Disclaimer: Tiffany is the only character I've borrowed from the "Child's Play" series. The other characters are mine.

Angela was a single mother of her six-year old daughter, Melissa.

Melissa was bored of all her old dolls and wanted new ones.

It was 11:27 in the morning when they both were shopping at Toys R Us new dolls.

They were in aisle 3 looking at the broad range of dolls. That was the only aisle with all the good ones. The dolls wore bathing suites, wedding attire, sports clothes, regular clothes and more.

As they looked down the aisle, Melissa saw a lot of dolls that she liked. "Look mommy! This one's cute! Look at her dress!" Melissa pointed at the doll.

Angela looked at the doll. It was a wedding doll that cost $50. There was no way she was going to spend that much on a single doll with just fancy clothes. She had a budget of $35. "Honey that's too expensive. Find something cheaper."

Melissa looked at her mother. She didn't know what that meant. She thought that meant uglier. "Ewww I don't want an ugly doll! I want a pretty one!"

Angela had to explain what cheaper meant. "No no sweetie. Cheaper means cost less. It means I'll use less money. Look at the numbers and find a smaller one." Angela pointed to the prices and explained what they meant.

Melissa then understood her mother but still wanted a nice doll. She kept looking around and picked up a cheerleading doll that cost $7.99. Melissa could buy a couple of those cheaper ones and still stay within her mother's budget. "Look mommy!" she showed it to her mother.

Angela was happy she found a doll that was cheap and still cute. "Good honey. Since you found a cheaper one, you can get more dolls."

Melissa's heart jumped. She tossed the doll in the basket and looked for some more. Melissa found another in a bathing suit for the same price. Her mother approved it and Melissa threw it in the basket. Melissa had fun looking at the dolls in the aisle, even the expensive ones. But who could blame her? Melissa found a man doll that was wearing swimming shorts and tossed him into the basket as well. She had fun looking and tossing all the dolls she liked into the basket. This went on for about 15 minutes.

When Melissa was done, Angela saw that there were 12 dolls in the basket. There was no way she could afford all of them. She had to explain to her daughter that she couldn't afford all of them and had to put some of them back. "Now Melissa you know I can't afford all these dolls. Pick five of them and put the rest of them back. Now!"

Angela's urgent voice made Melissa realize that her mother was serious. So she sighed and said "Yes mommy." She started putting the dolls back one by one. Melissa grabbed two dolls and looked at them. She didn't like neither one and put them both back. She compared two other dolls and put one back. Melissa worked her way down to the last half. She was down to six dolls. She had the cheerleading doll, two beach dolls (boy and girl), a fairy, a big doll and a princess. All the dolls were cute and hard to resist. So Melissa had a hard time deciding who to put away.

Angela looked at the big doll Melissa had picked out. It was $24.95. If she got that one, she could get a small doll with it. "Melissa that big doll is $25. If you get the big doll, you can get one small one." She said.

That made the decision harder for Melissa because now she had more options causing her to became frustrated. She was stuck on whether to get all the dolls except the big doll, the big doll by itself or with one other doll. So many choices was hard on Melissa since she was so young. She was kind of confused as well. As a child, Melissa didn't know much about money and budgeting. So there she was trying to figure out what she could get. Melissa sighed. "Mommy this is hard. I don't know what to get."

Angela got kind of frustrated too. But then she realized that she was putting a little bit more pressure on her than she could handle as a child. So Angela just made it simple. "Ok sweetie you can get the big doll by itself or all the small ones." She looked her daughter in the eye.

Melissa looked at her mom then at the dolls. "Umm…." She sort of hesitated looking at them all. Melissa thought in her head. 'Mom said I could get all the small ones or the big doll. If I get the big doll, maybe it'll be better than the others.' "I want the big dolly!"

"You sure?" asked Angela.

"Yes mommy!" assured Melissa picking the doll up and hugging it.

"Alright. Put the other ones up." commanded Angela.

Melissa did what her mother told her to do and followed her mother towards the front.

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"Hello! Did you ladies find everything okay?" said Ashley, the cashier with a smile. She was a young, black girl.

"Yeah everything was pretty much in one good spot. We had fun though." said Angela with a smile.

Ashley nodded. "Okay…..good."

Angela looked at Melissa to give her the doll.

Melissa handed her mother the doll so it could be scanned.

Ashley scanned the doll. "$26.87."

Melissa watched the women do business. She watched the cashier put the doll in a bag.

When the cashier's eyes met Melissa's, she smiled at her.

Melissa felt so embarrassed she looked down.

The cashier handed Angela the bag with a smile. "Thank you for shopping at Toys R Us. Have a nice rest of the day!"

"Thank you." Angela then handed the bag to Melissa.

"Thank you mommy!" Melissa exclaimed hugging her doll.

On their way home Angela stopped at McDonalds and ate inside for about 30 minutes. From there, they went home.