I had an idea for a story while I was listening to the radio and the Brad Paisley/Allison Krause song "Whiskey Lullaby" came on. I have always loved this amazingly sad song, so I am hoping that I can do it justice with this song. Let me know what you think!

BPOV

I can't believe that this day is already here and I am finally going to marry Jacob Black.

~flashback~

Two years ago when I moved up to Forks, Washington from Phoenix, Arizona when my mom remarried a guy that I just could not stand to be around, I never thought that I would fall in love and stay in this God forsaken small town. I was only seventeen and wanted nothing more to finish high school and move to southern California where it would always be warm and sunny and I could get away from my family and just be. However, fate had a different idea.

My first day of school was horrendous.

When I woke up that morning, it was raining hard, I didn't have the proper shoes for the weather so my socks were soaked instantly, my jacket wasn't warm enough, and my truck was so loud you could probably hear it from a mile down the road. Then, when I pulled up in the parking lot and stepped out of the cab, I slipped and fell on my ass in front of what was probably the whole population of Forks High.

I ran into the building and to the office then, wanting to just get out of everyone's sight and pick up my class schedule. Once I placed all of my belongings in my locker, I made my way to my first class of the day, Spanish. I arrived ten minutes early and was the only one in the classroom for some time. I met a very nice girl named Angela in this class, and she offered to help me get caught up on what they were currently working on, since I had started two weeks into the quarter.

The next few classes were a blur, and then it was time for lunch. I met up with Angela and sat with her crew. I learned everyone's names that first day: Mike, Jessica, Eric, and Ben.

It was half way through the meal that I felt his eyes on me.

I turned and caught the gaze of bronze-haired, green-eyed perfection.

He turned away immediately, a faint blush settling on those perfect cheek bones.

"Angela," I whispered, when I finally turned away from him. "Who is that guy over there?"

"Oh, him? That's Edward Cullen and the people he is sitting with are his sisters Rosalie, the blonde, Alice, she is the short girl with the pixie cut black hair, and his brothers Emmett, the big guy, and Jasper, the other blonde," she explained.

And so began my obsession with Edward Cullen.

I made it through my next two classes just fine, but my final class of the day was Advanced Biology, and I was not looking forward to it. Though I was a good student and had done very well in science classes at my high school in Phoenix, I was not looking forward to having to go through this stuff again. I was really dreading the part where we would have to dissect an animal and do blood testing. Yuck.

I got lost on my way to class and finally arrived a good five minutes after the teacher had started talking. He introduced me to the class (how embarrassing!) and then told me to sit in the only open seat left: the one right next to Edward Cullen.

We made small talk throughout the first class as we looked at slides containing the different stages of mitosis, and before the class was over we had exchanged phone numbers and email addresses. He had also, very inconspicuously, pulled out his phone and added me as a friend on Facebook.

By the end of the quarter, Edward and I were inseparable. All that changed when his dad was transferred to a hospital in Boston. He told me after I had Thanksgiving dinner with his family, and they were gone a week later. He promised to stay in contact, but after Christmas and New Year, we hardly ever talked. I only knew about his life from what he put up on his Facebook account.

Jacob Black and I started to date during spring break that year, and we were engaged by the end of the year, when we both graduated from high school and he left to join the army. I began to plan our wedding for the following summer and would leave for school at Harvard at the end of August. I was happy.

Two days after the engagement I went on Facebook to check on Edward, something I did about once a month, and discovered that he had blocked me. Stange.

~end flashback~

"Are you ready Bells?" my father asked from the doorway. He was wearing a very nice black tux with a white shirt and a black vest and tie. He looked really good, and had even gone to the barber to get his hair cut and mustache trimmed for the occasion.

My long brown hair was styled in ringlets that fell down my back in the perfect tousled look, being held up at the sides by matching jeweled clips. I decided to forgo the veil, and instead went for a dress that had off the shoulder straps, a trumpet flare, and had a small amount of detail in the front. The back was another story. The satin fabric fell low, but my back was covered with sheer lace that had a beautiful floral pattern and was accented with beading. It was beautiful.

I smiled at my father, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and let him lead me down the isle toward Jacob.

After the ceremony, we had a small reception, and then we headed off to Hawaii for our honeymoon.

We spent a blissful week basking in the sun and each other before returning home to Boston, where Jacob and I were renting a nice two bedroom apartment. I unpacked our suitcases, putting the dirty laundry in the hamper, and he ran downstairs to retrieve the mail.

"Bella?" Jacob called from the door when he returned.

"Yeah babe?"

"Can you come to the living room please?"

I knew instantly from his voice that something wasn't right, so I quickly made my way from our room to find him in the living room. "What is it?"

All he did was hand me a letter. I read it quickly before dropping it to the ground and pulling Jake in for a hug. I clung to him as we both began to cry.

He was going to be deployed on July first. Today was June twentieth.

Hey everyone! Hope you like the first chapter. I really don't know how the whole military thing works, but I wanted him to find out in letter form so this scene could unfold the way it does. Let me know what you think!

As a side, I am currently in school and planning my own wedding so I am not sure how often I will be updating yet, but I am sure this will be a great stress reliever (not to mention distraction) so don't worry!