Author's Note: Inspiration hit in the shower yesterday and it all fell into place and a few hour later with, one bedtime routine kid break, it was done and my wonderful Beta, Mel, got it back to me this morning. Sadly enough it just goes to show how much of a dork I really am, but I really do feel like what I came up with would be Seth and Linaish if you know what I mean. I'm pretty happy with it so I guess that's what's important. :D Hope you enjoy too. Mel also got the SPOV of 24 back to me and I'll be posting it today too. Thanks for reading guys and let me know what you think!
25. Mama Bears, Brother Bears, & Peach Pits
I sat straight up in my old bed at the main house. My heart was pounding and the tears were flowing and the anger was building. Why did these dreams always have to come and mess up some of the happiest days of my life? They always seemed to pick some of the most inopportune moments to haunt me. I closed my eyes and collapsed back on my pillow throwing my arms over my eyes at the same moment that Jasper and Edward flew through the door and were standing at the end of my bed asking if I was okay.
I took a deep breath letting loose a mirthless chuckle. "Yes boys, I'm okay…another freaking nightmare is all. I wonder if it has to do with being near the pack kids again? The last time I had a dream like that one was in La Push. Man, this will get interesting if we really do end up settling there later on!"
"What happened?" Jasper asked curious if any new information had been revealed. I rubbed my face and sat back up rolling my head trying to get the screaming muscles of my neck to relax. I stood my pillow against the headboard and scooted back to lean against it and my brothers both sat at the end of the bed patting my leg comfortingly. I felt a sense of calm and smiled at Jasper.
"Well, I was at the school playground in La Push, the same one I had dreamed about when we were in Washington before I had seen the school. There were children playing all around me as I watched."
I stopped and gasped a minute as the other details of the dream started coming back. A wide smile filled my face, "Oh my…I…I was watching a little boy play with his friends…MY little boy," tears filled my eyes as the memory of the dream washed over me.
"Momma, can we go play on the jungle gym…please, please pretty please?" He was staring up at me with sparkling green puppy dog eyes set in his adorable little tan face.
"Sure baby, just no hanging upside down from the top bars and no jumping off the top."
"Okay Momma, we won't, thank you!" He shot me a big smile that was the exact replica of Seth's and my heart melted. I watched him turn and run off to play with two other boys when the beautiful baby girl on my hip began to squirm and squeal flailing her tiny little hands in the air.
"Oh, you want to go play with your big bubby so bad don't you? Well don't worry baby girl, someday you'll be keeping up with the big kids no problem!" I gazed down into the bright green eyes of my baby girl and she smiled a wide toothless smile at me. She had a darker skin tone than me, but much lighter than her father's. She reached up and grabbed a chunk of hair and pulled it to her mouth babbling happily and I smiled gently pulling the strands out of her hand before stretching down to kiss the top of her sweet little head.
"And a baby girl. They were beautiful!" I couldn't wipe the smile off of my face as the tears streamed down my cheeks. Edward moved to sit beside me, having observed the memory of my dream with me. "Yes, they were." He smiled and kissed my head and they both let me sit and revel in the bright portion of my dreams. I was beginning to learn more and more about my dreams and I knew this was a glimpse into my future. When I had my dreams, there were always parts that felt more tangible than others, and those parts were the things that Eleazar and Edward agreed were probably the more prophetic portions of my dreams…and I could feel in my heart and in my soul that these children were not merely figments of my imagination or projections of my wishes, these were my babies which made the next emotion to well up within me even more vehement.
I began to growl as I remembered the next part of my dream; the mama bear instincts to protect the children that I had yet to bear were already kicking in as the shadows of my nightmares once again encroached on my happy little life.
They came out of nowhere; a group of twelve robed guard members circled the playground. I knew that the pack would smell them and come running soon, but before they could come, each vamp took a child from the playground and me as I screamed for them to let the children go, my baby wailing on my hip and my little boy screaming and kicking trying to get out of the arms of his clocked captor. The panic began to rise in my throat and then I felt a cold hand on each of my arms as I was picked up and carried between two guards at vampire speed over the hill and into the darkness of the forest beyond.
