A/N: People, I am so sorry! I got distracted again and forgot to update . . . I'd give you my excuse, but it doesn't even matter because you've all been so supportive and I shouldn't even be making excuses in the first place! So, instead, I apologize for not being here. I know it's frustrating when people don't update for a while, and so I'm really sorry! I'll get back in the . . . I don't know . . . groove, I guess ;). . . you know what I mean! Thank you!

"It will all be okay," she promised, putting one hand on my back and one on my arm as she led me toward the house.

Then it hit me: the smell of warm, human blood. A roomful of it. Then, the sound of their beating hearts. I stopped dead in my tracks, my eyes wide.

"Rose," I whispered. "I can't."

"Yes, you can. Just remember to focus. Don't breathe at all, and pay really close attention to the ceremony. You can block out the sound if you focus hard enough. I've never seen a newborn with such a powerful potential," she told me. I nodded and held my breath, not to breathe again for another forty minutes.

Bella was kind enough to ask me to be one of her bridesmaids, but there was a part of me that wondered if she was crazy. I was a newborn vampire, for goodness sake! There was no promise that I would (or could) behave for over half an hour. But I was certainly going to try. I owed it to the Cullens for all their hard work with me over the last two months.

Rosalie put my hand on her arm and she led me inside the house. I was focused. I did my best to block out all sound from my brain, and I fixed my eyes upon a point on the wall.

We had all decided that it would be better if I just started out standing at the front of the room, rather than making a big entrance. That way, Jasper could better control my emotions. Rosalie left me to play the piano over on the side.

"Who is that?" I could hear people wondering aloud.

"That's their cousin."

"I thought it was their sister."

"Where has she been all these years?"

"Man, she's hot!"

"Shut up, Mike!" I couldn't help but grin at the last two remarks. They were undoubtedly Bella's school friends. I seemed to wait for forever there, until Rosalie's song changed from Pachelbel to Wagner. I looked up to see Alice floating down the stairs and coming to stand next to me.

Bella and her father made their entrance: she was beautiful. If I didn't know better, I would have said that she was already a vampire. She was looking dead on at Edward, and I could hear her heartbeat clearer every time she took a step nearer. I looked away at a spot on the wall again and froze. I began playing songs in my head to distract me (mostly Pachelbel's canon, since it was now stuck in my mind).

For a good half and hour, I waited, occasionally shifting my weight back and forth like I was instructed, and remembering to blink. I wondered if my contacts still had their color? Had the venom begun to burn them away? Would I be exposed right here, in the middle of this happy day?

After what seemed like a hundred years, Edward and Bella kissed, and I managed a smile and clapped politely. That was what threw me: I lost concentration. I grabbed Alice's arm for support as everyone began to stand, and she and Jasper literally picked me up and carried me out the door by my arms.

A/N: Thanks again for reading! I love you guys! xoxoxoxoxo! ~Munkin93