Hi peoples! I just wanted to start by thanking all my awesome reviewers: you guys are awesome!


Sorry this took so long! I had to move and my mom has been all 'this is you last month of summer so you need to get off up you butt and do something.' I ended up getting a bad sunburn.

Long Chapter though, read on! And again I apologize for my sucky grammar and spelling.

EPOV

I had to be the happiest person/man/vampire alive. And I felt alive regardless of the fact that my heart no longer beat because if it could it would only beat for Bella, my Bella. She had said yes! I couldn't help but smile over at her from where she was sitting in the passenger seat of my Volvo. We had spent the entire night and the entire next day just lying in our meadow talking, kissing or just being in the other's presence. I ran my hand over my mother's ring; marveling at the beauty of it on Bella's hand.

By the time I pulled up in front of her mansion it was nearly four o'clock on Sunday afternoon and I grimaced as I heard everyone's thoughts in the house. And when I say everyone I meant everyone. My family, the members of the Volturi that were here and the werewolves (the ones we were on good terms with.) Apparently Alice had told them of the engagement.

Oh god, here we go.

Bella and I exchanged a worried glance and we got out of the car and walked to our re-death by crazy family. As we walked in the door I was surprised to find that we weren't instantly mauled by an over-exited Alice or Jane or Emmett.

I looked to the thoughts of my family for answers:

'I seriously wonder who would win in this fight.'

'We should have popcorn.'

'I bet two hundred on Alice.'

'She isn't going to win this. Anyone who gets in the way of Alice and her plans usually ends up hurt...or temporarily dismembered'

'I don't know which is scarier: little demon pixie or tall menacing angel/werewolf/vampire-chick. But she isn't technically a werewolf she's a vampire and that means that she can't be both because that would be weird but then everything's weird and….OW! Sampson was right, thinking to hard hurts my head.'

'How dare she! It's my responsibility to make sure Bella and Edward's wedding is the most over the top event since….ever! I don't care if she said Bella would want simple, I know what's best and Bella needs to feel like a princess. And there is no such thing as over the top!' I rolled my eyes at Alice's thoughts, but I'm pretty sure that now I had a pretty good idea who had upset the little pixie.

And then there was a silver haze that I had learned to identify as Layla's thoughts. But I noticed something that scared me a bit: mixed in with the silver was the barest trace of grey. I just shrugged it off for now, I'm sure it was nothing.

We walked into the room to see one of the most amusing sights in the world. Alice and Layla were having a stare down surrounded by every other member of the household. More like Layla was having a stare down and Alice was having a stare up. I swear that this was the first time Alice, regardless of her height, had ever really looked small. Usually her glares were just plain scary and she could win any glare off but her petit just over five foot frame really did look small next to Layla's 6' 2" toned form. And to top it off their glares were the same level of scary and both unyielding to one another.

Finally after a few moments of silence Layla finally managed to hiss out "Alice, for the last time no. Bella will not be wearing anything by the brand name 'Le Froufrou Magnifique!' That's just so wrong! And nothing fluffy either! Or with ruffles!" I swear if Bella could pale she would have.

"And I told you that it's the latest style! You can't go against the trends!"

"Screw style! I am not letting you plan this entire wedding by yourself and what about what Bella wants? And, hell! We Edward's opinions even matter in some matters." Well that made me feel special, but I was still thankful for my new sister's abilities to stand up to Alice. They would come in handy.

I heard Alice let out an overdramatic gasp "What did you just say?! Did you just diss…style?!" she said it as if it was the most outrageous thing she had ever heard. According to what Bella had told me about her sister, Alice had a lot to learn about the fact that trying to get Layla to talk-up fashion was like trying to get me to talk-down Bella: it just wasn't going to happen….ever.

Now Layla just looked smug "Yup, got a problem with it why don't you do something about it, pixie girl!"

"Honeys! We're home!" Bella said suddenly and thank god she did. The situation was starting to get out of hand. I knew that Alice and Layla weren't really angry at each other…maybe they were but it was in a sisterly way.

