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Chapter 26

The video was still playing, the door was still open, and everyone was still frozen in place. They have found the disk. I focused on my breathing while I assessed the situation, I didn't want to hyperventilate or anything, they might kill me whilst I was passed out or something.

They all looked shocked, that was common. Emmett looked angry, angrier than Rose which was a first. His overwhelming size matching his facial expression for the first time I've ever seen. Alice looked like she was just about to break into tears, even Jasper, who was rubbing her shoulders, wasn't calming her down. She was tense and not relaxing into his touch like usual. Jasper was the calmest one of them all, yes he looked shocked, but that was all. I don't know why.

"Oh god, no, I can't do this." I whispered as I turned to run back out through the front door. This wasn't how they were supposed to find out! This is not good, I was meant to be prepared for their reactions. I have nothing now except the raw truth exposed. It looked much worse there on the television screen than it would've coming from Edward and my mouths.

"No Bella," Edward stopped me pulling me away from the front door, "We have to face them now." He said reaching behind me and closing the front door, locking it for extra measures. I nodded numbly, he was right I guess. Running wouldn't help anything and I couldn't leave Edward to deal with this on his own.

He kissed my forehead and entered the living room. He stopped the disk taking it out. Good thinking, their reaction to the consummation of the wedding would've been horrific.

I took a step forward towards the couches where our friends sat. My jaw opened and shut hopelessly. What do I say?

"How could you?" Alice rose, her eyes glistening as she left the room.

I turned and watched her leave, taking a step forward to follow her but was stopped.

"You got MARRIED!" Rosalie screamed at me, "Thanks for the invite Bella." She said condescendingly, she too rose and took a step to leave but her body wouldn't let her.

"Explain now young lady!" Emmett roared.

"I can, we can, and we will, just not without Alice," I said flustered and left the room before any of them could stop me.

"Alice," I knocked softly on the bathroom door in which she had run into.

"Go away," A cold voice said from the other side

"We need to talk Ali," I begged only to be rewarded with silence.

"Please, I can explain everything." I whispered leaning my head against the door begging that she would let me in.

There was a small click of a bolt being slid back and the door opened hesitantly.

"What's to explain, you hurt me Bella." She said opening the door wider and walking to our tub on the far wall and sitting on it.

"Can I come in?" I asked timidly and she nodded slightly. I closed the door behind me and turned to face Alice.

"I'm sorry," Was all I managed to say and Alice scoffed.

"I never intended to hurt you Ali, it's just," I didn't know what to say. I slid down the bathroom door until I was sitting on the cold bathroom floor. I pulled my knees in close and rested my head on them.

"This wasn't how you were meant to find out," I mumbled, "I'm so sorry." I mumbled again, my eyes moistening at how hurt Alice was.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Alice asked, "We're supposed best friends, I consider you to be my sister Bella and then you do something like this and hide it from me. How do you think it makes me feel, how would you feel?" She asked.

I cringed, "I would feel like shit, angry, upset and like you didn't trust me." I answered her, "But Alice, I swear, I do trust you, with my life; it's just that I didn't trust myself."

She stared at me.

"It was an accident, I married some stranger that I didn't know and we had just promised each other that we would try to make this situation work. Edward seemed like a nice guy, so I didn't want to jinx it by telling everyone that we were married. Married, which implies some deep and meaningful relationship, which we were nowhere near entering." I spoke quietly, yet fast.

"Bella, you could've told me." Alice reiterated.

"Are you telling me that you wouldn't have interfered what so ever?" I asked in what I hoped was a curious, not a condescending tone.

Alice didn't answer straight away but a small smile made its way onto her face, "No, I could never promise something like that, and I probably would've intervened in some form."

I didn't reply I knew she would've, but I didn't want to agree with her like I was blaming her.

"You know," She said quietly, "My first thoughts were, oh my god, she got married in Vegas with that foul looking Elvis impersonator in an overly pink, frilly chapel."

I laughed, because it was so Alice to be more concerned with the designs.

She got up off the tub and walked over to me crouching on the floor next to me and hugged me.

"I forgive you, I realise what and why you did what you did, but hey, I couldn't help thinking of myself first, it would be so unlike me." She trilled.

I got up off the bathroom floor and hugged her again. We exited the bathroom. Edward was waiting for us in the hall. He smiled relieved when he saw us walk out happy.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"It was too intense in there, and quite frankly, I'm a little scared of Emmett in this moment." He said.

All three of us walked out into the lounge room. Alice went and joined Jasper on the couch, Jasper still looked calm, the shock on his face lessened. Rosalie and Emmett on the other hand still looked quite mad.

"We should talk," I said mainly to Rose and Emmett.

"Isabella Swan, I cannot believe you could be so irresponsible!" Emmett fumed standing up and facing me. He sounded like Charlie; which peeved me, because he was not my father and had no reason to be this angry. It has turned out ok; I'm not six feet under because instead of Edward I married some serial murderer.

"To go marry some stranger in Las Vegas, is, is," Emmett yelled, but couldn't continue so he stopped.

