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Weddings

"Yes?" He asked me questionably. "Seriously? Were you expecting me to say no? Of course I said yes. I would have to be an idiot to say no. I love you with all of my heart Clay, and I can't imagine my life without you." I was standing up at this point with my hands on my hips.

Clay just laughed and stood up. "To be honest I was expecting you to freak out and run for the hills." He said. I reached around to un-clasp my necklace. (One of the two I always wore. One was the lock with an "R" on it and the other had the key to unlock it.)

"This now belongs to you." I said as I handed him the key along with its chain. "You now own the key to my heart."

Three months later

Over the next few months Alice planned both Bella and my weddings. Though unlike Bella, I actually helped and liked planning my wedding. Bella's wedding was first and it was just like it was in the book and movie.

After their wedding, Edward and Bella went on their honeymoon which lasted a little over three weeks. I was so excited when Alice informed me that Bella had become pregnant.

While they were gone, Alice and I finished up with the last of the wedding details. Shortly after Bella and Edward got back, Carlisle immediately gave her some blood so that history would not repeat itself.

A week later it was time for our wedding. We were having it down in Texas. Since we were both from there and even in an alternant universe it was still the same. We were at Clay's home where he had grown up, in Dallas. It was an old, two story plantation house. Clay had bought it about eighty years ago after his great, great, great, great nephew on his sister's side had put it up for sale. He then spent the next few years fixing it up to look good as new.

Everything in the wedding was black and white. From the dresses, to the cakes, to the bouquet, even my engagement ring was black and white. We had bought it the day after he proposed. It was a single band at the bottom and split into two about halfway up the side with little diamonds on both bands, and then it connected at the top with a circle of small diamonds with a larger black onyx stone in the middle.

I had made Bella my maid of honor and Alice and Rosalie were my bridesmaids. Bella's dress was a halter top and was floor length. It was white on top and at the hips it changed to black. It had a black lace belt around the waist that went from right under her bust down to just above her hips, and it had a thin bow that went around the middle.

Alice's dress was short and went down to just above her knees. It was white and flared out at the waist. It had a black floral shoulder strap over one side and had a black floral design on it that started at the strap and made its way along that entire side and went over her waist. It also had a black strap that went around the waist and had a black gem stone design in the middle.

Rosalie's dress was white as well and only went down to about mid-thigh. It was strapless and like Alice's dress, she had a floral design around the bottom of the dress. At one point the design came up to the waist where there was a wide black strap that went around the waist where the floral pattern became a black beaded design on the strap.

My dress was a form fitting floor length, sweet heart, halter top gown that had a small train. It was white with black floral beading along the side and it branched out at different parts going across the thigh area and it had small scattered beaded designs around the bottom. The halter part was covered in the beaded design as well.

Bella, Alice and Rosalie all had their hair in loose curls and they all had on black high heels, black onyx and diamond dangling earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. My hair was in an up do, and I had on a black and white diamond headband, along with matching earrings, necklace, and bracelet.

Clay was in a black suit, white shirt and a black bow tie. Edward and Emmett were both in black suits, white shirts and black ties. The wedding was relatively small. The Cullens, the Denali clan, Peter, Charlotte and a few old friends of Clay's were the only ones there. Since I didn't know anyone else, there was no one for me to invite.

I thought back to the night before, when I had had a small breakdown because it had really sunk in that my dad would not be able to walk me down the aisle, and my mom would not be able to give me away. I would not be able to see my friends and family in the rows watching me get married.

I had come to realize that I would probably never see them again. But, I had Clay now. He was my life, I loved him with all of my heart and I could not imagine what it would be like if I went back home and never saw him again.

I shook my head and cleared my thoughts. I was back to the present and found myself standing at the top of the stairs in Clay's house. The wedding was taking place in the foyer on the first floor. There were two staircases on either side that curved up to the next floor where there was a bridge, balcony type area that on either side lead off to the rooms.

Carlisle had offered to escort me down the aisle. I agreed immediately and had given him a huge hug and told him how much that had meant to me. He had told me that he had already thought of me as a daughter, which brought me to tears.

We started making our way down the stairs. Once we got to the bottom we turned and under the bridge stood Clay. He looked so handsome. I couldn't believe he was about to become my husband. Carlisle and I made our way down the aisle and when we reached the end he gave me a kiss on the cheek and then made his way over to Esme.

Clay gave me a loving smile and took my hands in his. We then turned and faced the minister who was actually a six hundred year old vampire. He was an old friend of Carlisle's and was a church leader back when he was a human.

The ceremony was one I had never witnessed before. The way Father Julius spoke was so unbelievably moving. I really felt as though Clay and I were being joined at the soul for eternity. It didn't feel like some legal binding agreement like every other wedding, this was so much more. This was two souls going before God and asking Him to bind us together as one.

I felt as though I was no longer one person. I was one half of a whole and Clay was the other. The binding was sealed with a kiss and we were pronounced as man and wife.

After it was over we all made our way to the back yard where the reception would be held. Like everything else, the reception was decorated with the black and white color scheme.

The head table was a long rectangle with a white silk table cloth, with a black lace table cloth on top of it. On either end there were large glass vases that were filled with water, had black beads at the bottom, and at the top there were bouquets of black and white roses, and swimming inside, were black betas.

Since Bella was the only human at the wedding, there was really no need for food, therefor there was no need for dinner tables, so we decided to go for a more lounge theme. There were a mixture of black and white couches and chairs along with a few round bar tables that were decorated similar to the head table. There was also a large dance floor and a DJ station set up.

Even though there was no one to eat them, we had to have a wedding cake. Instead of having one super large cake, like Alice had done for Bella and Edward's wedding, I decided on one large cake and one cupcake tower.

The cake was six tiers. It was a devil's food flavored cake with white fondant and various black icing designs on each tier. The cupcake tower was six tiers as well. It was five tiers of cupcakes, with each tier being a different flavor. They were all decorated with white icing, black fondant flowers with white centers and black and white cupcake wrappers that had a floral design on them. At the top of it all was a small cake that had white icing and a black fondant flower with two squiggles on each side.

As I stood there overlooking everything, I noticed the sun was starting to set and the sky was glowing with shades of pink, purple, orange, red, and blue.

Oh how I missed Texas. I breathed in the cool autumn air and thought back to my childhood where I would sleep outside in my tree house that my father and I had built together.

I was pulled out of my memory by the warm feeling of Clay coming up behind me and wrapping his arms around my waist. He snuggled his face in my neck and kissed me ever so slightly and said, "I love you, Mrs. Hastings."

I smiled and turned around in his arms and said, "As I love you, Mr. Hastings." I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him into a kiss. We were soon interrupted by Emmett letting out a very loud whistle.

We pulled apart and started laughing. "Did you need something?" I asked him. "Are we going to get this party started or what?" Emmett asked. Clay and I joined hands and the three of us headed over to the dance floor.

Emmett got up on the D.J stand and announced to everyone, "May I introduce to you, Mr. and Mrs. Clay Hastings!"

Breaking Dawn won't be happening in this story, since Kate is not really mad at the Cullens anymore and they would probably tell them when they have the baby or they would just hide her until she is full grown. Therefor the Volturi won't know about her, and they would have no reason to come down to forks. Thank you again for reading this and please leave a review letting me know what y'all think.

P.S. There are pictures from this chapter and all of the others on my profile.

~Jessie