Title: Crazy Days

Summary: Sara and Nick can have some crazy days...

AN: Its insane how much of this was based off a tripI took to the grocery store.


"What? I wanted candy and this thing was half off."

Nick gave Sara a strange look as she took the tiara from him and put it on her head.

"You wanted candy, so you bought a plastic tiara that lights up, plays music, and dispenses candy? Why not just buy candy?"

"Are you saying you don't like my pretty tiara?" She asked in a childish voice and reached up to turn it on.

"No, I love it." He thought for a second. "I would love it a lot more if there was still candy in it."

Sara smiled sheepishly at that. She had only bought the thing yesterday and all the candy was already gone. "It was good candy." She tried to defend herself "And…I didn't have much else to eat during work."

"Have you ever noticed the fridge full of food in the break room? We do have vending machines too you know."

Seeing no way she could fight that, she gave him her infamous 'if-looks-could-kill' glare.

"Oh yeah Sara, that glare is so terrifying when you have a plastic tiara lighting up and playing music on your head." He laughed.

"I should wear this into the store." She said

"You should."

"I will." She nodded.

"You know what? I don't doubt that for a second."

Again she smiled at him. "With my luck, we'll run into someone we know." They pulled into the parking lot of the grocery store. Nick parked the car, and Sara got out making no move to take the childish tiara off her head. Nick laughed and put his arm around her shoulder and they walked into the store.

"Oh, junk sale!" Sara ran over to tables with myriad of items on them.

"Everyone loves the junk sale." Nick laughed.

"Hey, everything is half off. Halloween stuff, Thanksgiving stuff, Christmas stuff…" She trailed off seeing something that caught her eye.

She walked over to another table where she picked up a mangled box of glitter for under the Christmas Tree. She looked behind her to make sure Nick wasn't there, and she saw him looking at a turkey candleholder.

"Hey Nick…" She ran up behind him, and he turned around just to see her extend her arm over his head. The sparkles fell from the box, onto his shirt, into his hair, and onto the floor. She stopped just before his brown hair turned to a snowy sparkly white.

"Sara Sidle! I cannot believe you just did that!" He called after her as she ran to the next aisle.

"I can!" She shouted back over her shoulder.

He shook his head sending loose glitter to the floor. "Its on now." He muttered.

He ran into the aisle Sara had gone into seconds before, and the only person he saw was an elderly lady flipping through a 'People' magazine. Nick smiled at her, and she smiled back nodding her head towards the next aisle.

Nick tried peeking into the aisle to sneak up on Sara, but before he could see anything, he felt something soft and kind of squishy hit his head. This sent more loose glitter to the floor. He immediately went back to the safety of his own aisle and started to walk to the other end when he saw a hot pink pillow fly from the other side.

He picked it up and threw it back, smiling to himself as he sprinted down the aisle to sneak up on Sara.

"Well fine, if you don't want it, then I'll have it." She finished her sentence just in time to turn around to see Nick standing behind her with his hands behind his back.

Immediately she made an attempt to hit Nick, but he blocked the shot with two of his own pillows he picked up.

Sara ran down the aisle and Nick chased after her. She threw a pillow behind her, trying to throw him off, but Nick only fired one of his pillows at her. She turned around, swung the pillow and hit Nick in the head. He lunged at her with his pillow above his head, but she moved out of the way quick enough to be able not only to miss his shot, but hit him over his head again." The pillow flew from her hand and slid across the floor. She went to turn and run to get more ammo when she saw Nick out of the corner of her eye, and before she could do anything, it was too late. She stopped and attempted to duck to miss the shot, but she felt the pillow hit her back, and she fell to the floor.

At first Nick thought he had hurt her, but when she rolled over he could see she was laughing so hard she had tears streaming down her face.

Realizing what they had just done, Nick burst into laughter too. A few people passed by and smiled at the two. Others were standing at the end of the aisle and had been watching the whole thing. Once he had calmed down he held out his hand to help Sara up.

"Come on princess" He said holding out his hand. "We have an audience."

