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"I don't think that's the right color," Alice held her thumb out, twisting it to the side as she assessed the dress I pulled from my closet. She insisted that although I wasn't in the wedding, that I attend in nothing less than a perfect dress. The dress I picked was one I had worn before, just a regular blue dress that tied around the waist. "It's just so," she searched for the word, biting at the nail of her thumb, "blue."
"It is a blue dress."
"But it's too blue."
"Too dark?"
She nodded moving backwards on the bed and tucking her legs underneath her.
"What about this grey one?" I pulled it out to show her. I had worn it to my college graduation ceremony under my gown.
"Do you not have any other dresses?"
"I have that green one I wore to your graduation party."
She shook her head, "Absolutely not, plus Rosalie's dress is already grey."
"Well then I've run out of formal dresses."
"How did I know this would happen," she smiled wide, "Good thing, I've already got some dresses for you to try."
"What?" It was too late. Alice had already bounced out of my room and into her car. She was back in record time, bags of dresses in hand.
"I've got some options, just in case."
"Did you order these?" I asked, crossing my arms over my chest.
She nodded enthusiastically, "Of course, I sort of guessed around with your measurements so that's why I have options."
I was lost in a flood of dresses, each one different. I had a new respect for Bella to have put up with Alice for the hours and hours of dress fittings. Not that Alice was hard to deal with, it's just she was Alice and everything had to be perfect.
"I think I like this one." I said looking at myself in the mirror across the bed. It was the fifth one from the bags, a lighter than lilac dress with a silver almost lace trim around the bottom and at the sleeves.
"I agree, I somehow knew you'd choose that one."
"Of course, you did. You know everything, Alice." At my words, a sly smile slid across her face and she nodded.
"I do indeed."
"I'm gonna go change," I called out, walking into my bathroom. I twirled one time in front of the mirror, watching the skirt flair out around me. I felt like I was ten years old and playing dress up with a friend on a playdate, again. It seemed trivial, almost, picking out dresses, worrying about colors. Maybe it was. But somehow, I didn't mind it, I didn't mind it, the family, the wedding planning, the dresses, and the colors.
I stripped out of the dress and back into my jeans and ruffled white blouse. When I came back out, Alice was sat on the bed, a book in her hand and her eyes fixed on the page. She closed it when she looked up at me, smiling almost with a question.
I beat her to it, "Found a good book?"
"Just flipping through one I found," she said, holding it almost protectively against her chest, now. I looked closer. It was the gift from Joe.
"Oh, that was a gift," I said, placing the dress on a hanger as I spoke. "from Joe, down at the bookstore, haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
"Oh," she almost sounded relieved. "Are you planning to?"
I shrugged, folding some of the other dresses we had cast aside earlier and put them back in the bags. "Eventually probably, I've been busy with everything else, I keep meaning to start it, hence why it's on my night stand."
She nodded, placing it back in the spot where she found it, her hand lingering across it just for a moment longer before she fully released it.
Alice turned back to me, a smile placed back on her face. Suggesting we go back to her house, Alice bounced around the room, finishing gathering the rest of the bags to take back into the car before I was even ready with my bag.
By the time we got to the house it was already mid-morning, a cloudy mid-morning. Summer was slowly edging out from the Washington sky. There were a few sunny days here and there but they were far and few between. I'd been spending most of my time split between the hospital and with Alice, the rest of my time dedicated to lesson planning. My living room was wrecked with stick notes, the color-coded system I devised looked more like a hurricane now than a plan.
When Alice had seen it, she had just politely said "colorful" before walking away.
I just needed things to be laid out, everything in front of me. If it wasn't in front of me then I couldn't possibly figure anything out. I'd forget one plan and change it to the next. That wouldn't bode well with Kathy. She'd shake her head and give me that evil look of hers. It was a look that inspired fear in all students and colleagues alike, Kathy could kill with that look.
"Hey!" Alice voice snapped me from my thoughts and I turned my head.
"Hm?"
"This one or this one?" She held up two purple dresses to her small frame. They were both gorgeous and would flatter her either way.
I decided to just point to one of them, "That one."
She nodded, "I thought so too."
After picking out her dress, we went back to her living room, grabbing the clipboards full of plans and receipts. I was almost afraid to look at the cost. Alice seemed unfazed, as if the stacking costs were like drops of water in an ocean. It amazed me to feel that freely about money. I would hate to be the Cullen's accountant.
"Did you want the white or the beige flowers on the cake? The baker's asking because the florist sent a sample and he says it clashes with the green."
Alice's eyes went wide, and I knew to hand her the phone. When it came to setting people straight, Alice was just very good at it. She moved around as she spoke, going into the next room. Her soft bell like voice moved through the walls and I could still vaguely hear her but I turned back to checking things off the lists.
