A/N" Okay so, this is a rewrite because my computer deleted my other one. SO this one might not come out just like I wanted it too, so thanks for reading this story so far. Here's the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight. Or any mentioned piano music writers in this chapter.
Chapter 3: Happy Birthday, Daddy
I stood in the bathroom tapping my foot impatiently.
"Alice, is this really necessary?" I asked as she pulled at a few strands that were hanging off the top of the bun she had just finished.
"Completely, absolutely necessary. You promised you would—"
"I know. Don't you think that its too much though? I mean the dress? Shoes and makeup? Daddy doesn't really care what I wear for his 108th birthday. He only cares that I'm there to celebrate it with Mom and the rest of you."
Alice sighed. "Fine. I'll take it off."
As she was wiping some of the blush off I couldn't help noticing the little pout she had. How could I resist that?
"Alice. You know what? Since you seem so sad, just go ahead and do it." I said.
"Thank you! Okay, now let's get this back on!"
"Okay, but you do realize, every reward comes with some sort of price… don't you know that?" I asked smirking.
She stopped the brush and inch away from my face.
"Renesmee Carlie Cullen, what do you want? Clothes? Shoes? More makeup? A million dollars? You know very well I could give you all that because you're my favorite niece and all. And you always let me dress you up like a doll. You always—"
"Okay, here's the deal." I said interrupting her.
"What is it?" She asked brightly.
"Hmm, well I had to take your feelings in to great consideration. Seeing as you're a vampire though, you'll be able to take the full blow of this situation."
"Okay, just say it!"
"No wedding planning for… three whole weeks." I said smiling.
Her screeches could have been herd clear to La Push, or even Grandpa Charlie's house.
'What?! Renesmee you can't do this to me. You're amazing Aunt Alice. Really, you can't! We have so much to do. The dress… the shoes… cake… food… decorations… bridesmaids dresses… no! You can't! Please no! You can't please?"
"Would you prefer me letting Emily and Leah plan the wedding instead? Or will you wait three weeks?"
She let out her breath in a huge whoosh.
"Okay, fine! Only three weeks from today, got it?"
"Deal. Now where were we?" I asked.
"Mascara. Now stay still! It's hard to put it on when you're moving around."
Three hours, five minutes, fifty-five seconds later, we were done.
"Oh now don't you look stunning? Rosalie, Bella come see Nessa!"
I looked at myself and smiled appreciatively at Alice.
She didn't use as much makeup as I thought. There was just the right amout of blush and blue eyeshadow to make me seem a little less paler.
And the dress, it was so beautiful. It was the deepest purple. It was a one-shoulder dress. It came up to my knees. The chest area of the dress was decorated with diamond and beaded designs. The dress was so shiny and soft. And it clung to my body showing off the curves my father never wanted anyone but Jakey to see.
"Oh, just look at you. You're so beautiful." Mom said coming in from the hallway.
"Thanks Mom. You look very pretty too."
She had on a royal blue dress. It looked just like mine. "Dad'll love you in that one, Momma." I said smiling.
"Thank you." She said hugging me.
"Oh, she looks precious." Rose said coming in wearing a baby pink dress that was off the shoulder, and had beaded designs on the top half. Alice wore an identical dress to hers, but in light purple.
"Don't we make a stunning group, girls?" Rosalie asked looking at herself in the mirror.
"Well of course we do." Mom said.
"Well hello? Renesmee doesn't have her shoes on yet. Let's get them on her then we can officially say we all make a stunning group." Alice said pulling a bag out of the closet and handing it to me.
I pulled a box of shoes out and pulled the top off and gasped.
Deep purple pumps sat waiting for me to wear. Mom, Alice, Rose. Thank you so much!" I said sliding them on and jumping up to hug them.
"You're welcome sweetie. We decided that this should be your first ever pair of purple pumps." Mom said.
"And what better day to give them to you, than your Daddy's 108th birthday?" Rosalie asked.
