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A Cullen Room and Wardrobe
SPOV
I couldn't believe it. It has been since forever that I have actually been going shopping, it reminds me of when my Dad and I would just go to any mall that I would pick, we would have lunch and just browse all over the stores. I usually was able to goad him into buying me something every time.
I straightened my clothes a bit before heading downstairs, trying to look the best I could, and reflexively brushed my hair with my hands, feeling nervous of going out in public just as I usually was when I was human, especially since I had very low self-esteem as human. But I laughed a bit at myself as I realized my physical appearance had been enhanced after the transformation. I was chuckling at myself as I entered the garage; while I have already summarized my family was rich, I still got a huge shock seeing the assortment of extremely magnificent (and extremely expensive) cars parked in the garage. I stood in awe for a bit. Quite amused at seeing such a huge collection that looked as it belonged to spoiled Hollywood Brats or from an Arab Sheikh. Before I noticed I wasn't the only one in the garage, Alice was there as well and she was calling me over, as she stood behind a quite speedy looking yellow Porsche. I could see it in the eyes she had the look; the one that screams, "Do as I say or you'll suffer, before doing what I say." So I just hopped in without argument, Dad was a bit shocked to see me in they're so quietly, but he went ahead and got in the passenger side, as I laid down on my stomach in the back. I closed my eyes, and just lay there; hoping that I could have a great time with my Dad and anxious to get to the mall soon. I opened my eyes for a while; I just was not able to sleep at all. I leaned forward and saw Alice driving by at 140 Km/H, honestly since I do not feel it I just don't care; I guess they know what they are doing after so many years driving.
We arrived at the biggest mall I have ever seen. It looked 5 stories high, and it appeared to have every possible luxurious brand that existed in the planet on it. I noticed how tight security was, Alice had to show 3 permits to get in, and the underground parking lot was protected by what looked to be about 50 guards, each heavily armed and accompanied by ferocious looking security dogs, they each stood firm and tall, looking like those guards from the Buckingham Palace, but as soon as she was allowed in; all the personnel were saluting her, as if she was a VIP Customer, or even better the queen herself.
"Hello Ms. Cullen, what a nice surprise, what would it be today?" Asked a burly security guy.
"Oh Hello Richard" she responded, flashing the guard a perfect white smile.
"Well, Miss Cullen, who are you coming with this time? Is that your father, a pleasure as usual Dr. Cullen, and who is this little guy?" He asked as I got out of the car. Thinking how much like a sucker he was acting, as soon as he said "Little guy" I gave him the deepest scowl that I could muster, and a low growl escaped my lips. The security guy blinked and stepped back. I chuckled a bit to myself, hoping Dad did not notice.
My Dad however heard me, because he walked up to me and gave me a stern look, followed by a very low "Behave, Son," I pouted and nodded my head.
"Sorry Richard, he is just a bit sensitive; you know the deal, teenagers and their moods"
"Of course Doctor Cullen, enjoy your trip," Richard said, as he left, very slowly, as if I may bite.
I chuckled a bit at myself, before noticing my father eyeing me.
"Young man, I hope you will behave yourself on this trip, you'll be around humans and you need to act normal, you have seen us and observed us, Alice and Edward had told me that you know how to act responsible; and if you misbehave, I swear I'll ground you AND give your bottom a good hard warming up when we get home, get it, Hatchling? " He said it in a real low, dangerous tone.
I flinched. Man this having a Dad that actually cares about how I behave is kind of annoying and kind of nice as well, I mean at least I have someone to guide me, instead of guiding myself. Apparently I would now be able to just act like the kid I still was and forever would now be. But I flinched on the second part, I mean a part of me had some healthy fear that he would follow through with what he told me a few days ago; yet a small part of me was laughing it all up as joke, I mean grounding and spanking, come on, am I 7 or something?
He came closer to me and squeezed down on my shoulder, while looking directly into my eyes.
"Got it Hatchling?" He said again.
"Yes Dad, I`ll behave." I said.
"Good boy son, I love you, ok? Always remember that. But you need to behave, especially around humans. If you don't it could generate trouble not only for you, but for the whole family as well." He spoke in that same low tone again, but this time it was filed with so much love that it startled me for bit. It was nice to hear someone else; especially an older man address me with honest love.
"I love you too Dad" I said.
And it was true. I finally realized I had a place where I belonged. I had loved my real dad, but he just let them abuse me, and tried to compensate only with expensive gifts and perhaps some love, but not so much. I just felt so loved, so complete, with my new family, my new parents. Carlisle is my Dad and Esme is my Mom now. I have a new family, a real family.
"Come on son, now we must shop"
"Ok Dad" I responded, smiling up to him.
