Chapter ten: Bachelorette
"Alice I don't think that is such a good idea," I said to my pixie friend, "He wont like the plan." She then scoffed and laughed at me which made me turn as red as a tomato.
"Bella you forget that I always have the upper-hand in these kinds of things," she said matter-of-factly while tapping her temple with her index finger. I guess I always did underestimate her when it came to things other than the ones I saw as beneficiary, but I guess its because Alice wanted to play with Life-size dress up Barbie and guess who Barbie was. I mean honestly its sad when a doll put can you to shame. "Rose can you com here please," Alice called out. Rose appeared in the next few seconds.
"So did you tell her yet," Rose whispered as she jumped on the bed.
"Yes, but she is having trouble deciding if she wants to go and it is frustrating," Alice said while she closed her eyes and messaged her temples. I must have been driving her insane with the visions.
"Sorry Alice, its just…do we HAVE to go to Paris to get me my wedding night stuff? I think Victoria Secret is just fine." They looked at me like I was insane.
"Bella, this is your first wedding, with your first wedding night, the real deal, your official first time. I mean Victoria Secret has some cute things for everyday fun, but you need something great for your first night as husband and wife," Rosalie had this little smirk on her face knowing full and well that I already had changed my mind in their favor. "So Bella darling what do you say?" Rose asked in a teasing tone.
"I have to pack," I sighed and my sisters jumped to their feet to go pack their things. Then after a few seconds I realized, this was the first time I thought of them more than friends, I mean Alice was my best friend, but now she feels like family and even Rosalie; compared to what our relationship was before I would not believe it would have blossomed the way it did.
I had started to pack my things when he wrapped his arms around my waist. "So did you decide that we should elope then my love?" he asked teasingly into my ear. I giggled and turned in his arms to face him and wrapped my arms around his neck. He lowered his face to mine lingering his lips just a breath away from mine. Edward like the anticipation of it all, but it made me grow impatient. I wanted to feel his lips on mine, it had seemed like forever since I had kissed him last even if it was an hour before now. Then just about as I was going to whine he planted his lips to mine. The feel of his kiss was amazing, but then he did something that he had never allowed himself to do before; he urged his tongue to lightly press to my lips. I hesitated, but quickly accepted this change and once we joined our mouths completely with our tongues and lips I lost all thought. The sweet innocent kisses we shared before were the highlight of all we had together, but this…this mature intimate kiss was pure ecstasy. This lasted for a few moments before we heard a high pitched whistle from the door. It was Emmett of course.
"Wow Ed I didn't think you had it in you," Edward gave him an angry glare and Emmett raised his hands as if he was innocent, "Hey its not a bad thing. Its just about time man, making poor Bella wait this long." I smiled at Edward and shrugged to let him know that even if Emmett was right I didn't care. He wrapped me tightly into a hug. "Well anyways Edward its your turn on the Nintendo." I looked at him with a puzzled look. "Oh come on Bella were you living under a rock all your life its an older game counsel. Classic games like Aladdin, Tetris and Super Mario Brothers. Though this one is Super Nintendo its good. The first Nintendo has that cool Duck Hunt game. It cracks me up how those ducks look when you shoot'em or how that dog chases," he chuckled just describing it to me.
"You will have to teach me sometime Emmie," I said and Emmett's head shot up and glared at Edward. Edward was trying hard not to laugh. I was just glad Emmett wasn't looking at me the way he was looking at Edward.
"You will pay for that Eddie," and it was Edwards turn to glare.
"Okay Ed I can live with, but not Eddie," Edward said with calm but annoyance simmering underneath.
"Well you should not have taught Bella to call me Emmie," Emmett mocked in a female tone, well he tried to. I was chuckling at them it was cute how they argued.
"Okay okay, boys that's enough," Esme said walking into the room. "Apologize to each other and be nice because if you break or mess anything up you two will be the ones to either fix or clean it up. I just finished redoing my garden you two ripped apart," she gave them stern looks and they lowered their heads in guilt and muttered muffled apologies. My Edward looked so cute being scolded by his mother. He almost looked like a small child. When his mother and brother left he turned his attention back to me.
"Well I guess you could be coming to your senses and decided to run away from me," Edward said jokingly, but it wasn't funny I glared at him and slapped his arm, which hurt me more than him and he let out a small snicker and I scowled at him and he bit his lips.
"You know what? Maybe I am packing to runaway, maybe you have pushed me so far that I have decided 'well if he thinks I am going to leave him I might as well I mean its not like it would bother him' so now I am packing," I said as I continued to stuff clothes into my suitcase which was small and didn't fit much in it. Then I closed and zipped up by bag and turned to look at Edward with my arms crossed across my chest. When I finally looked into his eye I saw that I had hit him deep, he looked like he was going to fall apart. My anger went away and I hurried to wrap my arms around him to hold his pieces together. "Edward I'm sorry I wasn't serious I love you," I buried my face in his shoulder and his arms slowly wrapped around me.
