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Chapter Twelve- Little Moments

-AUGUST-

(Nadi's POV)

I was cooking breakfast when Kim ran in the front door, scaring the holy hell out of me. "NADI!" She yelled.

I spun around, "What Kim?" I panicked.

She stopped in front of me with a huge smile on her face. I waited for her to speak, but she just stood there bouncing up and down and finally blurted, "Jared and I are engaged!"

My mouth dropped open. "Oh Kim! I'm so happy for you!" She reached up and wrapped her arms around my neck and then hugged my belly. Everyone had taken to doing that lately. It kind of pissed me off, but what could I expect when I was so pregnant?

She stood up and said, "I think a celebration is in order?"

I nodded, "Of course." I went over to the fridge and pulled out a few cups of Jell-O. Kim smiled. We ate our Jell-O and began discussing Kim's wedding plans that she had apparently been planning for years.

Ever since she'd told me she was engaged, one thing was nagging me. So I finally asked, "When do you guys plan on getting married?"

Her expression turned serious. "Before the Volturi come. We're thinking November."

I dropped my spoon. "November?! You want us to plan a wedding in less than three months?!"

She nodded. "You know how Alice is. That girl could plan a wedding in a day."

I sighed and grabbed my phone. Alice answered on the first ring. "Yes?"

"Hi, Alice, Kim and I need your assistance. You see, Kim and Jared just got engaged and they want to get married in November. We need your help." I said. I waited for her to answer, but she didn't. I looked at the phone and realized she'd hung up.

"What the hell? She hung up on me!" I said. Kim laughed. I slammed the phone down, thinking all kinds of terrible things to do to Alice.

Suddenly, my back door flew open and there was Alice. "Okay, three months is nothing, really! I can do this. So you want like early November or late November? What about mid-November or right before Thanksgiving, wouldn't that be great?" She slammed a bunch of books down in front of Kim and asked, "What do you think about these flowers? Or would you rather have these? OH! Invitations! If you're getting married in three months we have to send them out immediately. Or did you want to keep it small and just tell everyone to show up? No, that won't do."

She flipped a couple pages and said, "What about these invitations? Kim?" She poked Kim in the side, who looked quite pale.

I shook my head. "You asked for it."

Kim smiled at Alice. "Um, these are great." She said pointing to something in the book. Alice sat down at the table with us.

For Kim's sake, Alice toned down her excitement and asked, "What about bridesmaids?" Her voice was calm, but I could see in her eyes she was ready to dance with joy that she got to plan another wedding.

Kim shrugged. "Well, Bella, Angela, Karen, Nadi and you, I guess. And I want Emily to be my maid of honor." Alice smiled.

They continued talking and I went upstairs for a while. Tomorrow was Sam's and my one-year wedding anniversary. I couldn't believe it had been a whole year since we got married.

I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes. I could still hear Alice downstairs planning away with Kim. I smirked evilly and said in my normal voice, "Alice."

She stopped talking and asked, "Yes?" Even though she was downstairs, I could hear her perfectly. At least my wolf hearing wasn't gone.

"I want to plan Kim's bachelorette party." I said. Alice huffed and said, "Okay." She relayed the message to Kim, who was oddly quiet. I wondered if she was scared of what I might do. I already had a ton of ideas.

Being pregnant meant I got to spend a lot of time doing nothing. Sam was way too over protective, so I spent a lot of time on the computer looking at gift ideas for other people. I had quite a few good bachelorette party ideas. Now I was excited about Jared and Kim's wedding.

The girls left a little while later. I fell asleep waiting for Sam and woke up the next morning. He was sleeping next to me with his arms locked around me in a protective grasp. I wiggled out of his grip as best as an eight month pregnant woman can wiggle and went to the bathroom.

I went downstairs and planted my huge ass on the couch. Sam's anniversary gift was sitting next to my feet, which I had propped up on the coffee table. Sam came down the stairs a few hours later, looking tired. My heart sank for him. He had so much extra responsibility since I wasn't there to help keep the boys in line.

There were only a few months left until the Volturi came, and Carlisle was doing the best he could to find other vampires willing to fight with them. They had found several vampires already, who were staying at the Cullen house. Sam and had to ban the wolves and imprints from going over there. Alice and Emily came down to La Push quite a bit to see the girls and Carlisle came down to check on me, but other than that, we stayed on our sides of the line.

