Wrapping Up(22)

Since Ty and I were in the back of the crowd, he found it to be impertinent to pick out weirdo’s and point to them. For a second I was sure my brother was going to hit him, but he ended up turning around and laughing with him. Our first thirty seconds in the store and two women were fighting over some baby doll. We made our way past them and in the next isle was a tower of the same doll for sale. Ty found an empty cart that someone left sitting and took it for his own. He grabbed as many as he could put in the cart and went running around, passing the two bickering women. They froze as they saw him. It didn’t help that he was acting like a fool running circles around them screaming, “I love baby dolls!”, over and over.

While a security officer approached my husband, Conner made a beeline for the electronics department. I knew my brother and he came for one thing only.

Video Games.

The crowds of people got thicker and Colt wasn’t taking any chances with his pregnant wife. “I think we’re going to grab a few things and wait for ya’ll outside. The lines are already pretty long.”

With them heading in the opposite direction of everyone else, I felt a tug on my arm and my body began moving past carts that were already full. Men and women of all ages were hauling flat screen televisions in shopping carts and grabbing things off end caps as they made their way to the registers.

“Ty, wait! Where are we goin’?”

He started grabbing random toys as we past them and finally stopped at the jewelry counter. An older woman leaned on the other side. “Can I help you?”

“Yeah, I need to get a pair of earrings for our daughter.”

As sweet as he was being, I knew he could have got something like that any day of the week.

The woman showed him a couple pairs and we made a choice quickly knowing that Van and Colt were outside somewhere waiting on us. I thought it was funny how he was the first person to give up on the crazy idea of shopping.

Ty leaned over the counter in an almost flirty kind of way. “Do you think we could get these few things here at your register?”

“Sure thing.” The woman started taking the items from Ty. One thing caught my eye and I was shocked when I saw it. There was this pink hair cartoon character that Bella loved and I had been checking the internet for weeks trying to track one down.

I looked to him and he winked. “It was just sitting there all by itself. Ain’t that cool, Baby?”

I put my arm through his. “You are such a good dad.”

“Yeah, wait till she wants a convertible or a tattoo.”

Conner’s big head caught my attention and we waved him down. He held up a bag and smiled as he approached us. “Let’s get the hell out of this place.”

We made it about fifty feet and were stuck in a herd of people that weren’t moving. I honestly felt like I couldn’t breathe. Ty turned around and looked at my brother. “Give me a boost, Dude.”

“What? No!”

“Just do it. I have a plan.”

He reluctantly lifted up my husband and held him piggy back. “Make this shit quick, Peckerhead.”

Ty started waving his hands around. “They are giving away a free iPod touch to the first fifty people in the electronics section in five minutes.”

Half of the crowd disappeared like flies on shit, making it easy for us to make our exit.

Our all night shopping spree ended there and I swear that I was so overwhelmed by it that I hadn’t been shopping since.

Van and Colt were laughing as we got back to the vehicle. “You made it out alive. We grabbed two things and someone let us cut in front of them, bless their hearts. I think it was my belly.”

Ty chuckled. “Barely made it out alive. Conner and I had one hand on our wallets and the other on our dicks.”

Van and I spat out a laugh. She couldn’t help but ask. “What for?”

He pointed toward the store, while my brother stood beside him with his hands on his hips. “Did you see it in there? If any of those crazy ladies knew what we were packing, they would be fighting to the death.”

Colt put his hands on his wife’s shoulders. “Should have left that one alone, Darlin’.”

She cringed. “You got that right!”





Chapter 2

Ty

I reached over my wife’s still sleeping body to shut off the alarm clock. Ever since our Black Friday adventure, we hadn’t been shopping and were running out of time. Christmas was nearly two weeks away and we were so behind.

I had gotten this bright idea of waking up and driving to the city to Christmas shop and I was suddenly feeling like it wasn’t the best of ideas. The fact that our sons hadn’t woke up before the alarm clock made me even more frustrated. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they were still sleeping, but that meant that I could also still be sleeping.