Chapter 3: Shopping in the City

I woke up and looked at my calendar. It was Wednesday. I went back to my bed and hugged Chrysalis closer to my body. I liked moments like this, feeling her soft breath on my shoulder, being able to caress her smooth skin, and seeing her lay there peacefully was to die for. I sighed content with myself as I, for the first time in my life was happy. I felt movement beside my body and watched as she positioned herself differently. Even though we only knew each other for five days, our bond was strong and we loved each other immensely. I watched as Chrysalis groaned and got up. “What’s wrong? You couldn’t sleep anymore.”

“I tried changing positions and I just can’t do it, your schedule has changed my internal clock.” I laughed as I pulled myself out of the air mattress. I walked over to my dresser and grabbed myself a shirt and sweat pants. She giggled and I looked at her. “Oh am I going to get a show today?” I blushed and rushed into the bathroom. Memories of change rooms and swimming pools came flooding back to me. My chest heaved as I took short deep breaths, my pulse raced, and I didn’t know how to react to the situation. I heard someone knocking on the bathroom door. “Tyler, what’s wrong?” I slowed my breathing and calmed myself for the response.

“Oh nothing is wrong I’m just a little shy that’s all.” I hoped this would work but over time I knew she could read my emotions.

“Tyler you know I can feel your fear. Now let me in or I will let myself in.” I sighed and held myself against the door.

“No thanks I can handle myself you can go. Maybe you can watch something on my laptop?” I heard Chrysalis slam her hoof on the floor.

“Tyler open this door now!”

“No!”

“Fine I’ll let myself in.” I heard a popping sound and something tapped me on the shoulder. “I told you I would let myself in. Now what’s the matter?” I sighed and slumped against the door.

“I hate being seen by people. I feel their gaze on me and it makes me fear that they think that I am absolutely disgusting. So I absolutely feared changing in public places such as schools and swimming pools. It got so bad that I almost quit school all together just to avoid those situations.” She wrapped her arms around me and stared into my eyes.

“How about this. We’ll do it together. I’ll undress you while you supply the clothes.” I blushed deep red and shied my face away.

“I...um... I guess I would be okay with that.” We walked out of the bathroom and back in the bedroom. She set me on my bed and I handed her my clothes, her face became determined as she undid my pants with her magic.

“Okay now that, that is done I can get more physical.” She jumped on the bed beside me and latched on to the bottom of my shirt with her teeth. My pulses quicken and my breathing became more erratic. She rubbed her hoof on my back. “It’s okay, you’re doing fine just stay calm okay?” I nodded as she slid the shirt higher up my body. I lifted up my arms as the shirt went over my head and slid off my arms. She threw it on the floor. “There. Now the pants go off.” She bit into the edge of my pants and pulled them down. They reached my feet and I lifted my legs so that she could pull them over the curve of my feet. Once she got them off, she levitated the sweat pants towards me and grabbed them in her teeth in midair. She pulled them on one leg at a time more than once pausing at my underwear. I lifted up my arms as instead of doing the more physical routine she used her magic to put my shirt on. “Are you okay now that you know you have nothing to fear from me?”

“Yes I’m perfect.” I pulled her in for a kiss and we went in the kitchen for breakfast. “What do you want for breakfast Chrissy?” She giggled at my use of our decided pet name. We decided on a pet name for her on Tuesday and it was actually very hard to figure out an appropriate one so we chose this one because it was unisex.

“Can we have toast and bacon?” I nodded as I pulled out a frying pan and put the bacon from the fridge in the pan. I turned the heat up and the bacon began to sizzle on the pan as I grabbed four slices of bread and plopped them in the toaster. The bacon seemed crispy enough so I turned the heat off.

“What do you want on your toast?” I turned to watch her reaction.

“Oh can I have peanut butter?” I smiled at her and returned to my duty as the cook. I watched as the toast popped up spreading peanut butter on two slices and margarine on the other two. I put them on plates and I sat down beside Chrysalis as we ate our meal. “So what are we going to do today?”

“I was thinking we could do some shopping, go see a movie, and after that go to a restaurant.” She raised an eyebrow at me.

“What?” She smiled as she ran her hoof across my face.

“Oh, so do you have any plans for tonight?” I gulped and looked nervously around.

“No why do you want to know?”

“Oh nothing.” She looked at me with innocent eyes but I knew she was going to try to push me tonight. I got up and put my shoes on.

“Are you coming with me? I’m going to get groceries as we speak.” She nodded and changed into her normal attire. We walked downstairs and we headed outside, I decided to just go to the supermarket that I work at. Everyone nodded at me and watched Chrysalis as we shopped. “Okay we need more bread, spaghetti, sauce for the spaghetti, some fruit, milk, Corn Pops, and bacon since we’re almost out.” She nodded and we set out to search for the objects on my mental list.
We found most of the stuff easily but I couldn’t find where those Corn Pops were. “Where the fuck could the Corn Pops have gone?”

