A/N: This was a random project by my friend and I. We were extremely bored on MSN and we decided to write what we thought would happen before the wedding. It's a joint fan-fic so I wrote some and my friend wrote some. Remember, this was a random thing that we decided to do, it is still only for fun so go easy!! We appreciate reviews and we accept constructive criticism!!

DISCLAIMER: We do not own any of the characters or places, we merely borrowed them from the great, all mighty, Stephenie Meyer (bows down to her greatness. Hopes that she is reading and sending an autograph my way)

Edward's POV

In all of my existence, I have barely ever felt this excited. I paced back and forth across my room, constantly looking out the window-wall at the fast-darkening woods. It had been approximately two days since I had left Bella, and although I had Alice's and Emmett's promises to protect her with all they had, I was anxious to see her again. I could hear Emmett telling me that they were on their way over.

Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, Rosalie and I had spent the past two days hunting. We purposely looked for big game because it would be a while before I could hunt again. I hated leaving Bella for any amount of time but this hunt was crucial if I was to spend the next two weeks alone with her. Rosalie was annoyed to leave Emmett here to look after Bella with Alice, and she made sure that I knew about her annoyance, even with Jasper trying to calm her.

I could hardly contain my excitement, two whole weeks of time alone with Bella. I hardly noticed that I had begun to sprint around my room as I imagined the next few days. Rosalie hissed from down the hall as I began to chuckle at her thoughts. She could her me pacing back and forth and was strangely annoyed by the sound of my shoes making muffled 'shu-shu' noises as they hit the thick, gold carpet. She thought that my sudden change in speed was to aggravate her, I was very glad that no-one could hear my thoughts at that moment.

I slowed down and concentrated on listening for Alice's Porsche coming through the drive-way. I was listening to Emmett's reports of where they were but his were not at all accurate. Alice was blocking any information regarding Bella from entering her head in preparation for tomorrow. She was driving me insane, and she knew it. She was constantly thinking about translating endless books and passages from English to Latin to Hebrew until she had used every language that we had learned over the past century. I thought of how Bella would react to how Alice was thinking but she would not understand how much we process as we think.

I was debating running through the forest to the main road when I heard Esme coming upstairs.

'I'll only be a minute. I have to talk to you about tomorrow.'

She stopped at the end of the hallway.

'I don't think that you would want Rose or Jasper to hear this. In fact, I don't know if you would want to hear this yourself.'

I grinned at her words. I knew exactly what she was about to say but wanted to hear it from her anyway.

'I know that tomorrow will be special for you and Bella, but you have to remember that it is also special for all of us as well. We have known you for nearly a century, we have seen the change that came about you when you met Bella. We have also seen what happens to you when you are separated from her. We love you both and you two are family to us. We are immeasurably happy about tomorrow and, I speak for all of us when I say this, we wish that you and Bella will be as happy as you could possibly be for the rest of your existences. Carlisle and I have never been happier to see the glint in your eyes and the glow about you since Bella entered your life. I know that I am officially filling in the 'emotional, embarrassing mom' persona now but -'.

I had already run down to her by now. She began to shake as though she was sobbing when I wrapped my arms around her. I was feeling elated now, everyone seemed as excited as I was, well, everyone except Rosalie, Jacob and Charlie. They would come around eventually though and time passes quickly for our kind, in a few years, we would be forgotten and they would be dead. The thought of Bella hearing of her father's death would hurt her immensely but it was unavoidable if she were to become immortal.

Rosalie poked her head out of her door, distracting me from my train of thought, to see what was going on. Jasper was standing beside Esme, calming her down because she seemed to be having a fit at this point. Carlisle came through the door downstairs, Emmett close to his side. He was by our sides in a flash as he took Esme away. Emmett seemed particularly amused by something and I was wondering why he was not with Bella and Alice. He exchanged quick glances with Rosalie and Jasper. All of them were thinking of the same thing: their Trigonometry final that they had sat over a year ago. I knew that Bella was close but it was infuriating to not know where she was. I stood there glaring at each of them, trying to make them share their thoughts but none of them would reveal the truth. I gave up and sighed in frustration. Until Alice arrived, I was going to be tortured by my siblings.