Moments later I was being set back on my feet in front of the rest of the children, all still cowering and crying for their parents. I wanted so bad to massacre the demons that were endangering our lives, but first I knew I had to calm the children. The children all ran to me, clinging to my legs in terror as more cloaked figures began to crowd around us.
I looked toward the closing ring of vampires, "I don't know what you want, but unless you want the cries of these children to draw the pack to our location more quickly, you'll step back and give me a moment to calm them down."
They stopped their progression and took a few steps back giving us our space. I knelt down to the children and my son leaned forward and wrapped his arms around my neck burying his tear stained face in the crook. I reached my arm around him and held him close, trying to calm the baby clinging to the other side of my torso. All of these children knew me and trusted me so I looked them all in the eyes.
"Listen to me children; we're all going to be alright. Please just calm down. Let's sing a song to help us calm down." I released a wave of calm around them as Jasper had taught me as I started them singing the only song I could think of at that moment, Silent Night. My mind was at a total loss, thinking ten miles an hour as to how we would ever manage to get out of this situation and what in the world the Volturi wanted with a handful of small Quileute children, so it was the only thing I could think to do and the only song that was peaceful that would come to mind. The children's voices quivered as they attempted to sing the soft tune. Finally a bit of the edge was removed from their tiny bodies and I sent out waves of exhaustion and their little mouths began to yawn and their eyes began to fall closed and a few moments later they had all curled up on the ground and were asleep.
It was against every instinct in my body to lay my sleeping son and baby girl down on that ground and allow them out of my embrace, but I began to pick up the vibes from the minds of some of the ones guarding us that they were only interested in taking me and the two oldest children in the group who had been there watching their younger siblings. They were nearing puberty and would soon start phasing.
"I will go with you if you give me your word that these children will not be harmed. You touch even the tiniest hair on their head and I will find a way to see you all burn!"
They laughed at my warning, unaware of exactly who they were dealing with. One cloaked figure stepped forward and stood a few feet in front of me, the sound of amusement still in his voice, "Trust me, the last thing we would want to do is partake of the blood of these Halflings. Your threats mean nothing to us, but in the interest of fair play, we will leave them behind. The shape shifters are fast on our trail and we would rather vacate before they arrive. The children will be found very soon." I nodded and felt the tears streak my cheeks as I dropped to my hands and knees and placed a kiss on each of my children's cheeks. "Always know, no matter what that your Mommy loves you. Always and Forever."
I stood up and the shadows approached the group picking up the two oldest children before approaching me and leading me beyond the clearing and deeper into the woods. Two hands once again lifted my feet from the ground and seconds later we were at the shore on a boat floating out to sea just as the piercing howl of a dozen pack members filled the air.
My dream became dark and then when light returned I was standing in a large field…I recognized it as the field Jake and Nessie had taken me to on my first visit to Washington where the last great standoff between my family and Volturi took place. I was pushed and shoved forward to stand in front of the vanguard of the cloaked figures the major characters surrounding me just as they had in my first nightmare nearly two years ago. I now understood things so much more. Tears fell from my eyes as I saw the terror-stricken faces of my family and then my gaze locked onto my husband, my Seth, and I now knew that the little boy and the baby in pink in his arms were OUR children.
My heart began to pound as my children began to reach for me and cry and my field of vision blurred as the tears began to well in my eyes. I had to save them; they were going to die if I didn't do something…anything. I had a new resolve, far more substantial than ever before. The first time I had this dream I wanted to save my family, my parents, my siblings, my friends, but now I didn't just want to save them, as a mother I HAD to save them no matter the cost. I told them all I loved them and I was so sorry and then something was suddenly in my hands and I was preparing to attack. My weak and ineffective human reflexes and weapons would be of no match to the vampires and yet I had this strange confidence that I would succeed. I tensed my muscles and planned my first strike when I woke up and sat up in bed.
