John Murphy (stopaimingatme) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2019-03-25 20:52:00 |
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Entry tags: | !log, !open, john murphy (stopaimingatme), melinda halliwell (mel_halliwell), ~2019 march, ~40 points |
Who: John Murphy and OTA
What: Grocery shopping
When: Monday evening
Where: Walmart
Warnings: TBA
Status: Open/On-going
Fatherhood was still absolutely terrifying to Murphy, and he was still going back and forth between feeling like he was going to do okay and like he was going to break Alex any time he tried picking him up. It was an annoying sensation, a damn annoying one, and the worst part was that he knew he'd never really stop being worried about if he was doing the parenting thing right. He'd never really stopped worrying about it with Aurie, after all. No, he wasn't her father and never had been, but he was pretty much her uncle and damned if he ever stopped helping raise her.
Which he supposed meant he was going to do alright with Alex.
Grocery needs didn't go away just because of a new baby, though, and it didn't stop being his turn to hit the store -- which meant he was at Walmart shortly after sunset, dodging irritated coworkers who wanted to know when he was coming back and stopping to talk to his manager because at least that guy had genuinely asked about Raven and the baby before asking when he was coming back. Murphy had given him that one because hey, okay, valid question for that guy -- and because the guy hadn't really reacted much to Murphy telling him it wasn't going to be for another few days. He'd taken a couple weeks to spend at home with Raven and the baby and damn it, he was making the most of those few weeks.
At the moment, though, he was being a very boring grown-up and shopping for vegetables. Canned, just because. And as he grabbed a couple cans from the shelf above a woman's head -- hey, she wasn't moving, okay? -- he had an odd, random reminder of when he'd met his ex-girlfriend Marley. They'd met at Walmart, it'd involved canned vegetables, the only difference was he'd just gotten off work. That was the kind of thing you didn't forget, no matter how much you moved on.
People who'd only known him years ago would've expected him to hate it, but Marley had been the start of things, the first step on a path that'd led him to Raven and their son. And people who'd only known him years ago would never expect him to have a thought like that.
People who'd only known him a year ago could suck it.
That thought had him laughing ever so slightly to himself as he moved away from the vegetables.