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Chapter 9

BPV

Over the next few weeks Charlie really grew to like the Cullen family. He would visit once a week to update them on leads on where their stuff went. He really bonded with them. So it didn't surprise me when he finally told me that my friends could be in the wedding party if I wanted. We were talking about the wedding when Charlie asked me.

" Were a few weeks from the wedding and I wanted tell you something" Charlie said sheepishly.

" Shoot dad"

" Well Tanya and I wanted to let you know that if you wanted your friends could be in the wedding party, since most of my friends are back home and cannot afford to fly out."

" Okay well I'll have to ask them, I'll let you know"

" okay" he looked relieved.

I called Alice that night and when I told her she practically sang "Yes" into the phone. She said that she would do it, and she ran around asking everyone if they would be in the party. Thirty seconds later she ran back to the phone and said that everyone said that they would do it. Charlie was going to die of happiness when I told him.

I walked down the stairs back into the kitchen and told Charlie. He seemed grateful and relieved that they said that they would do it.

" Thank you Bells" his smile appeared in his tone of voice.

" Next time you see him, ask Edward to be my best man, I know that your maid of honor, I figured that it would be easier on him to be best man so he could walk with you!"

I was shocked . This was obviously showed how much he approved of Edward as my boyfriend. He would never of asked Mike to do this! I went up stairs and went to bed.

The next few weeks had gone by in a blur. Edward had agreed to be the best man which made Charlie thrilled. It also made me happy that I would not be walking back down the isle with some random stranger. I would know people at the reception, it would be easier to mingle. Alice being a bridesmaid now, wanted to help out in anyway she could, which meant that she wanted to practically plan the wedding. This also meant that the entire Cullen family and the Hales as well were over at least once a week for a fitting or something. After showing Alice the thing that Charlie thought was a tux, they went and bought the men's outfit's themselves. These were in much better taste, Black, with a off white under shirt and a blue tie. Everyone looked so much better in this getup. I was told that the flowers were white roses and violets with a bluish hue to them. It seemed like the wedding day was fast approaching. Before anyone knew it, it was the week of and everyone was running around doing last minute things to prepare for the upcoming nuptials. You could feel the excitement in the air, like a long awaited thing was finally here.

I never thought that this week would come, never mind that day.

About two days before the wedding was the bachelor/ bachelorette parties. The boy's were going to take Charlie for a night on the town, going god knows where, while we were going to take Tanya shopping, getting her nails done, you know having a girl's night out. While we were leaving for the mall, in another car I swear that I could of seen Mike's cosmic twin. It was uncanny how much it looked like him, it couldn't be though, Mike was over 3000 miles away thank god. That thought gave me a little smile on my face. Then my thoughts turned to what they usually were about. Edward, where he was, what he was doing, and what he was thinking. I hoped that he was having fun, spending quality time with Charlie. I could just picture how funny that scene was. It was probably Edward and Jasper in the back seat , having a conversation with Charlie and Emmett was probably playing with his police radio in the front seat.

We spent the entire night shopping, watching chick-flicks and doing each other's nails. It was actually fun. We had a pillow fight that Rose started. I swear by the end though it looked like she had lost. About half way into the third movie ( 12 am) there was a small commotion outside. It sounded like a drunken man arguing with people that he was okay to walk, when in fact he was probably stumbling around. When we opened the door the scene we found could of been out of a movie. Edward, Jasper, and Emmett all had embarrassed looks on their faces while Charlie was stumbling up the front steps.

"Hi, Taann, hi Beelllzz" Charlie slurred heavily. I hoped that he was not the one driving.

"I had soo muchhh funnn" he continued to slur. Obviously he must of had a lot of fun, to get that inhaliated.

" What happened to him" I asked the boys.

" We went to a bar in Providence, Emmett, Jasper and I all probably had about one beer before he cut us off, said that we were underage, but he kept on ordering, luckily Emmett had taken his keys before we entered the bar, he was going to be designated driver." Edward explained. Charlie was never one to drink heavy, but I think that since it was his bachelor party he made the exception.

