A/N: This chapter is dedicated to my cousin Rachael.

Annabelle's dress is on my profile

14. July – Josh's wedding

I gently placed Annabelle's veil in her professionally styled red-hair. Her eyes were sparkling. Before I could say anything, she got up to look at herself in the body length mirror. She looked GORGEOUS. Her dress was absolutely astonishing. It was tight around the torso, the little straps sat on her upper arm, and the bottom reached the floor. The skirt part of it had two layers. The top layer was pinned up on the side so it had little ridges flowing down. Her train was one and a half metres long. She wore gloves that went up to her elbows. Her veil went down to her lower-back. Underneath her dress was her half-an-inch white heel.

"How do I look, Claire?" Annabelle asked me anxiously.

"Gorgeous," I replied, truthfully, "Josh die when he see's you."

"Thanks. So will Quil," she said.

"Thank you," I said, curtsying. She laughed. Good, hopefully that will help with her nerves, I thought. It did, too. She was a lot happier after our light complimentary conversation. After five minutes the limo arrived. Annabelle started to hyperventilate about two minutes after we got in the limo. I managed to calm her down, though. At last the limo pulled up at the bowls club. I don't know the name of it -or the town we were in (I still don't sadly, I would have liked to ask Josh) for that matter- because I was too busy trying to get everybody in order to walk into the hall part of the club. When I peeked into the hall to see if everybody was ready to get underway, I saw Josh up the front, Quil in the second row of seats, next to Aunty Emily, Uncle Sam and Aiden. Aiden was meant to be ring-bearer but didn't for some reason I didn't know. The Uleys still talked to Josh, they didn't cut of contact just because my parents are angry at Josh. The biggest shock of the day was that my mother was sitting awkwardly in the back row. Yes that right my mum, Annabelle had practically forced Josh to invite them, so Josh had to reluctantly invite. My father absolutely refused, and mum after a lot of prompting, finally accepted. The wedding march began. I hurriedly guided the ring-bearer Hazel and flower girl Gemma through the door to the point where I wouldn't be seen. Then went me and Josh's' best man, Cameron. As soon as I stepped into view I became very self-aware and the small wedding – family and close friends – seemed to be huge. I know I should be the nervous one and I wasn't till then. Anyway I got to the front and a second later Annabelle did too. She handed me her lilies, the music stopped and the audience sat down. Quil sensed my discomfort and gave me a reassuring smile.

"We are gathered are today…" The priest gave his speech. "Joshua Mitchell Pike do you take Annabelle Kate Prezzisio to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

"I do," he smiled like I'd never seen him smile before. I couldn't see Annabelle's face but I'm sure she was too.

"And Annabelle Kate Prezzisio do you take Joshua Mitchell Pike to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

"I do," I could tell by her voice she was crying. Thank God for water-proof make-up.

"Well then, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Joshua you may kiss the bride." Boy did he kiss her. Everybody applauded wildly. There it as, my big brother was married. Everybody started to drift over to them congratulating them. Quil, however, came to me.

"You did fabulously babe," he whisper in my ear.

"Thanks," I said hugging him tightly.

"You look… indescribable," he said. Not to sound conceited or anything but I kind of did. My dress was gold and it flowed down to me feet. You could only see my toes and they were all pretty with my golden high heels. Annabelle had got my hair professionally styled too. It was in the prettiest bun I had even seen, and the hairdresser had curled bits of my hair and let them hang loose.

"Thanks you look handsome too. Come let's go see Mr. and Mrs. Pike," I took Quil hand and lead him through the small crowd to Josh and Annabelle.

"Claire!" Josh exclaimed and as I flung my arms around him lilies and all. After we hugged, I hugged Annabelle and Josh and Quil shook hands. We spoke for a little while and all of a sudden Josh stopped, he was looking behind me. Annabelle did, too, then looked at Josh in concern. I turned and so did Quil. There, of course, was my mother. She was looking at Josh and not saying anything. This is awkward…, I thought to myself, really awkward.

After what seemed an eternity Annabelle broke the silence, "Hi Mrs. Pike. I'm Annabelle, as you have probably already figured out".

My mother smiled (it looked fake, but that's just my opinion) at her, "Yes, love, I did." They chuckled lightly. Talk about a fake conversation! "Congratulations, you two."

"Thank you," Annabelle said and Josh grunted. Silence… "Well you are welcome to the buffet". So that's what she did. Annabelle looked uncomfortable, Josh shook his head angrily and sort of stormed off. We ate and all that went pretty smoothly. Present time was funny. They got the usual stuff blender, photo album etc. Mum, Quil and I (dad forbid us to put his name on it). When Josh read the card he didn't look impressed. Annabelle opened the present and Josh disregarded it.

All was good, until time to go. Mum saved herself for last.

"Josh," this was the first time she had directly spoken to him, "your father and I are proud of what you have become."

"Yeah right," Josh may as well have spat.

"We are," Mum defended herself.

"Dad could not give less of a shit and you- your only here to sooth your guilt. So don't come to me with all this oh we are so happy for you shit because you're not!" Josh started to walk away.

"I beg your pardon! You fought with us! You moved away from us! You never spoke to us! We never did anything to you!" That stopped him. He whirled around and got so close to mum I was surprised their noses didn't touch.

"You kicked me out! You said I was a disgrace to your family! I didn't do nothing but let myself be push away by YOU! Why did you even come today? You clearly don't give a shit about me or Annabelle, or Claire for that matter. If it weren't for Quil she'd be the most abandoned sixteen-year-old in the World. Now get out of my life!" With that Josh stormed outside. Poor Annabelle didn't know what to do. Well mum left and Josh made his way back into the club. Thank God he and Annabelle weren't going on their honeymoon till the next day. It was a long night but eventually the morning came and all four of us left going our own ways. Quil and I back to La Push and, Josh and Annabelle off to France.