"So let's get the heavy stuff out of the way first, you are getting fitted for a tuxedo," said Alice.
We proceeded up to the 5th floor; we found the store Alice was talking about. I blinked a bit; I never expected to actually be allowed to have something by Prada, until I was at least 40. Now she was leading me down to an office labeled "Manager" as if it was usual for her to do so. She barged in without a care in the world. The man in the office was about to shout obscenities at us, and then he saw who was he with. He immediately dropped the phone without a care and saluted.
"Ah, Ms. Cullen, My Favorite Client. What can I do today? And who is the young man with you?" He enquired while eyeing me up and down.
"Hello Austin, this is my newest adopted brother. His name is Santiago."
"Well hello there Young Mr. Cullen," he said to me.
I giggled a bit at the "Young Mr. Cullen". It was quite a delight to hear.
"Hello to you to Sir," I replied.
"So Ms. Cullen, let me guess; he is here to be fitted for a Tux. Tailor made of course, please have him proceed to the dressing room and I will measure him. I need him in shorts for this which," he turned to me and said, "I will bring you some, they are a new design and you can take them if you like. Brand new of course"
I proceeded into a small dressing room and put on the appointed shorts. They were very comfy. Then the man came in and told me to stay still. I tried to do so, yet shuffled a bit here and there, supposing it was not normal for humans, and even more human teenagers, to sit completely still, but I didn't need to keep the charade up; the man was very effective; he seemed done in just 10 minutes.
"Great, Young Mr. Cullen. I'll have it ready before you leave the mall, which will be at closing time knowing your sister. By the way you can keep those shorts as a gift, ok?"
"Thanks," I said
We exited the changing room, and I saw Austin shake hands with my dad.
"A pleasure to see you again Dr. Cullen, the Tuxedo, with the shoes, shirt, jacket, pants and bowtie comes to $3500, this includes your VIP Platinum Discount of 50%. Let me congratulate you on your fine son, he is the best-behaved teenager I have ever seen."
I blushed a bit at the compliment. At least internally, since I really could not blush now.
"Thank you; he is a very good kid. He makes me proud to call him my son." Dad said.
Now I would have been Fire Engine Red all over if I were still human, fortunately I was not. I did allow myself to smile as we exited the store.
In the next store, everything looked just as expensive as before. Alice still seemed to navigate it as if she could buy the whole store and have extra cash left. She got some stuff from the racks at a frighteningly fast speed. She handed me stuff all over; promising that it was only for me to try on and see what I liked. She would not force me to get anything I did not want to. Surprisingly enough she had chosen the right size and fit for me. It was amazing looking at myself in the mirror in the white suit, with a red shirt under the heavy white coat and shinning white pants, alongside a deep sapphire blue tie; and feeling like a million bucks, like I owned the world. I had an amazing family, and amazing body, had an immortal life in front of me. I giggled, remembering all the times I had felt the need, the desire to commit suicide. I had no need of that now, all thanks to my Dad, my Mom and my Brothers and Sisters. I proceeded to try on the other clothing Alice gave me and was elated; she seemed to understand what I like instantly. She bought 3 sets of suit pieces, pants and coats one black, one white and one grey. I saw the receipt coming out at $5000. Alice just handed her card over, flashing me a smile.
"So now that everything stuffy is out of the way, time to go get your casual clothing. First let's go to that store over there, in here you will get everything you require for school and general clothing, just get whatever you want and bring it to me." Alice said.
I proceeded to let my inner shopaholic out. I found 10 polo shirts, 5 colored, 3 stripped and 2 with a printed stamp. I also went ahead and picked out 10 pairs of jeans, black, dark blue, light blue, cream colored and pure white. Then I choose some other pants as well, along with some sweats; which Alice almost fainted at seeing, but she took them to pay for them anyway, although scowling all the way through...next I found some t-shirts, 16 pairs of underwear and 16 pairs of socks. Finally I proceeded to get quite a collection of jackets and sweaters. All ready and done, and being quite pleased and excited with myself I started to pay attention with giddy excitement to the constant bling, bling as the cashier registered every item of clothing; and after all of it was done and packed, Alice commanded the parade of 3 shopping carts containing my new wardrobe.
Esme POV
Well I know that Sant and Carlisle will be out for the whole day and well into the night. I wonder how Sant will handle experiencing Alice in her full shopaholic mode, yet this fits perfectly well into my plans of having Sant´s new bedroom already set. I know that as vampires we really don't need that much furniture and stuff, but that's just technicalities, plus we are not a "normal" vampire coven by any standard. We are a vampire coven that is a family and as such I believe in my kids deserving all the commodities (and perhaps some more) that all children their age tend to get.
"Edward, Jacob" I called down to them.
