Chapter 166: Regular Girl

Moana

The next morning, I woke up to the sound of Edrick walking around the room. When I looked at the clock, I realized that it was a little later than I usually would have gotten up, and I quickly sat up and rubbed my eyes.

“Sorry,” I said, throwing the covers off and getting out of bed. “I overslept. Guess I missed my alarm.”

Edrick shook his head. “I turned it off for you,” he said as he fixed his hair in the en suite bathroom mirror. “I let you sleep in.”

I scrunched my eyebrows together. “Why?” Normally I woke up a full half hour earlier than this so that I could help prepare breakfast and get Ella ready, and sometimes I woke up even earlier than that.

“We’re going out,” he replied. “School supply shopping. Remember?”

had mentioned that we would have to do some school supply shopping, but I didn’t think that he would want to do it so soon. Either way, I smiled and ran to my room to get ready for the day. I put on something comfortable to

can’t wait to be a regular girl,” Ella suddenly said as we gathered our things and waited for the elevator to open. “I’ll be just like

up at each other with incredulous looks

with a chuckle as I tugged

Ella said. “But

a look over at Edrick. I could have sworn that I

the mall, where our first stop was at a children’s store for Ella. Even though she would be wearing a uniform at school and there was no need for new clothes, she still picked out a backpack, accessories, and a little pair of Mary Jane shoes to wear with her uniform. I was excited to see how

supply store. I helped Ella pick out notebooks and folders off of the list of supplies that the headmistress gave us. Edrick disappeared for a bit, then returned with a

jumping up on the side of the cart to peer in. “That’s a

a sale,” he said, jabbing his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the art supply aisle. I peered into the cart as well to see that he had fully stocked up on dozens of containers of crayons, coloring books, miniature

much, Edrick,” I said

“You’ll need supplies for your classroom too, right? And, I wanted to get something for the

to buy anything for the kids at the orphanage, but he decided to do it without even being asked. I couldn’t help but smile; he had changed so much since I had met him. The Edrick Morgan who I knew when I was almost hit by his car on the city street was

don’t need

to refuse, just as he always did; but this time, I wouldn’t let him. Ella had jumped off of the cart to go

a bit of a laugh.

narrowed his eyes and tugged the cart back

even harder and with more determination than

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