Sooorry if it took a bit too long, but there's been a change of computers at my place and I had this in the older computer and had to pass everything from that one to this one and argh well it's done now so here you have :) it won't take long for the next chap, i already have it half written!

Disclaimer: I OWN TWILIGHT! in my dreams. but one day... ONE DAY...

When the door had closed behind Sophie, Emmett and Jasper started laughing, bending over and grabbing their stomachs. Rosalie looked infuriated, and Alice was ten times worse.

She's soo hot man!

God that's DA bomb!

And Emmett is enchanted with her, of course, what else could I expect...

That was one charming girl.

Edward frowned at Alice's thoughts. They weren't worth even thinking.

Edward, what's wrong?

Carlisle was staring at him with interest. Edward frowned at him as well, but as a sign of 'It's nothing, I'm fine.'

Edward, I've known you for 80 years, even more. Something's wrong.

The boy sighed and gave him a quick nod. They could talk later. Bella was much more important right now. She was biting her lip again and glancing nervously at the door. Carlisle stood up and walked into the kitchen, but not before he had stared significantly into Edward's eyes.

Let's talk.

'Jasper, just stop that laughing!' Alice scolded him as she slapped his back, to which her boyfriend immediately reacted by sitting properly and fighting against the laughter. Rosalie, watching her sister put some limits to the boy, stood up as Carlisle had done, stared down coldly at her husband, and left the room with an undignified air. Emmett quickly followed her, calling her name soothingly, but the not-so-beautiful-after-all vampire didn't slow her pace. Esme sighed, and shook her head before smiling at Edward and Bella, and excused herself to go to her room. Noticing that only Edward and Bella were left, besides Jasper and herself, Alice took the last one by his arm and out of the house. She glared at her brother as she closed the door.

You might be my brother, but if you hurt Bella...

I would never hurt Bella, Edward wanted to say, but his mouth remained shut. The girl smiled nervously at him.

'Bella,' he called her name softly as he abandoned his place in the couch and kneeled in front of her, taking her cold hand, 'Please tell me what's wrong.'

Bella blinked. Should she? She remembered how angry Edward had seemed when Alice had insulted Sophie, or when she had barely volunteered to spend a day with her – though of course he could read her mind and know what evil plans Alice had prepared for her. It seemed her anger was too big to be hidden from a mind-reading vampire she had fooled many times before.

'Nothing is wrong,' Bella answered. Maybe it would be better to stay quiet for a while.

'I'm just... a little nervous.'

But was it correct to make Edward, the only one she would ever love, think she was unsure about their wedding? Was it correct to make him unhappy because he would think she was unhappy about their wedding?

Edward continued to stare at her eyes, still, not moving. Had he believed that?

'Nervous... about what?' he finally asked her, narrowing his eyes.

'About... everything, honestly,' Honestly? 'I mean, my mother and Phil are coming to Forks, I have to deal with big things concerning a wedding right now, we have to take care of a visitor, and I'm getting married at the age of eighteen...'

Edward's expression changed drastically, and his eyes suddenly transmitted her a feeling of sadness, disappointment, desolation.

'You're not sure about... us?' Edward asked, and his tone confirmed what his eyes had told her.

'No!' Bella almost shrieked, and she fell to the floor, on her knees, right in front of Edward. He held her hands tightly and she pressed herself against his hard body.

'I would never... Edward, I've never been so sure in my life as I am now,' she explained, avoiding his gaze, 'I want to marry you more than anything in this world... but – maybe it's too soon.'

Edward didn't answer. He was still staring at her with that look of sadness. This is so wrong, Bella thought, and dug her head on her beloved's chest. He stroke her head with one hand, while with the other one he rubbed her back.

Bella didn't want to marry him. That's the only conclusion he could get to. Edward tried to get the idea out of his mind, reminding himself of what she had said. I want to marry you more than anything in this world... But then why? Why wouldn't she marry him? If she truly, truly loved him, time and age should be of no problem. At least, that was what happened to him.

No, he said to himself, don't try to explain her decisions to yourself. It always turns out to be all wrong.

'What's going on here?'

Esme was standing on the doorway, her eyebrows raised, the corners of her mouth twitching. Bella stood up quickly and straightened her shirt nervously with her hands. Edward sighed and followed her up slowly.

