Shopping and Family Honour
We all piled into the elevator and pushed the garage button. Because we were in the pent house we had our own private garage.
As the doors opened I knew the boys would be drooling if the could. There were 8 parking spaces with two of those spaces already filled. One was a white convertible hard top Porsche Carrera 4, which was Irina's car. The other was a silver 4x4 M-Class Mercedes which was Laurent's.
"Girls call the Porsche!!" Clara yelled at the top of her lungs, which is pretty darn loud.
All the girls walked over to the Porsche. Irina was driving, Clara passenger, and me, Brittany and Victoria squished in the back.
The boys where seated much more comfortably in the 7 seater Mercedes.
"Where are we going?" Laurent asked before he stepped into his car.
"Just follow Irina, I'll be giving her directions," Clara said. "We'll met you after we've parked."
With that Laurent got in the car and Irina stepped on the gas.
It was cloudy outside but it wasn't raining, so Irina put the top down. Lets just say anyone of the male population who saw us was drooling.
We drove for about five minutes to park out the front of one of the biggest stores in New York.
Clara was practically bouncing up and down in her seat by the time Irina turned the engine off. Clara was out of the car as soon as possible without looking suspicious.
The boys bulled into the car spot behind.
As soon as they were out of the car Clara was dragging us into the store. Her eyes lit up like a kid on Christmas morning when she saw all the expensive looking stores. Before I could even register half the names around me Clara was dragging me and Brittany into the first store which was True Religion and handing us stuff to try on.
By one o'clock I had a total of 21 clothing bags, with names like Gianni Vresace, Dolce & Gabbana, American Eagle and many more. I had 25 pairs of shoes with brands like Jimmy Choo, channel and more. Lastly I had 13 bags for accessaries with names like Gucci, Prada, and Channel with other names I didn't know how to pronounce.
Now Victoria, Brittany and I were looking at books because Clara had decided we needed to split up to do different things for exactly 45 minutes, after which we would meet up with her again to go home.
While I was looking at some books, Victoria announced that she had to go get something.
Would you like me to go with you? – Bella
No. You stay here, you're obviously interested in your book. – Victoria
Ok. – Bella
I picked a Jane Austin book and went to sit next to Brittany who was reading Romeo and Juliet.
I was so ingrossed in my book that I didn't notice the time until my iPhone started ringing in my pocket. Victoria's name and photo came on screen as I pressed the 'answer' button.
"Hello."
"Hey, get Brittany and come out the front, it's time to go," Victoria said.
"Will do," I said hanging up the phone.
I looked over at Brittany who had just finished her book.
"Time to go," I said picking up my bags from the floor. She nodded and did the same.
We walked out the front to see everyone already there.
"Where going to have to put our bags in the Mercedes, they wont fit in the Porsche," I said to Laurent.
He nodded and went round to the boot to open it. There were already all the other shopping bags stuffed in there. Some how Brittany and I managed to fit our bags in there as well.
After the boot was shut we went over to the Porsche and jumped in the back.
Irina put her foot down and U turned out of the parking lot. "See you at home!" I yelled over my shoulder as we speed away.
We arrived back home about 20 seconds before the boys. We had so many bags we had to go up the elevator in groups.
Clara and Damien went first with their bags, Brittany and Max went second, Laurent and Irina third and Victoria and I last.
Did you get what you needed? I asked as we were in the lift.
Sure did. She said just as the lift doors opened.
See you once your done. – Bella
I picked up my bags and walked down the hall to my room.
I walked over to the left hand door, which was my cupboard. When I opened the door I was shocked to see just how big it actually was. The room was white and silver and was 6 meters by 5 meters with hanging going along both 6-meter walls. One was 5 meter wall there was glass shelving for shoes and hand bags, on the other 5 meter wall there was draws for things like pj's and under garments. I quickly brought all my stuff in and started putting them away. It took me about 3 minutes to do at vampire speed which is a pretty long time.
Once I'd finished my closet was about 3 quarters full. I was just admiring my work when Victoria walked in.
"Can you come into the living room with us?" she asked.
"Sure," I said following here to the living room.
Everyone was in the living room, either sitting or standing. I went in and sat down on the lounge.
"So what do you guys need?" I asked looking at everyone who had sat down.
"We wanted to give you something to symbolise us as a family," Brittany said from my right.
"And what's that?" I asked looking at them all.
"This," Victoria said, pulling a black 10cmx10cm black velvety box and handed it to me.
I looked around at everyone and opened the lid and gasped at what I saw.
Inside there was a silver charm bracelet with nine charms already on it. The biggest charm was an oval shape a crest in graved on it. The crest was a shield with a triangle shape on the bottom with three horns in the middle of the triangle strip. There was a stag in both top corners of the shield, and also one under the triangle strip. There was a knight's helmet on top of the shield and a banner on the bottom with the word 'Hunter' engraved. (a/n: pic of crest on profile)
"The crest is normally red and gold, symbolising generosity, warrior and military strength," Max said.
"The shape on the shield represents protection and faithful service," Irina said smiling.
"The hunting horns represents high nobility," Clara added.
"The stag represents skilfulness, politic and lover of harmony," Damien said.
"And the knight on top means the family is wise," Laurent finished.
"We thought this shield represented the family well," Brittany said with a smile. "We even put a picture of the family in the locket."
I looked back down at the crest and popped the catch. Sure enough there was the picture of the family that had been taken two days ago.
"We all picked an animal that we thought represented us to put on there. It's sort of a subtle reminder of who the Hunter family is," Victoria said taking my hand.
"I'm the Panda," Clara said, "meaning playful and kind."
"I'm the Coyote," Damien added, "for prankster, insight and playful."
"I'm the Rabbit, for alert and resourceful," Max said.
"I'm the Fox, meaning cunning and intelligence," Irina put in.
"I'm the Shark," Laurent said, "for survival and hunting."
"I'm the Dove, for love, peace and gentleness," Brittany said shyly.
"And I'm the Scorpion, for defence and self-protection," Victoria finished off.
"What's the other charm on there?" I asked just realising it was there.
"It's the Cullen crest," Victoria answered, "they may not be here, but there still a part of your life."
"Thankyou guys so much, you have no idea how much this means to me," I said taking it out of the box and putting it on my wrist.
"We all got a family crest as well," Damien said, "but we just got the crest."
"Let me see," I said looking around at all of them.
Brittany put on a really long chain with a large pendent hanging from it. It suited her. Clara put on a black rope necklace with a pendent a bit smaller than Brittany's on it. Both the boys had black wristbands with the crest in the middle. Irina had hers in an anklet, while Laurent had a ring. Victoria's was like the boys only in leather and it tied up at the back.
"This is amazing, thankyou guys so, so much," I said hugging each of them in turn.
"You're welcome," Irina said.
"You guys can go and do what ever you want now. Just make sure your ready to leave by 7, because kids have school and adults have to work," I said and everyone parted ways.
This school wasn't going to know what hit them.