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He really doesn’t kno could he? I’ve never told hirocery store, I introduce hiuely remembers Steve and Stephanie, but I tell him more about them, and about Preston and Ben and even Will, too It’s weird, because I know I can’t ask him the saet to the grocery store, A says we’re going to go down all the aisles "You never knohat youfor?" I ask

"Dinner," he says "Definitely dinner And as we do, keep telling me stories"

He asks me about pets, and I tell him more about Swizzle, this evil bunny rabbit we had ould escape his cage and sleep on our faces It was terrifying I ask him if he had a favorite pet, and he tells me that one day he had a pet ferret that seeuest in the house, so it ave hi the day When we get to the produce aisle, he tells ot hit in the eye by a flying greased water injured by any fruit, although there was a good few years when I made my mom cut up apples before I’d eat them, because someone at school had told et to the cereal aisle, which isn’t really going to help us for dinner But A stops there anyway and askswhat heup a cylinder of Quaker oatmeal "It all starts with this My mother barely eats breakfast, but my dad always has oatmeal So I decided I liked oatmeal, too Especially with bananas It wasn’t until I was seven or eight that I realized how gross it was" I pick up a box of Frosted Flakes "This is where the battle began Rebecca’s mom let her have Frosted Flakes, and like everyone else, I’d seen the coed my mother to let irl would do--I stole a box from Rebecca’s house and kept it in my room The only proble the bowls in the dishwasher So I kept thean to stink She threw a holy fit, but my dad was there and he said he didn’t see the harm in Frosted Flakes if that’s what I wanted The punch line being, of course, that once I had they so fast So my mom and I reached a compromise" I walk him over to the Frosted Cheerios "Now, I’m not sure why Frosted Cheerios are any better than Frosted Flakes, but rand finale" I ranola before landing on my favorite cinnaar in it as anything frosted, but I have at least the illusion of health And the raisins are satisfying And it doesn’t get soggy right away"

"I used to love how the Frosted Flakes turned thecool and start being gross?"

"Probably the same time that I realized there was not, in fact, any fruit in Froot Loops"

"Or any honey in Honeycomb"

"Or any chocolate in Count Chocula"

"At least the Frosted Flakes had flakes in the like this, I a that we’re not on a regular date

"Moving on…," I say, taking us to the next aisle, and the one after

We pick up a ridiculous a the checkout, I realize there’s no way I aat Rebecca’s," I tell A

"Tell her you’re staying over," he says

My phone is in my hand, but I don’t knohat to do with it "Really?"

"Really"