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I was sitting at my computer desk, doodling in my notebook, trying to keep my mind off of things. Charlie is avoiding me, so I think I'll just have to let it go for tonight, let the idea sink in like I have with my own self. It took me time to wrap my mind around the idea. Maybe once the idea sinks in, for both of my parents, they'll be able to not freak out about it (i.e. like me). Not even for my sake, but for my parents mostly, I want them to come around. I want them to see the part of my choice I can allow them to see. I won't be seeing them for a while being I won't be in any condition to do so and I want them to be there.

I continued tracing the heart I was creating at the top of my page, going over the edges with my pencil over and over again and glanced over at my phone, debating whether or not I should call Renee. Not exactly the way I want to tell my mother but I don't know how else I'm going to unless I fly out to Florida or she comes out here because she couldn't make it to my graduation. The flying out to Florida I can't afford and I won't ask Charlie… or Edward for that matter. They've both done enough for me already and I couldn't ask for them to buy plane tickets anyway. I would feel strange for asking.

No, I think the phone is my only way or e-mail. Maybe I could just call and ask if she's coming out here or maybe I could try getting money for the tickets myself or maybe…I should stop thinking of all the maybes before I stress myself out even further.

I let out a long sigh, tapping my pencil against my notebook, staring at my computer screen. Ok, I'll just e-mail her. I turned my computer on and went under my e-mail, bringing up the page.

HI Mom,

Just thought I'd e-mail you to say hi and I miss you. I was wondering if you'll be coming out any time soon. I want to talk to you and don't worry it's nothing for you to worry about. Everyone says hi.

I love you,

Bella.

I read over what I wrote once, then twice and decided it was fine. Short, sweet, and letting her know I want to talk to her. I just hope she doesn't take it the wrong way. Knowing my mother, she tends to jump into conclusions in a head first dive. I pushed the send button and shut off my computer. There.

I got up from my desk, checked to make sure my window was open before I went downstairs to get a bottle of water. Once I reached the steps, the whole house was dark, not a light on and I could hear the rain outside. I had to navigate through the dark. Charlie must have gone to bed early. I managed to make it into the kitchen running my hand against the wall and reaching out in front of me to see where the entrance was and where the wall was; only tripping over my own feet once. Luckily I found the counter to hold onto before falling. I grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge, my sight finally adjusting to the dark.

I made my way back up to my room quietly, not wanting to disturb Charlie, uncapping my water and taking a sip on the way. When I got to my room, I saw Edward lying on my bed.

"Hello." He said with a grin.

I smiled back. "Hi." I said.

I could hear the sound of the rain hitting my window as I came over to my bed, setting my water on the table and crawled in next to him. I laid my head against him, curling up. Edward began to stroke my wet hair, running his fingers through.

"Are you alright?" he asked me.

I nodded, rubbing the fabric of his shirt between my fingers absently. He was kind of wet from the rain. "I'm fine. I sent Renee an e-mail."

"You told your mother through an e-mail?" Edward asked me.

I laughed a little. "No. I thought about it but I don't think she would believe me through an e-mail or a phone call."

"Well…" Edward started to say but I quickly stopped him, knowing what he was about to suggest. "Edward, I don't want you to buy any tickets."

"Bella, it's not a big deal." He reminded. "Besides, don't we share everything equally? What's mine is yours and this is important."

He has a point. "Just let me see Renee's response, ok." I said feeling myself cave in. "If she's not coming out here anytime soon, then we'll go out there."

Edward took a strand of my hair, twirling it around his finger. "Fair enough."

We were both quiet, listening to the rain outside start to pick up. After a moment he said conversationally, "Alice wanted to know if you're busy tomorrow."

I frowned. "Why?" I asked slowly almost afraid to ask.

"She needs your help with the caters."

I looked up at him. "Caters?"

Edward was looking right back at me, our faces only inches apart. My eyes immediately met his and I was trying to remember how to breathe. "Bella, we do need to feed our guests."

I groaned, pressing my face into his chest. He laughed, wrapping both of his arms around me. I looked back up, resting my chin on him.

"Will you all eat cake?" I joked.

Edward raised his eyebrows, giving me a look. "Funny, love." He leaned forward to kiss my forehead.

I stuck my bottom lip out, pouting. "I told Alice she could do it all, I don't mind. We still haven't exactly told Renee and so my mind isn't exactly on caters."

