Chapter: 10
It has been ten days since Bella and I started making our wedding plans. Alice, Renee, and my mom are all busy bringing the plans we help make together. In view of the fact that Bree will still need to be kept isolated, we've decided the wedding should be here in the hospital chapel. Emmett has already offered to make our meal and wedding cake. The hospital has agreed to allow us to use one of the larger staff rooms to have the meal in.
After much talking, Bella has picked and asked Rose, Alice, and Angela to be her bridesmaids. Of course our little princess will be our flower girl and ring bearer. I have asked Emmett, Jasper and also Ben, Angela's boyfriend, to be my groomsmen. Bella and I felt this was the right thing to do for Angela. The only people that have been invited, beside the wedding party, are both set of our parents, Mrs. Cope, Tia, Tanya, and Angela and Ben's families.
James has offered to videotape the ceremony for us and feed it through so some of the other patients in the ward can watch. Most of the children on the ward have become very attached to Bella. Since most of them are far too ill to be in the chapel, this was the best alternative.
Jasper has already started his side of the treatments to donate bone marrow and the procedure is scheduled for Monday morning. Because of that and the wedding, Alice has set up Angela's picnic with Jasper for today.
The best thing is Angela has no idea what is about to happen. Bella has told Angela about the fund that she has set up in her name and about the song, which I know is going real well, but Angela has no idea that she is about to spend the day with Jasper or that she, too, is going to go to the awards show. She will not only be there to just watch, but she'll be walking down the red carpet as well.
"Good morning, Angela," I say with a smile, as she returns it with a weak one of her own.
"I hear my sister's kidnapping you for the day?" Angela nods and I check her blood pressure.
"Yes, your sister is really strange. On one hand when I talk to her she seems like she my age, but then as soon as fashion is brought in to it she turns into this mad, bossy woman. Who I will admit, I'm a little afraid of," Angela chuckles at the end.
"She brought me this," Angela says as she waves her hand up and down her clothes.
"I know, and you look great, really beautiful," I say and Angela blushes a little.
"But it's a little much for a picnic in the hospital gardens."
I shake my head at her. "Nope, I think it's just the perfect thing," I say with a wink and Angela rolls her eyes and sighs.
"Well, I've checked you over, and everything looks good. You are now free to leave, I'll get your chair," I say walking to the door. Just as I get there, Bella walks in pushing Angela's wheelchair.
"I thought we could walk her down on the way to the cafeteria for breakfast." I smile and chuckle knowing Bella really wants to see Angela's face when she sees Jasper standing there.
"Okay, are you all ready, Angela?" Angela looks between Bella and I giving us an odd look which more than likely is because we are grinning away.
I pick Angela up and carefully place in her wheelchair, then strap her in.
"You know I can still walk, right, Doc?" Angela asks as she narrows her eyes at me.
"I know, but I like to carry women," I say with a chuckle as Bella starts to push Angela's chair.
"Well, Doc, I say you manhandle your soon-to-be, and leave the rest of the female race alone."
I shrug my shoulders. "I have strict instructions that you are to be treated like a princess today, so you will have to make do. You're not the only one that is afraid of Alice, just so you know."
Angela chuckles and rolls her eyes.
Bella stops just before the gardens and I hand her the blindfold and head to let everyone know she coming.
I walk in and smile. Alice has put some fairy lights all around and has some fake butterflies and birds all around. She has really made the place look like a magical forest. Then there's the small picnic area, where Jasper's standing holding a single rainbow-dyed rose.
"She's on her way," I say, as I go and stand with Mrs. Weber. Mrs. Weber quickly pulls her cell out ready to record this.
"Bella, why do I need a blindfold? I have been in the garden here thousands of times," Angela says making us all chuckle a little. "Who all's here? What's going on?" Angela says a little shaky. Bella kisses her head and undoes her blindfold.
"Ho ... what?" Angela says as she looks around.
We can all see the tears glistening in her eyes. She sees Jasper as he starts to make his way to her, and her mouth falls open.
"Hello, little darling, I was wondering if you would sit with me for a little while and share this amazing picnic?"
Angela opens and closes her mouth a few times as she tries to speak. We all chuckle when she just nods completely starstuck by him.
"Would you mind if I carried you over to the blanket?" This time she just shakes her head.
