Chapter 8:

The alarm went off at 5:45. Edward shook me and said, "Babe, that's you," I groaned at his words and he just laughed.

I turned off my alarm and rolled out of bed to take a shower. The warm water relaxed me , but woke me up all at the same time. I stayed in the shower for about 10 minutes and then got out to dry off. I wrapped myself in a towel and quietly went to put some clothes on. I decided to wear a semi-long black skirt that went down to my knees with black heels and a red blouse with a black necklace. I dried my hair and pulled it back with a black headband. I heard Edward's alarm go off after I did this and then quickly put on some black eye liner with mascara and walked out of the bathroom to make sure he got up. He was up and the way I found this out was by running into him on the way out.

"Sorry," I said.

"Well good morning there. How did you sleep? You look beautiful," he said.

"Morning. I slept well and thanks. I was going for a more professional look, but I guess beautiful works as well," I said and he nodded and gave me a kiss good morning. I looked at the clock and it said it was 6:35 so I decided I had time for a quick breakfast and then I would leave.

Edward came into the kitchen as I was pouring my coffee into a to go cup.

"I have to go," I said and walked over to give him a kiss. "Bye, I love you."

"Good luck. Don't let them get to you too much. I love you too," he said and I smiled at him on the way out of the door.

My first class is English 1 Extension. This class is basically the same as a Freshman English class, except it is for Sophomores who couldn't pass it last year. To give the students seats I put numbers on the desk and then handed out a card with a matching number. It was the easiest way to make a seating chart.

"Good morning class. My name is Miss Swan and I will be your teacher for the rest of the year. Yes, this will be your seat the whole year unless we have a problem. I am a new teacher at this school. It is actually my first year of teaching, but don't be fooled, I am very experienced. You may or may not notice me from doing my internship last semester here at your school. The thing that I think is most important is getting to know each other. So, after I tell you a little about myself, then we will all go around and learn a little bit about each other. Any questions?" I said and nobody raised thier hands.

"Okay. Well, I will start. My name is Miss Swan as I have said before. I am a California native and gratuated from CSU in May. I love to read and write and love teaching students how to do so. My goal this year is to teach all of you how to learn to love to read. Are there any questions for me?" I asked and a girl raised her hand.

"Aren't you a little young to be a teacher?" she asked and the question shocked me.

"Well I am young, as in I am 24 years old. But I am very well trained to be a teacher. Do not underestimate me," I said and all of the kids looked at her and some said 'oooh burnn!'

The rest of the class went by smoothly. I explained to them everything that is on the syllabus and sent them off. 2nd hour is my homeroom class. This is where everything has to take place. As in, explaining all of the rules in the student handbook and helping the new Freshman figure out how to be comfortable. I want my students to feel that of they need something, anything, that I would be there for them. I also had to explain to them how this would be their homeroom and the announcements would come on this hour.

When the bell rang signaling my lunch time, another teacher that seemed to be only a little older than me came in my classroom. I smiled warmly at her as she came to introduce herself.

"Hello. I just wanted to say welcome and that if you ever need anything, I am right next door. I might bug you every once in a while as well. My name is Ericka Preslen," she said. She was very nice.

"Hey, I am Bella Swan. Yeah, feel free to ask me anything as well. My prep is 5th hour."

"Oh okay. We have about a half hour for lunch. Want to go run through the Paradise Bakery drive thru with me? I'll buy and drive since it is your first day," she said.

"Okay. But I can buy it myself. Don't worry about it," I said.

"No, I insist. You can just buy next time," she told me.

"Okay, deal."

We talked a lot in the car and I found out some stuff about her. I could tell she will be a very good co-worker/friend. She is 29 years old and has been married for 2 years and is expecting to have a baby. I congratulated her on her news.

"Thank you. I am very excited. My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for a year now and it finally happened."

"So are you going to take any time off of work?" I asked.

"Well I am going to take the last 2 months off and then I will not be back until not next year, but the year after that."

"Wow," I said.

"So I noticed your ring on your finger. How long have you been engaged for?" she asked me and I smiled.

"Only for about a month. His name is Edward Cullen. I have been with him all through college and we just recently moved in together. I am thinking we should have a spring wedding so on spring break we go on our honeymoon and I don't have to worry about work."

"Well congrats. Yeah, my husband and I got married during the summer so that we didn't have to worry about that. He is a teacher as well at the local Elementary School, so we both have the summers off."

"Nice. Well thank you for lunch. I owe you one," I said as we walked our separte ways to our classroom.

"Your welcome. Ask me anything you'd like," she said.

I still had about 5 minutes left of my lunch hour and my phone rang. It was Edward.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Hey, honey. How is your day going? Kids treating you nicely?"

"I have only had to scold a few," I said and then laughed. "No, I am just kidding. It is going great. One of the teachers that works right next door to me introduced herself and took me to lunch. She is very nice and caring."

"Oh, you made a friend on your first day," he said sarcastically and I rolled my eyes.

"Shut it," I said and he laughed. "Alright well I have to go my 4th hour is going to start flooding in."

"Okay. I love you. See you when I get home," he said.

"I love you, too. Bye," I said and then hung up.

