Sins 23
Reid watched Max get dressed and decided his dreams would have to wait. At least she was willing to indulge them later. Tyler was pulling on his pants while Reid looked for his own. It took them a little bit of time but they were soon all dressed. Max was looking on the floor for something. "Whatcha lose?" asked Tyler "my other earring" answered Max
After a fruitless search for the other earring they gave up and checked out of the room.
The tire patch job had held all night long. So they wasted no time getting it over to the tire center. After checking in and the attendant checking to see if they even carried those size tires. Fortunately they did and the truck was parked in line behind another car.
The truck would take awhile so they went inside the store just to get out of the heat.
The boys had never been inside a store like that ever. Max thought it was funny that they never had. "Wow check this out," said Tyler holding up a seat cover with a cool looking wolf logo. "Cool" said Reid. "Man how much stuff does this place carry?" said Reid. Max chuckled "it's a superstore so probably a lot" said Max
They passed the home improvement section and wandered through the toy section. The boys picked up some toy dart guns and shot at each other "guys" said Max. But not until a store security guard walked towards them.
They vacated the toys and headed through the pets area. Tyler stopped to look at some of the strange looking fish "dude what are you looking at?" said Reid "this fish, it looks like my aunt Ethel" said Tyler. He made the same face that the fish was making. Max burst into laughter "that's not right" said Max between giggles "but accurate" said Reid. He bent down to look at the fish closer "c'mon you two stop scaring the fish" said Max "hey we aren't scaring the fish" said Tyler. "Oh really why are these dead then" said Reid "your armpit odor" said Tyler "hey I took a shower" said Reid.
Max was laughing at the two guys. They exited pets and passed through seasonal. "Man is it just me or are they skipping thanksgiving and heading strait to Christmas" said Tyler. Max lost her smile; this would be her first Christmas away from home.
"Hey what's wrong?" said Tyler "nothing just miss my mom, guess it's a holiday thing," said Max
"Yeah probably but you've got us to spend the holidays with" said Reid "yeah were your family now" said Tyler. She rumbled the younger boys hair. He frowned and vainly tried to fix it. They kept walking until they found the electronics department. "Whoa check I've been looking for this movie everywhere," said Reid. He held up a copy of wild things.
"Yeah except they won't let you buy it unless you're eighteen" said Max. "Man your kidding, that's not until after Christmas" said Reid "you can always order it online, if you have a credit card most places don't check" said Max. "Oh I see and this coming from the Internet expert" said Tyler. "Hey I know a few things," said Max "yeah I know," said Reid.
"You can always talk Caleb into buying it for you" said Max "oh yeah like Caleb's going to buy me a present" said Reid "doesn't he usually buy you something for Christmas?" said Tyler "yes dip shit he buys us all gift cards" said Reid. Max laughed "my brother needs to get an imagination" said Max "and pull that stick out of his ass" said Reid "Reid!" said Max "well come on you have to admit he needs to loosen up" said Reid "yeah I guess it couldn't hurt" said Tyler.
They were going through the stacks of movies and then the cds. They found a few they liked and an empty cart. And were soon shopping as well. They slowly made their way from electronics to clothes and Max wandered into the girl's section while they checked out the boys. "No way I have a pair of these and I didn't pay twenty bucks for them" said Reid. Reid grabbed two of them off the rack in his size and threw them in the cart. "Man I can't believe we're shopping in a Wal-Mart" said Tyler. "Man look at these prices, we were getting burned elsewhere" said Reid. Tyler was flipping through a rack of shirts.
They had sarcastic sayings on them. He bought two with hilarious sayings on them "hey think Kate will get offended by this?" said Tyler. He was holding up a shirt that said "vegetarian, old Indian word for bad hunter" Kate was a vegetarian, that's why Tyler was asking. "Who cares get it anyways, she could use a sense of humor," said Reid.