I did my best to explain my dream to Jasper knowing that Edward had absorbed the whole thing as the memories had returned. They both frowned and I could tell they were worried about whatever I was going to try to do against the Volturi knowing I would be completely useless against them.
"Honestly, besides the Volturi coming and my children, I really don't know what's real and what's not. I do know one thing; I understand your protective streaks now. They're not even born yet and I still had such rage and fury rolling through me at the idea of anyone causing them any harm. I almost felt as though I could have ripped the guard apart with my bear hands."
Edward laughed and kissed my head. "Maybe you can cut us all a little slack now that you understand a bit more."
I laughed, "Maybe, but probably not likely!" They both laughed and we talked a bit more before they left me to go down and inform the others of what had happened.
My muscles complained as I stretched and tried to work out the kinks from sleeping in a bed my body was no long accustomed to and then waking up so suddenly with the nightmare. I had just slid to the side of the bed with my feet touching the cold hardwood floor when Alice came bounding in talking at top speed shooting me orders left and right as she ordered me to get showered and dressed in the outfit she was laying out on the bed for me before shoving me through the doorway toward the bathroom.
Next thing I knew I was standing in front of the long vanity staring at my half open eyelids and groaning at my exhaustion. I hadn't slept well to begin with, now used to curling up with Seth every night, the lack of his heat, regardless of how overwhelming it was in these summer months, was unsettling…and then having the nightmare on top of it all, it ended up being a very long and less than restful night. I started the shower allowing the water to heat until the steam began to billow over the edge of the frosted glass door. I stepped in under the scalding water and groaned in appreciation as it beat at the tense muscles in my neck and shoulders, easing away the tension. I sighed and began to shampoo my hair as my mind began to wander over the last couple of years.
It was almost two years today, standing in this very shower that I was working up the courage to ask my family about allowing me to go to my last two years of high school alone. It seemed so funny now that my high school career was behind me how nervous and how big of a deal it had been and how smoothly it had actually managed to turn out. I smiled as I thought of my Seth and how amazingly wonderful he was. In nearly thirty-eight hours I was going to officially be his wife. I couldn't resist a little squeal as I rinsed my hair and began applying the conditioner.
I ran my fingers absentmindedly through my hair helping the conditioner spread from root to tip as my mind wandered over other things. I thought back to my dream and the two beautiful faces that were a bit of me and a bit of Seth combined into two perfect reflections of our love. The thought of ever leaving them in any way made my chest tighten and my heart ache. I thought of all of the things that I will miss if my nightmares come to pass and the Volturi steal me away from them. I knew they would have Seth and the rest of the family on both sides to be there for them, but they would always miss me being there for the big events, just like I miss Renee and Phil. I wouldn't trade the family that raised me for anything in the world, but sometimes I feel bad at all the things that the people who created me missed out on and I knew that my own children would eventually feel the same way as well. I took a deep breath and tried to clear my head of the negatives and look forward to the positives. Someday I would have babies, beautiful babies, with the man I loved, the man that I would officially make mine forever tomorrow. I smiled and sighed as focused on Seth and how amazingly lucky I was to have him in my life.
After a nice long thirty minutes under the hot stream of relaxing hydration, I finally snapped off the taps and stepped out of the shower feeling refreshed and much more relaxed. This was the day before my wedding and I knew I had a long day ahead of me, but I had made up my mind a few days back that I was going to do my absolute best to sit back and enjoy it and just focus on the ultimate goal of the whole event, to marry Seth in a beautiful dress and to dance with him under the stars. The future, bright or dark was ahead of us, but there was nothing I could do about any of it now. For now, I needed to savor each and every happy and beautiful event in my life while I could. In the words of Scarlet O'Hara, "I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tommorrow…after all tomorrow is another day"…or in my case maybe a month from now when I'm back home after my honeymoon…because then I can focus on what could possibly be done. I laughed at my cheesy little quote shaking my head and rolling my eyes before I rolled my neck one more time.
