw this on Pinterest! Thirdly food! Drink and anything else we can find!" Dom announced counting the three phases on his fingers.

"You make it sound like a military operation!" Adele gasped, looking confused.

"These things need to be planned down to the greatest detail my friend!" Dom said, tapping Adele on the shoulder as he spoke.

"Yeah that's great and all but, let's get shopping o, we haven't got all day!" Adele replied sarcastically, brushing off his hand as she stepped back a little.

"Alright then, let's get shopping!" Dom replied as they both walked off in direction of the card shop.

Minutes later they both walked into the large card shop, looking around until they sought out the baby shower section. Seconds later Adele came to a stop, pulling Doms top to stop him as well.

"Here we go! Cards, banners and even these cute little candle things you was on about!" Adele said, pointing to the items as she spoke.

"Mmm, this is brilliant, let's get some of these, and them, ooh and those they're adorable!" Dom said, as he picked up two baby girl cards, gift bags, banners, balloons (Latex and foil) and two little girl teddies, Adele picked up a few boxes of the candles and organza bags, before taking some of the items off of Dom before he dropped something. They both then made their way to the female birthday sections and picked up a birthday card each for Jac.

Once they picked out a card, they both made their way to the till to pay for everything. They both dumped the items on the desk in front of the cashier, who began to scan the items.

"Would you like the balloons blown up now?" The cashier asked, holding the packets of balloons,

"Only the foil balloons thanks" Dom replied, tapping his wallet as the lady called someone to fill up the balloons with helium.

"Ok, that's £17.42 all together... Thank you" The young women announced, after scanning the rest of the items.

Dom passed the cashier the money, grabbing the bag before the women handed him his change,

"That's £2.58 change, your balloons shouldn't be too long!" The woman said, as Dom and Adele stepped to the side to wait.

Moments later another member of staff emerged from the back of them shop, holding on to their balloons,

"Thank you for waiting! Have a nice day!" The assistant said, passing the balloons before walking off again. Dom and Adele quickly vacated the shop and headed towards the shopping centre.

"Well, they all seemed cheery in there didn't they!" Adele said, sniggering slightly, swinging her bags back and forth.

"I know, they're as fun as cleaning bed pans ah Adele" Dom replied, laughing as he tried to avoid Adele's dig.

"Ha, is that right Doris!" Adele said, knowing he didn't like being called Doris.

"That's low! Anyway back to the shops, let's go to next, pick up a few baby essentials, then we can go to Tesco!" Dom said smiling sarcastically before picking up the pace and walking a bit in front of Adele.

"Hey Dom, wait up!" Adele said, jogging slightly so she could keep up with him.

Five minutes later they both walked into the clothes shop, both picking up a basket as they went past them.

"Maybe we could get them an outfit, shoes as well, some baby grows and comforter, different ones, just a thought!" Dom said, linking his arm with Adele as they strolled to the children's area.

"Yeah, that sounds cool, I'll sort Mo's outfit out and you can do Jac's yeah?" Adele suggested looking at Dom as she spoke.

"Your on, see you in a Mo sweet cheeks!" Dom said, unblinking his arms and skipping off to find an outfit. Adele carried on flicking through the rails at the baby girl section.

Ten minutes later, they both met up at the end of the aisles, both holding there choice of clothes.

Dom had chosen a set of bright floral pink baby grows, set of black and pink leggings, a lilac rabbit top, a dark grey and pink rabbit print jumper, pink boots and teddy comforter.

Adele had chosen a set of bright spotty baby grows, set of pink and white tights, red dress, a white cardigan and a white spot print comforter and the same boots that Dom had chosen.

"You do have good taste, even if I do say so myself!" Adele said, sounding surprised.

"Touché! Let's get these paid for and then off to Tesco we go my friend" Dom said, as they both made their way to the till to pay.

A few moments later, they had both left the shop with their bags, making their way back to the car so they could drive over to the large supermarket.

"So, since when did you and the ice queen become all pally pally with each other? Because I don't know about you but it's taken me forever just to be spoken to nicely!" Adele asked, trying to dish the dirt on there friendship.

"Since I started on Darwin and she became my mentor I suppose!" Dom replied, shrugging his shoulder as she spoke.

"Yeah but, why Naylor, in fact I don't know why Mo's friends with her if I'm honest, don't get me wrong she's a lovely women when she wants to be, but she speaks her mind too much and puts it very bluntly so to speak!" Adele said raising her eyebrows.

"Well I spend so much time shadowing her, we got to really know each other and become good friends. I watch. Emma for her sometimes, I'm friends with Jonny and Mo and she's lovely! People just can't see through her icy exterior" Dom explained.

"Fair enough! I suppose she ain't that bad, she gave me the opportunity to train to be a nurse!" Adele replied, staring at the floor as she spoke.

"See there's a friendship in there yet! It just needs to blossom!" Dom said as they walked into the car park and headed towards the car, before making their way over to tesco.

After struggling to find a parking space for 20 minutes, Dom and Adele finally walked into Tesco, pushing a trolley in front of them.

"I jotted a few party food ideas down on my phone, stuff like cheese and pineapple, chocolate fingers, crackers and cocktail sausages on sticks" Adele said scrolling through her phone.

"We are planning a baby shower, not a children's party A" Dom said, cueing Adele to finish what she was saying.

"Yeah and what's wrong with them? It's hardly gonna be a party at the ritz is it! And Mo's hooked on Pepsi max, tomatoes and haribo so it may as well be a children's party! I'm not sure what Jac's hooked on, all I know is that she can't stomach coffee!" Adele finished.

"Well I've caught her eating chocolate on the sly and she's sent me and Zosia out for iced tea! Oh we need to pick up some extra chocolate, white, dark, milk and some baby food! Jonny text me this game idea called dirty nappies, you have to guess what the smear is on the nappy! How cool does that's sound!" Dom explained, flapping his arms around as he explained the idea of the game.

"That sounds gross! Ok so, umm, nappies, extra chocolate and baby food! And we can get them and some nibbles and finger food! No strong alcohol, just wine or something like that and fizzy pop for the pregnant ladies!" Adele replied, disgusted at the idea of having to smell nappies with food smears on.

Dom agreed, excitedly before they both carried on and searched the aisles ready to shop for their items...

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Hi,

Here's the second update for tonight.

I'll update again next Sunday as I'm off to free radio live on Saturday

Thanks for the great ideas.

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