Dan fcked up: Time Skip Unknown - May 18th, 1998
So what exactly happened when Addie got into Leo’s car 3 days ago?
Did Leo Flirt with her? 
Yes, he did… a lot. In her opinion at least: she knew his tactics, after all. She knew his lines - what he’d say to get her to open up. To argue back. To laugh… and god was it hard to look out the window and IGNORE him.
Did Addie Flirt Back 
No no, Adelaide Parker quite literally stayed silent almost the entire time as she sipped Leonardo’s her coffee. Okay… mostly silent. She couldn’t really stay silent when Leo brough up the fact that she had to guide him home because… yes, this Leo didn’t know where she lived.
Did Addie try to convince him to let her out of his a few blocks before she got home?
She COULD WALK. She had LEGS Did he let her walk? No… that’s a different story. Could she walk? Yes, yes she could. And, AND it put distance between the two okay.
Did Adelaide Parker walk home
Again, he wouldn’t let her. So no… he drove her all the way to the front and she had to spit out a THANK YOU and then… quickly run off before she got stuck looking into his DAMN hypnotic eyes. And he waited - waited for her to grab the spare key under the loose stone path, waited for her to unlock her door and go inside. Waited until she was safely in her house before finally driving away.
That being said: Addie had been thinking of Leo a lot for the past few days. Thinking about him… and wondering when her next jump in time would be. Was it bad that these jumps truly didn’t even faze her anymore? Whether she was dead and this was a punishment or… or if something else happened… what could she do? All she knew she could do was tolerate her headaches that came with every jump and just… keep Leo out of it. What else?
Tell her brother? He’d call her crazy. She knew him… it would take convincing… and honestly… maybe she had just condemned herself to this fate.
Addie had started keeping a journal. Maybe it was more of a ploy to keep her distracted than anything else; but she wanted to write down what exactly she could remember from her timeline and what happened when she changed things. A log of her memories almost - which, for the most part, Adelaide had a good one. Her memory wasn’t as good as her brother… or daughter… or nephew who… who currently didn’t exist. But… a pretty damn good memory when it came to her life.
And…today… well…
Today was her first date with Leo.
And their first kiss.
And the first time Adelaide Parker felt that spark with someone…like… ever.
Fck.
Nope - Addie couldn’t get him off her mind. She tried… oh she definitely tried.
That’s why she was here: the grocery store with her brother who, albeit shocked by her appearance home a few days prior, appreciated her being around. And honestly, Addie appreciated him too - he was a good distraction. Doing things that she hadn’t done the first time around was a good distraction. It helped her avoid Leo and… occupy her mind… even with something as mundane as buying groceries for their fridge because in JJ’s words, “You’re back for like 2 days and we’re basically out of everything. Where do you even put all that food? Do you have three stomachs or…” Yeah that argument went on for a while - but in ADDIE’S DEFENSE - he barely had anything in the fridge and pantry’s when she got there in the first place.
“Oh oh oh, WAIT STOP DRIVING SO FAST WE NEED THAT.” Addie yelled. Currently, Adelaide Parker was sitting in an almost full cart, crisscross applesauce. And before you judge her for 1. The childish sitting in the cart or 2. The mass amount of deserts and unhealthy food that she had pushed her brother to grab - LET HER LIVE. She had her young 17 year old body that could eat anything and act childish and she was going to USE that.
“We do not need chocolate cupcakes, Addie”
“We always need chocolate cupcakes, JJ.”
“Addie, we have chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate frosting and cake mix because you wanted to BAKE a cake even though you haven’t baked anything a day in your life, Hot Chocolate, marshmallows, quite literally a whole box of Reeses, chocolate covered pretzels, and god knows what else you grabbed while I was driving this cart. We do not need chocolate cupcakes”
HOW DARE HE. Do you know what addie did to that? DO YOU KNOW WHAT SHE DID?
She pouted.
“Oh don’t you start.”
She pouted some more.
“Addie… stop with those eyes…”
Annnnnd she pouted some more, crossing her arms across her chest.
“Oh for fcks sake. Fine. FINE. I’ll go back and grab them. ONLY because you just got here.”
Annnd she won. Giving him her award wining smile, Addie started saying “Thank yo…” , before, of course, she realized what she was doing. He had moved the cart she was in towards a side aisle; leaving it there with the words of “I’ll be back with the damn cupcakes”
The issue? Well 1. HOW DARE HE LEAVE HER… and 2. HE LEFT HER IN THE SEX AISLE. ADDIE PARKER WAS SITTING WITH A CART FULL OF FOOD, CRISSCROSS APPLE SAUCE, NEXT TO CONDOMS AND LUBE AND SEX TOYS. He did this on purpose. HE IS SOOOOOO GETTING HIT UPSIDE THE HEAD UNTIL HIS LIL GENIUS BRAIN DOESN’T FUNCTION ANYMORE.
“JUSTIN PARKER DON’T YOU DARE LEAVE ME HERE I WILL SCREAM.” ,
Addie watched as he gave her a big grin, and put his thumbs up before continuing to walk away.
“JUSTIN… JUSTIN DO NOT LEAVE ME HERE YOU BLOODY WANKER I WILL MURDER YOU IN YOUR SLEEP I SWEAR TO GOD. Jusstinnnnnn…” ,
“JUSTIN… JUSTIN I AM NOT KIDDING, DO NOT LEAVE ME HERE. YOU BLOODY ARSE… YOU BETTER SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN TONIGHT… AND DON’T YOU DARE EAT ONE OF MY CUPCAKES YOU DON’T DESERVE ANY… and he’s gone.” ,
“He’s bloody gone… great… just… perfect and I’m in this aisle… with a cart full of food… and I don’t bloody know how to get out… because… fck.” ,
Was she talking to herself? Yes… don’t judge her. Rude. Addie liked to talk through her options, okay… which were highly limited. Here’s the thing - 2012+ grocery carts - not as hard to get out of… 1998 grocery carts… a little taller… a lot more unsteady especially with the weight of a person and it being full of food. In other words - she could honestly hurt herself if she got out of here herself… and Justin knew that. HE KNEW SHE’D BE STUCK UNTIL HE CAME BACK. That mother fcker was gonna get kicked in the shins. No doubt.
