Speak Now - Taylor Swift

I park my car about a block away from the wedding. Alec's wedding. Alec and Heidi's wedding. Yeah, that wedding.

I love Alec, though. I am in love with him. And he loved me too, once upon a time. Nearly three years ago, the year I stopped aging and lost my heartbeat. We met at a ball, and sparks flew between us. I stayed in Volterra for nearly three weeks, and I have never felt so alive in my life than I did in those few short weeks.

I don't know why I'm here. I don't crash weddings like this on a normal basis. And it's just going to hurt seeing him with her. Especially since I know they don't belong together. He belongs with me.

I am not the kind of girl
Who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion
But you are not the kind of boy
Who should be marrying the wrong girl

I blend into a large crowd of vampires and slip through under the radar. The wedding is being held in some century-old mansion in the England countryside. My family is probably panicking right now. They were out hunting when I decided I needed to be here. I left them a note saying, I need to see him one last time. This probably really will be the last time I ever see Alec. Definitely the last time my heart can bear to see him.

I watch Demetri, Felix, and Santiago, Alec's three best friends, clink their blood-filled glasses together, all wearing the exact same tux. Probably the groomsmen. I'd bet a million dollars Demetri is the best man. Alec and him have always been especially close.

Jane, Sulpicia, Athendora, Chelsea, and Renata are huddled together talking. I wonder which of her "closest friends" Heidi chose to be the bridesmaids. It's impossible to tell considering all their dresses are in similar cuts and in colors ranging from pastel-orange to pastel-blue. I have never liked any of them; they're stuck up and rude.

I slip out of this huge entrance room in front of the chapel that everyone is mingling in. I follow the sound of Heidi's enraged voice down a few hallways. I stand stone-still and peek through a door, seeing her yelling and snarling at Corin who is sitting crying on the bed. I think this is over a broken heel. Haven't either of them ever heard of Super Glue? Seriously, it solves everything.

Heidi's dress is huge and white and puffs up all around her, sort of reminding me of a cream puff. She looks demented right now; distorted by anger. How could Alec have fallen for this girl? Sure, she's beautiful, but what is obviously underneath has made her hideous.

I begin to picture what would happen if during the ceremony I leaped up and objected this marriage. I wonder if Alec would be humiliated or grateful. I'm thinking the former. Heidi would probably rip my head off then and there.

I sneak in and see your friends, and her snotty little family
All dressed in pastel
And she is yelling at a bridesmaid, somewhere back inside a room
Wearing a gown shaped like a pastry
This is surely not what you thought it would be
I lose myself in a daydream where I stand and say
Don't say yes, run away now
I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the backdoor
Don't wait or say a single vow
You need to hear me out and they said speak now

I filter into the chapel with everyone else, all of them talking and hugging and greeting each other while I try to remain inconspicuous.

It is gorgeous, made of polished wood and stained glass and glistening marble. There are dozens of pews that people begin filling from front to back. I, however, take a place among the silk curtains in the back. If Heidi sees me as she comes down the aisle, she will flip out. I wasn't on her prim little guest list, after all.

The organ begins to play, and I realize how fitting my funeral-looking black dress and black lace gloves are. The wedding march sounds like a death march in my ears.

Fun gestures are exchanged
And the organ starts to play a song that sounds like a death march
And I am hiding in the curtains
It seems that I was uninvited by your lovely bride-to-be

I peek out of the curtains to see Corin, Jane, and Chelsea are her bridesmaids. Then I see her walking down the aisle with Aro on her arm. She gives everyone breath-taking smiles and keeps her elegance and grace in that huge dress. She reminds of me of some kind of beauty queen.

My eyes land on Alec up by the alter, who I haven't seen in years. He looks just the same, obviously, with his swoosh of black hair and cunning scarlet eyes, but he is all dressed up in a formal suit and looks dashing in it.

He stares at Heidi as she walks towards him, definitely noticing her beauty but not seeming like the content, happy groom that most men are on their wedding day. He wishes it was me. I just know he does. Maybe he always has.

My daydream from earlier returns, me leaping up and putting an end to this. I would make sure he heard me as they said speak now. I would tell him to meet me outside the church and run away with me.

Marcus, the preacher, has begun to drone on his dull monotone as I sneakily slip into a back row of pews unnoticed. I realize my time is running out. The line is coming up. Am I really going to do this?

She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen
But I know you wish it was me, you wish it was me
Don't you?
Don't say yes, run away now
I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the backdoor
Don't wait or say a single vow
You need to hear me out and they said speak now
Don't say yes, run away now
I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the backdoor
Don't wait or say a single vow
Your time is running out and they said speak now

"Speak now or forever hold your peace." Marcus says, eyes scanning the room. Alec and Heidi, holding hands, look up, neither of them expecting what is about to happen. A deafening silence fills the room, and I realize if I'm going to do this is has to be now.

I stand up, my hands shaking violently. Every pair of crimson eyes in the room fall on me. Horror takes over many peoples' expression, including Heidi's, but I keep my eyes focused on the startled Alec.

I hear the preacher say speak now or forever hold your peace
There's the silence, there's my last chance
I stand up with shaking hands, all eyes on me
Horrified looks from everyone in the room
But I'm only looking at you

I have never done this before, so I don't know what to say. All I really know is that he is marrying the wrong girl and I have to stop it.

I am not the kind of girl
Who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion
But you are not the kind of boy
Who should be marrying the wrong girl

"Alec, you can't do this. You can't marry her. Don't say yes to her. Run away with me. Don't wait a minute longer because it'll be too late. I love you, and I can't let you marry her." I say with a trembling voice.

Don't say yes, run away now
I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the backdoor
Don't wait or say a single vow
You need to hear me out and they said speak now

Alec's eyes light up. He jerks his hands away from Heidi's and begins to walk towards me. Everyone gasps. "Let's do it," he says as he keeps walking, "let's run away. I'll meet you outside the church. Thank you, Renesmee. Thank you for being here and saving me when they said speak now." He grabs me, hands twining into my hair and kisses me passionately. I hold him as close as possible, relishing in the feeling of his lips against mine.

And you say lets run away now
I'll meet when I'm out of my tux at the backdoor
Baby I didn't say my vows, so glad you were around
When they said 'Speak now'

I shake myself back to reality from my daydream and clap numbly as Alec kisses his bride.

A/N - I've run out of song ideas.. Unless you want a whole lot more of Taylor Swift. I'm a fanatic.. So give me some suggestions please!(:

And by the way, if you keep up with my other stories you know I had three stories in the making (The Flight Risk, Shades of Red, and Love & War). Well, my computer was attacked by a virus and those stories were wiped out. Sorry, I am really upset by it and I don't know if I'll be rewriting any of them. That's also why it took so long for me to update here.

But I am working on a new Alec/Renesmee story in which Alec is a human.. It's really a lot better than that sounds, I have had so much fun writing Alec without all his immortal doom and gloom.