"Mom? Does Emmett know about this? No offense Rosalie, but Emmett's kind of a big mouth. And if he tells—"
Rosalie started laughing.
"Do you honestly think that I could trust Emmett to keep the secret birthday party to himself? He is truly a big mouth. No doubt about that." She said smiling.
"Now go down there, Ness you have quite an impression to make. I suggest stopping in the living room first." Alice said excitedly.
I ran downstairs and smiled at what I saw.
All the wolves were putting up decorations. Emily was in the kitchen making food with Esme.
I saw Seth inflating balloons. He seemed to be having a blast with the helium tank. I saw Jacob near him tying strings to the bottom of them. He seemed a little bored.
I decided to help him. I passed Sam and Embry who were putting up a large banner that read: Happy happy birthday to you, Eddiekins!
That one had to be either Jasper, or Alice's idea.
"Jakey, need help with anything?" I asked hugging him. He turned and his jaw dropped to the floor.
'Erm… uh… Renes… uh… Nessie… you look… so… beautiful." He stumbled, completely lost for words.
I smiled smugly. "Well thank you, Sir. Jacob. You look mighty handsome yourself." Light blue was definitely his color. I would have to make some changes to the color scheme of the wedding.
"Thanks." He said smiling.
"Do you need any help with those?" I asked pointing to the balloons.
"Please?"
"Okay, only because you asked. When will they be back? Have you heard?"
"No. Noone knows. I guess Carlisle didn't tell Esme. So were on borrowed time here." He said, his fingers lazily tracing patterns across my arm.
I tied the last of them and stood on my tip-toes and kissed him lightly on the lips.
"You're welcome." I said smirking.
"Thank you." He said wrapping his arms around my waist.
"Anytime. Now Jacob. I do believe you owe me 31 kisses. One for each balloon I tied for you."I said laughing.
"Hmm, when do I owe you?" He asked grinning.
"Sometime before the clock strikes midnight. You know like Cinderella?" I said giggling.
"Well, I'll try my best." He said chuckling and taking me by the hand.
"Now come on, ness. You need to help me with something else." He pulled me outide and into the garage. Alice and I had our gift stored in here too. It was a black baby grand piano signed by his favorite composer, Brian Crane. He loved him so much, Alice and I just had to get him that one.
Of course, Mom and Rose had chipped in, so it was from all four of us.
"What is it?"
"Well, I just need your opinion on this… You see Seth, Embry, Sam and I made this for your Dad and we just need to know if it'll work." He said as he pulled out something large from a behind Rosalie's tool shelf. I gasped when I saw it.
It was a new piano bench made of dark Oakwood.
On the back of it it read: Here sits the best piano player in our world. May he continue to grace our ears with the best of music for many centuries, and decades to come.
Next to the carved words, they'd carved a vampire embracing a wolf.
Tears filled my eyes as I jumped in to Jacob's arms.
"Oh Jakey, he's going to love it." I said.
He kissed my forehead and swayed from side to side.
"Ssshh. Ness. Don't ccry. Alice will kill you if you ruin your beautiful face." He said into my hair.
"He'll love it." I said again, wiping my face. No makeup came off, thank goodness.
Okay, I'm glad he will. Shall we go inside now?" He asked.
"Of course." I said taking his hand in mine and squeezing it.
We walked inside just in time. Dad and the boys were just coming back.
"places everyone." Alice whispered.
Rosalie shut off the lights and we all stood still.
" "—and of course all of us men know Bella has a special surprise for Sir. Edward here tonight." Emmett said as they walked up the porch steps.
"Boys. Please. My ears can't take much more of your talk about—"
"Oh Carlisle. Get used to it. We all know you and Esme do stuff that…" Jasper was cut off by Carlisle's hand crashing against his mouth. There was a boulder-like crash as it connected.
"Sorry." Jasper muttered behind his hand.
"Hey what's with all this?" Emmett asked loudly as he pointed at the tables and chairs.
