A diamond in the Rough

4.La fête

       When I let go of what I am, I  become what I might be ~ Sun Tzu

AN: k so even though it is longggg past Thanksgiving I had started the chapter around thanksgiving week and I still want to finish it so im going to finish it. Some stuff happened when I was writing and I had to take a small stop to just get things in order plus Finals im telling b you guys this now so you know im a human with things to do and not a robot with no life.  I wanna try to get this thing to a good least 10 full chapters before I go bald and be all sleep deprived so we shall see!! bye duckiesssss and peppes. make sure to vote and comment even friend request a follow for a follow!! :)

After getting dressed I opened and closed my room, and went looking for Jack and Grey. They had said they wanted to do the shopping so I went looking for them. "Guys I have somewhere to host the Thanksgracing at, there will be people so when we go shopping we are going to buy three times everything! if you don't think its enough get more!! There will be another person who is coming with us to come shopping she will be bringing 2 or 3 older kids to help us, we will also need 3 big vans so im taking whoever has the most space I have your car.Lets roll ya'll" After explaining that I grabbed an apple some milk and 3 eclairs.

       Downing my food I grabbed Grey's car keys since he had a mini van, Jackaboi's car and Craig's car I would drive Craig's while they would drive their own cars.

I told them yo go to the local store and just start picking things up, while I waited in the parking lot for Marie. When I spotted her 5'6 frame I ran to her her and jumped on her "Marieeeeee!!! my best bitchh where you at ho!!" laughing my arse off I got off of her  "You're such a dork, comme on let's go" "Hey!!!!! I'm not a whales dick!! Im a sexy bitch " Then we ran to the door while laughing our asses off at the onlookers who saw our displays of "affection"

    

                  Each getting a cart I told her to get anything that was for thanksgiving,  whether it was pricey or not. Realizing that I didn't really know what people ate for thanksgiving I decided I would cook some of delicacies from Brazil and Asia. I had learned them when I was visiting blood lined relatives from each country and it had been forever engrained in my mind.  I would need alot of supplies, some of which I would need to get in Little Beijiing and other stores but it would be worth it. Starting off on my little adventure I wanted to make TangYaun (its basically made with sticky rice and in ball shapes, can be filled or unfilled). Rushing to the aisle I picked up 10 bags of sticky rice flour, 3 jars of peanut butter, Canola oil, Brown sugar, 6 boxes of green tea and Food coloring...lots of it. Looking for the ice cream aisle I wondered what to get in terms of ice cream..

                   Since I knew everyones favorite ice cream I would just getall of it, the kids never really got to eat it unless once in a while or Christmas time when I bought them a gallon. Knowing I had a long way to go, I would just pick up the ice cream last, it would be like a surprise. I got 10 big chickens, Corn husks, masa horina, onions, salt, flour, chili powder, garlic powder, and I kept picking up twice the ingredients for each dish until there was no room. Searching for the boys and Marie, I turned on the cookie aisle and saw all three. "Hey guys, looks like you met Marie, This is Dory, Jack and Grey" I pointed to them.

                They stared at me in awe..probably wondering how I mangaed to fill up my cart in such a short amount of time. "Close your mouth, I only know what to pick up from the special dishes I'll be making  for your Thanksgiving,  I don't know what to get..so yeaa."

            "Damn girl! you sure know how to shop, what are these for? You already have flour why are you getting-" Grey paused for a minute to look at the labeling on the masa horina "Why are you getting Mar-sa whore-ina ? " he asked slowly misspronouncing the words. "Umm Grey dear, it's Masa horina, and its to make Tamales..this is different from regular flour" I explained. As I looked around everyone had almost finished shopping, so I got 29 boxes of various cookies and muffin batter along with icing and chips, and threw them in each of everyones cart. Then I got Croissants,  Eclairs, Bugnes Lyonnaises(almost like American beignets) and of course Macarons from the bakery inside the store. "Dory! what are you doing u dork? " I stared at the blue eyed giant in front of me. He had a bag of potato chips and peanut butter in each hand. His hand was midair from chip to peanut butter. "See the thing is I didn't eat, and since my car is in the shop I couldn't drive somewhere to eat.. So here I eating" he explained his whole life story in such a childish voice. I couldn't possibly take him serious because imagine a 6'3 muscular built, short dark cafe brown hair, sea blue eyes, and an award winning smile... Eating potato chips and peanut butter. Yea u can laugh now. "okaiiiii, did you at least get a cart nd pick things for grace giving ?  " asked Jack, looking ready to leave.  Before he could answer he dropped the food he was eating into my cart and sprinted into the unknown. 10 minutes later he emerged from the other side of the place with a cart full of chips drinks, forks, cups ,and spoons. When he acknowledged everyone else's stares he simply mutters something about not wanting to clean on a full tummy.  Giggling like a kid exposed to sex I order the others to get more food, I wanted the food to last longer than kims marriages.  Snatching up bacon, I wheel my way onto the dairie aile and threw in some chedda chedda, leche, mas huevos, 2 gallons of creame, then wheeled to get nutmeg, cinnamon, rum, cayenne, hot sauce, bonnet peppers, mussels, more butter, vanilla extract, pancake batter, mint chips, kit kat bars, snickers, soda, cheese nipz, chorizo, sausages, queso de fresco, tortillas, sour cream and salsa, tortilla chips, bread, ground beef, pear (avocado but if ur carribean then u may say pear A.N) and mas queso (more cheese).

