I'm baaaacckkkk :D haha I'm also hyper :p
Sooo Here is the final chapter before the Epilogue to The Cullen/Swan Diaries and I have decided to announce the title of the sequel in the author's note at the bottom :D
Next week is busy for me as I am going camping for three days with family and then going to Blackpool Pleasure Beach in England next Friday, but I promise I will have the Epilogue up on Thursday, if I don't well, then I'll let you all send the Volturi to me... but then you won't get to find out what happened next... hmm anywhoo :D
Without further a do... here is Chapter 29... :D
DISCLAIMER: I may own the plot to this story, but Stephenie Meyer is the owner of The Twilight Saga and it's characters :D
The Cullen/Swan Diaries
Oh Cool! What Is It?
"Soooo how bout we go in alphabetical order?" Alice asked while jumping excitedly on Jasper's lap.
"So that means me first?" Bella stated but it more sounded like a question.
"Yep here you go" Alice said thrusting the sparkly neatly wrapped gift to her.
"Even ribbons Alice? I can tell it was your idea because you're always up for O.T.T gift wrapping unlike Jazz" she giggled as she tugged at the ribbon bow. When the ribbon was pulled away Bella was able to lift the lid off the box that held her gift inside. It was silent as we all watched, when she lifted the lid and looked inside or mouth dropped. "Alice Swan you are sooo in trouble" Bella blushed a deep shade of red. Alice and Jasper burst out laughing the rest of us were just confused, I looked at Bella raising an eyebrow and she soon passed me the box so I could see, I probably had the same reaction as Bella because inside the box was a lot of lingerie.
"What'd they get you Bells?" Charlie asked trying to look inside the box that I still held. Bella leapt forward and slammed the lid back down.
"Oh err nothing Dad just a lot of, of make-up" she stuttered, still blushing furiously. Charlie soon accepted that he wouldn't look into the box and Emmett and Rosalie lost control of the laughter they had been holding in which proved that they knew about the "Get Bella embarrassed and Edward like a gold fish" plan. After we all gained composure, we all decided we would all just give our presents from each of us that were for Bella to open at the same time. All of our gifts would be given to each of us except the ones to our partners.
Emmett and Rose's gift to Bella was a new artist's set, Carlisle and Esme's gift was vouchers and also money for the wedding dress, Bella was very emotional at that gift and next was Charlie's gift, he gave her a box full of new photo albums almost all of them were full with photos from before Bella was born to the just a few months ago. There was only one that was empty and on the front it said "The Beginning of a Precious Life" there was a tag saying "look inside" so Bella with tears flowing down her cheeks opened the album, there was two sealed envelopes attached to the inside cover.
"I'm going to open these after is that okay Daddy?" Bella asked pulling him into a hug.
"Of course Bells" he said simply wiping away a single tear.
"Aww, Carlisle you're next" Alice beamed also having tears flow down her cheeks. I pulled Bella into my side and kissed the top of her forehead as he began to open Alice and Jazz's present. He received a new organiser for next year from Alice and Jazz, a funny tie and book shop vouchers from Rose and Emmett and vouchers for a suit specialist in Seattle from Charlie. Bella and I had gave him some a big picture of him and Esme together.
Charlie got simple a new TV from Alice and Jazz, clothing store vouchers from Rose and Emmett (déjà vu much?), money from my Mom and Dad and finally a cook book and a picture of Bella and I from us.
Next it was my gifts and from Alice and Jazz, I got a whole load of candy, and also a note saying that they were going to pay for the photographer for Bella and I's wedding, I got a huge picture of Bella and I like what we had given to my Dad from Rose and Em. I got a card which held the receipt to my brand new grand piano from my Mom and Dad. And finally I got some CD's and vouchers from Charlie.
And now it was time to give Emmett his gifts, he got a whole bath treats gift set from Alice and Jazz full of Bath Bombs and whole lot of smelly stuff and his exact words were "Oh cool! What is it?" after explaining it to him the best we could he replied "I thought it was candy cause this soap stuff seriously looks like that nougat stuff". He got money from both my parents and Charlie and finally he got a lot of CD's from Bella and me. He was a bit like Bella who liked all sorts of music so there was some Chart artist's and also some oldies.
Jasper's gifts was one of the easiest for us to get, he liked all things that involved the civil war so we gave him a whole load of vouchers to a Civil War specialist shop online. Charlie gave him some DVDs and my Parents gave him a huge book full of war time poems. Rose and Emmett gave him tickets to visit his hometown.
Finally it was Rose, Bella and I decided to give money to Alice to pick out clothes and perfume for her to be from us and we also added a framed photo of her and Emmett together. Alice and Jazz gave her spa day vouchers that let her invite three other people with her, Rose decided she wanted Ali, Bells and my Mom to go with her. Charlie gave her some car books because her secret indulgence was working on cars and my Parents gave her a note to say that they would pay for make-up artists and hair stylists for her wedding.
