Bella's POV

It was this past summer, almost six months ago. Edward and I decided to get away for a long weekend with our friends Angela and Ben there.

Nothing was planned then.

We were going to Hawaii.

It was supposed to be refreshing and warm.

A time to catch up, not get married.

But, at the time… it just made sense.

It still does.

Our two closest friends were with us…

We already had a promise to each other that we were going to get married one day. Although, he never officially asked, or given me a ring yet.

We were already like a married couple and I guess we were just impatient to make things official.

We decided to get married the first night we were there.

Edward and I were taking a walk on the beach it was just around dusk. Both of us had on sweaters and jeans from the plane and were over-dressed for the humid weather.

"Ouch," I yelped. I had just been bitten on the foot by… something. It's always me, I swear.

"Let me see," Edward said as I lifted up my foot awkwardly for him to look at. "You'll be okay." He assured me. "But just as a precaution…" He lifted me up and began walking again with me in his arms.

"I can walk," I laughed.

"I don't want to let you go," He said as he began walking, with his jeans still on, into the water.

He continued to walk up until his belly-button.

And he was drenched.

"Edward!" I screamed. "If you drop me into this water!"

At this point he hadn't gotten me wet at all.

Edward smiled cheekily at me; his mouth higher at one side than the other, flashing his white teeth.

I threw him a begging look, gripping his arms tightly to hold myself up.

"Ah okay, only because you asked so nicely." Edward shrugged. I relaxed, and cuddled into his warm chest.

With a quick movement his arms dropped me, letting me fall down into the water.

Edward scampered away, trying to protect himself from my hands which were wildly slapping the air. Spluttering, I stumbled up with a fierce look at Edward.

I began to run after him through the water and waves.

He ran away for about half a minute before changing his mind. He turned to face me.

As I reached him, yelling out insults, he picked me up and

kissed me softly.

Our lips interlocked, leaving all other senses blind as we shared our moment. Faltering under his charm, my failing limps eased. My hands felt around up his neck into his hair while he held me gently in his arms.

Breaking away, Edward's soft green eyes stared deep into my fiery brown ones.

"That's cheating," I said softly.

Edward laughed quietly as I buried my face in his shoulder. Edward carried me back onto the shore and grabbed a blanket on the sand and wrapped it around the two of us. We were shivering and I cuddled into him.

"Bella," Edward said softly reaching into his jean pocket.

"If that's a sea creature…" I began, but stopped when I saw a small black box. I gulped.

"You already promised to be my wife," he said quietly.

I didn't want to ruin the moment, so I gently took the velvety box from him and struggled with the box to open it… but, when I did. My God, it was perfect for us.

"It was my Grandmothers'," he said. "I can get you a different one, if you don't like this one…"

I silenced him by kissing him.

"I'll take that as you want the ring?" He asked.

I nodded.

"Hold on," Edward said getting up to his feet.

"Hey," I said. I didn't want him away from me yet.

He helped me up to my feet and took the ring from my hands gently and he put his hands on my shoulder, "I want to do this right, this time."

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

He does everything right.

He got down on one knee and looked me into the eyes, "Isabella Marie Swan. My Bella. I promise to love you forever – everyday of forever. Will you marry me?"

"Yes," I replied quietly.

Edward placed the ring on my ring finger, kissing the palm of my hand, before standing back up.

"Let's get married tonight," I said as I took his hand in mine.

He thought it over for a moment. "Let's do it."

Edward's POV

"What are all of you doing in here?" Esme asked opening up my bedroom door.

Emmett was sprawled out like an 'X' in the middle of my room.

Alice was in Jasper's arms sleeping on the chair in the corner.

We had fallen asleep in here, I guess, after the million questions.

They needed answers.

I had them to give.

I couldn't ignore them anymore.

They are my family.

Alice, Emmett, and even Jasper would always be part of me. Whether or not I was there or if they were pissed off or whatever. They've been there too long to just let go.

They're a persistent bunch.

And all of us squashed in my room brings up memories from high school.

But, we aren't in high school anymore. I have Bella now. Emmett has Rosalie. Alice and Jasper have always been together, it seems.

"They fell asleep," I replied quietly as to not wake them up.

