Written by Tessa H.
Names & Characters are not mine but Stephenie Meyer's
All actions in this have been inspired by SM.
CHAPTER TWO
B.P.O.V.
I knew that I was fully awake when I smelled something lingering in the air that actually smelled good. It smelled like waffles. Oh, God. Please tell me Charlie isn't trying to cook again, trying to talk me out of marrying Edward. I sighed, my eyes still closed, and reached over expecting to find Edward waiting there for me. He wasn't. I fluttered my eyes open and sat up swiftly looking all around the room in a panic. He was nowhere to been seen.
"Edward…" I called in a tone that was low but knew that he could hear it from all around the house if he was here. I waited for an answer but there was nothing. Calm down I thought to myself, maybe he just went home to change and he would be right back. With that I pushed the covers from off my lap and stretched.
Better go stop Charlie from ruing breakfast, maybe it would still be editable by the time I got down stairs. I stood then and the wooden floor sent a chill up my legs. I made a quick stop to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. Only one more day and I would be officially Isabella Cullen. I smiled at myself while brushing my hair and teeth.
The waffle smell smelled even more delicious as I bound down the stars felling all happy about the fact I was going to be a Cullen.
"Dad, I told you to let me do all the cooking; however I must say it does smell very good." I turned the corner looking into my dad's small kitchen to not see my dad cooking but Edward putting sunflowers onto the table and looking up at me smiling. I gasped. It looked so pretty. There was a table placement for one, sunflowers in the middle of the table and a huge stack of waffles right next to the glass of orange juice & syrup.
"Good morning beautiful." He said walking towards me to take my hand. I was still too shocked to move when he reached me and kissed me on the forehead. "I thought you would like to have nice breakfast."
"Thank you" I managed to say while he lead me to the table and opened a seat for me to sit in. I still didn't know what to say as I watched him sit right next to me. I just looked at the waffles then back to his face.
"Where's Charlie at?" I asked really wondering.
"Alice was here at the crack of dawn with Carlisle to go get their tux's fitted for the wedding." He said smiling and putting my hair behind my ears. "She wanted me to wake you up so then while they were doing their business, you two could go to the flower nursery to pick flowers out, but I told her no. I wanted to do that part with you." He said smiling flashing his teeth.
"Oh…" I looked away from him and at the food again. "Thank you very much for breakfast." I said shyly blushing.
"Don't thank me just yet; you haven't even had a bite yet." He said grabbing the plate from in front of me and placing a waffle right in the middle then handing me the syrup bottle. "Tell me what you think…" he said while starring at the waffle truly anticipating what I thought of his waffle making skills. I giggled and took the bottle of syrup and put a fair amount of my waffle. I then picked up the butter knife and fork, cut a small piece, and popped it in my mouth. It tasted like heaven. I never wanted it to end.
I swallowed and looked at him to smile. "Very delicious."
He sighed with relief. "Good. I put vanilla in it. I heard that it was supposed to make it taste better." He said while taking a small bowl from the table and going to the fridge to take out a bigger bowl that looked like cut up fruit. He put two scoops in the bowl and walked back over to me and placed the fruit next to my plate. "I also cut up some fruit. It's good to have a well balanced breakfast." He said this very proud of himself.
I took my knife and fork and cut up my waffle eating each piece slowly not wanting the waffle to slowly disappear. Edward watched me take each bite anticipating it. When I was finished with my waffle I started on the fruit. I suddenly wondered why he was doing all of this. I know that he usually went out of his way for my human needs, but never to the extreme of making me breakfast, well he once made dinner for me before prom, but that was for an occasion.
"What's the occasion?" I asked pulling him out of some thought. His mouth twitched as he came alive from starring off into space like some statue. "Nothing, really. I just wanted you to have a nice breakfast. That's all." He replied smiling.
I guess he would tell me when he was ready. I continued to eat my fruit until the bowl was almost empty. I was to full. I couldn't bear to eat one more strawberry. I sighed and pushed my bowl away from me. "Full?" Edward asked. "Very full." I said smiling and rubbing my stomach. He grabbed my dishes and walked over to the sink to wash them.
E.P.O.V.
I didn't know how to bring up our honeymoon to her. It was the one thing that Alice didn't have control over rearranging and Bella and I haven't even discussed it. I know that she was overwhelmed with all the decisions that she made yesterday and is probably going to make today. I know that Jake hasn't been home since he received my letter and wedding invitation to the wedding, but she didn't know that I sent that, so I know that was bothering her as well.
"What's the occasion?" She asked making it sound as if she didn't really have any interest but I knew better then that. "Nothing, really. I just wanted you to have a nice breakfast." I hoped that sounded convincing. She smiled lightly and went back to eating her fruit.
