Sorry that i havent updated sooner! Well actually there are two reasons for that: 1. i have exams and i am supposed to be studying for them... but i decided to update and not study right now... and 2. there are only 47 reviews... i was going to keep you all waiting until there were 48 but this was the only time i could take a break and update. So this chapter isnt too important to the plot because i havent had time to plan it all out. So i guess that you'll have to wait until i figure all that out. Sorry for the long authors note! Happy reading and thanks to everyone that reviewed! i really love reading what you have to say!
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Chapter 13
BPOV
"BELLA? BELLA GET UP RIGHT NOW!" I could hear Alice yelling. She wasn't quite at our room yet but she was getting close. I opened my and groaned. I heard Edward laugh as I pulled the pillow over my head.
"Sweetheart, I think you should get up now before she knocks down the door." Edward said softly. He stroked my arm and goose bumps raised where his hand touched.
"Why?" I said snuggling into Edward's chest as I heard a loud banging on the door. I pulled the pillow off my head and opened my eyes. I looked at the clock. It said that it was only 8 in the morning. I had only fallen asleep 5 hours ago.
"BELLA SWAN! GET YOUR BUTT UP OUT OF BED! WE HAVE THINGS TO DO!" Alice yelled as she pushed open the door. She walked over to the bed and gently placed me on my feet. I heard Edward growl slightly at this but Alice ignored him. I swayed slightly on my feet as my eyes adjusted to the light. Edward wrapped his arms around me and helped me stay upright.
"Alice, its 8 in the morning. What could we possible have to do right now?" I asked her.
"Do you know what today's date is?" she was getting impatient with me. She was obviously stressed out because she almost never lost her temper. I just stared at her. I figured that I wouldn't need to answer because she opened her mouth to tell me. "There is a week and three days before your wedding, Bella. We have a lot to do." 10 days. There were 10 days until I would be Mrs. Edward Cullen. My heart fluttered at that.
"Ok, Alice. She'll get showered and be downstairs in 10 minutes." Edward said and Alice went into the closet. She came back out with a pair of white shorts and a pink baby doll top.
"Here," She said as she laid them on to the bed. "Wear this today." With that she left the room and closed the door. Edward picked me up and carried me to the shower.
"You better hurry." He warned me as he began to leave the room. "She has a lot planned for today."
"Great." I mumbled as he closed the door. I undressed and took a fast shower. I dried off and realized that my clothes were still on the bed. I wrapped myself in a towel and pulled a brush through my hair before I walked back into the room. Edward was already dressed and was waiting for me. He was sitting on my bed and let out a sexy growl as he saw me. I giggled.
"I was wondering if you were going to need these." He said holding up my clothes. I walked over to him and grabbed them out of his hand. "Are you really sure that you want them right now?" he asked as he looked at me in the towel again. I giggled again as I watched his eyes look at me and I shook my head at him.
"Remember, not until after the wedding. Then I'm all yours." I said as I walked back to the bathroom to get dressed. When I came back out he was still sitting in the same position.
"I think I liked what you were wearing before," he said as he laughed. I glared at him playfully.
"Don't make this harder than it has to be." I said as I crawled into his lap.
"It wouldn't be so hard if you weren't so irresistible." He added, kissing my neck. Just then Alice burst back into the room.
"Okay, times up!" she announced pulling me off of Edward and out of the room with her. I tried to pull back put she was too strong so I just let her pull me downstairs and out to her car.
"What about, Edward? Doesn't he get to come?" I asked.
"No, he stays here. This is strictly bride stuff today." She said getting into the car. "Get in." she ordered.
"Yes, ma'am." I said playfully saluting her. She laughed and relaxed. "So where are we going?" I asked as we got on the highway.
"We have to pick out the menu and the cake for the reception."
"I thought that you already did that."
"I have all of the choices picked out. But I need you to taste them and tell me what you like the best. I was going to do the tasting but I decided I'd rather not have to throw it all up. Besides I think that you should have a say in what food you get because you're the one eating it." She explained to me.
We continued to drive for awhile. "Alice, where are you taking me?"
"We are going to Seattle to one of my friends. He owns a catering business in a restaurant. His food is exceptional. All the humans rave about it." By this time, we were outside a fancy restaurant. She got out and waited for me then we walked into the air conditioned building.
"Hello, would you like a table for two this morning?" a hostess asked.
"No, we actually have an appointment with the caterer." She explained. The hostess nodded and motioned for us to follow her. She led us into a large room. There were two tables in the middle of the room. One had different decorations and plates on it and the other was filled with beautifully presented food.
"He will be in shortly." She said leaving the room. I walked over to the table with the plate presentations. They were all so beautiful.
"Oh, Alice," I mumbled and I ran my fingers across one of the silk napkins.
"He's really out done himself time." She answered back looking at both of the tables. Just then I heard a door open and I turned to see who it was. There was a beautiful man who looked like he was in his early twenties. He had dark hair and extremely light, perfect skin. His eyes were an auburn color.
"Alice! Darling! How are you?" he said walking over to give her a hug. I noticed that he had a alight accent but I could figure out where it was from.
"I'm just fabulous, Johnathan! It's so great to see you!" She said as he released her from the hug. He then turned to me.
"Ah… this must be the bride to-be. Hello, Bella!" he said also pulling me into a light hug. It was then that I realized what he was. His cold body. Hi perfect muscles and looks. He was a vampire. I only hoped that he was like the Cullens. "I'm Johnathan."
"Hi Johnathan," I said. He must have noticed my startled look and he laughed.
"Yes, I am a vampire, too. But don't worry, I am a vegetarian." He assured me with a smile. I let out a sigh of relief and smiled back. I had already had enough trouble with vampires that weren't vegetarians.