       At this point I was just getting food to regularly eat while making a feast to eat later. I have everything but the turkeys and even when getting hands on it from my supplier I'm not so sure I remember how to cook one. Even though this was stressful and I wasn't even halfway through, I was still excited about this grace thanksfullnes. It was the first time I will have ever celebrated Anything since a long ass time.

        "Fellas I believe we are done, now to the checkout line!!, Guys I want you to bring the car around and I want an assembly line as soon as the groceries get bagged I want them in the car, Marie your car is close so when they are done give them your keys, the remaining groceries will stay in my car."  barking orders,the boys did as they were told.

                  We got the carts onto a line, I waited until the customers in front left, becauee we would be here a while. As fast as my hands could allow me, I carefully put some of the items on the conveyor belt, and the cashier started his tedious journey of checking them out, the guys true to their word got the bags and put them in their cars, running in and out of the store like maniacs, I told Marie to go help them when they looked worn out.

            Marie looked around while saying something under her breath..Then suddenly 2 children,  1 a boy the other a girl appeared right by her side. "Where have you been!!? I told you to be here 20 mins before 3 and you are just now arriving! Well, next time listen to me, now I want you to help these three men carry the bags to the cars, be nice and don't break a thing!!" she yelled, they looked at her with widened eyes. Then scurried off to help, I gave her a knowing look "Teenagers" we mimicked eachother by putting one hand on our hips, then I laughed because I too am a teen.

     Two hours later and only a couple groceries remained bagged and waited for departure.  The boys including Marie and the children had filled up the cars and only mine was left. The cashier was close to the total amount and I was feeling giddy. Not only because we are almost done but the drugs are starting to kick in, which meant I didn't have much time until I was really energetic. I needed to get cooking before that happens so I could use all my energy on cooking and crash in the comfort of my room.

           "Zé totalè of your little expedienture, iź $1,079.67 how do you plan to pay?" the snooty cashier asked. He was a bald one, with a thin dark brown mustache( but it was more of a strip that from the looks of could be a a pubic strip) beady black eyes & he looked about 45. old and salty was all I could think of. I carefully took out a wad of cash and all but shoved it in his face. "There's $1,000 for you, and I'll pay the rest with this debit" I flashed my pearly whites with an innocent smile, and flicked my card out swiping it faster than a bat can fly out of hell . He glanced at me for a quick second with a feigning look of disgust, then he slyly smiled helping me with my transaction, then abruptly leaving. " Irritating asshole" i mumbked as soon as he was out of earshot.

                      Behind me Marie was nearly in tears with a look of gratitude etched on her face along with disbelief. She held my hand a motherly way that almost, keyword being almost made me tear up. I nodded at her then let go. Silence. That was all that was needed at this time at this very moment era, space and second and she knew it.

      I got the remaining bags into my car surprisingly I could fit everything needed I can't wait to start cooking! Then I gathered everyone around I told them to follow Marie back to the place we would be going to make this feast of grace happen, the kids, Milly and Sam would walk back to the house and tell the kids to be on their best behavior and get things set up.

     Wanting to have a little fun on the drive I swerved in front of Marie and sped up. Making sure I was in front I left the others behind, and pressed my button that I kept in my pocket. This little badboy is a life saver and a trouble maker. With this I created basically a traffic light changer not just to green, but to any color my shriveled fucked up heart desires. I could easily speed up and then change it back to red. And I easily did just that. The others stuck in red an extra 20 secs honked the hell outta their horns. Probably cuz you cheated asshole. Oh well.

     

     My shenanigans probably got the others irritated though. Yea, like you give a shit... True

  For the remainder I sat in the car thinking about things.. waiting for the others..waiting for lifeto begin for me.