Adopted By Shyland

Kendra (Part 6)

We pulled into Target. I just wanna go with whatever they wanna do, I want my first day as calm as possible.

"Do you have a phone?" Shane asked me and I shook my head. "I'm gonna get you one. I need to be able to contact you."

"Thank you." Shane placed a hand on my shoulder, and led me through the doors.

"So, Ryland can you go get like snacks and stuff? We're gonna go find random stuff."

"Yeah. Keep your phone on." He reminded me.

"Okay, okay." Shane ushered Ryland away, and I laughed. "Come on, let's go."

We walked over to where they had toiletries and all that. I got a thing of deodorant, and Shane encouraged me to get shower stuff too, even though I said I could use whatever they already had.

"We have your room somewhat set up, it's painted and furniture is set up. So we need to go find like sheets and like throw pillows, I guess, if you want. Whatever you want." He smiled.

I had found a blush pink comforter, and some black sheets. Shane had told me the walls were painted a light gray. Shane had put in some random throw pillows that I didn't really look twice at.

"Kendra" Ryland said, walking over pushing his own cart. "So I found some like face wash stuff? You don't have to use it but I figured we could put it in the bathroom if you wanted it."

"Yeah, I was gonna get some, but I didn't wanna..." I trailed off, "Nevermind. Thanks."

"Did you find stuff for her room?" Shane nodded at the question, motioning to the filled cart.

"Did you find what you were looking for?" Shane turned to me, "We got a couple of new chairs and he wanted more throw pillows too."

"Yes!" Ryland got really excited, "I also found this really cute picture frame." He held up one of the frames that could hold lots of pictures of different sizes. I think it could go on the empty side wall thing in the entry way."

"Okay. Do we need anything else? Kendra. Are you okay? Do you want anything else? Like anything."

I hesitated for a second, "Can I get like a notebook, and some pens?"

"Yeah." Shane pointed me to where the stuff would be and said him and Ryland were right behind me. "We're gonna go and get more stuff for you later, that's not at Target, we can't get everything here." He joked.

I picked out a plain black Moleskin notebook, and a set of colorful pens.

"Are you good?" I nodded my head, and Ryland selected a line. Shane told us not to wait and go find something to do.

Ryland and I ended up at the food area, just sitting, talking.

"What kind of stuff do you like? No wait." He paused, "I didn't mean it like that. What's your like aesthetic I guess."

I laughed, "I like the whole mom jeans, Vans, yellow things. Ya know?"

"Yea." He laughed. "So here's the plan, I think. We're gonna get lunch maybe, I don't know, then we're gonna go home and drop some stuff off. Then Shane is gonna go to the Apple store and get you a phone, and a laptop, I'm gonna finish setting up your room, and you and my sister are gonna go shopping I guess. If you want you can just leave your bags in your room and I'll unpack them too."

"Thank you." I smiled, grateful for what was to come out of my family.