AN: Same Disclaimers apply. Well, only one more chapter left after this. I'm sad that this journey is almost over. Enjoy! R&R!
Chapter Eleven: Edward- The Wedding
The house was full of vampires now. Tanya, Kate, Garrett, Eleazer, Carmen, Siobhan, Ben, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, Alice, Carlisle, Esme, my Bella, Safrina, Senna, Kachiri, Maggie, Charlotte, Peter, and myself. Nahuel and his aunt left after the Volturi confliction was over, promising Leah they'd be back soon and that they were moving to Forks. So twenty-four vampires were here. The house was also pack with former werewolves along with two current ones.
Seventeen years. I thought to myself. And here I am. Giving my only daughter away today.
I was slowly walking up the spiraled marble staircase to the third story, where Alice, Rosalie, Esme and Bella were getting Renesmee ready for her wedding. I could hear both Jacob's and my daughters excited mind babbling going on in the back of my mind. Their Thoughts mingled with mine. Though I'd gotten used to the idea of Jacob being a part of my family already, but it still baffled me with why my daughter would want to be with the mutt. I guess it's one of those things you can't explain; it just is, like Bella and me.
As soon as Renesmee declared relief in her thoughts that her aunts, grandmother, and mother had finished the makeover, I sprinted to Alice's bathroom door. All of the women's thoughts were on Renesmee and how beautiful she looked. I got glimpses of the dress but it was mostly her face I saw through their minds eye.
"Come in Edward," my psychic sister's wind-chime voice called.
I opened the door slowly. When I finally stepped into the room, my beloved and gorgeous Bella came to my side and intertwined our fingers. Together we walked over to our heartbreakingly beautiful daughter. She was wearing a strapless simple white wedding dress made of silk, with silver earrings and white high heels.
The only makeup on her that I could see or smell was, a tiny bit of mascara and some lipstick. Reneesme took after her mother to where she didn't need any makeup. And the vampire in her gave her eyelids a natural eye shadow. She was beaming as she examined what the girls had done to her. That totally can't be me! I don't look that good. She was thinking.
"You look absolutely gorgeous, Sweetheart," I reassured her while giving her a one armed hug. "Jacob won't know what to do with himself."
Her eyes twinkled and she giggled, hugging me back. Her pale skin was warm and I could hear the pulse of her heart, which had become one of my favorite sounds over the past seventeen years, with the loss of her mothers pulse.
"Thank you daddy," she replied, pecking a kiss on my cheek. "I'm so excited- and nervous all at the same time!" She seemed to be bouncing up and down where she stood.
"We'd better get down stairs. It's Twilight. We should get the ceremony started!" Esme exclaimed. My sisters and mother each gave the bride a fleeting hug and a kiss on the forehead. "Good luck. You look gorgeous," they all whispered. Then all three disappeared out the door.
Bella then went to Renesmee, gave her a huge, gentle hug and followed our sisters and mother out. Not a minute later, Rosalie began playing the wedding march, signally us to go. I would have been playing the piano, but my job was to give the bride away. Something I really didn't want to do, but, since she refused to leave Jacob behind- with good reason I suppose- and wouldn't allow him to come unless they were completely bonded together, this is what I have to do to keep her happy. Nothing makes me happier than to she my two girls happy.
"Shall we?" I held out my arm to my daughter. She took it and we began our descent down to where Renesmee Carlie Cullen Black's future was waiting.
"I love you daddy!" She whispered.
"I love you too Nessie!" I whispered back.