I decided that I had waited long enough and I darted down the stairs and through the front door, I could deal with Alice's anger later. I was halfway down the steps when I heard a strange rustling noise coming from the depths of the forest. I could smell him before I could see him. Jacob Black, in wolf form, emerged from the trees.

'I won't attack you… now. I know what it would do to Bells.'

He stopped twenty yards away from me. I waited for him to phase back to human form but instead he continued on.

'I decided to give you back this. I want Bells to know… that I won't be there tomorrow. I don't want to be mean to her, I just rather that she knows that we won't attend for… obvious reasons.'

I saw him drop a small envelope onto the ground from his mouth. I recognized it as the wedding invitation that I had sent him.

'Also we would like to remind you, bloodsucker, that our truce is up and that the treaty is still in place… You know the rules.'

Sam's harsh tones surprised me, he had always been calm around us. Jacob shot me an almost apologetic glance and ran off into the now pitch black woods. I knew something was not right with how Jacob just acted. Sam had reminded me of the treaty and usually Jacob was glad to have informed me about the rules, especially if they revolved around Bella's 'transformation' and even more if it had been said from the mind of Sam, the first in command. Also, his thoughts were reserved, quiet, careful, as if he was fully aware of me listening for the first time ever. His look also confirmed my suspicions, an 'apologetic' look? From Jacob?

I stood there, wondering how Bella would react to the news that her former best friend would not be coming tomorrow to the most important day of her life, her wedding. I ran over to pick up the envelope when I heard Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper coming out to the garage. They each had overnight-bags with them and were all translating scripts, or in Carlisle's case, remembering a liver transplant. They all climbed into their cars: Carlisle and Esme in the Mercedes, Rosalie and Emmett in the BMW convertible, Jasper on his newly acquired motorbike.

I was too preoccupied with how to break the news to Bella that I did not notice them all drive off. The only thing that broke my momentary daze was Alice nearly shouting in her mind

'She's at the gate, come and get her!'

I looked toward the hidden drive-way and could smell Bella's sweet scent drifting in the slow autumn wind. Before I knew it I was sprinting, faster than I ever had, down the drive-way.

I could hear her muttering quietly to herself.

'….turns up at the house, packs everything that I own into her car, kidnaps me and then expects me to walk all the way up the drive-way to an empty house….'

She was a hundred feet away from me and was facing toward the main road, looking for the Porsche that had abandoned her. Her hair was slightly ruffled by the wind and she was wearing light tan cropped pants and a white knit top. Trust her to enjoy the unusual heat that had occurred over the last week. A sudden gust of wind blew her hair around her head and the smell drove me into a frenzy. It had taken me two seconds to reach the end of the drive-way and I knew that it was too long.

I grabbed Bella and spun her around so that I could see her properly. She froze and was shocked when I grabbed her. Her heart began thumping loudly in her chest and I smiled at the sound of it. When she realized it was me, her heart began to thump even louder and was stuttering unevenly as she looked me in the eye. She threw her arms around me and pressed her lips at whatever available piece of bare skin she could reach. I chuckled as her soft warm lips touched my skin, it was the most wonderful feeling that I had ever experienced, although I would not admit it out loud.

I pulled her away from my chest so that I could kiss her properly when I noticed that she was staring at the pocket of my jeans. Jacob's invitation was slightly poking out and by the look on Bella's face I knew that she understood the reason it was there. I could see a million different emotions flicker in her eyes: sadness, anger, frustration, happiness, amusement, worry.

When she finally met my concerned gaze, she was looking happy. She suddenly took advantage of my frozen stance and pressed her lips against mine. I knew that I should be more concerned about how she felt about the invitation but I was concentrating on not hurting her as I pulled her closer. She was pressing herself to my body with all of her strength and her lips seemed enthusiastic and desperate. I remembered what she had said before,

'I'm only human.'

I knew that she was feeling light-headed and dizzy when her breathing became slow and shallow. I pulled away, chuckling quietly at the look on her face. Her face had slipped into a small pout, which looked adorable on her, and her eyes were sparkling with excitement and pleasure.

'I thought that the next few hours were mine… I still haven't forgotten what you promised me the last time we talked.'

She was trying to be stern but was failing miserably. I fought to control my expression as I released her and led her up the drive-way.

Before I could reply she was climbing onto my back.

'Human velocity not enough for you today?'

