I jumped up and clapped excitedly. Something that I definitely learnt off of Alice.
"Alice! I am so happy for you!" I pepped just like her yesterday when I met Michael Jackson. That was a good day. And this was too.
"And as well as having a best man, we are having a best woman, and we want you to be her!" She pepped the same.
"Serious? Wow! Alice, I LOVE you!" I screamed.
"But, there is also something else." She looked sad suddenly. Well, not sad, but a lot less happy than she just was, so there must've been a catch.
"What is it Alice?" I asked unwillingly.
"Um… well, Edward is going to be the best man, and you two have to dance together at the reception. Jasper was the one who organised the whole thing. He is so romantic." She smiled, and sounded distant, rubbing the red marks on her neck.
"That's fine! Oh, and Alice by the way, to save your dignity, perhaps you should wear a scarf next time." I insisted.
"With this outfit? I don't think so." She fumed. She was serious, but I couldn't help but laugh at her behaviour.
"So, can we go hunting now? I mean, I know that it's a massive day for you, but please, I think I might perish in a minute." I demanded.
"Sure. Sorry Bella. I should've waited till afterwards to tell you."
"No worries. Come on lets go." I took her hand and we ran into the woods, stocking deer everywhere, whilst chatting incessantly about the wedding plans. My Mum took up classes about planning weddings; she wanted to be like a party planner, but only for weddings.
We had finished the hunting session and I caught three deer, and Alice caught two. She wasn't as thirsty as me. She was more or less concentrating on her marriage.
"So, you and Jasper have been together for how long now?" I asked, curiously. We were walking at a steady pace back to the house. Making it last longer. The sky was a dark blue the further up you got but lighter lower down.
"Well, lets just say… a very long time… but not long enough." She breathed out happily and relaxed.
"Oh… that's so beautiful Alice. But, you are quite experienced with this kind of thing then? The relationship between two vampires I mean." I guessed.
"Yes, you could say so." She smiled, obviously knowing what I was about to ask her.
"Well, can vampires have…" I cleared my throat. "… Sex?" I asked quietly.
Alice laughed a chiming laugh.
"Well?" I asked impatiently. Mike never told me. I wanted to know.
"Yes Bella, we can. We are just like humans there, but we can take more." She smiled at me. "And it's more memorable." She added.
"Wow. Mike never told me that before. I always asked him." I confessed.
Alice looked disapprovingly.
"And Bella, you aren't thinking of anything specific are you? You are much to young for that kind of thing." She eyed me suspiciously.
"No, Alice. I was just wandering. That's all." I said nervously, because although it was a silly question, I really wanted to see what it was like to have sex, without the risk of catching a STI, being a vampire would mean that you wouldn't get any diseases or infections, so that made me more confident about the subject.
Alice looked me up and down, anxiously, and decided to change the subject.
"So, we need flowers. Lots and lots of flowers. Oh, and how do you feel about getting your mum to make us some wedding invitations?" She obviously saw that happening in the future, but I couldn't see that happening. I didn't want any danger inflicted upon my Mother. I thought it was best to leave her alone until I was totally confident that I could handle any blood near me.
"I don't think so Alice." I said confidently. She looked at my eyes sadly.
"Bella, you are going to have to see her sometime, whether you like it or not. What if she comes to Forks to visit you, and you turn her down. Do you not think she could be hurting inside by not seeing you?" Alice raised an issue, and it did make sense.
It took
me a moment to decide what was going to happen. "I know of someone
in Forks who makes things like that. I'll get him to come around
one day."
Alice huffed. She knew I wasn't going to get my Mum
involved and decided to leave it at that.
"Fine, what's his name?" She asked, sullenly.
"Jacob." I answered instantly.
"Jacob? Where is he from?" She asked as if I were in an interview.
"Um… somewhere called… what is it again?" The name pushed itself right out of my head. Oh… wait that's it! "I think it's called La Push, or something like that. Why?"
Alice scanned her brain for an excuse. "Um… just wondering. La Push? Sorry Bella, but we can't get him round here to do that for us. Sorry." She apologised.
"Why?" I asked, offended
"Well, because, people from La Push can't come here. Its to do with some ancient treaty." She tried not to give me the proper reason but I already knew why.
"Oh… yeah. It's to do with that stupid wolf legend isn't it. Your family and Jacob's ancestors signed a contract." I ranted.
"Yes." Alice admitted sheepishly.
"Right Ok. Well I will see what I can do about my Mum. But I'm not making any promises ok?" I threw the deal out for her.
"Yay! Love you Bella!" She chirped and clapped.
"Love you too Alice." I added unhappily.
Alice took hold of my hand and we both ran away to back to the house.
