CHAPTER 3 - Family Shopping Trip
DICLAIMER - I OWN NOTHING
BELLA'S POV Edward's body and my body were intertwined as the sun rose. I kissed him passionately and we continued with last night's activities. I let out a gasp and moaned. He growled against the skin of my neck and kissed my collarbone. We hadn't realized anyone was approaching.
"Hey, Momma. What time are we leaving?" Mason said, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. He took in the sight of his parents in front of him and looked terrified. "OH MY GOD. MY VIRGIN EYES!" Mason ran out of the room like a madman.
"Damn it. I'm sorry, love. I should've paid attention to his thoughts." Edward said, getting up.
"No, silly. Don't blame yourself. I wasn't paying attention either." I arose and kissed his cheek. "Let's go shower and then we'll deal with Mason, okay?" He nodded. "My poor baby. He had to witness something he never wanted to." I sighed and Edward kissed my cheek.
We took a quick shower together and Edward changed into a pair of dark wash jeans and a light blue button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up. I dressed in a baby pink dress with black ballet flats. Alice would be proud.
I went into the kitchen and made breakfast for my kids. Edward went off in search of Mason since he was no where to be found. I made chocolate chip waffles and banana pancakes. I heard the water running and I assumed the kids were showing. I decided to make a small fruit salad. As I was chopping up the strawberries and raspberries, Edward and Mason walked into the kitchen. I put the fruit in the bowl and turned to Mason. "I'm so sorry you had to see that, Mase!" I hugged him and kissed his forehead.
"It's .. Erm.. Fine, Momma. Dad already spoke to me and apologized." Mason said.
"Everything's okay, love. We just aren't permitted to do that in this house anymore." Edward chuckled.
"God. I'm going to have nightmares for the rest of my life. Can Uncle Jasper come over tonight and influence me to fall asleep peacefully?" Mason asked.
"We can ask him today. Now go upstairs and get ready. Tell your brother and sisters to come down and eat." I told him.
"Yes, Momma." Mason walked up the stairs, yelling for his siblings to go eat.
"They sure do listen to you." Edward smiled.
I nodded, "They're really good kids. Just wait until you get to know them better. I know the girls are already dying to spend time with you." Then I remembered the little "festivity" Mason walked in on this morning. "What happened?" I asked Edward.
He chuckled and kissed my head. "I'll tell you later. The kids are coming." He answered and I nodded.
"Good morning, my darlings. Come and eat." I said as Ness, Serena and Hunter walked into the kitchen.
"Good morning, Momma." They said as they entered, each stopping to kiss my cheek. I smiled.
"Good morning, kids." Edward smiled.
They shot up and tackled him to the ground. "Good morning, Dad!" They yelled. I could help but giggle. I whipped out my phone and took a picture of them o the ground. I sent the picture to Alice and added "They tackled him good morning." as its caption. Alice texted me back, telling me of her amusement.
"Don't break your father!" I laughed. Just then, Emmett's voice called in.
"At least don't break him unless I'm there to witness!" Emm laughed. I couldn't help but giggle. I hadn't realized the rest of the Cullens were here and laughing too. Until Alice pounced on me.
"Bella! Why didn't you have this sense of style BEFORE?" She asked in disbelief. "You'd always bitch and moan but now you don't even make a face."
I laughed at hearing her curse, "After years of having your daughter's say you're an embarrassment because of your clothing, I think it's safe to say I learned to dress properly. Plus, they burned all my clothes and threatened to burn my books if I didn't 'get my act together.' I swear, sometimes they act like I'm the child."
"You called your mother an embarrassment?" Edward asked disapprovingly.
"Dad, don't go there. You shouldn't seen what she was wearing! Old sweatpants with huge holes, ripped t-shirts, Crocs! It was a nightmare!" Renesmee shuddered.
"That's not even the worst of it. Did you know Mom had a fear of overpriced designer wear? I practically died of horror!" Serena continued.
"She wouldn't even wear jeans or v-neck shirts. It could be a perfectly warm summer day and she wouldn't dress to welcome it! She'd go to the lake in sweats! It was horrible!" Ness fake sobbed.
"Be happy my mom looks hot. After we were through with her, she could dress to impress." Serena finished.
Alice looked like she could cry, "My beautiful, wonderful, amazing nieces! I'd been trying for so long to talk sense into her! I'm so proud of you! We're going to get along perfectly, and you can wow all the boys after some Barbie time with your ole Auntie Alice."
Edward growled at hearing her words. They looked at each other, half afraid of what he would do to them if they followed Alice's words. I chuckled at their expressions and Edward turned to look at me with his eyebrow raised. I just shook my head. "Don't worry." Alice whispered to my girls and winked. I smiled and shook my head. Same old Alice.
"Why don't you all join us in the kitchen while the kids eat?" I asked. They all nodded and we headed into the kitchen. I was deep in thought, thinking how everyone was exactly the same as they were before. Not that it was a bad thing. It certainly wasn't. I was just so happy that everything could go back to the way it used to be. And this time, it'd be even better because Edward and I had our children, and Edward and I would be married. I'd get my fairytale ending. Mason came into the kitchen greeting everyone as he went and feasted on his breakfast.
"Bella, are you sure these are your kids? They dress better than you and you're older." Alice asked amazed.
"Yes, Alice." I sighed. "They are indeed my kids. Should Renesmee show you everything, including when I popped them out? No, wait. They clawed their way out. You get my point."
Alice shuddered. "Uh, I'll have to pass this one time. But let's get going to the mall!"