"Bella! Congratulations! You to, Eddie!" Layla smiled at us and came over to give us both hugs, but that didn't stop me from cringing at the name 'Eddie'. That started the flow of everyone saying congrats and giving Bella a hug and me a slap on the back. I thought Esme was going to cry if she could. I knew they were all as overjoyed as I was. Even the pack smile and offered their congrats while Kyle actually shook my hand and hugged Bella.

When Aro came up to me and Bella he had a please look on his face. "My dear daughter! I can't tell you how happy I am for you! Now when we go back to Italy we can have a wedding their and have two joyous occasions to celebrate! It's going to be simply wonderful!"

I saw Bella looked down at her shoes hesitantly before looking back up at Aro "Aro, I was thinking of having it here. And just having close relations come, not to many people. And keeping it simple."

"But you are one of the princesses of Volterra! You're wedding needs to be extravagant and an event for the entire vampire community to see!" he told her. I got where he was coming from but I knew Bella wouldn't be happy about it and to be honest neither was I. The idea of a wedding in Volterra was a bit overbearing.

My angel was trying to think of a way to retort when Layla, God bless her soul, piped in.

"Dad, why don't you let Bella have her wedding here. You can make a big deal out of my wedding instead." She offered. She was really going out on a limb for us here and I sent her a grateful look.

Aro seemed to contemplate that for a moment "But-

"Think about it this way: if you were to mix a vampire wedding with a celebration of our peace-treaty with the werewolves, which hasn't even happened yet, it would make everyone lose focus on one or both things. If you announce their marriage it would be a whole lot better. Plus which do you want to be the more extravagant wedding: a vampire wedding or a wedding that celebrates the unity of a vampire and werewolf. Plus it being me would make people start to be more willing to get along with them, considering I scare them more than Bella does."

I saw Kyle stiffen from out of the corner of my eye and his thoughts swirled with things like 'to soon' and 'not ready to be married yet.' Layla sent him a glance that said 'don't worry; it's not going to happen any time soon.'

Aro started clapping and I could have sworn he was going to start dancing if he didn't calm down. "My beautiful daughter, that's a wonderful idea!" then he walked away mumbling all sorts of different things about the event he was going to plan. He reminded me of Alice.

Marcus came up and gave Bella a long hug. I could tell out of the three brothers that Bella was closest to Marcus. He smiled at her and me "I've never seen a relationship as strong as this. I've seen others strong but none that could withstand the test of ultimate loyalty as yours have. I wish you both the most happiness." I saw Bella smile warmly at him and I puller her to me so I could place a kiss on her forehead.

"Bella!" Alice said bounding up to my soon to be wife. I thought she was going to congratulate her but that wasn't the case "Layla said that I couldn't plan your wedding! Please, please, please let me! I promise everything will turn out fine if you just have an open mind about it!" my sister whined.

"Hey! That's not what I said! I just said you couldn't plan it without Bella's consent! Tattle-tale!" Layla said and crossed her arms like a four-year-old. I had a feeling that she was just mocking Alice.

I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like when all this was over and Layla started living with us. We hadn't really disgusted it yet but I still couldn't help but wonder about what it would be like to have a new sister and brother in the house….we were going to need a bigger house. But at least I would have Bella by my side.

BPOV

I couldn't help but role my eyes at both of my sisters' behaviors. However the thought of letting Alice have complete control of my wedding was a little scary. I decided right then to let her have her fun but with limits.

"Ok Alice." She squealed in delight until I held up my hand to stop her "On two conditions. One: I have a few things that I want to absolutely have happen and it's final. And two: Layla has to help you." She froze and then turned to glare at Layla who maturely stuck her tongue out in response.

Alice turned back to me and huffed. "Fine! But I am now the official wedding planner and don't ask me to be the maid-of-honor. The wedding planner can't be the maid-of-honor! It's just a rule." I didn't know where that came from but I nodded anyways.