"I don't know." Jasper said all to innocently.
Rose gave the signal and Esme turned on the lights.
We shouted, "Happy birthday, Edward!"
Dad looked a little startled at first. Then he was smiling broadly.
"Thank you." He said smiling at all of us.
"This means so much." He said as he went around the room hugging everyone.
"You're welcome, Dad." I said.
A few minutes later, the party was in full swing. The wolves ate, the vampires danced. Emily and I sat at a table and chatted about possible baby names.
"I still think Adella Marie is a great name for a girl." Rosalie said sitting down at our table.
"What does it mean, anyways?" Mom asked.
"Adella means Noble. And marie means of the Sea." Rose said smiling.
"So it would be perfect. She was conceived by the sea, wasn't she?" Bella asked.
"Yes." Emily said blushing faintly.
"She would truly be Noble of the sea." Esme said.
"Now lets talk boy names." Alice said bouncing in her seat.
"No. It's time to let Edward open his gifts." Emily said grinning.
Mom grabbed Dad's hand and dragged him over to a table filled with gifts, and a huge cake.
Esme snapped a bunch of pictures as everyone placed their gifts in his hands.
"This one's from us." Emmett said beaming at Jasper.
Dad tore the blue and white striped paper off and started guffawing.
"Oh, boys, you went there. You actually bought me a whip, and all the halo games."
"A whip?" Mom asked confused.
"I don't wanna know." Leah said.
"Good, don't tell anyone." Emmett said looking at Dad.
"This one's from Carlisle and I." Esme said handing him a large square box.
Dad carefully removed the gold gift wrap and gasped.
"Are these… originals?" He asked.
"Yes. All from your favorite composer." Carlisle said smiling.
"Thank you so much." Dad said almost in tears.
"You're welcome, Edward." Carlisle said hugging him.
"Now, you have two more presents outside. Alice, blindfold him." Rosalie said excitedly.
Alice jumped onto Dad's back and clamped her hands over his eyes.
"Come along everyone. These you have to see." I said as I opened the door. Everyone followed us, excited whispers filling the air.
When we got to the garage, Alice let him go. Dad looked curiously at the two huge presents that stood in front of him.
"Open the taller one first." Alice said bouncing on her feet.
Dad carefully slipped off the royal blue ribbon that I had tied around the piano.
He began to pull off the many yards of blue gift wrap Alice and I had carefully wrapped over and around it.
"What is this? There is quite a lot of paper here." Dad said chuckling.
"It's one of the best gifts you'll ever receive from me." Alice said smiling.
"From all of us girls." I corrected.
He lifted up the last piece and gasped.
"It's… so… beautiful. And it's signed by… Mr. Crane himself." Dad said almost speechless.
He turned and grabbed Mom and spun her around. Then he did it to Rose, Alice and I.
"I love you all so much." He said tears in his eyes.
"And this one's from us wolves and Emily." Jacob said placing the box with the piano bench inside in Dad's arms.
He unwrapped it and gasped.
He carefully set it down and hugged Sam. I'd never seen my Dad hug Sam, but he did. Then he hugged my Fiancee so hard, I thought he'd split him in two.
"Thank you so much, boys, and Emily. This means so much. Thank you everyone. I love you all so much." Dad said his voice quivering just a little.
We all went inside then and enjoyed the rest of the party.
As the night came to an end, I nudged Jacob playfully as we sat cuddled up to each other on the sofa watching Mom and Dad dance to their wedding song.
"Jakey, you do realize its almost midnight, don't you?"
He chuckled.
"I know. I think you said thirty-one kisses correct?" He said pulling me into his arms.
"You know me too well." I said after the first kiss.
"Hm, well thirty now… what do you say we dance now, and make these up later?"
"Fine. Jacob Black you'll owe me fifty when we get around to it." I said standing up and stretching.
For the next few hours, we danced and just stared at each other. I couldn't wait to dance our first dance as husband and wife. These last few months couldn't go fast enough.
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