Looseleaf
CXXXVII. Ride
"Go faster!" Matt squealed. "Faster!" He squirmed in Mello's lap, eyes sparkling excitedly behind his goggles, hand frantically pointing down the aisle. "C'mon, Mello!"
Underneath him, Mello rolled his eyes and stepped on the pedal just a little bit more. The motorized shopping cart lurched forward, though not by much. "Remind me whose idea it was to sneak into Wal-Mart in the middle of the night and ride around the store in one of these," he grumbled.
"Yours," Matt reminded him. "Besides, it's my birthday! Don't be a buzzkill." The soon-to-be sixteen-year-old looked around thoughtfully, then grinned. "Over there!" he crowed. "Let's run into that tower of paper towels!"
Mello sighed, but it was Matt's birthday... "All right," he whispered, switching tones. He smiled against Matt's neck. "Hang on." He shoved his foot down on the pedal and the shopping cart for the elderly picked up speed. It wasn't going that fast, but they had enough force to run into the pile of paper towels, and also into the shelf behind it. The shopping cart hit the surface with a loud crash, and Matt was knocked off balance and thrown off Mello's lap. He landed in a pile of while toiletry.
"Matt? Matt?" Mello jumped in the rather large pile, biting back a smile. "Matty! Don't die on me!"
"Oh, Mello, save me!" Matt cried dramatically, waving his hands around.
Mello 'heroically dragged him to safety,' where then the blond 'gave him CPR,' or, in other words, started to make out with him.
"Ah," Matt sighed contentedly, snuggling into Mello's side a few minutes later. "Best birthday ever."
Mello smiled, affectionately ruffling his boyfriend's hair. "It better be." He added, "I love you."
"I love you too."
I got this idea when we went to Toys 'R' Us earlier today, and an old lady on a motorized shopping cart almost ran into me. Psh, elderly these days. *shakes head*