"Oh …my gosh Bella!! Look a you! I knew you would be beautiful," squealed Alice, my first real best friend and soon to be "sister-in-law" before grabbing my hands and whispering, "even without peeking into the future."

"What she means is she wouldn't have allowed you to not be beautiful today," teased Rosalie, my other future "sister-in-law," "especially not on your wedding day that she planned" Rosalie ducked, barely missing a mint that Alice had sent flying toward her head. I laughed, I was so happy Rosalie and I had been able to work everything out and become friends. We might not be as close as Alice and I still were but we were getting closer by the day.

About a month and a half earlier…

"Hey Rosalie, it's Bella, may I come in?" I asked shyly after knocking on her and Emmett's bedroom door

"Yeah come on in Bella," she replied, "What's on your mind?"

"I wanted to talk to you about what you told me a couple of weeks ago," I said pushing open the door to find her laying on a cream colored chaise looking out the window. She looked amazing as usual in her tight dark blue jeans and red halter-top. She sat up and made room for me as I walked over to join her. "I've thought a lot about what you told me, about what I'll be giving up…"

"But you haven't changed your mind, have you?" she interrupted while I wondered momentarily if she had been talking to Alice about me.

"No, I haven't," I admitted shyly, afraid of losing any progress we might have made toward a friendship. "It's not that I don't understand what I'm giving up. I do and if I could have everything I wanted I would, but only if I could have it all with Edward. Only if Edward could share in everything else with me would it be worth it. Rosalie, I know Edward is my mate. I know that I can't live without him, I was barely alive after you all left. He is my life, my world, the love of my life. Please, please understand." I looked into Rosalie's topaz eyes, searching for a flicker of understanding, a glimmer of acceptance.

"I think I understand Bella," Rosalie whispered, just barely loud enough for me to hear.

"You do?" I asked incredulously. I had hoped for this response but never truly believed it would be this easy.

"He truly is all you want, isn't he?" she asked awestruck. I just nodded my head too surprised to form words. "I never knew a human who could love like we do Bella, not until you. He's very lucky to have found you…we all are." Color rushed to my cheeks, I couldn't believe this was Rosalie I was talking to. I was even more surprised when she reached over and hugged me.

"Uh…Rosalie?" I stammered hoping what I was going to ask next would meet with the same response and that I wasn't rushing things.

"Hmm?"

"Well, I want to include all of you and Alice," I was talking way too fast, luckily I knew Rosalie would understand everything I said, "has already agreed. I mean you don't have to if you don't want to but…"

"Bella will you please just ask whatever you are going to ask please?"

"Would you be one of my bridesmaids?" I asked in one breath looking up. Rosalie sat there for a moment almost if she didn't understand before bolting up off the chaise.

"Of course I will!! Oh Bella, thank you!" I had never known Rosalie to be this exuberant but I was happy that she had agreed. After giving her another hug, I excused myself to go look for Edward. As I shut the door and turned around he stopped in front of me with the crooked grin I loved so much.

"Told you that you didn't have anything to worry about," he whispered as he leaned in to plant a chaste kiss on my lips.

"Yes, I know I should have listened to you," I murmured after our lips had separated stepping closer into his embrace.

"You should always listen to me," he teased before a serious look came into his eyes, "I'm not worth what you are giving up."

"And you don't always see yourself correctly," I told him smiling up at him.

"Hey! That's my line," he chuckled the serious look gone from his eyes.

I giggled as I returned to the present surrounded by Edward's sisters.