AN: Okay, I kind of lied, there is some Quil, I couldn't keep him out! And I brought Alice in! I always saw Nessie being best friends with Alice and Rosalie, but Rosalie doesn't like humans as much as Alice does. Next chapter should have Claire's Mom back in town. Thanks for all the reviews! Enjoy!

Chapter Seventeen

Family Shopping Trip

I've never spent so much time with other people before. I've been so used to just spending time with my mom that it's almost awkward when I'm with other people all day. With Quil it's not so bad, other than the fact that I have ridiculous crush on him, I can actually hang around him without that awkwardness. However, when Nessie shows up in my room at eight in the morning with a pixie like girl behind in her in my doorway, it pushes awkward to a new level.

"Come on, get up!" Nessie bounced from my bed side. It's a good thing I was half awake when she came in or I probably would be on the floor right now.

"Nessie are you trying to kill me?" I asked tiringly.

"Of course not." She said offended.

I rolled my eyes and sat up. The girl in the doorway with perfect alabaster skin, kind gold eyes and all around painfully beautiful looking, smiled at me. "Um, Nessie?" I asked nodding toward the girl.

Nessie snapped her head to the girl. "Oh, that's my cousin Alice." She answered casually.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you." Alice said with a big wave. Well, they're definitely related.

"Likewise." I mumbled with a small wave of my own. I looked back to Nessie as she started rummaging through the little clothes I had with me. "Where are we going?" I asked curiously as I swung my legs off the side of the bed.

"Shopping," She answered happily. Oh, this day may turn out better than I hoped. "Alice, go see if Willa wants to come with." She said deviously. That tiny little girl is one hell of a manipulator, I need to learn some of her skills. Alice seemed joyous at the idea and skipped to Willa's room. Nessie popped up from the small dresser with my tan and white dress. "You can wear this one, I like this one." She said holding it up for me.

I took the dress from her with a raised brow. "Am I like your personal doll now?" I asked somewhat insulted. I haven't been dressed by anyone in years.

"Yes," She answered simply.

I sighed and set the dress to the side. "You know, I don't have any money to go shopping." I said trying not to sound rude. I really did want to go shopping.

"It doesn't matter, your not paying." She said as she closed up my dresser.

I stood quickly and looked at her in shock. "Nessie, I can't let you do that!" I exclaimed seriously. I don't want charity when I don't need it. I can live with the clothes I have until I get a job or some kind of income.

She held up her hand in protest. "Your dad has helped my family out a lot in the past, it's the least we can do. Besides, I still owe Willa a better birthday present." She said smugly.

"That you're forcing her to redeem with me." I added shaking my head.

"It's a double birthday present." She amended slyly.

I huffed in defeat. I would never win against Nessie, there was no fighting it. "Where are we going?" I sighed.

"The Northgate Mall back in Seattle." She answered happily.

I frowned. "That's a long drive." I mumbled. That's not entirely why I'm not too excited about going, I don't want to run into my mom.

"Why do you think I woke you up so early?" She asked patting my head.

"Alright, I'll get dressed." I groaned, picking up the dress and turning back to my dresser for new underwear. Nessie smiled triumphantly but didn't move. "Can I have some privacy?" I asked

"Oh, sorry!" She turned and scrambled out of the room. I watched with a laugh as I shook my head.

When I was dressed the up stairs were abandoned and I could hear attitude from the kitchen, sounds like Willa's up. I walked down to the kitchen slowly and wearily. The last thing I needed was early morning Willa to go crazy and kill me. I really wouldn't put it past her. Willa was sitting next to Alice while she angrily ate a bowl of cereal, not fully dressed.

"This was your idea." She snapped me.

"Actually I was going to walk around the area today, but shopping is much more fun." I said with a shrug.

Willa growled lowly as she stared at me and Nessie smacked her shoulder. Willa rolled her eyes and looked to Nessie. "Fine, I'll go, but I want an outfit, shoes and purse." She said firmly.

"Well there's Christmas taken care of." Nessie agreed happily.

Willa muttered something under her breath and jumped to her feet. "And I'm wearing what I want!" She yelled sternly before she trudged up the stairs to her room.

"I don't think so!" Alice cheered, following Willa gracefully as my little sister fled to her room. She didn't stand a chance.

"Don't worry, once we get her some coffee she'll be a little less angry." Nessie said soothingly.

"Define 'little less'?" I asked curiously.

Nessie started chewing on her lip. "Well, she won't talk at all." She answered quietly.

"Yeah," I mumbled. I don't think that was going to help us much.

"Oh, we'll be taking turns listening to music on the drive, so just don't say anything about her music and you'll be fine." She added sounding a little more serious than normal.

"I can do that." I said assuredly.

