Vacation shopping

[queen_cordette]

Who: Lilah, Cordelia and Wesley (w. Max)
When: After Wes spontaneously booked a cruise
Where: First at Wes' home then the mall
What: Clothes and supply shopping for a vacation
Status: Incomplete

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[vicious_bmantle]

Even if she couldn't get him to buy a pair while he was here with her, she'd just figure out his size and buy a pair and just bring them with her, anyway. She had half a mind to buy something completely obnoxious like orange Hawaiian print or something just to be a bit of a bitch about it. He'd have to get into the cruise ship's swimming pool to play with Max, after all, wouldn't he? But no, she'd probably just pick out a solid colored pair, maybe blue or brown. Black would stand out too obviously against his more than likely ghostly skin. Now, getting them on him on the cruise would be a different story, but that hurdle could be jumped when they got to it.

Lilah was tempted to roll her eyes when he mentioned the Gap. Might as well go to Old Navy or Walmart while they were at it, but fine. She could always mix in a few better pieces while they were on vacation, anyway. As if she wasn't already planning to do so. "The Gap is fine then," Lilah said to him. "Getting something to eat first wouldn't be a bad idea, either."

Sadly, Lilah was not nearly the snob about food as she was about clothes. Being a lawyer, she had lived on take out most of her working life. Something that hadn't really changed since her college days, to be exact. It was something that should have already bitten her in the ass, but you didn't know the best plastic surgeons in America, both mundane and magical, without being able to use them, after all. Still, an improvement on diet was something that she should do someday.

Not today, though. Her mind was already thinking of what all was in the food court. "Why don't you lead the way to the food court and we can figure out what to get when we get there?" she said to him.

[watcher_pryce]

"Something to eat it is then," Wesley nodded, quite happy to take a break from that blasted thing called... shopping. Weather it was grocery shopping, clothes shopping or any sort of shopping excluding that for books and weaponry was something Wesley dreaded. He already hadn't liked it much upon arrival in the United States. But to be honest he never really had gone shopping all that much.

And then came Cordelia. The fear for shopping grew. Fred made it worse and now there was Lilah. What was it with women and shopping? Horrible, just horrible. The sooner they could get it done the better. And they hadn't even been at it for an hour!

So food was a good idea, not that he was hungry. Wesley could do with some tea though and they had a nice place here that knew how to make tea. *Real* tea. And they didn't have many difficulties with children, who could sometimes be quite a handful. Even Max, though Wesley was loathe to admit that. Then it was quickly to stores he was familiar with and knew where to find things for Max.

The sooner they were out of here, the better and less of a chance that Lilah actually would buy him something. He really didn't know what to think of buying swimming trunks. The last time he'd worn those was at school and the less he thought about the better also.

"This was, sweetheart," he said to Max, steering the boy to a little corner bistro. Out of the way of the crowd yet still cozy and with good food. And tea. They even had those little bottles of fruit-juice for children. Max loved those, silly boy.

"How about over there in the corner," Wesley pointed, hoisted Max who let out a loud shriek on his hip and steered the stroller toward said corner. "Have you ever been here?" was asked as they sat down. "They have some excellent lunch-meals." Or so Cordelia and Gunn claimed.

[vicious_bmantle]

She knew that he was just happy to get away from clothes shopping. Why did men have a pure hatred of shopping, she wondered. You got to buy stuff for yourself. What was so terrible about that? Lilah didn't get it, but Lilah loved to shop. Some might say that she was filling her life with things instead of people, but those people were just jealous of what she could afford.

Lilah watched with a slight smile as Wesley steered Man in the right direction. The two of them together really was adorable. She had caught more than a few women looking in his direction as well. Nothing was more sexy to a single mother than a single father, and that really was kind of a rare breed. No wonder half the mall was drooling over him with Max right now.

She looked toward the place that Wes pointing out to her. "Sure, it looks good." She shook her head. "I've never been there, but one place is just as good as another in the mall." They all really were the same. Sure, they served different food, but most of them had the same quality of food.

She headed in the direction of the place that Wes pointed out. She would be happy to sit down and chat with him a while. If he absolutely refused to let her buy something for him, well, like she had thought of before, she'd just do it later. It's wasn't like it was an immediate thing.

[watcher_pryce]

"Actually that's not true," Wesley said as he bend down to root through the bags underneath the buggy. "There are little gems of places to eat hidden here. Such as this one, where they have excellent quality, fresh food ah!" He emerged again with Feigenbaum, the stuffed toy he had put away safely so Max wouldn't loose it.

Wesley had dragged over a nearby high-chair and put the boy in it. The stuffed toy was given and Max was a happy child once more. Not that he was really any trouble, unlike some other children Wesley had been unfortunate to witness. Dear lord he always felt so sorry for those parents. While those without children - or those who had raised children like his father had - had looked at these parents with disdain and some disgust, Wesley could only sympathize.

He had *no* doubt that Max would get episodes where Wesley would stand there bright red ready to call it a day and just drag the boy home to ground him for life.

"Don't throw it around or Feigenbaum will go back to sleep," he told Max as a young waitress approached them. She smiled down at the people at the table with this obvious adoring smile, eyes lingering a little longer on Max as that smile softened.

"May I help you?" She asked politely.

"Yes please," Wesley smiled at her, "I would like a tea and a... Uhm, lets have a chicken sandwich with everything on it," he said, magically pulling out a jar of food, "and if you wouldn't mind heating this up?" he turned to Lilah who by now had finished looking over the menu. "Lilah?"