BEFORE THE CLEARWATER'S

CHAPTER 13

SAVANNAH P.O.V

I was moving in with Seth in three weeks. I was finally realizing how hard this was actually going to be. Seth was helping me pack but he had told me that I was either going to need to throw some things away, or it wouldn't be coming with me. It was difficult to leave some of my things behind.

"Can we talk?" Dad and mom asked as they came into my room. I had barely made a dent in my packing. The only thing I had packed so far were books and towels and a few other things that I would love to hang up at Seth's.

"Of course. What's up?" I asked sitting down on the bed. Dad sat on my chair and mom sat on his lap.

"A few things. First, we know you're moving out but one of our rules before this wedding happens is that you finish school. We will not pay our half if you don't finish."

"Deal." I commented. I didn't want to marry Seth if I didn't finish. School was important. Yes you can get a job without going to college but not many places will hire you if you don't have a high school diploma. I was working very hard to earn mine on time like everyone else.

"And second, Peyton has been missing you a lot lately." He added. I knew that I had been abandoning my siblings lately and I didn't mean to. "She wants to be apart of this process."

"I will include her. I promise. Maybe I'll take her out on a little date or something." I smiled.

"She would love that."

"Now I wanna talk to you about a few things." I commented.

"Oh boy. I knew this was gonna happen." Dad said. "Please tell me you're not pregnant." I rolled my eyes.

"I will let you know when I am!" I said. "No. I need a car. And a job." I commented. "And I was thinking maybe I could help out around the garage? I know how to do oil changes and inspections and I could probably work the books." I commented.

"That's not a bad idea." Mom said looking at dad.

"I'm sure I could find something for you to do." Dad answered. "And about the car, we've been talking." He started.

"We are willing to help you lease a car if you take over the payments." Dad commented. "It will be in my name because you don't have any credit."

"That's amazing. Thank you." I smiled.

"And maybe once you're married and more grounded, I'll let you take it over and everything can be in your name." He smiled.

"Thank you. I really appreciate it." Of course my schooling came first so I would work for my dad for a few hours after classes. I knew that it wasn't going to be easy trying to go to school, work, plan a wedding, spend time with Seth and my family. I knew that things were going to get overwhelming.

That night I set up my room to have a movie night with Peyton. Seth said he would come over once she was asleep and that he would go spend time much needed time with the guys.

"Movies and snacks are ready." I peeked my head into Peytons room. She shot up off the floor and followed me to my room. We laid on the bed together cuddling. I was going to miss her. A lot.

"You know you can always come talk to me about anything right?" I asked her. Sometimes it was hard to go to your parents for advise or to tell them something so she could always count on me to be there for her.

"Yeah." She smiled. "It's gonna be lonely without you here."

"I know. But you understand why I'm moving out right?" The night I told everyone my plan to move in with Seth, she screamed and cried for hours. All I could do was hold her. I knew that she understood now but a week ago you would have thought that I had died.

"Yeah. Cause you and Seth are gonna get married and have babies." I laughed.

"Yeah. And married couples live together."

"But you're not married yet."

"No but we wanna live together before we get married so we can see how each other lives." I'm sure his snoring was going to drive me nuts but that's something I was getting used to. Since we got engaged a week ago, he kept his promise about me never having to sleep without him. "We're gonna spend our lives together and we don't wanna waste another minute apart." I confirmed.

"Can I come sleepover sometimes?"

"Of course you can. Just because I'm getting married doesn't mean that I'm not your sister. I will always be your sister. I will always be here for you. I promise." I wanted to be here for her big milestones. First crush, first period, first time shopping for bras. Those were things that were so significant in my life and I didn't want to miss those things with her. "You're my only sister."

"You're my only sister." She said.

"And I think you'll be a lovely aunt to my future children." Sometimes I wish that we were closer in age so that when I do have kids, I could trust her babysit but I also liked that I was much older.

"I'm gonna miss you." She said making me tear up.

"I'm gonna miss you too." Mom came in after our movie and announced that it was bed time. I tucked Peyton into bed before kissing her head. "Are you gonna be here in the morning?"

