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The car sped down the highway towards the main shopping centre. Aunt Alice and Aunt Rose sat up front while mom and I sat in the back. My window was rolled down as the day was warm but still cloudy making it easy for mom, Alice and Rose to go out. We were going wedding shopping for everything from dresses to flowers to plates. They were taking this all very seriously. The mall came into view as we rounded a hill and Aunt Rose and Alice let out squeals of delight. I rolled my eyes and mom groaned.

'I think we should go dress shopping first.' Alice spoke to us all.

'I agree. Have you decided who your bridesmaids will be?' Rose asked me.

'No, but I want Tinsel to be the flower girl.' 'Ok well then we'll have to schedule a day for her to get fitted but we can look for dresses in the mean time.'

The formal dress stores were huge. Every colour imaginable decorated the walls. Clothes – dresses and suits – hung from floor to ceiling. Red, blue, pink, yellow, white, black, purple, violet and orange dresses lined one wall while pink, blue, black, white and navy suits lined the other. Mum, Aunt Alice and Aunt Rose walked into the most expensive looking store of them all, Sofia Nelson. I felt small even just looking in the window of the shop, so I hesitated for a bit. The way the lights were placed made the walls look as if they were made of gold and all the dresses and suits looked as if they were too expensive to even touch. The shop window to the right of the store had a single wedding dress in it and it was one of the most beautiful dresses I had ever seen. It had no straps and hugged the body till it reached the top of the waist and then it splayed out lightly, golden flowered patterns were dotted around the skirt and the bodice had the same pattern – but joined together – circling it from the waist upwards for four inches. I tore my gaze away from the dress and ran, at human pace, to catch up with the rest of my family.

When I arrived Alice and Rose where already ordering the poor shop assistants around, the workers ran back and forth trying to be the first person to please Rose and Alice. One group brought a bunch of wedding dresses for them to inspect and the ones that Alice and Rose liked they would place on a chair next to the changing room. Even though the shop was huge the changing room was right next to the entrance. The next bunch of helpers came running up, there must have been five or six of them, each carrying so many shoe boxes that it must have been incredibly difficult for them to see where they were going. They placed the boxes next to the dresses then walked off again.

'What was that all about?' I whispered to mum who standing next to me and seemed to be less bewildered than me.

'Rose flashed her cards as soon as she walked in.' That made a bit more sense as they shop assistants would want to assist anyone with that kind of money and they would want to convince her to buy the most expensive items.

'Come on Ness,' Alice walked up to me and took my arm and pulled me into the changing room.

The changing room itself was just as impressive as the actual shop. At the end of the hall there was a large, circular platform with a half circle of mirrors around it. Each mirror ran from the floor to the ceiling. The carpet was a cream gold colour that complemented the colour of the walls and the furniture. Alice ushered me to a cubicle at the end of the hall nearest the mirrors. As I passed I noticed that the place was completely empty. We reached the last cubicle and Alice pushed me into it and handed me one of the dresses and one of the shoe boxes.

'Try these and be careful not to rip the fabric.' She shut the door on me.

I turned round in the cubicle and hung the dress up on the wall beside me. The cubicle was very spacious and it could fit a small couch at the bottom of it. I placed the shoe box on top of the couch and started to pull the dress out of the bag. I gasped. There was no way I was wearing that.

'What's wrong?' I heard mum ask from the other side of the door.

'There is about to centimetres of fabric on this.' I whined.

'Just put it on and stop your complaining!' Rose told me.

I huffed and undid the zip on the side of it. I slipped out of my own clothes and kicked them into the corner. I pulled the ghastly dress on tried to ignore my reflection as I pulled the six inch heels on. The dress was extremely tight and I felt like my chest was going to pop out of it any second. I took a deep breath, which was a major mistake as the dress didn't allow room for any breathing, and opened the changing room door and wobbled out like a penguin. I couldn't even lift my leg enough for me to walk let alone climb onto the platform so rose had to lift me up. I caught mum's expression in the mirror and it was a look of pure horror. Her face mimicked my feelings exactly.

'It's a bit tight.' Alice mused.

'A bit tight!' I exclaimed, 'Alice, I can barely breathe!' Aunt Rose walked around the platform looking me up and down.

