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Turtle & Canary; Sunday [ 08/19 ]

Turtle was very pleased to see that the store was still standing. With Bart and Apu, she truly did have her doubts. But everything seemed to be in running, working order, so that was yet another load off her mind. But she missed the store a lot, and her attention to a few details in other shops she'd been at over the week gave her a few ideas on how to make a customer's shopping experience at Turtle & Canary even better than it already was, so she was busy going between making up some charts to those regards and telling the counter and the SquishyBot and Liz and the little scanning beeper thing how much she missed them.

Today's Squishy flavors: Red, Yellow, Eternal Blue Sky

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It's not like it's something he's not used to.

Come on. You know you missed her.

Jeff certainly had.

That's why he was coming in the shop around lunchtime, carrying a lunch made of sandwiches and leftover omelette. Just in case Turtle was hungry or anything.

"Turtle!" he said, grinning brightly, "I've got food! It's an excellent morning!" Afternoon. Whichever.

"Psh," Turtle snorted, shaking her head as she wryly grinned. "No it's not. Because if you've got food, then that means you haven't come here to buy any."

Awww. Jeff's facial expression sort of sank. "I'm sorry. I've got sandwiches," he said, "And omelette. River made it, it's got lots of weird stuff in. I would've bought something if I knew it'd been mandatory but the shop doesn't say."

Turtle arched an eyebrow slightly. "Don't worry," she assured him after a moment of realizing that he really did think she was being serious. "As boyfriend, you get to be the exception to the mandatory buying rule." Which didn't exist, but now Turtle was thinking maybe it should. "In fact," she added importantly, "if those sandwiches are for sharing, I can even throw in free Squishies. They go well with sandwiches. I'm not so sure about the omelette. When you say weird stuff, how weird are we talking?"

"...Er," Jeff glanced down at the little bag full of omelette, "...onions and apples and bacon and something that sort of looks like walnuts?" He looked up at Turtle again. "It's really good, though, you should try it."

"That doesn't sound too weird," Turtle said. The apples were a little out of the ordinary, and she looked at the bag with a thoughtfully tilted head as she considered if apples and eggs were a combination her tastebuds would allow. "If I try it, and it isn't actually really good, how do you plan to compensate?"

Okay. That was a hard question. Jeff gaped at her over the bag of sandwiches and the bag of omelette. "... I got you sandwiches," he managed, "I'm not entirely certain if they compensate, though, I haven't found the right scale yet."

Turtle considered this, and then nodded. "Back-up sandwiches are definitely compensation. Good. So...did you want me have Apu take over and take a break for lunch? I can. We haven't been busy or anything. And since we haven't been busy or anything, we can eat here, too, unless...you had different plans?" There was a slight frown on her forehead as she said this. She'd missed the store...

"I got you sandwiches," Jeff repeated for emphasis, "And Nana's been chewing on my mattress lately, I don't want to give her any reason to start on anything else out of spite."

That made sense somewhere.

"Sometimes I don't think she likes my furniture very much," he explained.

"Or your clothes," Turtle added with another wry grin. "Are you sure you're feeding her enough, if she keeps eating everything else?"

He blinked at her. "Ask Apu," he said, simply, and dropped the bags on the counter.

"If Nana's eating enough, or if I can take a lunch break?"

"Either," Jeff said, grinning brightly, "Although if he says no to the lunch I may have to speak to him regarding legalities. I'm fairly certain they change when there's boyfriends involved."

Turtle grinned back. "Well, if he says no, I can fire him, so, yeah, I know his answer is already yes. And what we can do is have the sandwiches ourselves and then save the omelette for Nana and see if that holds her off a day or two on eating your shoes or a chair or something."

"She might like the apples," Jeff mused, "I think they remind her of pens."

He did not elucidate on that. Instead, he shoved the omelette bag aside and pushed the sandwiches towards Turtle. "I've already eaten," he said, "Not to say I wouldn't want to eat with you, because obviously eating with you is preferable to not eating with you or eating without you -- which is not to say eating is necessary, I mean..."

He paused. "I'll have a sandwich."

"It's okay, Jeff," Turtle smiled a little. "Don't feel like you have to. It'll be nice to just have the company."

Tra-la-la.

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