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?”

and ran to my room to get ready for the day. I put on something comfortable to wear, knowing that we would likely be

things and waited for the elevator to open. “I’ll be just like

up at each other with incredulous looks

with a

know…” Ella said.

with her and Edrick. As the elevator carried us down, I chanced a look over at Edrick. I

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 in her uniform, and

list of supplies

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

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, acrylic and watercolor paint sets,

said

for your classroom too, right? And, I wanted to get something for

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

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

time, I wouldn’t let him. Ella had jumped off of the

said with a bit of

narrowed his eyes and tugged the

and I pulled the cart even harder and with more determination than before. “Edrick Morgan,

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