Jasper unbuckles her and carefully picks her up, carrying her over and sits her down. "Now this is for you, and they," he says pointing at us, "are going to leave us alone. If that's okay, so we can talk and get to know each other?" Jasper adds a wink at the end.
"Ye ... yeah. Um, I'm Angela, Hi," Angela says making us all giggle again.
"Have a good day, baby," Mrs. Weber says giving Angela a hug. We all wave, not that Angela seems to notice and walk out.
"Mrs. Weber, would you like to join us for breakfast?" I ask.
"Yeah, we can tell you our plans for the award show," Bella adds.
Mrs. Weber takes a deep breath and nods. I watch how Bella ropes her arm with Mrs. Weber as we all walk.
The day seems to go fast. I've just finished my rounds when I see Jasper carrying a sleeping Angela and Alice pushing her empty wheelchair beside him.
"She fell asleep, and I wasn't sure how to put someone who's asleep into the chair," he says when I reach him.
"It's fine, do you want me to take her?" I ask and Jasper shakes his head.
"No, I've got her." I nod and walk with him to Angela's room. When we walk in Mrs. Weber's head snaps up and she smiles holding back her tears back when she sees Angela who still has a huge grin on her face.
"I can't thank you enough, Mr. Whitlock, you, too, Alice," she says as Jasper places Angela on her bed.
"It was my pleasure, Mrs. Weber. I would just like to say you've raised a beautiful, kind, young girl, who I will always remember. Tell her I will be back to visit a lot more. While I'm in here recuperating after the donation, I look forward to the game of cards she promised me. And it's just Jasper, ma'am."
Mrs. Weber nods. "Thank you, Jasper, I'll be sure to tell her."
"We'll leave you to get her changed," I say softly before walking out.
I was glad to have such an amazing day. I knew the next few days were going to be busy getting everything ready for the wedding.
~IIDY~
I look at myself in the mirror and let out a slow breath. I really can't believe I am getting, married today. I feel surreal, but I know it's the right thing to do, and I want it so much.
I walk to Bree's room making sure her portable bubble is ready. I smile when I see her sitting up looking out at me.
"Hey, Princess, you look beautiful." Bree taps the bubble and frowns.
"It's just for an hour baby, I swear. Soon as mama and I are married we'll come up here with you." I place my finger at my mouth kissing them before putting them on the bubble. Bree grabs them and then tries to bite me. I chuckle shaking my head at her.
"Are your teeth still hurting?" Bree just looks at me then to the bubble again.
"Mama, Mama!" she yells and I nod.
"Yes, let's go and get Mama," I say as Mrs. Cope comes in with another staff nurse. We walk down to the chapel that has already been cleaned to the right standards of the ward Bree was in.
I look to see Emmett and Jasper walking in along with my parents.
"Hey, are you ready?" Emmett asks tapping my arm. I nod and smile.
"More than you can imagine." He shakes his head and grins at me.
"I always thought Alice would be the first." I chuckle and smile at him.
"I would have been if my mean big brothers didn't stop me." Emmett and I turn to see Alice standing there pouting at us.
"Whatever, Ally," I say with a sigh and she rolls her eyes.
"We ready to roll? You two are with me," she says pointing to the doors. I watch them walk out and then my mom and Renee. Tanya walks in along with Mrs. Weber, her sons, and Ben's family. I smile when they all rearrange their seat so they are all around Bree.
I take a deep breath. "Are we all ready to begin?" I look around the room seeing that everyone is here and James is all set up. I nod at the Reverend and he smiles at me before soft music starts to play. I watch as Rose and Emmett come down the small aisle first. When they get to me, Emmett places a soft kiss on Rose's hand and lets her go and stands at my side. They are soon followed by Jasper and Alice. Angela and Ben are the final couple to walk down the aisle and I smile at how pretty Angela looks. Angela does not look like a young girl who hasn't a care in the world, nor does she appear to be gravely ill. The girls are all in nice fairy dresses that have different shades of purple through them. When a new song comes on, I look to see Charlie walking Bella down to me. I look her up and down as I try not to hang my mouth open. She has on a white dress that goes just below her knee at the front, but is a little longer in the back. It has beautiful beading work done on it and then there are her white shoes that lace up her legs. My eyes go to her face seeing, like always when she's herself, she only has a limited amount of makeup on.