She grabbed hold of his hand and stood up. "Fine, sparkles."

They brushed the glitter off Nick and off his hair, which made more of a mess on the floor. Once they put the pillows back, they headed to the ice cream aisle.

"We are the only people who would have a pillow fight in the middle of a grocery store." Nick pointed out.

"Were crazy." Sara shrugged

"And I love it." Nick put his arm around her shoulder and kissed the top of her head. He noticed that the tiara had somehow stayed on her head. He pressed the button and it turned on.

"Hey guys!" A voice called from behind them.

They both turned around to see Catherine and Lindsey standing behind them. Sara automatically removed her tiara and attempted to hide it behind her back, but due to the music that was still playing, it wasn't very successful.

"Hey Cath, Lindsey." Nick said

"Hi!" Lindsey said and gave Sara a strange look.

"How's school going?" Sara asked her, trying to cove up the fact that she was very unsuccessfully hiding something behind her back.

"Its fun. The only thing that isn't is math." She rolled her eyes.

"What are you guys doing here?" Catherine asked them.

"Getting ice cream. Monthly grocery run?" Sara replied.

"No, movie marathon and game night. We ran out of popcorn."

"Cool. Have fun."

"You too." Catherine said over he shoulder as they walked away.

"Mom, why was Sara wearing a plastic crown, and why does Nick have sparkles in his hair?" Lindsey asked when she knew they couldn't hear them.

"I told you we would run into someone we know." Sara said turning around.

"Nice job at hiding the evidence by the way." He pointed to the tiara that she had put back on her head.

"Thank you. If you hadn't have turned it on, then I might have been able to get away with it."

"Yeah, but then you wouldn't have looked so cute trying to hide something." He said as they walked into the ice cream aisle. "I'm just glad they didn't see us earlier."

"Me too. Yummy, Chunky Monkey!" Sara grabbed a carton of Chunky Monkey from the freezer and looked at the other Ben & Jerry flavors. "What do you have?" She turned around to see Nick holding a carton of Vanilla ice cream. "No way, that's boring!" She said taking it from his hands.

"Give that back." He took the ice cream from her "Its only boring when you don't make a stop at this aisle." He took her hand and led her to the next aisle.

"Toppings!" She went and put the Chunky Monkey back. 'I'll save you for another time.' She murmured to the ice cream.

When she got back, Nick had his arms full of various toppings.

"Would you like some help there Sparkles?" She held out an abandoned basket and he dropped the items in.

"Thanks. I tend to go a little nuts when it comes to toppings." He paused and looked at the items in the basket. "That's what I forgot. Nuts!" He grabbed a jar of chopped nuts and put them into the basket. "Anything else you want that I might have missed?"

Sara looked into the basket and smiled. "One thing."

"And that would be…?"

"Something vitally important."

Nick saw the evil smile on her face. "I'm going to have to guess, aren't I?"

She nodded.

"Okay, well I have chocolate, caramel, nuts, whipped cream, sprinkles." He held up each item, but paused on the sprinkles. "Which you will not be having." To make his point he shook his head again and more glitter fell to the floor.

She tried to give him an evil glare, but couldn't hide her smile.

"What am I missing?" He asked himself out loud as he looked around.

"Warm! Cold! Hot! Freezing!" Sara randomly yelled when he would look at different items.

Now it was his turn to give an evil glare.

"I know what it is." He smiled and grabbed a jar of cherries from the shelf.

"Exactly." They headed for the checkout lane.

Nick put the items from the basket on the conveyer belt, while Sara looked at magazines.

"You've got to be kidding me." She said.

"What?" Nick asked as he payed the cashier.

"Listen to this…Baby born with squirrel tail. Elvis is still alive. Read his interview about how he was abducted by aliens." She pointed to a black and white magazine. "Who buys this stuff?" She walked over to Nick and they started leaving the store.

"Greg." Nick said before they reached the exit, and they both laughed.

"Video store next?" Sara asked as they put their bags into the back seat.

"Lets go."