A Gem, A Lili, and destiny

Breakfast.

I woke up the next morning to both girls on either side of me hugging me. The night before I had gotten upset about my birth mother needing to be involved so Destiny got permission to sleep over and both her and Gemmy cuddled with me for the night.

It seemed to make my mom happy when she saw the way Gemmy would treat me...though it is really weird having an older sister in your friend group where you are the youngest.

I realized that in my thought I had fallen back asleep and the other girls had already gotten up. I got up and looked at my unicorn pajamas with a smile. I continued to walk out to the kitchen where my sister, mom, and friend were eating princess themed cereal.

They didn't notice that I had woken up at first so I heard my mom say "are you sure you can keep it from her?" I rubbed my eyes, ignored it and said good morning to the three of them. My mom looked at me and said "good morning beautiful!"

I went to sit down and pour myself some cereal when Gemmy looked at our mom and asked "Mom, when can we shop for furniture for Lili?" That's when my mom sighed and said "that's a little complicated..."

I looked at her puzzled and asked "how so?" To which she gave a simplistic but long explanation about how she wanted to get my birth mother to make the adoption official before buying anything too expensive. I understood, mainly because if my birth mother didn't comply I may not get to stay with Gemmy and my new mom.

Me, Gem, and Destiny all looked a little upset when she said that though because we were all really excited to pick it all out. Mom looked at all of us and said "ok how about a compromise, we can pick everything out but I will not buy any of it until the adoption is official."

I looked up with a big smile on my face. "Who is driving us to the furniture store?" I asked. That made my mom look at me and think for a minute. "Well furniture can get kind of expensive so I will drive the three of you and then just let you know if something is too expensive." I understood that so I shook my head and got up to get dressed.

I realized that I totally forgot which parts of outfits went with what. I told mom that I had forgot and she told me that I could wear one of my casual dresses with one of my pairs of pink leggings.

I was excited to wear a dress all day so I grabbed one and ran into the bedroom to change. The one I grabbed was a pink dress with a white unicorn in the middle and tiny unicorn head sequins.

I came out and heard my mom talking to Gemmy about how good she was doing at being my sister so I walked up and said "you are an amazing sister." That made her giggle.

Mom packed us all into the car and drove us to a store with tons of furniture. She brought us over to the girls bedroom section and told us "you can look at everything but just ask me before officially writing something down."

The first two bed frames I noticed were pink. One was a giant unicorn head bed and the other was a princess castle bed with the drapes and everything.

Gemmy and Destiny said that they liked the princess one more and Mom said that it was within budget so we wrote the name of it down. We went over to the bedside table section where I picked out a pink and white bedside table.

Mom yet again wrote it down but this time she wrote it down twice because the bed would be centered on the wall. Destiny took my arm and dragged me over to the section with bedside lamps.

I looked at all of them and decided on a gold looking one that looked really pretty. Gemmy then grabbed my arm and dragged me over to the vanity section.

"I'm not something you can just drag around you know" they giggled and then went back to looking at vanities. I ended up picking one that was princess themed and had a small crown painted on the mirror to make you feel like a princess.

Mom wrote everything down and then told us to go get a seat for the vanity. We walked over and picked a chair that was comfortable but was also pink and white.

"Mom is there anything else we should look at?" She thought for a minute before saying "hmmm unless you want a bookshelf that should be all..." I thought about it and told her that I wanted a bookshelf and seat for it. So she took my hand and took me to the bookshelves. I picked a white one that had princess bookstops.

I then went back to the chair section and picked out a pink princess couch that had white stitching. My mom wrote the name of everything down and told us that if something was gone, we are going to have to pick a new one. I fell asleep in the car again but just before falling asleep I noticed Destiny looking at me with a sad look. It confused me but I was too tired to think about it.