"I have class but I'll be here." I smiled. Once she was finally settled for the night, I called Seth.

"Hello, love." I smiled into the phone. "Want something from Wendy's?"

"I would love some chicken nuggets." I commented.

"Okay I'll be there in 15." He confirmed. "I love you."

"I love you too." Just like he said 15 minutes later he came walking through the door with bags. Followed by Quil and Embry.

"I brought company." He commented handing me the bag of food that contained my food.

"I see that. What are you boys up to?" I asked.

"Just gonna play some cards. Where's Jake?"

"I thought he was with you guys." I answered.

"No he said he was home."

"Then he's with mom." I commented sitting at the table and eating my food. "Are you working tomorrow?" I got a few yeses. "I meant Seth." I commented.

"Yeah I am." He answered as he ate beside me and shuffled a deck of cards. "Are you gonna play with us?" He asked.

"No. I'll probably watch." I heard dad cuss and then was dragged into the room by Embry. He just barely got his pants on before I needed to cover my eyes.

"Jesus. My daughter could have seen me naked."

"Nothing she hasn't seen before." Emby commented.

"She hasn't seen mine!" Dad defended himself. I couldn't handle the penis talk anymore. Unless we were talking about Seth's, I didn't wanna hear it. Mom came out of their bedroom looking rather pissed off. I knew there was a reason why she sent Peyton and Ashton to bed so early. "Thought you were watching movies with Pey?" Dad asked as he sat beside me.

"She's asleep."

"Well, there is more to this shindig than just playing cards." Dad started. "Your birthday present came in."

"The party wasn't my gift?"

"No." Mom huffed. "I would never do that to you." She commented setting a bag in front of me. I quickly tore open the bag and dug to the bottom where a pink envelope was waiting for me.

I opened the envelope and pulled out a bunch of concert tickets.

"Post Malone!" I shouted jumping up. Everyone grinned at me. They were obviously in on this. I'm assuming the other tickets are for them.

"Yes!" They all said at the same time.

"We will have to fly and get a hotel room but I think it'll be worth it." Seth commented. I had been begging my parents to get tickets since they went on sale and every time they told me no.

"Are we all going?" I asked looking around the table.

"I'm not." Mom commented. I'm assuming she was going to stay here with the kids.

"I'm staying here with Claire. Fill in for the alpha."

"We're only going to be gone three days." Dad commented. "Don't think I'm just letting you take over. I can still give orders from California."

"We're going to California?" I asked.

"Yes." We had only gone to California once when we went to Disneyland when I was a kid. The twins weren't even born yet when we went. "It's in November." Dad commented. It was only January. We had a while to wait. It was probably going to be right smack dab in the middle of our wedding plans.

Once everything died down, I headed up to bed while they played a few rounds of poker. Mom kept the tickets so that I wouldn't lose them in the move. It was going to be so strange living with Seth. Of course I wanted to live with him, I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.

He came in an hour later, quickly took his pants off and flopped beside me.

"I wanna get married at the end of May." I commented to him. "The weather is always decent around May." We had promised each other that we wouldn't make any plans for the wedding until we were officially living together but I was getting bored.

"Whatever you want, love." He smiled resting on his side to look at me.

"You get a say too." I ran my fingers through his hair.

"I know but I want you to be happy." He smiled moving his face closer to mine. He smelled like mint which made me want to bite him.

"I am happy." I commented. "What about your mom?" I whispered looking in his eyes.

"What about her?"

"Does she support us?" I knew that it was a struggle for her. Knowing that her grown son imprinted on a baby. It wasn't like he could help it. He didn't act on those feelings until I was old enough.

"Of course she does." He answered rubbing my back with the tips of his finger's. "I know she wasn't sure at the beginning but you're perfect for me." He smiled moving his lips lightly over mine. I smiled and closed my eyes.

"I want her to know that I will include her in as much of the wedding plans as she wants."

"I'm sure she would enjoy that. Since Leah is wild." He commented making me laugh. "Go to sleep. You have class." I closed my eyes but I was so anxious about so much and I felt so overwhelmed.