I took a deep cleansing breath as I ran my comb through my hair and brushed my teeth before walking back into my room and looking down at the outfit Alice had chosen for the day with a sigh. Before me lay a cute little pink sun dress with spaghetti straps and a gathered neckline with a cute pair of white sandals sitting on the floor next to my bed. "Thank. You. Alice." I mumbled under my breath with a smile. I laughed as I heard a "You're Welcome!" chime up from the floor below.
By the time I was in the dress Alice was upstairs pulling me back into the bathroom for a very uncharacteristically short round of Angelina Barbie. She dried my hair straight with a slight flip under at the bottom and then did a light dusting of mineral powder foundation some light blush and lip gloss and eye makeup and I was done. I stood there in shock absolutely loving the whole effect and yet suspicious of Alice doing something so minor for a bachelorette party.
It was frustrating that the whole day was being kept a secret from me. I was only aware of two things…the whole day was part of the girl's only experience and I wasn't allowed any contact with Seth for the entire day with the exception of the rehearsal following lunch before we all dispersed again to resume party activities. They even confiscated my cell phone so we couldn't text! Alice laughed when I accused her of cruel and unusual punishment. This all being so, I was now being lead downstairs into the unknown.
Alice led me down the staircase from the second floor and I walked in to find the entire downstairs decorated in my wedding colors, deep purple and a light lilac. Flowers adorned almost every flat space in the room over lilac colored cloth. The living room was cleared of all of the regular furniture with soft comfortable chairs in their places with all of the ladies invited to my wedding already seated and waiting for us.
I entered the room making my rounds to thank everyone for coming getting especially loud squeals in my ear from Leighton, Malia, and Jenny. Leighton and Malia had grown comfortable with my family and their kind over the past two years, but poor Jenny looked like she was ready to bolt out the front door at any second. Thankfully they already knew Leah, and she took them under her wing and introduced the three of them to the rest of the pack wives and girlfriends, so they were carefully surrounded by ladies that wouldn't set off their fight or flight instincts. I couldn't help but chuckle at the seating arrangements. Vampire guests on the north end of the room, humans on the south, and my sisters and other vampires more accustomed and tolerant to the wolf essence that the pack girls reeked of were seated in between the two extremes.
We sat and chatted for a while as the humans partook of the brunch served in the kitchen while the vamps took small amounts and shuffled them around their plates in order to blend in. I watched it all in awe as I saw the two completely separate parts of my world mesh into a single setting and actually manage to coexist. I had seen it within my own family unit with Jake and Seth ensconced and accepted into the lives of our family members, but never with individuals outside of our circle.
Pretty soon Alice drew everyone's attention and announced that the bridal shower portion of the day was to begin. I couldn't help the blush that filled my cheeks as I was suddenly aware that I was going to be opening presents from my siblings who were accustomed to being far more casual with the issue of sex than most in the presence of people that weren't much more than strangers to me and worse yet, my soon to be mother in law. The gifts were piled in front of me on the floor and I began the dangerous task of opening them.
Most of the presents were kind, thoughtful, and useful, but I couldn't help but open each one with the care and caution one would take opening a potential bomb. I was three quarters of the way through the massive pile when the first blush inducing present was opened. I cracked the lid and shut it immediately at the sight of fur…yes, red fur.
The ladies in the circle looked confused as Alice sighed and sauntered over to me. "Oh come on Lina, you had to know you'd get some lingerie. This one's from me and Jazzy…it's one of his favorites on me." She pulled out the sheer red negligee with the fur trimmed neckline and bottom hem and matching furry thong showing it to the room. I swear my face was darker red than the negligee. A few of the ladies giggled, a few commented how cute it was, and I looked over at my mother and Sue who both held polite smiles. I took a deep breath and told myself it was fine. We were getting married…lingerie was to be expected.