She nodded again, why I have no idea and then looked at me once more "What are the things you have to be absolute on?"

I looked at Edward "Do you have anything particular that you need for the wedding?" I really wanted his opinion on things.

"Yes, I want you to be the bride." I smiled at him.

"Maybe." I gave him a quick kiss and went back to Alice's question.

I thought it over for a minute and knew what I wanted almost immediately. "I want gold as the main color and it's going to take place in mine and Edward's meadow at twilight."

"But Bella! I wanted to have it in Notre Dame!" Alice whined.

"Alice, I want it in the meadow and that's final." Alice huffed a bit and crossed her arms over her chest before giving a little nod for me to continue. "I want Jane to be the flower girl," the excited squeal from the other side of the room told me that there would be no problem with that "Heidi, you and Rosalie as my bridesmaids and Layla as my maid-of-honor." There was really no question about that. Layla and me were closer than close and she had helped me so much over the past fifty years. Beside Edward, she was my best friend.

"Edward, you can pick out your groomsmen except," I hesitated knowing Edward would probably not like this next part. "I want Emmett to proceed over the ceremony."

"Sweetness! You're the best little sister ever!" Emmett said coming to give me a world famous Emmett hug. "Can I wear a robe?! You know one of those priest things?"

I laughed "Yes, Emmett, you can wear a robe." I heard Edward grumble a bit.

"Are you sure about this, Bella? Emmett as the preacher?" Edward groaned.

"Yes, I am." I said simply and left it at that.

Emmett put me down and walked over to Edward and put a hand on his shoulder and tried to look serious before clearing his throat. "As you preacher, I am here to make sure you don't stray from the path of tradition and holiness. Usually it is more of a concern, but I am sure you can keep from temptation until the wedding night, Mr. One-hundred and Fifty-year-old virgin." He wiggled his eyebrows suggestively and I would have been as bright as a tomato had I been human.

Edward glared at his brother and was about to retort when I heard Alice speak up. "Don't worry you two. I'm sure Layla wouldn't mind dealing with him if did anything inappropriate." …Did Alice just use Layla as a threat? Well it obviously worked because Emmett blanched and quickly ran over to hide behind Rose.

I heard a sniffle and looked to see Layla with a look of pride on her face as she sniffled again "I'm so, sniffle, proud! I'm officially a threat! Go me!" I rolled my eyes before turning back to Alice.

"I want freesia in the bouquet and…I want to wait until everything is settled with Jacob and them." I knew that it was a long shot but I wanted Jacob to be there, and Emily and Sam and all of them. Plus, then no one really had to worry about anything and just have fun and relax.

Alice nodded, understanding before she turned to Layla. "We have some things to do! I propose we split things that need to be done up so we can avoid too much argument."

Layla nodded in agreement "Agreed. Any ideas? Oh, and do you two care what food's at the reception? If we have werewolves we're gonna need food…and a lot of it."

I shook my head. I don't think Edward would really care too much anyhow.

"Good, so I'll handle to food and music."

"'K but I get to pick out the bridesmaid dresses and the tuxes!"

"Fine by me but I get to pick out Bella's dress." Alice frowned a bit at that but linked arms with Layla and began to walk out of the room arm-in-arm talking about my wedding details…did I mention they didn't even glance at me during this discussion.

Right when they got to the door Alice suddenly shrieked. I tried to check her mind to see what was wrong but found Layla had blocked it from me. Typical Layla, not letting me see my own wedding plan…..

"Layla, your hair!" Alice shrieked.

"What about my hair?"

"Bella said she wanted the main color, as in the bridesmaid dresses, to be gold! Your hair plus gold equal big fat NO!" Alice yelled.

Layla grimaced. "For once I agree with you. Silver and gold's just too tacky." Suddenly her facial expression turned sly, almost evil. "I've got an idea!" she practically sang. She looked at Alice who all of a sudden squealed again.