I heard someone come down the stairs and looked up: Rosalie. I had seen her in passing a few times, when I was on the phone or as she was leaving. She never made an overt effort to reach out to me like some of the others did. Edward had always stopped, had a conversation with me when he saw me. We'd exchange a few words before he'd be out the door.
Edward wasn't all that bad. He was sort of creepy, just a bit. He was a nice kid, a real nice kid. It's just he was also a bit creepy, he'd look at me like he'd expected the words before I said them. I mean Alice did that too sometimes but it seemed so much weirder when Edward did it, and the way he stared, it was like he was looking into my head, sharing in my thoughts.
Rosalie looked at me and I smiled a bit, waving my hand out behind my clipboard. I'll admit it, she scared me. She was intimidating. All of the Cullen's sort of were. Alice less so, but even she had her moments.
"Still wedding planning?" Her smooth tone wafted over and I was almost completely surprised. It was the first time she had ever made an effort to speak to me.
I nodded, "Yup, but mostly the finer details now, a lot of the bigger details have already been wrapped up."
Rosalie nodded and looked down at me, her golden eyes looking at me straight. "That's good then. Edward deserves a nice wedding."
"Alice said the other day that you're going to be playing the piano?"
Again, she nodded, almost hesitantly stepping a bit further into the room, not quite past the edge of the doorway. "Edward can't play during the wedding because he's the groom. I don't mind helping Edward."
I smiled at the thought, "It's really nice that you're so supportive of your brother and impressive you can play the piano. I tried when I was younger, took six years of lessons and still can't remember one note from the other."
"Diligent practice, that's all it takes."
"I've never been able to hold down a hobby, always bouncing around from one thing to the next."
Her head moved ever so slightly. She wasn't frowning at me nor was she smiling, it was something in between.
"Is that because of indecisiveness or just a lack of focus?" The question almost seemed rude but I didn't want to think of it like that.
Instead I gave her a smaller smile, "I think it's the focus, definitely the focus."
"How does that translate over with your students?" Carlisle or Alice must have told her about my job. I didn't mind it.
"I think it's more of a lack of focus in my personal life rather than my work life."
"But say if you were to have children," she paused, almost like she was getting to the question she really wanted to know, "Do you want children?"
I knew my eyes were widened with surprise and I opened my mouth to answer but no words came out.
"What're you guys talkin' about?" Alice walked in and I closed my mouth.
Rosalie answered before I could, "I was just checking in on the wedding planning before I left."
Alice raised an eyebrow and Rosalie looked her, an innocent look on her beautiful face.
She said goodbye before walking out of the room fully and then out of the house. I breathed out as I heard the front door close.
"So, did I save you?" laughed Alice, sitting down on the other side of the couch.
"I didn't mind Rosalie, I would have answered her question, I just wasn't prepared for it."
Alice looked more interested, "Really?"
"I mean sure." I looked down at my papers, checking off a few boxes as I figured the conversation was over.
Alice moved over slightly, angling herself toward me. "So, what is your answer?"
"Huh?" I hadn't even been sure she'd heard the full question, being as she was in the other room while Rosalie and I were talking.
"Do you want to have kids?" Alice and Rosalie seemed much more alike than they let on.
"Maybe adopt a few in the future, someday down down the line, if at all. I work with kids all day, I don't know if it's in the cards to raise my own."
"Adopt?" Alice seemed surprised.
"I can't physically have them myself," her face shifted from curious to shocked before she schooled her features back to normal. "I've known since I was in middle school, it's really just something that you adjust to the idea of."
"I'm sorry," I think I could see the genuine regret of asking on her face, as most people had when they asked. I didn't mind it. There wasn't anything wrong with talking about it.
"It's really alright, I work with more than enough kids to get my fill of them."
"Still, I'm sorry for prying."
I laughed, "It's really alright, really really."
She cracked a smile at that. I changed the subject, asked about how the cake decorator went. Alice was more than happy to launch into a full rant about the incompetency of some people because of course she didn't want orchids on the cake, and the beige didn't match at all.
We were just about finished with the entire wedding, only a few more things to get organized but most of that would be taken care of during set up, something Alice insisted we didn't need to hire people to help with. Even will all the layout plans, I doubted the family alone would be able to set everything up in time but I trusted that Alice had a plan. It was Alice after all.
Just wrote this and didn't proof read, I'm thinking about getting a beta but idk who would want to read through my very late chapters haha. Sorry for the lateness of this. I wasn't going to update today but I've been seeing the comments and was like "okay I'll write something because all of you all are amazing."
Also, I know that some of you are going to comment about the whole not being able to have kids thing but honestly, it's really been in the character design from the beginning but I figure it wouldn't completely change who she was as a person. Yes, it effects people differently, I know I might not be able to have kids because of health issues and that's fine, it doesn't change who people are so I didn't want some big build up to the reveal.
Anyway, comment and tell me how you like the new chapter and tell me what you think! Thank you for reading!
