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chapter 3: The Wedding
Alice's pov
I knew I should have told Edward about the whole 'Bella being at the wedding thing" but I just couldn't make myself. Knowing Edward, he would have overreacted--again-- and probably made us move to some remote island in the middle of nowhere so that there was no possible way she could ever come within 100 miles of us ever again.
Besides, I already saw in a vision the way Edward would react to seeing Bella today, and all the feelings for her that he had repressed for her safety would return and he would become even more infatuated with her than he was before--if that was even possible.
I sighed contentedly, knowing that soon my brother would have the person he was destined to be with back, and the rest of this family wouldn't have to watch him mope around all the time, only speaking when spoken to, and spending all of his time listening to music in his room. If we were humans, he would have an unkempt beard and blood shot eyes by now. But of course, we are vampires, and that means we're completely unable to grow facial hair or have a lack of sleep. So the only signs of his despair were the way eyes grew more hollow every day, and the corners of lips were perpetually turned down.
He would thank me for this.
Bella's pov
Today is the day of the wedding, and Chris was outside of my hotel looking amazing in a tux. I tried to force a smile on my face, and I hoped more than anything it looked sincere.
As I walked out, he commented on how good I looked, sounding more and more generic with every word he said. I tried to shake these thoughts out and pretend like Chris cared about more than just wanting to sleep with me.
Something kept bothering me, and I didn't know what it was, but I had a feeling something was strange about this town, or maybe it was something about the wedding.
As we drove in the car, Chris talking about his job or something, my thoughts kept wandering to my favorite subject: Edward. I started wondering if he had found someone else, another vegetarian vampire maybe. I wondered how Alice was doing, if she missed me, or if I was just a vague memory to the Cullen family by now.
I gazed out of the tinted window of the rental car, my eyes focusing on a beautiful house partially hidden behind tall trees. But something other than the house had caught my attention: a silver Volvo was parked in the driveway. I rolled my eyes at myself and took a deep breath. There were plenty of Volvo owners in the world, and one of them just happened to be here.
Edward's pov
I was focusing on Alice's thoughts, trying to figure out why she was so cheerful, when all of a sudden I heard a familiar voice drifting into the hallway. I grimaced and groaned loudly before stepping into the living room and facing to turn Tanya, the vegetarian vampire who happened to be completely obsessed with me.
Carlisle and Esme had obviously invited her to come, just as they had to a million other events like this. We went out together more often than I liked, and she had become extremely clingy to me. She acted like we were in love or something, although those feelings of mine were reserved for someone I would never see again.
"Hello, Edward." she said in a seductive voice. I almost rolled my eyes at her attempt to be sexy, even though to anyone else she probably was.
"Hey, Tanya." I mumbled.
Then she started talking to me about us moving in together, or getting married, the things she as always gushing about.
As the rest of my family filed in to the room I scowled at all of them for allowing Tanya to be in this house. My eyes met with Carlisle's first.
"I'm sorry, Edward. I thought you might be happy to see her." he thought clearly so that I could hear him. When my look of anger didn't disappear he shrugged apologetically. Then my eyes focused on Alice, she probably had something to do with this too. But without even attempting to read her mind I noticed that she was definitely far from happy to see Tanya here. My eyebrows raised as I read into her thoughts. "This is going to mess up everything!" she practically shouted in her mind. Then her eyes went vacant, a look that I knew meant she was seeing something that would happen today. I continued to listen to her thoughts. "Oh no…this is not good! What are we going to do?!" suddenly her thoughts stopped abruptly as she became aware that I was listening in. I gave her a questioning look but she kept avoiding my gaze, keeping her mind far from anything relevant to this situation.
We walked out of the house and towards our cars. I winced when I opened the car door for Tanya, she took it as a gesture of affection, rather than me just being polite. This day was already off to a bad start.
Alice's pov
This is so, so, so, SO bad! I cant believe Tanya is going to be so overprotective over Edward today! Maybe I can stop this…
Bella's pov
Wow. I just laughed for the first time all day. Chris was telling me this story about some of his cousins and the crazy things they do and it actually made me laugh. I was genuinely surprised at this, I couldn't believe I was so quick to judge him. Maybe he wasn't so bad after all…
Of course that momentary happiness didn't completely wash away my thoughts about Edward. It was like there was an entire part of my brain reserved for thinking about him, and it never went away, like a terrible disease. I took a deep breath as I realize there was no way I would ever want to be cured from this disease.
Edward's pov
We arrived at the wedding, my thoughts still trying to figure out what was going on with Alice, Tanya clinging to my arm like we were connected at the hip.
I glanced over to my right, where a man was helping his girlfriend out of his car. The girl's head looked suspiciously like Bella's, but I took this as I sign that I was going insane. She was far, far, away from here, and that's how it should be.
Tanya and I joined the rest of my family at the table reserved for us, luckily there was enough of us so that we filled an entire table, so there was no humans to make awkward small talk with, or explain why we wouldn't be eating anything. Alice was still succeeding in keeping her thoughts from wandering. I mumbled something quietly at her from across the table, but she pretended not to listen to me. Instead I got the attention of Tanya, who was previously busy talking to Emmett, and I could tell he was trying hard to keep a straight face while he watched me grow more and more uncomfortable by the second.
"What did you say, sweetie?" Tanya said to me, her voice filled with as much sweetness as she could come up with.
"Nothing." I replied, sounding a little more cold than I intended. But the ice in my voice did absolutely nothing to hurt her. "I'm going to look around" I said quickly while standing up abruptly and walking away before anyone, namely Tanya, could follow me.
Bella's pov
Chris and I were standing by the bar, ordering drinks, when out of the corner of my eye I saw something that caught my attention. There was a certain group of people sitting at a table to my far left that happened to look unnaturally pale and unbelievably beautiful. I squinted to get a closer look at them but I couldn't tell what exactly they looked like. I wouldn't even let my mind think that these people looked a lot like a certain vampire family I once knew.
I sighed and swallowed my champagne in one gulp. I needed serious help.
"I need to use the bathroom" I told Chris as I walked away. I was kind of enjoying this day, even though every now and then I would see Chris's eyes wander down to my chest. I silently cursed how low cut the dress I was wearing was. Not only was I freezing, but I kept getting a bunch of creepy looks from the pervs at the wedding.
Edward's pov
I was casually walking by the bar when all of a sudden I heard the thoughts of a man standing five feet away from me. He had thought the name Bella at least ten times in the past minute. Whenever I heard someone think that name I would reflexively stop near them and listen closely, but this time it would look a little creepy if I just happened to stop near him when there was no one else around. So I kept walking slowly, listening to this mans rather lustful thoughts of this woman he was with. Then I realized that this was the man I had seen with the girl who looked like my Bella outside when he was helping her out of the car. I was just walking out of hearing range of his thoughts when all of a sudden a picture from his mind came to me. It was faint and a little blurry because of the distance, but I could still see the girl in it, with long dark hair and porcelain skin, it was Bella Swan.
Bella's pov
I swung open the door of the bathroom, and glanced around to find Chris. I felt a little unsteady from the glasses of champagne I just drank. I looked around a little faster, turning towards the last place I saw him when all of a sudden I saw a familiar face that I was not expecting standing five feet away from me. Staring wide eyed at me was none other than Edward Cullen. His gold eyes were filled with shock as they looked closely at my face. He was really here, with his family. My breath caught in my throat as I realized that this wasn't a dream. I had imagined this moment a million times, but now all I could do was stand with my mouth open at the man I loved.