A/N: Okay... this is it...
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4 years later
"Edwaaaaarrrrd!" I yelled through the apartment and shortly saw Edward appear from our bedroom.
"What?"
"I thought you said you were going to fix the table. It's still all wobbly and everyone is coming over in fifteen minutes." I gently shook our dining room table to show him just how badly it needed to be repaired, and fast.
"I thought I did fix it!"
"Well obviously not!" I shook it again, "If we're going to be eating on here, it has to be sturdy. I don't want food getting all over the floor."
Edward grumbled something unintelligible under his breath and went to go look for what I hoped were the supplies to fix my table.
We had only been married for about three months now and this would be the first time everybody would see our new condo. And the only thing I wanted was to not have to clean up Emmett's mess when he inevitably spilled all over our brand new carpet because the table was broken.
Edward came back with a small block of wood and some duck tape.
"You're going to duck tape it back together?"
"Just for now, Bella. I'll fix it later when I have more than fifteen minutes."
"Really? Because you've been meaning to fix it for a whole week now."
"If you keep nagging at me like that, I'm sure I'll end up fixing it tomorrow morning."
I rolled my eyes and went to make sure I had dinner prepared. This had been an ongoing normalcy for us. The first month of our marriage, we had the honeymoon (which was amazing) and after we got back Edward and I were still completely blissed out about being husband and wife.
When the second month started, we began all the nitty-gritty stuff like consolidating bank accounts, deciding which of each of our things we had to get rid of, and finding a place to live.
That's when all our little arguments began.
At first I was a little worried, we had never fought all that much and this was new. I talked to my mom about it and she laughed at me, saying that all married couples fought at least half the time.
So that's what we did. We butted heads about everything. What neighborhood we were going to live in, what type of car I should get now that the truck had died, right down to what we were going to have for dinner most nights.
The fighting wasn't all that bad though, because at the end of the day we both knew it was just a dumb argument about something we could deal with later. We would go to bed, still the happy couple I knew so well and save whatever problems we had for the next day.
It worked for us.
For everyone else though, things had been a little rough.
In our junior year of college, Alice and Jasper broke up for about three and a half months. It happened when Alice was talking about what kind of job she wanted when she graduated from college. Jasper had his heart set of staying in Washington and finding a high school teaching job there. Alice wanted to move down south a little where it was warmer and had more opportunities for someone in fashion.
Somehow they decided that neither of them could just compromise and broke up. It was absolutely horrible. Jazz became a hyper chatterbox that tried to distract himself from ever thinking about Alice again and Alice barely spoke or wanted to be around anybody those few months.
It all fell apart one day when Jasper just gave up and called Alice, begging to let them work this out. Alice was a little skeptical, for reasons I never knew, but agreed to see him anyway.
They practically disappeared for three days and when Jasper came back to school, he was all smiles and had Alice hooked on his arm.
During those three days, I was told there was a good amount of yelling, planning, and making up. They got married a few months before Edward and I, and now Alice works at a modeling agency as a wardrobe stylist for photo shoots. She's currently still working on a line of ball gowns with her friend Embry Call and plans to try and start selling them in about a year's time.
Jasper teaches History and Social Studies classes at the local community college and is still taking classes himself so he can become a university professor.
Rosalie and Emmett were (and still are) a totally different story. They never had any kind of big blow up like us other two couples had, just many, many little arguments frequently. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that that had changed. Out of nowhere Rose suddenly realized that she was the only one of us left who didn't have a ring on her left hand. She got all worked up and started a huge fight about it with Emmett, saying that he didn't want to be with her forever and commit.
Emmett was totally blindsided by all of this. When I talked to him, he admitted that the only reason he hadn't proposed was because he didn't catch any 'signs' from Rose that she wanted that.
As nicely as I could, I slapped him across the back of the head and told him he was stupid and asked if he knew Rosalie Hale at all.
That's what tonight was about.
