Chapter 9

The wedding was tomorrow, and Alice still had a lot to do. Jake was hanging with the pack today so when Alice called and asked for my help i was happy to go. The line where the Quileute land stops and the Cullen's land starts is about a 25 min walk for the blacks house, and Jake was not home i figured i could walk to where Alice would meet me.

La push was a gorgeous place, there were beautiful forest with rich green trees, i was so busy looking at the world around me, i didn't notice when i walked into Alice's shiny yellow Porsche, she kept it in such great shape. "wow careful" Alice giggled

"Oh sorry Alice, Geezz is all of Washington this pretty?"

"OOOHHH i really don't have enough time for this but...Come on, Rose and Esme can do for an hour or so." she said darting off into the woods around her. I followed as fast as i could, of course never fast enough to keep up with her. And she said she was running slow. Finally she stopped, we were standing in a small clearing. There were trees all around us and they reached up into the sky, it was breath taking.

"Wow" was all i could think of to say.

"Wow is right." Alice smiled. "Me and Jasper come here sometimes to get always from the rest of the family." this place was beautiful. We sat down in the tall grass that rose up around us. I led back and took in the world around me. I was sitting in a clearing where no one would find my body for months with a vampire who was smiling happily as she pranced around in the grass.

The trees here looked so real, the leaves on it were at there highest green before they start to change for fall, the bark on the trees were even a beautiful brown. "WELL," Alice signed as she walked over to me. "if i don't get back soon Rose and Esme will have me beheaded. Soooo, we'd better get going." she smiled. "wanna walk back?"

"Yes please" i smiled as i got up.

The walk back to Alice's car was peaceful, the wind blowing the tree tops, birds singing, and Alice talking about all the things she still had left to do for the wedding. Looking at this small, happy girl next to me made it really hard to believe that she could do even a fly any harm. When we finally got back to the car Alice was ecstatic, she had bought a new CD when we went shopping yesterday and she couldn't wait for me to hear it. "Which one is it?" she bought at least 6 new Cd's.

"Its the Faber Drive one."she smiled. "they are really good." she put the CD in and did a U-Turn heading to the highway. The first song was a very catchy upbeat song. I nodded my head to the lyrics. "You like it?!" Alice Yelled over the song. I did the Lyrics stuck: "'Cause it's so obvious Theres nothing wrong with us It's alright, we're alright No we're not about to go and make the same mistakes you mighta made It's so obvious So just stop, blaming us." The lyrics hit me thats how i had been just feeling about Alice. I was judging the fact that she was a vampire, that was my first impression with all the Cullen's vampires i should be scared, but the Cullen's didn't scare me i liked them.

"Ya i really like it!!" i yelled to Alice. "Can we listen to it again?"

"Sure" she started the song again and we sang along to the lyrics. In no time we were there. "so" Alice smiled. "when we get inside its going to be hectic. Esme is making a cake, Rose is sorting Flowers and other decorations both in the house and in the tent out back, I am making the dresses for the brides maids."

"Oh, who are the brides maids?"

"Me, Rose, Esme and Bella's friend Angela from school."

"Oh and you have all the sizes?"

"Of Course i called Angela for hers and Rose and Esme are in the house its not hard to get there sizes...HEY you look about Angela's size could i try her dress on you, to make sure it looks good. I already fit Rose and Esme im doing later. And my dress was easy. But Angela won't be here till tomorrow morning."

"Sure, i guess, but are you sure Rose and Esme don't need my help?"

"Esme is still making the cake so that well be forever until she needs help and Rose, Rose has Emmet at her beck and call if she needs help she will just ask him." she smiled. "Besides it will be fun"

"Okay, why not i mean in here. Hey wheres Bella?." that thought had just hit me, she wasn't anywhere in the house.

"Her mom and step dad flew in from Florinda today so Bella and her mom are spending the day together."

"Oh, how sweet"

"ya" she smiles and runs me up the stairs to a small room.

"this is your bedroom?" i asked puzzled, Alice's clothes wont even fit in the end.

"NO!! don't be silly, this is just hall to my room." Alice laughed, "My Clothes wouldn't even fit in this room."

the brides maid dresses were all on there own dummies. They were each a different shade of pink, the smallest, Alice's, was a very pale pink almost the colour of my dress, the next one, Esme's, was a bit brighter pink, the one that i would try on, Angela, was a normal pink, not too dark not to light. The last a shortest dress, Rosalie's, was a hot pink, and would work great with her soft skin and blond hair. "you made all of these?" Alice smiled.

"Ya, it was nothing, grab that Rose pink dress, there and try it on." she smiled, walking over to a large box, and grabbed a pin cushion that wrapped around her wrist and a small box of pins, she placed each pin in the cushion and walked over to me. "it looks perfect size, your about Angela's height to so just hold still well i pin in up a bit to make it shorter." i stood as still as i could until she finished. "there.. You can go help Esme now, she could really use it. I will be down later."

I walk down the stairs, what ever Esme was making smelled amazing. I walked into the kitchen, Esme was standing in front of a 6 layer cake, with five different colored icings around it. She was wearing an old apron and it made her look like a 50s house wife. She smiled when she saw me, and yelled up the stairs, "Thank you Alice, I was just going to call her".

"I know!" Alice laughed back.

"So," Esme sighs. I smile back at her. "Well i have a picture of what we want this cake to look like" she smiles and points to the drawing on the counter. Wow that looks hard. "Alice" Esme smiles, "She wants this to be the perfect wedding for Bella, but she really is going all out, I really appreciate your help."

"No Problem" I smile, "Esme if i can get Jacob Blake to wear a pink suit, We can make this cake look the way Alice wants it." We start working, Alice wants the whole cake white, so thats where we start. Its fun baking with Esme, she put the radio on and we sang along. The next thing Alice wanted was pink and purple roses which were just swirls of icing so we loaded the icing into tubes and started that. Next was orange trim around the bottom of each layer, that to finish it off she wanted a swirl of white and blue around the very top of the cake where the little plastic Bella and Edward will be.

When everything was done the kitchen was a big mess but when i started to clean Esme told me to stop. "We girls have done all the work for this wedding, its a family event so the family will all be part of helping and since the boys haven't done anything to help, Jasper and Emmett can clean this" she smiled and called them, we went and sat on the couch and well they went to work.

After the boys were done in the kitchen and Esme had put the cake always we went out back to see if Rose needed any help. She didn't, the tent in the back had chairs and tables all set up and there were large groups of flowers at both ends of each row of chairs. She was putting the finishing touches on the arch way, when we walked in. "thanks anyway" she said as Esme and I headed back inside. I went up to see if Alice needed any help.

"Alice, we finished down stairs is there anything i can help you with?" she was sitting on the couch in her room with her head down. She looked like she would be sleeping if she could.

"No" she smiled. "Every thing's done up here. Did you want me to drive you back to the blacks?"

"No i would like to hang around here if thats ok?"

"It sure is. Wanna see Bella's dress?"