"You're a genius!"

"I prefer the term evil mastermind, if you would be so kind." Layla told Alice.

"I believe this is the start of a beautiful friendship, Lewis." Alice told Layla with a nod.

"Indubitably, Clark. Shall we go and plan out the festivities to celebrate the matrimony of our most dignified siblings?" Layla said with a fake British accent.

"Yes, lets." We all just stood there, staring in awe at the complete insaneness of those two as they strode out of the room.

Just a second later Layla's head appeared from behind the door. "Oh and Bella, just to let you know, you have just put the most important day in your life in the hands of your two completely brilliant, completely awesome, completely insane sisters. I would lie and tell you that we were going to take that responsibility like calm adults but I refuse to lie to you: we're going to go completely all out. I'll make sure it's simple but it's going to be as complex as simple will allow. Let the wedding planning, begin! BWAHAHAHA!" She shouted dramatically and ran back up the stairs to join Alice.

….to whatever the heck controlled the universe, help us all. I wondered how big a mistake I had just made when I remembered it was Layla and Alice. They were both crazy but I knew they both had my best interests at heart and Layla would keep Alice in line and make sure everything was exactly how I wanted it.

I felt Emmett shaking his head "After all this time we finally found someone crazier than Alice." He said in awe. He then turned to Kyle "I think you're insane."

He nodded. "I often question my sanity as well."

I laughed at that and held Edward tighter to me. I felt him fiddle with my ring. I smiled as I put my head on his shoulder. I was so happy, but why did I have to feeling something was about to happen…something bad.

KPOV

I was looking through the DVD collection in the television room. Most of the titles were ones from the late twentieth early twenty first century: the time when Layla and Bella were growing up. They had every version of Romeo and Juliet made during that time, one that particularly interests me was the one featuring this guy named Leonardo Dicaprio. They had a whole section with movies where he was a main role and it made me a bit jealous.

"Come on, Kyle! How hard is it to pick a simple movie?"

"Shut up, Drew! I haven't heard of half of these titles. Leave it of me to imprint on a girl who grew up over fifty years ago." I muttered mostly to myself.

"No, leave it to you to imprint on a bloody vampire!" he laughed back. I was about to retort when Sampson beat me to it.

"Can it, Drew. It's not like he's to only one so shove it before I do it for you!"

"She has you whipped! Both of you are totally whipped! You used to be total asses and now look at you! You could pass as gentlemen!" I scowled at Drew, however he was right. Not that I minded, actually the change was much needed.

Sampson snarled. He was a bit tense at the moment; Heidi and the others had decided to go on an extended hunting trip and just left this morning. Bella had even accompanied them to spend more time catching up with the family. Everyone had gone except for Alice who would be joining them in a few hours. She wanted to go over a few wedding details with Layla while Bella was out of the house. They had been talking about Bella and Edward's wedding since the couple had announced it almost three weeks ago and having a fun time doing it. I didn't want to spoil Layla's fun but I really wanted to spend some time with her and I was hoping to get that chance after Alice left.

It was now the middle of October and I haven't heard hide or hair from my father nor has any of my pack heard from their families. Between going to school, running with my pack whenever I can and learning about Bella's family, who was probably going to end up being my new family, I really hadn't thought about him that much. I did miss my mom but I kept my mind on other things….like the fact Layla hadn't spent any alone time with me in three weeks. I was really becoming a bit depressed. I mean sure, I still slept in her room but I was asleep and she always ordered me asleep before we could talk. I knew I was being silly but I felt deprived! My imprint wasn't paying attention to me and I felt like a lost puppy! And god damn it, I was starting to sound like one too!

"Will you all just stop fighting? I mean seriously, if you guys were to imprint on vampires what would you do? Ignore them because our parents had bad judgment?" I mentally thanked Sarah. She really needed to find a good man, one as shy as she was.

