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?”

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 wear, knowing that we would likely be walking

be a regular girl,” Ella suddenly said as we gathered our things and waited for the elevator to open. “I’ll be just like all of the other

suddenly looked up at each other

with a chuckle as I tugged

know…” Ella said. “But

down, I chanced a look over at Edrick. I could have sworn that I saw a bit of a tear in his eye, but he quickly blinked it away and just smiled at

headed to 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 cute she would look

the list of supplies that the headmistress gave us. Edrick

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

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 canvases,

said with a

“You’ll need supplies for your classroom too, right? And,

need 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

smile. “But you don’t need to buy my supplies for me. Let me buy them with my own

I could tell that he was about to refuse, just as he always did; but this time, I wouldn’t let him. Ella had jumped off of the cart to go and look at a colorful notebook on

a bit of a laugh.

and tugged the cart back toward

cart even harder and with more determination than before. “Edrick Morgan, let

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