CHAPTER 15

This time I had to work extra hard to hold in my gasp. I'd had no idea Emmett was so serious about us already.

Silently I made my way back to the room I could now deep "ours" and sat down on the bed to wait for him to come back.

A few minutes later he appeared in the doorway smiling. "Hey, did everything go okay?" I asked, knowing perfectly well how the entire conversation had gone.

He nodded as he came and flopped down on his side beside me. "Yep, she just wanted to talk to me about our divorce…she was surprised by our…well what we were doing." He laughed at my expression.

"And what did you guys decide to do about your divorce?" I asked.

He looked at me as though he was confused, "we're going to get one of course. I guess I don't understand what you're asking."

"I mean…well when you get a divorce usually you have to split your money and everything. What are you going to do about all that?" I asked.

"Oh, um, I guess we didn't think about that. We're going to the courthouse tomorrow, I suppose we could talk about it there…"

"Alright. I know it seems like I'm prying, but I imagine that you guys, being so…unaccustomed to getting a divorce, I figured you would have forgotten about that."

"You're right, we did. And you don't have to apologize Bella. My life is yours, we share things equally, you have a right to know what's going on in my life just as I have that right with you, right?"

I smiled, watching his face as he froze once again, and nodded, "of course. Was…did she seem upset that you want a divorce?" I wondered.

"Not really, she seemed like she expected it really. I think she wants it just as much as I do. And I don't know why she wouldn't. We obviously aren't together anymore, she's sleeping with Edward and we're…together, she has no reason not to want to be free of me."

I sighed and lay back onto the bed. Emmett lay down beside me and took in my face.

"Bella, what would you say if I asked you if you would like to go to a ball with me?" he asked quietly.

I turned to look at him inquisitively, "um, I'd say yes, but I'm a little confused Emmett."

"Well, Carlisle's hospital is having a ball in two weeks and we were invited so…I had planned to take Rosalie but obviously you and I are together now. You'll come? Really?" he asked, sounding happy.

"Of course silly! Why would I want to miss a ball where I'd get to dress really sexy and dance!? I'm not clumsy anymore so the dancing thing won't be a problem. See, I never minded dancing before, it was just that I had this terrible tendency of falling down so…I tried to avoid it as much as possible. Now, I can't wait to go. Oh! Alice and I will have to go shopping and everything!"

Emmett was grinning, "wow, I thought it would be a lot harder to convince you to come with me."

I stopped my mindless rambling and looked at him, "Emmett, even if I didn't want to go, I'd still enjoy it, because I'd be with you." I reached over and kissed him.

The next day, I decided that while Emmett and Rosalie were at the courthouse, it would be a perfect opportunity to go dress shopping with Alice. Of course, she jumped on the idea and soon enough we were speeding toward Seattle in her car.

"So…" Alice said on the way there. "You and Emmett, you seem to be going really well."

I glanced at her, apprehension taking the dominant place in my emotion scale. "Um, yes, we are."

"That's good. There's no point if it's not a strong relationship."

My confusion was mounting, so I decided to just ask her. "Alice, have you seen something? Why are you talking like this?"

She looked at me, much like Edward in the fact that she barely had to look at the road. "Yes I saw something."

I let out a sigh, "well are you going to tell me what it is or are you just going to sit there holding in your excitement? Because you should know by now that I'm not going to ask you."

Her happiness and excitement burst forth like water from a dam. "Oh Bella! I saw you and Emmett! You were wearing this beautiful white dress and the whole family was there and you were… Oh Bella you were getting married!" she exclaimed.

I tried to keep my pleasure from my voice as I replied, "well it's to be expected Alice. That's what you do when you love someone. You get married. I'm surprised you didn't see this sooner."

"Huh, me too actually. I should have seen it sooner, now that you mention it. But…my visions have been kind of odd about you ever since you and Edward split…remember when I couldn't see you at all?"

"Oh yeah, well at least you see me sometimes now, instead of never."

"Bella! What's the matter with you? You should be ecstatic, not all nonchalant like that! Aren't you happy that you and Emmett are going to get married?"

"Of course I am Alice! But…I don't know, I don't think I can get as excited as you until he actually asks me. Did you happen to see when that might be?" I asked. "Because you know, this vision of yours could be some stretch in the future."

She didn't reply and no matter how much I badgered her she wouldn't tell me. We arrived in record time at the dress stores of Seattle and immediately became immersed in silk and satin.

In the end, Alice chose a black satin floor length dress that showed off her prefect body in just the right ways, with a modest neckline and a tie-up back. I was undecided between a dark purple gown of silk material with a deep plunge and sequins, and an emerald green dress with a plunge neckline, no back at all, and a beaded pattern that started at the bosom and went all the way down to the floor. In the end, Alice helped me decide with only the simple words "Emmett likes you in green". Naturally this was all it took for me to choose the green one.

We were almost back to Forks when I brought up our earlier conversation. "So Alice, are you ever going to tell me when he's going to propose? If you don't tell me I'm going to start thinking you're a phony who can't really tell the future."

She gave me a mischievous smile. "Come now Bella, you should know by now that I can tell the future. Don't tell me you've forgotten about our little trip to Phoenix when James was after you. You had no trouble believing my future-telling then."

I let out a growl. "Are you going to tell me or not?" I demanded.

Again she gave me that smile, "and what if I don't want to? What if I want it to be a surprise?"

This time I gave her my brightest smile, hoping to disarm her. It only partially worked. "Well, there's always the slight chance that I'll forget you exist and never talk to you again. I mean, as terrible as that sounds I might have a lapse in memory that takes you out of my memory so badly that I don't even remember you when you're standing right in front of me."

She let out a hurt gasp, "Bella you wouldn't!"

I just smiled at her.

"Alright! Alright! Just remember that my visions change if your mind changes. He could change his mind about when he's going to ask you. But as far as I could tell…you know what, I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to keep this a surprise whether you like it or not. And I don't care if you never talk to me again. Emmett deserves to have you completely in the dark about this. It's more romantic."

"Alice!" I exclaimed.

"Nope, I'm not going to tell you so stop badgering me about it."

Author's Note

Hey everybody I'm sorry for the long wait, I was having some major computer problems but I hope I have them fixed now. Thank you for being such awesome readers, I really appreciate it. Now that I think I'm up and running again, don't forget to review!!