" And after he started to slur, you let him continue?" I tried to add anger in my tone, but knowing Charlie, he probably threatened to arrest them if they tried to stop him.

" There was nothing we could do, we tried to get him to stop but he refused!" Jasper said. Charlie was stubborn so I could see that he probably would have.

As we took him into the house he continued his drunken babbling. He kept on saying " I lloovvee yoouu,taann and beellllzz!"We had to practically drag him up the stairs because he couldn't walk straight. The boy's all had apologetic looks on their faces . I really felt bad for them, they had to watch my father get obviliated, then get him into the car and deal with him on the way home. I went back down stairs when Tanya had to get Charlie into his pajamas.

" Im really sorry Bella" Edward kept on repeating.

"I understand, he's stubborn" I kept on repeating back.

" How did he cut you off, did he threaten the bar tender or something?" I was curious.

" No, he would order for himself, then order us all coca-cola's before we could get our orders out, we barley got the first drinks out!" Yeah my father would do something like that.

" I bet Captain Morgan over there was a little pissed!" as I said this I pointed a finger in Emmett's direction.

" Yeah, he actually wanted to have some of that in his soda, Charlie refused, then ordered it himself." Only that would tick Emmett off.

We continued to talk for the next half hour. At the end of the talk he kissed me. This kiss felt the same as the others, but I could also feel an apologetic edge to it. He truly was sorry for that.

When we finished I gave him a big hug to let him know that I was not angry at him at least not anymore. There might of been a moment of anger when I first saw Charlie. That had subsided though when I heard the story. Boy though, Charlie is probably going to hear it from Tanya tomorrow though!

I was right here. When Charlie awoke the next morning Tanya was not happy with him. Her screaming probably made his hangover worse. It sounded like a kinder version of Rosalie screaming at Emmett ( take the words like idiot out). It must of taken Charlie an hour of apologizing and the promise that he would never do that again to get her to stop screaming. The rest of the day was spent on cleaning the house for the rehearsal dinner( it would be hosted there) and on last minute preparations ( such as putting the one thousand doves that were going to be released in the right cages). The dove's were Alice's idea and it turned out that she had the connections to get them somehow. The Cullens and the Hales were going to meet us here and head over to the sight of the wedding with us. It was called the Quinessett country club. The ceremony would take place outside in front of the Newport bridge, and the reception would take place inside of it. It was going to be beautiful. The weather report said that there would be 1-2in of snow tonight, and then it would be flurrying tomorrow. Thank god the isle wasn't made out of grass!

There was probably about 10 people coming to the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. Us(3), The Cullens (3), The Hales(2), and Tanya's parents Carmen and Eleazer. I had met them once before, in Forks. They were one of the only one's who could catch a flight out here. They were very nice to me when we last met and they seemed to approve of Charlie. When they came in to the rehearsal, they ran at us like we were their long lost children. We exchanged greetings and hugs, and it looked like Eleazer was going to ball right on the spot. Carmen kept on smiling through out the practice ceremony. I was so glad that I was walking with Edward, at the points where I nearly tripped down the isle, he caught me. The dinner was much more interesting. Emmett tried to down two helpings of chicken in 5 minutes and it didn't work out too well. Rose backhanded him and called him a pig. Jasper was having fun with Eleazer hearing stories from when Eleazer worked as a psychiatrist at Butler hospital . Jasper looked like he found a true friend in Eleazer. By the looks of it, at some points they were trying to figure out way's to rid Alice of her shopping addiction. I looked all over the party for Edward and finally found him standing with Emmett and Rose, so I headed over there. I wrapped my arms around him and planted a soft kiss on his cheek for which he returned on my hand. We spent the rest of the party with our arms wrapped around each other, talking and kissing. We both observed the comings and goings of each of the guests. Everyone seemed to get along which was good. This meant no problems tomorrow among these ten. Since the bride was not allowed to see the groom 24 hours before the wedding we were going to have the women sleep here and the men were going to stay at the Cullens. Carlisle and Esme were very gracious to put everyone up there, though they were not going to attend the wedding ( they felt that it was not their place to go). Alice looked forward to this( she felt like this was going to be the best sleep over ever!).