Drew went silent but I knew he didn't really understand what imprinting was like until he had gone through it himself. Collin, Drew, Oliver and Sarah hadn't been fortunate enough to imprint yet and I hoped they would.

"How about instead we talk about what we're going to do?" Oliver suggested from his spot on a comfy arm chair. I grimaced; I knew this conversation was coming eventually.

"Do about what?" Collin asked him.

"About what we're going to do after our parents grasp the fact that we aren't fighting vampires anymore. I mean obviously we'll have to go to Italy to celebrate, as per Aro's request but what about after that? I mean, Heidi will stay in Volterra; she belongs there, so I don't think Sampson will want to come back. And Bella will want to live with Edward and his family and Layla will stay with them so Kyle will stay with them as well. And who knows what will happen between them and now. We could all imprint on random girls in Europe who don't want to go back to a little town like La Push." Oliver explained. It was exactly what I had discussed with the Cullen boys and I knew that the situation was inevitable.

Everyone went quite. Apparently they hadn't thought of this like Oliver and I had.

"You know…if there's no need to defend from vampires anymore…." Sampson started slowly after a long pause.

"then there's no need for us anymore. At least not here, anyways." Sarah finished for her cousin quietly.

It was a strange silence as comprehension dawned on everyone. Not awkward just…the best word in my vocabulary was strange. I made a mental not to as Layla about some synonyms for strange later.

"We'll still keep in contact right? No matter where we are, we'll still get together every chance we get, right? I mean…I haven't ever thought of anything other then spending my entire life here with the pack and now that I have to chance…I'm just really going to miss you guys." Sarah said, a small tear rolling down her cheek.

We all gave up and gave her a group hug. "Of course, Sarah! I don't think I could ever not talk to you guys! We're family, no matter how far apart we are." I told her as she cried.

She sniffled and nodded a bit before stepping back to wipe her tears away. She looked at me and smiled "What are you still doing here? I think Alice and Layla have been talking for long enough."

I smiled at her and nodded. I really did love these guys. They were my first family but I knew it was time to go our separate ways. Besides that I knew my dad probably wouldn't be coming to his senses any time soon.

I headed up to the third floor of the house and went to the door on the right: Layla's room. I didn't bother knocking and I walked in to see Alice sitting on Alice's bed holding a clipboard and scribbling down things while my beautiful girlfriend had her legs on the bed while her torso and head were hanging off. I knew that if she was human she would have been red from the blood rushing to her head.

"So it's decided then. Now about your dress…." Alice trailed off.

"Alice, I get what we're trying to do with the dress thing but I'm not wearing anything with ruffles! Just no! I was actually thinking more of just simple, silk and elegant. It would make since considering what we're trying to do with the dress theme and if it was to complex it would take away from Bella's dress. And let's not forget that my dress gets to be at least ninety percent different from the other dresses so that helps." She said with her eyes closed. She took in a deep breath and I was surprised when she didn't address me, I knew she must have smelled me.

"Yes it does! Oh this is gonna be great! Bella's going to love all of this! Now I have to run, the families are waiting! Are you sure you don't want to join us?" Alice chirped.

Layla grimaced. "No thanks, Alice. I'll just stay here this weekend. I need to finish up a project anyways."

Alice nodded and said bye before walking out the room. She waved to me as she passed and bound down the stairs. I looked back to Layla and found that she hadn't moved. She was still in the same position with her head handing off the bed and her hair falling behind it. She looked like a stone statue.

"What project are you working on?" I asked her quietly. She had her mind on something and from the looked of it it wasn't good.

She lifted an arm and pointed at two canvases covered with a white sheet next to the wall. There was paint scattered around it.

"What are they?" I asked, still quiet. She didn't move, she didn't answer she just laid there.

Suddenly her arm twitched slightly and the next thing I saw was a pair of silver eyes and suddenly she was right in front of me. I yet out a surprised yelp (a very unmanly one at that) but relaxed when I felt her cold lips pressed against mine. I immediately responded and cupped her face with my hands.

