Edward Cullen
I was putting Lila to bed one night. I was about to start the lullaby, when she stopped me.
"Daddy, do you love mommy?" I froze.
What am I supposed to say? No? But that would be a lie. I love Bella with all my heart. But did Lila need to know that. I knew the answer, already. I looked into her duplicate eyes and melted. She was perfect.
"Yeah, baby. I do." I kissed her forehead and hummed her lullaby until I knew she was asleep. I played with her hair before whispering, "I'll see you in Dreamland."
Lila Cullen
I was pouting. I was sitting in my carseat in the back of Aunt Alice's car, on our way to the mall. Aunt Rose was up front, singing along to the radio. It was a dumb song about paper planes. Mommy hates that song. Aunt Alice kidnapped me. Daddy was still asleep, so she left him a note when she came and got me today. She said I needed new clothes. That wasn't true. Mommy took me shopping before I came here.
"Cheer up, Lilie!" Aunt Alice said in a sing voice.
"Lilie?" Aunt Rose asked.
"Yeah. It's called a nick name." Aunt Alice said. She was too happy!
"I don't want to go shopping!" I whined.
"Yes you do." Aunt Alice insisted.
"No I don't!" I complained, hitting my head on the window.
"Don't worry, be happy!" Aunt Alice sang to me. I groaned.
"Hey, Lila?" Aunt Rose asked, turning around to look at me.
"Yeah?" I answered in my pouty voice, picking my head up.
"What's your family like?" She asked.
"There lots of fun." I told her. I looked at Aunt Alice. "And they don't take me shopping."
Aunt Alice made a gaspy sound. "That's horrible!"
"No," I sounded scary. Hehe. "It's nice.
When we got to the stores, Aunt Alice took me to everyone. When we went into an Aunt Alice store, she took me into the dressing room so she could try stuff on, while Aunt Rose went to get me and her smoothies. Aunt Alice changed into a pretty pink dress. It didn't have straps and it went to her knees. Her legs were small like Harlie's.
She bought that dress and then went to look at shoes. She found a pair of black cowboy boots and slipped them on.
"Why are you getting those?" I asked. Aunt Alice didn't look like she would buy cowboy boots. I had cowboy boots. Everyone in my family did. (AN: I got a lot of complaintson another site that I was stereo typing people from Tennessee. This is just Alice, needing another excuse to shop. Carry one :))
"For when we go to Tennessee." She answered, putting them back in the box.
"Were going to Tennessee?" I asked. Yay! "Daddy didn't tell me!"
"Well, he doesn't know." She made an annoyed sound when she said that.
"Well then how do you?" I accused.
"I had a...feeling." She said, quietly. I shrugged.
Aunt Rose came back and gave me my smoothie. It was banana. Yum. She got strawberry and Aunt Alice got coconut. Ew.
I started to think about my Uncle Jacky. I haven't seen him since he got in the car bang. I hope he's okay. If he's not...I don't know what I'll do. What mommy will do. I don't think she'd be very okay. No one will be very okay. Grandma will cry...so will Gram. Gramp will be sad. Aunt Mari and Uncle Joe will be mad because that guy hit Uncle Jacky's car. Rosie, Harlie, Bliss and Delilah will be blank. That's how mommy was when she heard Uncle Jacky was in the car boom. Carson will be...what was that word?....furcos? No, no. Furious. Yeah, that's it. Furious.
Aunt Alice dragged me into a store called Aeropastle. I think Bliss shops there. Mommy always takes me to Kohls or JCpenny's. She says its easier then going all around the mall. I think she might be right. Aunt Alice bought almost everything she saw. It was scary.
"What do you think of this?" She asked, trying on a purple cowboy hat.
Aunt Rose gave her a thumbs up. I think she knows were going home too. I liked the hat on Aunt Alice. It made her hair look bluish. I told her it was pretty. She went to the hat rack and found some other cowboy hats. She said that they have to look the part for Tennessee. I didn't complain. I thought it was cool.
She bought Aunt Rose a red hat with white boots. She bought Grandma a tan, kind of white, and brown boots. She said that Grandpa, Daddy, Uncle Jazz and Uncle Emmy didn't need boots, they would look silly. So she bought them each a brown hat. Even though I have one at home, like everyone else, Aunt Alice got me a yellow cowboy hat with light brown boots. I liked it.
She bought lots of clothes. We went into Macy's to look for some clothes for me. She held a white, pretty dressy thing up.
"Do you like this?" She asked.
"Whats it for?"
"For you to wear." She looked at me funny. I shrugged. She bought it after that. We ended up with twelve bags. Each. Except, Aunt Rose carried my bags for me. I was too little, so I only carried my smoothie. Ha. Suckers.