Disclaimer: Same as chapter 1.
Chapter 30: Baby Things
The baby store was less packed than the mall, there were still several shoppers in the store, but the girls hadn't needed to shove their way around the store to get things they had wanted.
Rian looked over the list, it was a long list. She hadn't expected she would need so much for such a tiny creature. The furniture alone took up a fourth of the page on the front side, the clothes took up the majority of the back. The rest was a list of toys, health/safety supplies, and other gear someone may need. It was a little bit overwhelming just looking at the list. Bookcase? Why would one need a bookcase for an infant's room?
Bella had grabbed a cart that was at the front of the store, and Alice was picking out clothes she liked; both girl and boy clothes and in all sizes. When Rian noticed what Alice was doing: grabbing an outfit in each size available, she had to push back the feeling she had at the thought of spending so much more money. Alice was grabbing outfit after outfit for both genders in all sizes. "Alice, they won't be in the sizes for very long." Bella reminded her. "We should just grab a few outfits in newborn, 6 months, 12 months, 2t, 4t… You know?"
Alice sighed at Bella's logic. "But that isn't fun."
"Why don't we start with the extra stuff before going to the clothes, the fun part?" Rian said. "We already have cribs, changing tables, and a dresser; so we can start on the list there."
Alice looked at the list, "I think we will be fine without a bassinet, a mini crib, and a pack n' play; they will grow quickly." She whispered so no one overheard them.
Bella agreed with her before going on to the next section. Bella whispered, matching Alice's previous volume and tone, "I guess we could get a bumper set, but the crib would need more protection against the babies than they need of the crib." She
The girls made their way to the bedding aisle, regardless of whether or not they decided to get bumpers, they still needed crib sheets. Rian walked down the aisles with the other two. She saw several obvious girl and boy sets that were really cute. They had decided to get a neutral set so they could work with both. Then they ran into the greys, and neutral ones. They weren't as cute in Rian's opinion. It took the girls a while to find a set that they liked. Rian finally settled on a grey and turquoise chevron set and a grey and yellow chevron set that matched each other besides the difference in the colors. The sets came with a solid color (turquoise for one and yellow for the other), a crib shirt that was the grey and white chevron style. Each set came with a crib sheet, a crib skirt, a diaper stacker to put fresh diapers in, and a small toy hammock. The crib mobiles were at the end of the aisle, they were all so cute that Alice convinced Rian to get a couple even though the baby's would outgrow them very quickly, she picked out a turquoise giraffes mobile and a yellow elephant mobile.
The girls grabbed some grey and white chevron pop up storage boxes, a dark wood hamper, and a diaper pail before going feeding station in the store. Since they wouldn't need many, Rian grabbed a three pack of the large tommee tippee bottles (one of the best recommend bottles on the store's provided list).
As the girls walked down the aisle towards the clothes, Rian noticed an aisle with picture frames, wall paintings, and stickers to place on the walls. The girl veered off course and walked down the aisle. There were a few picture frame that caught the redheads eye. The first was a white picture frame that had a picture in the middle and two on the side were you could place small square plaster imprints of the babies foot and hand. The second was another white frame this time only with one insert for a picture underneath the picture was the saying 'Love at first sight'. It was meant for a sonogram, but since she couldn't get a sonogram she'd make someone snap a picture of the baby as soon as possible after they wiped the nasty fluids. The third was a chalkboard hanging that she could fill in all the details of the babies; such as name, weight, height and more. Rian grabbed two of each frame before running back to the vampires who were waiting for her back at the main aisle.
When she reached the two, she realized why they hadn't followed her down the picture frame aisle; they had been distracted by their own mission. They had grabbed a very expensive looking baby monitor. Rian decided not to say anything about its cost and just placed the frames in the cart gently before the girls continued on their way to the clothes.
"We should get a set of girl clothes and a set of boy clothes, so that we can be prepared no matter if the babies turn out to be girls or boys." Bella said as they started searching the boy aisle.
As before, Alice started grabbing clothes in all sizes and throwing them in the cart. Rian grabbed a couple of styles, but she didn't really see many that she liked.
The girl clothes on the other hand, Rian found a lot of clothes she liked. There was this pink polka dot shirt and pink pants outfit she particularly liked, she grabbed as many sizes as she could find and threw them in the cart.
The girls quickly grabbed a few shoes for both a boy and girl in sizes 0, 3, 6, 9, 12 and so on.
Soon the cart was almost overflowing, and Rian was feeling hungry. She wondered how much time they had spent shopping as they walked to the cashier.
After talking to their go-to lawyer, Emmett felt fairly confident that Rian's father wouldn't be a big threat to them. Even if he did pose a bigger threat than the lawyer seemed to think he did, Emmett had a sort of last resort plan. He and Rian would run away. His family would have to stay for a while after they disappeared, but he was sure they would stop looking for Rian eventually. Not the best plan, but if all else failed, it was a decent plan.
Shortly after Carlisle and Emmett arrived back at the house, the girl's pulled up in his jeep. It didn't shock him how much Alice had convinced Rian to get.
Emmett made Rian sit on the couch while he and his family brought everything inside and put the things away, not that it took them long to do so anyway. When he came back downstairs, Rian was sipping on a glass of her recently 'favorite' drink. He sat beside her and wrap his arms around her waist as she finished her drink, each other talking about their day.
Note: Okay, I tried really, really hard to not jump over to much in this chapter. But I am excited to get to the next part of my story, I needed help and this chapter was hard. So I created a fake baby registry at babies r' us to get me inspired on 'buying' baby things. If you want to look at some of the things I tried to describe or if you thing I didn't do a good job you can look at it, the registry number is 58374662 (if you just look the number up when you click on find registry, it will find 'Rian Johnson'). It's just a few things, and some of the things might not match the furniture or the description I said in the chapter. If you look at it, just remember it was just a template for what I was imagining. Oh, and one last thing: Just because there are girly or boyish bottles or clothes or toys on this doesn't mean the babies are going to be a girl or boy. It was made in the mindset that they don't know what the gender of the babies are.