Edward sighed. "Bella."

"Edward."

He ran his hand over the top of my head, smoothing my hair back. "Everything will be ok. Alice really wants you to come with her."

"Doesn't she know what I'll choose anyway?" I half asked, half pointed out to him.

Edward sort of shrugged. "She probably does but she still wants you to come with her."

This time I was the one to sigh. Clearly this was out of my hands. I know I'm going to end up going anyway, why fight it? A loosing battle if you ask me. "Fine." I grumbled.

Edward grinned, his shining teeth glistening in the dark. "See, it won't be so bad."

"I don't know about that." I said.

He laughed, ruffling my hair playfully. "Silly Bella."

I scrunched my face up, holding back a laugh, and pressed my face against him again. "Will you come with us?" I asked him, my voice muffled.

"I'll probably catch up with you later. We're going hiking." Edward said. I pouted again but I know his needs so I didn't say anything because if I did, I know he'll skip out on going and come with us and I didn't want him to. It wasn't fair and I don't like it when he tortures himself like that.

"That's fine." I said. "You can save me later."

Edward rolled his eyes. "Bella, I bet you'll have more fun doing this then you think you will."

"I bet not." I said back, feeling his arms holding me close.

"We'll see." He said confident as always. I rolled my eyes.

"Doubt it." I mumbled. Edward let out another sigh. "You will."

I shook my head and smiled up at him, he only looked at me back, his eyes meeting mine.

"You should get some rest." Edward said. I don't know how it happened but the moment he said those words, I was suddenly exhausted. I didn't even realize Edward re-situated us until I found myself under my blanket and him beside me with his arm around me. I yawned, the sound of the rain hitting my window almost music now rather then annoying me. I snuggled up against him, closing my eyes.

"I love you Edward."

"I know." He said and whispering right into my ear, he said, "I love you." And soon enough I fell asleep.

The next morning, after saying bye to Edward since they're leaving early in the morning, I got dressed and made myself go down the stairs, not excited about going over caters.

Charlie was either not up yet or left because both the living room and the kitchen were empty. I was kind of sad because I was hoping we could talk. I don't want us to go on avoiding each other. I hate avoiding.

I went into the kitchen, getting a bowl and cup down from the cabinets and made myself a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice. I sat up at the counter and started eating. Edward said Alice will come and pick me up, so all I have to do is wait. Prepare myself.

I took another bite of my cereal just as Charlie came into the kitchen. "Good morning Bella." He said going over to the fridge.

"Morning dad." I said a little surprised. Charlie was staring inside the fridge until he finally turned around closing the door.

"What are you doing today?" he asked. I kind of hesitated, looking down at my almost gone cereal.

"I'm going out with Alice…to find a cater." I finished the last part quietly and thinking about groaning but holding it in. Charlie was quiet for a second.

"I know the restaurant we went to after your graduation caters."

I stared at my dad. Is this him accepting? I wasn't sure. "Thanks dad," I said. "We'll check it out."

Charlie took a deep breath and let it out. "We need to talk about yesterday." I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding, prepared and waited. I could see this was kind of hard for him.

"Bells, you were right. It's not my decision, you're an adult now. I may think you're too young but you know what's right for you and whatever is right for you I'm behind you and know it has to be right. I can see how much he cares about you and you do for him. I told you I wouldn't put up a fuss as long as you didn't run off. And I trust you, so if you need anything just ask."

I felt tears start to form in my eyes again. It's a start. I got up and went over to my dad, giving him a hug. "Thank you dad."

He hugged me back. "You're welcome."

I heard a knock on the door and sighed. That would be Alice. I smiled at my dad. "I'll see you later?"

Charlie nodded, looking almost sad or so I thought. "Have fun." I was about to say something, what I don't know, so I didn't say anything.

I quickly washed my dishes, sticking them in the sink and reminded myself I should probably do the dishes later. As soon as I answered the door, I saw Alice was smiling big.

"Are you ready?" she asked, clearly excited. Enough for the both of us.

I smiled. "As I'll ever be." Alice laughed, taking my hand and leading the way to her car Edward gave her.

The first place we went to was a small diner I've been to maybe once or twice. "Tell me again why you needed me?" I asked her as we were looking at the food

"Because this is your day, you should have some say and be in the planning partly." Alice said. "Trust me you'll love it. After the caters we should probably go to the florists." She creased her eyebrows together, looking at the food. Reminding me of the looks Edward gets every time he's in front of food, wondering how any of it good look good.