God, she was so beautiful. I began to think about places that we could go for our honeymoon. Alice had suggested that we could go to Chicago, but I wasn't sure if Bella would want to go there. Aren't you supposed to go to a place like Hawaii for wedding honeymoons?
Bella slid her bowl away from her. "Full?"
"Very full." She said smiling and rubbing her stomach lightly. And she said I dazzled people. I knew that I would have to talk to her about it this morning to make reservations for where ever we were going to stay. I picked her dishes up and went to the sink, turned on the water, got the soap and washed each dish slowly. I needed to stop stalling. I sighed in defeat and turned to see her reaching over the table to smell the sunflowers. Her hair was resting lightly on the table top and her shirt pulled up to show some of her stomach. I stopped breathing.
"Bella…" I said casually walking towards her to sit back down in the chair next to her. "Mmmm?" she asked sitting back down on her chair looking at me. "I wanted to talk to you about our honeymoon." She didn't say anything so I decided to continue. "It's nothing bad, it's just the one place where Alice told me that you and I could make that decision rather then her rearrange it. I was wondering where you would like to go."
She seemed confused for a moment then looked away. We were both quiet for a good amount of time when I decided to push further. "Well, that's if you want to have a honeymoon. I just need to know soon where you want to go because I need to make reservations. That's all, so no rush. Just let me know where you want to go…"
"Where do you want to go?" she asked looking at me smiling. I didn't really know, but the idea of going to Chicago didn't bother me that much. I mean, it was where I was born and I haven't been there in so long. Might as well go and see how it's changed.
"Chicago?"
B.P.O.V
"Chicago?" He said raising his eyebrows.
I thought about that for a moment. It sounded perfect. We would be where he was born and where his life "ended." Maybe he'd be willing to do that for me…."Perfect." I smiled.
He smiled also, showing is teeth and his eyes sparkled. "Okay, I will make it for a week then." He said still smiling obviously excited to go back to his home. "Hurry and go get dressed while I finish up cleaning here so we can get the flowers out of the way and have the afternoon to ourselves." He said this standing up begging to pick up everything around me.
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It was an hour and a half before we left the nursery before the wedding rehearsal. Alice was totally over board. Every time I thought I found the perfect flower to go with the white roses Edward's phone would buzz and tell him to tell me, "No, what are you thinking?!!?! That's not the right one." Finally Edward and I got so frustrated we decided to turn his phone off and go with the white roses, light purple lavender, and light yellow daisies.
I sighed as we pulled up to Charlie's house and looked at Edward. He was looking at me intently and when I went to go say goodbye I was stopped when he kissed me on the lips gently. "I will see you in an hour at the church." He whispered against my lips and reached over me to open the door. I smiled and decided that I wasn't done kissing him. I grabbed the side of his face and made him kiss me some more. I gently bit his bottom lip as he tried to pull away. He laughed and said "Behave."
"Oh, Edward. You better get used to it. You do know that our wedding night just so happens to be tomorrow night." I said getting a little irritated that he acted as if nothing was going to happen after we were married. He shushed me by putting a hand over my mouth and kissing my forehead. "Go get ready. I will see you in an hour."
I decided that it was useless to fight him and got out. I went into the house to see Charlie eating some left over waffles from breakfast. "How were the flowers?" Charlie asked digging in. "They were good. Edward and I decided to go with the white roses, purple lavender and the light yellow daises." I explained. "Wow, sounds great. By the way, great waffles, Bells" He said sticking an oversize amount onto his fork and stuffing it in.
"I didn't make them, Edward did." I looked at him and smiled. I didn't have enough time to see his reaction because I turned around and went to walk up the stairs. "I'm going to go get ready for the rehearsal. We have to leave in about an hour, so please be ready." I yelled over my shoulder. When I reached my room and shut my door I looked on my bed and there was a white box. I went to it and there was a card on the top of the box. It read;
"To: Bella.
From: Alice.
Wear this to the rehearsal please."
I put the card on my pillow and opened the box. There was tissue paper covering the contents. I pulled the tissue paper out of the way and lifted a deep blue silk strapless dress. It was beautiful. I was almost excited to put it on. I ran to the bathroom trying it on and it fit just perfect. "Thanks Alice" I breathed allowed and examined myself in the mirror on the back of the bathroom door. It was lose enough, but hugged me in the all right places. I decided to put my hair up in a pretty messy bun and apply a small amount of makeup.
I went down stairs to see of my dad was ready when I was greeted by someone much more shocking. . .
Sorry guys to leave you hanging like that! But I promise it is going to get better! Please review and let me know what you think of the story so far. I know it's long a drug out, but I promise it will be worth it! I even put this up with a day to spare! I hope to have Chapter three up within a few days. Thanks so much.