The Spin off 2 – Part 3

A week later…

"Arch" Lexie called back through the house, as she attempted to keep an eye on Ellie and Kyla, while holding her bag and keys at the same time by the front door.
"Coming, Coming" he called back through, picking up his cup of tea and quickly knocking it back. He checked his watch then quickly picked up a bunch of papers at the side of the table and ran through the hall.
"Arch I was just wondering if…" Lexie began to talk as Archie came down the hall.
He passed her quickly, "Sorry sweetheart, I'm late, Talk tonight" he spoke quickly giving her a quick kiss as he passed. "Bye then" she shouted back, as he gave a quick wave and continued running, carefully opening and closing the gate as he went running to the car.

"What is your daddy like?" Lexie laughed picking up Kyla as she put her in the buggy.
"Da" Ellie said pointing back at a tiresome Archie running back up the path. Lexie stood up confused as Archie ran past her back into the house then came out again.
"Keys" he said explaining quickly.
Lexie laughed "Ya Bampot" she exclaimed giving him another quick peck on the cheek. "Bye girls" Archie yelled running past them again.
"Come on girlies lets go shopping" Lexie announced strapping in Ellie beside Kyla.

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In the shops…

"Right, let's see what's on the shopping list today" Lexie spoke unfolding a piece of paper, as they stood in the local supermarket.
She had Ellie and Kyla in the buggy in front of her as she pushed it down the aisles. She began collecting the items on the list, while searching down the aisles looking at the products. "You know I wish they wouldn't keep changing everything around in here, I Canaan find anything." Lexie said talking to herself. "Brown sauce…brown sauce…brown sauce…" Lexie murmured to herself, as she pushed the buggy down the sauces aisle, while her eyes scanned the different bottles on the high shelf.

Suddenly Lexie stopped and reversed the buggy back suddenly. She peered through the gap in the shelf through to the next aisle.
"That's funny, I could of sworn I saw…no couldn't of been" she whispered to herself, as she continued to search for the brown sauce. She got up a few more paces then stopped again. "Ok…now I really think I'm seeing things" she laughed to herself as her puzzled face looked back through another gap in the shelf. "Right come on, your daddy will have to go without his brown sauce this week" Lexie groaned giving up the search and pushing the buggy to the check out.

"Hello" the lady smiled at Lexie greeting her as she got to the check out.
"Hi" Lexie said smiling back. It was quite hard to get used to moving from a village to a city still even now, not knowing everyone in your local store and having a different person each time you bought something was one of the pleasant things Lexie still missed. Lexie started unpacking the shopping from the basket onto the conveyer belt as the lady scanned them through. "Aww there little darlings" the lady blessed looking at Ellie and Kyla sitting in the buggy beside the check out. Lexie laughed, "I'm not too sure about that" she joked, as she moved the buggy up to start packing the bags underneath it on the other side of the check out.

As she looked up the same thing caught her eye again, "That will be £36.50 please" the lady announced, as Lexie was still looking towards the exit. The lady waited patiently before trying to get Lexie's attention again "Excuse me miss" she repeated.
"Oh sorry" Lexie said bringing her attention back, as she handed the lady her credit card. "In a daydream?" the lady laughed as she registered through the card on the till. "Aye, something like that" Lexie replied signing the receipt.
"Thank you" the lady answered as she smiled.
"Bye" Lexie said pushing the buggy out of the store.

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Lexie pushed the buggy back towards the house, as she passed she looked at the house next door. She could see that there were workmen moving furniture into the house. "Hey Emma" Lexie suddenly noticed the girl from the park.
"Hey Lexie" Emma replied coming from the house out to talk to Lexie.
"Are you moving in?" Lexie asked looking hopeful.
"Yeah…do you leave next door?" she asked smiling.
"Aye I do, well this will be nice" Lexie replied smiling back.
"Yeah the estate man said there was nice neighbours" Emma explained.
"That was nice of him" Lexie thought happily, the fact that they were considered as nice neighbours. "Well I better get back and help Kat, see ya!" Emma announced turning and running back to the house.

Lexie wondered who 'Kat' was but she figured it must be a friend of Emma's. Lexie continued to push the buggy to her house and up the small path. As she searched in her bag for her keys she looked across to next door and then back to her front door. Suddenly she dropped her keys as she turned back to next door. "Ok now I'm just getting paranoid she laughed to herself as she picked up the keys and let herself in. She took the shopping in first then went back to get the girls who were getting restless in their buggy.

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Later that night in bed…

"Lex, are you alright?" Archie asked turning to his wife, who hadn't really been her, self since he had got back from work this evening. "Hmmm…" she murmured.
"Sure?" Archie asked again.
"Aye it's just…well you know when you think you keep seeing someone…but you don't" Lexie explained turning to face up at Archie.
Archie looked a bit puzzled but still agreed "Yeah…"
"Well I just keep thinking I see…" Lexie trailed off.
"See who?" Archie said curious.
"Oh no one, I don't know" Lexie replied deciding she wasn't going to mention it to him. Archie laughed; "Come on let's go to sleep before you see any more people" he joked. Lexie smiled and laid her head down next to Archie.