"Alright," I turned toward Willa's voice to find a normal looking girl with a black A-line skirt, a red V-neck tee shirt tucked in and beige heels. The whole outfit gave her curves none of the other things she wore ever gave her. "Let's go." She ordered.

I heard the door to the basement shut and I knew Dad had just walked into the room. "Where are you two going dressed like that?" He demanded as he walked up to us in one of his tattered old shirts and pajama pants. I looked down at my dress. The shirt of the dress was white with as much cleavage showing as the rest of the girls, with a beige skirt that came to a little above my knee. We are showing a little bit of skin and a lot of boobage.

Nessie threw her arm around my shoulders. "Shopping, don't worry Jeff, I'll make sure the cleavage stays tucked away." She answered confidently.

"It better." He said seriously and somewhat worried. I saw Willa roll her eyes out of the corner of my eyes. "Willa, you have your cell?" He asked still slightly worried.

"Yeah," She answered tiringly, holding out her tiny cell phone.

"Have fun, and if you're good for Alice and Nessie I'll wave your curfew." He said smirking. Willa started to contemplate his offer. He turned to me and patted my head. "Don't worry, you'll have a great time." He said knowingly.

"Bye Dad," I smiled. It was really nice having a parent that didn't freak out every time I left the house.

"Bye Claire," He said softly then turned his attention to his youngest daughter. "Goodbye Willa," He said smugly.

"Bye Old Man," Willa said bluntly with a slight wave then turned and left the house. Alice and Nessie bid their goodbyes quickly and we rushed after Willa.

"That was just low." Nessie said shaking her head.

"Are we going?" Willa demanded impatiently as she motioned to the new black car in the driveway.

Turns out Alice has a brand new Mercedes with uber tinted windows and enough horsepower to reach three-G's. I sat in the back of the car with Willa while Alice and Nessie were cheerful up front. Willa's first song of choice started out with heavy drums and guitar solo before the screaming started. She had a content smile on her face when it started. I didn't say thing, even though I knew it was old metal band called Bullet… something. Joe is very into metal and well he's forced me and Natalie to listen to him and songs at the same time.

Nessie and Alice listened to soft music, nothing crazy and overly up beat I like thought they would listen too. When they asked me if there was anything I'd like to listen to I asked if they had any Chevelle or Tool. Oddly enough I don't really like that much music, I'm a freak I know. Its just I prefer the sounds of nature. Or Tool. But they did have a few Chevelle songs and that actually started a conversation with Willa.

After two hours of debating which band was better, Tool or Metallica, we made it to the mall. We must have been going much faster than Jacob did but I was always too afraid to look at the speedometer. Alice was a good driver though and Nessie and Willa were calm in the car with her driving so I didn't mind. It was definitely interesting to be somewhere with all girls when for the past few days I've been spending a lot of time with the guys of the Rez.

We got to the parking lot of the mall and it was packed even though it was ten in the morning on a weekday. "Alice for the love of God just do valet, you're not going to find parking within my specific parameters!" Willa yelled after we spent twenty minutes looking for a parking spot.

"I don't want anyone touching my baby." Alice said pouting as she ran her fingers along the steering wheel.

"You honestly think passerby's aren't going to put their grimy fingers on this car when they see it?" Willa asked stupidly.

I could see Alice thinking before she started speeding toward valet. "Valet it is!" She called out a few seconds later as we halted to a stop in front of the valet drivers.

We all got out of the car and there were more than a few looks. Two drop dead gorgeous girls and Willa and I weren't too horrible looking. The valet driver almost tripped over his own feet when he tried to walk up to Alice.

"Do not leave your finger prints anywhere." Alice said sternly as she handed him the keys.

"Yes Ma'am." He croaked, taking the keys from her gently.

Alice linked her arm threw my arm and did the same to Willa while Nessie took Willa's other side and we all walked into the mall. "Where to first?" I asked looking down the line of my friends.

"Pac Sun, then Journey's and then you all can drag me where ever." Willa said uncompromisingly.

"Deal!" Alice cheered.

Willa is one of the quickest shoppers I've ever met and she had to learn it from Alice because she is the same way. They all seemed to know my sizes automatically and before I knew it I was being pushed into dressing rooms with an armful of clothes. I got two pairs of jeans and a big red hoodie for the cold days in Pac Sun then we went to Journey's where Willa was most content and got a pair of sneakers and cute purse they had on display. I wasn't even keeping track of what Alice, Nessie and Willa were getting but while I had everything in one bag, they all had three bags each by our third store, which was a shoe store that was 'calling' to Nessie.

So within the first hour of our shopping expo Alice had to go back to the car with her tiny arms stuffed with bags twice. One whole time was when we came out of Papaya, I'll admit, I went a little crazy in there too. Nessie and Alice were taking turns swiping their debit cards, I don't know how much money they have, but they have to have a lot with all the clothes we were getting.