I looked up from behind the menu. "Florists?"

"For the flowers." She replied simply.

I set the menu down, not seeing much. "Alice, you should have fun with this. I'll be happy either way."

We left the diner, heading back to the car. "What would be the perfect place? What reminds you of you and Edward?" Alice asked ignoring my last comment.

I thought about it for a second. I suddenly remembered when he was starting to tell me what he is, after he saved me. "Well, in Port Angeles, we went to this Italian restaurant." I said smiling.

Alice's eyes grew wide, her smile expanding. "That's perfect."

I stared at her. "Did you already know that?" I had to ask. Alice only shrugged as I slid into the passenger seat, getting the feeling she did see them catering.

The restaurant Edward and I went to agreed to cater with Alice being very persuasive, the manager intrigued and listening to her every word and agreeing to cater on the thirteenth of August. I even saw the waitress who took our orders there. After finding a cater, we went to find flowers. We went to a couple of places while we were in Port Angeles, not finding anything and then decided to go to Seattle. I think Alice would travel across the entire country to find the perfect everything. I was tempted to ask her where we would go next if we didn't find anything here. I almost reminded her I don't think leaving the state is a good idea when she mentioned something about flowers in a city I've never heard of somewhere out of state. I didn't catch where because she was more talking to herself and talking pretty quickly.

We stopped at another flower shop we drove pass, Alice making a huge turnaround. It was a small shop sitting in an area all by itself. I think the place used to be a gas station from the structure. I could be wrong though. It also looked to be family owned and even from the outside you could see they had to have thousands of plants and flowers. Inside and in the back where the greenhouses are. Even balloons in the doorway. We stepped inside, a bell overhead on the door rang, signaling us coming in and the door clicked shut behind us. The inside was very spacious and large and carried rows and rows of plants and flowers. It was much bigger then I expected. The perfumes from the flowers made me sneeze when I stepped inside. I made the big mistake of breathing in right next to the flowers and getting a big whiff of them.

"Are you ok?" Alice asked holding one of the bouquets of flowers in her hand.

I nodded, coughing and shaking my head. "I'm fine." I choked out between a cough.

"Are you sure?" Alice asked worried. I nodded again, stopping and rubbing my nose.

Alice held the flowers out to me, a bouquet of beautiful roses. "What do you think?" she asked me as soon as my coughing fit died down.

I touched the tips of the petals. "They're very pretty." I complimented but they weren't the right ones.

"Not the right ones." Alice guessed.

I was taken by surprise slightly. "Did you just read my mind?" Because I thought that exact same thing.

Alice laughed. "Bella, I could tell by the look on your face when you either like something or you don't."

I'm an open book, I thought. "That's nice to know and yet you still hold me hostage on numerous occasions."

Alice gracefully continued down the row as I followed in my slow pace. "Oh, you know you don't mind or you wouldn't put up with it." I had to laugh, Alice laughed too.

Alice held up another bouquet, this one was all blue.

I nodded as she handed me the bouquet. Holding the flowers, I just couldn't see myself with these. With Alice, they looked perfect, with me, not so much. Alice shook her head.

"Not those." She said taking the bouquet back from me. "You need ones that say you and ones that will go with your dress."

"Speaking of dresses, did you get yours yet?" I asked her, running my finger over the wood by one of the flowers.

Alice smiled. Fashion is definitely hers. "I think I found the perfect one."

I smiled, happy for her. "I can't wait to see them."

We stopped in front of another row of bouquets. The flowers were all very beautiful. Ranging from small to large filled with different colors or the same, the same flower and others mixed together. They were all different, all unique in their own way. Conversations blended together behind me and I heard Alice tell someone we were fine, only making me guess someone asked if we needed any help. I looked at every flower, every type of arrangement, all of them perfect. But I saw one in particular. It was a bouquet filled with roses, orchids and tulips, all of the colors, the oranges, the yellows, the purples, the greens blending together, creating something really beautiful. Summer Flowers. The sign behind these ones read. I picked up the bouquet and held it in my hand, touching each of the individual flowers lightly with my fingers. Alice was still searching when she turned to look at me, seeing me holding the bouquet.

Alice clapped her hands together. "Those are perfect."