Freesia

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"You're kidding me. You're freaking kidding me!" I exclaimed, barely noticing the wary stares of others in the coffee shop I was in, totally and utterly absorbed in the news that my best friend, Alice, had given me.

"Nope." She shook her head proudly, her lips curving upwards to form a triumphant grin.

"Show me the ring!" I said eagerly, resisting the urge to grab her hand and force her to show me it. She let loose a very un-Alice like giggle and let her hand rest upon the table to showcase an undeniably beautiful engagement ring. The band was silver, and the diamond a modest size, but still elegant. We both gazed at it with blatant wonder, Alice's smile unconquerable, while mine was formed out of amazement, and I couldn't stop the stream of questions which followed once my appraisal of the ring was satisfied.

"How did he ask you? Where did he ask you? When are you getting married? Have you told your parents? What did they say?"

"Slow down." She grinned. "Jasper and I still need to figure that out."

Alice had met me at the same time that I'd met Jasper, during high school, however they didn't start dating until the summer before senior year. In fact, when Alice and Jasper had first met, they'd taken a mutual dislike to each-other instantly. It had taken a life-threatening accident for that to change. Alice had been in a severe car crash, and lost her parents in the process, on a highway in Seattle. Jasper was helping his father at the hospital – a punishment for generating some vandalism at the nearby train-station – and was asked to keep Alice company until she woke up. I didn't know the full story; Alice refused to tell me everything, so all I knew was that they were together when she got out of hospital, and were inseparable from that point further.

It was obvious that they were very much in love and that was why I didn't object to their settling down so quickly. Twenty-one wasn't so young anyway, it wasn't like they were eighteen. Now, that would have been a cause for gossip. Then again, I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd gotten engaged back then anyway; Alice wasn't a person to care about malicious gossipers.

"Earth to Bella." Alice waved her hand wildly in front of my face, effectively breaking me out of my reverie, her voice teasing.

"Right, sorry," I apologised. I was one of those people who got lost in their daydreams constantly, and whose mind was always caught up in a whirlwind of nostalgia and ideas. That was one of the reasons why I'd decided to go to college and get a degree of literature, and become the publishing editor that I'd always dreamed of.

"You better not do that at the wedding. I want my maid of honour to be paying full attention to everything and doing her job."

I gasped. "Did you just say what I think you just said?"

The surprises kept coming. I'd always thought that she'd pick Rosalie, one of our other close friends, to be her maid of honour, once she decided to get married.

One thing I knew for sure was that Rosalie was going to be pissed.

Good luck Alice.

"Of course I did. I can think of no one else who could be the perfect maid of honour."

"Thank you." I smiled and hugged her from across the table. She laughed, hugging me back, and replied that it was no problem.

"Hey, doesn't this mean that I have to dance with the best man or something? Has Jasper picked one yet?"

"Yeah, all the groomsman and bridesmaids are paired up. Jasper decided his, when I decided mine. We're both pleased with our choices."

"Who am I paired with?"

I'd basically be attached to this man for the whole day of the wedding so I hoped he was decent. I thought back to my mother Renee's second wedding, back when I was a teenager, and she'd paired me up with some sickly-looking fourteen year old, ridden with acne. I'd been forced to dance with him, pose for photos with him and had to endure his constant, nervous yabbering the whole night; I'd rather not revisit that in my adult form.

"You're paired with Edward Cullen."

I felt all the blood drain from my face.

Oh shit.

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