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"Do we have everything?" Brandon asked me as I looked at the list of food and read over it before nodding my head yes.

He smiled briefly before we started moving from past the isles and going towards the long line of people who were checking out their personal food items.

We got in line behind a man who looked pretty old with grey hairs and wrinkles sitting on each side of his face beside his eyes. He seemed tired as he looked around at the people, the line not moving and neither were our feet.

Brandon looked at me tiredly before sighing, "cant this line go any faster?" He grumbled.

"It will we just have to be patient!" I said honestly because waiting would take a while but that was ok, I didn't mind.

We both took a fraction of a step forward in line as the man in front of us began gathering his things and moving upwards.

"How's Jayla?!" I asked as he smirked but I watched it slowly disappear as quick as it appeared.

"She's amazing."

"So you love her?..." I asked as the words unintentionally carelessly came out of my mouth. Brandon's eyes widened at the question as he looked at me clueless.

"L-love her?" He asked almost breathlessly.

"Well I don't know.." I admitted as we moved a bigger step forward in the line, the guy didn't think to grunt this time he just got his things and moved forward, "I don't know what love is. It was never actually experimented with on my planet. You find someone get them pregnant and there you have a family." I explained as Brandon's eyebrows raised.

"Wow. That's insane." He said gaping and pushing the hair on his head back while thinking, "Love..Well it's basically caring about someone more than yourself and putting their needs before yours."

"So like when you gave Zion the other side of your peanut butter and jelly sandwich!"

Brandon rolled his eyes with a throaty chuckle before he looked at me, "hell no!" He practically shouted as I giggled and then cleared my throat as if I didn't.

"How come?" I asked intrigued.

"That's just friendship. You can love someone as a friend and not love them.." he said before he mumbled,

"Well sexually.." he said in a hushed tone as I got what he was saying leaving my mouth in a 'O' shape trying to make sure I understood everything.

"So do you love me?!" I asked excitedly because no one had ever loved me before! I wanted to know the feeling of love, what it meant.

"Love..it takes time." Was all he said to me as I pouted and nodded anyways looking at my spot in the line. We were third away from being done before Brandon cursed under his breathe.

"What happened?"

"I forgot something." He said as he looked at the distance between us and the register and then sighing deeply as he looked back at me, "Stay here ok?" He asked as I gave him a thumbs up and he quickly paced down the isles.

I smiled and turned around seeing that someone else had already left the line which meant only one person was in front of me, the guy who only had five objects that moved slowly along the conveyer belt.

Suddenly a short and pale woman from behind me tapped me lightly on the shoulder, "Hi!" I said to her smiling as she didn't smile back but pointed to her small blue bottle reading dish soap.

"Can I skip you? I only have one thing and I really need to get home." She said with a sweet slow tone as I smiled at her and grabbed our basket.

"Of course!" I said as she became more energetic and advanced ahead of me. That made me feel good realizing I did something to help her. I gathered my things and moved up as the lady went forward and then felt a tap on my shoulder.

The tall skinny man smiled brightly but only looked ahead of me at the woman who skipped me, "Can I go in front of you I really have to be somewhere?" He asked as I smiled.

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"I cannot believe you let the entire line skip us when we were at the front." He said as he buried his face inside the palms of both of his hands as I suddenly felt bad for all the good work I did.

"I'm sorry. I thought I was helping those people out, they said they needed to be somewhere." I said as I could feel the tears perching on the side of my eyes but instead I held them in.

"Alright it's fine.." He said rubbing my arm reassuringly as I calmed down and decided to stay silent as we moved further in the line. This time we were next to foods and other items that were placed randomly in front of the register.

"What are gummy....worms?" I asked Brandon as he looked at the pack of assorted colored worms.

"They're real worms that harvest inside of you and lay eggs." He said with a serious face that made me realize he was serious as I looked at the colorful worms with fear.

"What?!" I asked as my voice cracked.

"I'm kidding.." he said with non-stop laughter as other people stared at him just continue to laugh hysterically. Even though I had felt subtle betrayal every time Brandon would play pranks on me I still felt happy because it made him happy and that doesn't happen often.

"I'll buy them for you.." he said apologetically as he reached for the first pack on the rack and lightly placing it in the cart and smiling.

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"Are you suuure they won't hurt me?" I asked expected Brandon to tell the truth. What if they did harvest inside of me and create little baby worms?!

"Does this look scary?" Brandon asked snapping me out of my thought as I branch my head up and looked at him. A orange, green and yellow worm sat upon his upper lip dangling like a mustache as I giggled.

"No you don't!" I said through laughs before I got an idea as I picked up a worm. Holding it in my hands I pretended to sneeze as I held the worm inside both my hands making me and Brandon laugh.

We spent the rest of the time playing around with the gummy worms before we finally ate them. Not in a normal way, we decided to have an eating contest with them that ended in Brandon almost choking on the butt of one.

I knew this was a rare moment with Brandon that I might not ever get again but I enjoyed it anyways because despite what he shows with his attitude he's actually really fun to be around. But it's not going to last long...

And I'm going to miss it.

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