Willa was having fun with flirting with guys that came into the stores with their girlfriends. She almost started two fights but Nessie and I stopped them. I never thought I'd have to hold back a ninety-pound girl from trying to beat my little sister into a bloody pulp. Then again, I never imagined I had a little sister in the first place.

When we stopped for lunch I had seven pairs of pants, three more dresses, over a dozen shirts and four more pairs of shoes. Not to mention the three purses I fell in love with, because really, who doesn't love a purse than barely fits the parameters for a carry on. Nessie and I got Sbarro's while Willa and Alice got Chinese food. When we all met up at a table, Alice didn't have anything but a bottle of water she occasionally took sips out of.

After lunch we went back to shopping. Nessie bought some things for Jacob and Alice bought a few things for her fiancée Jasper. Alice didn't talk a lot about Jasper, just things here and there with a dreamy smile. They also talked about Emmett, Rosalie, Carlisle, Esme, Edward and Bella but I never got a straight answer to their relationship to the people mentioned. Willa seems to know them, I might ask her later, if I have the guts. When Nessie and Alice were satisfied with what they got for their significant others we went back to shopping for our selves in Nordstrom.

We spent ridiculous amounts of money in the large retailer. Willa wasn't too thrilled with most of the selection there but did find a skimpy dress she was happy with. It was zeroing in on dinner and the amounts of clothes we had now all combined probably weighed more than I did. We walked back to the front entrance and the valet drivers stopped everything they were doing when Alice smiled at them holding her ticket out.

The black Mercedes showed up not long later and the guys were kind enough to help us cram more of our bags into the already full trunk. Alice gave them a hefty tip for not leaving finger prints on her car, and sped off toward the highway. Nessie's soft music started to play and I'm ashamed to say I fell asleep. Shopping is tiring! And my company is trained at shopping till they drop, only without the drop part.

I must have slept through the whole drive back because when I was smacked my lovely little sister we were in our drive way and parked where Dad usually parks was Quil's black pick-up truck.

"Get your shit!" Willa yelled.

"I'm coming." I grumbled, rolling out of the seat and toward the trunk.

"Quil! Come help us!" Willa screamed at the house.

It wasn't much longer before Quil was on the front porch, bowing to Willa. "I'm here to serve." He said dramatically.

Willa rolled her eyes and shoved bags at him. "Take these to my room." She ordered as she dove back into the trunk and pulled out many more bags, I think the rest of her bags, and stomped into the house.

Quil watched with a laugh then looked back to me as Alice and Nessie helped me pull out all of my bags. I think I had the most out of all of them. "I take it you had fun?" He asked looking down at all of the bags on the driveway.

"We went shopping, that's always fun." I said brightly.

He shook his head and looked over to Nessie. "Ness, Jacob needs you at the ridge." He said casually, but something in his eyes made me think it wasn't so casually.

"Okay," Nessie smiled and then wrapped her arms around me. "I'll be back this weekend, Claire." She said happily as she pulled away.

"Alright, bye Nessie, bye Alice, I had a lot of fun today." I said waving smally to Alice and Nessie as they climbed back into the Mercedes.

"I'll see you again soon!" Alice called out as Quil helped me move all of the bags out of the way. Alice sped out of the drive way and down the road as Nessie waved from inside the car.

I sighed sadly. "Come on!" I heard screamed from the house. I huffed and scooped up as many bags I as could while Quil picked up the bags Willa gave him with one hand and the rest of my bags with his other. Next time, I'm taking him shopping, he's better than the trunk.

Quil and I hauled the bags into the house and up stairs. I turned into my room while he dropped my half into my room then walked down to Willa's room and gave her, her bags. He walked back to my room and leaned against the doorway and looked out at the mess of bags on my floor. "Is there anything left, or is the mall parking lot in here too?" He asked amused.

"That's in Alice's bags." I said dryly as I plopped down onto my bed. Quil snorted a laugh and stepped around my bags to sit next to me. "What are you doing here anyway?" I asked confused.

"Kitchen sink busted, Jeff called and asked if I could fix it while he was at work." He answered motioning toward the kitchen.

"I see…" I trailed off suspiciously. He rolled his eyes at me. I laughed but stopped as soon as I saw the mess on my floor. "So, wanna help me put all this away?" I asked hopefully.

"Sure," He sighed pulling the closest bag to him and standing so he could dump it on the bed. I scooped up one bag to do the same when I saw him reaching for my underwear bag.

"Wait!" I yelled running around him, snatching the bag away from the floor and tossing into my closet. "Okay, now you can help." I said smiling.

"Do I want to know what was in that bag?" He asked suspiciously.

"Well I sure don't want you to know." I said slightly offended as I grabbed another bag and dumped it onto my bed.

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