After all the gifts were handed out and opened we all separated with our partners to open our presents to each other together, Charlie stayed in the sitting room and watched some of the movies that they were showing on TV. I felt bad for him being by himself but he seemed pretty happy because he had his two girls with him on Christmas. It was agreed that none of us would find out what we got our wife/fiancés until after our meal. I could hear the squeals of the females around the house as they opened their gifts. Bella grinned and handed me my gift from her as I handed my gift to her.
"You go first" she still grinned, she had became quite happy but I think she was just really happy. I nodded and opened up the wrapped box to see what she had given me. She had made up a scrapbook of all the times we had spent together even when we weren't a couple and we were just friends. It was full of photos of us together, and it was crazy seeing how much we had changed over the years. Along with the scrapbook was also a necklace with a dog tag engraved with "B&E". I pulled her into a tight hug; I was speechless because words couldn't explain how much everything about her meant to me.
"It's amazing Bells, I love you so, so much" I whispered into her ear, she giggled and pulled back but not without kissing me.
"Your turn" I said handing her, her gift again.
She opened it with a huge smile on her face, there was a comfortable silence around us as I watched her. Inside the small box was lots of tickets, notes all holding the details to the gifts I had given her. A trip to France, payments for our wedding day, decorations for the empty room that we hoped to transform into a nursery. A letter describing what she meant to me and finally a music sheet that held the song I had written for her, two in fact, one that was a lullaby and another with lyrics.
I handed her a CD that held all our favourite songs and the songs I had written on it. She placed it in the CD player in my old bedroom that we were sat in and we lied back and held each other as we listened to the music. This had seriously been the best Christmas ever.
~~~TC/SD~~~
"Dinner's ready!" my Mom called and all you could hear was Emmett's booming laugh and him rushing to the dinner table. I sat up and stretched while Bella tiredly sat up as well and yawned. We had fallen asleep and looking at the clock, we had slept a good hour and a half.
We walked down the stairs together joining everyone who all sat around the table waiting for us. We all smiled and joked after we gave thanks and filling our plates with food. We pulled the crackers and wore the stupid paper hats and read out the humourless jokes, well to us we found them humourless but Emmett found them hilarious...
"Aww c'mon don't you get it" he gasped in between his booming laughter "No. ? You know no idea, you's guys aren't fun" he said reaching for another spoon full of mashed potato, thank god Mom had made plenty.
"Yeah we do get it Em, we just didn't find it as funny as you" Rose teased. We carried on joking around and soon we were stuffed from our huge meal.
"That was amazing Esme, let me help you with those" Bella offered lifting some of the dishes to the kitchen with my Mom. Rosalie and Esme joined them and I smiled at seeing Bella with my Mom. Us guys all sat in the sitting room, and went into a conversation of which baseball team was best.
The girls soon returned and my face broke into a huge grin when I heard the conversation my Mom and Bella were having, "So Esme, I want to thank you for everything" she smiled as they walked into the room and sat in the spaces we had kept for them well Bella more sat on my lap while Mom sat beside my Dad on the other couch.
"You're welcome dear, and you know you're welcome to call me Mom, because you are going to be my daughter soon" Esme grinned.
"I'd be happy to call you Mom" Bella returned the grin. We all turned to watch the Holiday film that was on the TV. I placed a kiss on Bella's forehead as we settled in. In less than 15 minutes Bella was asleep in my arms and I said my goodbyes as I carried her out to the car returning back inside to grab our gifts.
When we got back home and we were both lying in bed. I was wide awake while Bella was still fast asleep. I stared up at the ceiling and soon images of Bella and I's possible future appeared.
I was so ready.
I seriously love Emmett :D If I didn't love Edward so much it would definately be Emmett :D
Anyway, I want to thank you all for the alerts, reviews and favourites :D
Yet again I'm going to ask nicely for those amazing reviews I know you can all send lol :)
Sorry I never replied to any of them to the previous chapter but I promise you that once the epilogue is up I will have special messages for everyone even people who only added me to their alerts/favourites... :D
So one final question... I'm needing some song ideas because I'm planning on creating an extra playlist of "Edward's CD to Bella". If you want to ask me about any artists I wrote to or some that I'm not much of a big fan of feel free to ask in a message or review.
I'm rubbish at making banners so I thought since the story's coming to an end I would create a little a little contest for everyone to create a banner/picture that goes along with this story :D I loved the "Frozen" banner I was given by Cocoloco123 :D
Remember this Story is all human so it would be best if there wasn't as many gold eyed characters but I know it's tough to find pictures like the human versions i.e. Green Eyed Edward. Again feel free to ask :D
So here's the moment you have all been waiting for :)
The Sequel to "The Cullen/Swan Diaries" is called...
"The Cullen/Swan Wedding Diaries"
I know it isn't a big change but... the title sort of gives away what the sequel will be made up of: Lots of Wedding Bells and crazy Evil Pixie wedding plans :D Let me know what you think in a review pretty, pretty please :D
Well I best be going now to get some clothes ready for next week...
Byee for now!
Becca x
