#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?”

My eyes widened for a moment. Edrick 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 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 school shopping for the first time, and hardly sat down long enough to even eat her breakfast.

“I 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 all of the other kids!”

words, Edrick and I both suddenly looked up at each other with incredulous looks on

girl, love,” I replied with a chuckle as I tugged her sun hat onto

know…” Ella said. “But I’m

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

school and there was no need for new clothes, she still picked out

to the office 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

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

cart as well to see that he had fully stocked up on dozens of containers of

said with a

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

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 gone now, and I didn’t know where he went. It

a smile. “But you don’t need to

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 cart and tugged it

I said with a bit of

his eyes and tugged the cart back toward

eyes, and I pulled the cart even harder and with

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