The Witch He Found

Chapter 28

Thor, Loki and I arrived at the grocery store early afternoon. I pushed the cart while Loki walked beside me, Thor however was walking ahead of us, happily going from shelf to shelf.

"I've never seen him like this before, he's acting like a child." Loki muttered to me, his eyes narrowed on his brother. 

"If you think this is bad then you should have seen him the time he got back from Asgard and Tony had eaten his snacks. Tony literally had to fly to a store before Thor smashed the TV" I laugh recalling the incident. 

Thor runs back up to the cart with his arms full of boxes of food, dumping it inside. "Is this enough for the movie?" 

I pick up a box of cereal from the pile he's gathered and look at it. "Thor this is breakfast food and maybe sometimes midnight food. Sure if it's what you want, go and get your pop tarts, stop picking up random boxes." 

He nods at me before walking off. I shake my head at him and continue walking around the store with Loki following closely behind. 

"Is there anything you want while we are here Lo?" I stop to pick up some shampoo and conditioner, turning back wondering why Loki hadn't responded you see him looking at some clothes. "You don't have many Midgardian clothes do you? Shall we take a look at some?"

He gives you a small nod and we spend some time looking at the clothes in the store. He ended up picking out a few things, mainly T-shirts and a couple of pairs of casual slacks. 

"Thank you for allowing me to get those my darling." He leans down to give me a small kiss.

"You're welcome Lo" I smile at him. 

"Now, where did that brother of yours go. I don't know why I bother bringing him shopping sometimes, he's worse than a toddler" 

We both laugh and walk to the isle where the pop tarts usually are, I stop at the end of the isle when you see Thor sat on his knees staring at the shelf 

"Oh no. Not again" I groan to myself.

Loki looks at me, concerned. "What is it? What's wrong?" 

"Just follow me" I sigh as we walk slowly over to Thor. I move around the cart and come to a  crouch beside him 

"Hey big guy, you shouldn't sit on the floor. If they don't have any then we will stop at another shop on the way back. I'll find you some before we go home ok?" 

I take his hand, getting him to stand up as he glares at the empty shelf and walk to the checkout. Looking back over my shoulder Loki follows behind us both with the cart and a bewildered expression at his brothers obvious devastation. 

When we get to the checkout I let go of Thor's hand to take the cart from Loki, giving items to the cashier. Loki gives me a quick kiss and stands to the side with Thor while we wait for the shopping. 

I smile politely at the cashier as the scans and packs the items but I notice she keeps giving me dirty looks.

What is her problem?

She finishes packing the items and I pay, passing a couple of bags over to the boys, they go ahead to the car while I take the last bag. I smile and say thank you to the woman before turning to leave.

"Slut"

I pause mid step, I turn to look her dead in the eye, my head tilting slightly. "Excuse me?" 

"You heard me. Flaunting a relationship with two men that way" She shakes her head disgusted.  "You're a slut. Isn't one of them enough?" She scowls at me, her voice rising slightly. 

"Oh, I see." I give her a smirk before turning to one of her colleagues who was stood there watching the interaction with wide eyes. 

"I'd like to speak with your manager, please." The young girl nods at me, quickly running off. I stand there silently watching in the direction the girl went while the cashier stares daggers at me. 

The young girl comes down an isle after a few minutes, a middle aged man in a shirt and tie following behind her. 

"Hello, I'm Roger, I'm the manager, what seems to be the problem here?" He extends his hand to me. 

I put my hand out to shake his once before retracting it. 

"Hello, call me Kathy. I'm sorry to pull you away from your work, I imagine running a store can be rather busy but I believe there has been a misunderstanding. I was shopping with my partner and his brother. Now his brother is some what of a big kid and when he found you had ran out of pop tarts left he got a bit upset." He gave me a sympathetic smile like he understood what I meant. 

"I was holding his hand to comfort him as we got to the register. The problem I'm afraid is that this lady" I pointed straight at the cashier who was still glaring at me. "without knowing the situation thought it appropriate to call me a slut." 

I watch him frown as I talk, when I've finished he looks over to the cashier. 

"You need to go to my office. Now." I watch as she scuttles off from her station and he looks back over at me, taking a deep breath. 

"I am very sorry for this Ma'am, we keep having incidents with her, I'm aware this isn't an excuse for her behaviour but I can I assure you, if you return to this store you wont have this problem again. If you wouldn't mind just waiting here for a moment I believe we may have some pop tarts in the back." 

I give him a small smile and he walks off, returning moments later with a bag full of pop tarts. "Please have these, free of charge. I cannot apologise enough for the lack of respect my staff have shown you." 

"Thank you sir, I'm sure we will be back in no time for more, he eats them far too often." I give him a small laugh and he passes the bag over to me. 

"Don't worry I understand, my son is the same way" He laughs lightly.

Walking out of the store I see Loki and Thor stood by the car waiting. "Sorry guys, I had a slight issue" 

I unlock the car for them and we start putting the bags in the car.

"Here you go Thor" I hand him the bag full of pop tarts and his face lights up before frowning slightly.

"How did you get these? There wasn't any on the shelves" I wink at him as I shut the boot and go over to the drivers side. 

Loki gives me a side glance as we all get in the car. "He has a point love, how did you get those?" 

I start driving back to the compound with a smile on my face. 

"The cashier had something to me that was rude and unprofessional. I spoke to the manager and he gave me those in form of apology. Pretty sure she is getting fired too so it's a win-win." 

Loki shakes his head amused while Thor grins at me from the back seat, hugging the bag of goodies to himself.