I felt very self conscious as the dress finished at the top of my thighs, the neckline plunged to my navel and the back of dress was made up of a thin line holding the front together. My hair gave my chest better coverage than the dress! The dress left absolutely nothing to the imagination. There was absolutely no way that I was wearing it and I told them so.

'Yeah I don't particularly want my daughter wearing that.' Mum agreed with me. 'And I'm pretty sure Edward would go off his nut if he saw Ness wearing this... this... dress.' She shuddered as she said dress as if the mere thought of it made her feel sick.

'Ok, ok that dress is out. Take this and try it on.' Rose shoved a second dress bag in my hands. 'And pass out the dress your wearing now once you've taken it off. Take this with you.' She balanced another shoe box on top of the dress.

I wobbled into the cubicle and shut the door after me. I slipped out of the dress and passed it out to Rose. I unzipped the new bag and slipped out a better dress, one that actual could count as a dress. Sure someone might like it but it honestly wasn't for me and I would have uncomfortable the whole night. I pulled the new dress over my head and pushed my arms into the sleeves. I took the old shoes off, which were nice but way to difficult to walk in, and slipped into the new ones with a smaller heel. This time the shoes were about four inches high and simple but elegant. The dress and shoes were much easier to walk in which I was grateful for and I could breathe in it.

I stood on the platform myself this time without someone helping me up and I looked at myself in the mirror. The dress was gorgeous but it didn't seem very me. The dress ended just below my knees and I loved the shoulder-less sleeves but something was still missing. The shoes went great with it but I still couldn't put my finger on what was wrong.

'I think you should try something else Ness. It doesn't seem to suit you.' Alice said the exact thing that I had been thinking.

'I completely agree with you, something doesn't seem right. The dress is gorgeous but something doesn't fit.' Rose spoke.

I climbed off of the platform and waited for Alice to hand me another bag and for Rose to hand me a box. Alice place quite a large bag in my open arms with a smile on her face, 'I think you'll like this one.'

'Excuse me please.' A timid voice sounded from behind me.

I moved aside to let a girl pass, she must have been only a couple years older than me, in vampire years because in human years I'm only five but in vampire years I'm seventeen. She looked around nineteen or twenty. The poor girl looked so nervous as if just by lifting her head up something terrible would happen to her. She stood on the platform and looked in the mirrors. The dress she was wearing was a bit big for her and it gave her body no shape. As she looked in the mirror her face and became the picture of absolute sadness. My heart went out to her. She noticed us watching her and she blushed scarlet. She tucked her head down and began to climb off of the platform.

'Wait a minute.' I said, she stopped and looked at me, so did everyone else. 'Are you by yourself?' She nodded her head, her eyes looking anywhere but into mine. 'Why?'

'No one knows I'm getting married.' She half whispered, keeping her head down the whole time. 'My dad died when I was a baby and my mum was an alcoholic and I had to look after her so I never had time to make any friends.' She whispered, ashamed of what she was admitting. I saw her reflection in the mirror and noticed her begin to cry.

'Hey, it's ok.' I took hold of her hand and got her to sit down. 'When are you getting married?'

'Next week.' She smiled slightly.

'Why so soon? Sorry if I'm prying too much it's just that you seemed so sad.'

'Don, my fiancé, is being shipped out in two weeks. He's in the army.' She smiled at the thought of him and a mist seemed to cover her eyes and she began to cry again. 'I'm sorry, I don't even know you. It's just that I am going to miss him so much, even though I've only known him for a month. I just feel like I've known him my whole life, you know?'

'Yeah, yeah I do. Do you want some help?' She looked at me quizzically. 'We have tones of dresses here and I'm only going to buy one so we could help you look.'

'Are you sure?'

'Of course, I wouldn't have offered if I wasn't.'

'Thank you. You will never know how grateful I am.' She smiled at me and I returned her smile.

'I'm Renesmee.' I held my hand out to her which she took.

'Kate.'

'Kate this is Alice, Rose and Bella.' I pointed to them as I said their names. 'They'll help you pick out a dress while I try this one on, ok?' She nodded her head again and I turned from her and entered the cubicle again.

