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Chapter Two
The shopping trip turned out to be a bit of a disaster. Alex and Maggie carted the two girls around the store, Kara pouting in the seat of the store cart, loudly voicing her hunger to her guardians as they paced through the aisles, and Lena clinging to the collar of Alex's shirt, thumb firmly in her mouth and she took in all of the hustle and bustle from the other shoppers around the store.
Alex made the decision to start in the food section. Maggie snatched up a box of crackers and quickly pulled out one of the individual packages, tearing it open and handing it to Kara. She offered on to Lena as well, but the girl shook her head no and clung tighter to Alex.
They made quick work of picking up some more healthy snacks for the girls before heading to the back of the shop to pick out some clothes and shoes.
Kara was easily appeased, now sitting in the cart enjoying her crackers, she was much more helpful in choosing some t-shirts and sweaters, mostly all of them covered in kittens and puppies. Maggie threw in some jeans and sweat pants, and Alex tossed some socks into the cart along with the rest of Kara's choices. Maggie, unable to resist, tossed in a Supergirl onesie with another pair of warm pajamas.
Lena on the other hand was a little harder to get a response out of. Alex had tossed in some socks for the little girl already, and some regular blue jeans and plain coloured leggings, but Lena was unlikely to answer when Alex or Maggie help up some of the cutesy, pink and sparkly tops that Kara had gravitated toward.
"Okay Little Miss, you have to give me something," Alex reasoned with the girl. "Which ones do you want to wear?"
Lena looked around at the array of pink and glitter of the girl's section, analysing her choices before pointing toward a section of the area.
"Okay," Alex agreed, taking the child over to where she wanted to go.
When they made it to the wall, Alex laughed lightly to herself. The smaller section of the girl's clothing was filled with baby blues and light purples, with some red thrown in. The shirts held little drawings on them, but not the baby animals that Kara had chosen. The shirts and sweaters than Lena had discovered were covered in purple and blue dinosaur drawings, as well as some spaceships, and one soft red sweater with a deer on the front, some glittery snowflakes surrounding it.
"These ones," Lena said, her accent lisping her words around her thumb. Alex observed her for a moment, thinking that she would need to pick out some pacifiers along with all of the other supplies they still needed.
"Good choices, Little Miss," Alex smiled.
Alex grabbed up Lena's clothing choices, and snatched up a pair of fleecy pink pajamas covered in ladybugs as well as a onesie with a hood to make the little girl look like a little green dinosaur, struggling to hold on to all of the coat hangers, as well as the toddler. Lena watched Alex from her perch before grabbing at the deer sweater with her free hand, holding onto it herself.
"Thanks for the help," Alex laughed. Lena smiled slightly around her thumb.
The pair made their way back to Maggie and Kara, Alex smiled at Maggie as she tossed the pile of Lena's choices on top of Kara's clothes.
"Find some things to your liking?" Maggie asked Lena.
The little girl smiled and held up her red sweater to show Maggie.
"What's that?"
"Deer," Lena answered, lisping around her thumb.
"That's fun," Maggie smiled at the girl. "Do you want to put it in the cart?"
Lena shook her head, pulling the sweater up to her face, running the soft fabric across her cheek.
"Okay," Maggie said, changing the subject. "What else do we need?"
Alex took a quick inventory of what was in the cart before deciding, "shoes, car seats and some toys."
Maggie nodded, grabbing hold of the handle and pushing their quickly filling cart toward another section of the store. While Lena was distracted by the shoppers, Alex snuck the red sweater from her hands, placing it in the cart along with the rest of the clothing and snacks. On the way to the car seats, Alex made a quick stop in the baby section and snatched up a 3 pack of blue and green pacifiers, dropping them into the cart while Maggie gave her a questioning look.
"I'll tell you later," Alex said in passing.
They quickly picked out two car seats, the same model, one was pink and the other baby blue, before Maggie pushed the cart toward the shoe section.
Alex browsed up and down, point out shoes to Lena and Kara before they each had two pairs of shoes chosen. Maggie deposited Kara on the bench, telling her to sit still while she made sure the girl's choices fit her feet. Kara giggled as Maggie tickled the bottoms of her toes in between the sneakers and a little pair of pink rain boots. With both pairs of shoes fitting nicely on the child's feet, Maggie tossed both of the choices onto the growing pile in the cart.
Alex struggled a bit more with Lena. The girl didn't want to be put down, instead wanting to cling to the collar of Alex's shirt and stay perched on the woman's hip.
"Come on Little Miss, just for a minute and then I'll pick you up again," Alex bribed.
Lena eventually relented, letting Alex place her on the bench, her brows furrowed in a miniature version of a frown while Alex made sure a little pair of baby blue Converse and some purple flowered rain boots fit on the little girl's feet. Finding that they fit, she tossed them in the cart and scooped up the little girl again. Lena settled on Alex's hip happily, enjoying the view from her vantage point as they made it to the toys section, their last stop.
The toys section in the store was huge, the girls' eyes going wide as they took in all the bright colours, different textures and boxes and characters adorning the shelves. Kara's eyes gravitated toward the aggressively pink boxes of dolls and doll accessories lining the back wall while Lena looked longingly toward the baskets of teddy bears and stuffed animals.