“Hey!” I looked down the aisle to see a small girl waving at us while holding the hand of her mother. She let go of her mother’s hand and ran up to Chrysalis. “You’re the lady that helped me, so what are you doing here?” I nodded at Chrysalis and let her interact with the girl. Honestly she needed to learn to interact with more people than just me.

“Oh me and Tyler are shopping.”

“What for?” The child’s curiosity reminded me of my younger years which were the best years of my life.
“Well for groceries but right now we just have one item. We’re experiencing some difficulty finding it.” The mother walked towards us taking her cart with her.

“Kathy it’s not nice to just walk up to random people and start talking.” Chrysalis looked up at the mother.

“Oh I actually helped her in the park on Monday, you see she hurt her knee and my parental instincts kicked in.” Kathy pulled on her mother’s sleeve

“Mom can we help them?”

“That’s nice of you Kathy but I don’t know how to help them.”

“Oh they’re looking for something. Can we help them search?”

“Sure,” The mother looked at me. “So what are you searching for?”

“Oh we need some Corn Pops but I can’t find a single box.”

“Oh I guess we’re to blame for that. We took the last box. You can have it as a thank you for helping my daughter and being so nice to her.” The mother reached inside her cart and pulled out the box we had for an hour been searching for. She handed the box to Chrysalis, she took it and placed it in our cart.

“Thank you very much and I hope we see each other again.” The mother laughed and smiled at Chrysalis.

“Wow you’re the most polite person I’ve seen in a long time. So I have to ask are you two related or in a relationship.”

“You could say that, I live with Tyler and we love each other but it’s too soon to determine our relationship like that.”

“Oh that’s okay and he must be a lucky man to have a beautiful woman like you living with him.” Chrysalis smirked at me.

“Very lucky indeed. Well we better go to the check out, we have places to go.” The mother nodded and Kathy waved goodbye as they went down the cleaning aisle. “That was a nice encounter.” I smiled at her and nodded. We went to the check out and I paid for all the items. I carried the bag and we walked back home.

Once everything was put in their proper place I gave Chrysalis some time to let her recharge after all maintaining that spell takes what I guess is a ton of energy. I made us some steak sandwiches for lunch so she wouldn't be hungry for the day. I waited an hour after our lunch and once Chrysalis gave the go ahead, we went to the theatre. They were showing an old movie today in celebration of the theatre’s opening. It was The Thing. Now this wouldn't be a problem except that I was frightened that Chrysalis is a shape shifter like the creature in the movie and would be somewhat offended. The complete opposite happened as she loved the suspense of the film as it’s not revealed what the creature looks like until far later in the movie. She laughed at the cheesy effects of the movie and seemed to overall enjoy herself. We went out of the theatre and walked down the street.

“So how did you like the movie?”

“It was a nice to actually go somewhere and see a movie I don’t like being cooped up in that apartment all day.”

“I can agree with you on that. Now let’s go back to my smelly apartment so you can recharge your batteries for dinner.” She nodded and we headed back to my apartment. We stayed there for about 2 hours and went out to a restaurant in the upper city. It was a nice affair with wine and lobster serving as our main course with shrimp as the appetizer. The bill was huge but totally worth it. We walked down the street and I looked into her eyes. “So how did you like the dinner?”

“It was great. The food was absolutely fantastic and the wine was superb.” We walk further on as comfortable silence filled the air. “So where are we going now?” I held her hand and gripped it tight; never want to let her go.

“I don’t have anything else planned so we’re going home.” I lowered my head. “Sorry if I didn’t do enough.” She wrapped her arms around me in a hug.

“You did absolutely perfect darling, don’t doubt that I had fun. After all my time was spent with you.” I kissed her on the lips passionately wanting to fulfill something inside me that I never knew was there. I released her lips from mine soon after and she smirked at me. “That was another thing that’s great about you. You know exactly what a girl needs when she needs it.” I hugged her close to my body as we started walking down the street again soon we reached my apartment and walked back inside.

“Well I’m going to sleep.” I turned and headed to the bedroom I saw a flash a light behind me.

“Oh really?” I sighed and looked back at Chrysalis in her normal form. “Because I thought we could have some great personal time together.” I turned and grabbed her hooves.

“Listen I’m happy your here and I love your personality but I want to wait for this. I need more than 5 days for that because I
am not someone to just have sex with people out of the blue.”

“But wouldn’t sex make you love me more?”

“Know what I would love for you to do?”

“What?”

“I would really love it if you just cuddled beside me as we fall asleep because I love the feeling of you beside me.” She nodded as I took my shirt and pants off in front of her, no longer afraid of undressing in front of her because she was a person I knew I could count on. I lie on the air mattress and Chrysalis laid herself on top of me. I kissed her on the lips and rested my head on my pillow. I felt her rest her head on my chest, her breathing on my chest soothing me to sleep.

Author's Note

A/N: Two day break and honestly I think this is my crappiest chapter yet. I worked hard on it believe me but it’s perspective didn’t feel right and I honestly didn’t know how to fix it. Sorry about that. :(