Holiday Tails

Chapter 10

Halloween Wedding

Summary: Formally named Our Christmas Tails, this will be the adventures of Kittybells and her Human Bella and Ginger-cat and his Human Edward through the Holidays of 2014. How will the 2 and 4 legged protagonists fare through the coming year as the holidays progress?

Disclaimer: Ms. Meyer started it all. I've borrowed her characters, but this storyline is mine.

A/N: My undying thanks to my Beta JoanOfArt and to buggins74, NanStew, AnakinsRealMom and Gabby1017 who pre-read for me. Wouldn't be able to do this without you! Honestly.

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October 31st

Halloween Wedding

Our household is all a dither.

Bella is going to marry Edward!

I'm thinking that will make Ginger-cat and me brother and sister now. Strange. I thought brothers and sisters came in litters. Never occurred to me that our human's getting married would make us related.

"I'm so excited," Bella gushes as she picks me up and is now rocking me in her arms like she did when I was a kitten. Well technically, I'm still a kitten since I'm not quite two years old yet, but that's ok. I love My Bella and the rocking in her arms makes me feel so loved and cherished...like I haven't felt in a very long time. I've been the one to make sure that Bella was happy and that she carried out her routines correctly.

I realize that since Edward and Ginger-cat have moved in with us that I've been feeling not as loved as before. I have missed all the personal time Bella and I used to spend together... missed the playing we used to do together, like when she'd play tag with me, or when she'd dangle a toy made of a bunch of feathers on a string and allow me to sometimes catch it and try to make it my kill.

I've missed the times she'd praise me for being her little huntress when I'd bring her those small wiggly creatures that lurk under the sink - having gotten in the house on the plumbing. Now it's become one of the many jobs I feel I'm required to perform.

"Today, you're going to help me with my wedding! I'm going to carry you down the aisle with me when I go to meet Edward and have the minister perform the wedding service, and guess what! Ginger-cat will be there with Edward waiting for us!" Bella nuzzles my face with her nose and continues to explain what role Ginger-cat and I shall perform in the wedding.

"Both of you will be wearing pretty collars from which will be hanging our wedding rings. You'll be carrying the ring I'll be giving Edward, and Ginger-cat will be carrying the ring Edward will put on my hand."

I look up at her and chirp what she knows is a question about what she's just told me.

"What is a ring?" Bella asks.

I chirp and purr in answer.

"A ring is a kind of collar, or a visible chip that tells other humans that Edward and I belong to each other. It actually completes the engagement ring he's already given me. Very much like the chips both you and Ginger-cat have that tells everyone who looks, that you live with us and should you be lost, will help them find us for you. In fact that's how Edward and I met, if you remember. You were lost, he found you and knew to look for a chip." Bella smiles remembering that cold, snowy night she'd been working late and hadn't left my kitty door open. I was so cold and worried. But Ginger-cat had taken me home with him.

I nuzzle her chin and purr in complete contentment. I know, once more, that she truly loves me; that I should have never had any doubts.

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Today is very interesting. Bella's human friend, Alice, is at the house and Bella is wearing - what she's calling - a "wedding dress." Bella is standing on a crate and Alice is on the floor with a little box that's filled with very short shiny things. When Alice is not looking I stick my paw into the box to feel the shiny things.

I feel a very sharp sting to my paw. I jerk my paw back and in doing so, I turn over the little box causing Alice to yell at me. I'm hurting in my paw and now I'm hurting in my feelings. I didn't do it on purpose.

Bella jumps down from the crate and picking me up, she looks at my paw to see if I'm badly hurt. I love my human!

Once Bella is convinced that my paw is not damaged badly, she nuzzles my head and ears. She once more stands on the crate, but continues to hold me in her arms. While standing there, Alice once again starts putting the sharp shiny things into the bottom of the dress.

"I know you don't understand what's happening Kittybells," Bella tells me, "so I'll explain. Alice is making sure that the bottom, or hem, of this dress is level...since my butt sticks out further than my front does." Bella and Alice giggle. "Also, this is my wedding dress for when Edward and I get married next week on Halloween."

Alice sighs deeply, "I wish you could have waited a couple more months and had a Christmas wedding since that's when you met Edward. That would have been so romantic." Alice's eyes kinda went unfocused when she spoke.

I squirm. I want down. I'm bored, and I see another one of those critters scurrying out of the kitchen and I must do my job!

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Before I realize it, the day is here. The house is frenetic with activity. Alice is here as well as one of Edward's friends. They, Alice and Jasper - I think that's his name - are here to help Edward and Bella get dressed. I just don't understand. Bella and Edward have been able to get themselves dressed for a very long time. Why do they need help now?

I go into the bedroom where Bella is just now stepping into her very long dress, and Alice is doing something behind Bella. I pad over to see what Alice is doing and as I watch the back of the dress is closing up. How do humans do things like that? It never ceases to amaze me the things they can do!

Bella notices me as she turns around to look into the mirror - I assume. She's always looking at herself in the mirror. I still don't understand why, but humans do things like that all the time that I just don't understand. "How do I look Kittybells? Do you like my purple and black dress?" She asks me.

I just continue to sit there looking up at her. What's purple? What's black? I just smile at her. She seems to love it when I smile because my tongue kinda shows in my mouth and Bella said she'd read somewhere that when a cat sticks out their tongue it's a sign of joy. Like so many things Bella says to me, I don't understand, but I am happy that she's talking to me.

"Bella I still don't understand why you've chosen these colors for your wedding," Alice says sounding disappointed.

