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?”

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 around a lot, and then got Ella ready as well at Edrick’s request. Ella was, of course, excited to go

Ella suddenly said as we gathered our things and waited for the elevator to open. “I’ll be just like

suddenly looked up at each other with incredulous looks on

still a regular girl, love,” I replied with a chuckle as I

said. “But I’m

carried us down, I chanced a look over at Edrick. I could have sworn that I saw a bit of

need for new clothes, she still picked out a backpack, accessories, and

the list of supplies that the headmistress gave us. Edrick disappeared for a bit, then returned with a cart

of the cart to peer in.

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

might be too much, Edrick,” I said with a laugh. “She’s just

her.” He grinned. “You’ll need supplies for your classroom too, right? And, I wanted to get something for the kids at

changed so much since I had met him. The Edrick Morgan who I knew when I was

you,” I said with a smile. “But you don’t need

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 the shelf, and now I grabbed the end of the

with a bit of

tugged the cart back toward

cart even

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