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FinerThanFitz · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 16087

Griffith turned to go collect his own cart, pausing to grab up several cans of vegetables as per his plan. He turned around and watched as Harper threw her coveted fried onions into the cart, giving a slight snicker when he realized he'd gotten her goat.

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Dixon leaned into the cart as he pushed it forward, speed increasing until they were going a reasonable speed to hwere he could balance himself on the cart itself and have them still moving.

"AND OFF WE GO!" He shouted, the cart's wheels squealing under all the weight.

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XVVI · Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 16077

Harper clanked and tapped her piercing against her teeth in an anxious manner and went to hurry along with the rest of her shopping, hoping everyone wasn't staring like she felt they must be. Asshole.

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Darcy laughed, making sure his feet stayed out of the way and managing to tuck himself in more properly and hopefully NOT get stuck.

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Griffith pressed on with his shopping, stopping at the end of an aisle to only watch as Dixon and a friend of his went whizzing by on a cart, his friend jammed into the front in the car front. He watched as they almost bit the dust, narrowly avoiding a watermelon display. He shook his head, giving a small smile before going onward.

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Harper eventually moved onto the fruit, spotting Darcy and his friend from afar as they ran around. She gave a small smirk and shook her head, much like Griffith had. "Dork." she murmured and moved over to the cantaloupe to look for a good one. She tried to make sure Darcy took fruit to lunch every now and then.

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Griffith headed over to the produce, making a face as he headed over to the melons. Watermelon and honeydew was something found frequently in their apartment ever since Flora had become pregnant. She had once even sent Lawson out in the middle of the night to get her a melon for her cravings. Despite having fruit in the house all the time...Griff still didn't know how to tell whether one was ripe or not and, God help him, if he brought one unripened.

He stopped at the bin and began tapping at the fruits, pretending like he knew what he was doing.

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"And Fitz rounds the corner!" Dixon yelled as he and Darcy continued to race around the store. "Hey, Darce, where's the dairy section?" He asked for directions, still keeping them going full speed.

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Harper looked over when she heard the odd tapping and stared, watching. He looked like a lost puppy trying to figure out what to do. She sighed, figuring she should repay the favour even if he had been an ass. She moved over, parking her cart before going over to him. She grabbed one up, inspected it and then held it out. "Here."

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"Uhh, all the way down and to the left, I think." Darcy said, trying to peer out of the small car to see where they were.

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Griff looked down as a melon appeared. He trailed his gaze from the melon, to the hands holding it, to the arms attached to those hands, and eventually found it all trailing back to Harper. He furrowed his brow, more than just a bit apprehensive about accepting this melon. Part of him wondered if perhaps this melon, out of all the melons, had some sort of bug infestation or a disease. Once he realized how ridiculous that sounded, however, he reached out to take the melon.

"Thanks." He uttered quietly before pausing a bit, a flush finding it's way onto his cheeks as he decided to tread in dangerously embarrassing waters, at least for him. He was going to ask for help. "So...how do you tell?" He asked.

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"Tally ho then!" Dixon continued to push the cart at high velocity, narrowly dodging pedestrians.

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Harper contemplated turning and leaving then and there and embarrassing him just as he had her but SHE had been the one to state peace for the time being. "Honeydew rattles from loose seeds. Watermelon is always ripe or it was harvested wrong. Cantalope, you just push at the stem. If you go through, it's over ripe and if there's no give, it's not ripe." She said, stepping backwards for her cart.

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"Eaaasy!" Darcy laughed, holding onto the car to not be slung around.

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"Honeydew rattles, watermelon good, cantalope step...okay...um...thanks, agian." Griff said, coughing through his 'again', as if to muffle his secondary gratitude.

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"We have to hurry though, thrusters ahead!" Dixon hollered with a laugh of his own as he continued down the main aisle, following Darcy's directions.

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Harper nodded and raised her eyebrow slightly. "You don't really buy fruit often, do you?" she asked, not condescendingly for once.

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"Ughh, you're gonna make me sick." Darcy laughed. "Let me get out and push you around, huh?"

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"I...well...not really." Griffith admitted. He wasn't one to divulge his family affairs or anything about his home life, but this topic seemed meaningless enough. "There wasn't anyone to really cook before, everyone was kind of busy and in and out of the house, but now my sister-in-law is home more, so she cooks more and makes us eat fresher. I think I still prefer Cheetos over fruit, frozen pizza over pork al-whatever." He shrugged.

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"Fiiiiiine!" Dixon eased onto his heels, forming a makeshift brake, stopping short of a coffee display.

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Harper crinkled her nose up slightly. "But frozen pizza is so gross unless you get an expensive good brand."

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Darcy oomfed as he hit one of the walls of the inside of the car, jamming his foot. "...Uh oh." he said and tried to move.

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"Nah, I mean, I guess a lot of the good stuff is expensive, but me and my brothers...I mean...we're just growin', so most of that frozen shit is good enough for us." Griffith said, noting as Harper crinkled up her nose. He wouldn't admit it to her, he could barely admit it to himself, but it was kind of cute...kind of.

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"'Uh oh'? What uh oh?" Dixon stepped around the car and stooped over to look into the car at Darcy.

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"Ah, yeah, I can understand that...fifteen year old brother is like that too, but I kinda shove healthy food down his throat as much as I can, he needs the vitamins." Harper couldn't help but give a tiny smile when talking about her brother.

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"I think I'm stuck." Darcy yanked again at his ankle. "Ow, yeah. I'm stuck."

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"Me and mine aren't that picky, never have been. Our parents said they were always lucky like that, no picky eaters. Then again, we always had good ol' Italian cooking at home back then." Griffith chuckled, recalling his mother in the kitchen.

He could remember just being tall enough to look over the counter and watching his mother dance in the kitchen as she cooked, singing to whatever the radio spewed. His dad always managed to ruin her swing as he came in and tried to dance with her, albeit awfully. She mostly laughed at him, he laughed at himself, and Griffith laughed at the both of them.

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"Don't dick around, Darce...you're not really stuck are you?" Dixon asked, blinking as he looked at the entrapped ankle.

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