A/N: so this isn't the real real beginning of this story. its more of an epilogue to the last...i'm just putting it into the new story!

happy reading!

-JAM

Epilogue

BPOV

I awoke to the sound of rain pounding on the roof. I groaned and covered my ears while rolling onto my side into something hard and cold. I screeched and sat up. A man sat up quickly.

"What is it, love?" he said in a velvety voice. I knew that voice...

"Edward," I breathed. I relaxed and layed back down into his arms. "Can you please tell the rain to shutup?" He chuckled.

"You know I'd love to," he replied. I giggled. The sun shown gloomily into the room, indicating morning. Someone knocked on the door. A balding man walked through the doorframe with tired, sad eyes.

"Are you alright, Bella?" He asked from the doorway. "I heard screaming."

"She's okay, Charlie. She was just startled," Edward replied. I looked at him confused. The man named Charlie left, and I turned to Edward.

"Who's Charlie?" I asked curiously.

"Your father," he replied simply. My what? "You just don't remember him," he said while nudging my forehead. I smiled grimly. Oh yeah, brain tumor. Out of all things couldn't I just forget I had a brain tumor? I would much rather die in ignorance. I sighed and sat back up. "Do you remember what tomorrow is?" he asked. I turned and looked at him and thought hard about it.

"Happy birthday?" I guessed. He laughed loudly.

"No, silly. It's our wedding," he replied after controlling himself. Our wedding? I looked down at my ring finger and watched what light there was glint off of the diamonds. I couldn't help the smile that spread across my face.

"We're getting married!" I yelled and wrapped my arms around his neck tightly. He chuckled and wrapped his arms around me.

"That we are!" he said. He sighed frustratingly. "Alice is outside. She claims you both have pre-bridal arrangements to attend to." He rolled his eyes. I frowned.

"Who?" I asked. He frowned.

"Alice? Short little pixie?" I stared at him blankly. "Loves shopping?" That clicked.

"Ooh!" I said while smiling. He laughed sadly.

"Of course you would remember her if I mentioned shopping."

I smiled and got up, pulling him along with me. I wrapped my arms around his waste and buried my face against him. "I don't want to leave you," I said sadly. He sighed and held me tighter.

"I don't want to either. Jasper and Emmett are just going to drag me out to a Bachelor's Party," he said while grimacing. "And besides, I don't want to leave you out of my sight for a single moment." I smiled at that thought.

"Isabella Marie Swan-almost-Cullen, will you please step away from your fiance and hurry down here?" I heard Alice call from downstairs. I groaned.

"Bella Dress Up time," I said halfheartedly. I gave Edward one last kiss before I was ripped away mercilessly by the ferocious Alice Cullen. I yelped as she threw me in the car.

"It didn't have to be this way if you would just hurry up!" she growled at me. I gave her a pout, and she sighed. "Don't give me that," she said.

"Uhm, Alice, I'm still in my pajamas," I said, motioning to my sweat pants and baggy t-shirt. She snorted.

"Those are not pajamas, those are rags!" she said while eyeing my clothes with disguist. "I brought you a change of clothes in the back. I knew I would be ripping you from his clutches," she said mumbling to herself. What put her in such a sour mood? I reached behind into the backseat and grabbed the clothes. I looked out the windows out of paranoia.

"How do you expect me to get changed in the daylight?" I asked while looking at her dumbfoundedly. She sighed impatiently.

"No one is watching," she said. I gave in and quickly changed into the jeans and grey cardigan.

"So where are we going first?" I asked her curiously.

"To the tailor's to get your dress fitted," she said. "Then we are going to Port Angelas to get my shipment of the maid's dresses, then to the caterer's for taste testing, then to the flower shop to pick up the flowers, then..."

I zoned out. I couldn't comprehend anything more after that. I was already exhausted and my day had just started! We were running extremely late so we decided to get everything else out of the way before I got my dress fitted. I didn't remember what my dressed looked like, but I assumed it looked magnificent considering Alice's such great tastes in style.

After many hours of sitting, waiting, eating, and walking, we were headed to our last destination of the day to the tailer's. I had fallen asleep in the car and Alice gently nudged me. "We're here, Bella! And if you don't mind if we just made a quick stop to the mall afterwards? I just want to make sure I have absolutely everything down...and I want to buy you a new wardrobe for your new life!" she said the last part a bit fast. I sighed but realized there was no point in argueing and nodded my head tiredly. Her face brightened and she smiled a huge smile. I couldn't help but smile back. We walked into the building, and Alice walked quickly to the counter where she spoke quickly to the secretary. The secretary nodded and led us to the back rooms where there were many white and ivory dresses hanging in racks and in the far wall was a pedestal with bright lights and large mirrors. I followed them to the back where a dress bag was put into my hands and I was shoved into a dressing room.

I put the dress on carefully, trying not to snag anything, and quietly made my way out to the pedestal. I looked into the mirror and gasped at the dress. The top had a corset with sleeves that hung loosely off the shoulders and had ribbon woven down the middle. At the waste the dressed branched out with intricately designed lace. It was floor length had a small train. I felt like a princess. I saw Alice in the reflection smiling proudly at me. I blushed at all the stares.

"The only thing that seems to need to be done is the length. It needs to be let out just a little more," said the tailer. She had dark, graying hair pulled tightly in a bun with glasses at the bottom of her nose. She measured some things and jotted them down onto her clipboard and returned to wherever she came from. I got out of the dress and put my clothes quickly, ready to get out of here and back into Edward's arms. I felt so alone and incomplete without him. Alice seemed to pick up on my mood.

"Oh come on, is it really that bad spending time with me?" she asked sadly. I suddenly felt bad for being such a downer.

"Know, Alice, that's not it at all. I really do love spending time with you, it's just so hard to keep up! I'm only human," I said playfully. She smiled and hugged me.

"Now, off to the mall!" I held my groan and joined in.

"Huzzah!" I said awkwardly. She laughed a chime like giggle and linked her arm with mine. We made it to the mall. "Uhh, Alice? I kinda need to use the bathroom..." I said carefully. She pulled me over to the bathroom quickly and froze.

"DANG IT NOOO! I'm sorry, Bella, but someone is going to grab the last Armani shirt I had in mind for you! I'm sorry but I have to go get it!" she said while looking at me worriedly. I laughed.

"Go get it Alice, it's just the bathroom," I said while rolling my eyes. She seemed to debate against it then took off running across the mall. People gave her weird looks. I laughed and walked into the bathroom.

After my business was done, I walked out of the stall and went to go wash my hands. I was completely alone in the bathroom and it left me with an eerie feeling. I shrugged it off and glanced in the mirror and froze. A very handsom man with brown slick black hair was standing casually against the wall.

"Uhm...isn't this the girl's bathroom?" I asked feeling suddenly extremely embarassed. If I had gotten the wrong room...

The man laughed darkly and a weird feeling stirred in the pit of my stomach. "No, no, you have the right room," he said with a dark tone in his voice. I was suddenly very, very scared. Something about him was so familiar. He looked at me with his cold red eyes and a memory stirred.

"J...James?" I asked warily. This seemed to make him laugh more.

"Bella, Bella, Bella...what am I going to do with you?" he asked rhetorically. He lunged for me, and everything went black.