Kaden's Luna

Chapter Twenty-Three

"You're also running out of food by the way, unless you want to share a strawberry yogurt with sliced bananas for lunch?" I tease, taking up our plates and carrying them to the sink.

He chuckles, following me. "We'll go out to town in a while then."

After I help Kaden clean up, we lounge around for a bit and watch some television. It's around eleven in the morning when we decide to head out. I get into his car and he starts the engine, reversing onto the road and driving off.

We make our way through the countryside and I take in the scenery around us, the trees blurring into a mass of green and the sky a gorgeous shade of blue. I smile seeing the good weather, it's not too cold nor too hot.

We arrive at the nearest supermarket after an hour, parking into an available space before I grab a shopping cart and wheel it in. I push the cart through the aisles with Kaden behind me, his hands gripping the bar beside my own as his arms cage me in. It's only then that I noticed the stark difference between Kaden and I. His hands are larger compared to mine and he towers above me by a couple of inches, being able to rest his chin on top of my head whenever I stop.

However, we had not even travelled that far into the supermarket and I can see some people not so subtly staring at Kaden's tattooed arms with unease before creating distance between us. He's wearing a t-shirt that hides his back tattoos but does nothing to cover his arms.

Although adults around mine and Kaden's age are not bothered by his ink, it's some elders that express their displeasure and drag their kids away when some would ask why there are "pictures on that man's arms."

I glance up at Kaden who isn't really paying attention, it's almost as if he's used to it by now. But I'm slightly annoyed at how some people are glancing at him with narrowed eyes every now and then, it made me feel protective over him. People shouldn't judge anyone just because they have tattoos.

I'm brought out of my thoughts when Kaden nudges me to step forward once he has placed bread and burger buns into the cart. Sighing lightly, I walk on and ignore the stares just like he's doing. We make our way throughout the store, grabbing produce from the shelves before putting them in the cart. Eventually, Kaden says we have everything he needs and I wheel the cart towards the checkout.

Once we have placed all the groceries on the belt, I lean on my arms against the cart, looking through my phone and replying to my mum's texts. It's a long queue and customers are moving slowly but I don't mind.

Kaden is being very affectionate though and I think it's because he's restless. He had growled lowly about how the "stupid cashier" wouldn't hurry up before playfully scowling at me when I giggled at his impatience. First, he was rubbing my back, then playing with my hair and now he has his arms wrapped around my waist with his face hidden in the crook of my neck.

I take three steps forward when the line moves, only to huff in frustration when we must wait again. Kaden looks up just as I tap my camera by mistake and smiles, thinking I was taking a picture. I chuckle, holding the phone at an angle so that him and I are in both in the picture. I take one of us smiling before he presses a kiss to my cheek and then hugs me tightly. In both the last pictures, his eyes are closed, thinking that I have only taken one picture.

Finally, our items are scanned and I help Kaden bag them before pushing the cart out of the supermarket, Kaden catching up to me after he pays. We load the bags into the boot of his car before I return the cart, getting into the passenger seat when he drives up to me. His hand curls around my thigh, warmth and tingles spreading across my skin. I welcome the sensation with a content sigh as Kaden and I chat, a popular song playing softly in the background.