CHAPTER 2: NOT PINK
"Okay Alice, Our little Nessie needs to get back to bed" Edward laughed, I don't know why he insists on calling Ness little, I mean, she may only be 6 but to look at her you'd think she's 16 or 17, and she hates being called little, it drives her insane.
"But Dad, I'm not tired!" Renesmee protested throwing her arms across her chest as if to make her point.
"Now come on Nessie dear, you really must go back to sleep" Esme interrupted, her soft voice could almost sound patronising if we didn't know better. Renesmee looked her square in the face "NO" she laughed before clambering over to cling to an overexcited Alice, who still hadn't calmed down enough to stop the bed shaking beneath us, as if reading mind Emmett wanted his say "You know, if we wasn't all in this room right now, I'd easily assume you two were up to something with the noise that bed is making against the floor"
"Emmett" I hissed at vampire speed "Your 6 year old niece is sitting right there!" at this time I saw something flit amazingly fast by Emmett and out the door.
"Whoa! Just saying Bell's, don't bite my head off!" before holding his hands in the air as if admitting defeat, "Come on Rose, We've got some noise making to do ourselves eh?" he added grabbing Rosalie's arm and attempting to drag her out the room,
"Emmett, behave" Rosalie murmured before turning to face me and Edward "I really am pleased for you both!" she added, a broad smile on her face , before allowing Emmett to pull her from the room at vampire speed. Ugh
Meanwhile, Renesmee had managed to persuade Alice to hide her somewhere in the house and according to Edward, Alice was now singing 'Here comes the bride' in her head, like that would help, we could just follow Ness's scent if we wanted to. I was starting to get really frustrated when I felt a sudden wave a calmness hit me, "Thanks Jazz" I smiled and nodded my head in his direction, "No problem, rather that than have you kill my wife eh?" he laughed.
Edward burst into a fit of laughter at this point, I turned and faced him about to demand an explanation when he said "Alice may be good at blocking her thoughts but Ness isn't" before turning to Jake and adding "Jacob, would you please be able to fetch Renesmee from the shed behind the pool house, Tell her she can stay up, BUT she's going to bed early tonight instead, she starts school Monday" Jacob just nodded and left the room.
Carlisle obviously asked Edward a question in his mind because Edward looked at him laughed again before answering "Emmett's considering have some fun in the pool with Rose right now"
Esme threw her hand over her mouth trying to stifle a grin just as I screamed, "Emmett if you go near that pool house I'll rip you apart with own bare hands" panic was rising in my throat, so far we'd been lucky and been able to keep Renesmee away from where it is that Emmett and Rose were during there 'alone time' and I wasn't going to have them scar my little girl for life.
"Its OK love" Edward soothed, "Jakes just about there, wait for it …."
"Aaahhhhhh! Thank-you Daddy, Come on Alice . . .!" I heard Renesmee scream, a wave of relief hit me, again partly thanks to Jasper, then I heard Emmett shout "Does this mean the pool house is free now?"
"NO!" screamed Me, Edward, Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, and I was sure I heard Rose as well.
"OK, well I think we'll leave these two alone for a bit shall we love?" Carlisle asked of Esme
"Of course, you probably want time to yourselves, congratulations the pair of you" and with that they were out the door.
"Um, Jazz?" Edward said, looking at him with a 'learn-to-take-a-hint' look,
"Yeah, I'm going, and don't worry, between me Alice and Jake I'm sure we can keep Ness busy for a few hours" he said, smiling at us before adding "Oh, well done bro, I never thought you'd be able to get her down the aisle again" and running out the door before the book I'd picked up to throw could reach him.
I turned to Edward and we both laughed, "Now, where were we?" he asked, pulling back on top of him before kissing me with so much passion that I heard Jasper shout something about controlling ourselves if we wanted to keep our babysitters.
2 hours later, and feeling more, satisfied, I looked up at Edward from my position on his chest and kissed him lightly on the cheek, before springing off the bed and into the closet.
"what are you doing Bella?" he asked,
"getting dressed, I don't want Alice completely taking over our wedding. This time I want some input too" Edward just looked at me completely stunned, mouth gaped open, and apparently, rendered speechless. "Edward, this wedding is going to be more special than the last" I began "This time it feels like we're more equal, Our child is going to be there, This time, I don't want some huge, lavish ceremony with hundreds of guests. I didn't want that last time, but I went along with it because I was frightened to loose you" I carried on choosing to ignore the 'stop-being-ridiculous' look he was giving me, "I've got you now, this is to solidify our love, and I want it to be perfect, something which reflects us, not something that Alice has been dreaming up since the day of our last wedding!" his shock seemed to have worn up at this point,
"Bella, are you actually telling me that you want to organise this wedding?" he asked, a smile creeping back on to his face.
