Family

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Dan and I entered the shopping centre guns a blazing, we were both filled with confidence and ready to buy Dan the best clothes ever.

We started looking around Zara and Dan had never been more in his element than right now, he was picking out skirts without fear of being judged and striking hilarious poses in the mirror. "Nice duck face Dan" he looked over from the mirror to me, gave me a massive grin and looked back at the mirror only to make his duck face bigger and more obnoxiously hilarious.

"Pick out 10 things you want to buy and then we can take them to the changing room" Dan and I can share a changing room since we're a couple and then I can look out for him incase we run into any misogynistic twats. "Let's go!".

He gathered 6 skirts, 3 jumpers and a dress. We strutted through the shop, ignoring all the dirty looks they were giving Dan and I and made our way into the changing room. "Okay let's see the skirts first" thankfully the changing rooms in the Zara were nice and big so we had plenty of room for Dan to properly show me the things he picked.

"Luckily my legs are as hairless as an eye ball so I didn't have to shave, not that I needed to anyway" he took of his jeans hurriedly and slipped on a lovely plaid skirt which if I'm being honest, looked absolutely fabulous. "What do you think?" He turned to me and gave me a little twirl, he looked incredible. "You look bomb as fuck" he laughed at my sentence and looked at himself shyly in the mirror "honestly, I really like it".

"Slam that mother fucker on the buy pile" he pushed the skirt down from his waist to the top of his calf and then hopped out of it one leg at a time. He started to try on clothes after clothes and we were going to buy almost everything, but we still had one item left to try on. "Dress time" Dan mumbled, a clear undertone of daunt in his voice. "Just have fun with it!" I encouraged him, Dan will look amazing in anything he wears, he's just that kind of person.

He took off his clothes faster than it took me to blink and held the dress up in front of him "let's do this shit" he pulled the dress over his head and adjusted it in certain places around the waist, chest and shoulders. He kept his eyes shut tightly and I just stared at him in awe, he was so brace to wear a dress and honestly, it really paid off. The dress he was wearing was light grey and flared out when it reached the waist.

"Oh.. my.. god.." I was totally and utterly speechless "can I look?" I pulled his hand away from his eyes and when he saw his reflection he looked as if he just got jump scared while playing a horror game. "I look.. kinda cool" he started to fiddle with the hem of the dress whilst a small smile began to creep on to his face slowly. "We can buy it if you want" he looked down at me and nodded.

We left the changing room with all 10 items of clothing and headed to the counter to pay. "Hello, how can I help you?" The lady at the front desk looked Dan and I up and down, examining us briefly before meeting her eyes with ours. "Umm we'd like to buy these please" Dan sounded a lot more confident than he was before we entered the shop. "Buying some nice clothes for your girlfriend?" The lady laughed, little did she know that she had just made Dan extremely uncomfortable, I guess I was going to have to take it from here. "Actually they're for my boyfriend".

She looked rather taken aback, as if we had just thrown the clothes we were going to buy out the window. "Oh" she looked Dan up and down before looking at the pile of clothes still in Dans hands. "I'm sure you'll look lovely!" Crisis averted.

"Thank you very much!" Dan beamed at her, hopefully this has given him another very much needed confidence boost. This whole experience is going better than I expected.

Maybe it won't be such a flop after all.

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