I opened the next box relieved to find that while it was lingerie, it was a beautiful and expensive looking white satin teddy with matching bikini underwear and robe. It was soft and sophisticated and when I looked at the card found that it was from my Mom. I smiled at her and thanked her and she smiled back with a nod.
After the conservative ensemble I made the mistake of being a little less cautious and as I lifted the lid of the next box. The box slid off my lap tossing the contents onto the floor and my eyes grew wide as I was face to face with a black leather bustier, a whip, and matching black heels. I quickly dropped to my knees and grabbed the offending items throwing them back in the box and sliding them behind me as most of the room chuckled nervously. I looked at a shocked and wide-eyed Sue and mother. I glanced over at Rosalie with a look of death knowing exactly where that outfit came from without needing to check the card. She smiled and shrugged innocently and I shook my head at her.
After the leather event, I was even more cautious than before, but to my great relief the rest of the presents were very conservative and benign. I ended the day with quite a few beautiful and tantalizing items of lingerie, some great perfumes and lotions, some great household items, and a set of super soft Egyptian cotton towels and matching bathrobes. There were only two presents left and they were wrapped rather suspiciously.
While most of the gifts of the day were carefully encased in beautiful and shimmery bridal papers, these were wrapped in plain black paper with no notes or identifying items of any kind. I picked the first of the two up with the most extreme caution imaginable and slowly peeled away the paper, relieved to find a nondescript white box, but as I tried to remove the lid of the box, it stubbornly refused to open. Finally with one last tug the lid popped open and into my lap fell massage oils, lubricant, handcuffs, a mask, and a vibrator with several more similar items remaining in the box. I squeaked hoping that nobody saw the items inside stuffing them back in and shoving the box next to the leather monstrosity behind me. Considering that the next box was covered in matching paper I turned away from the group to peel the paper away more discretely to find the Kama Sutra with a note…from Emmett.
Baby sister, Just a few fun toys and an instruction manual to teach you two kids a few new tricks. From the sound of things you guys are still sticking with the basics, hopefully this helps you kick it up a notch. Love ya, Brother Bear.
I instantly began choking on nothing but air as I looked at the book and read the note from my brother, simultaneously ready to kill him and also incredibly embarrassed that so much more of my sex life with Seth was known by my family than I ever cared to know. I quickly tossed the book into the pile with the others as Sue came up to check on me and ask if I was okay. I leaned and moved myself between her and the pile when she tried to see what had surprised me so a few times before Alice finally showed up at my side laughing at me and distracting Sue.
I turned to look at Rosalie and whispered loud enough that only the vampires could hear, "You and Emmett…dead….as a doornail…completely and totally dead." She smiled and rolled her eyes and the vampire half of the room broke out into laughter while the human side of the room looked on in confusion. I sighed and shook my head rolling my eyes before standing up and thanking everyone for their thoughtful gifts. We visited a bit longer and then cut into the cake adorned with various figurines depicting a bride dragging her groom to the altar, which of course earned a few laughs.
By noon the house was once again empty with the exception of my high school friends, my sisters, Leah, Mom and Sue. We were quickly rushed over to the house where the minister and the boys were all waiting to get going on the rehearsal. As soon as I saw Seth my chest began to tighten and I ran into his arms and he pulled me up to kiss me on the lips before setting me back down again.
"Oh Angel, you look so adorable!"
"Adorable? Babies are adorable…women about to be married don't want to be referred to as adorable by their fiancés."
"Oh, I apologize, what's a better descriptive word?"
"Beautiful, gorgeous, tantalizing, dazzling, I could go on if you'd like."
"He smiled down at me and kissed me on the lips. How's your day been so far my beautiful, gorgeous, tantalizing, dazzling, irresistible, precious, perfect soon to be officially wife?"
