Chapter 1 Bridesmaid
"Hey, Bree, how does this look?" Alice asked.
We were at the designer's "studio" in the dressing rooms picking up the bridesmaid dresses for the wedding. Alice wanted to try it on first.
I scanned her over; a rose red knee-length halter-top dress flowed over her body perfectly. It's fabric was beautiful: some sort of silk.
"I'm impressed," I answered, very satisfied with her choice in design. "Is that what all the bridesmaids are wearing?"
Her face lit up. "Yeah! You like?" She spinned around so I could see all of it.
"I love it! I bet Bella can't wait to see this." I added sarcastically. Alice smirked. "By the way, who was invited to the wedding? I mean, there's not going to be a whole lot, is there?"
"No, not really," Alice reassured me, "It's only a few of our classmates, Bella's parents, us, and some of the wolves-"
"Wolves?" I felt my icy body turn into stone where I sat. Alice looked up from the dress to my frozen face.
"What did I say?" She stared at me skeptically.
It took me a minute to hide the fear in my voice; it didn't work very well anyway. "Alice. The only memory I have of werewolves was when I was being attacked and killed by them in the clearing. Tell me how I'm supposed to trust them?"
Alice just stared at me, her face perplexed. After what seemed like hours, she finally spoke. "Bree, the werewolves were helping us to fight against the newborns. They're on our side… most of the time."
"What?" I asked, confused more than ever before.
Alice sighed deeply before continuing with her story. "You see, the wolves are around for one mythical purpose: to protect human life from our kind. But when Carlisle told them that we were different and that we don't hunt humans, we offered a peace treaty. They're not supposed to harm us if we don't harm a human – as if they could harm us!" She scoffed. Then she smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry about it."
"But humans aren't supposed to know about them?" I asked, now suspicious. "Like us?"
"I guess…why?" Alice obviously didn't know what I was getting at.
I rolled my eyes. "Well, don't you think it would be a little weird if gigantic wolves showed up at the wedding?"
Her face was completely blank. Then, suddenly, she burst out laughing. "Bree, don't you know that they're not always wolves?" I guess she got the answer from my questioned expression. "When they're not running around as wolves, they are just humans living normal lives." She finished with another quick snicker.
I was speechless. All I could think of saying was, "Oh." That made Alice laugh even harder.