"Mama, Mama, my mama," Bree yells making us all chuckle.
Bella reaches me and Charlie kisses her cheek before placing her hand in mine after giving me a surprising hug.
As the Reverend talks, my eyes are firmly on Bella, and she returns my stare. I really have no idea how we managed to repeat what was asked of us.
"Is there anyone here that has any reason why these two should not be joined together? Speak now or forever hold your peace." I watch as Bella frowns and looks at the Reverend then to me.
"Can I have like one minute?" she asks the Reverend who tilts his head and nods it questioningly. I feel my heart start to race as she pulls me to the corner of the room.
"I was wrong when I said I was falling in love with you."
I feel myself staring to pale, but thankfully she carries on.
"I'm already completely and utterly head-over-heels in love with you. You are my best friend in the whole world and I can't believe I get to spend the rest of my life with you."
I wipe the tears falling from her eyes and let out my breath.
"I'm sorry if I scared you. I just wanted you to know before you married me, under the guise of helping me."
I nod and kiss her. I hear some cheers and look to see everyone watching us.
"I'm in love with you, too," I say before kissing her again.
"Hey guys, we're all waiting on you two to finish tying the knot."
I chuckle and nod at James. "Let's go and finish getting married," I say.
We walk back over and the Reverend stands giving us a smile. "Are we ready to finish?" Bella and I nod at him.
"With the power vested in me by God almighty and the great state of Iowa, I now pronounce you husband and wife ... you may kiss your bride ... again."
I kiss Bella with a large smile on my face, as everyone cheers.
We stay and James takes loads of pictures. We made sure he got a lot of Angela and Ben all dressed up fancy. Once we were all done, our guests all went to the staffroom while Bella and I took Bree back to her room. Everyone knew we planned to spend an hour alone with Bree before joining them downstairs. It didn't feel like a long time passed before Rose and Emmett showed up.
"Okay bro, take your woman down and get something to eat. Then take her home with you for the night. It's Rosie and my turn to have some time with the munchkin."
I look at Emmett and shake my head.
"Are you both sure? I mean the bed is all right but ..."
Rose puts her hand over Bella's mouth shutting her up. "Yes, we're sure, Bree will be fine. This bed will be fine; I've slept in the back of that truck of yours, remember? Just go have a good night, be with your husband. Everyone needs a night off, Bells. You've been cooped up in here for almost a month now."
Bella sighs and looks to Bree.
"Eddy, please take her out of here to the party and then home with you. You guys could always play a game of Monopoly or something."
I roll my eyes at her. "Sure, Rosie," I say with a smirk.
This is Rose and my newest thing to irritate each other. She calls me Eddy knowing I hate it and I call her Rosie as she despises it, from everyone apart from Emmett.
"Thank you," I say to Emmett and Rose really meaning it. I know how much Bella hates being away from Bree, but like Rose said, she's not really left the hospital much in the last few weeks. And even one night away will do her good.
I walk Bella down to the conference room where our families await us. We sit and have something to eat before dancing to a few songs. James and Jasper both are here, but Jasper's eating a special diet, to help ward off side effects of the transplant. Jasper had already started his daily injections. James offered to be there for him, support wise, since he just went through this. James had fought off headaches quite a bit during his procedure, so he knows how sick you can get. Jasper said his head hurts a little, but no worse than when Rose pops him for doing something stupid.
Once I've danced with every girl, I grab Bella's hand and pull her close to me. "Hey, wife, what do you say we head back to my place—well our place now?"
"I think that sounds like a stellar idea, husband," she giggles.
We make our way around the room and thank everyone saying our goodnights. I never thought I would be so happy in my life. I never thought I would find this kind of happiness. I can't stop smiling as I watch my wife hug and kiss our friends. I especially love how Bella takes her time with Angela and Ben.
~IIDY~
I walk her to the door then pick her up as I walk through the door. I smile and kiss her lips as we make our way to our room. "I love you, Bella Cullen," I say and her smile gets larger.
"I love you, too, Edward Cullen," she shakes her head and I chuckle kissing her neck.
"That doesn't have the same effect." I nod at her a little.