"Oh, alright," Esme said and she shut the door quietly.

It would kill her to know I got married without her there.

Renee, Bella's mother, I didn't know her well, but it seemed she would kill me, too.

Good thing Ben and Angela took a million pictures….

*

"I'm getting married to this girl!" I yelled out into the hotel we were staying at.

A group of tourist stared our way for a moment, they probably took in our wet clothes and hair, but they began applauding.

I didn't know why I yelled out, but I just needed people to know I was marrying Bella.

It was official, finally.

Bella ducked her head and proceeded to walk up the stairs with me to our suite.

We needed to tell Ben and Angela.

If anyone, Ben and Angela needed to be there.

So, we walked into our room, and I thought of other things we could be doing to celebrate, but Bella had already walked away from me to use the adjoining door to their suite.

"Guys!" I heard Bella yell.

"Hey," I called out. "I want to be there to tell them with you!"

"Hurry up, then!" She called.

I ran into the other room and Ben and Angela were looking at us wearily.

"Did you fall in to the water?" Angela asked.

"No," I said.

"Well, I was dropped into the water, but that doesn't matter," Bella said.

"Okay?" Ben asked.

"Right." I said.

Bella took a deep breath. "Guess what we decided to do here?"

"Scuba dive?" Angela asked.

We both laughed.

"Guess again," Bella said.

"Get a tattoo?" Ben asked.

"Nope," we said at the same time. Both of us somewhat giddy.

"You're both happy," Angela said. "Too happy. You didn't take any drugs did you?"

"No!" Bella yelled. "We, my God, you guys suck at guessing."

"Want to give us a clue?" Ben asked.

"No," Bella said. "We'll just tell you."

Angela raised an eyebrow and Ben looked at me skeptically.

"We're getting married!" Bella announced.

"Wasn't that already decided?" Angela asked.

Bella sighed heavily and lifted her hand up exposing her ring.

"Oh my God!" Angela yelled rushing over to Bella. Ben laughed at Angela's exuberant behavior, it wasn't like she did those things often.

"Congrads, man." Ben said.

"What have you decided?" Angela asked, excited.

"What do you mean?" Bella asked.

"Like, when? Where? Those things?" Angela asked.

"Today, tonight, here," Bella said.

"What?" Angela yelled. "You can't! No!"

"Huh?" Bella and I asked.

"There's rules, you fools!" Angela announced.

" – um, Ang, we don't really care about 'rules'." Bella shrugged.

"I know," Angela said. "But, there are some rules that must be followed."

"Like…?" Bella asked.

"You can't see the bride in her wedding dress or, err clothes. You can't see each other the day of the wedding."

"Does it matter?" I asked.

Ben shot me a warning glance, saying yes it did matter.

"Edward," Angela said. "Your wedding can't be cursed from the start."

"Alright, so how do we do it right?" Bella asked.

"You'll get married tomorrow night," Angela announced. "That should be enough time to find a decent place to get married. I'm not having you get married in some 24 hour place. It won't happen...."

"You need a bachelor party," Ben said.

"Right!" Angela replied. "And Bella needs a bacherlorette party. You can't be together until the wedding."

"What?" Bella asked.

"It's a tradition," Angela replied. "You can sleep in here."

"Angela," Bella said. "This doesn't need to be a big production."

"When your family wants to see pictures and hear stories about this, you'll be happy you did it this way. Plus, I'm not letting you not have a single night tonight!"

Bella's POV

I was in the kitchen making pancakes.

I had to thank Rosalie somehow for coming over.

And I wanted information, like how everyone was bound to take the sudden news of my secret marriage.

My cell phone rang and it wasn't a number I recognized.

"Hello?" I asked while beating an egg.

"Baby sis, hey!" It was Emmett. "How you doing?"

I laughed, Emmett just makes you feel great. "I'm… alright, I guess. How are you?"

"I've been better," he said. "Is Rosie awake yet?"

"No," I replied. "We didn't go to bed until late."

"I know, I heard Edward on the phone," Emmett announced.

"Oops. Sorry, Em."

"You should be!" He replied jokingly.

"My sincere apology," I replied as Rosalie came into my kitchen. "Hey, Rose is up. Want to talk to her?"