I giggled and smiled biting my lip as he beamed back down at me. I'm not sure how long we stayed like that before I heard the minister clear his throat behind us and we turned and blushed as we apologized.
"Oh, no need to apologize for being in love, young ones. If every couple to be married were as obviously in love and devoted as the two of you there wouldn't be any divorces, but I do have somewhere to be in an hour so we really do need to proceed."
We smiled at each other and he squeezed my shoulders a little tighter before we pulled apart and began organizing the rehearsal and running through everything a few times. The butterflies fluttering in my stomach as I walked towards him were relentless and I found myself looking at him in disbelief knowing that this really was happening. I mean, yeah, in our hearts and through our personal vows we were already married, but something about taking the steps toward him and making our declarations in front of such a large group of people tomorrow just made it all so much more real.
When we were done the minister left and I was given a few more minutes to spend with Seth before we would be separated not to see one another again until I walked toward him tomorrow evening in my gown. We kissed and hugged and kissed some more before Alice had to literally forcibly pull me away from him herding me into one of the caravan of cars that would take us to our next destination.
Twenty minutes after leaving my Seth standing watching us drive away with a sad look on his face, we pulled up in front of a very expensive and fancy looking spa. Everyone piled out and made our way into the building. Alice went immediately to the counter and announced that the bridal party had arrived and we were immediately shuffled off to various rooms for a variety of beauty treatments. While we humans were being treated to massages, facials, and body wraps, the vampire ladies were indulging in warm mud baths and sauna time thoroughly enjoying the exposure to heat. Three hours later thoroughly relaxed and showered we were all ushered into a large room set up with manipedi tubs and each of us were treated to manicures and pedicures while we chatted and gossiped. We humans got the full exfoliation and massage treatment while the vampires just got their nails painted as they sat and visited with the rest of us.
Sue and Mom were seated on the far side of the room and both engaged in enthusiastic conversation. I was forced to endure the longest of the treatments with Alice barking orders and ordering additional things to be done. Eventually Leighton, Malia, and Jenny wondered off to call their boyfriends and my sisters immediately ambushed me and we all began talking quietly enough that only my sisters could hear.
"So what was in the black presents Lina?" Nessie asked me with a devious look on her face.
"Ask Rose, her husband was the mastermind." I rolled my eyes.
"Hey! I got you the leather, but I had no idea Emmett did that."
"What did he do? What was in the packages that made you go all red like that?"
"I think I learned far more about Rose and Em than I ever wanted to know. Apparently they are way into the S&M stuff. Rose got me the leather bustier and whip and Emmett got me lube, oils, handcuffs, a blindfold, a vibrator and in the next box was the Kama Sutra telling me that from what he's heard Seth and I need to learn a few new tricks."
Alice giggled, having known all along what was going to be in that gift, Rosalie smirked and wiggled her eyebrows, Bella frowned at Rosalie, and Nessie's mouth fell open in shock before stealing a furtive glance at Rose. I started laughing and they all looked at me a little funny.
"Sure Rose, just try and deny the fact that I stumbled across your copy when I was twelve. I was traumatized for a month, and I can tell you right now, vamps must have written that thing because I don't see how some of those positions are even humanly possible!" They all laughed except for Bella who was still frowning.
"Well, I can tell you right now that you'll be thankful for their presents before the honeymoon is over," Alice trilled next to me.
I looked at her with narrowed eyes. "I so will not!"
"Yes you will," she smiled back deviously.
"No, I won't! There's no way I would ever be caught dead wearing that bustier and using a whip!"
"Well, not the whip, but you will wear the bustier at some point," she answered with a giggle.
"Nope...won't happen!" I was growling through clenched teeth.
"Yes it will."
"NO, It won't!"
"You two sound like a couple of five year olds," Nessie giggled from her seat next to me.
"Lina, what's the family motto?"
