Chapter 13
"Chris, I need you to go off to the shop to get a few things." Sebastian calls from in the kitchen where he's currently occupied with baking a cake for Emma's third birthday. "And take Taissa and Emma with you."
"Alright. What do I need to get?" Chris asks, walking into the kitchen, finding Sebastian putting a cake in the oven, and he almost looks as though he's gotten flour all over him.
Sebastian walks over to the table, taking off the oven mits he was previously wearing to put the cake into the oven, and to take a tray of cookies out. He grabs a piece of paper off the table, and hands it to Chris.
"I've written you a list of things to get." He states. "And, do not get the wrong things." He says. "I know you have a tendency to buy the wrong things, or extra things, so make sure you only get the items that are written down on this list."
Chris nods, reading through the shopping list that he's been handed. He can find everything in the right brands easy enough. Well, maybe except for a couple things that he'll need to actually search through the shelves a bit more than other stuff. But the majority of the items on the list he can get easily enough.
"Alright." He nods. "And you want me to take Taissa and Emma with me?" He asks. "What about Sabrina?"
Sebastian shakes his head. "Just Taissa and Emma." He says. "My mom is watching Sabrina while I do all this baking before everyone gets here."
"Alright." Chris nods. "Remind me, who exactly are coming over?" He asks, needing a refresher on who is coming over for Emma's third birthday. He knows that it's not exactly any kids Emma's age, apart from cousins, but apart from that, he's quite forgotten who.
"Let's see..." Sebastian starts, trailing off. "There's your parents, your brother, your sisters and their families. Anthony, and Scarlett." He says. "Though, I think Scar is bringing someone with her."
"Right." He nods. "Wait, has Scar found someone then?"
Sebastian shrugs. "She said they're only in the beginning stages of their relationship. But she believes that he could be the one." He says.
Chris nods, glad that Scarlett seems to have found someone, even if they are only in the early stages of their relationship. Though he has to admit, that he would've thought that Scarlett would've stayed single for awhile longer. He never exactly pictured her to be the type to settle down just yet, so whoever this guy is that she's found must be the one.
Though, even if Scarlett has found someone, he doubts she won't be having any kids straight away. He knows very well that she's still very focused on her modelling work, and she is still quite young. He doesn't really picture her having kids just yet.
"Alright." Chris starts, reading through the list once more. "I'll go get the girls ready, then we'll be off to the store to get these."
Sebastian nods, wiping all the flour off his pants. "Alright." He says. "I'll just, be here baking." He glances over towards the mess on the bench, frowning. "And cleaning up all this mess." He sighs, before shaking his head and turning back to Chris. "Make sure you get everything on the list, and nothing else."
"I will, don't worry, Seb." Chris assures him, kissing him quickly, before heading off to her Taissa and Emma to get them to get ready to go out to the store.
As soon as Chris leaves the room, Sebastian turns back to the bench which is literally covered in flour, and just a mess in general. He really doesn't want to have to clean it all up just yet, but he's going to need the bench space for the cake so he can decorate it. And then he's going to need room to make the cupcakes...
He really doesn't see why he didn't just make all of this last night. Things would've been so much easier if he just did this all last night.Though, freshly baked is so much better than cupcakes, cookies and cakes baked the day before. Especially cookies. Besides, he was pretty tired last night, and he didn't fancy setting the house on fire while baking from lack of sleep, no matter how much coffee he has.
Maybe things would've been easier just gotten everything from the store instead of making it all from scratch. Though, he does quite enjoy baking, and he'd rather make everything himself than going with store bought stuff. Though of course there's stuff that he'd rather just get from the store, which Chris is going out to get momentarily. Mainly the things that he's sent Chris off to get are drinks and finger foods, like pizza, chips, popcorn, pretzels, and some candy but not a lot, as he and Chris don't really like the girls having too much chocolate and sweets.
Just as he begins to clear the bench, Chris walks back into the kitchen. "Do you really need heat suppressants so soon?" He asks. "I didn't think you were nearing your heat again just yet."
Sebastian looks over at him, frowning a little. "Uh, yeah." He says. "Don't you remember that my cycle gets a little messed up post pregnancy?"
Chris nods, only vaguely remembering that Sebastian's heat cycle gets a little messed up after pregnancy. But usually it's not this soon after birth.
"I didn't think it happened this soon after you giving birth though." Chris says.
"Like I said, Chris. It gets a little messed up." Sebastian states. "Now, stop talking about my heat, and just go off to the store."
With that, Chris is once again leaving the kitchen, and Sebastian honestly hopes that he's not going to come back in until he gets home from the store. Sebastian hopes that by then he'll have the kitchen all cleaned up, and have just put the cupcakes in the oven to bake. Or with any luck everything will be all done by the time Chris gets home from the store with Taissa and Emma.
All Sebastian wants to do right now, is get all this baking out of the way without anyone coming in and interrupting him. Though, with a three month old in the house, that's just wishful thinking. It's just a good thing that his mother is still here right now.
Though, he's not sure for how much longer his mother is staying here for until she goes back to Romania. Honestly, he rather hopes that his mother decides to move back here permanently so she's not so damn far away and so the girls can get to see her more often. They see Chris's parents enough, and they barely get to see his mother.
Getting back to work, Seastian clears the bench of all the mess everywhere before he begins working on the batter for the cupcakes. Chocolate chip and blueberry cupcakes to be exact. Amd thankfully he has all the ingredients in the kitchen already to make it all so he has no need to wait until Chris gets home.