"Hey guys check this out," said Max. She hurried over to them holding a pair of short shorts and a tank top that said, "you say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing" on the front. "Get them," said Reid, he was laughing at the shirts Tyler was buying.
Reid noticed some Hawaiian print in the pile Max just threw in the cart and dug into her pile "oh when do we get to see you wear this?' said Reid. He was holding up a bikini top "summer," said Max she grabbed it from his hand and threw it into the cart.
Reid laughed at her. tyler waited till she turned to grab a pink thong she had in the pile and hold it up for reid to see. Max saw him holding it up and grabbed it from him and hit him with them.
They slowly made their way to shoes, bought some of those too before they found the food section of the store. They grabbed road munchies and room munchies as they went row to row. "You are not eating that in my car" said Tyler. Reid threw the cotton candy in the cart anyways. Tyler went to reach for it to pull it out. And Reid smacked his hand with a back scratchier. "Ouch hey" said Tyler holding the whacked hand and rubbing the spot Reid had hit him.
They were almost finished when they called Tyler's name for the car. "Oh shit guess were done," said Tyler. They headed back across the store to the tire center. Tyler paid for the work and they told him the car was parked in the side lot. So they left through the garden shop. The woman rang up the sale and Tyler swiped his card for the stuff. "You owe me for the clothes" said Tyler. They pushed the cart outside and around to the side lot. Sure enough there was the hummer with four brand new tires on it. "Man that only cost us three hundred bucks and that's including the tires" said Tyler.
He was reading the receipt. "Seriously?" said Reid taking the receipt from his hand. "Whoa, we need to come here more often," said Reid "or find one in Ipswich" said Max. They threw the stuff in the back. Tyler checked to make sure their concert stuff was still hidden under the seat where he put it. "Well that was certainly interesting," said Reid
He put his seat belt on and the crunch of a bag could be heard in his pocket. Tyler looked at him funny and so did Max. "What do you have in your pocket?" said Max. "You'll see," said Reid. Max was trying to remember where Reid had gone in the store. He had spent an awful lot of time in the jewelry department.
Max looked at him funny and debated just reaching in and grabbing whatever he was hiding. He seemed to sense her thoughts and closed his coat. He smiled at her frustrated expression and kept his coat-closed all the way to the school. Tyler parked in student parking and they sorted the stuff into separate bags for Max.
Max carried her bags up the stairs to her floor and said good-bye to Tyler and Reid. Giving him a kiss goodbye. "See you for dinner?" said Reid. "You just can't get enough of me can you?" she teased "never" he said back. He sounded serious and Max smiled at him "yeah I'll see you later then" said Max
She looked back once as she walked down the hall towards her room. She set the bags down in front of her door and unlocked it. Jenny was sitting on her bed looking at a photo album. Oh crap thought Max, am I going to have to do it again? "Hey roomie" said Jenny.
"Where were you?" said Jenny "oh someone slashed our tires at the concert so we ended up in a hotel room until we could get them fixed this morning, what are you doing?" said Max.
"Trying to jog my memories" said Jenny. She was looking at a group Photo that had her and Reid in it. "I just wish I could remember who this was" said Jenny she pointed at Reid "oh that's easy that's Reid you guys are friends, he's my boyfriend" said Max "oh, is that why we look so happy here" said Jenny. In the picture she was on Reids back and they both were laughing. "Yep" said Max. She almost broke down and told Jenny the truth, but she figured that the added time it would take for her to remember would by her some peace and quiet.
"What's his name?" said Jenny "Reid" said Max "oh" said the girl. Max was starting to pull stuff out of bags. "Where did you shop, never heard of that store before" said jenny. She sat down on Max's bed and picked up a shirt. "Oh this is cute, can I borrow it some time?" said Jenny
Max shrugged "sure why not so long as I can borrow your stuff" said max. "Cool" said Jenny. Max was shoving her shirts into her drawers when her phone rang. It was Caleb "hey where were you all night?" said Caleb. Max smiled to herself. "Relax we just had some car trouble" said Max.