'I think I should go home,' the girl said, 'Charlie will be wondering where I am.'

After waving at her future mother in law, she got out of the house and into her truck.

Edward didn't follow her.

'Enough!' Rosalie shouted angrily at Emmett. He stared at her in shock, his smile disappearing in a fraction of second.

'I'm absolutely tired of hearing about that horrid vampire!' she went on, pointing her finger at her husband but keeping her hand close to her chest, 'I swear that if I hear the word 'Sophie' again I'll –'

'Rose, chill,' Emmett said, frightened, and drew back when the girl marched at him and pressed her finger on his marble chest.

'If you think she's so wonderful, pretty, and so god damn perfect, then go marry her!' she whispered threateningly, but before she had finished the sentence he had grabbed her hand between his and had leaned forward to her face.

'Rose...' he whispered, staring straight into her eyes, 'Not even Sophie can make me change what I feel for you. You are the only one for me. And I will remain your husband for the rest of times... Because even if a thousand years go by – or perhaps even two thousand, five hundred and seventy three years – but nobody cares what number it is because that is not the point so I'll go back to the point right now because I'm babbling like an idiot, no matter how much time goes by, my love for you will never change. No matter what. No matter if Sophie wants a night with me. No matter if you don't like me eating pizza on the bed. No matter if you get to make that horrible nose surgery you want for your birthday. I will love you. Always.'

Rosalie stared at him wide-eyed, moved. And suddenly, she was kissing him fiercely, and their breathing had gone wild, and he was pressing against her with lust and passion, and she was pushing him further back into the bed...

'Don't you have one quiet night?' a voice sounded from the window. Both lovers immediately popped their heads up to discover an amused Jasper sitting on the window frame.

'GET OUT!' Emmett roared, throwing a shoe at him, but his brother just laughed and jumped onto the garden, where Alice was glaring at him angrily, tapping her feet with her arms crossed. He stared blankly back at her.

'So...?'

'So?' Alice snapped with disgust, and Jasper took a step back. His girlfriend's temper was so dangerously close to the surface that day. 'You say, 'So?'?! I'll tell you what! That Sophie comes here and suddenly all of you men are praising her and are thoroughly astonished with her like flies around a lamp! She is a disgusting whore, a freaking bitch, a –'

She stopped and pressed her lips together, breathing hard.

'There are no words to describe her!' she exploded suddenly, 'And all of you are just praising her and not making any effort on hiding those intense feelings away from the women that love you! You don't even hide it! You, Jasper Hale, are the most horrible, insensitive –'

'Alicewillyoumarryme?'

The words came out of him suddenly. He couldn't help it – angry as she was, she looked even more beautiful than ever, and he hadn't been able to listen to a word of what she was saying – she was so captivating, so wonderful...

Alice stared at him blankly, surprised by the unexpected proposal. Wait. Unexpected?! Alice?!

'I –' Jasper swallowed, 'Alice, will you marry me?'

Manners! A voice in his head shouted, and he kneeled on the floor, taking Alice's hand.

'Y – ye – No!' Alice shouted, and removed her hand from his. Jasper stared at him with great sadness and disappointment.

'You haven't listened to one word I just said, have you?' Alice scolded him, and Jasper gazed at the floor, ashamed, and more depressed than he had ever felt in his life. Just two seconds ago, as he pronounced those words, he had felt absolutely happy, filled with love – and now, he wanted to shut himself away in a room and cry, with those tears that would never come out of his eyes, that would never express the sadness he was feeling.

Alice hesitated a moment, staring at his heart-broken love – but the next moment she had strolled into the house, shutting the door loudly behind her.

Sophie was destroying, and clearly, she was absolutely merciless.

A/n: you have to understand Alice. She's going through a tough moment. her feelings and reasons for rejecting jasper are more explained in the next chapter, but i'll give you a brief summary: as it seems, Sophie is trying to get to Edward cuz he's getting married. Awesome challenge for a bitch, right? And if jasper and alice are getting married as well... imagine. and besides, she was lecutring him about how cruel sophie was and how cruel HE had been by admiring that vampire so much and suddenly he jumps sayign marry me. WTF.