Chapter 4
BPOV
"Good morning love." I woke up to Edward saying. "Alice wants you to hurry up because it's going to take a whole day shopping for a five year old."
"Fine, wait downstairs." I told him. He got up and ran downstairs to fast for me to see. Looking in my closet I put on some jeans and a sweater that my mom knitted for me. After brushing my teeth and hair I ran downstairs. Well actually I made it to the third step when I tripped and fell. As if on cue Edward had me in his arms and sat me at the kitchen table.
"Now eat. Unless I have to worry about you choking also?" Edward said. I glared at him and made myself some pancakes and eggs. "Come on Bell, we don't have all day!" he said to me exasperated.
I pulled on some boots and walks with Edward out the car.
"So, excited about being a big brother?" I asked with mock excitement.
"I have to stay with a five year old who is strong enough to break my arm. When I should be the one in charge she'll probably be." Edward said dully. I smiled at him.
"So you like her?"
"She's ok."
"But you like her?"
"I guess?"
"Yes or no answer!" I demanded.
"Yes, I like her." He finally admitted.
"Alice swung by when you were getting dressed to say that you would take Christie to get her some clothes and then how her room would look would be a surprise." I smiled at that. They were already accepting the little girl into their lives. Making sacrifices and everything. As soon as we were outside their 'mansion' Edward was already at my side pulling me into the house. Christie, Alice and Rosalie were waiting at the couch. I heard some noises upstairs and figured out was Emmett and Jasper moving Edwards stuff to the attic.
"Finally Bella!" Alice complained, "We've been waiting around 2 hours for you." When I looked at my watch I saw that it was 11:30.
"Ok, let's go!" Christie said excited. She ran up to me and was about to take my hand but suddenly Edward yelled.
"No!" everyone stared. "Christie, no touching Bella. You're too strong."
Pouting Christie moved and held Rosalie's hand.
"Fine, now let's go." Christie pouted and walked slowly to the car. We were taking Rosalie's Mercedes. Rosalie and I were in front with Alice and Christie in back.
"So Christie, what toys do you like?" Rosalie asked,
"Uh… Bratz! And teddy bears. Snow white too, she's pretty." Christie said. Rosalie motioned for me to write it down.
"What's your favorite color?" Alice asked,
"Red." We arrived at the mall minutes later and got out of the car walking straight to Gap kids. All of us sat down except Alice who skipped around the store grabbing every cute thing in sight. In the end she walked over to me. I couldn't see over her head because she had so much stuff.
"You help her get dressed with out having her rip the clothes. Rosalie we need to go do some other shopping. Don't worry, wait for us outside the food court." Then she handed me $500 and her and her sister walked away.
"Ok, come on Christie." I said putting my hand on her shoulder and let her to the dressing room. When we reached the door a sales person stopped us.
"Sorry only 7 items tops per dressing room." She said in a bored voice. Christie turned to her and flashed a sad frown with Bambi eyes.
"We'll be really quick, I need to get some clothes cause I'm moving in with my new foster parents. My other ones didn't want me." She hung her head. The sales person blinked a few times before allowing us in. I had her try on the outfit I liked the most. It was a grey blouse with jeans that had flower prints on the bottom. The pants fit but the top was too small. I put the pants on a hanger on the wall and the shirt on a hanger on the opposite wall. I did that with each outfit putting stuff that fit on one wall and stuff that didn't fit on the other one. We only ripped 15 items and I think that was a little considering how much clothes Alice got for her. She had 15 pairs of shoes and (take a deep breath) 742 shirts and pants. She helped carry most of the clothes to the cash register and everybody was looking at us strange.
"Why does she have the kid carry most of the clothes?" I tried not to glare at that person. Placing the clothes on the checkout register I told Christie to sit down while I waited for the cashier to count all of the clothes. The receipt was making a pile on the floor. Suddenly I saw Rosalie and Alice come over.
"What took you so long?"
"You picked out over 500 articles of clothing for the little girl!" I seethed through my teeth. Alice just ruffled my hair with her free hand and saw that she had something in her other hand. The bag was suspiciously turned inside out. I started to read the letters. "v-i-c-t-"she saw what I was doing and put the bag behind her back. I saw Rosalie holding some Home Depo stuff, probably paint and that's when I noticed that Emmett was with them lugging what looked like queen sized bed parts and a canopy. Rosalie's other bags said KB toys and Toy's 'r Us.
"Uh, miss!" the cashier called me and I walked over.
