It takes no time to reach the ice cream shop.  Sebastian holds the door open for me with his free hand.  We enter the store and our senses are instantly overwhelmed with the smell of freshly pressed waffle cones.  "You're right Princess.  This is definitely where two 17 year olds would come to celebrate an engagement."

I turn to him and smile, "Doesn't it just smell heavenly..."

He chuckles and leads us to the counter to check out the selection.  He stands behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist.  Leaning his head on my shoulder so that we can both check out the options, he whispers in my ear, "YOU smell heavenly, Pretty Girl."

I playfully smack his arm and giggle. "Sebby, why must you be so weird??"

He pulls away and pouts, grabbing my hand again.  "I prefer to think of it as charming...."  Shaking my head I notice a college kid waiting behind the counter to take our order. He just looks at the two of us completely annoyed so I just give my blinding Anderson smile his way. I can hear the worker gasp. Sebastian whispers in my ear, "What did you do Love?" I turn to him and respond with a shrug, "I just smiled at him."

Sebastian shakes his head and laughs again, apparently my smile enchants everyone, even strangers. He takes a step closer to the counter and pulls me up with him so we can properly look at the different options.  There are so many to choose from, but I've been here before so I'm familiar with quite a few of them. After we peruse for a couple of moments the worker is looking at us expectantly so Sebastian starts, "Okay...  the lady would like?"  I smile up at worker, "Waffle cone, one scoop of the Chocolate Birthday Cake, please."  The employee nods as Sebastian continues with his own order.  "Hmmm... Waffle cone with one scoop of the Vanilla Bean."

I pull out my wallet to pay but Sebastian is too fast for me, having paid he now has both of our ice cream cones in his hands. He passes me mine as I narrow my eyes at him. "Sebastian, I was going to pay for those!"

He just shakes his head and leads me out of the store.  "Princess, you got our coffees earlier.  I proposed to you, without a ring I might add.  I'm working on that by the way.... The least I can do for this celebration of ours is buy the ice creams."

I sigh as we begin to walk down the street, I can't really argue with his line of reasoning this time. Still I pout slightly just so he knows that I'm disappointed. "Fine...this time. You're lucky that you're so cute, Seb." He just laughs and wraps his free hand around me as we walk down the street. "That's MY super power. The ability to render you speechless just by my mere presence."

I just shake my head and laugh, he doesn't know the half of it. I hum happily as we walk hand in hand. "Bas, you really need to try this ice cream!! It's amazing.  There are actual pieces of cake in it, frosting, sprinkles and everything! I can't believe with all of those choices you picked plain old vanilla bean."  I'm licking my ice cream and Sebastian looks at me with wide eyes, blushing.

He stops me half way to the car, "Pretty Girl, I can't focus on anything you are saying while you are doing that.  All I can picture is you licking something else."  Now I'm blushing, hard, practically turning the color of my skirt. Sebastian can turn an innocent act like eating ice cream into something so dirty...

I'm shocked.  I mumble to myself, "You and your dirty mind. I knew I should have gotten a cup instead of a cone..." Sebastian hears me anyway, like he has super hearing or something.  He places a gentle hand on my cheek.  "Don't feel bad about it, Love.  I'm 17, you're my amazingly adorable and attractive fiancée.  Practically everything you do makes me want to strip all of your clothes off at any given moment.  That I don't should account for something, right?"

I just stare up at him, I really don't know how to respond to something like that.  He just continues his explanation when I wish he'd stop.  "Sometimes just the way you say things or look at me.  Seeing you wear my clothes and knowing what is underneath them.  You lips, most definitely your lips.  Because it takes so much self control not to turn every little kiss into a full blown make out session. You're just.... Like a drug.  A habit I don't want to kick anytime soon."  His eyes finally lose their faraway, dreamy quality and refocus on my face, seeing my shocked expression.  "What??"

I shake my head. "Sebastian, you are truly something else...." By this time we've both finished our ice creams so I pull him towards the car. "Come on loverboy, we've got one more stop to make. And then maybe...sometime after dinner...I may just let you fulfill some of your dirty little fantasies."

His eyes light up and he rushes me to the car.  "Why didn't you say that before Princess.  Come on.  Come on.  Let's get to the store and pickup the ingredients for dinner. And maybe something fun for us for later??"  He raises an eyebrow at me and I just giggle, getting in to my car.  He follows and we start the short drive to the grocery store.

Once we get to the store I grab a shopping cart and head inside, Sebastian following closely behind me.  I can feel his hand on the small of my back as we begin to pick up what we need.  I grab some vegetables, eggplant, tomatoes, garlic.  All I need to make a fresh pasta sauce and breaded eggplant.  I turn to Sebastian, "Seb?"  He hums in response. "Yes Love?"

"Sebby, can you find me egg free pasta noodles?  I don't care what shape, just as long as they are the long noodles.  I'm going to find vegan cheese, you know cause of Rach."  He nods my way.  I point him the the right direction and show him how to get to the vegan section to find me again. And he is off, leaving a small kiss on my cheek.

I watch him walk away, quite content. He is one astonishingly handsome man, how am I so lucky??  I sigh and head towards the refrigerated section.  I'm standing in front of the display, weighing my options of dairy free, vegan cheeses when I hear a woman's voice call out for me.

"Shannon Lynn??  Shannon, is that you?"

I spin around and come face to face with an older brunette woman.  Someone I thought I would never see again.  Someone so very familiar from my past.  I plaster a smile on my face as I acknowledge her presence.

"Hi, Mrs Matthews...."