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Taking Snuffy out to a barely functioning mall. Pushing her around at light speed in a shopping cart, her laughter echoing throughout the dimly lit halls. She screams and tells me to stop suddenly. I slam my heels down on the brakes of the cart and throw my weight forward, hitting the bottom of my chest under the hand rail trying to keep the cart grounded. I keel over, arms wrapped around myself to recover from being winded. Snuffy, leaps out of the cart, frantically jumps around and points to her right while monkey noises. I look over and somehow their is still a Build-A-Bear running in this place.
Snuffy leaves me behind, running inside. Though sore I recover enough from the impact and limp inside. She's smiling ear to ear, grabbing her favourite Pokemon off the shelves and humping the air while filling them up at the stuffing station.
Eventually she gets burnt out and I haul her collection of new plushies to the car, barely managing to stuff them all in the boot. We get Burger King on the way back. We decide to sit down and eat on the pavement fringing the parking lot, enjoying the cool night air. The sky is dyed orange, a purple hue creeping in to reveal the stars. I sneak a passing look at her sparkling eyes looking up at the passage of night during my post- meal cigarette. I barely get a drag in, ash landing all over of my boots.
We drive home eventually. Snuffy has a power nap on the way. I get all her toys out of the car before princess carrying her inside. She wakes up before I even set her down on the couch, disorientated at first before brimming with manic energy.
What follows is her geeking out about her new Pokemon, stuffing her hands into the asses of her new Vaporeons and starting a play fight with me. I easily overpower her. Snuffy frantically punches my chest and neck as she lies pinned on her back.
That's when it happened again; I got lost in her eyes, but this time we connected and both our pupils turned to dinner plates. This went on for a while until I got the "Nala" look. My voice went husky and I told Snuffy how much I loved her. She went bright red, no longer putting up resistance, splayed out. Snuffy hid her face behind an arm and called me a dork.
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Snuffy laid in bed on her side asleep, facing my preferred half of the mattress. Perfect in her nakedness. I sat on our balcony, having another cigarette, occasionally looking back to see the reflection of the night sky painting her pale body. Afterwards, I went back in. However I rolled around she wouldn't let go or stop laying all over me. Not that it mattered, I felt content. Just as I was drifting off finally I hear Snuffy mumble "and I love you too.".