A/N: My first attempt at a longer Twilight piece. So if it's totally awful let me know! I used to write a lot more, but I'm just getting back into the swing of this after over a year. As always, feedback would be very much appreciated! This will be a few chapters at least. I already have almost 3 and there's still more to go yet. ~ Mary Alice
We never fought, simple as that.
We never have….and I thought we never would.
Not until…
I was ecstatic when Nessie came to me after Jacob proposed. Thankfully, unlike her dear mother, she enjoyed parties and told me she was going to allow me to plan her wedding. I was immediately determined to make it the event of the century…..and would anyone doubt me? I think not.
We spent those first few weeks totally absorbed in the wedding plans, we had months yet, but a perfect wedding took time. Even at night, Rosalie, Esme and I would pour over magazines and web pages. We were having the times of our lives.
Through all this, the guys disappeared. I don't blame them. And I was seriously grateful for the removal of Edward and Jacob. The two of them had been unbearable. Edward was snappy and tense over "losing" his little girl so soon. And Jacob was a nervous wreck and trying to be the good fiancée and cater to Nessie's every need…meaning he was in the way constantly. But then magically one morning there was a note and no guys. Carlisle was a saint, he wrote that he thought we needed a bit of a break from them and he took them up to spend some time out in the wilderness to have some "guy bonding" time. Us girls celebrated.
They were gone for quite a while, but I was so caught up in everything that I didn't bother to check on them at all. Of course this would be one of my worst mistakes…maybe then I would have seen what would happen beforehand….been able to prepare myself or find a way to fight back or…anything but be totally blindsided when they did return.
When they came back, they all filed in and immediately went to their respective partners. I smiled watching all of the wonderful couples…how in love they all were. I turned to the door to look for my own love and waited for his return. When he still hadn't come in quite some time later, I went out to see what was taking him so long. I had to search for him, and when I found him he was just standing there staring out at the forest blankly. I tried to feel what kind emotions he was putting off, but he was guarding himself too well. It worried me. He hadn't blocked me out even remotely since the incident years ago with Bella's birthday party. I immediately went to his side, ready to console or encourage or whatever it was he needed from me.
I didn't think that vampires were able to black out or block a memory or anything of that sort…but even now I don't actually remember what happened next.
All I remember is snapping out of it quite some time later to find myself shaking with tearless sobs surrounded by my family…minus one. I could feel a small, cold circle of metal in my hand and the feeling of having had my heart ripped out of my chest. Even with my infinitely quick vampire mind, it still took me minutes to comprehend what had happened.