Grocery shopping was something that Billy was used to doing on his own. Ever since his parents divorced and his mother left, he'd had to do it since his father worked all the time and only watched TV and drank after he got home. It started at first as a hobby to further bond with his mother, then turned into a favor for her when he got older and she was too busy around the house to do it herself, but it finally became a necessity when he had to take care of himself after his mother's physical abandonment and his father's emotional abandonment. After all, if he didn't do it, who would?

This time, though, he wasn't shopping for his father and himself for his house.

This time he was assisting his girlfriend Sidney's shopping for her father and herself at her house.

Sidney was intelligent, competent, and perfectly capable of shopping on her own, but he liked helping her out both because it gave them more time to spend together and because she could get so into her head because of everything she had to get and had to do when she returned home that she had a tendency to forget things and only remember them after she finished shopping.

Sidney never had much on her lists, just some necessities to stock up on and a few snacks, but that was always it. Her father was gone a lot on his business trips, so it was usually just her. Her patience always amazed him; she never once got angry with her father for being gone most of the time or blamed him for missing things in her life.

"He has to work, I understand that. I'd never blame him for doing what needs to be done so we can live comfortably. How can I hate him for making sure that we have a good life, especially since he's my only parent left?" She said to him once when he'd asked her how she never resented his job for making him leave so often or even Neil himself for continuing to work there despite knowing how much time it took away from his town and his only child.

Billy counted himself lucky every single day that he was dating Sidney Prescott because the girl was practically an angel in a flesh and blood body.

He stood by, watching with fond amusement as his angel got distracted by yet another nearby item while she was getting eggs.

"I've always liked strawberry yogurt," she murmured as she looked at the containers. "What kind of yogurt do you like, Billy?"

"Vanilla," he answered, resting his forearms against the shopping cart's handle.

"Really? I would have figured you'd go for plain," she said, taking the container of strawberry yogurt and putting it into the cart.

Sidney was about to walk away when Billy spoke up patiently: "Sid? Babe?"

"Yeah?"

"Eggs?" He rose an eyebrow, pointing over at the section that she was about to pass.

Sidney blushed a cherry red in embarrassment as she caught herself, once again, forgetting about something already on her list. "Right," she mumbled, taking out the eggs and carefully adding them to the part just below the handle. Her cheeks were flushed as her boyfriend chuckled.

"You're so cute," Billy told her, his grin widening when she hid her face with her hair.

"Whatever," she huffed. "Let's keep going."

Billy let another low chuckle escape from his mouth as she walked ahead of him, pushing the cart after her.

By the time they finished shopping for everything on her list, another hour had passed and Billy was helping Sidney bring the groceries into her house.

"Thank you so much, Billy," Sidney was saying as he set the bags down onto the counter. "It means a lot to me that you always help me with this. I shouldn't bother you with this all the time."

"As I keep telling you every time," her boyfriend replied as he started removing every item from the bags. "You never bother me. I think I'm actually one of the few teenage boys in the world who doesn't hate shopping."

Sidney laughed and assisted him in removing her haul to place them into the appropriate areas. "I just wish I wasn't so scatterbrained," she said. "It always feels like it takes so much more effort. I feel like a child who can't focus."

"Sid…"

"I know, I know. I shouldn't insult myself, but…"

"But?" Billy turned so that he was staring at her profile now.

Sidney felt his eyes and saw his stare in her peripheral vision, but she didn't face him. "I just feel so stupid every time. I mean…what kind of seventeen-year-old girl has her boyfriend help her shop because she keeps getting distracted by everything that isn't on her list? It's…" She stopped for a minute.

"It's what, Sid?" Billy asked softly, concerned about her.

"Pathetic," she whispered. She hated that word so much, it reminded her of her bullies in school who used it, but she couldn't help but feel like they were right…

Billy brought Sidney into his arms, holding her close. "You are not pathetic," he murmured, stroking her back. "You are smart, beautiful, loving, kind, and entirely capable of making your own decisions and doing your own things. You are not pathetic or scatterbrained or childish or any of those ugly things. You have to do so many things at once when your dad isn't home that sometimes you get distracted. It makes you human, baby, not pathetic."

Sidney sighed into his shoulder, her eyes closed as she breathed him in. She could feel her nerves calm at both his words and his scent and she relaxed.

"I'm sorry," she whispered, knowing that he hated it when anyone talked down to her, especially herself.

"You can make it up to me by watching Halloween with me later."

Sidney groaned and he laughed.

"Okay, that was a joke," he said quickly. "But seriously…try not to put yourself down. You're worth more than what your brain tries to trick you into believing."

Sidney pulled away from him and smiled, leaning in to give him a soft, loving kiss.

"I don't know what I'd do without you," she murmured against his lips.

"Be scatterbrained?"

The joke earned him a swat on his chest, but it made her laugh and that was all he cared about.

"Come on," Sidney said. "Let's finish putting all of this stuff away and then we can watch Halloween."

"You'd really watch it with me even though I suggested it as a joke?"

"Of course I would. You help me go shopping, it's only fair that I watch your favorite horror movie with you."

"I'm the luckiest boy in the world to be with you."

"And I'm the luckiest girl in the world to be with you."