I look in her eyes as we kiss removing each other's clothes. Everything is as if it is a scripted dance, she moves, I move. With a lash of a tongue and the brush of a touch, we're both in ecstasy. It doesn't take too long before I'm buried deep inside her. We spend the rest of the night trading touches and showing each other our deepest desires.
I wake to see that Bella's still sound asleep; I kiss her head and put on a pair of boxers before making my way to the kitchen. I turn on the radio and smile when almost straight away one of Bella's songs comes on.
I sing and dance along as I make our breakfast.
"You know you could be a singer, you really have an amazing voice. Not to mention that you're extremely sexy shaking that fine tush of yours."
I turn and see Bella is standing there in one of my shirts that only has one of the buttons connected. I just know she's naked underneath it. I swallow and grin at her. "Well, if the whole doctor thing falls through, I know I have another job somewhere. So my wife thinks I have a nice tush, huh?" I ask as I stalk over to her.
Bella chuckles and stands on her tiptoes and kisses my lips. "Oh, absolutely," she says giving my tush a squeeze. I drop the fork I was using to make the scrambled eggs and bring her closer to me.
"Fuck," I say picking her up and placing her on the counter. "I don't think I will ever get enough of you," I say as she moans arching her back as she pushes herself against me.
After the whole night of bringing each other to sensual levels of intimacy, you'd think we'd be sated, but clearly neither of us was. Within no time the shirt is wide open and my boxers are on the floor. Moving together, it isn't long before we are fully on the floor. Sitting with my back against the breakfast bar, my incredibly hot wife rides me. As we reach our mutual pleasure, I can't help but tell her repetitively how much I love her while I look in her eyes.
We quickly clean up and throw out the eggs, and decide to stop at a drive through on the way to the hospital. We grab a breakfast burrito and coffee from McDonalds, and arrive an hour before my shift starts. Bella and I walk into the hospital grinning holding hands. We both wash up and head inside of Bree's room. Rose and Emmett are playing with Bree and it looks like Rose and Bree are dressing Emmett up. I see they're using the princess things that I bought for Bree.
"Oh, I'm so taking a picture," I say quickly using my cell.
Emmett looks at me in shock and he's clearly flabbergasted. "Dude that's so uncalled for, delete the picture right now!"
I shake my head turning off my cell and putting it in my pocket. "Nope, Mom always wanted another girl and now she's got one."
Emmett tilts his head. "As your older and more sexy brother, I command you to hand over the cell, or I'll just have to tell little Bella some stories about you. You know like the time I had some girls over for a pool party and you sported a woody and came in your pants while you were ogling them playing around in the water?"
I feel my face getting a bit red as I hear Bella and Rose laughing.
"Ah, but then I will have to tell Mom about the fact those magazines really belonged to you and not your friend who asked you to keep them safe for you. I'm sure that will go over well, since you made such a big deal about not knowing what was in them," I say rolling my eyes at how gullible my mom is.
"Then I will have to tell Bella about the time you went to the party your good buddy Amun invited you to back in college. You know the one I am talking about. The only 'ladies' there was the ones in drag, because your good buddy was gay and thought you were, too. How many phone numbers did you get that night, bro?"
I narrow my eyes at Emmett. Thank God he doesn't know that I got calls for months afterward. "Well then, I'll tell mom about the time you got off when her—FRIEND—you know the one she went to school with, was staying with us. She was out by the pool putting on suntan lotion and you jerked it in the pool house as you watched her."
"Hey, she was hot," Emmett yells.
"She was like fifty," I say with a shiver.
"Oh God, stop, please my sides are hurting," Rose chuckles out.
Both Emmett and I pale as we turn to see both Rose and Bella sitting on the floor laughing with Bree giggling in between them.
"Shit, sorry bro," Emmett says.
I roll my eyes at him. "Just go, so I can spend time with my wife and little Princess before I need to start working."
Emmett nods and helps Rose up, walking out.
"Edward, don't you think you should remind him about the makeup and princess stuff?"
I grin at her shaking my head. "Nope … that, my love, is what he gets."
Bella starts to chuckle again and I kiss her head as we sit and play with Bree, as she gives us a cup of play tea.
~IIDY~
The rest of our weekend was spent dealing with fallout from a leak in the press. Somehow, someone inside the hospital chose to leak a video of the wedding ceremony to the world-wide-web. Of course the person who did it, sold to the highest bidder. Big Stuff News, claims they paid twenty thousand dollars for the exclusive video and photos.
