Alors On Danse/Then We Dance

Part 2

The second time it happened the rest of the cast had sent Cate and Sandra to get groceries. Well actually, Cate had lost in rock, paper, scissors, and instead of accepting her fate, insisted that Sandra come with her. Not that she had tried to resist, simply let the blonde drag her out of the makeshift lounge area and to her car. The entire way she chattered on about how it was always her that got thrown out on grocery duty simply because she could never decide whether she was going to play rock, paper, or scissors and panicked at the last minute. "Well it's not my fault you don't know how to play rock, paper, sciscors, I don't know why I'm subjected to this too."  Sandra commented as they reached the car.

"Someone has to suffer with me, and I like you the best so..." Cate shrugged, rumaging through her purse for the keys.

"Oh, you like me the best so you make me suffer? Makes perfect sense." She rolled her eyes, opening the door and sliding into the passenger seat.

"Glad you understand darling." Cate ducked into her own seat and winked before starting the engine.

Against her will a smile broke across the brunettes' features. They turned onto the freeway, thankful to have just missed rush hour. After about ten minutes Sandra spoke up, "Where are we headed?"

"Probably Whole Foods, Anne needs organic food and I prefer it. The other don't really care but I don't want to go two places if we don't have to."

"Sounds good to me." She paused for a moment, "Did you know Amazon bought Whole Foods?"

"Mhm," She hummed in response, "They really are taking over."

"No kidding." She leaned back in her seat, "A little scary isn't it?"

"Yeah kinda. Everything's a bit scary right now Sandy."

"I know it is." She turned her head to look at the woman next to her, "It'll be okay."

Cate's gaze hadn't left the road so she didn't notice Sandra moving beside her. It was only when a warm hand curled around the one on her thigh did she look over. Brown eyes shone in the evening light, and had Cate not been one of the largest freeway's in America she might have never looked away. But as it was, her eyes refocused on the road as she squeezed Sandra's hand tightly, "I know."

The rest of the drive was spent in contented silence, Sandra's thumb stroking the back of Cate's hand. Before long, they were pulling into the shopping center parking lot. Reluctantly their hands parted as they climbed out of the vehicle and Cate retrieved the reusable totes her children had made for her. When they were inside the store she had the urge to reach for Sandra's hand again but swallowed it and pulled out the list the cast had written for them.

"First stop is produce." She announced, grabbing a cart and steering it towards the fresh food.

Falling in stride beside the Australian, she peered over at the list, the actresses had created columns with their names at the top and below a list of what they needed. "How exactly are we going to sort out what is for who?"

"I have a designated bag for everyone." She responded, placing a bag of kale into the bag with a giant purple flower painted on it, "This one is Mindy's. Pirate ship is Nora's, handprint peacock is for Helena, pink and purple replication of 'Starry Night' is for Rihanna, so on so forth."

"Wait, wait, we're shopping for Rihanna?!"

"No we're just going to let her starve." She joked, "Yes of course we're shopping for Rihanna."

"Doesn't she have like a...personal shopper or something?"

Cate raised an eyebrow, "Yeah. That would be me."