Bella's POV
Edward wasn't finished with me once I had finished Spanish. Oh no, after that, we moved on to English, then Calculus, then History, then Chemistry. Thankfully, he didn't make me study for gym, not that there's a way to study for gym.
I didn't get what the fuss was all about. It didn't really matter, did it? It wasn't as if I was doing poorly, and it was just the semester exam, not the final one. Even if I did fail, I had endless time to do it all over again.
Finally, he let me go. I ran upstairs to see what Alice was doing.
She was lying on the floor of her room, looking over four different drawings.
The first one was Rosalie in her wedding dress. The picture was incredibly realistic. Her honey-colored hair tumbled down her back. The veil was pulled back to show shining honey eyes and a grinning face. I didn't know Rosalie could look so happy.
The second one was obviously Alice. From her spiky hair to her smiling ocher eyes that matched her excited face. The dress she was wearing was gorgeous. It was the most beautiful shade of violet with lavender trimming. It was obviously the bridesmaid dress. I looked at her feet and groaned inwardly. Stilettos.
I looked at the next one and was surprised. It was obviously Esme, because of the caramel-colored hair framing her face and laughing topaz eyes. But the dress…the dress was different. It was the same style exactly, but instead of violet and lavender, it was forest green with emerald trimming. Interesting. Sadly, she was wearing stilettos too. That could only mean one thing.
I looked at the last picture, knowing it was going to be me. I was shocked, Alice did a really good job. She got everything right from the plain brown hair to the crimson eyes. I wasn't wearing the contacts in the picture. The style of the dress was the same again, but instead of shades of green or purple, it was blue; navy blue with sky blue trimming. And sure enough, there were the stilettos. I shuddered, I hated those things. Even though I wouldn't trip, I still hated them.
"Do you like them?" Alice asked.
"Yes, they're…" I couldn't think of a word to describe them.
Alice smiled. "Thanks"
"So, are these the bridesmaid's dresses?"
Alice nodded. "It took a lot of persuading to get Rosalie to do three different colors. We've never done that before, having never had three dresses. It's just been me and Esme. I finally convinced her by saying that three different colors would look really great if we lined her dress with pink." On that note, she pulled out a pink pencil and began drawing little rosettes on Rosalie's dress.
"Rosalie lets you design them?"
"Yep. It's one less thing for her to do, and so long as they match her dress and the decorations, she doesn't mind. It's not like she has to wear them."
"Have they been made yet?"
"Not yet, we'll probably have them made in Paris. And even if Rosalie's is already done it won't take much to add the rosettes, I could do it myself."
"I see."
"Oh, and make sure you think nothing of these, we don't want to spoil it for Edward, so he can't see any of these."
"But why, it's not like I'm the one with the wedding dress."
"I know, but if he doesn't know, you'll dazzle him more, he's seen Rosalie get married plenty of times, he hasn't seen you in one though."
"I guess you're right. You did a really good job on these."
"Thanks, I enjoy doing it. I come up with the design, then I start to draw. Sometimes, I get a vision of one of us in the dress, that's why they look so realistic."
"Cool."
The next couple of days passed really quickly. They passed in a combination of flying-phone calls between Forks and Paris, wedding planning all around, topped by finals.
Very soon, I found myself on a plane to Paris.
We had told Charlie the Cullen's were taking a Christmas vacation in France. No need to mention the wedding.
I stepped off the plane into a whole new world.
Welcome to Paris.
Once out of the gate, we found Rosalie and Emmett waiting for us. Rosalie looked happy for once.
They drove us to the hotel, but we hadn't even been there five minutes when Alice and Rosalie dragged Esme and I off to go get the dresses made.
First, we went shopping for the material. I can't even name half the stuff we got. I recognized the gauze, and a satiny material, but that was all.
Then, we found a designer's place that will make already-designed clothing.
The dresses would be ready in four days. And that was only because Christmas fell right in between the working period.
We got back to the hotel. They were renting the entire top floor. Someone had done some decorating while we were gone.
"Do you guys celebrate Christmas?" I blurted out without thinking.
"Yes," came the reply from seven different people.
"Do you give gifts?"
A mixture of 'yes's and nods followed.
"What the heck am I going to get you guys! I don't have any money!"
"What about the money you have from selling your truck?" Alice asked.
$1,000-big whoop.
"Someone needs to go shopping!" Alice squealed.
The next thing I knew, I was being dragged off to a mall.
We were going to have to power shop, Christmas was mere hours away.
A/N: More to come soon! I've already got chapter 4 started!