"Yes, please!" He replied happily. "And thanks."

"I don't know why you're thanking me, but here's Rosalie."

I handed the phone to Rosalie who then excused herself to talk to her husband.

I finished making the pancakes and had them on two separate plates before Rosalie walked back in.

"Here." I gave her a plate and we walked into the living room to eat and watch the news.

"Alright," Rosalie replied. "Now, I know why Edward married you. Your cooking is amazing."

I laughed, "Thanks. And how's Emmett?"

"He's fine apparently Edward talked to him, Jasper, and Alice yesterday about everything. Just like how you told me everything."

"How do you think they'll take it?" I asked.

"Well," Rosalie said. "Knowing those three, they were probably pretty upset about not being there. But, Emmett's cool with it. Jasper's probably fine with it, too. Alice, well, she's going to give you a fruitcake, I bet."

"A fruitcake?" I asked.

"You see, once you're part of the family, to Alice, you become like…. Royalty to her. She's treated you pretty shitty, she's going to try and make up for it."

"But, she's probably pissed and stuff… right?"

"She'll get over it," was all Rosalie said.

*

"Okay," Angela said as I came out of her bathroom. I had just taken a shower and got dressed quickly before coming out. "I found a pastor to marry you. It'll be on the beach. Kind of cheesy, but it'll be pretty. It'll happen at seven tomorrow night. We need to find you a dress and I need some sort of an outfit. Plus, the guys need tuxes…"

"Ang," I replied. "I don't really care if I get married in a bathing suit. It doesn't matter."

"Isn't his sister some sort of designer?"

"I think."

"Yeah, you need a dress and Edward needs a suit."

"Okay. Fine."

"So, we'll find your outfit and then have a fun-filled night out."

*

Dress shopping took approximately ten minutes.

I saw the dress in the first store window.

It was perfect.

Angela found something quickly deeming it didn't matter what she looked like tomorrow.

The guys' suits took two minutes to get and then we were off for a fun-filled night.

Both of us were sitting in a bar.

Music was loud and people were dressed pretty skimpily.

"Go dance!" Angela said taking a sip of a fruity drink.

"I can't," I replied.

"Oh, yes you can! And I'm sure someone in here would be more than willing."

"I'm not really comfortable with dancing," I admitted. Angela gave me the stink eye.

"You're getting married tomorrow!" She yelled. "You need to have a single night, like, now."

I looked to the bar counter to ignore the stares. "I really appreciate this, but…"

"Just dance, once, and then we'll be out of here."

"Deal," I said quickly and hopped up and went to go to the opposite corner so Angela wouldn't see me.

I waited until a new song came on and I was about to leave when I hand made it to my forearm.

I knew that touch.

I turned with a smile on my face to Edward.

He leaned down to kiss my lips.

"Where's Ben?" I asked breaking away.

"The bar?"

"Shit, Angela's there."

"I don't care," he said when I was about to go over to Angela to drag her out before seeing Ben.

"Really?" I asked.

"I just need a dance, before tomorrow."

*

Several dances later, I was happy and I was heading over to Angela to tell her we could leave now.

When I got over there she was talking to Ben, laughing.

I approached cautiously and was met by a stink eye and then she laughed. "I tried to keep you apart. Ready to go somewhere else?"

"Sure," I replied and I waved goodbye to Ben before leaving. I heard Angela whisper to Ben to make sure Edward didn't drink too much and to be on time tomorrow.

"Where to?" She asked.

"Eh, I kind of just want to head in."

"Bella, it's your single night. Last single day, we should be partying."

"I kind of like the idea of movies and ice cream in your nice suite…"

Angela smiled, "Let's go back then."

*

We were in the two beds with ice cream cartons in front of us while watching sappy movies.

"Thanks," I told Angela.

"What for?" She asked.

"Everything," I said.

"Oh. It's no problem."

"I mean, really. You've been such a great friend and everything…"

"Don't worry about it. But, you better be this great when I get married."

"I'll try," I joked. "If you get married…"

I was then hit by a spoonful of ice cream.

***

A/N: Ah, sorry for not including the wedding. You'll get the full scene. Promise.

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