In All Shapes and Sizes

Chapter Six

IAN

I woke up around 11am on that Saturday, to Sean shaking my shoulder.
"Ian Ian!" Sean yelled.
"mwhaaat?" I grumbled. He started to laugh and smile. "what?" I said more clearly and started to sit up.
"you ladykiller!" he said then proceeded to move out of the way in order for me to see who was at the doorway. 
"you have got to be kidding me?" I said in annoyance, "what the hell are you doing here?" The little devil said nothing. She walked over to my bed, grabbed to sheets, which I was nicely wrapped up in, and yanked me off the bed. I landed on the ground with a thud. Not to mention, that I was only wearing my boxers. I felt my face turn hot red.
"What the-"
"Get dressed! You're taking me to target!" She ordered. She didn't even give me a chance to ask why she needed me to take her there so badly. I shoved her and Sean out of my room in order for me to get dressed.
  "Fine, but get out of my room first!" I yelled. Damn that little devil, I thought.

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She still didn't tell me why she was waking me up in the morning on Saturday for me to take her to Target. No matter how much I persisted, all I got as a response was, "just shut up and drive!" Eventually, I just gave up. When we were in the Target parking lot, she finally decided to tell me why she needed to go to Target.

"Dad gave me a list and can't take me today because he had a meeting with his new boss." She explained. I thought for a second.

"What about your Mom? Couldn't she have just taken you?" I asked. She looked away and hesitated before answering.

"She can't." Nina said while still looking away. "Well, come on. Let's go." She opened the car door and hopped out. I did the same and we both headed for Target. Then another thought occurred to me.

"Hey, what exactly do you need anyway?" She pulled out a list from her pocket and started to read aloud.

"Keurig coffe cups, sheets for two twin beds, laundry detergent, dishwasher soap, tissues, toliet paper, fig-" She looked annoyed for a secon, took out a pen, crossed something off and then continued, "toothbrush and tooth paste." She put it away as we pulled into the parking lot.

 We were pretty much silent throughout the whole shopping trip. In fact we were about to head to the check out line, when I heard a voice. An all too familiar voice. A voice that should have kept his flabbing mouth shut!

"Well what do we have here?" I ignored him. "I'm talking to you, Ian," Don't turn around, don't turn around, don't turn around.

"Who are you?" Nina turned around. I let out a sigh of disappointment and  prepared for the worst. I turned around to see Jake standing right there with a stupid grin on his face. 

"What are you doing here?!" I asked out of annoyance. He would never let me forget this. 

"I gotta say my friend, you picked the worse possible place for a first date." Unbelievable! I had known it was a bad idea to get mixed up with that Little Devil! If only I had just refused the sparring match, this would have never happened. I could feel my face heat up.

"Date?" I had to physically look down at Nina to see a thouroughly confused look on her face. "You mean those things lovey-dovey couples do?" Jake looked at me with disappointment. And then back at Nina.

"Yup! that's right!" He replied, "a date is a wonderful amount to be spent doing fun things with the person you like?"

"Person?" Nina looked around her for a moment, "Oh, you mean this dog? No, I don't like him or anything, he's just my errand boy for the week." And with Jake couldn't hold back his laughter, while I was burning with rage and embarassment. This was unexceptable!

Do-DOG?! I yelled out in my mind, Damn you Little Devil! How dare you talk down on me! It took me a moment to cool my head. Jake wa still laughing.

"You have to get home, right? Hurry up and buy your stuff and meet me out front, I'll bring the car around." With that I headed out of Target to get the truck.