Chapter 9 - Nordstrom Blues
It had taken the seven of them twenty minutes of wandering the mall before Rosalie had finally made the decision to buy something, giving Alice the vision of where she was. On the walk to the shoe store Rose was in. Emmett's constant murmuring under his breath had finally annoyed Edward to the point of saying " Emmett just remember she has way more experience being vindictive then you, I'd be careful." Emmett just rolled his eyes and continued to mumble.
They positioned themselves in front of the shoe store. Alice gave them the countdown, "She'll be here in thirty seconds. Prepare yourselves." At that, Bella had motioned Jacob and Nessie back, she wasn't going to be a part of this. Jasper took a few steps back as well, mostly to control the atmosphere if things got out of hand, but also to keep wiping away at the tattoo with an alcohol wipe since the damn thing didn't want to come off. Edward, Alice, and Emmett all crossed their arms, attempting to look intimidating.
The intimidation however didn't seem to work on Rosalie who greeted them with a big smile on her face. Handing her bags to Emmett she said, "Glad you could all join me. Lets go shopping!"
Emmett, who had taken the bags, dropped them dumbfounded. Rosalie walked over to her husband picked the bags back up, thrust them back into his hands. "Hello hunny," she said as she kissed him, "Will you carry these for me?" It took Emmett a few more moments to recover, before he gave her a large hug, kissed her on the forehead, nodded and smiled. Rosalie seeming pleased that she didn't get a worse reaction out of her husband let him hold her. Edward however, who was out of her line of sight shook his head at Emmett, chuckled slightly and pulled out a cell phone. He turned away from the group and started to dial.
"Rosalie, you have any idea what you did?" Alice had asked, her hands now on her hips.
Rosalie looked to her sister and stated in a very matter-of-fact tone, "Um, yes I did. What did I do Alice? I brought us to the biggest shopping area in the continental United States. You of all people were the one I thought would understand."
Alice's rebuttal was lost, her face seemed to contort and twist into a version of Thalia and Melphomene. She seemed to be lost between being angry at Rose and getting lost in the possibilities that 500+ stores could offer.
Rosalie gave a small smile of triumph to her sister, but that smile faltered when she caught sight of Edward, who was holding out a cell phone. Rosalie took the phone and didn't even have to think why before Edward said "Its Carlisle, you get to explain why his family is two states away."
Ten minutes later Rosalie got off the phone looking disgruntled. It was decided that Carlisle and Esme would meet them in Bloomington and get a hotel, where they would be having a "family meeting." Rosalie gave the phone back to Edward and said "they'll be here in three hours."
The family decided to go exploring the first floor. Alice made everyone stop at Nordstrom and told them to wait while she picked out some clothes. Rosalie however decided to go and look on her own and disappeared among the racks.
Bella, who obviously hated this part of shopping, gave her husband one pleading look. Understanding Edward motioned to Jacob, who was making fun of a mannequin for Renesmee's entertainment, and they all made to leave the store. Jasper shot them a murderous glare, the tattoo still hadn't completely come off.
"She's your wife Jasper. Don't look at us like that." Edward had said, "We're going to go buy the tickets for what we discussed in the car."
Jasper relaxed, "Don't forget to get her the full experience."
Each one of them except Nessie, who had spotted another store she wanted to go to nodded. Jasper moved to look to Emmett, who was watching the area Rosalie was in with great interest.
"Why are you still here?" he inquired to Emmett, who without taking his eyes off Rose grumbled "You'll see."
It took a good half hour before Rosalie and Alice had found the clothes that they wanted to buy. Alice went to the counter to pay, and Rosalie made to follow her before she stopped at this gorgeous blue-green cocktail dress that seemed to sparkle in the light. Her eyes got wide, as she checked the size, it was a perfect fit. She tried to grab Alice's attention, but she and Jasper, both bogged down with bags were walking to the exit. She grabbed the dress and brought it to the counter, laid it down and smiled nicely to the clerk. The clerk rang the dress up, told Rosalie the dress came to $2,999.99 and made a quick joke about how lucky she was that Minnesota didn't have sales tax on clothes. Rosalie laughed a non-threatening laugh and went to the pocket where she usually kept her credit card, which happened to be missing. She gave an apologetic look to the clerk, "Oops wrong pocket!" and proceeded to check her other pockets. Each pocket, was empty.
The clerk spared her one look of disdain before motioning to a co-worker to bring the dress back to the rack.
"Wait!" Rosalie cried, "I have a card, just give me one mo…" her speech was lost, as the credit card had materialized above her head. Holding the card was Emmett.
"Going to steal my car again babe?" Emmett said, waving the card in front of her. Her eyes lingered on the card for a moment before she turned to give a nasty look to husband. "Repeat after me," Emmett leaned in towards Rosalie who's expression turned even more sour, "I"
Rose shot him venom through her eyes, and through gritted teeth said, "I"
Smiling in triumph Emmett continued, "will not steal my husbands car," making to give her back the card when she completed the sentence.
"will not steal my husbands car." Rosalie parroted, before adding under her breath "for now."
They paid for the dress, and met up with the rest of the family that was conjugating in the square outside of the store. Nessie ran into her aunt's arms and said, "Auntie Rose! We're going to the Underwater Adventure Aquarium! To see the fish!!"