On my 5th hour prep I went down to the copy room and made copies for my lesson plans tomorrow. I saw a lot of teachers I vaguely remember from last year when I went down there and decided to stop by Mr. Varner's room to say hello. He was my internship teacher last year. A very nice and fairly old man. I opened the door and he was sitting at his desk while his class was busy doing a worksheet. I knocked and he looked up.

"It doesn't suprize me you have them working on their first day," I said and he smiled and I walked up by his desk.

"Hello there Miss Swan. Or Mrs.?" he asked while noticing my ring when he was shaking my left hand.

"No I just got engaged a month ago. It is still Miss Swan for now. Just thought I would drop in and say hello," I said.

"How was your summer?" he asked.

"Busy. I moved into an apartment so that took up a lot of my time. How was yours?"

"Peaceful. My oldest son got married and my wife and I went on a vacation."

"Nice. Alright well I will leave you alone then. See you later I guess," I said.

"Bye. Thanks for stopping by," he said and I nodded and left.

When the day ended I locked my classroom door and then went to my car to load everything up. After putting in a lot of thought to our wedding after the talk with Ericka at lunch, I decided to call Edward.

"Hello?" he answered.

"Spring wedding," I said with a smile on my face.

"What?" he asked.

"Do you want to have a spring wedding? I can have Alice plan everything because that is what she does for a living and then we get married the weekend before my spring break and that way I wouldn't have to take off too much work," I said.

"Okay, whatever makes you happy. When is your spring break?"

"The last week in March."

"Kay. Why don't you call Alice so she can start?" he asked.

"Is that okay with you. Because we can get married whenever you want I was just suggesting."

"Bella, shut up. I don't care when or how I get married. Just as long as the who is you."

"Okay, thank you. I love you. See you in a few. I think I might just go over to Alice's."

"Okay. I love you too. Bye," he said and then hung up.

I pulled out of the parking lot and drove straight to Alice's. I guess I should've called before, but it was too late when I started to pull into her apartment complex. When I got to her door I only had to knock once and she was there.

"Come to plan your wedding?" she asked.

"How did you....nevermind. Your Alice. Yes I did. After my first day of teaching I came up with an idea. How about a spring wedding? Cause that gives you enough time to plan it and then I wouldn't have to take a lot of time off from work. It would be the weekend before so then we have all week for the honeymoon. My spring break is the last week in March."

She thought about it for a moment. "Well that is certainly a possibility. Have you even spoken to Edward about this?"

"Yes. I just got off the phone with him. He says it is a great idea. So can you do it?"

"Yes, of course I can! Okay, so we need to get started right away, but I have a client coming in like 5 minutes. So what do you say we start Friday at 6ish?"

"Sounds great! Thank you!"

"Your welcome," she said and I smiled, gave her a hug, and left.

The week past by quickly. My students were not too happy about starting a lesson the next day, but tough luck. It was finally Friday and Edward and I were going to meet at Alice and Jasper's place. I am so excited.

I was just sitting and talking to Alice when Edward came in through the door. I gave him a kiss and said, "Hi. How was your day?"

"Long," he said.

"I'm sorry."

"It's okay. So, cousin of mine. What do you have planned?"

"Well we will start with venue and then colors and so on and so forth," she said and we gave her a blank stare. Niether Edward nor I have a clue about how to plan a wedding.

~*~

Weeks and months flew by quickly. The week before my wedding, I made my students work extra hard so that all they have to do is watch a movie for the two days after spring break that I will be gone.

Edward and I had our engagement party a couple months ago and that was when we handed out all of our invitations.

Right now Alice, Rosalie, Esme and I were at Alice's house having our last fitting on the dresses to make sure they fit right.

My dress is perfect for me. It is white of course. It has speghetti straps that create a v-neck and then have a lace fabric that was used on my mother's wedding dress that goes from inside the v-neck to under the bust and has about 2 inches worth of fabric and then ties around to the back. The rest is just silky material that flows all the way down. It is definantely perfect. The colors of my wedding are green and blue with white attractions(chairs, steps, tables, ect.).

Rose and Alice are my bridesmaids of course and I wasn't able to choose who my MOH was so I don't have one. Their dresses are the same baby blue color as the decorations. They are strapless and create sort of like a v-neck chinese looking fan that scrunches up to the middle under thier bust. It goes down to about 2 inches below the knee. They are going to color cordinate the wedding by wearing green heels and holding a boquet with just 3 matching blue roses and a lot of green. I will be carrying a full boquet of matching blue roses as well.

The wedding will be held in Esme's backyard. Everything will start getting set up the day before the wedding. It will look amazing and this I know for sure. Alice never fails.

We made our way back to my house to watch many movies to have a girls night. It was a lot of fun, but I sure did miss Edward. He is having his bacholer party while I have my bacholerette party. I am doing what I love to do while he is being pushed around by some idiots. I love it! Well Jasper is mature, but Emmett...not so much.

I had a very stressful week at work and am just ready to get everything over with. I am using a sub that Ericka reccomended and hoping that he listens. All they have to do is watch a movie, but you never know if the kids start acting up. Ericka says she will stop in and check on them. Today is Friday and I am at Alice's house right now. I took the day off today just to relax and make sure everything will work out. I feel bad for leaving Edward alone tonight, but it is bad luck to see the bride the day before.

After having a glass of wine and some dinner, I snuggled up onto the couch and hoped that sleep would overcome me soon seeing as I will need it for my wedding day tomorrow.