"But, how can you work with food? All the vampires I know can't stand to be around it." I noticed that Alice wasn't breathing and she laughed as I said this.
"That is a good question. Well, Alice and I first met in college, she was taking a designing class and I was taking a culinary course. The smell bothered me then but I wanted to become a cook, so I decided that the smell would not bother me and I continued with my work. I can't even smell it anymore. As for the taste, though, I generally try not to taste it. I let others, mostly humans, do that. I have found that my food tastes quite delicious to them." I just nodded at him. "Would you like to try some and decide for your wedding?"
"Sure," I said following him towards the table. He pulled out a chair and motioned for me to sit. He then placed a plate of small appetizers in front of me. He nodded as I looked up at Alice.
"These, are the appetizers. Alice said that she wants there to be four going around on platters. I will get my waiters to carry them around to offer to your guests. Try them and tell me what you think." He told me in his unrecognizable accent. There were about ten choices so I picked up one that was closest to me. I took a bit and it was delicious.
"Mmm…" I said swallowing it. I tried the rest. They were all equally good so I picked the four prettiest. We then moved onto the main course. I tried a bite of everything and Alice helped me to plan that out. This went on for about another hour. I tried salads, soups, breads, and desserts. I was getting really full and thankfully it was finally over. I couldn't try one more thing. He wrote down all of my choices and Alice told him what order she wanted them in. Soon the entire menu was planned.
"Now you must pick a design for your wedding cake." He told me clapping his hands twice. That was the signal for two waiters each brought in a cart. Each cart had three beautiful cakes. The waiters left after wheeling the carts in front of us.
"Oh, Johnathan. They are really beautiful." Alice mumbled as she walked around the carts, examining each cake. "Bella, which one do you like?" I got up and looked at each cake. Some had beautiful designs in icing and were decorated in flowers. They were all over three cake levels tall.
"Alice, what do you think of this cake with those flowers?" I asked her pointing to one cake and then the flowers on the other.
"That's exactly what I was thinking. Good job! You're becoming more like me every day." I laughed along with her. Johnathan wrote the choices down and clapped his hands again. The waiters came back in and took away the carts. We then had to pick the plate presentation. Alice and I chose the presentation with a white plate with a gold ring around the edge. The napkins and flowers for this one were the shade of blue that Edward once told me that he liked on me. He wrote down the choices and he and Alice spoke quickly in words that I could not hear.
"Good bye, Bella. It was a pleasure meeting you." He said as Alice and I left. We got into the car.
"That went nicely." She commented as we drove further into Seattle.
"Where are we going now?" I looked at the clock. It was about one in the afternoon, now.
"I am taking you to a designer so you can pick out your dress for the reception." Great… I was so stuffed after all that eating, I wasn't sure if I could even fit into a dress right now. She seemed to sense my distress.
"Don't worry; you don't have to try anything on. I already have your size and everything." She said with a smile.
"Ok, good. So is this one of your vampire friends too?" I asked jokingly.
"Oh, well I probably should have warned you of that before we went in there…" she said guilty.
"No, its ok. I just want to be ready if this designer is one too."
"No, I have just heard of this woman and then I went and picked out some dresses at her store. They are really cute. And the ones that I picked out are the best." She said excitedly. We parked in front of the building and went inside. The owner of the store greeted us and took us back to show us the dresses. There were about 10 different colored dresses hanging on a rack. They were in all different designs.
"I picked the one that I thought that you would look best in." Alice told me. "Why don't you go and take a look at them."
I pulled out a pink dress and looked at it. The front was really pretty but I wasn't comfortable with the plunging neckline so I put that one back. I went through a few more and then finally found one that was perfect. It was in the same shade as the napkins that I picked. I knew why I loved the color; it was the color that Edward loved me in. This shade of blue was growing on me. It was strapless and had a bubble hem. It was silk and it flowed to above my knee. The top of it was gathered and it had a matching sash with a bow that went around my waist. It was perfect and I loved it.
"I want this one." I told Alice as I turned around.
"I knew it!" she said excitedly. Of course she did. She probably saw this in one of her visions. We both laughed. "Ok, well I'll go and tell the designer that this is the one that you want." She said taking the dress with her and leaving the room. I went through the rest of the dresses when she left but I didn't find anything else that was as perfect as the one I had picked out. Alice was back soon.
"Ok, I saw these shoes that will go perfectly with that dress." She told me as we walked out. "I'll get them when I come back and get your dress."
"Sounds good, Alice. Should I call my dad and tell him that you guys didn't kidnap me?" I said laughing. "I have a feeling that he's worried because I've been gone for so long."
"That's a good idea." She said handing me her phone as we drove back to Forks. I called Charlie but he didn't answer so I just left him a message. I figured that he would hear it eventually.
"He didn't answer." I told her.
She just shrugged. Then her eyes grew wide and she pulled off to the side of the road. She sat perfectly still and didn't say anything. I knew that she was having a vision. I waited patiently until she shook her head and looked at me.
"What did you see, Alice?" she didn't seem too upset so I could tell that it wasn't life threatening.
"Wedding crashers." She said as she pulled back onto the highway.
"Who?" I asked but she shook her head. "Tell me Alice!" I begged.
"It's not important. It's nothing that you need to worry about. I'll just have to make sure that it stays away. Don't' worry, Bella. It will be ok." She said as I just stared at her.
But I was worried because 'it' was, was going to ruin a part of MY wedding.
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hmm... so who is this mysterious wedding crasher that Alice saw? I obviously know who it is but lets see how many of you actually know! if you guess right then you might see your name in the a/n of the wedding chapter! yayyy so go and review and tell me who you think it will be!
Oh and btw... the picture that i got the idea for Bellas dress is in my profile thing so check it out there. Its not the right color... i just liked the design. so you can review about that too and tell me what you think about it.
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