Our Little Secret [Finished]

Chapter 14

"Hey, Tobi, could you grab a trolley real quick?" I requested, scrolling through recipes on my phone.

"Yup." He replied.

I stared down at my phone before feeling something glide past me.

My head whipped up to see Tobi gliding across the frozen aisle of Tesco, using his arms to hold himself off the ground and glide across the aisle on his trolley. He did a strange sort of angelic pose- kicking his feet up like cupid and closing his eyes- but all of his grace was quickly cut short as the trolley flipped due to his weight.

Tobi hit the floor with the grace of an elephant, before the trolley landed on top of Tobi- trapping Tobi within the trolley as if he was in a prison.

I snorted before nearly crying from laughter at the scene I had just witnessed. 

Tobi giggled in a high pitched tone, lying on his back on the floor and closing his eyes.

"I leave you..." I broke off from my speech to allow another set of giggles. "I leave you for one moment... and this happens?" I had to stop my sentence there to laugh again.

"I don't know either!" Tobi broke off into laughter with me.

I let out one last singular laugh before wiping away pretend tears from laughing, and walking to the encased Tobi.

"Let's get you out of there before we get kicked out of the store." I tipped the trolley to one side, allowing Tobi out, before gently lowering it onto its side. Tobi then got up and proceeded to put the trolley on its four wheels whilst I found the recipe on my phone. 

"I'm going to make chicken paella." I nodded and decided, clicking on the Good Food recipe.

"Ew, octopus?" Tobi assumed.

"Nope- it'll just be like chicken pieces with rice, any vegetables, and some other stuff." I explained. "Traditional paella includes seafood... but I really can't be bothered with any of that." I shrugged, chucking a pack of chicken breasts into our trolley.

"Right, can we also buy some sweets?" Tobi requested like a kid would to his mum. "My supply is running low."

"Fine, but also make sure to find some lemonade, white chocolate, and a pack of smarties for me." I directed. (To any Americans not knowing what smarties is, they're like M&Ms minus the nuts. Also if you can get smarties in America and I have offended any Americans- I stg I'm sorry- I've just never been to America).

"A'ight, I gotchu." Were the last words I heard before Tobi sprinted off to the glucose aisle.

I sighed and shook my head with a smile on my face, before walking into the next aisle to pick up onions and mushrooms. Yes, mushrooms- they are a good vegetable.

I proceeded to walk into the herbs aisle to get mixed herbs and turmeric, before finishing by stocking up on apples and cashew nuts- two quite different things which both shared the common factor that I liked to snack on both.

I quickly walked into the sweets aisle to find Tobi, realising I had gotten everything.

He stood in the middle of the two tall shelves, looking at the Haribo's, wine gums, and sherbet dib-dabs. (to Americans who don't know any of the sweets, Haribo's and wine gums are  gummy gelatine sweets, and sherbet dips are just lollipops which you dip in sherbet and licc ;))

"Tobi...?" I asked slowly. His head snapped around to me. "Are you alright?" I questioned.

"No." Tobi shook his head. "I can't decide which to get." Tobi looked back at the sweets.

I laughed.

"Just throw a pack of all into the trolley- I need to go pay." I informed him.

"Are you sure?" 

"Yep, just throw a pack of each." 

Tobi threw in the Haribo's, wine gums, and sherbet dib-dabs for himself, as well as the lemonade, white chocolate, and a pack of smarties for myself.

I walked down the aisle and towards the check out, before having a brief friendly chat with the woman at the counter and bagging the items. 

"Thanks." I flashed a smile, before picking up my bags and receipt, and finding Tobi outside.

"Ready to go?" Tobi questioned.

"Yep." I nodded my head as we proceeded to walk down the street and towards the car park.

"Manny's coming over this weekend." Tobi mentioned casually.

"Wait, what?" I turned to him and asked, shocked.

"Yeah, he's coming down to visit and make some videos." Tobi elaborated.

"Jesus Christ I haven't seen him in forever." I spoke my thoughts. 

"Yeah- I told him you were staying in the tower and he can't wait to meet you again." Tobi explained.

"Jeez, me neither..." I trailed off. "Remember how much fun Manny, Janelle, Jeb- before he went to college- Saoirse and you and I  would have?" I referred. Saoirse or 'Sursh' was one of Tobi's school friends who ended up dating him. They were great together, but broke up a year later due to long-distance problems.

"God, yeah now I do." Tobi chuckled. "I remember Jeb and Janelle could easily get me out of the house, but Manny would refuse to go until you came and persuaded him."

"Lol, remember that time you guys all had to climb up the drainpipe into your rooms instead of using any of the doors?" I reminisced. 

"And how my mum got angry if she ever caught us, but never shouted or did anything if you came over." Tobi started reminiscing with me. "Who was your favourite to hang with? You know, between Manny, Janelle, Jeb and I."

"Well you were free from school and weren't going into college yet which meant we could go hang the majority of the nights which was fun, Jelly (Janelle) was the best at conversations and definitely made the best jokes, Manny had to stay in because he had to revise for his A-levels- but whenever he came with us it was always jokes, and Jeb was pretty preoccupied with college, but whenever he paid a visit he was always tons of fun... He was like the cool cousin."

Tobi laughed at my descriptions.

"I didn't ask for opinions- I asked who's the favourite." Tobi rephrased.

"I can't decide who's the favourite." I shrugged.

"Alright, who would you be most likely to date?" Tobi threw. It was fair to say I was shocked.

"Uhm, none?!" I exclaimed. "You're all literally brothers to me... And Jelly is a sister."

"Hm." Tobi hummed as we approached the car.

We piled everything in the boot of the car and I facepalmed as I read the receipt.

"What?" Tobi questioned.

"I forgot the rice." I groaned.

"Really? The rice?!" Tobi exclaimed. "Come on, Sadie, that's the most basic thing to make paella with!"

"Look I'll run and get some... I'll be back in fifteen."

"You sure you don't want me to drive?" Tobi questioned. 

I declined his offer, but boy did I wish I hadn't...