Chapter: Choices
Ellie woke up early that morning
"TIme to go see my daddy." she said jumping on the bed to wake up Erin
"Ellie it's 6am your not going to see him till 12 o'clock at lunch time."laughed Erin, very unimpressed at being woken up so early.
Kim knocked on the door and opened it.
"Sorry did she wake you."replied ERin
"No, I just wanted to see if Ellie wanted to go and get a drive through breakfast."
"Im my pjamas."giggled Ellie
"Yeah I don't see why not,I wanted to do something super fun before I go back to Chicago." Said Kim.
"Please momma ."
"Ok then."
Ellie skipped off excitedly to the front door and put on her shoes ready to go and get breakfast with Kim.
At 11.30 Ellie was waiting by the door.
"Come on,come on hurry up,it must be time now." she exclaimed
"Two seconds Ellie."said Erin as she grabbed her bag from her room.
She got Ellie buckled up in the car and they drove to Ellie's favorite donut place to meet Jay.
They arrived at the donut shop and Ellie was already talking about the donuts.
Erin looked around the room and saw Jay sitting in one of the booth tables,they walked over to him.
He smiled
"Hi Erin,Hi Ellie nice to meet you." said Jay
"Hi." Ellie said as she sat down in the seat next to Erin.
"Do you want to get a donut."asked Jay
"Of course I do. They are my favorite, especially rainbow sprinkle ones, but I like them all because they are so yummy." giggled Ellie rubbing her stomach to emphasize how much she loved them.
"That's good,I wonder what flavours they have."Jay asked
Erin rolled her eyes.
"You've gone a done it now."she laughed
Jay looked at Erin confused
"There's vanilla,vanilla sprinkles,chocolate,chocolate sprinkles,maple,maple bacon,powdered,custard,oreo,kitkat,boston creme,jelly,coffee…"listed Ellie
"Ellie that's enough I think Jay can work out what flavours there are with his eyes."Said Erin.
"But there's so many to choose from." said Ellie
Ellie stuck her tongue out at Erin and continued to list them as she and Jay walked towards the counter
"And caramel,cinnamon sugar,apple crumble,banana split,coconut,glazed and they have a new mystery flavour every month."
"Thats alot to choose from,I don't know what to have."Said Jay
"I'm going to get momma a maple one because she likes those."
"I think I'm going to get the mystery flavour."said Jay
"MEEEEEE TOO,I haven't tried it yet." exclaimed Ellie
They bought the donuts and brought them back to the table.
"It taste like hershey's chocolate and marshmallows." said Ellie
"And on the top it looks like crushed graham crackers." explained Jay
Erin watched the interaction and chuckled to herself at how excited they were both getting of about a donut.
"IT's a S'More DONUT." shouted Ellie a bit louder than anticipated.
"Ellie, you don't need to shout, people in space don't need to hear about your s'more donut."Erin laughed.
Ellie and Jay chatted some more she told him all about Pre-school and her friends and Ian and his kids and about her favorite watched the two talking only talking when she was conversation between the two of them flowed so easily like no time had been lost and as though the little girl and Jay were always meant to be together.
It came time to leave and Ellie said goodbye giving Jay a huge hug.
"Bye nice to meet you."she said
"You too hopefully I'll see you again you and your mom can come a visit me in Chicago." said Jay
"Can we momma ,please?" Ellie asked
"We will see,let me see if I can get time off work." she said.
Erin smiled at Jay
"Thanks for today." they both said in unison and laughed and then they went their separate ways.
