And so we have reached the epilogue. The conclusion. The happily ever after. Call it what you may, the bottom line is: this is the end of Royalty, so enjoy it!
Song: I Will Be (Avril Lavigne (or Leona Lewis))
"Alice, I'm scared." I whimpered to my best friend.
"Bella, it's nothing to be worried about. You're not even the one going out there looking like a blimp." Alice pointed out.
"I'm just not showing yet. And you don't look like a blimp!" I objected. I wasn't pregnant—yet. Edward and I had agreed that we wouldn't try to have a child or not have a child, but let nature take its own course. Alice was glad I wasn't pregnant on my wedding day. She'd have hated to have her perfect dress for me to have gone to waste. I was secretly glad, too. The dress was vintage cream colored and strapless. It gathered on one side of my body and waved in thick layers to the floor. (picture on profile)
Alice, on the other hand, was positively swelling. Her baby girl was due in July, and she and Jasper had already picked the name. She was going to be named Zoë Michelle Whitlock. Alice hardly in the blue bridesmaid dress she was wearing, despite the alterations.
"It's time for me to go. Good luck," Alice said. She headed out clinging to Emmett's arm.
I heard the music change. "Bells, it's time to go." I heard my father, King Charles, say. I whimpered again in response, but forced my feet to move forward.
The doors swung open, and Wagner's bridal march swelled. I stumbled down the aisle, clinging to my dad like he was a life buoy and I was drowning.
And then I saw him.
Edward was a vision, an angel, a dream. My vision, my angel, my dream. Suddenly, the aisle stretched out before me seemed a thousand times too long.
We progressed down the aisle at an incredibly slow pace, until I finally reached Edward. To my relief, he was almost as tongue-tied as I was. "You look beautiful," he finally managed.
"And you look unbelievable," I replied. I faintly heard the minister's words in the background, but hardly. I was zoned out, just staring into Edward's eyes. I was swimming in the pools of emerald green.
"Do you, Edward Anthony Masen, take Isabella Marie Swan the Third to be your lawfully wedded wife?" asked the priest. I snapped back into reality.
"I do," Edward said confidently.
"And do you, Isabella Marie Swan the Third, take Edward Anthony Masen to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
"I…I do." I whispered the symbolic words that would bind me to Edward forever.
"You may now kiss the bride," the priest declared. Edward wrapped his arms around my neck and gently, softly pressed his lips to mine.
"I now declare you man and wife. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Masen." The priest announced. I pulled away and turned to the crowd, Edward's hand intertwined with mine.
The cheering started softly in the front, then grew and swelled. I smiled out at all of my friends and family: Angela and her boyfriend Ben, her friend, Jessica, who was with my old suitor Mike Newton, my friend Jacob Black, who was now engaged to Lady Renesmee Cullen, and numerous other friends, some royal, some not. In the front row sat Edward's parents, Carlisle and Esme Masen, and mine, King Charles and Queen Renee. And right next to them sat my best friends in the whole world.
Rosalie was cuddled into Emmett, holding their baby boy, Daniel Andrew McCarty. Emmett pointed out that if you said his initials, they spelled out DAM, so now Emmett calls him Damn. Naturally, Rose gets very pissed at him.
Then there was Alice and Jasper and Zoë in Alice's stomach. Jasper had one arm around Alice's shoulders and his other hand was placed on top of both of Alice's, on her stomach. They looked so incredibly loving that I began to wish for my own baby.
I saved the face I loved the most for last. I turned my head and looked into Edward's eyes. There I saw love, devotion, and happiness, which I was sure reflected in my own eyes.
"Bella Marie Masen." Edward tested my new name.
"Mrs. Bella Marie Masen." I corrected. "Your wife."
"Mine forever."
"Forever," I agreed.
And I knew, in that moment, that I had everything I ever needed right here, beside me.
THE END. :`-( It's over! I feel so, so sad! Well, it did have to end sometime, didn't it? A new story should be up sometime soon (no promises!) but soon. It may be Fame, it may be the Boyfriend Switch, it may be Fearless or Web of Deceit, my two new projects. Web of Deceit was the mystery project of Chapter 12, by the way. It's literally a mystery project. (Hint hint) So adios until then, and thanks for reading! This is Jennifer Isabella Sophie, signing off.
--psychicpixie94