Private Finished Chasing Rainbows

Celeste had noticed the flickering emotions across Ebvion's face. They had gone easily from happy and excited to hesitant to finally, putting on a brave face. They were, at times, like an open book. Something Celeste adored about Ebvion. She loved how honest they were with their emotions and wished that sometimes Azure was as open with how he was feeling.

"Yes, of course, you can," she said to their question about the cart as she grabbed her house keys from a decorative stone bowl that Shale had made for her, and then, on an impulse, Celeste went over and gave them a little kiss on the top of their head. "You'll be fine, Ebviony. I won't let anything happen to you, I promise." she murmured reassuringly as she held out her hand to them.

"Let's go then," Celeste said with an encouraging smile as she led Ebvion out the front door, locked it and drove them both to the nearest grocery store. Thankfully, it was still rather early, and while there were people shopping and milling around, it wasn't as crazy busy as it could be.

Once they were inside the store, Celeste grabbed a cart with a seat chair, and then looked at Ebviony questioningly. "Ready?" she asked as she offered to help them into the chair.

After gently but firmly strapping Ebviony into the cart seat, Celeste looked at them and smiled patiently as they settle in and made themselves comfortable. "Here, let me loosen that strap a tad," she said as she readjusted one of the straps so that it wasn't so restrictive and allowed Ebviony a bit more freedom of movement.

"Okay, off to the baking aisle to grab some ingredients to make food fit for a tea party." Celeste said as she pushed the cart up and down a few aisles, grabbing some fresh fruit, eggs, milk, cream and butter along the way until they arrived at the baking aisle with was jam-packed with everything from brown sugar, coloured sprinkles, dried fruits and nuts to cupcake liners and cake toppers.

"Did you want to get down and help pick out the things we need?" Celeste asked Ebviony as she placed a bag of chocolate chips that were on sale in the cart.

Celeste frowned a little when Ebviony made a grabber and used it to grab a cake topper and knocked everything down. Their shyness was understandable, and she knew Ebvion was trying to come out of their shell, so she found that she couldn't quite be angry with them.

"Tell you what," Celeste said, an idea coming to her as she stood next to Ebviony. "Why don't we clean that up together, but from here?" she explained.

"It can be a game," she added as Celeste flicked her hand - the hand gesture was actually quite unnecessary as she could do this mentally, but she wanted to show Ebviony it was her moving the items and not some unknown or scary force, "And we can each put a topper back in place," she suggested as she guided the topper back to the shelf using magic.

"Of course, you can stay in the cart," Celeste said with an understanding look as she moved another topper from the floor magically, lifting her hand and making a movement to direct it to the shelf, placing it down next to Ebviony's.

After a few minutes of them taking turns as they cleaned up the aisle, Celeste grabbed a cake topper and gave it to Ebviony. "I am sorry, if I seemed upset," she said apologising to them, feeling that she shouldn't have been annoyed. "You were only helping, and I should have helped you get the toppers," she explained, gently caressing their cheek lovingly.

"What else should we get?" she then asked Ebviony deliberately pushing the cart a little closer to the shelves and turning it a bit so they could grab anything they wanted (within their reach) without too much trouble.

In reply to Ebvion's apology, Celeste just smiled pleasantly surprised, not having expected it at all, and gave their cheek a small peck. "Thank you, and it was both our faults, sweetheart," she told them kindly.

Then as she pushed the cart, she stopped when Ebviony asked for an icing bag with tips so she could decorate. Celeste had one at home, but she decided to get Ebviony one of their own. Handing them the bag, she also spotted some bottles of coloured icing and grabbed a bottle of each colour - pink, blue, yellow, red and green.

"Sprinkles... " she then murmured as she looked around her, and spotted them next to some small coloured candy stars, hearts and silvery balls. Looking then at Ebviony, Celeste grinned, "Should we get one of each?" she asked, thinking that having a child that ate nothing but sugar was a great thing.