AT THE MALL
"Emmett, Jasper, Edward. Can you drop these off in one of the cars, please?" Alice asked, handing over forty some bags. The little pixie wasn't holding all of them ; we all had a few. This was the forth time they'd have to drop off our bags. This time, the bags were Mason's. The first time it was Renesmee's, the second time it was Serena's and the third time it was Hunter's. Our men reluctantly complied with the pixie's wishes.
Alice really meant she was going to spoil my kids. I hoped they wouldn't let it get to their heads. Heaven knows how hard it is to deal with teenage hybrid children, I could only imagine how much worse it would get if they were all spoiled. Nesser and Serena were having a ball, since Alice was buying them dresses I deemed inappropriate. I had to admit that they looked appropriate once they had been allowed to try them on. Alice had actually said that after a year, the old clothes would be thrown away. Except of they were a favorite. And by a favorite, I mean an Alice favorite. I was still surprised since Alice had a rule that no outfit was to be worn more than once.
"Okay, Hunter? We're shopping for you next!" Alice squealed, hooking her arm with Hunter's. Hunter looked slightly afraid, having been through the shopping for his siblings. As well as he should be. The pixie could be quite frightening.
"Could we stop to get some good first, Aunt Alice? We've been shopping for almost six hours and I'm hungry." Hunter complained. I was shocked. Hunter never complained. Never. It just wasn't him. What is Alice doing to my child? Then again, he could've been doing it out of fear. Alice's wrath was something to be feared by everyone, even Jasper.
"Oh, of course! I'm sorry, kids, I forgot that you still need to eat." Alice huffed, disappointed. I guessed she was disappointed because she had to wait a bit to continue shopping. We made our way to the food court. Renesmee ordered a California burger from a vegetarian kiosk, Serena had sushi, Mason ate some Chick-Fil-A and Hunter settled for Subway.
"Hey, Ness?" Rosalie called. "Hmm?" Ness answered, swallowing a bite of her food.
"What's a California burger?"
"Oh, it's just a meat substitute burger. It's really good. I'm an actual vegetarian, food-wise, as well as a vegetarian when I drink blood." She said, taking another bite out of her burger.
"Oh, that's cool." Rosalie said, reaching to answer her buzzing cellphone.
"Hello? ... Oh, hey sweetheart ... We're in the food court ... The kids got hungry ... Mhm ... Nesser told me what a California burger is! ... She's a true veg head." Rosalie turned to smile at Ness. "Okay ... Yes, I know ... I can hear you laughing from the other side of the food court .. Mhm... Bye, Emmett."
"That was mean, Rosie." Emmett pouted.
"You love me, and you know it."
He kissed her cheek, "That I do, m'lady."
"You girls didn't order anything?" Edward asked, looking at Esme, Rosalie, Alice and myself.
"We each ordered water. Does that count?" I asked.
Edward shook his head, "We'll go order you all food. You at least have to buy food and make it seem like we're human."
The men soon came back with food that we all pretended to share with our lovers, except Esme since Carlisle was working tonight.
After shopping for the kids was done, Alice decided it was my turn. She had me trying on millions of different dresses, skirts, shirts, jeans. Just about anything you could wear. One dress, though, was a keeper. It was a black dress with small red roses on it and the top and bottom lining of it as well as the straps were red. It hugged my body perfectly. The name of it made me giggle. It was called Pinup. I was glad Alice had convinced the girls it wasn't for them, even though Charlotte Russe was their favorite store. I couldn't imagine letting my girls out with this. Edward wouldn't even let them touch it on the rack. I walked out of the dressing room and Edward couldn't stop staring. A few guys were in the store with either their sisters or girlfriend and they came up to me, telling me how amazing I looked. Edward looked beyond pissed. One of my followers was brave enough to start talking to me.
"Hey, baby. My name's Greg. You look stunning." The blue eyed and red haired boy spoke.
"Uh, thanks?" I answered.
"I'd like to take you out sometime, if you'd let me. Make sure to wear that and we can have some fun after." He wriggled his eyebrows suggestively. I widened my eyes, thankful for Edward standing up.
"Listen, Greg. Don't talk to my girlfriend like that, especially with me here. I will personally stranggle you if you ever come within a mile radius near her." Edward growled.
"Oh, m-my b-b-bad, bro. I d-didn't r-real-realize sh-she was t-t-taken. I'll, uh, I'll just be going n-now. Bye!" He studdered then ran out of the store.
Edward put his arm around me possesively and Emmett boomed with laughter. I couldn't help but giggle and soon enough, everyone but Edward was laughing.
Hours later, we pulled into my driveway. We had over two hundred shopping bags, I'm sure. We had four cars with us. In Edward's car were Renesmee's and Serena's bags, in Emmett's car were Mason's and Hunter's, in my little Jeep Cherokee were Edward's bags as well as my own and in Mason's Hummer were Jasper and Alice's, Emmett and Rosalie's and Esme's bags. Good thing no one was riding with Mase in his car because his car was loaded in every sense of the word.
We all ran bags into the house while Alice worked her magic and put everything away, excluding their bags, at light speed. Our shopping adventure was a little too productive. I was looking forward to tomorrow, yet at the same time dreading it.
AUTHOR'S NOTE -I worked on this chapter all of yesterday but didn't post it because I was studying for my Global final. I have to look through my English notes for my English final tomorrow but then I'm all yours and I promise each of my stories will have an update!
Also, I posted a new story. It's a Jasper and Bella story, much to Edward and Bella fans' dismay. I actually like that one more than the rest of my stories!
Any ideas for the next chapter? I had a family hunting trip in mind but I'm not too sure.
Maybe some vampires should come in? Maybe werewolves?
Let me know what you think!
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-Tiffy