Sam flopped down next to me. He leaned over and kissed my stomach, then laid his head in my lap. I ran one of my hands through his short black hair while my other hand traced the dark circles under his eyes. He needed to get more sleep.

"I got you a gift." I said.

He opened one eye. "Why'd you do that?"

"For our anniversary." I said.

He sat up. I swear if he forgot our FIRST anniversary, I will skin him alive. He smiled and went into the kitchen. He came back with a box in his hands. I guess he didn't forget.

"Open yours first." I said, shoving the box into his hands. Inside he found probably the greatest gift known to man: a cheesecake sampler. There were two pieces of eight different kinds of cheesecake, including: Amaretto, Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Fudge, New York Style, Blueberry Swirl, Raspberry Swirl, Cappuccino and White Chocolate Pistachio. That man of mine had never smiled brighter in his life. (Check my profile for a pic.)

He looked at me and said, "I love you." He hugged me tightly and I laughed.

"Now you can decide which is your favorite and next year we'll eat whatever kind you picked." I said. I handed him the other box.

He smiled again as he saw this one. "Carlisle ordered this for our new house. I decided to give it to you as an anniversary gift."

It was a wall hanging of a bald eagle with its wings spread apart. There were wolves painted on the wings. It was beautiful. (Picture on profile.)

Sam smiled. "I'll have to thank Carlisle when I see him, this is incredible."

I smiled. "I like it, too."

Sam put his things aside and handed me a box. He said, "I figured I'd get you something you most definitely needed."

I opened it. Inside was a pair of blue massage booties. I laughed. "Oh I definitely need these."

I kissed his cheek and thanked him. He said, "I'll give you a foot massage later. You can take that as an apology for not being home a lot lately. With all this drama with the Volturi, I can only do so many things."

I cut him off by planting a kiss on his lips. "I know babe. You gotta do what you gotta do and I'm fine with it. Of course I wish you were home more, but I don't want you to sacrifice the safety of the tribe just so you can stay home and watch 'the Jungle Book' with me nine times a day."

He smiled. I started to stand up. "I have to pee." I said. He grabbed my hand.

"Wait, you have to open your other gift. You don't think the booties are all I'm getting you for our anniversary do you?"

I sat back down and took the box from him. Once I had the paper off, I found a glass case with a single rose inside. The rose was preserved in twenty-four karats of platinum. Our names, 'Samuel Joshua and Nadi Rose Uley' were engraved on the front. Our wedding date, 'August Nineteenth, Two Thousand and Nine' was engraved underneath it. (You can really do this, check my profile.) I touched the top of the glass case. Tears were forming in my eyes causing my vision to blur.

Sam said, "The rose was from your bouquet last year. Kim still has it after she caught it at the reception." He laughed at the memory of Kim's red face from catching my bouquet and then went on. "She gave me the rose and Carlisle had it preserved in platinum. So you get to keep a small part of your bouquet, but it has a lot of memories."

I set the case down in front of me and hugged Sam as best I could with my huge belly in the way. I had tears pouring down my face. "Thank you, Sam. It's beautiful." I said through my tears. "I have to pee." I said, still crying. Sam laughed and pulled back.

He wiped my face with his thumbs and helped me stand up. When I finished my business, I washed my face of all the tears and then left the bathroom. Sam was waiting outside for me. He held up the massage booties.

"Wanna go upstairs?" He asked, raising his eyebrows suggestively.

I laughed and followed him upstairs. Sam massaged my feet so well, we didn't leave our room the rest of the night.


A/N: So this is a little short, but oh well. Next chapter will be about the same length. Sorry it took so long to update, I was at my brother's on Halloween and I just haven't felt like writing lately. If you're not reading it already, my sister is writing the Paul and Angela spin off. There's a link to it on my profile. It's called "The Good Left Undone" by Hales Bells. Go check it out and review it! She gets depressed when people don't review and then I have to listen to her crying in her room, so make my sister happy and REVIEW her story!

Thanks to my reviewers last chapter: jblc77, xxCharlie93xx, krazikeo, Rachel2w2, snickerdoodles96 and Hales Bells. My lovely AnnabelleLee13194 was MIA on this chapter but that's because she's already read it! All because I sent it to her early, haha!

~Ever Uley~