Chapter 6
Blindness
This moment was truly mine. Alice and my mother stood either side of me smiling. I
turned around to look at myself in the giant arched mirrors of the dress store.
My mother gasped, I almost did myself. My wedding dress was beautiful. It was a
strapless A-line dress with a beautiful gold strap around the waist, tied up at the back in a
stunning gold bow. My curly bronze hair flowed out from underneath my snow white
veil.
Alice clapped her hands "its perfect! It suits you so well Nessie"
I had to make a deal with Alice. If I got to pick out my own wedding dress then she got to
pick out her own, and the other, bridesmaid dress.
"What do you think Mom?" I asked spinning around.
"You never looked better" Bella agreed happily.
I stepped down from the small stage and walked back in the dressing room to get changed. It had been three weeks since Alice's vision. She said that she had been getting smaller visions that where similar to that one but none of them where as vivid.
"So are you going to get it?" Alice called from the other side of the door.
"I think so, I really like this one and besides the wedding is in four weeks and I still haven't picked a dress" I replied
"Nessie don't just pick it because the wedding is coming up shortly there are still five other dress shops we haven't seen" Bella said
"Mom trust me this is the one, I absolutely adore it" I answered truthfully
"She is right" Alice said to Mum "She isn't going to find anything better, trust me I know" Alice laughed
I walked out with the dress in its bag and handed it to Bella.
"I will go pay for this while you two go find the bridesmaids dresses" she said turning the corner.
Alice giggled knowing it was finally her time to pick something out. She grabbed my hand and towed me to the bridesmaid's dresses. I skipped happily behind her, I loved bridal shopping!
"Ok so what color are your flowers?" she asked me as we shuffled through the many racks of dresses.
"They are blue roses" I answered.
Of course we weren't actually going to buy any of these dresses, no way! Alice wouldn't allow it. It almost killed her to see me buy my dress from the shop but the bridesmaid section was hers and she insisted on specially making them. These where just for inspiration. She pulled out a blue dress from the rack.
"I like the collar on this one but the bottom section is all wrong" she said pulling out
a small note book and wrote down the exact details of the parts she liked.
"So after the dress shop we have to head over to the bakery and order the cake and then we have to stop over at the flower shop and get the bridesmaid's bouquets then…" Alice
kept going on about places we still had to go to. As Alice kept on taking notes on the dresses my eyes caught sight of my engagement ring which made my mind wonder over to what Jacob was doing right now. I heard him say he was going to the suit store with Dad to go get a tux -I laughed at the fact that Jacob was so tall that he had to get his tux tailor made- and then he was supposed to send out the wedding invitations. All he had to do was copy the vampires from my parents wedding.
"Nessie, how about this one" Alice said pulling a stunning pale blue dress from the rack. It was a strapless corseted dress with beautiful embroidery and shiny material that fell just bellow the knee.
"Oh Alice its perfect! Absolutely beautiful, I know I said that you could pick out the dress but this one is adorable"
Alice sighed "I can see myself wearing it at your wedding" she smiled "it is a pretty nice dress, but at least let me allow me to tailor make the dresses the exact same" she picked it up
I sighed "Fine"
Bella waked back to us with a white bag in her hands.
My Wedding dress!
I ran over to mom and pulled the bag from her hands "yay!" I squealed jumping up and down like Alice.
I saw my mother smile as I paused to look around for Alice. This wasn't like her; normally she would have been obsessing over getting the dress. I looked in the opposite direction although there was still no sign of her. We where were supposed to go get lunch after and now she was nowhere in sight.
"Mom where's" I began although when I looked over to where my mother was previously she was not there either. Instead she was crouched on the ground over a huddled figure on the ground. Aunt Alice.
"Mom what happened?" I asked going to her side.
I looked over at Alice. Her small legs where curled up to her chest, her thin hands trembling and her eyes stared up at us, moving back and fourth slightly as if trying to look at hundreds of moving pictures flashing by way to fast.
Bella has a worried look on her face as she lifted Alice's head and placed her black jacket underneath her head "Nessie can you go call Carlisle but tell him not to bring Edward or Jasper" she instructed with an urgent voice.
I nodded obediently as Bella tried to bring Alice to the present again.
I hurried into the dressing room of the dress shop. I saw a thousands versions of me in the large arched mirrors with a worried expression on my face. People normally come in here to get ready for the greatest day of there lives while I was in here making and urgent call to my Grandfather about his passed out daughter, there was a bit of a difference. I quickly dialed the number into my light pink cell phone and pressed call. As my phone rung I peered out the dressing room door to still see Alice on the ground. I was beginning to worry. A few weeks ago this had happened, the day that Jacob had proposed; I didn't know what was happening. I was too confused but before I could think of it in more detail I heard Carlisle's voice.
"Hello?" he asked calmly
"Carlisle its Renesmee, there's a problem" I said, my voice noticeably wavering.
"What is it Nessie" he said worriedly
"Its Alice, she has passed out again but its worse this time" I explained
"Alright" he said in a very serious voice "has she woken up yet?" he asked
"Not yet" answered
"Hmm" Carlisle mumbled "oaky don't move her I will be there soon"
"Wait!" I said quickly before he hung up
"What is it?" he asked again
"Bella told me to tell you not to bring Edward or Jasper" I added quickly
"Don't worry I wont" he said and hung up.
I raced back to my mother who was still at Alice's side.
"How is she Mommy?" I asked kneeling beside her
"Not good she hasn't woken up yet" Bella said in a panicked voice.
"Carlisle is on his way, he told me not to move her and don't worry I told him not to bring Edward or Jasper"
"Alright" she said
When Carlisle finally arrived Alice had woken up.
"I don't know what happened" she explained "I saw random images, flashing by so fast it gave me a headache" she said as she leaned against one of the mirrors in the shop.
"Do you remember anything at all?" he asked helping Alice to stand upright.
"I saw a fire" she whispered "and lots of Vampires but most of my images where blurry seeing there where so many blind patches"
Carlisle shook his head "If your vision keeps on appearing like this, it must be quite important, if only there was a way we could see it for sure"
I sat on the padded stool as my mother tried to prevent the persistent shop keepers from entering the changing room. I listened intently as Alice continued to try and piece together the fragments of her vision together to produce something that may be of use to us. I was really confused by everything that was happening. Everything was happening to fast and too soon.
Suddenly Carlisle walked up to me Alice at his side.
"What's happening?" I asked anxiously
"We have to get out of here before the owners start asking questions" He said
"Alice are you okay?" I asked looking away from Carlisle
"Yea I'm fine, come on we should hurry to lunch so that we can go pick out flowers later" she chirped.
I smiled, Alice was fine, but something was worrying me. The only time that Alice fainted because of her visions was when something important about my Wedding happened; I couldn't help feeling that by getting married something terrible was going to happen. But I shook the thought off; it would only cause more trouble.
I picked up my backpack and followed the rest of them outside clutching onto my Wedding Dress.