9. Wedding Plans

When nighttime came, Edward and I went upstairs to our room. When we got in his room, I went over to lie on his couch and he went to put a CD in. He put an old fifties CD in and walked over to the floor to ceiling window. He took his t-shirt off and let it drop onto the floor in front of the window. He came over to the couch and lifted me and slid under me. He put me on top of his now bare chest and looked up into my eyes.

"Why did you take your shirt off?" I asked.

"Do you want me to put it back on?" he asked confused.

"No! Not at all!" I yelled. "I was just wondering."

"Well, I usually sleep like this."

"You didn't last night," I commented.

"I also said I usually sleep this way. I didn't sleep like that last night because I didn't want Charlie to see."

"Oh come on now. You would've known he was coming as soon as he thought about it. So what's the real reason you didn't sleep that way last night?"

"Well, I actually wasn't sure if you wanted me to sleep like that."

"Well why the hell wouldn't I? Edward, just think of what we'd done before we went back to my room. If we did that, why would I mind you sleeping with your shirt off?"

"I...don't know." Edward was speechless. He just couldn't come up with a reason why. So I spoke.

"Don't worry about it. Just as long as you promise that you'll always sleep like this, at least when I'm around."

"I promise."

The whole night, we listened to CD after CD. I was actually interested in some of the bands. I started asking him questions about some of the bands. He answered without flaw. That was the routine for the rest of the night; CD after CD and question after question. When morning finally came, I was happy. It was supposed to be another rare day of sunlight in Forks. Unfortunately, it was a school day. Of course I was happy, because we didn't have to go to school. But we did have to stay around his house; we couldn't go wondering around the town today. But what was going to happen that day would make up for it, very much so. Edward and I got up and went downstairs. When we went downstairs, I found out that all the men in this family slept shirtless. We sat downstairs for awhile and then Edward decided to pull Emmett, Jasper, and Carlisle into the kitchen. I tried not to listen, but failed. I just couldn't help but listening in because they were just inches away to my hearing. They were talking about Edward's and my wedding. My eyes grew big and I screamed.

"Wedding?! What wedding?"

The four of them walked back into the living room and Edward spoke.

"I should've known she wouldn't be able to keep out what we were saying. What else did you think we were going to do when I asked you to marry me and you said yes?" he asked me, laughing.

"Well I knew we'd be getting married, but I didn't think it would be this soon."

"Well just because we were talking about it, doesn't mean that it'll be now."

"Then it won't be now?"

"Well, not right now, but soon. Within the week."

"And where's my say in this?"

"I'm joking, Bella. Of course you get your say. I wouldn't plan the wedding without you. So when do you want to have the wedding?"

"Good, and to answer your question, how about tomorrow? Or today, even?" They all looked at me in awe. "Why not? The sooner I'm married to you, the sooner we can begin our lives together." Edward chuckled and then spoke.

"Well that's true, and I wouldn't want to waste a minute of it," he said as he ran forward and picked me up to kiss me on the lips. "So, tomorrow it is then?" he asked.

I shook my head. "We'd better get to work."

"Yea, we better." He chuckled. "Alice, Rosalie, Esme. Do you think that you three can take Bella shopping for a dress and get flowers?"

"Of course," Alice said.

"I'll go order a wedding cake. Of course, I'll have to spot 'em twenty extra so that they'll get it done faster," Emmett added.

"And we'll get the outside done and ready for tomorrow," Carlisle said as he looked toward Jasper and Edward.

"Alright, let's go," Alice said as she pulled Rosalie's and my arm out the door. We both jerked out of her grasp and raced her and Esme to Rosalie's Convertible. Rosalie hoped in the driver seat with Esme in the passenger seat and Alice and I in the back. We drove faster than we normally would have; we had to so no one would recognize us. We arrived at the Port Angeles mall in twenty minutes. We all wore long sleeves and blue jeans, had sunglasses on, and had hats on that covered our faces. We walked into the mall and Alice and Rosalie guided me to a wedding dress store. We walked in and the woman from behind the counter came over to greet us.

"Good morning to you four. What can I do you for?"

"We're looking for a wedding dress for her," Rosalie said pointing to me. The lady looked at me with questionable eyes.

"Right this way." She directed us to a rack of beautiful long dresses with white roses on them. We looked for only a minute and finally Rosalie picked out a dress. She walked over to me and held it in front of me.

"Perfect. Let's see, we'll need this in a size small," Rosalie said looking back at the rack.

"Oh let me." The clerk started scavenging through the dresses. In no time, she picked out a dress. She handed it to Rosalie and took the other one and put it back on the rack. "Now let's see here," she said as she walked over to the counter. She rung up the dress and looked at us. "That'll be one hundred and seventy dollars." Rosalie reached into her pocket and pulled out a silver credit card and handed it to her. The clerk grabbed the card reluctantly and ran it through the scanner. She handed it back to Rosalie and put the dress into a bag and handed it over the counter to Alice. We walked out of the store and walked a little ways more into the mall. We entered a flower shop. We walked over to the counter and rang the bell sitting on the counter. An elderly looking woman came out of the back.

"We need a bouquet of flowers for a wedding," Alice said.

The elderly woman walked out from behind the counter and walked over to a little stand by the door. We started looking and decided on getting three red roses, white roses, black roses, hugs and kisses, pink sapphires, and winter lilies. The woman rapped up the flowers and rang them up.

"That'll be twenty-five sixty," she said.

Alice handed her thirty dollars and the woman gave her her change. We turned and walked out. We were headed back to the car when Esme went into a jewelry shop. We followed after her. When we got in there, she was looking at necklaces. She motioned for us to come over to her. When we came over, she asked me a question.

"How do you like that necklace, Bella?" she asked. The necklace was silver and had diamonds every few inches apart until about four of five inches from the ends of it. It was beautiful.

"I love it."

"Good. We'll take that one. Oh, and how about those earrings?" She pointed to earrings that went with the necklace.

The clerk rang them up and told her that it would be one hundred and fifty dollars. Esme gave her the credit card that Rosalie used in the dress shop. She rang it up and put them in separate boxes and handed them to Esme. We walked out and headed to the car. Alice put the dress in the trunk. We all got into the car and headed home. When we got home, I saw Edward waiting for me. When we pulled in and parked, he came to meet me at the car. He carried the dress and flowers into the house while we all followed. When we entered the house, Edward put the dress down on the couch and walked into the kitchen. He came back in the living room seconds later.

"Emmett got the wedding cake just minutes ago and Carlisle, Jasper, and I got done with the outside just before you turned onto the road. So we're ready for tomorrow than, are we?" Edward said.

"I guess so," I said teasingly.

"Well I can't wait."

"Oh, by the way, you three can be my maids of honor," I said nodding towards Alice, Rosalie, and Esme. "But wait, you didn't get dresses."

"Don't worry about it, Bella. We already have our dresses. I have mine from my weddings to Emmett and Alice and Esme have theirs from their weddings to Jasper and Carlisle," Rosalie said.

"And before you worry about that, Carlisle, Jasper, Emmett, and Edward has their suits," Alice said, as if reading my mind.

I smiled at them all and looked up at Edward. I gave him a kiss on the lips. I just couldn't wait until tomorrow and I knew he couldn't, either.