Basically, it's because I went Christmas shopping today. I know. Sad, huh? Shopping said, naturally, Alice. I wrote the outline of this while sat in Starbucks, and filled in the details when I got home. I just wanted her to be spending lots and lots of money...Oh well. Sorry, it is kind of over the top...

Date: 16th November

Character: Alice

Stimulus Phrase: Christmas Shopping

Dedication: DeanParker, who is the reason for my smile today. Oh yes. She gave me an idea for the next chapter of 'Angelic'… THANK YOU! Hopefully, I'll have it posted by this evening. Maybe...

Alice was in her element.

Any legitimate reason for shopping was absolutely perfect by her. And here was one—gift wrapped. Almost literally.

It was, by Alice's calculations, only 39 days until Christmas. Which meant that it was high time she started her annual Christmas mega-shop.

Guitar for Jasper… a red one with black and white slashes. It produced exactly the right loud, wailing sound that Alice knew Jasper liked very much. It was only $25,000, too!

Diamond necklace for Esme. $1,613,967.30.

Violet Caroline Castigliano gown for Rosalie. $27,000.

Holiday to Dubai for Carlisle—and Esme too, since she bought two tickets. $12,476 for the plane, $6,232.77 for the hotel.

A motorbike for Emmett—a Harley Davidson, no less. $11,411.43

Edward… Edward was a tricky one. In the end, she replaced his grand piano for $675,000.

Her total shopping bill was very, very expensive. But Alice figured that Carlisle wouldn't mind too much—besides which, she would earn back the money by the next day. There was a trend in the stock market she'd been following…