"Yes Mom?" They enquired.
"Get ready we are going shopping and fixing Sant's bedroom."
"Ok Mom!" They replied, quite enthusiastically in fact, first time ever that I see them that happy to help me redecorating. We all piled up in Bella´s Jeep. A fun fact about design stores, they always have a model available to sell, you just need to mention the right price.
First thing to look for was a bed. That was an easy enough decision, I knew Jacob was quite talented in wood carving, so we went to a specialty store and bought lots of wood for Jacob to craft the bed. We also bought tons of paint; Edward was doing the painting of the room. I also bought a comforter with dragons on them, and a black leather couch as well.
Once paid up and ready we rushed back into the house. We started preparing everything. Edward was a flash of light as he painted all the walls a deep red. While leaving a wall totally ignored.
"What are you doing on that wall son?" I enquired.
"I am doing a mural Mom. One with a Dragon on it, but I am leaving it for last"
"Great Idea Son"
"Thanks Mom"
Meanwhile Jake, not one to be left behind was cutting and polishing wood as if his life depended on it. He created drawers, bookcases and a beautifully craved four-poster bed. But my biggest attention grabber was another item that I have no idea where it came from. Some white marbles, alongside some emeralds.
"Jacob Cullen! Where did you get those and for what?" Jake was not one for fancy jewelry, and while I trusted him. Well it is Jake who we are talking about here.
"Whoa Momma! You Hurt Me. I am Craving a Statue for Sant. It will be attached to the top part of his bed. The emeralds are for the eyes. Plus since I know Eddie is painting the whole room red, and all the wood is dark oak, it will help to have something white to balance the room."
Okay, now I am dumbstruck. Apparently Jacob has paid attention when I chortle about design stuff.
"Well son, nice thinking. Good luck," I said.
I went downstairs and decided to read a book, while my 2 sons worked alone I lay down on the couch in the living room, and was set to read with the music of chainsaws, hammers and brushes as background. My peace and quiet evening redecorating my son's room couldn't be peaceful, like everything that's being done in this family, I thought as I heard a crash from upstairs.
"Damn you Muskrat" was heard from upstairs. Oops Rosie and Emmett where apparently back from their hunting, and decided to come through the window, rather than the door. I rushed upstairs trying to steel my nerves, this day is going to be perfect, even if I have to staple those two to a chair and tape their mouths shut. They will be sorry if they ruin my baby's room due to their bickering.
Surprisingly enough when I got to Jacobs room I saw that Jake was holding the statue, as Rose held a craving pick.
"Rotate it dog," Rosalie was saying.
I let out a sigh of relief, so they were working together for the fifth time in a year. My baby has achieved something great. He will be perfect for this family I know it, just as all my other sons and daughters are.
As soon as everything was done, I brought up all the stuff they made and placed it all together. I also added the couch and a fire fountain to it. Everything looked perfect. I was very excited for Sant to come home and see his new room. Now fully furnished, we only needed to stock everything he would have bought.
SPOV
"Well everything is ready, at least regarding clothes; I am leaving to take this home and start accommodating the clothes in your wardrobe. Now you will go with Dad and get the rest of your stuff."
"Wait Ali, You mean there is more stuff for me?" I asked, No way they were willing to get me even more nice things. I felt like a Spoiled Prince.
"Son it is my right to spoil you, you are my son and that's what parents do, and Yes there is Son. We need to get you a TV, and Stereo, and Video Game Console," He Said leaving me even more surprised. But the biggest surprise came next.
"And you also need to have this" He said; handing me over a Shiny Gold Credit Card with my name on it, Santiago Cullen.
"This is your allowance card Son, it has 25 thousand dollars on it to start, and will refill monthly with 10 thousand dollars. This is for you to get anything you want. So while I pick out and buy you the TV and Stereo, you can choose the console you want which will be a gift. But you will pay any games you want to get as well as any books you might want. Now off you go! Oh and by the way it is the 31st today so the card will refill itself tomorrow."
I was dumbstruck, I mean I was getting a whole new life, and everything that Dad has bought me costs a fortune. Yet he also gives me an allowance that is equivalent to more than what some adults earn in a year, and insists to go all out as it will refill itself by tomorrow with the same amount as my siblings get.
I proceeded to head over to Best Buy then Barnes and Nobles. Not having a care in the world for once I am not worrying if I should have enough money to get everything I wanted. I had found 50 new books I also bought a Nintendo DS with 15 new games. As far as the console in my room I bought 10 games for my personal PS4. Surprisingly enough I had spent less than half my available funds. I then thought on my desire to learn some knew stuff, and bought language courses of German and French, along with buying myself a nice guitar and a keyboard as well. I had noticed Edward loved music and had noticed him playing his Piano once or twice, and hoped he would teach me how to play. Feeling quite happy, which worried me a bit as I was not a costumed to feeling this happy for so long, I went down to the car, seeing a delivery truck which was loaded with my new plasma screen TV and PlayStation 4, there was also a Big MacBook Pro computer and a gigantic sound system.
