Author's Note: Sorry for the delay in publishing this chapter! I have published a few other New Moon related stories which you can find on my profile.
I had a reviewer ask about the absence of the wolves here. We can assume that they are still present, but since Edward comes back in my story much earlier than he did in the real timeline, Bella didn't have the opportunity to get close with Jacob as she did in the books.
It was the morning before the day of our wedding. Edward was carefully hiding some thoughts from me and I wanted to be upset but I knew how much it meant to him to have our honeymoon and a few other parts of the wedding a surprise. I could at least be confident that they were good secrets and once we started our honeymoon, we could again share everything as we had grown used to. To be fair, I was also doing my best to not slip up and accidentally show him my dress.
Alice told me that I would have to say goodbye to Edward at sunset so we could start preparing for the wedding and keep with the tradition of him not being able to see me before the ceremony. Emmett and Jasper promised Edward a crazy bachelor party, which scared me, until Jasper re-assured me that it just meant hunting and wrestling.
Edward and I were lounging in his room listening to music. "Are you nervous, love?" He asked me when I couldn't stop fidgeting with my engagement ring.
"No, well, yeah a little." I said, hesitant. I didn't want him to get the wrong idea. "I want to marry you. It's not that. I'm worried I'll like fall down the stairs or burn myself on a curling iron or something. Or like what if I mix up the words repeating after the reverend or forget to breathe and pass out at the altar."
Edward laughed and the sound of his happiness instantly calmed my nerves a little. "You don't think Alice will let you touch your own hair, do you? And you'll be with Charlie walking down the stairs, not alone. So really you will be totally fine until you get to me. I won't let you pass out."
"But I can totally mess up what I'm supposed to say, even you can't help me with that."
"It's only the 'I do' that really matters." He said, still laughing a little.
"You aren't nervous?"
"Not a bit." he said, "A part of me has wanted this since the day I first spoke to you. All of me has wanted this for a very long time. Although I guess a small bit of me does still expect you to run away screaming."
Edward smiled and leaned in to kiss me. I forgot about everything for a little while, just enjoying his presence.
I couldn't help but break our kiss to giggle when I noticed that he was sitting on one of his hands, the other one resting on my back.
"What's the matter, can't resist touching my face?" I asked, grinning at him.
"Resisting you is hard."
"Is that the only thing that's hard?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
Edward laughed and got a determined, but playful, look in his eyes as he tackled me from our seated position down to lay on the ground, careful to cradle my head in one of his hands as it met the floor so I wouldn't be hurt. Before I could comment, he started kissing my face everywhere he could reach.
"Tomorrow night, my love. I will show you exactly what those comments do to me." He purred in my ear just before licking my ear lobe and pulling back to smile at me. His grin was contagious.
"I look forward to it." I said, looking back up at him with a fire burning in my eyes.
"Calm down kids, DAMN!" Jasper shouted from the hallway. "I haven't felt this horny in a few decades and if you two don't start behaving I'll spread it all around the house and you will have to hear EVERYTHING."
Edward and I barely looked each other in the eye before we both lost it laughing. We had to hold each other tightly to try to calm down, but it just made us laugh harder against each other.
"Who's horny?" I heard Emmett ask before barging into Edward's bedroom with us. His calm tone made us laugh even harder.
Emmett came in followed by Jasper and they sat down in front of us on the bed. "Big day tomorrow, you two." Emmett started.
"We hate to do this to you." Jasper said with a wink, "But we need to talk." Edward groaned and hid his face in my shoulder. Emmett wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.
"My parents had this talk with me a long time ago, thanks guys." I said, hoping it would make them go away. It didn't.
"You see kids, when a man loves a woman, or rather, when a vampire loves a human –"
"Jasper, Carlisle and I have had the talk already too! We're good, thanks." Edward said, mildly frustrated but mostly embarrassed. Emmett continued to make suggestive faces at me, making me blush.
"You don't hate to do this to us." I said. "You two are having the time of your lives right now." Emmett stuck his tongue out at me.
"So first, let's start with the proper names of things. You see a man has a peni-"
"Emmett!" Edward exclaimed, cutting him off.
"Fine. I won't say penis." Emmett said as Jasper pulled two oranges and a banana out of his pockets and sat them on the bed in a crude shape.
Edward looked at me with a mischievous grin and grabbed me in his arms, standing up in one fluid motion. He opened his giant window and almost took a step out when Emmett grabbed him, pulling him back inside.
"I'm stronger than you brother. You can't escape me." Emmett said. "Fine, I'll skip the dick talk. I'm assuming you still know how to work it after all these years." Edward growled. Emmett laughed.
Alice came barging into the room almost silently with a huge smile on her face. "I'll just take Bella now and let you boys get an early start on whatever it is that you're doing." She said with a giggle. "Bella, say goodnight to Edward."
"But you promised until sunset!" I said, not wanting to part with him yet.
"If you want to stay and listen to the boy's sex talk, by all means stay with Edward until sunset. Or if you would rather perhaps take a nice bath or watch TV while I start on your nails, maybe have Esme go get some takeout from Port Angeles for you, then you can come with me. Which sounds better?" she asked with an eyebrow raised waiting for my answer.
"Fine." I said, reaching up for Edward's face and pulling him into a kiss. Without thinking, he caressed my cheek, causing our mental connection to come alive as we shared feelings of love, excitement, and desire. I forgot that we weren't alone in the room for a few minutes.
"That's IT!" Jasper shouted. "Either we go hunting right now or this whole house is about to be extra horny. You two better do it tomorrow night and work off some of this sexual energy!"
Edward and I stopped touching each other's faces. He looked at me, laughing super hard and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek as he sat me down into Alice's waiting arms. She started to lead me out of the room and the guys lined up to jump out the window to start their party. "I love you." I said just as Edward leaped out.
"I love you too, honey!" Emmett replied in a high-pitched voice, making kissy noises the whole way down.
At least I had no doubts about what sort of crazy family I was marrying in to.