She pulled away and kissed my cheek. "I haven't been paying enough attention to you lately, have I?" she whispered. I, still being a bit lightheaded from the kiss, merely shook my head. She turned her head and kissed my palm. "Come on, why don't we go for a run?" I nodded and she walked over to the bed and pulled out a small duffle bag from under it.

She saw me staring and smiled "Staring is rude, pup."

"I love you." was the only thing I could say. Her eyes softened. "I love you, too. Now let's get out of this house."

As she walked past me, she intertwined our hands before walking out her door and down the stairs. I heard Collin call from down the stairs "You two behave yourselves now! I don't want to have to be the one to pick you up from jail!"

"Real funny, Collin! And don't worry, I always get away before the cops come! But if I do get caught on camera I'll just blame it on you, you could certainly pull off my figure! And think of how pretty you'll look if we just dye you hair!" I could hear the others howling with laughter upstairs. I rolled my eyes.

"Now that wasn't very nice." I teased as we stepped outside.

"Never said I was." She told me and released my hand and began walking into the woods. I tried to follow but she told me to wait there. I did as I was told. While she was gone I phased into a wolf to wait for her, I knew it would be easier keeping up with her if I was like this. I rolled onto my back and stared up at the sky. It was overcast but the setting sky caused the expanse of clouds to turn a pinkish color.

I busied myself with trying to find shapes in the clouds until my view was obstructed by the head of a white wolf. I felt my tail start wagging involuntarily at the site of her and I rolled over so I could look at her. I had seen her like then lots of times before but it was still felt so new. She looked just like an oversized wolf, about twice the size and was the purest white color I had ever seen. If you looked really close on her forehead it seemed like there was a star shape across it.

She suddenly jumped up and nipped at me playfully before running off into the direction of the woods. "Catch me if you can, pup!" I heard her say. Now that just wasn't fair! Whenever I was in wolf form I couldn't talk but she could. It was good she could still 'hear' me in a way.

As I chased after her I soon realized that I had no idea where she was….oh crap. I sniffed the air and I couldn't even smell her. So that means she hadn't come this way but that would mean that she was behind-

I didn't get to finish my thought as I was suddenly rammed into from behind and pushed to the ground. Apparently I had been standing by a hill because I found myself rolling downwards. I didn't wait for us to get to the bottom before I tried to turn and threw Layla off of me. She landed gracefully at the bottom of the hill and I came to a halt just a few feet above her.

She let out a snarl, though I knew it was only playful, and crouched down as if she was going to pounce but I beat her to it and launched myself at her. It was a downhill drop and I landed on all fours with a thud. I looked down and noticed there was only grass where Layla was supposed to be.

I suddenly felt an extra weight on my back and felt Layla's head next to my throat. "I win!" She said in a singsong voice of hers.

'And when did we ever decide we were wrestling?'

I felt her shrug as she got off of me. She turned around and rolled around on the ground like a puppy. It was extremely cute. "I love being a wolf! I have a frieken tale! That is so awesome!" She said the most random things sometimes.

'Do you want to run some more or are you going to roll around on the ground all night and get grass all over your shiny white fur?'

She stopped and glared at me before sticking her tongue out at me and rolling over again. I must say it was very weird to have a wolf stick her tongue out at you.

We ran through the forest for about another hour before deciding to stop for a while. I ran into a bunch of trees and phased back before slipping sweatpants on. When I can back Layla was leaning against in a simple dark green sundress. Now I know what was in the bag. I noticed a lot that she tended to where darker, richer colors like royal blue, dark green, royal purple, crimson red, black or a dark orange. But never lighter colors like lavender, sky blue, white, pink, or pastel colors of any kind. Strange what you notice. Oh! That reminds me.

"Hey Layla, what are synonyms for strange?"

She raised an eyebrow "Kyle Black."

"Thanks dear." I rolled my eyes at her. She was a smartass but she was mine and I actually found it quite endearing in one of those strange completely paradox ways.