I glared at her before finally mumbling, "Never bet against Alice, but I can tell you…"
She cut me off, "EXACTLY, NEVER bet against Alice!" She winked and danced off as I mumbled under my breath, "Will NOT!"
"Yes you will," I heard her sing from across the room as Rose, Nessie, and Bella began to laugh. I took in a deep breath and sighed no longer willing to argue as I focused back on the lady meticulously painting my toes.
My treatments seemed to go on forever, but when we were done I was pleased with the pretty French tips on my fingernails and my toes were painted to match. We all piled back into the car and when we arrived back at the main house, Alice gave me a few minutes to say bye to Leighton, Malia, and Jenny before immediately snatching me and pulling me upstairs for another Angelina Barbie session. It was still shorter than normal but when I was done I was definitely made up for going out, but I was shocked at the end result.
The style of my makeup and especially my hair was highly out of vogue. I walked out of the bathroom with big hair and tall bangs being led by the hand by Alice who pulled me into my room and forced me into a flowery baby doll dress, a blue jean jacket, and white leggings with lace along the bottom hem of both legs with a pair of keds and double layered slouch socks. I looked at her in confusion wondering if she had hit her head while wrestling with Emmett or perhaps suffering from some strange version of vampire mad cow disease until she turned to me with a denim hat with a flipped up side and a sunflower sewn into it and it all clicked. We were going to do some sort of nineties themed thing next. I smiled widely and then turned to look in the mirror laughing at the ridiculous look, but still excited to see what was coming up next. She disappeared from the room reappearing a few minutes later in a strapless dress with a ruffled skirt and a wide headband in her hair before dragging me downstairs to find that my sisters, some of the pack girls, and Leah were all dressed along the theme as well.
My mother had Sarina in her arms who giggled when she saw me and reached up to play with my hat pulling it off of my head and trying to eat the flower. Mom and Sue said that they were on babysitting duty tonight while we were out and for us to go have fun. Nessie kissed Sarina on the head and told her to be good for Grammy Esme before Alice pulled us both away, dragging us out to the car once again.
Rosalie drove as Alice turned to me from the passenger seat throwing a denim purse in my hands. "In here is your new ID and a few other essentials. You don't say a word to anyone until after we are inside the club. There's also a card in there that details what you can drink and what time. I worked really hard on this, so you have to stick to the card or you are going to look and feel like crap tomorrow. Understand?"
I looked at her bewildered as I pulled a wallet out of the purse to see my picture on an out of state driver's license. The ID said my name was Angel Clearwater and that I was from Texas and was twenty-two. I looked up at Alice with wide eyes and began to protest, but she interrupted saying that as long as I did what she said I'd be fine.
I rummaged through the wallet to find money and a little card the size of a credit card with a timetable and a list of drinks to order at those times. It started with 7o'clock Amaretto Stone Sour and had lists of one drink per fifteen minutes to thirty minutes depending on the strength of the drink. "Um Alice, won't I get drunk if I drink all of these?"
"I told you silly; I went through each choice and placed them in that order for a reason. They're spread out just enough to let you feel a little tipsy and loosen up enough to really dance, but not so much to get you drunk. I'll warn you though…drink any more or in any different order than the list and you'll be sorry!"
"Al, I'm not sure this is such a good idea. I mean…" She cut me off. "You'll be fine. We'll all be there to watch out for you."
I sighed and looked out the window just in time to see us pull in front of a nineties themed club called the Peach Pit After Dark, just like the original Beverly Hills 90210 series. I giggled and pumped my fist hoping they would at least play the good stuff inside. This would be a long night if they only played hip-hop. The girls all smiled and grabbed me pulling me up to the guy holding the velvet rope. He looked at Alice as though she had three heads and questioned her age. She showed her ID and looked as if he didn't trust her but eventually let her in. The rest of us followed showing our Ids out of courtesy and were met without question and a few minutes later we were surrounded by the angsty lyrics of Nirvana and I smiled a big appreciative smile at my fairy godsister and bobbed my head to the beat as we crossed the room to find our table.
