Leaving Iisun's clinic with Ichigo's overnight bag (stuffed with at least a week's worth of clothing and other goodies) Chad smiled as his friend's father waved him off on his merry way and made a mental note to go through Ichigo's things before returning to the apartment so that he could make sure that her father hadn't hidden any more morning after pills anywhere.
He then made his way to the local store about half a block from his home since he still needed to pick up things for dinner, not to mention possibly the rest of the week or more, since the grocery store he'd decided to go to had only the freshest and the best of everything food wise.
He'd decided to get enough chicken and beef and fish to last a while plus some other things. Dinner tonight, he had initially thought, would be quick and easy. Something like some of the foods he'd eaten when he'd lived with his grandfather before he had died. But no- since he wanted the meal to be of a romantic nature, he would have to go with something else.
Something more intricate and a little more time consuming.
Grabbing a buggy at the door, Chad began to slowly and meticulously make his way from isle to isle, grabbing various items like, batter, oil, vegetables like- peppers- red, yellow, and orange, some celery, lettuce, some green onions, and tomato's, a large jar of mayo- a large jar of pickles, bread, sandwich meats- chicken, turkey, ham. Some fruits- like kiwi's, oranges, mango's strawberries, grapes- some dairy products like yogurts and milk and sour cream. And then made his way over to the meats counter where he got almost a pound of steak, ground beef, and ribs before moving on to the fish counter to get what he planned to cook for dinner tonight.
He made sure to take into account the fact that he ate much more than Ichigo when he picked his items, a nice piece of salmon to cook along with a pound of large scallops, a pound of large shrimp, clams, four lobster tails, a pound of catfish and enough crab meat to make a seafood salad- one of Ichigo's known favorite foods.
Once he had all of that out of the way, he went and grabbed some candy- some chocolates for Ichigo to eat later on is she so wished, some junk food that the two of them enjoyed and then before he knew it, he had somehow managed to maneuver his way over to the feminine hygiene products where he found some pregnancy tests.
Picking up one or two, he took the time to read the back of the boxes to see just how accurate they were before grabbing five.
After all if he was knocking up his best friend, he was damn well going to do things right and find out if she had a little bun in the oven the first time. There could be no room for error in this. He told himself firmly.
Especially since the last thing he wished to do was spirit Ichigo away from everyone and everything that she knew and loved and hold her captive until she was pregnant was at this point, simply out of the question since he had no wish to break or harm her in any way.
Doing so simply negated the purpose of everything he was doing, didn't it?
Placing the tests in the buggy along with everything else, he then made his way to the front of the store and waited in line for about fifteen minutes before managing to get to the register and having everything rung up.
All in all, his stuff cost about a month's worth of savings.
But if he had managed to get Ichigo with child- he figured that it was the least he could do for her. Besides, he'd never been one to care much when it came to spoiling his favorite person. So this little trip and it's costs simply didn't really register in his mind.
To him Ichigo was worth every damn penny and then some. She always would be.