Clothes Shopping!

So Elliot, Mai, Zoey and Zoey's parents all headed to the little girls clothing department of the store so that Mai would have something to wear…that fits.

"Ok, we're here now. So what size clothes does she wear?" Susie asked softly.

"Umm. I don't really know. I've only had her for a day and she came with two outfits; the one she's wearing now and the one she wore yesterday and both of those outfits are too small for her. Her shoes are the same way; she already kicked them off. So really don't know." Elliot said truthfully.

"Oh ok. Why don't we check her tags for a size and then try two or three sizes larger." Zoey suggested.

"Yeah, that's a great idea and then we can get cute little outfits just like we used to do with Zoey when she was little!" Susie exclaimed with a gleam in her eyes.

"MOM!" Zoey cried in embarrassment.

"Oh no, clothes shopping…" Adam said with an upset tone of voice.

"Hunny, if you don't wanna do clothes shopping you can do the grocery shopping. I don't mind. You can take Elliot with…" Susie started but was cut off by Elliot.

"No, I can't go with and leave you two with Mai alone. It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that Mai is really afraid of people and if I'm not around I'm afraid she'll freak out or something." Elliot said softly.

"Oh ok. Well then you can stick with and hunny you can choose what you want to do. We'd love to have you stay, but it's up to you." Suzie said looking at her husband.

"I'll do the grocery shopping and you guys can do the clothes shopping. Have fun." Adam said as he started to head out.

"Ok, find everything on the list. DON'T get anything extra!" Suzie called as Adam gave her a thumbs up.

"He's gonna find the stuff we need then get extra stuff, I know he is." Suzie said smiling.

"Now on to little Mai." Suzie said looking at Mai, who had just woken up.

"Daddy? Whats gowing on?" Mai asked softly as Elliot picked her up and looked at the tags on her outfit.

"We're gonna buy you some new clothes that fit you. You know Zoey. This is Zoey's mom." Elliot said as Mai looked at Suzie trying to figure her out.

"Awww sooo adorable! She's got the biggest blue eyes I've ever seen! Your eyes, she's got your eyes." Suzie said looking at Mai.

Another thing Elliot just (well awhile now) noticed was that Zoey and her mother were just alike, laid back. While her father is very protective.

At Suzie's outburst Mai hid her head in Elliot's shoulder, which only caused Suzie to think it was even more adorable.

"Yeah. Well her shirt size is a size 2 so we should get a 3½ and her skirt size is the same. Her shoe size is a size 1 so we should get her 2½. As for dresses or pajamas we'll just have to guess at that because I had her using one of my shirts last night for a pair of pajamas." Elliot said simply as Mai clenched his shirt in her hands.

"OK, let's get going!" Suzie exclaimed as Elliot and Zoey followed to where the clothes for a three year old girl would be.

"Elliot why don't you be the one to pick out her first outfit." Suzie said softly.

"Ok, sure." Elliot said handing Mai over to Zoey.

This only took Elliot three minutes to decide what outfit to get Mai.

When he got back with the outfit Mai was extremely excited to see what was on the shirt and skirt.

"Ok let me see her for a minute." Elliot said taking Mai into the changing rooms.

When they came out Mai had on what she considered her favorite outfit on.

The shirt was baby blue with a giant Mr. Bear on the front and in big dark blue bold letters on the back said "FRIENDSHIP IS EVERYTHING! DON'T FORGET THAT!" The skirt was also baby blue, but on the skirt were Mr. Bear and all his friends all around the hem of the skirt.

When it was time for Mai to go back to her original clothes she was very unhappy. She wanted to wear the Mr. Bear outfit.

Once back into her original outfit she was still pouting when Elliot told her something. "Mai, we have to buy it first before you can wear it. Besides you have to try on a bunch of new outfits as well."

"Otay daddy." Mai said softly as he gave her back to Zoey saying that he was gonna find Adam.

"Wait I thought you had to stay with her." Zoey said softly.

"Daddy, where you gowing?" Mai asked scared he was leaving her.

"I would, but it seems she really likes and trusts you Zoey so I can trust she'll be fine with you and your mother. I'm going to find Zoey's dad. I'll be back in a little while ok?" Elliot said as he patted Mai on the head.

"Ok." Zoey said softly, holding Mai close.

"Otay." Mai said holding onto Zoey.

With Elliot & Adam:

It had only taken Elliot ten minutes to find Zoey's dad. He was in the meats department.

"Hey Mr. Hanson!" Elliot called waving at Adam.

"Oh hey Elliot. Is everything ok?" Adam asked.

"Yeah, why wouldn't it be?" Elliot asked confused.

"Well I thought you had to stay with Mai." Adam said.

"Normally yes, but Mai seems to feel safe with Zoey so I left her in their capable hands." Elliot said simply.

"Well that's good." Adam said.

"It is good. At least there's someone besides Elliot and myself she can trust." Wesley said coming up from behind them.

"Who are you and how may we help you?" Adam asked annoyed that someone he didn't know was saying how much he "knew" Mai.

"Oh. Mr. Hanson this is Wesley. He is one of my best friends and has been my guardian since my parents died, but he's more of a brother then anything. Wesley, this is Zoey's dad Mr. Hanson." Elliot said introducing them to each other.

So the three guys began to get to know each other and Adam found out what he needed to know about Elliot and Mai.

All Adam wanted know was that Mai was gonna be safe and if Elliot was as responsible as they said he was. He was, Adam trusted him enough.

When they got back to the girls Elliot nearly fell over. There were now two carts. On was filled with most of the stuff that Elliot had found with Mai and then some clothes. The second cart was filled with shirts, skirts, pants, shorts, tank tops, sweatshirts, sweaters, jackets, dresses, belts, pajamas, shoes and three swimsuits; everything bagged up already.

"What's with all this?" Elliot asked when he found his voice again.

"Well, we found so many cute outfits and we just kept going…but think about it…now she's all set for the next two years." Suzie said with a bunch of energy while Zoey, Elliot, Adam and Wesley sweat dropped.

"And it's already all been paid for." Zoey said as she looked at her mother.

"Why is she prepared for two years in advanced?" Elliot asked hoping he wouldn't regret it.

"Well that's because so that you won't have to buy her as much new clothes when she's four. We bought all the clothes one size up. Not only that but we have all of Zoey's old clothes too. Ohh and if you need dressers we have little dressers that will fit all of her clothes in it and she'll be able to reach every drawer because the dresser is just her size. No need to repay me at all. I did it for free. Well not for free I bought everything, but it's all from the goodness of my heart. Everything was only $600.00." Suzie said.

'Only $600.00.' Elliot and Adam thought as Wesley went to go buy their groceries.

"Well then since you bought all of Mai's things I'll buy your groceries, no arguments. Ummm, speaking of Mai…Is she even in one of those carts?" Elliot asked looking at the carts with all the bags in the.

As soon as Elliot asked that he saw some bags fall out of the cart and Mai's head pop out with Mr. Bear.

"Daddy! Your back!" Mai cried happy to see him.

"Yeah I'm back. I told you I would be." Elliot said picking her up, while Zoey put the bags back in the cart.

"Well we'd best be going then." Adam said as they went to the checkout line.

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