“What is this?” Lisa asks as she holds the bottle that Riley had put in the cart a moment ago. “Uh, Riles...I don’t think Jennie would approve of this.”
“But it’s so goood…” Riley counters as she gives Lisa the puppy dog eyes. “Please Lisa?’
Lisa sighs. “Alright, fine, but if Jennie asks whose it is, we’ll say it’s-”
“Asher’s!”
“Nice try,” Lisa says with a slight smirk. “Of course we’ll say it’s Ellie’s.”
They glance over at the curled up toddler in the cart with various packaged food, vegetables, and groceries around her. Lisa can see that she’s using the tortillas as her pillow and was clutching her stuffed Heimlich caterpillar against her chest.
“I don’t think Mommy would believe that Ellie wants orange juice,” Lisa tells her. “After you gave her that with cereal she refuses to drink it.” Lisa’s nose wrinkles as she stares at the label. “Especially with pulp. Whose kid are you?!”
Lisa starts tickling Riley, making her giggle and flail her arms. Riley tries running away but Lisa just swings her into her arms and starts blowing raspberries on her cheeks, making Riley laugh harder.
“Hey! I wanna get in on this tickle fest!” Asher says, rounding the aisle corner. He throws himself against their cart, jostling it. He goes in with his grabby hands and starts tickling Riley’s sides.
“St-o-o-o-p!” Riley screams out in between her giggles.
“Mama!”
Lisa froze and her eyes widen as she looks inside the cart to see Ellie sitting up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Ellie looks up at her, eyes glazed with tears. She holds up her arms.
“Uh-oh, we woke the baby,” Riley says as she looks to the cart.
Lisa carefully places her down until Riley can feel the ground. She grabs Ellie from the cart. Ellie immediately cuddles against Lisa’s neck.
“I no baby!” Ellie says, grumpily.
“Hi, Elle!” Riley greets rubbing her cheek against her sister’s face. “Ow!” Riley screams, pulling back and rubbing her cheek. “You bit me!”
“Ellie!” Lisa gasps as she pulls back to look Ellie in the eye. “We do not bite!”
“I no baby!” Ellie says, angrily pouting, her eyes, staring daggers at her sister, were filled with tears.
“Say sorry to your sister,” Lisa tells the pouting toddler.
Riley looks at Ellie expectantly, still rubbing her cheek.
“Sowwy,” Ellie says as she leans over and plants a slobbery kiss on Riley’s cheek. “But I no baby!”
“Ellie…” Lisa says, her voice held a tone of warning.
“Sowwy, Wiley,” Ellie says again.
“I know you’re not a baby,” Riley says as she kisses her sister’s cheek.
“Mama, are we almost done here?” Asher asks. “I got my cereal and Jennie’s cereal!”
Lisa glances at the cart. “Yep, I think we’re done. You guys wanna go to the mall so we can figure out your costumes?”
“I already know what I wanna be for Halloween!” Asher says as they walk towards the checkout counters.
“Lemme guess...you wanna be Ash Ketchum?” Riley asks.
“Yeah! How’d you guess?”
“I don’t know,” Riley says as she reaches over and pulls down the red and white baseball cap with the green symbol on the front. “It could be the hat.”
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Fanfiction"Hey Chu, I accidentally kidnapped some kids," Lisa rushes out when her best friend picks up the phone, without so much as a hello. Lisa possibly makes the best biggest mistake of her life. A JENLISA ADAPTATION All credit goes to the original autho...
