Chapter Two

Wedding Countdown

Bella had been awake for hours just lying there trying desperately to settle her queasy stomach. Turning to Edward's side of the bed she smiled slightly seeing him watching her carefully. Before she could say anything she found herself in those strong arms of his as he rushed her to the bathroom where she threw up spectacularly. This was a wonderful way to start off your wedding day, hunched over a toilet as morning sickness began. After another bout of vomiting she leaned her head back against Edward's chest.

"Feeling better?"

"Mmhm. I really hope Alice isn't going to poke around at me all day. She's a vampire for gods sake, she can do it within minutes."

"I'm sure she'll be considerate, if not then she'll have Esme to deal with."

"For someone so small she's a force of nature."

"That's Alice."

"I heard that!" Alice fumed from her bedroom.

"You were meant to." Bella said whilst laughing.

"Let's get you to her room before she comes here."

Bella stood up slowly making sure she wasn't going to get sick again before she began to brush her teeth thoroughly before making her way toward Alice's room to be tortured. She didn't mind odd pamper session but her best friend sometimes forgot she didn't have the same stamina she did yet. The moment her best friend and soon to be sister saw her she hurried her into a chair so her make up and hair could be done. Despite everything she was grateful for the work her sister had put into the wedding, though she'd only wanted a small wedding, her pixie sister had given her a wedding she didn't know she wanted.

"Can you please use your vampire speed. I'd like to actually spend time relaxing before the wedding. You remember my mother right."

"What's wrong with your mother?"

"My entire life she's been telling me getting married young and having a baby young ruins your life, she may have been talking about herself but I'm scared of how she's going to react and Edward isn't Charlie's biggest fan right now either, I'm not telling them until after we say I do that way she can't force me to leave and she will do it. It's just like when I was hurt by James she tried to get me to leave. I'm not living without Edward not again."

"Calm down Bella, I promise no one is taking you anywhere. Now let's get your make up done, yes?"

Taking a deep breath Bella managed to calm her erratic thoughts as she turned to face her soon to be sister as she began to apply her wedding make up. Much to her surprise Alice had taken the conversation she'd ov heard on board and worked at vampire speed, within ten minutes she was looking at herself in the mirror completely shocked at the transformation. Just as Alice was about to start on her hair Rosalie entered the room.

"I'll do her hair for you. If you'd like?" Rosalie asked Bella suddenly feeling unsure of herself.

"I'd like that, thank you Rosalie." Bella said shyly.

"Family call me Rose."

"We came to an agreement on my changing into one of you, and this was before the baby I'm heading to college with you, the way I am now. After college I'll change unless something happens that means it's that or death."

"How did my dear brother get you to agree to that."

"Oh you'll love it, I seduced night I stayed here whilst you all hunted for the battle with Victoria. If he slept with me before the wedding I'd go to college and agree to let him buy me a car. We didn't know I would be able to get pregnant. She's a bonus."

"She?" Rosalie asked as she began to style her hair into the design Alice had picked out.

"Just a feeling I have. I know you disapproved of the wolves and I see now that seeing Jake hurt everyone especially Edward. It's like there were two parts of me, being with Jake would have been the safer option, I could stay with Charlie and have a baby, but I wouldn't be happy, I'd just be surviving. I've done that once before and it nearly got us all killed, and then there's Edward, the other half of my soul. He makes me feel alive, achieve things I wouldn't have even thought of before. So yes, Charlie may prefer I marry Jacob but I'm not listening to everyone else anymore I'm following my heart."

As Bella finished speaking the looks on Alice and Rosalie's face showed if they could cry then they would be. Before she had the chance to ruin all of Alice's hard work, said sister brought out her wedding dress. She couldn't keep the grin off her face as she squealed in delight at the thought that in a few hours she would be marrying her true love. Rosalie put the finishing touches to her hair and stepped away allowing her soon to be sister to collect her thoughts as she began to get dressed. She was going to look beautiful.

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Whilst Bella was preened and poked at by his sisters Edward was downstairs with his brothers and father putting the finishing touches to the living room which had been beautifully decorated by Alice throughout the night. He'd just finished setting out the chairs as he felt his cell vibrant in his pants pocket. Curious as to who would be phoning him on his wedding day he pulled the cell from his pocket noticing that the caller ID read: Jacob. Not wanting his brothers to get involved he made his way outside pressing answer.

"Jacob I hope you aren't calling to cause trouble."

"I'm not, but I do want to talk to you. I don't want Bells to see me unless you're okay with it. I'm not here to make a scene."

"Alright if your not here to cause trouble tell your friends to leave. Only then will I listen."

Edward watched as four wolves disappeared from the property heading back into the woods toward LaPush. As the voices disappeared from his mind until the only one left was Jacob's vampire and werewolf met in the middle of the driveway. He could see Jacob had been anxious that he'd have been rejected straight away however Edward knew how much Bella missed the stupid mutt even if she tried not to show it.

"What brings you back up here. She made her choice."

"Like I said I'm not here to stop the wedding, I'm here to make a new treaty, one where I'm alpha and Sam is beta, I see now that Bella couldn't be happy with me, because I remembered finally how she was when you were gone, she may have tried to force herself to love me but in the back of her mind it would always be you who had her heart. You remember Leah's story right?"

"Yes I remember."

"She got inside my head, saying Bella would be better off with me. She's never gotten over Sam, so I'm here as the true alpha to give you permission to change Bella into one of you if that's what she wants. She's been my best friend since we were kids and I messed that up."

"Where do we sign. Bella completes our family, she's got news if you want to see her. But don't upset her."

"I don't deserve it, but thank you."

"Don't make me regret it."

Look inside me head I'll show you I'm serious. All I see now is a friend, I'm the friend she had before the wolf Jacob thought as he ran indoors

Edward searched through Jacob's mind smiling sheepishly as he found out his words matched his intentions. If he was willing to allow him to change Bella when the time arose and become a friend he wouldn't deny the gesture,it was certainly more than Sam Uley ever did. Making his way inside he hoped his brothers wouldn't start anything and wreck the truce he'd just begun as he walked inside he saw s scene he wasn't expecting, wolf and vampires working together on flowers. Maybe this could work. Only time would tell.