"Your bill is… $487.59." I took out the money and handed it to him. I was waiting for the change when Alice pulled me and the millions of bags away. "Excuse me miss!" he called waving the money. Before I could say anything Alice shouted,
"Keep the change!" as we passed where Christie was sitting I carefully grabbed her wrist and pulled her with us. Alice, I noticed, was carrying fifteen bags now and pulling us along with her.
"Alice, slow down on the speed, I'm going to fall. And give me and Christie some bags, you look abnormally strong." Without looking she tossed us five bags. I took two and Christie took three. As we were passing the food court Alice suddenly stopped, making Christie and I crash into her.
"Bella, are you hungry? I forgot that you eat." When Alice looked behind where were suppose to be we were on the floor with me flat on top of Christie.
"Ow, Christie, next time you fall keep you arms at your side, my back is bruised." I told her still on top of her.
"Oh, my goodness! Get off of the child!" we saw an old lady coming over. I just remembered that I had what looked like a little 'fragile' five year old.
"Oh!" I said and got off of her. "Pretend to cry." I whispered quiet enough for the vampire to hear. She heard me and started to cry.
"Not only did you fall on her and not get up right away but you make her carry more bags than you." She saw an officer a few meters away and started to call him.
"Come on!" Alice said and started to drag me away.
"Officer, officer!" the lady called and Alice went a little faster than human speed. When I turned around I saw the officer was trying to catch up to us. Suddenly we turned a corner and were outside. Since there were practically no humans in the parking lot Alice carried me to the car at vampire speed and Christie, Rosalie and Emmett carried all the bags. Inside the car I was in front with Rosalie and Alice, Emmett and Christie were in back. As we were pulling out of the lot I saw the officer shaking his fist at us. All of us were laughing at him.
"Rosie, can I drive?" Christie asked Rosalie. Emmett stifled a laugh at that name.
"Sorry, your too small." She said. I noticed how she never mentioned how she didn't have a license.
"So Alice, why the rush?" I asked her.
"Edward and Jasper were done and they wanted something to do." She told me. We arrived home and hey immediately got to work. Carlisle took Christie to his office to talk to her about the rules of being a Cullen and where she was going to school. We all went to Edward's room to paint the walls. Inside the room was about 15 gallons of paint. That was a lot for one room.
"Rosalie, why so much paint?" I asked her.
"You're going to help us paint. And you can only trip on so much." She said shaking her head. I glared at her. She returned it with a menacing grin accompanied with a snarl. Two hours later we still weren't finished because I was getting in the way and tripped over and in 14 gallons of paint. Carlisle and Christie went to get some more. I was curled up in Edwards lap while Esme and Rosalie were painting a picture of Snow White and the seven dwarfs on the wall that was finished. They drew better than Van Gogh and Monet combined! The pictures were 3D and it looked like they were in the room with us. Emmett and Jasper were putting together her bed and dresser. Sadly the directions were in German and they were trying to do it by them selves. The good thing was that if the bed fell while Christie was in it, it wouldn't hurt. I was resting against Edward and my jeans were now red at the bottom and my feet were probably permanently red. There were mirror shards on the floor from when I tripped with a paint brush in my hand and splattered paint all over Rosalie. She growled at me and looked like she was about to attack and Edward threw her into the mirror. Esme broke it up before Emmett and Edward could fight. Besides having red feet I had some red hair and a red shirt. Looking around I saw and extra paintbrush in a container and I took it. While Edward was resting too I started to paint swirls on his face.
"What are you doing?" he asked barely moving his lips.
"Decorating, now sit still." I heard him sigh and I started to cover his face in white paint. Then I drew a little red coming from the corners of his mouth and some fangs. I also thickened his eyebrows. "There!" I said, "Now you look like a real vampire." I suddenly found myself air born and fell hard on the floor. "Edward," I grumbled. He was staring at him self through a mirror and everyone was laughing at him. "Hey, don't feel bad! You're going to get a mask too." I smiled. Walking over to Emmett first I made him a sad clown. Jasper a dog and Rosalie a goat. I didn't want to do anything to Esme because she hadn't laughed but she walked over to me and took the paint brush out of my hands. At first I thought that she was mad but then she lifted my chin and started to paint my face. She did it at vampire speed so she finished in a few seconds. She smiled and kissed my forehead. Then she got a wet cloth and wiped off Edwards face. Her paint brush flew across his face shading in different spots at a time. When she was done she turned his head and showed me what she did. Then I knew what I was.
(What was Bella's face? Hint: Edward was a lion. Sorry for being so random in this chapter, didn't have good details for the shopping trip.)