Our family, the Judge, Tanya, and the Board of Directors of the hospital are very disturbed by the leak. Not only is the whole video on the Internet now, but there are several pictures posted throughout all of the many different tabloids. There are close-up photos of Bree in the ceremony, as well as when she was being transported to the chapel from her room. The leak also gave the public Bree's full name as of now, Bree Hope Doe, and her date of birth.
None of us think James had anything to do with the leak. The photos James took are different from the ones posted, but the video is the same. Which means someone else was actually there and got photos. There are even photos from our dance, and Bella and I leaving the hospital that night. The security staff is going over tapes to see who may've been the other photographer.
All we can see is from the angle the person would have been in one of the empty offices that is off the conference room. I don't know who would be so disrespectful, but I knew with everyone we had working on the matter we would figure it out. My wife was handling everything amazingly and it makes me love her more. The only thing that is pushing her is all the talk around our daughter. That was something neither of us wanted.
Sunday is spent getting Jasper ready to donate bone marrow tomorrow morning. I will be doing the harvesting on Jasper as Tia will be working with Bree.
James had no side effects when he did his procedure, but made sure to be there for Jasper. Thankfully, James was there; Jasper had a hard go of it. Jasper is very sick after the procedure and ended up having to stay a few days in the hospital as well. Between his massive headache and the vomiting, he is getting fluids and meds to help with the discomfort and dehydration. It's not uncommon for these side effects when donating bone marrow. Sometimes the person will feel sick, or be sick several days before the procedure from the Filgrastim injections. Of course, the harvesting of the bone marrow is not a fun process either, but it is a discomfort many will gladly do to save a life. I'm happy to say, that Jasper says he'll donate again, if he is needed to do so, for anyone.
We spend the next few days getting everything squared away for the trip to Los Angeles for the awards show. Bella has cut the single, in a recording studio here at the campus. Angela actually helped Bella with some of the lyrics for the song. Bella asked Angela's brothers to play the acoustic guitar and piano for the song, and they agreed. I got to hear the song, and I am thrilled to say it is amazing.
Rose and Bella put forth a lot of effort into making this perfect; they got some of the best of the business to fly in and help out. All of them donated their time to the project for free, to help get the project done as cheaply as possible. Ironically, Sony agreed to cut the single for free and distribute and market the single at no cost. Bella intended to pay to do this, and in reality it's costing her nothing more than her time and talent.
We made several arrangements for the upcoming trip to California, and I am happy to say that we are going to be able to check off several more things from Angela's bucket list.
As it stands now, she only has a few things yet to do. Angela got to not only meet, but spend a perfect day having Jasper treating her like a princess. She has been in our wedding and spent the day showing Ben how much he meant to her. The awards show is soon, where not only will she see the stars on the red carpet, but she'll walk it as well. At the awards show, Isa will debut the song written for Angela, and the host of the show will give a short speech about Angela and the new foundation. Angela's name will be known worldwide after the awards show.
It's been fourteen days since Bree's transplant and she is doing well, but I hate that we have to leave her. At least she is in the good hands of our family, while we head to the awards show. Riley should have been going home this week, but he has to stay with the onset of a bit of infection. We caught it almost immediately, so he should be fine in a week or so. James has been a big help in keeping his spirits high, so that is a good thing.
I head to the room to see my Princess. When I get there my beautiful wife is sleeping in the recliner, with Bree curled up against her chest. I lean down and gently pick up my sweet little girl. I kiss her lightly before I put her in her bed. I cover her up and stroke her sweet cheek. "Daddy, loves you my sweet Princess."
"She loves her daddy, too," Bella says before wrapping her arms around my middle. She is going to be okay, isn't she?"
"She is doing remarkable, my love," I say raising the crib rails. I turn and face Bella and I pick her up. I carry her to what has become our bed, since we stay here every night. "Now it is our turn to get some rest. I love you," I say as I cuddle around my wife and we doze off together.
A/N: Well things for Angela's bucket list are going well. Bree is doing better. Up next is the red carpet, and more on fulfilling Angela's wishes. See you Friday. Nikky, Jess and Kasi~
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