Parenting Paul

Chapter 14: A Robbery Due To Happen at a Quarter to Three

Paul and Heather made their way to the grocery store, and Paul had lifted Heather onto his shoulders. "I feel so tall!" Heather giggled as Paul adjusted her onto himself. "Alright kiddo, which kind of ice cream would you like?" Paul asked as he walked towards the frozen food section of the store. "Strawberry ice cream with chocolate drizzle sauce, rainbow sprinkles, with a little cherry on top! Also, I wanted graham crackers to dip it! Remember, remember?!" Heather asked as Paul stood at the ice cream section of the freezers. "Hmmm, let's see..strawberry..and I'll get myself some chocolate chip cookie ice cream! That sounds brilliant!" He decided as he opened the freezers and grabbed the two flavors of ice cream. "Princess Tiger, hold onto that, and go ahead eat it if you'd like, but be careful not to spill." Paul soon said as he handed Heather the strawberry bucket. "Wait, don't you have to pay?" Heather asked with concern as Paul shut the freezer and adjusted Heather on his shoulders again. "I'm gonna, just enjoy yourself." he answered as he continued  walking down the aisle.

As the two made their way towards the cracker aisle, Paul noticed standing by the Chips-Ahoy cookie packages was a young lady with hip length golden hair wearing an oversized boysenberry beret hat that was made of thin yarn, with a matching sweater, black silky dress, and raspberry red high heels. "Why? If it isn't the beautiful Pattie Harrison!" Paul gushed as he walked closer to her, as she giggled and chewed on her index finger. "Oh, hello there Paul, you can call me
Pattie Boyd, if you  want to." Pattie flirted as she giggled and Paul smiled. "Charmed I'm sure.." Paul teased as Pattie swayed back and forth. "Haha, that's amazing, despite everything happening with you and the others, you've still got your sense of humor and wit." Pattie gushed as Paul tried to hang onto his grasp of Heather, which caught Pattie's attention. "Ooh-La-la who's this sweet little doll?" Pattie asked with interest as she watched Heather who was using her hands to scoop ice cream into her mouth. "My name is Princess Tiger! I'm a ballerina and tiger tamer." Heather answered as she slobbered the pink cream all over her face, hands and shirt.

Pattie then, with perplexed wonder, looked at Paul with baffled disbelief. "That's nice, dear.."Pattie soon nodded trying to hide her concern. "Look, I'm sorry to cut this short but, George wanted me to pick up some Chips Ahoy cookies, popcorn, and some other things for our date night tonight, umm, take care." Pattie rambled uncomfortably as she grabbed a package of animal crackers with hesitation, while she waved awkwardly and backed herself away. "Wait! Those aren't the cookies you said you needed!!" Paul tried to inform her, but Pattie was already down the next aisle. "What's up with her?" Paul whispered as Heather began to reach for the graham crackers. "Those! The honey flavored ones! Please please please!" Heather began to fuss as Paul shook his head and grabbed the box of crackers.

Eventually, the two of them made their way to the counter to purchase their items, which stunned the clerk who noticed Heather who was covered by the now melted strawberry ice cream. "Uh...£25.03?" The clerk asked with puzzlement as he watched the cream drip down into Paul's hair from Heather's hands,  which Paul did not acknowledge.