Emmett was with Rosalie, right now, out at some fancy and expensive restaurant so he could propose. Jasper and Alice were going to have dinner with Edward and I, and then Emmett was supposed to bring Rose back to our place to celebrate.
…and it looked like we would have to celebrate on a broken table.
I watched as Edward wrapped the tacky tape around one of the table legs when someone started knocking on our door.
When I answered it, I was met by a large mound of balloons covering up Alice's face.
"Decorations are here!" she sang and stumbled past the threshold.
"Alice, I thought we weren't doing decorations."
"It's a party, though! You can't have a party without balloons!"
"…And a big cake, apparently." Jasper sighed as he came in carrying a large box, which I assumed held the cake.
We set aside all of the balloons and cake to fix for later and sat down to eat.
Alice and Jasper asked us all about how well we were adjusting to California. We had decided to move here after Alice realized this location would be better for her job, Rose was offered a position at a celebrity news station, and Edward was accepted into their medical school.
Jasper, Emmett, and I just decided to follow them.
Emmett ended up working at a huge gym as a personal trainer and was personally requested for private sessions often. This was surprisingly not an issue with Rosalie, though. She was proud all the women wanted her boyfriend and couldn't have him.
And I am now a high school English teacher. I never thought I would really like it, all the teenagers with hormones raging and attitudes the size of Texas, but its turned into something I really loved. I even convinced school board to let me start a literature club. We get together a couple days out of the week after school and talk about anything that has to do with books the kids want. Sometimes, students will come in just so we can go more in depth with what we're reading in class.
I have to brag and say that I grade more A+ papers and tests than any other teacher in that school, too.
We had just finished cleaning up and pulled the cake put of the box when Emmett's loud laughter echoed from outside the door, followed by his loud bangs on the door instead of knocking.
Alice squealed and quickly untied the balloons while Edward went to answer the door.
Rosalie was visible first and had her hand fanned out towards us, "I'M GETTING MARRIED!"
Alice and I squealed and jumped around with her while Emmett received pats on the back and fist bumps from his brothers.
After the initial excitement died down, we all grabbed a slice of cake, much to Alice's persistence, and started going over wedding details.
I thought they wouldn't bug me about it tonight, but then all eyes turned to me, "So Bella, since Alice was your Maid of Honor, and I was Alice's Maid of Honor, guess who gets to be mine…?"
I knew the answer to that question… It meant countless hours of me planning and perfecting and organizing until Rose was happy. I wasn't exactly looking forward to the stress that came with that title, which is why I had gotten out of it for Alice's wedding. "I do…" I sighed.
"That's right! So I was thinking we would start calling everybody tonight, and then go look at…" Rose kept rambling on about plans to go pick our invitations and flowers and blah, blah, blah.
I shot Edward a look and he only chuckled quietly at me. He knew this was coming.
After another couple of hours of more wedding talk, Edward had politely shuffled everyone out of our house, thankfully.
"You ready for Rosalie to transform into Bridezilla?" Edward smirked. He had been calling her that ever since Emmett let us in on the proposal details. Edward just 'knew' Rose was going to be worse than Alice on her wedding day.
"No, I just want to not think about it until I absolutely have to." I groaned. I never said I didn't agree with him...
"Well, I think I can help with that." He grabbed me around the knees and I was flung across his shoulder as Edward started making his way to our bedroom.
"Wait! The kitchen is still a mess, we need to clean that up." I said suddenly, I did not want to wake up on a Saturday morning to a gross, dirty kitchen.
"I'll do it tomorrow." Edward said and kept moving.
"And fix the table?" I asked sweetly.
"Yes, dear."
"I love you, Edward." I giggled and awkwardly hugged him from my position.
"I love you more, Bella." I saw his crooked smile as he tossed me onto the bed and kissed me.
"Really?" I whispered.
"Really, really." I felt, more than heard, him say against my lips.
Needless to say, Rosalie's wedding, and my messy kitchen were quickly forgotten.
A/N: That's all. No more :(
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Edward choosing duck tape to fix the table.
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