Endless || Jonah Marais ✓

♪ TWENTY ♪

"Heroin!" Aurora shouts, tackling the surprised boy to the kitchen floor. "

"Aurora!" He mocks, groaning as he sits up.

Aurora glances around the room suspiciously before dragging him to hide behind the island with her.

"Jonah doesn't know I'm in the kitchen," she whispers. "And I'm on a very important mission."

"I'm pretty sure yelling gave away our location."

"Then we don't have much time," she continues, not deterred in the slightest. "I need you to go wake Caramel up and convince her to convince Jonah to take-"

Aurora shrieks, unable to finish her sentence as someone wraps their arms around her waist and pulls her into a standing position. Turning around, she comes face to face with who she was hoping to avoid.

"Carmen needs to convince me to do what?" Jonah questions, raising an eyebrow.

"You know I love you, right?" Aurora counters, smiling as innocently as she can manage - which was genuinely convincing, if you didn't know the girl.

"Yes, and I love you too. But you're avoiding the question," he says. "Where is it that you're wanting to go?"

Aurora squirms, attempting to escape but Jonah's arms only tighten around her waist. She was tempted to go into full attack-mode but decides against it, instead opting to let him believe he had actually won.

"Fine," she huffs, accepting defeat. "I want to go to Walmart."

Jonah can't help but to laugh. "And why did Carmen have to ask instead of you?"

"Because after I got us banned from IKEA, you would have said no."

"THAT'S A LIE!" Daniel interrupts, dropping his banana in the midst of his shouting. "Jonah would never tell you no! He doesn't know how. You've got him wrapped around your finger."

"It's true," Corbyn adds, nodding along.

Jonah blushes, burrowing his head into Aurora's neck as the others continue to call him out.

"So, can we go to Walmart?"

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"Is there an actual purpose to this spur of the moment Walmart trip?" Carmen asks, leaning forward to be heard from the back seat of Jonah's car.

"Yes," Aurora replies seriously, nodding her head. "We are dangerously low on gummies."

"They're extremely important to human survival," Jonah adds.

Jonah pulls into the parking lot, with Callie and Jack not too far behind in her Jeep. Climbing out of the Corvette, Aurora hisses at the blinding sunlight that hits her face.

Snatching Jonah's sunglasses from him as he attempts to put them on, she slides them on with a victorious smirk.

"I look fantabulous."

"Beautiful," Carmen agrees, shutting the car door. "PIGGY BACK RIDE!"

She jumps on Jonah's back, which surprises him. Zach is bewildered, glancing around as he had braced himself and was prepared for her.

"I want one too!" Aurora yells, jumping onto Zach's back as Callie does the same to Jack. "Onward, my noble steed!"

Zach begrudgingly complies, beginning the short walk to the entrance with the others on both sides.

"We're going to need three buggies," Aurora declares, jumping off of the younger boy's back as she examines the rows of shopping carts.

Choosing one, she promptly jumps into the back of it.