Please tell me what you think. I don't know if I should continue with this, because it's my first fanfiction story I've written... everyone else's seems so good compared to this!
I twisted the engagement ring around my finger, my stomach twisting uncomfortably. Not necessarily because I was uncomfortable. Well, actually I was. But it wasn't because I had any regrets. It was just the stupid dress Alice had forced me into, I lied to myself.
She had shoved my already slender form into a corset, and even though it gave me cleavage (for the first time in my life), it was pretty damn uncomfortable. I wasn't able to breathe at all. God! I couldn't understand how those proper English women stood it.
Actually, if I forced myself to be honest, I was nervous. Very nervous. Because I was about to do one of the scariest things ever.
I was going to get married.
It didn't even matter that the man—vampire, I mentally corrected myself—was the sweetest, most perfect person I had ever met. He was the best thing that had ever happened to me. But I was nervous anyways. I suppose that if it had been anyone but Edward, I would be in a different country faster than you could say "floral bouquets".
And, I suppose as well, if his sister had been anyone other than Alice—overachiever as she was—I wouldn't be surrounded by the hundreds of flowers. Freesia she had told me, even though it was completely redundant. To the vampires at least.
Alice crept up behind me, and standing on her tiptoes hissed, "Stop looking like you're about to throw up. For Christ's sake, this is your wedding. It is the best day of your life. Get with the program."
Of course Alice would say that.
So, in a completely futile attempt to be a good sport, I tried to smile. It turned into a grimace.
"Close enough," she muttered grumpily.
I had to admit as I looked around, even though Alice had gone completely overboard with everything, just as I had known she would, it looked amazing. She should have a profession as a wedding designer or whatever you call them. I wondered idly if she had in her previous "lives".
Alice looked stunning in her bridesmaids dress, and next to me I feared people would be spending so much time looking at her that no one would notice me. Not that that was a bad thing. In fact I was pretty glad that she was my only bridesmaid all of a sudden.
She noticed my abrupt, genuine grin and laughed to herself. As if she could read my mind she said, "Don't even think about that. I didn't spend half of today working on you for nothing. In fact I bet you could pass for a vampire too right about now."
I ignored her, and my grin didn't waver. That was good. This was the mood that I wanted to convey to the crowd.
Music started outside the Cullen's house, and I wondered who was playing the piano if Edward was at the altar.
Charlie came inside huffing at that point. Alice had done a good job on him, too. His suit was now completely up to date and I could definitely see the Charlie that Renee had married, just the same as when he smiled. I wished he would smile now. Ever since Edward and I had broken the news to him, he had seemed in a perpetually sullen mood.
Alice winked at him and danced away, which immediately cheered him up.
He actually smiled a small sheepish smile and said, "Come on Bells, we don't want Edward to think you've left him at the altar." But he couldn't completely mask his desire for that to be true. I ignored him the same as I had ignored Alice. Nobody would make me mad today God dammit!