"Divide and conquer?" Maggie asked, her eyes going from the children to her fiancée.
Alex nodded and they went their separate ways, Maggie steering the cart to the dolls, and Alex marching over to the baskets and shelves of teddy bears.
Kara was sitting on Maggie's hip, demanding to be released from the child's seat of the cart, in order to get a closer look at all the Barbie dolls in front of her. She was looking at all of the different dolls, trying to decide between a Barbie with a puppy toy included, or a stuffed puppy with a remote control.
"You know, we can get both," Maggie told the little girl.
Kara turned to look at Maggie with wide eyes, "Really?"
"Sure," she shrugged.
Maggie snatched up one of the boxes with the Barbie, as well as one of the remote control dogs before tossing them in the cart. Then the two made their way over to see how Alex and Lena were faring with the teddy bears.
With Alex and Lena, the little girl, who was reaching out to touch every single stuffed animal on the shelves, were seemingly enjoying themselves. Lena seemed to like the different textures, especially the extremely soft brown bears, some of which were almost the same size as the little girl, and a pile of little giraffes. Lena seemed torn, green eyes looking between the two piles of stuffed animals.
"You know, we can bring more than one home," Alex whispered in Lena's ear.
The little girl's head whipped around to look at Alex, eyes wide at the possibility of having more than one toy to bring home and call hers.
"Which ones do you want?" Alex asked.
"A bear… And a giraffe!" Lena giggled around her thumb.
"You pick out which ones," Alex laughed, walking closer to the shelves so that Lena can snatch up a bear and a giraffe after careful consideration and brushing her little fingers over each and every one, searching for the softest fabrics in the piles.
Alex turned and found Maggie watching with a smile on her face. Lena held tightly to the bear with her arm to her chest, the giraffe's neck dangling from her hand as she struggled to hold on to both.
"Why don't you put on in the cart, Little Miss?" Alex laughed.
Lena thought about it for a moment before reaching out and placing the giraffe into the cart on top of the piles of clothes and the box containing the puppy toy Kara had picked out. She looked up at Maggie and smiled around the thumb in her mouth.
"Are we ready to go?" Maggie asked.
"I'm just going to grab some crayons and markers on our way out," Alex commented and the pair made their way to the front of the store.
Alex made a quick stop to pick up some boxes of crayons and markers, as well as some child appropriate books to read to the little girls later on. They check out was a quick and simple process, the teenager quickly scanning everything, and even going as far as to offer his help in carrying everything out to the car and set up the car seats.
"Thank you, but I think we've got it," Maggie smiled, dropping the last bag into the cart with a smiley Kara.
Alex was trying to convince Lena to sit in the cart beside Kara for a couple of minutes while the two get the brand new car seats settled in the car. Lena was pouty, but accepted being placed in the cart. Kara was quick to strike up a conversation with the younger girl, quickly chattering about the puppy toy that she had picked out, and how excited she was to be able to play with it. Lena looked around her, searching for the brown bear that Alex had wrestled from the child's grasp in order to get the price tag scanned. She could see it poking out of one of the closer bags and made a reach for it. She almost toppled out of the child seat in her attempt for the bear, but Maggie was quick to grab her and straighten her out.
Lena whined, reaching for the bear with her free hand.
Maggie easily grabbed the bear and placed it in Lena's reaching hand. Lena smiled shyly at Maggie around her thumb and hugged the bear tightly to her chest.
"Okay," Alex announced, "We are ready to go."
"You guys ready to go home?" Maggie smiled down at the toddlers.
Kara cheered and nodded, but Lena looked skeptical, green eyes watching Maggie over the head of the bear in her lap, unsure what the woman meant by 'home'.
"We're going back to mine and Alex's apartment Little Miss," Maggie explained to the skeptical little girl.
Lena's face visibly relaxed as Maggie explained this, her crinkled brows relaxing back into an un-furrowed expression. Maggie smiled and hauled Kara out of the seat first, walking her around to the driver's side of the car to strap Kara into the pink car seat. Alex took Lena under her arms and spun her around to the car, dropping her into the blue seat with a laugh. She buckled Lena in easily, tickling the child every so often as she fiddled with the many straps attached to the car seat.
When Lena was buckled in, Maggie had started hauling bags into the trunk of the large SUV, and Alex snatched a small package from one of the bags.
"I have something for you, Little Miss," Alex said, ripping open the cardboard and plastic to pull out a green and purple pacifier from the package.
Lena watched with rapt attention as Alex tried to hand it to her.
"It's going to replace this," Alex smiled, easing the little girl's thumb from her mouth and placing the plastic into her mouth instead.
Lena's face scrunched for a second as she adjusted to the plastic pacifier until she relaxed, realising she now had two free hands and the soothing sensation that was brought to her with her thumb.
"Better?" Alex asked.
Lena hummed in agreeance. Alex and Maggie, now finished with packing everything into the back of the SUV, climbed into the front seats of the car and buckled their seats.
"Let's head home," Alex smiled in the rear view mirror at the children who were chattering on in the back seat.