As he's mixing everything together, out of the corner of his eye, he notices his cat Muffy passing through the kitchen every so often to get to his food and water bowls, or to go out into the backyard. Sebastian can't help but worry that Muffy is going to end up jumping onto the bench soon and demand more food.
There's got to be at least something ending up going wrong, and Sebastian can't help but think that Muffy will end up being the culprit. But for the sake of his baking, he hopes that whatever is to go wrong, is just Chris buying the wrong things from the store.
Thankfully though, Muffy stays away from Sebastian and stays outside for the next little while doing whatever it is he usually does. Which is more than likely sleep, as he's too lazy to do anything else.
And so Sebastian is able to get back to his baking in peace until Chris and the girls get back from the store. But then there's still a couple more things he needs to do before everyone gets here for Emma's birthday. It's just a good thing it's only a small lunch type thing they're doing for Emma with family and friends coming over for the afternoon.
Sebastian honestly dreads to think what the girls birthdays will be like when they're much older. While they can do smaller things for birthdays at the girls ages right now, when they're older he knows very well that they're going to want bigger birthday parties and want to invite way too many friends over. And he sure is glad that won't be for a few more years, at least with Emma and Sabrina anyway...
For now though, he's just going to be glad of the fact that they only need to worry about smaller birthday parties for now...
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"Okay now..." Chris starts, as soon as he's got Emma seated on those seat things in the trolley, and Taissa is walking next to him. "Are you two going to behave while we get everything that your mother has asked us to get?"
Both girls nod their heads, and Chris can only hope that they're not lying to him, and they're not just going to pick up a fuss once they get into the store. Oh, if only Sebastian didn't say to bring you both with me. Chris thinks. This would be all so much easier... It's not like he doesn't enjoy taking the girls out and they're usually pretty well behaved. It's just that sometimes it's easier for him to go out to the store by himself to get whatever it may be that they need at the time.
Grabbing the list from his jacket pocket, he does a once over, before they're heading on off into the store to buy everything on the list. Now, just hopefully they don't forget anything or buy the wrong things. Sebastian will have a fit if they come home with the wrong things, especially when he already seems a little stressed from all the baking he's been doing this morning.
Chris isn't entirely sure how much baking Sebastian has done this morning, but he suspects that it's been quite a lot, and no doubt when they get back he'll still be baking, if not almost finished. He honestly doesn't see why Sebastian didn't just get everything from the store if doing all this baking is just going to seemingly stress him out.
Or maybe he can see why Sebastian would want to bake everything himself. Sebastian is a wonderful cook after all, and he'd be lying if he doesn't prefer Sebastian's baking over store bought baked goods.
"Alright then." He starts, making sure Taissa is still beside him. "Let's go get all of this stuff then."
With that, they're heading off into the store to get everything off the list that they need for later on today. Just, hopefully they don't end up getting the wrong items...
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"Chris, come on." Sebastian sighs, examining the items that Chris had just arrived home from the store with. "There's got to be one thing you always get wrong when going to the store, isn't there?" He asks, holding out the box of microwave popcorn.
Chris and the girls have just gotten home from the store, and Sebastian knew that there just had to be at least one thing that Chris just had to get the wrong type or brand of. So really, it was no surprise to see that the box of microwave popcorn is the wrong brand.
"Well, to be fair, honey, they didn't have the brand we usually get in stock." Chris says. "So, I just grabbed that one."
Sebastian looks up at Chris, before sighing. If the brand they usually get wasn't currently in stock, then it's really not Chris's fault for getting the wrong brand. Besides, it's just popcorn, so it's not really much of a big deal. And anyway, Chris has managed to get everything else in the right brand, so Sebastian can't be too mad about it.
But there's still always got to be at least one thing that Chris always gets in the wrong brand, or forgets to grab completely. He's done a good job this time though, so that's a lot better than usual.
"It doesn't matter." Sebastian says, setting the box back down on the table. "It's just popcorn anyway. There's not really any big difference between brands." He stops, looking through everything again. "Chris, did you get my heat suppressants?"
Chris stops, before shaking his head. "Shit." He mutters. "Sorry, Seb. I forgot." He apologizes. "But you didn't give me your prescription for them so I could go to the pharmacy to get them for you."
After thinking about it for a few seconds, Sebastian realizes that Chris is right about that. He did forget to give Chris his prescription for them. So really it's not Chris's fault for forgetting to get them.
"Right. Uh..." He starts, rubbing at his eyes. "It should be up on the side of the fridge." He says. "Can you go back out and get them for me? Just in case I end up, you know..." He trails off.
Chris nods, understanding exactly what Sebastian is referring to. The last thing that they need is for Sebastian to go into heat today of all days.
"Alright." Chris starts, kissing Sebastian's cheek. "I'll go and get them for you right now." He promises, walking over to the fridge to get the prescription form. "I'll be back soon, I promise."
"Thank you, Chris." Sebastian says, watching Chris exit the kitchen, before he's turning back to the cake and the cupcakes that he's still got to put icing on.
Sighing, Sebastian goes right back to work on icing the cake and the cupcakes. Finding himself slowly wishing that all of the things that he needs to get done before everyone gets here this afternoon would just finish themselves off already.
Maybe he shouldn't have made so much, and just gone with store bought baked goods. Too late for that now though...