"I am the one who should be sorry my love, I should have known that comment would not be taken lightly," he kissed the top of my head and I looked up at him.
"You are too good to me Edward. I can't even be guilty."
"No, you are my angel I will do any and every thing for you and make sure you are always happy," he smiled my smile and I kissed his lips lightly.
"So if we are not going to elope and you are not running away…may I ask where you are going?" I bit my lip I did not know how he was going to take it.
"Well…Alice and Rosalie have this idea and they convinced me to go through with it." I looked at him with my cheeks a fresh rosy red.
"Okay and that plan is…"
"We are going to Paris dear Edward," Rosalie said entering the room and laying herself on the bed.
"For how long?" Edward sounded a little depressed.
"Just a few days," Rosalie said off hand.
"You say it as if it is a short time to be parted with my Bella," he said while rubbing my cheek with his thumb. I turned a darker shade of red and smiled a small smile knowing what he meant because that is how I felt when I was not with him.
"Not to worry dear brother we will be back before you know it and then they day after our arrival you two will be wed and never have to part again." That idea made my smile grow wide and I could tell I radiated happiness because Edward was smile from ear to ear.
"Okay well Bella we have to go or we will miss our flight." I was reluctant to let go of him but I did and kissed him grabbed my bag and followed Rosalie down the stairs. We said all our good-byes and left to the airport.
The flight was long, but I slept most of the way. I have no idea how Rosalie and Alice could keep their sanity with all that time on a plane. We exited the plane and went to get a rental car. When we got outside it was cloudy and cold. I guess Alice had seen the weather was going to be like this. We left to our hotel and got settled in. Then a very short while later we went shopping. Alice and Rosalie could not resist buying themselves more clothes and they added new pieces to my already functioning wardrobe. Though every time I tried to complain they just said 'please Bella it's a wedding gift'. I was getting tired of that excuse after the 100th time and wondered what they would use after the wedding 'but you are newlyweds'. I giggled to myself knowing full and well that would very well use that excuse if they wanted.
We walked in and out of many different lingerie stores and I didn't like much in them. My sisters however kept finding some interesting numbers for themselves and all I could do was blush when they showcased them to me. I could not imagine myself being sexy at all. After a while I started to think that I was right and that we should have just gone to Victoria Secret until we came upon a small shop called "Lune éclairée amour".
"Alice how about this one?" Alice wrinkled her nose but once she saw the name she got a tiny smile on her lips and nodded. We entered and we saw lots to choose from. Almost as soon as we walked in a woman came up to us.
"Is there anything I can help you with," she didn't look like a native to the town she must have moved here for business.
"Yes actually do you have a bridal section I may look at?" I asked politely but the woman looked surprised.
"Bridal wear?"
"Yes," I was curious as to why she was looking at me that way.
"Oh a gift I suppose," I think she was trying to give reason for why I needed to look at the bridal lingerie.
"Yes," Alice said, "a gift from us," she pointed at Rosalie and herself, "to her," she gestured at me.
"But you are so young," the woman looked totally and completely puzzled.
"Yes well I know there is no other guy out there for me. I love him deeply and he loves me the same. His family loves me," I looked at my sisters, "as much as I love them. What else could I ask for?" The girls giggled and I let out a chuckle myself.
"Your parents are okay with you marrying so young?" she asked unknowingly. I could not believe how angry I had gotten.
"No! Okay! They are not happy with my decision, but they are not ones to judge, alright?" my anger was quiet but fierce. "My father does not think he is good enough for me, but he only thinks that cause he rather me marry the son of an old friend, and my mother is just so confused because her marriage to my father, which by the way was right out of high school also, didn't last and she thinks that I mine will turn out the same way. Now I lost both my parents and one of my good friends because they don't want any part of my decision, but I love my fiancé too much to let him go. Especially after all we've been through. Now…can you please point out the bridal section?" The woman looked disbelievingly at me and point near the back right corner. She was quite shocked and so was I for that matter. I walked to the back and started looking for something.
My sisters stayed quiet for a long time and it was driving me insane. "Okay I know you don't want to be rude to me but the both of you this quiet is hurting my ears." This made them giggle and they hugged me and told me how proud they were of me and that is when I saw it. I looked at this one garment and it was perfect. It was the only one left and it was in my size, a small ivory silk baby doll. It had thin straps and a tiny slit on both sides. The top of the dress looked like it would be fitted to my chest with a midnight blue heart in the center, as if it was clasping the fabric together between my breasts. The lace lining the hem was the same shade of blue as the jeweled heart.
"Rosalie…Alice, what do you think," I asked showing them and their eyes went wide with excitement.
"Bella it's perfect!" Alice exclaimed.
"You will look very sexy," Rosalie giggled. I could not help but to giggle along with them. Well on our first day I had found my outfit and my accessories. So we took the next couple days to ourselves to get pampered and relax.