"Anytime, pup."

"But seriously, what are some synonyms for strange?"

"Well, there's abnormal, alien, anomalous, atypical, bizarre, curious, different, eccentric, eerie, eery, erratic, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, foreign, freaky, glamorous, grotesque, hop to, idiosyncratic, kooky, mysterious, new, novel, odd, oddball, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, picturesque, preternatural, puzzling, quaint, queer, rare, singular, sui generis, tramontane, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncommon, unexplored, unfamiliar, unique, unknown, unnatural, unusual, weird, and even wonderful. Why?"

"No reason and that sounded like something straight out of a thesaurus, just a few would have been fine." I told her, still a bit stunned by the massive list. Well that gave me a lot to go by.

"It was from a thesaurus. I got very bored in the library one day." She said as she went over and sat on a bit boulder with a flat surface.

"Hey, Layla?" I asked as I sat down next to her on the rock. She looked over at me and for a second I forgot what I was going to ask as my eyes transfixed on hers. "What is it?" She cocked her head to the side in curiosity.

I hesitated but knew I could tell her anything "Did you really mean what you said to Aro? I mean…about us? Are we going to get married someday?"

A perfect eyebrow arched slightly "Of course I meant it. I want to get married to you someday. I personally don't intend for that to happen any time soon but eventually yes. We have forever you know. How about you? Do you want to get married someday?"

"Of course I do! I want to spend forever with you!" I felt kind of embarrassed that I practically yelled out my answer but it was true. If I kept phasing I would never die but…I didn't want to age either and I couldn't stop that. Wherever and whenever we were I wanted to be able to look as young as she did. "But…how will you deal with my ageing? I know it will be slow and probably take a while for me to really age but it'll still happen. I'm not immortal like you." For the first time in my life I really wished I could live forever.

"I'm working on it. Have a couple ideas up my sleeve." She told me. And I smiled, she would never let me die.

"So, a wedding planned by Aro in Italy. A grand event to celebrate the union between a werewolf and vampire, huh?" I teased her. Really the idea sounded kind of exciting. I had never really thought of having a big wedding but on that note I had never thought I would want to get married.

"Shut up. And yes, I knew our wedding wasn't going to happen any time soon so why not let Bella and Eddie have the one they want?" She huffed out.

Suddenly I wondered if I had ever imagined my own wedding when I was younger. When I imagined love I usually thought of a human girl instead of a vampire. The thought of being in love with a human seemed so…foreign now. But then that reminded me of something else: Layla had been human at one point to. A whole new string of questions came up in my mind.

"What were you like when you were human?" I suddenly blurted out. Her eyes turned confused again. "I thought I already told you about my human life."

"I know but what were you like? I mean…what were your interests? Hobbies? What did you look like? How were you different than now?" I looked down – a bit embarrassed at my ramblings.

She smiled at me and shifted so she was lying on her back and she closed her eyes. She had a relaxed look on her face and I knew she was remembering and I was grateful because I really wanted to know. She had been able to look into my past but all I had known her as is the stunning, amazing, beautiful vampire with power and influence. It made the realization that she was over a half-century older than me and, even though I still couldn't imagine it, she had been human once to. Hell, she had had a heartbeat and slept and cried and blushed and gotten tired and was…well, human.

I felt her move and I saw that she had placed her head in my lap, still on her back, and she ran her pale finger over the side of my face. I smiled down at her and laced my fingers with hers.

"Tell me some of the things you want to know again." She sighed and put our hands on her stomach and closed her eyes in. I leaned back on my free arm and closed my eyes as well. What did I want to know? I wanted to know everything. But where to begin?

"What did you look like?" I blurted out. It seemed like a stupid question but from the pictures of human Bella I had seen her appearance had changed. And I knew Layla didn't have silver hair as a human but that was about the extent of my knowledge.