"I know," I said when he was silent, "It was irresponsible and reckless, but what's done is done, I got lucky, so we should all be focusing on that." I argued.

Emmett's face was red and I almost expected the pulsing vein that always appeared in Charlie's face when he was angry, it didn't appear though.

Emmett let out a huge breath, "You're right, there's nothing to do now." He wrapped me in a bear hug and then laughed.

"You truly got the Vegas experience didn't you?" He laughed

"What?" I asked confused breaking away from him and his vibrating chest.

"Everyone wished they could go to Vegas and get into a situation like yours, it's just like in the movies." He laughed and Rose gave him a pointed glare.

"So everyone wishes do they Emmett?"

"Uh, well, no, of course not Rosie." He stuttered.

"Yeah, sure," She muttered, "I can't believe you got married before me!" She whined at me.

I bit back the smile that was trying to make its way onto my face; of course Rosalie would only be concerned with that.

"Don't smile Isabella, I am pissed you didn't tell me, but I assume it was just because you didn't want Alice interfering," She told me speaking fast.

Alice interrupted with an insulted, "Hey!"

But Rose ignored it and continued, "But now I'm a little peeved that you beat me to the altar." She complained.

I couldn't help it, I smiled, "I'm really sorry, but really, you got married before me, because, well really, our wedding was shit, and no one was there and we can't remember it." Edward and I laughed.

"Are we ok?" I asked Rose.

She rolled her eyes, "Yes, we're fine." She said hugging me.

"Wait, now that we know you're both married, can I organise a vow renewal?" Alice piped up excited.

I grimaced, "Not straight away, further down the track." I told her.

Alice squealed, "You're pregnant aren't you?"

"No!" I screamed and looked at Edward who looked like someone had just slapped him, "No!" I said again shaking him. He relaxed when he looked in my eyes and saw the honesty there, Alice had settled, "No, I'm not." I said again.

"Then why wait?" She pouted.

"I don't feel like it," I whined, "I want to be normal for a while, ok?"

"Fine!" She huffed

We fell into silence.

Edward broke it, "What no yelling, crying, abuse from you?" He asked Jasper.

He just smiled, "Nope, I'm cool with it all." I hugged him in return for his understanding.

I sighed, that was everyone.

"So what happens now?" I asked as we all were either sitting or standing in awkwardness.

"Can we watch the rest of the video?" Alice chirped.

"NO!" Edward and I screamed together.

"You have it don't you?" I asked Edward.

"Yes, they will never find that disk ever again." He said and I sighed in relief.

I suddenly tensed up "Hang on," I said, they shouldn't have found that disk in the first place, "How did you find the disk?"

All four of them ducked their heads and looked the other way.

"It's Jasper's fault!" Emmett accused, "He dared me to jump into the truck."

"No it's Emmett's fault, he jumped into the truck," Jasper said rolling his eyes.

"So it's Rose's fault, because, well I wouldn't have found it if Rose hadn't stomped on the brakes." Emmett shifted the blame.

"My fault?" She asked shocked, "Its Alice's fault, she was the one that wanted the Christmas tree out, and she was the one that broke in here in the first place." Rose yelled.

"Technically, its Jasper's fault, because I didn't break in here, I had a key, that Jasper gave me." She concluded.

Everyone looked to him, "Well, really," he said stumbling over what to say, "Its Victoria's Secret's fault, she shouldn't have made such enticing lingerie!" He said and we all groaned no one wanted that mental image.

"Hello," Edward said collapsing on the couch next to me after everyone had left.

I snuggled up next to him and sighed in content, "This is nice," I whispered.

"What?" Edward asked.

"Everyone knows," Edward hesitated, "What?"

"Not everyone knows,"

"Who?"

"Our parents."

My eyes widened, "Charlie is not finding out, never, full stop, case closed, with an underlined NEVER!" I all but screamed Charlie is happier never knowing.

"Ok," He said simply.

"Good," I said relaxing back into his arms, "What are we going to do with the disk?"

"I think hiding it is our best option, somewhere more secure." He said staring at me.

"What? Well, I didn't think they'd break into my truck, sorry." I laughed.

Edward laughed too before his lips started attacking my neck.

"Edward?" I said turning to face him.

"Hmm?" He replied.

"I love you."

"I love you too Bella." He smiled his crooked grin. My skin tingled at those words. I slowly leaned in and kissed him softly. Smiling as he laid me down on the lounge.

So everything was out, well practically out. As said before, Charlie does not need to know. And it all turned out good, of course there were bumps, but that was to be expected. No one is perfect, marriage isn't perfect either. But singular moments such as this one are what make things great. So maybe originally drinking in Vegas was a bad idea, I wouldn't recommend to anyone to ever go to Las Vegas with the intention of getting drunk and marrying someone on a whim. Just that maybe drinking in Vegas was a good idea, for me, after all.

A/N Hm, What do you think? This was the last official chapter of DrinkingVegas Bad Idea. I hope I've closed off everything. I will be writing an Epilogue hopefully soon for things that I know need an official end, but is there anything you would like me to mention, just in case it's something I've not thought of?