I didn't sleep all night. At all. Between Seth's snoring and panicking about our wedding, I couldn't sleep.

"You look like hell." Emmett commented as soon as I came in the door.

"Emmett!" Rose shouted shoving him out the door. I right away got started on my work for the day so that I could go talk to Alice.

"You're free." As soon as Esme said the words I rushed up to Alice's room.

"Come in." She called before I even knocked on the door. She was standing near the computer smiling holding a magazine.

"We can't tell him but we need to start on plans." I commented to her. "I didn't sleep all night thinking about it."

"Then we'll start simple." She commented. "Date?" I sat down in the chair while she moved around the room grabbing things. I felt bad for Jasper, for the next year and a half she was going to be a crazy person.

"May. Next year." I commented.

"Why are you waiting for long?"

"Because that's what we want." I commented pulling up the calendar. "I think I want May 2nd." I commented. I wanted it to be a Saturday but I also didn't want to wait until too late into the month. Mother's day was the following weekend and I didn't want to take that away from my mom.

"We can do May for sure." She commented writing it down. "Do you want Seth's dad mentioned in the invitations?"

"Of course. He also has requested that we leave a seat open for him." I looked at her.

"Yes." She wrote down everything I said. I was having dreams about what the dress would look like so I was looking through pages and pages of magazines seeing what type I thought I would like.

"Can we come in?" I heard Esme say from outside the door.

"Of course." Alice commented.

"We have something to tell you, Savannah." Carlisle smiled. "As a wedding present we will pay for any dress you desire."

"Are you serious?" I asked. They both nodded smiling. My eyes filled with tears and I hugged them both. "You have no idea how thankful I am."

"We just want you to enjoy your day."

"That means so much to me." I wiped my eyes. "Thank you." I knew that the Cullen's were going to help out a lot but my parents also had money saved for my wedding. Seth also offered to help out with what he had saved. I would never be able to thank everyone for giving me the wedding of my dreams.

*SETH P.O.V*

"Mom?" I called into the house.

"Living room!" She called back. I followed her voice and plopped beside her on the couch. "What's up?"

"I was talking with Savannah last night. She would like to do lunch with you if you're willing." I said.

"I would love to!" She smiled. I knew it would mean a lot to her if she was included in our wedding plans.

"We haven't started any wedding plans but she would love for you to be involved." I commented. "She's very concerned about you not feeling included."

"She does not need to feel concerned. I will insert myself into whatever I want to be included in." Mom commented. "Let me know when you start on your plans and I can help. I know a few people where we could probably get flowers cheap." She commented.

"That would be great." I knew that sometimes it was difficult to get along with your in-laws but I think we would both be fine. We were quiet for a few minutes before she broke it.

"I just want you to be happy, Seth. If that's with Savannah then I will support you both." She looked over at me making me smile. "As long as you give me grandbabies." I burst out laughing and threw my head back.

"Not until we're married." I answered. We had been going crazy with the sex recently but I was super careful so hopefully her period would be coming right when she said it would.

"Are you being safe?" She asked. My parents had given us the talk many many years ago but I've never had a girlfriend since then.

"Yes. She's on birth control." It had to be weird for her to be asking her fully grown son about this but Savannah was only 18. We needed to be careful until I knew that she was ready to be a mom.

"I know you're grown and you know these things but you both need to be protected."

"Jake is protection enough." I laughed. If we could hear us making out, he would make himself known in the room to stop us in our tracks. "He thinks that we're going to be in the "honeymoon stage" forever."

"It has to be hard on him."

"I try to make it as easy as possible. We spend as much time over there as possible but she's moving in soon and I think it's difficult on both of them. Jake and Sav I mean." I commented. I never wanted to be the reason why she was sad but I also knew that she wanted this.

"It's going to be a big adjustment for everyone involved."

"You should have seen poor little Peyton when we told everyone. She sobbed. I mean fall on the floor, sobbing."

"I bet. It's hard to lose your big sister." To me it wasn't a big deal but Leah was annoying.

"She is everything I have dreamed about. I've waited for her for a very long time." I commented. It sounded so sappy but it was true. She was made for me to love her.

"Don't blow it."