The car and truck were fully packed up now. We all boarded it and I was extremely anxious to get home. Alice must have sensed it and drove as fast as she could. When we reached home it was about 10 PM. I proceeded to rush through the house, noticing that it had no lights turned on and the air felt really thick, no sound could be heard, I rushed to my room, wanting to lay down all my purchases; hoping they would fit in the bed, seeing as the room was bare as a board. I reached the door and pulled the handle.
"SURPRISE!"
I was shocked my whole family was there, welcoming me into the most amazing room I had ever seen. It looked so perfect; I loved it, with its many bookshelves in dark wood, a very expensive leather couch. The most amazing part was the beautifully crafted four poster bed, and the mural in the wall. Everything had a dragon theme to it; there was even a marble dragon fountain that not only seemed to breathe down water, but fire as well. It remained me of Fairytales, I was living my very own story, everything just seemed to perfect, and I could now live in this perfect world forever.
"Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!" I yelled. I could not really stop myself; I rushed and hugged my mother with all my heart.
"You are very welcome son, now go crack your brothers ribs; they made the bed and the mural."
I was dumbstruck, had they really done that for me?
"Yes Sant and we will do that and so much more, you are our baby brother and we love you," Edward said.
Before I could react I was crushed by both Edward and Jacob's hugs. It still feels so amazing to have older brothers, especially older brothers that seemed to have no trouble hugging me or wrestling with me. I missed hugs a lot, the closest thing I ever had to a brotherly hug was the one my only friend gave me like 2 years ago, before he went away to live in another country, where he was killed during an earthquake. That still gave me nightmares every once in a while, feeling my friend trapped and me being paralyzed not able to do anything as he collapsed, dying due to suffocation.
"Well as long as you are a good vampire boy and don't get in trouble by exposing yourself to humans or foolishly attacking other Vampires, you won't need to worry about death or being alone anymore, you are now stuck with us forever." Said Edward.
I nodded my head in understanding. I was thankful that I never get into any major trouble, and I was not planning to begin now. It actually started to sink in the message that I really had to be careful, especially around humans, and Dad would certainly make sure I did not do anything that could put me in danger, even if that meant being punished. I still blushed internally when I thought of his threat in the mall.
Edward snickered at my train of thoughts and whispered to me so quietly that I am sure no one heard it.
"Don't even think about it, the time will come I assure you, you are a teenager after all, and you my dear brother are your father's son, which means he will handle your discipline very traditionally, but afterwards when everything is finished all is forgiven so don't worry. Just try to have patience and don't panic. And take it from your big baby brother he will always love you."
I just felt the heat again, thinking how red I would have been these last days if I where human and nodded my head. Ok, so now we are going to fill a bit of your night, seeing as it is only 8:30, you will have your first keyboard lesson. Say goodnight to everyone for now and let us get in the music room. We went over but before I could take out my keyboard, Edward guided me towards what I assumed was his Piano, and started playing a mysterious tune. I could not recognize the song, it sounded eerily familiar, yet felt different; but trying to remember it was difficult, the memory felt distorted, yet I was able to pull through and remembered it, but it was clearly not the same song, it was my favorite song elevated to perfection, and it made me feel so warm and safe. Before I could speak Edward, who had seemed done with that song, kept playing another song, another one I recognized, and much as the first one, it was very comforting and after the day amazing day I had just experienced wonder how I could ever be so lucky. Just as the first song said, I had found an ideal place, and just as the second one said, I had found myself living in my perfect fantasy book.
"Well Sant, I just couldn't decide which one to play, so I played both: I actually have composed a bit of music for each member of the family, it helps me channeling out both mine and their emotions. So I composed these Lullabies for you," he told me. Smiling up at me.
"Thanks Ed... Wait I am not a Toddler!" I exclaimed, pouting a bit.
"Oh hush, you know what I meant, and I know you love it,' he reached out and gave me a hug.
Now you will go to bed, read or something. You have everything set already for tomorrow, even your papers have already been, shall we say arranged.
I raised my eyebrow at him, both at the papers and me ordering me to bed.
"Don't ask, and go to bed Son!" Shouted my Dad.
I pouted some more, but did as I was told and went to my room.
As I lay in bed and reading my book I wondered about the trip to the island tomorrow, wondering what would happen, thinking on the fun and trouble a group of male teenage vampires/shape shifters could find on an island...
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