Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 11

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Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 11

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”I thought you said you had food at home, why are you stopping?”
”I lied, I have nothing at home other than bread and cold drinks.”

”Argh!! I should have just gone home. You know I have food at home right?”
”Hey… I need a friend okay, it is not every day one gets to have a bad day and a friend is just a arm stretch away?”Lucy sniffs. Annalise laughs.

”You make it hard to hate you, you know right?”

”I know. Let me go in real quick and get some things, you can make that your amazing pasta and bolangse sauce.”
”You just want me to come cook for you right?”

”What are friend’s for if not inconveniences, bad advice and slaves?” She laughs wickedly

Annalise shakes her head ”One day, it won’t work anymore”
”You love me.” She gets down from the car ”You wanna come with?”
”No, I would just wait in the car”
”I would buy you chocolates and cookies, and that coconut juice you love?”
”I do not accept bribes”
Lucy shrugs walking away into the supermarket ”If you change your mind” She says over her shoulders.
”I won’t!!!” She bellows back

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”Would that be all Sir?”
Darren looks at her, was he forgetting anything? He looks into his packed bag. ”Ah s--t!”
He raises a finger, leaving the cashier stand and walking back to the food section, he grabs lettuce and cabbage and then some springs onions, adding corn beef to it. He would just stay in and make dinner instead of eating out today.
”Is that fresh?”

He turns to the lady who spoke, he frowns ”What?”

”The lettuce and cabbage, is that fresh?”
He looks at his hand, he nods ”Yes it is”
”Oh great! Please can you help me with two of those” She points to the cabbage.
He reaches for it, seeing that his cart was blocking her from moving closer, he hands it to her.

”Thank you.” She tells him,
”You are welcome” He turns walking back to the cashier.

Lucy continues shopping for her food stops. Done, she wheels her cart to the cashier stand. The man who helped her with the cabbage was still there in line.

”What is causing the delay?”
Darren frowns at the commotion before him ”Apparently, someone tried to steal, they are trying to get him to stay till the cops come”

”Oh!”
”Yeah!!”
Soon, the customers are getting impatient with waiting ”Can you attend to us and then you can deal with him?”

”We are tired and want to go home, we can’t be here all day”
”Call the cops and let them handle it” They each begin to mutter.

Lucy shakes her head and checks her time, hoping her friend isn’t tired of waiting for her in the car.

Annalise frowns looking up from scrolling her phone. Lucy had spent so much time in there. It was way more than thirty minutes already. Sighing, she drops her phone and then alights from the car entering the supermarket.
”So sorry for the hold up. Next please, next please, yes next please” The cashier calls out as people go to pay, take their items and leave.

It gets to Darren’s turn, he pays ”Your change would be 8 bucks sight, have you got 2 bucks so I give you a ten?”

”No!!”
”Erm, hold on a minute while I look for change please. Next, Ma’am please” The cashier beckons to Lucy.
Lucy steps forward ”Your items is worth a 15 bucks are you paying with cash or using a credit card?”

”Cash!”
”Great, let me have it”

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Annalise searches for her inside the supermarket, she stops an attendant ”Sorry, I don’t know if you saw a lady; grey eyes, short hair and wearing a Nike shirt with a monkey pictured on it. She has a white sneakers on?”
”She is at the cashier stand, by your left to the exit door”
”Oh, thank you.”
Annalise makes her way there.

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”Sir, maybe you can wait awhile so I get the 2 bucks?”
Darren checks his time as the cashier takes the money from the lady who asked him to help her with cabbage and hand it to him. He takes it. ”Don’t worry about it. Maybe I can pay for her extra cabbage” He smiles at Lucy.
”Oh, wow, that is mighty nice of you”
”You are welcome.” He grabs his bags and turns away.

”There you are! I have gone round the supermarket to look for you, someone had to point you out to me. I thought the zombie apocalypse happened and you got whisked away to the land of the un-dead. This is not ” I will be back quickly Annalise !!” Annalise states to her friend.

”Oh sorry love, there was a bit of an hold up but we are good to go and-”
”Annalise?” Darren turns sharply to the owner of the voice.

Lucy and Annalise both turn.
”Darren!!” Annalise chokes.
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