“Fck…fckkkkk”
Addie mumbled again, putting her head in her hands as she cursed - especially after hearing another cart squeaking towards her… which meant that she had her first… guest appearance. Was Addie really embarrassed of the situation… no… was she still going to murder her brother… Yes.
Okay Addie - just smile and pretend like you belo… oh…
Everything moved in slow motion as Addie caught sight of Leonardo Azure staring at her with his GOD FORSAKEN smirk as he brought his cart closer to where she was. How was he here? Why was he here? What the… sht.
Her heart was racing.
Of course it was racing - she hadn’t seen him for a few days and all she had been doing FOR those few days was thinking of him.
Now he was here. Right here.
The day their date was originally meant to be - just a couple hours before. AND… and he looked good. No… NO… don’t think like that Addie. Stop it. Stupid 17 year old hormones, fcking hell.
I promise Addie wasn’t usually like this. But goood teenage hormones were hard to work with. Also… no one could really blame her right? It was Leo… her Leo. And also had anyone seen Leo? Him wearing that henley and sweatpants wasn’t helping the situation at all. No sir.
But, how was he here?
No seriously, how?
GET IT TOGETHER ADDIE - ACT UNINTERESTED.
“You have to be kidding me” Addie mumbled under her breath. That was automatic - those words. After all, It was incredulous that he was here in the first place. Pulling her eyes away from his (which was so bloody hard)… Adelaide found herself, once again, pulled into the reality of her surroundings. Right.
Right… sex aisle.
Okay.
She could work with this.
Looking at the aisle behind her, Addie allowed her eyes to skim the aisle until she found a familiar Trojan box. Grabbing the equivalent of the family sized version of those, Adelaide threw it in his direction, watching the man catch it before adding “Well you’ve done your business in this aisle, you can leave now darling”
Good one Addie.
No honestly, someone should give her a pat on the back for that one because thinking on the spot was hard when LEO was staring at her.
"What makes you think this is the only reason I’m here?”
A soft laugh left her lips as she looked at him. This felt natural… normal even. He walked himself into this one - turning back around. Addie grabbed yet another familiar item before turning around and this time, throwing him a bottle of lube.
“Anything else I can grab you?”
She saw his smile grow at that - the little shake of is head as he held in a laugh.
Oh fck him. Fck his laugh. Fck that smile. Fck the fact that she wanted to kiss him right now so hard that he forgot where the hell he was. Fck…
"Maybe focus on getting what you need instead of trying to guess what I might get.””
Oh I wasn’t guessing darling. Everything I handed to you will come in peak use sooner or later I’m sure. Your future girl will thank me. Now go run off so you can find her. I can worry about what I need in the meantime."
" You’re so sure you know me so well, but I guess that’s for me to know, and that future girl to find out.”
There was a telling smile on his lips, and after a second she saw him pulling his cart away and walking away from her. It shouldn’t have happened… her heart drop. She didn’t want him to leave… well… she did… but also.
“WAIT… wait…”
What was she doing? Whatever it was - she should’ve stopped. She saw him turn around and immediately, she found herself speaking.
“I do… need one thing actually. Could you help me down from here? My brother is a bloody idiot and abandoned me here and I don’t know how long he’s going to take…”
He didn’t hesitate; just a nod as he walked back towards her - leaving his cart a few feet away as he came to stand right in front of her.
“Color me shocked… no ultimatum this time?”
“I’m more than what you expect from me, darling.”
A sigh left her lips at his teasing… what was she doing? Addie could have easily waited for Justin… She could have… but also… she… didn’t want to.
Addie stood up on the cart attempting to balance as it started moving - something he helped with as he grabbed the cart so she’d be stable.
“Okay… god… how the bloody hell am I supposed to do this?”
Looking up at her, Addie could see his eyes. He was thinking; looking at the cart - and then back at her.
“Put your arms around me.”
Distance… Addie… distance.
What was she doing?
Maybe… maybe deep down she knew…
Putting her elbows on him - Addie attempted to keep some semblance of distance as she attempted to navigate how the hell she was going to get her feet up. One foot at a time? Well… that didn’t exactly end well because she lost her footing on the stupid cart and ended up completely wrapping her arms around him in an attempt not to trip and fall - followed by him letting go of the cart and completely wrapping his arms around her.
So yes. Addie was wrapped around Leo - and for a moment, she felt at peace. The feeling of his arms around her was… indescribable. Even as Addie found both feet on the floor - her eyes were glued on him as her arms remained around his neck. She missed this… so fcking much. She loved him… and she was entranced by his proximity… his touch… his smell. For a second - she just looked at his face… his eyes, his lips… back to his eyes.
Wait.
Fck…
WHAT WAS SHE DOING?
Blinking a few times, Addie had to clear her throat to push herself out of the trance and push herself away from him.
What the hell? Fck. Out of all thing she should have done - this wasn’t one of them.
"Right…um… thank you… for that. And… um…. practice safe sex… and… have a good party tonight… I should… yeah… I should go.” "
And with that - without looking back, Adelaide Parker grabbed the cart and zoomed off the OPPOSITE direction of Leo - trying to find that idiot of a brother she had so that they could LEAVE.
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