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Today was finally the day that y/n was allowed to go to the Present Store. Unlike today they would typically go to one of their Uncles for the day.
y/n strolled into the kitchen where Joe was waiting for them. "good morning sweetheart" Joe said as he was finishing making breakfast. "are you ready for today? here you'll need this" Joe gives them a slightly oversized shirt with a big present in the middle in y/f/c "its just so that we can match a bit" they slide the soft oversized shirt on and sat down "its comfy" y/n said with a smile. as the two ate Joe said "dont forget to grab your bag before we leave ok?" "i wont" after the two finished y/n skipped to their room to grab the bag Joe packed in case y/n would get bored while at the store. It had their favourite plushie y/p/n, colouring books and crayons as y/n was about to leave Joe asked "do you have everything?" "yep" y/n replied while putting on their Velcro shoes. Joe held their hand and walked out the door.
As they were walking to the Present store y/n asked "what will i do?" they looked at their dad with a smile "we will see"
As the two arrive at the present store y/n's eyes lit up looking around to see all the colours, presents, and items for sale "wow" they said to themselves "cool right?" Joe asked "you come here almost everyday?" y/n asked "yep" he laughed. Joe walked y/n over to the counter "since your a little too short to stand at the counter you get your very own stool" Joe pulls out a step stool in y/f/c "see it even matches your shirt" y/n giggles and test's it out. when standing on the stool y/n was able to peak over the front counter "hold on i gotta get more wrapping paper don't move" he says rushing over to the back. While he was gone y/n looked around the empty store at the teddy bears, hygienic isle and behind the counter and the unwrapped gift's right of them. "ok i have some presents to wrap do you want to show how to wrap one?" Asked Joe "sure" y/n replied
"ok lets wrap this first" hey says grabbing a big crayon box. Joe rolled out a sparkly blue roll of wrapping paper rolled out a few inches and draws a line he handed y/n some scissors "here cut on the black line" "okay" y/n cuts the paper the best that they could making the paper crocked. Joe get out some tape and folds the paper inward down the middle "okay now tape it down this way" he instructed. y/n taped it but the strip was longer than the box. Joe cut the extra tape turned the present and folded the paper inward "now tape these two sides" he said "okay" y/n said this time taping the sides with smaller pieces "you did great!" Joe says flipping it over "now it just needs a bow" he says handing them a bow "just stick it on" y/n sticks in the middle. They continued to wrap some more presents like a board game, a ball, books, a bear and ducks.
after they finished wrapping presents an influx of customers coming in and out of the door with the stores bell constantly ringing. y/n started colouring in their colouring book a page with butterflies a page with dogs playing in leaves a page with two cats in the rain and one with a girl watching tv. Joe became increasingly more busy with more presents and more customers "hey can you go to the back and get a box of bows? its on the bottom shelf" Joe asked as he only had 4 bows left and 17 presents left to wrap"sure" y/n said closing their colouring book in putting it in their bag. They hopped off their stool and head straight down as their dad instructed. they walked past the sports isle the toy isle and then the craft isle. when they got to the back they ducked down scanning looking for the bow's. "here they are!" They carried the small box filled with stick on bows and carried it back to the counter. they lifted the box and hopped on the stool "here" they say as they slide the bows towards their dad "thanks sweetie" Joe said as he was focused intensely on the presents
y/n takes this opportunity to wander along bringing their plush with them to explore the rest of the store. they quickly speed off towards the hygiene isle. y/n goes to feel all of the soft towels rubbing their hands on them. They turn around to see soap bottles and presses on the top making bubbles giggling at them "look at the pretty bubbles y/p/n" they walked over to the plushie and books corner "whoa...look picture of uncle josh's house" they said holding their plush up to it. They then turn around to look at the craft isle "wow a present chair" they said. when they had gotten to the Craft Isle they saw crayons of all types of different paint, markers, glue and glitter glue "i like this one the most" they told their plushie. then they strolled the toy isle staring in awe of all the toys
As Joe finished up the last present and the front counter was empty he remembered he need to re-stalk some sports stuff "ok sweetie i need to re-stalk a few things after that we get lunch" Joe said, as he was about to hold y/n's hand to walk with them he noticed they had left "huh...y/n..?" he let out a long sigh "please still be in the store" he said to himself walking off. He first headed to the back as he thought you might have been back there "y/n sweetie?" they were not there he heads to the plushies to look around. When he got there it was empty "oh! toy isle they might be there" he says turning around
as y/n went towards the sports they tripped and fell scraping their knee "owchie" they said as they started crying and holding their plush toy close to them.
As Joe walked down the toy isle he heard y/n's crying and dashed over "y/n what happened?" he said in a softer voice "i tripped" y/n said Joe carries them over to the counter
As Joe clean's the scrape"im glad your okay but you cant sneak off like that" he says putting on a y/f/c band aid "im sorry" Joe picks them up and pushes a cart of stuff for the sports isle "let me re-stalk this and we can go get lunch" he said walking off with his toddler