I was extremely curious at her sudden interest in getting inside when it was still around seventy degrees outside. Usually she complained about it being too cold and when the heat wave occurred, she spent nearly all of her time sitting with me in our meadow.

'Maybe. It will get cold in a few minutes and if I want to be alive for tomorrow then I have to stay inside… even if that means a few hours of tortuous alone time with you.'

She was grinning from ear to ear, clearly amused by the fact that she was in control for the next while. I began to run, slowly at first, just to tease her, when I spotted something out in the forests.

The night was already upon us and in the dark velvet of the distant landscape, I could make out the shape of something moving a mile away in the depths of the dense woods. I tried not to alarm Bella as I attempted to catch the scent of whatever was moving through the trees. Unfortunately there was little wind and I was too far away to identify the scent properly. I debated leaving Bella on the drive-way in order to investigate our new visitor but I knew that I could not be parted from her and that it would be more likely that she would be attacked if she was left alone. I heard the muffled snaps of twigs and the soft padding of large paws and knew immediately that there was a werewolf in our midst.

I turned my head toward the tall dark oak trees that the sounds were coming from and I noticed Bella looking toward the exact same spot. She had her head resting on my shoulder and a look of fury swept across her face.

'Jacob Black.'

She spat the words out as if they were the most cursed words ever encountered by anyone before. Sure enough the dog stopped in his tracks when he heard her voice and his thoughts burst through his mind that he had been keeping surprisingly quiet for the past few seconds.

It had not even been ten minutes since I seen him last and I was not surprised that he had hung around to see Bella. I expected her to want to talk to Jacob and so I lowered myself so she could easily got off my back. Her hands stayed locked around my neck and it seemed as if she were hissing at Jacob. Jacob was shouting his thoughts at me.

'Let her down, you stupid, idiotic pushy bloodsucker! You should let her do what she wants to do! Do you even care about her happiness?!….'

He was still shouting in his mind but I was too distracted by the task of keeping Bella from picking up a fallen branch and hitting him with it.

'…Just one little hit across the head… It won't even hurt him that much. It would only hurt his ego… and his feelings.'

I was walking back toward the porch steps when Jacob appeared in front of us. His muzzle was pulled back in a ferocious snarl and he was growling viciously at me. His eyes were the only normal feature on his face, they were cautious and were looking at Bella with intense longing and wonder.

I was about to explain how Bella did not wish to speak to him now when a long, brown object flew past my ear and landed squarely on Jacob's head.

'Don't you get the message, dog? You turn up, saying your not coming tomorrow, and expect it to be OK to go back on your promise?'

Bella's voice was fiercer than I had ever heard before and she was throwing branches that she had gathered at Jacob with such speed and strength that even I was impressed. I turned my head carefully to gage how angry she was when Jacob suddenly shook uncontrollably.

I knew what going to happen and I swiftly knocked Bella out of the way. I braced myself for the impact of the suddenly hurtling werewolf. After half a second, I glanced toward Jacob and noticed that he was in human form. He was still looking longingly at Bella but his thoughts gave him away.

'Ha! You can't hurt me now! Not unless you want to go out of control and watch Bells see her best friend die at the hands of her fiancé!'

'I assume you mean former best friend? And also, your stench would be much more unbearably disgusting if your blood was exposed, dog.'

I bent over and swiftly gathered Bella in my arms. She struggled slightly, ready to cause Jacob as much physical pain as possible. The look on her face was surprising. It reminded me of the phrase,

'If looks could kill…'

She looked up at my face, searching my expression to see if there was any way of her being allowed to 'beat the crap' out of Jacob.

I struggled to keep my expression firm. I would have enjoyed watching her hurt Jacob but I knew that she would regret it later and that she would be at risk of the dog phasing and attacking her. She gave up and turned to face Jacob as I carried her toward the steps.

'Either go away and leave me alone or drop dead.'

She spoke the last words with such ferocity that even I stopped in my tracks. I turned to look at Jacob but he was already striding toward the forest, shaking violently. I almost felt sorry for him. Bella was staring up at me, pulling me face so that she could meet my gaze. I reluctantly gave up avoiding her eyes and lowered my face toward hers. Her chocolate brown eyes were slowing softening from her anger outburst and she grinned when I looked at her. I grinned back and continued up the steps, readying myself for whatever she was going to throw at me tonight.