What Have I Gotten Myself Into?

A Date Of Chaos

Chuckles...

Pft...

Pf-

"Sov, please.." I dread, palming my forehead, my elbow supporting strength coming from the dash of the glove box.

"I'm sorry, hahaha!" I should've sealed my mouth with that famous gorilla glue! Now, I'm stuck in the fancy car that she had driven with, laughing so hard like tomorrow won't come, El just kicking his feet and laughing along with his mom even though he's got a confused expression on his face.

And! There obviously won't be any tomorrow if her only concern is trying not to bang her head on the steering wheel! Scared for my life and El's, also hers, I turned only my shifted my head, embarrassed. I look back at her, "Sov, pleaseeee..." I thread the 'e' for as far as it could go, begging her! 

Stopping abruptly, everyone was pressured forward but the impact of it didn't leave us flying because we put on our seat belt! I stare at Sov, feeling our fast friendship close enough for me to be so agitated to lecture her, a woman twice my age!

Instead, she ooph-ed and looked at El from the rear view mirror who doesn't look a bit bothered, maybe a little jumped but he seem to have recovered fast. What trauma does he ride in?

"Wasn't mommy right? Never not wear your seatbelt." He didn't fight back, just nodded his head and both stared at the car in front; at the red light that's stopping everyone in our forward lane, while the front drove ahead behind us. 

I was struck at first, agape and staring at who-knows-what when I looked to Sov and I see her winking at me, only her eyes directed towards me while her poster was forward. I blinked in confusion, looking at the rear review mirror at El and see him shrugging his shoulder at me as if to say 'it happens.' 

Excuse me?!

When I'm over my own shock and confusion, the next thing I hear is the door at my side opens and I see El waiting for me to get out. I didn't even know we've already arrived! I was already over it seeing El, Oh, my god! I want a baby! I want El!!!!!!

The second we got inside the mall El was all over the place and you could rarely find him at this point, it was just impossible and exhausting to even think of looking for him! 

Just when, aftering shaking hands on the thought of giving up looking for him, we sat down. Only in that same second he's behind me screaming and whining that he wants an ice cream... I have not even had my ass sat the chair! 

I couldn't bring myself to care enough where he spawn out of so I just went to the point, "You've already ate three scropes!" He wasn't having it, ran around the entire table and chanted that he wanted ice cream. 

Sov was sitting on the chair, her ass kissing the seat so comfortably, leg over the other with a tablet in her hands to which I have no idea where she got it from! Am I a nanny? At this point, I should cancel this and go to work! 

I don't want kids..I could literally cry right now. Fuck kids! 

Sov made a hand gesture, asking El to come forward and twirl around with his back to her and there she zips his backpack open and put her tablet in, lightly tapping it when she zipped it close.

She looks to me, "And now I'm officially free, I cleared my schedule for the day so there shouldn't be any business alerts, everyone else know we're safe and sound." 

"And you, be a good boy and don't make a scene, right now we're on a date with Aunt Joell. You're making a bad impression on her, young man." She pinches his cheek, dragging the skin stretched out as she continues to tell him off. I must be imagining things but when he looks down in disappointment, I see ears and a tail of a dog just drooping down in sadness..

And yes, you did read that right. We're on a date. Just a friendly getting to know each other kind of date...getting to know my future sister-in-law kinda date, if you know what I mean. Wink-wink. 

He drags his feet while his invisible tail and ears still sog in such a bad mood, when he looks at me he's giving puppy eyes and when he apologies, his voice is as sorry as a drifted injured stray dog out on the rain. 

I smile and ruffle his head, picking him up from under the armpits and span him around before walking around with him hand-in-hand with Sov on my side, all having a conversation as we go ahead to get this sorry puppy along, three scoops of ice cream. 

"I can..alread-ty feel my tum tum aching.." El rubs his stomach as he stares at the three scrope of ice cream tour in his cup, regretting his every choice. Well, I guess no matter what you always need to get what you want even if you'll regret it.

"Mommy.." I want a baby-

Sov sighed, petting her son's head after a smile before she looked to the employee. "Alright, baby. Excuse me, can we weet two more ice cream cups?" And scooped one ball of ice cream each into the cups.

"I don't quite enjoy the taste of bitterness but if you're adding something sweet, it's do-able." Sov savours a spoon of the mint ice cream in my cup with a mix of her own. When she offered for me to try the mixed piece I rejected it, I wouldn't be able to eat the mint ice cream then too. For some reasons, unless I'm eating bitterness at once, especially mint ice cream, anything sweet of a dessert after makes it impossible to further eat the ice cream. 

That didn't ruin our fun, we walked around the mall for quite some time and shopped clothes for each other. When El got tired she gets out this baby sling carrier kind of cloth from El's backpack, strap it around herself before putting El in it, and we continued our walk after that. The big baby was fast asleep.  

When it was getting late, arms sore and bruised from all of the bags we're holding we took our official spot at some restaurant and ordered before digging in. Quite literally. 

El ends up waking up in the middle of our dining, from all the noise at the mall so Sov took it as an advantage and carefully fed him so he doesn't choke on it, let him finish until he couldn't eat or drink more and went to sleep in her arms. 

We finished what was left, and I ordered some food to go for Ginni, she did so too for her brother and the assistance before we loaded the strings across our arms. I took the most of them since she was holding El but it was great to finally be in the car when we made it to the parking lot.

"I'm glad we took today to our advantage. Have a good night." Sov bids farewell from outside my apartment after she drops me off, El's in the back seat sleeping with his head against the window. 

"Good night. Thank you for all this!" I took my bags and take away food, bid good-bye and ran back to her car. 

"Wait! I just forgot, I uhm-" I feel shy at the thought,

"I still have his suit with me, if you don't mind waiting I'll go and-"

"Dear, you're fine. In fact, keep it. That boy has more than enough suits to worry about, and-" She winks, her hand dismissing the idea.

"Next time you get the chance to wear it, let me be around. That old guy barely got an ounch of emotion left to wear for, I'd love to tease him!" She laughs at the thought. I just stared awkward, back bended so I can see through the passendger rolled window. 

"Haha, don't worry, I'm sure he would not want it back. He too might quite enjoy seeing you in something that he owns," she finishes. I just nod along, embarrsed for words. 

Bidding goodbye for the last night, I ran into my apartment. 

That night, no one slept without a bloody ear.