I could her Alice asking Kate questions about her height, dress size, weight, and shoe size and whether she was more comfortable wearing big heels or small heels. I shook my head at Alice's insistent questions. I placed the bag and the box down and pulled my dress off. I handed it out to my mum and began unzipping the new bag. I gasped when I realized what dress it was. The material felt smoother than I imagined, the fabric was softer even whiter than it had seemed when I first saw it. It was the beautiful dress from the shop window. I stood and stared at it for a while before I remembered that people were waiting outside to see what the dress looked like on. I took even more time putting this dress on than I had with the last two. The dress felt great against my skin. It fit nicely, not to tight and not to lose, just right. Slipping into the shoes that Rose had given me I noticed the golden trim on them which was the exact colour of the pattern on the dress. I stepped out of the cubicle and hopped onto the platform, the fabric moved back into shape around me as if it was made out of water. I looked in the full length mirrors and loved the image looking back at me. The dress fit my body snugly like I had thought it did. It gave my body shape and made me look beautiful. I lifted the dress up to look at the shoes properly and they looked really good with the dress.

'I noticed you looking at it in the window.' Aunt Alice told me.

'You look gorgeous.' Aunt Rose said.

'You look beautiful.' Mum grasped my hand.

'I really like it,' I told them, 'but isn't it a little expensive?'

Aunt Rose laughed at me. 'Honey, I don't honestly care about the price. If you like the dress then it's yours.'

'Are you sure?'

'You need to get that Renesmee!' Kate exclaimed as she walked out of her own cubicle.

She looked gorgeous, the dress she had on flattered her body shape and the green sparkles in the dress really brought out the green in her eyes. The train was long, but not too long and green flowers were dotted across the bottom of the dress. She noticed us all staring at her and she blushed violently. 'Does the dress not look good?' She asked quietly.

'Come here Kate.' She walked towards me and I pulled her up onto the platform next to me. 'Look at yourself in the mirror.' She lifted her head up and gasped when she saw her reflection.

'Is that me?' She asked in complete shock.

'Yes it is.' She played with her hair to check that the reflection would do the same She turned to me and hugged me tightly, 'thank you,' she whispered then let go, fresh tears in her eyes. She stepped off of the platform and walked back into her changing room. I did the same and moments later we were both completely changed and back to wearing our jeans and t-shirts.

Aunt Rose walked up to the till and bought my dress and shoes. She was walking back towards mum, Alice and I when I noticed what Kate was about to buy. I walked up to her before she had the chance to pay. 'What are you doing?' I asked wondering why she was buying the first dress she tried on instead of the second.

'I'm paying for my dress.' She muttered.

'What happened to the other one?'

'It was too expensive, I could never have afforded it.' She sighed and began to hand over her credit card but I grabbed her wrist and dragged her away from the till. I marched her over to the dress picked it up and walked back to the till. Aunt Rose was already standing there, card in hand. I placed the dress and its bag on the counter. 'We'll take this one please.' Kate began to protest but I silenced her with a look.

The five of us walked out of the store with our purchases with Kate still protesting about the money we had spent on her. She was adamant that we return the dress and get our money back but I wasn't having any of it.

'Listen, Kate, consider the dress a gift from me OK. Please just take the dress, please.'

'Fine, ok.' She caved.

We joined the queue in Starbucks for coffees. I always loved the smell of Starbucks the smell of freshly brewed coffee was delicious. Kate cleared her throat next to me and took a deep breath before she started speaking.

'Em... Renesmee, I know I've not known you for very long but since you bought me the dress and the shoes, and you've been really nice to me. You're the first friendly person, apart from Don, that I've spoken to in ages and...'

'Kate, Kate your rambling.'

'Oh, am I? Oh right, sorry... um... Well you see I was sort of wondering if you would be my maid of honour?' She finished quietly.

'Yes! Of course I will!' I gasped shocked that she had even asked.

'Really?'

'Yes!' I exclaimed

'Thank you so much!' She hugged me tight and didn't seem like she would ever let go.

One thing was bothering me though, what would happen if she found out about my family? What would she do if she found out about Jake and the wolves? But that is tomorrow's problem and I was focussing on the present and I had a coffee to drink, I had to swap numbers with Kate and Zephyr was coming to pick me up in an hour so that I could spend some time with John to see how he was getting on. The only bad thing about that plan is that no one but Zephyr, John and I know that i am visiting them today.

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