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Chapter 11 | Grocery Shopping With Yumi

Yumi rolls his eyes, "dude, no shot you're calling me out now."

"I'm just kidding," I add, just to make sure.

"Yeah, I know, don't worry about it," he smiles at me and ruffles my hair a little.

"Sorry, but you guys are so cute together. Do you guys happen to be together?"

I'm about to say no, but Yumi cuts me off, "yeah, we're soulmates." He smiles at the worker and holds our hands up together, not that she can't see the red string connecting us.

He's not technically wrong; we are soulmates, but we're not together. Yet, anyways.

"That's so cool! How'd you guys meet?"

"At the grocery store," Yumi laughs.

"That's so funny, I hope I meet mine soon!"

"I'm sure you will," I smile at her.

We both take a sample and Yumi takes it back like a shot, "you mind if I have a few more?" He asks.

"Not at all," she smiles.

"W free samples."

When we're a little further away, I turn towards him, "so we're together?"

"Not officially, but I'd like to think one day we will be."

My stomach swarms with butterflies at the thought, but we leave the conversation at that and continue shopping. When we're walking down the chip aisle, when I spot my favorite chips, but they're on the top shelf. I make us stop right in front of the chips, and I do some calculations. I'm like 90% sure that I can grab that bag. I bend my knees a little and jump up. The bag makes a rustling noise, but it didn't really move. I hear Yumi chuckling at me, but I ignore him as I jump again. This time, I think I've only managed to push it back more. I'm about to jump again, but stop when I feel a hand on my shoulder and a presence right behind me. I look up to see Yumi leaning over from behind me, grabbing the bag effortlessly and lowering down next to my ear.

"All you have to do is ask, and I'm right here for you," he whispers into my ear and it sends shivers down my spine.

He drops the bag into my hands and backs up, but I'm still partially frozen. Why was that kind of hot? I shake my head, I can't be thinking about this at the grocery store. Maybe when I'm home, and completely alone.

"Thank you," I place the bag of chips into the cart.

"No problem," he smiles, but groans when he looks at his phone.

"What is it?"

"Fat ass Nick wants me to pick up some things. I'll be right back, don't go too far, okay?"

"Alright, I'll probably just be in the next aisle over."

Yumi nods at me and I watch him walk away. I take control of the cart and continue down the aisle, going over into the next one. My favorite, the snack aisle. I start to grab random snacks from the shelves and put them into my cart.

"Hey, I'm back-" Yumi's at the other end of the aisle when he gets cut off.

"OH MY GOD! Yumi?" The both of us look toward the voice, to find a girl around our age.

Yumi gives me an apologetic smile and I just wave him off with a smile of my own. It must be a fan, and I thought that was kind of cute. I heard her ask for a picture and I carried on looking at snacks. I didn't mind her at all, until I turned back to see her laughing and she had her hand on his forearm. It seemed innocent enough, but it made something boil inside me.

I was acting on instinct. The string was pulling me, but I was acting faster. I ditched the cart and made my way towards the both of them, while they were still chatting. I was going to be friendly no matter what, but she needed to know he was mine.

"Hey babe, who's this?" I loop my arm with Yumi's. The one that she had just let go.

Yumi raises an eyebrow at me, but smirks, "she's a fan. She wanted a picture and she was telling me about her favorite video of mine."

"Oh! That's so awesome! It's nice to meet you," I extend my arm that is not looped with Yumi's.

She shakes my extended hand, "nice to meet you too! I didn't know that Yumi had a girlfriend!"

"Yeah, we're soulmates. We just found each other really recently." I'm the one to explain this time.

"Well, it was nice to meet you, Yumi! I love your videos!"

"Thanks, nice to meet you too," Yumi and I make our way back to the cart.

"So babe, huh?" Yumi asks.

Everything starts to catch up to me and I groan, untangling our arms while he grabs the cart, "just forget it."

"I'm just curious where that all came from."

"It came from nowhere, it's nothing."

"It meant nothing?" He sounds a little disappointed.

I sigh, "I was jealous, that's it. I didn't like her grabbing your arm. Besides, you started it."

Yumi now has the smuggest grin on his face, "oh really now?"

"Don't push your luck or I won't be calling you babe ever again."

"Ouch, dude."

"Lets go checkout, dork. I think we got everything I need."

We get through the checkout line with barely any wait and we load the grocery bags into Yumi's trunk. Yumi lets me pick the music this time, and I put on the Donna album that the guys made. I enjoy it, and I think that Yumi would appreciate it; I want to show my support. Yumi and I jam out in the car on the way back to my house.

When we arrive, Yumi insists on carrying every single grocery bag all in one trip; he's surprisingly successful too. I shake my head at the goofball, smiling while I unlock my front door. Yumi places down all of the grocery bags in the kitchen and starts to help me unload them.

"Thanks Yumi, I had a great time." I smile at him when he's getting ready to leave.

"Thank YOU for inviting me, I also had a great time. We should hang out more often. " He lingers outside my front door, while I lean on the door frame.

"We definitely will have to," my smile only grows.

"See you later, Y/n."

"Have a goodnight, Yumi."

Yumi's walking down the driveway to his car and I'm about to close my front door before he turns back towards me.

"Hey Y/n?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you start calling me Blake?"

"You want me to call you Blake?" He nods, "alright," I grin at him.

"Well, have a goodnight," he smiles back and waves.

"Drive safe, Blake."

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