We were just about to sit down when I heard a familiar voice boom from the dance floor and I spun on my heels and began to jump up and down when I saw the boys already on the floor, also dressed to match the theme, with my Seth body surfing above the crowd. I turned to Alice and hugged her around the neck, "Thank you, thank you, thank you Ali. You're the best sister ever!"
She laughed and hugged me back before smacking me on the behind, "Oh just get out there and dance to your crappy music with your man!"
I squealed and ran out onto the dance floor just as the crowd of boys lowered my husband to the ground and ran straight into Seth's arms. He lifted me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist letting him spin me around. After he finally set me down the rest of the boys took turns hugging me, some of which were pack brothers who had just hit town after the rehearsal and I hadn't known were in yet.
Seth spun me on the dance floor and danced a few songs with me, making faces at the music but dancing anyway. After a while I told him about the Alice timetable and he looked concerned but led me to the bar for my first drink anyway. We sat there for the next half hour allowing me to drain the first two drinks on the list and talk about the events of the day. It seems that while I was being dragged all over kingdom come and embarrassed by my sisters and one brother who would someday pay, the boys were all hanging out at our house playing Xbox while Emmett was trying to give Seth pointers on bedroom positions. He laughed so hard I thought he was going to cry when I told him about what he and Rosalie had gifted me with.
After my second drink, which happened to be a Long Island Iced Tea which I enjoyed way too much and may have ingested a tad too quickly, I was ready to dance, dragging Seth out to the dance floor to groove to the same Stabbing Westward song that he had come home early from California and caught me dancing to as I cleaned the house. It seemed that the alcohol made me no longer care that my brothers, sisters, and several pack members and their imprints were all observing us as I allowed my body to grind on Seth in a way that I had never done in public. At first he tried to stop me, but it didn't take him long to give up and just enjoy it for the two songs it lasted before the alcohol began to wear off and I was suddenly conscious of our audience again.
I had more energy than most of the humans could keep up with, including my fiancé resulting in me dancing much of the night with my tireless vampire siblings…although definitely not as, uh, freely as I had danced with Seth. Finally at eleven fifteen, Alice once again had to forcibly drag me away from my Seth as I held on for dear life.
Seth asked her to give us a second and he pulled me close swaying with me to the slow song being played and whispered into my ear, "I love you my Angel and tomorrow you will be all mine. Now go sleep and I'll see you in front of the altar under the stars tomorrow evening, and this time tomorrow night, nobody will be able to pull you away from me, I promise you that."
I smiled up at him and tipped up onto my tiptoes to kiss him on the lips as I scratched my fingers gently through the hair at the base of his neck. He sighed and pulled back kissing my forehead, my eyes, and my nose before placing a sweet kiss on my lips and telling me to go to Alice. I sighed and finally let go walking to Alice and the crew putting my arm around Nessie's waist, resting my head on her shoulder. She chuckled as I sighed.
"I'm tired guys, let's go home." They all smiled and we all went back out to pile into the car and make our way back home. I was asleep before we even left town and only woke up long enough to feel myself being carried into the house and woken up by Alice in order to take two Advil and drink a glass of water before falling back to sleep in a nice warm cozy bed. I smiled and thought of the words of my Seth. "I'll see you in front of the altar under the stars tomorrow evening, and this time tomorrow night, nobody will be able to pull you away from me, I promise you that."
I mumbled "I Love You, Seth." before drifting off into a nice long nightmare less sleep.
Author's Note: Well guys..that was it. I hope you weren't disappointed. I had fun with it at least. Next chapter is their wedding day. I haven't really started it yet, but I can see it all so clearly that I'm not expecting much of a writer's block issue with it, so hopefully the wait won't be too terribly long, but I won't make any promises. Thanks for the favorites, alerts, and reviews. BellaandEdward4EVER2580 was the 250
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