Bella looks at her friend in the mirror, shaking her head and opens her mouth to reply, but Alice puts up her hands in an action I now recognize as giving up. Bella smiles and laughs at her friend and Alice joins in.

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Ginger-cat and I are waiting in our carrying-cases to be taken out to join in the wedding party - whatever that means. Ginger-cat is as confused as I am, but we trust our humans.

Then the cage door is being opened and Edward is taking me out. He gently places me on a tabletop and slips on my head a thing that I don't want there because it feels so strange. However, I know whatever it is, it's not meant to hurt me. I decide I will tolerate it because I know it's something that my human wants me to have on my head.

I look at Ginger-cat, who's already sitting on the table watching. He has something on his head too. It looks really funny, and I can see he's as unhappy about it as I am about what's on mine. I simply fold up my paws and sit down like Ginger-cat is, and wait.

Soon Alice comes bouncing into the room where we are waiting patiently. I'm still thinking about pulling this thing off my head.

"Oh! Don't you both look just too too cute together with your little witch hats on your heads!" Alice squeals. She makes my ears hurt when she does that and I fold them back to my head, or I try to. The thing on my head - what did Alice call it, a witch's hat? prevents my ears from folding back. This just makes me want this thing off my head that much more.

Alice scoops me up and bounces out of the room making me want to use my claws to hold on, but I don't. That would hurt Alice.

I am not at all happy.

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Soon I'm in a room where Bella is standing waiting for me. Alice hands me to her and her touch is loving. She holds me to her chest and I can feel her heart beating and that soothes me. It makes my discomfort almost worth it. I still want that thing off my head though. "I have something else for you to wear Kittybells. I'm sorry. I know that witch hat is uncomfortable, but please bear with it for just a bit longer. I promise after we're married I'll take it off. In the mean time, please tolerate this collar for me. It has the ring I'm going to give Edward attached to it." Bella quickly fastens the collar on me and I can feel the ring dangling from it as it bumps my chest.

Alice is gushing again. If Bella didn't like her, I think I just might have to scratch her. "Bella, it was a stroke of genius to use your cats in your wedding. After all, it's because of them you met Edward," sighing, "it's so romantic."

Bella laughs, "Alice, you think everything is romantic."

There's a knock on the door. Alice bounces to open it and there is Jasper. They smile at each other. The look that passes between them is one of sizing up a potential mate. "Are y'all ready?" Jasper asks.

Laughing Bella answers, "Yes. Let's get this show on the road."

Minutes later, Bella holding me in her arms, is standing in front of a door. As the music starts, the door opens and Alice dressed in a black dress - I've realized that black is a color - goes through the door first. A few moments later Bella and I follow her.

The room is only about half full with people I have seen at our house on those occasions when Edward barbeques. These people are friends of both Bella and Edward. I can hear a collective sigh as Bella and I pass by them. I can also hear, how cute and beautiful gown, and I love the colors, and how unique a Halloween wedding.

Finally we get to where Ginger-cat, Edward and Jasper are waiting.

There is also another woman I don't know. She too is dressed in black, but it doesn't look as pretty as Alice's dress does. She has something around her neck that looks like a very wide white ribbon hanging down.

It looks like it would be fun to chase.

Now Bella is unclipping the ring for Edward from my collar. She hands me to Alice to hold and turns back to Edward. I have been watching and see that Edward had been doing something similar with Ginger-cat.

Bella has her back to me and Alice while she is speaking to Edward. He says the same thing back to her, "With this ring that represents the beginning and the end, I thee wed." I have no clue what that really means, but it doesn't matter because I know it's only minutes now before the collar and witch hat are taken off me.

Bella and Edward are now kissing. I look at Ginger-cat who is also watching what our humans are doing.

Bella and Edward take Ginger-cat and me back and turn to face their friends.

The woman standing behind us now says, "Ladies and gentlemen, I present Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cullen." Everyone there stands and cameras start flashing.

Alice is bouncing, again.

"Just a few more minutes, Kittybells, and I'll be able to take that hat off you as well as the collar. Thank you for being so patient. I love you." She is nuzzling me again.

Oh I love my Bella!

As promised, after enduring more than a few more minutes, and many more cameras flashing in my eyes - I'm seeing spots floating around - Bella removed that thing and the collar then puts me back into my carrying crate. I can see that Ginger-cat is back into his too.

"Now," Edward tells us, "comes the reception and we'd like you both to be with us. You both will be our guests of honor!"

As if Ginger-cat or I have much say in what goes on when we're in our carrying cases.

We take a short ride in back of Edward's SUV.

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We are removed from the SUV's back and Edward carries both of us in our cases into another building where we're taken out of them and set on a long table that has all kinds of pretty decorations on it. I know from listening to Alice and Bella talking that Alice is responsible for how the table looks, so to make Bella happy, I sit on the pillow that I'm sat upon. Ginger-cat does the same thing. We just look at each other and start grooming and waiting.

Soon, there are cameras flashing once more. They are taking pictures of Ginger-cat and me sitting on the table. I purr to Ginger-cat, if we were home they'd be yelling at us for sitting on the table.

Soon, both Bella and Edward are sitting down with us. There's a lot of talking going on between the friends, one at a time. Before long, Bella picks me up and puts me back into my carrying case and places me on a small table behind her. Edward is doing the same thing.

Soon I understand why. It's because the food is being brought out for the humans.

I find that I have water and food of my own to eat, and oh my, it's from the can! What a treat! Salmon. Oooh, I love Salmon. I can smell that Ginger-cat has tuna from the can. We are both so loved by our humans!

I decide that I like parties, especially when I get food from the can!

I love my human!

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