Chapter Twenty-One

Aunt Rose decided before we left that she wanted to go shopping with us. When Leah and I walked outside to find them, we saw them in the garage arguing.

"I want to take my car! It's a lot faster, so we'll get there sooner!" we heard Aunt Rose yell.

"Rose, we are going to be in the middle of a million humans! Speed really doesn't matter in a big city like Seattle!" Aunt Alice replied.

"Alice, I'm taking my car!" Aunt Rose yelled back. At the point, I decided to intervene; if I didn't, we would probably have a few hundred less trees in Seattle. When Aunt Rose and Aunt Alice fight…they fight!

"Aunt Alice, who is going to win this?" I said.

"Me, of course!" she grinned. Aunt Rose rolled her eyes as she climbed into the passenger seat of Aunt Alice's Porsche.

I shook my head and grinned as I climbed into the back with Leah.

On the way to the mall, we decided to continue discussing the wedding and make a few more decisions.

As she began to talk, Aunt Alice flipped the radio to my favorite station. I noticed immediately that my favorite song was playing, and without even realizing it, I began to sing along.

"I can feel you all around me, thickening the air I'm breathing, holding on to what I'm feeling, savoring this—"

"Renesmee, have you even heard a word I'm saying to you?!" Aunt Alice yelled over the music.

"Huh? Oh, sorry Aunt Alice." I blushed as I smiled weakly.

She simply rolled her eyes as she continued talking. "So, as I was saying, you have Leah as your maid-of-honor. And have you asked Jacob about the Best Man?"

I shook my head. I had completely forgotten to even ask him! With everything happening so fast, and my problems with Dad, I hadn't even thought about it.

"Nessie, we have to know soon!"

"Aunt Alice, the wedding is still 11 months away! We have plenty of time!" I said.

"Plenty of time? Plenty of time?! Are you insane, Ness? I haven't even realized it was that close! Now you really need to find out! SOON!"

"Okay, okay, I will!" I laughed.

"So anyway, what about bridesmaids. Any ideas on who they will be?" she said, glancing at me hopeful.

I laughed "Well of course that's you and Aunt Rose! Who else?"

"Really? Really Nessie? Oh, thank you, Nessie!" she reached back and threw her arms around me.

"ALICE! THE ROAD!" Leah screamed.

"Oh, yeah. Sorry." she said, swiftly turning back to the wheel. She gave Leah a sheepish grin in the rear view mirror, to which Leah only glared back.

Once we reached the mall, Aunt Alice ran inside. It seriously looked like a kid outside Toys-R-Us. Typical Alice.

We finally talked her out of doing any shopping for the wedding right now, but it took a lot of convincing. "But it's only 11 months away! We needed to order flowers, find a dress, order a cake, well I get Esme could do that—"

"Alice, calm down!" we all yelled at once.

"But, Nessie! We won't have everything ready and I want everything perfect for you and Jacob and if anything goes wrong I—"

"Aunt Alice, chill out okay?" I laughed "Everything will turn out just fine! Today, let's just relax and have fun."

"Fine! But if we happen to find something today, you have to promise me we can at least look!" Our chances of that happening were slim, so we agreed.

We decided to start first with some more majors stores before hitting the smaller shops; Coach, Louis Vouiton, Prada, Gucci and BCBGMAX being our main targets.

It's a good thing Aunt Alice's black AmEx has no limit. In every store she insisted she buy each of us at least three outfits. I definitely did not complain about her charity.

After about four hours, they suddenly remembered Leah and I had not eaten that day.

We stopped at the food court to grab a couple burgers. As we ate, the other two became antsy.

"Are you almost done?" "I know I don't eat, but it seriously can't take that long!" "How much longer?" were only a few of their million questions; all within the first five minutes of sitting down.

After we finished (we started taking even smaller bites and eating fries one at a time, dipping each bite in ketchup, just to see how uptight that could get. That wasn't a good idea.), we shopped at some of the smaller stores: American Eagle, Hollister, Aeropostale, and Hot Topic being in the mix.

A total of seven hours was spent in the mall alone; at least, after seven hours I stopped looking at my phone or watch to check the time. It only passed slower when I did that.

Once we finally left, (or actually once we were kicked out, We were in the mall a hour after closing before they found us and insisted we check out now.), we decided to head home, after a quick stop at Starbuck's for Leah and I.

Tired was not even a word to describe exactly how I felt. I was on the bridge of delusional from sleep deprivation.

I remember climbing to the top of the stairs and seeing Jacob. I gave him a kiss, but I think I actually fell asleep in the middle of it, because I don't remember ever pulling away. When I woke up, we were both laying in my bed. Not long after that, I fell back into a deep, deep sleep. Completely exhausted.