Chapter 2 - Emotions

Chapter 2 - Emotions

All was silent…

The silence cut deep, piercing through me like a dagger. In reaction to this I reached my hand out to find Edwards. Instead of him taking my hand though, he took my face between both of his. Assuming he had done so, I reached up to remove the blindfold, bracing myself for whatever Alice had prepared for us.

"Uh uh uh!" Edwards's tone made me imagine him wagging his finger at me. "Allow me…" he paused as if deciding exactly how to say something. "Now Bella, I know that Alice can go overboard."

"Hey!" I heard Alice chime into the conversation from somewhere in front of me. "I do not! I just make sure it's memorable!" I heard the smirk in her voice.

"Like I said, but love, enjoy the moment." While leaving me more curious about what was going on, Edward untied the blindfold and let it fall to the ground.

"SURPRISE!" I gasped at the scene present in front of me. All of the Cullen's were here and all – even Rosalie – had huge grins plastered on their faces. Again I gasped as I noticed the room. There were red and white sheets covering anything that was not the correct colour. On every surface Alice had laid red roses and even the Cullen's themselves were in on the colour scheme. However, as I stood taking in the new appearance of the room, a question bubble to my lips, what was all of this for?

"Urm… Alice…"I murmured uncertainly, not wishing to ruin her heavenly mood. She smiled knowingly, 'seeing' what I would ask.

"Bella, Edward, I realise that you both wanted to tell us something?" at this Edward took my ring hand and gave me a comforting grin, before turning to his family.

"Alice…Jasper…Esme…Carlisle…Emmett…Rosalie…" he addressed each of his family members individually before lifting my hand. "I'm sure Alice had managed to inform you all already however I feel…" he let his gaze fall to me. "We feel…" I grinned up at him in encouragement at his correction. "That you should hear it from us in person." He paused to gaze at everyone again, before gently squeezing my hand. "Bella and I are to me married. We ask for you all to accept this and to be there on our wedding day!" as I stood staring at Edward, I noticed that he seemed to be glowing. Then all too suddenly, he was kissing me, ignoring the audience we seemed to have. As he pulled away I felt a blush spread across my face.

"Oh Bella dear! I am so pleased that you accepted Edwards's proposal! Of course I already think of you as my daughter, but this just makes it that bit more official! Oh and Edward…" Esme freed me from her embrace to turn to him.

The rest of the night passed in the same manner. It was just a blur, partly because of all the wedding compliments, though mostly because I was still exhausted. As we turned to leave it was not a surprise when Esme ran over to see off the 'newlywed couple to be'. However millisecond later, Jasper appeared and was hugging me babbling on about me being a sister to him.

"Jasper? Do you feel ok?" Alice's chiming laughter filled the awkward silence. With this jasper almost leapt back from me in realisation of what he had just done. I swear that if vampires could blush, his would rival mine.

"Oh ermm…" he paused to laugh nervously. " I guess I underestimated just how Happy Esme really is!" he smiled sheepishly at both Edward and I while everyone snickered behind him. "I can be really annoying at times… you know, being able to feel everyone's happiness and…" he turned to Emmett "lust?" He finished in a confused tone. At this Rosalie giggled, a sound that was too perfect and musical. She took Emmett's huge hand in her own and they started to walk up the marble stairs.

"Bye Bella!" I heard them call from somewhere overhead.

"Okay, that's my queue to leave!" I mumbled with a blush as I realised why they had gone upstairs. Everyone had grins on their faces as they said their goodbyes and I was soon in Edwards's arms with the wind blowing against my face. I must have fallen asleep because I woke when he laid me onto my bed, pulling the covers over me.

"Sleep my Bella." I heard Edward whisper before I fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.