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Author's Note: I'm going to keep trying to update each of my stories tonight. Please forgive me since this took so long. As I said in my Author's Note for All The Little Pieces, things have been getting kind of out of hand for me, so I'm trying to get back on schedule.
Thanks.
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Chapter Eleven
On the way into the house, I was slightly nervous about speaking with Edward for our wedding. It wasn't that it was awkward, but I was worried what he would say. My thoughts kept reverting back to a single question.
What if he called it off?
I had to have more faith in him than that. He had made a mistake once, he wouldn't do it again. Would he?
When all of us had arrived in the house, we took seats in the livingroom. I chose sitting next to Edward, but he soon pulled me into his lap. I knew it would go fine at that moment. He wasn't distancing himself, at least.
Everyone except Edward, Alice and myself had taken the liberty of going hunting. For that, I was thankful because it allowed us time to speak about this privately without everyone's oppositions and suggestions.
Alice was the one to speak up first.
"Okay. We need to start planning your guys' wedding! Just because we have forever to do it, doesn't mean you should wait that long!" She laughed and I cringed.
"Fine, Alice. Let's start planning," Edward's voice startled me and I looked at him, jumping slightly but still smiling.
"We'll need to go shopping after we find what colors you want, when it is, and where it is," Alice was already writing some things down in a notebook.
"What main colors?" She continued.
"Topaz," I added.
"White," Edward spoke.
Alice, having a hayday with this, immediately began writing.
And so it continued. Alice asked questions, we would answer or talk about them first. All in all, it took nearly three hours before we had finally worked out most of the details. We hadn't decided who we would invite, but that could wait awhile. We had, however, found out what colors, when it was, where it was, and anything else Alice could think to ask. She had even worked it down to how many roses, petals, and chairs we should need. I was amazed.
The wedding was in October. (A/N: It's June.) The colors were topaz and white. We were going to be married in a simple church somewhere near Canada, as that was where we had heard the family was moving.
When Alice had gone upstairs, the silence between Edward and I was nearly unbearable. I didn't know what to say, though. Thankfully, he spoke up.
"Bella, there are some other things we need to talk about as well," I jumped at the sincerity and nervousness in his voice. I didn't like where this was going.
"O-okay. T-then le-let's ta-talk.." I stammered out.
"We need to work out what we're going to do about your 'death'. Carlisle told me that this was something we needed to see your thoughts on. And, he's right, you know. Charlie and Renee can't know about us, Bella. It's the only way," His voice was distant and it caused those horrible memories of when he left to haunt my mind at that moment.
"I drown," I added after awhile of thought,"Tell them we went swimming and I jumped into the deeper part. I didn't surface and you started to look for me but never found my body. I never surfaced." It was hard, talking about my death and how I was supposed to fake it for Charlie and Renee. It was the only way, as Edward had put it earlier.
"We'll have to work out a lot more details than that, love, but that's good enough for now," Edward's voice wasn't so distant anymore, but it was faintly there.
"Okay," was all I said before curling up against his chest as he wrapped both arms around me.
Silence engulfed the two of us.
That silence ended when Jasper, Emmett, Rose, Carlisle, and Esme all came running into the house. The looks on their faces were that of worry, horror, and anger.