Author's Note: Hello everyone reading my fanfic! I can finally update on a semi-regular basis because I'm back on summer break! Just for your information: I've never been to Seattle, so I don't know what stores they have in their malls, so I just picked the stores that fit the story, lol. If any of the stores were wrong, and someone was offended by this, I'm sorry. You'll know what I'm talking about after you read this segment. Oh, and by the way, sorry for the random emoticon in the story, I'm like obsessed with texting. J Thanks for reading!

Shopping Day

"…It's a girl!" Carlisle announced. The room was silent for a moment and then was filled with a loud, rambunctious noise: everyone was cheering.

"Emily Isabella Auden Black it is!" Jacob hollered and grabbed Bella and, much to his dismay, Edward into his arms. Edward struggled out of Jacob's strangling arms but had a smile on his face none the less.

"Congratulations!" Carlisle beamed.

"Did I just hear what I think I heard?" Alice appeared in the doorway, a smirk on her face.

"Oh, no," Edward whispered under his breath. He looked up at his sister and said, "Yes, Nessie is having a little girl."

"Well, that's great!" Alice gushed. "You know what this calls for?"

"Oh, no," Edward repeated.

"What Alice?" I asked, already knowing the answer.

"A shopping trip! Come on," she grabbed my hand and pulled me off of the table.

"Where are you taking me?" I asked.

"I'm not taking you out into public looking like that," she said, as if it was obvious.

"Oh, yes, what was I thinking? I'm only pregnant and wanted to stay in today with my boyfriend; how stupid of me," I said sarcastically as Alice continued to drag me down the long staircase.

"Just shush and cooperate," Alice pleaded. I grunted and gave in. We were standing in my closet minutes later with Alice scoping out the selection.

"Here, you'll look great in this," she said, throwing a teal top and jeans at me. "Oh, here, you'll need these too." I turned around in time to catch the airborne objects before they hit the floor. When I got a better look, I saw that it was underwear and a bra.

"Oh, yes, those are essential," I mumbled, walking into the bathroom. As I was tugging on the outfit, I realized that what Alice said was, of course, correct. The top was a baby doll top that had a darker turquoise ribbon right beneath the bust and the bottoms were dark wash skinny jeans.

I traipsed back down the hall and stood in my doorway, waiting to hear Alice's approval before I realized that she was already preoccupied: she had her nose stuck in my magazine.

"Hi, Nessie," she said distractedly, flipping through this month's Vogue, trying to determine if there was an article of clothing in there that was worth a second glance. "I don't understand high fashion," she mumbled more to herself than to me. "It's not cute at all."

"Alice? I need shoes," I said, walking through my room to my wardrobe; Alice beat me to the punch though.

"They're sitting at the foot of your bed," her voice sounded from behind the pages. I looked down to see Grecian sandals with teal jewels on the top.

"Cute," I murmured, sitting on my bed to strap them on.

"Ready?" Alice questioned, standing up and straightening her lacey black shirt.

"As I'll ever be," I sighed, snatching my purse off of the floor near my bed and heading out of the cottage to begin the day of "fun."

"So where are we going first?" I asked as I buckled my seatbelt in the back of Alice's Porsche. I had to sit in the backseat because my mom and Rosalie insisted on coming with us. Yeah, why give the pregnant lady the front seat?

"Hm….well, I think we're gonna head to Seattle because there is way better shops. But once we get there, I was thinking we could head to Motherhood to get you some new clothes and maybe Old Navy for you and….what was decided?"

"Emily," I replied, running my hand up and down my swollen stomach.

"For you and Emily then. We could also stop by Baby GAP because they always have adorable clothes for little ones. Also, I think we should investigate a Babies R Us for clothes, toys, a crib, a changing table, etc." Alice stated, already zooming down the highway. "Sound good?"

"Yep," I answered. There was really no point in arguing with Alice when she was on a mission like she was today. Not that I had wanted to argue, I'm simply just stating the facts.

The drive to Seattle didn't really take very long; well, I suppose it would have taken longer had the Porsche not been full of vampires. Before I knew it, we were pulling into a parking spot at one of the malls. I stepped out of the car into the light drizzle. How convenient.

"Okay," Alice said, clapping her hands together and bouncing slightly. "Let's go!"

As usual whenever I walked into a public place with my mother and two aunts, all of the male shoppers, no matter how committed to another relationship they might be, turned their gaze onto us and gawked. "Come on, we're here to shop, not be admired," Alice huffed, mostly to Rosalie. She dragged us along in the shopping center until we reached our destination.

"'K," Alice started, "let's start!"

I swear I was stuck in that dressing room for forever. Well, to me, it was forever; for a human it may have been like 20 minutes. I did get some pretty cute clothes though. I got some new underwear and a few new bras, jeans(elastic in the top :p), tight-ish t-shirts, baby doll shirts, new shoes, and-because I am the dork that I am-really adorable socks!

"Well done," Alice approved while walking out of the shop and towing us towards Old Navy.

Once in the store, we headed straight to the baby section. We picked up the most charming little onesies and these tiny little socks! Everything was just so….little. I've never really had that much contact with a human baby, or a baby of any sort really. No matter how much I wanted one when I was younger, my family never thought it was a particularly good idea to own a baby pet….

After we picked some things out for Emily, we wandered over to the Misses department for….well, really, all of us.

"Oh, Nessie, look at these cute little sleep shorts!" my mother exclaimed, holding up a pair of striped sleep bottoms.

"No offense, Mom, but I don't really need sleep shorts." I think if Bella could blush, she would have after I said that.

"Right," she coughed, adding the shorts to her own shopping bag.

After we got everything Alice thought we needed, we headed out of the store.

"Alice?" I asked, trudging along behind her with my arms full of bags. 'Can we skip Baby GAP and just move on to Babies R Us? I'm kind of getting tired."

Alice sighed and let her head fall. When she looked up, she had a somewhat irritated look on her face. "I suppose," she grumbled.

"Thank you." It was my turn to sigh, but it was a sigh of relief.

"Let's go," she motioned us to the exit.

We dropped all of our bags into the trunk of the yellow car and climbed back in, sitting, waiting to get to our next stop.

We pulled into a spot in the parking lot, got out and got the stare yet again. "Come on," Alice dragged Rosalie into the store.

"Necessities first," I prompted."

"Yes indeed," Bella agreed.

"There are a lots options, Nessie," Rosalie said as we walked toward that part of the store. "Do you want Emily to have a themed room?"

"Yes."

"Ok, there are few options: she could be a Pooh Bear baby or a jungle baby or a ballerina baby or….the possibilities are endless!"

"Hm…I don't really want her to be a ballerina baby. I might enroll her in ballet or maybe even tumbling when she's older but not when she's so young. I really enjoy the characters from Winnie the Pooh," I smiled.

"Pooh Bear baby she is then," everyone agreed, a smile of their own on their faces.

We gathered the most adorable sets ever. Her bed set has little trees on the edges like the Hundred Acre Woods and the small comforter has all of the characters on it. Her crib and changing table are white but we acquired a paint that is a nice color green that we're also going to paint her walls with. Plus, we got a tapestry to put on the walls with the characters dancing. Also, we got Emily rattles, pacifiers, stuffed animals, diapers, bottles-basically everything an infant needs or wants.

"Thank you so much, Alice. Emily's room is going to be gorgeous!" I complimented my aunt.

"I do have a taste for home design," Alice grinned.

"There is one thing I've been thinking about though with our small cottage…"

"And what's that, Nessie?"

"Where are we putting the nursery?"