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Accompanying his mum at the shops wasn't exactly a new thing for Jonah. Most of his siblings preferred to stay home but Jonah had never had any issues with going out. It looked like his mum was itching to go out as well, which probably made sense since she was staying at home more now than she had been for as long as he knew. It had always been his dad at home, but with his dad teaching at Hogwarts, the roles were more reversed. No wonder Mum had said that she could do the shopping despite Dad looking at her skeptically. When the necessary purchases were made, they'd somehow found themselves browsing at a rather large shop for clothes. He wasn't sure what exactly his mum needed to buy, but Jonah just let her be, following her around as she looked at various things. At least until he got distracted. It wasn't even anything too distracting. He'd just been running his fingers through different clothes and he paused when he felt one that was particularly soft and comfy. He looked at it, and it was, well... it was a house dress? Indoor dress? Sort of one like what his sisters would wear around the house if they weren't going out, or one that they would wear to bed. He had wondered a couple of times what it would be like to wear them since they looked a lot comfier than his own clothes. He didn't want to wear one outside, but he wondered if trying one would be bad. He couldn't help but use another hand to run through the fabric just because it felt so nice before he sighed. Probably not. He really should go find his mum.​

Taylor had been itching to get out and about for weeks, and it wasn't that she couldn't, it was that she couldn't with the babies. Lewis was a bit of a wanderer, so going out with him was a full time job in and of itself, and taking the twins with her as well, she only had so many eyes and hands. Since they'd been born, she'd still been coaching, but a lot of it was done more long distance - not so much that she couldn't show up, but she didn't like leaving her kids in the hands of other people, and all of her friends that she trusted to watch them, Kelsey, Arianna, Ai, they weren't in the country, they were spread everywhere else but in Japan, it was rather annoyed really. She spotted a pair of shoes she thought Jonah might like, and picked them up, turning to look for her son, only to notice he wasn't with her. She frowned, before finding him behind in one of the clothing aisles.

He was lingering by one of the clothing racks, his fingers brushing one of the dresses hanging up. “Jonah, sweetie,” she said, holding up the shoes, “I found some shoes you might like, do you want to try them on?” She wandered back to him, eyes flicking over the dress he was playing with briefly. “Oh that looks comfy, what are you looking at this for?” One of his sisters, she assumed. Rose might like this one, the colouring suited her, Taylor thought. “We have plenty of time if theres something specific you wanted to look at.”​

Jonah felt like he'd been caught red-handed when his mum was suddenly beside him without him noticing. So surprised that he'd instinctively turned around, and hid his hands behind him as if he was a child caught with a hand in the cookie jar. He blinked at the shoes his mum was holding and scrunched his nose. It looked fine. But they also looked... pinchy. Maybe they weren't? He'd been about to tell his mum that he could try the shoes on when she asked what he was looking at the dress for. That promptly brought a blush from his cheeks up to his ears and down to his neck. "N-nothing!" he said too quickly shaking his head and his hands in front of him, before he decided to take Mum's wrist and try to pull her away from the too comfy dress. "I can try the shoes on, are they in my size?" he asked hoping to distract her.​

Taylor couldn’t help but chuckle a little as Jonah scrambled to change the subject. She wasn’t quite sure what he was changing the subject for, or why, but she was enjoying the way his sweet face was turning the brightest shade of pink she thought she’d ever seen on him. She let him tug at her wrist without protest, though she kept her voice light and teasing as she followed along with him. “Alright, alright,” she said with a little laugh, squeezing his hand gently. “I won’t press. For now.” There was something there, he wanted something, she could tell, she just wasn’t entirely sure what or why. He wasn’t usually shy about this sort of thing, of all her kids Jonah had always been the most willing to shop with her, except for Hina, who usually came along when there was two of them, because she tended to get lost. Corey when he was younger, but these days he was married so, he usually preferred to shop with his husband, she imagined.

She held up the box to check the label properly, not wanting to impart on him anything strictly unsuitable. “Looks like they had a few in your size,” she added, giving him a warm smile. “Let’s find a bench and you can try them on. If you don’t like them, we won’t get them. Simple as that.” She said, because she wasn’t the forceful shopper. She had never made her kids buy things they didn’t want unless it was something for their education, like when they bought the book packages for them all, and their wands, though none of them had not wanted their wands, which was definitely a relief. She tucked a bit of his hair behind his ear as they walked. Jonah was definitely the softest of all of her boys, and probably most of her children. “And for the record, you don’t have to be embarrassed around me, love. You’re allowed to like soft things too. Nothing wrong with being comfy.”​