"Not necessarily organise" I paused to think "More like, oversee? yes, I want to oversee Alice's plans"
"well, that's a shock to the system I must say" he grinned
"Edward, is it really so hard to believe that I want us to have the best second wedding for us?"
"No, love, of course not" he smiled, usually I would be infuriated at him, but as always, he gave me his best crooked grin, dazzling me, and caught me off guard.
"You know I cant stay mad at you when you dazzle me that way" I finished, before smiling and whizzing out the door and down the stairs.
"No Alice!" I exclaimed for what seemed like that 100th time that hour,
"But Bella, you'd look so pretty in pink!" she whined, for the last hour Alice had been trying to convince me to have an all pink wedding, like Edward, she had assumed she would be in charge of all the organising and was a little put out when I told her otherwise "But I'm always in charge of these occasions" she'd moaned. Renesmee, of course was all up for the idea of a pink wedding "I think its unique Mom"
"yes darling, you're right, it is unique, remind when we're planning your wedding that you wanted everything pink!" to which she of course, scowled.
"OK then, party-crasher-Bella, what colours do you want?" Alice asked,
"hmm, well I don't really want a big white wedding, we had that before" I began, sneaking a peek at Edward and smiling
"oh-my-god! Yes! Blue!" Alice shrieked, knowing my answer before I had the chance to give it "then we can have the bridesmaids in lilac, lilac and blue flowers, baby blue shirts for the boys with lilac button holes, blue . . ." I gasped, no longer able to keep up with Alice's ideas, looking over towards Edward I saw him rolling his eyes in amusement, "what the hell have you unleashed Edward Cullen?" I hissed at him, making him laugh even more,
"... and we can finish off with lilac icing on the cake! Oh this is going to be perfect!" she squealed.
Deciding that no matter how much input I tried to have, Alice would inevitably take over, I retired to the couch to be with my husband, "remind me again why we're doing this?" I asked
"Because we love each other" was his answer "and of course to keep Alice happy" he added, I felt a sudden wave of rage hit me,
"EDWARD CULLEN, IF YOU ONLY WANTED THIS TO GIVE YOUR SISTER SOME LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT, SO HELP ME GOD, I WILL NEVER TALK TO YOU, OR TOUCH YOU AGAIN FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY!"
"JASPER! PACK IT IN!" Edward shouted across the room, Jasper, of course, burst into a fit of laughter and barely managed to cough out his apology,
"I'm – sorry – 'he-he' you – got to – admit -it was – 'guffaw' funny though!"
"JASPER?"
"DONT SHOUT AT HIM..." I was about to say 'its not his fault' when I felt the anger subside, I glared at Jasper from my seat feeling slightly ashamed at my outburst, Edward undoubtedly picked up on this, probably through Jaspers thoughts, and pulled me into a tight embrace,
"Don't worry love, i'll beat him for it later" he whispered in my ear making me giggle.
"What's all the shouting about down here then?" Emmett asked "Is our Eddie holding out on you again Bella? Now you're engaged again you've got to wait until your married?" I heard a loud growl rumble through edward's body in response to this,
"Jasper, can I borrow some of that anger again?" I hissed, quiet enough so that Emmett couldnt hear from his place at the bottom of the stairs, Jasper didnt even have to respond, I felt the anger coursing through my body, then launched myself off the sofa and had Emmett by the throat against the wall in under a second "EMMETT MCARTHY CULLEN, IF YOU EVER TALK ABOUT MY SEX LIFE AGAIN WITH MY DAUGHTER IN THE NEXT ROOM, I WILL PERSONALLY SEE TO IT THAT YOU DONT HAVE A SEX LIFE FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY! DO I MAKE MY SELF CLEAR?"
"Umm, yeah, sure Bella, sorry" he quivered, before I let him go and he ran back up the stairs where I could hear Rose laughing, I felt the calmness flood my body and sat back down next to Edward,
"Thanks Jazz" I finished, nodding my head in his direction, whilst leaning back into my embrace with my loving husband.
"Um, Bella?" I felt Edwards body stiffen underneath me "that wasn't Jasper"
"Sure it was, I asked him to" I responded
"No seriously Bella, I gave you the calmness, but the anger, that was all you"
I looked from Edward to Jasper, Edward just nodded his head in agreement. "Oh" was all I could manage.