(A/N: I know you're probably tiered of hearing about her but PAY ATTENTION to this next part. 'Tis very important for something in the future. I pinky swear that there's just a bit more in the next chapter is from Layla's point of view but, unless people want otherwise, most of the rest is going to be from Edward and Bella's.)

"I looked a lot different actually. I was always very tall and was often told I had a great body – but really, who wasn't told that in Vegas? – But I was never pale, not tan either, just somewhere in between and always a sort of milky complexion." At this I sat back up and looked down at her again, trying to image her with any other complexion beside the moon-like pale she was now. As she continued I kept trying to image what she described "I always had a round face and I remember always wanting to get a piercing on my eyebrow and my chin, never did though. My hair, that I always kept short, was a dark brown coffee color and my eyes were brown but they were always more tanish than brown. But that's all I remember changing that much. Obviously everything changed a bit when I became a vampire but I think you could probably recognize the human me."

I tried to think of her like she described. After a few minutes of thinking I had a pretty good image I knew what I wanted to ask next "What were you like? I mean just in general."

"I always loved the beach and thunderstorms as well as pine trees, I would go sit in my favorite grove of them whenever I just needed to get away." I smiled as I remember she always told me I smelled like them but pine trees in Las Vegas? She seemed to know my question "The minute I turned sixteen I got a motorcycle, regardless of the fact that I was illegal to have one before eighteen, at the time it didn't matter. No one really cared anyways and I got my hands on one because of my connections plus I had had a fake ID since I had turned fourteen. I would always drive north as far as I could and sit in a grove of them until some of my employers goons came and got me. I was never supposed to leave but the consequences didn't really matter to me; I was used to them by them. The beatings and stuff were common and expected and didn't really have an affect on me." I squeezed her hand a bit. Trying to assure me more than her that it was ok and trying to control my temper.

She smiled up at me reassuringly before continuing "I was also an eccentric curser. I was way worse than I am now. At least one curse per three sentences and they were very colorful. Marcus made me stop or at least work on it a bit. People always thought I had Turrets syndrome with my language but it was just the way I spoke. I also had this beef with religion I never really figured out. It's not that I don't like religion it's just that I never got it at all." I smiled. The religion thing was new but I could easily imagine her speech as a human.

"One thing I remember is that I had a thing for blood. If I ever saw it, it was like I went into some sort of trance. I was hypnotized by the color and the way it would look…it was weird. But if you didn't pull me away I would start seeing the terrifying images of people covered in blood and it would terrify me. I wouldn't pass out, I would start screaming. I couldn't help it, the images were so…" She shuddered a bit but before I could say anything she changed the subject.

"I always loved to sing and even painted a bit. While I was with Mr. Dupree he began teaching me how to write and compose music and I got really good but I haven't actually done anything like that in a while. I also remember that everyone at the bar loved me; I always acted really upbeat and was pretty much a smartass and would defend people against the boss. I didn't care what happened to me because I didn't care if I died. It wasn't that I was suicidal; it was just that my life held no value to me. Plus the fact that I was the boss's favorite meant that whatever damage he did to me wouldn't be life threatening and wouldn't be that visible so no one would know. Like instead of giving me a black eye he would switch my back instead in an area where no one would notice."

I let out an uneasy breath and pulled her a little closer to me – trying to convey to her I would never let anyone hurt her like that again. She gave me a minute before she continued:

"I can remember that another one of the girls once told me that whenever I was gone how everything at the bar would change. No one would be upbeat because they were scared that they would get hurt. They all depended on me but none of them really knew me however it gave me some reason to do something." She shrugged and looked up at the sky again.

"Favorite food?" I asked. I needed something a bit lighter to calm myself from phasing and going on a rampage.

"Chicken Fettuccini! And potato chips! I loved potato chips!" I loved the way she said potato chips, she said it but she put extra emphasis on the syllables so it sounded like "po-ta-to" and then said 'chips' really fast. I found it quite cute.

"That's more than one thing." I told her with a fake scolding tone.

"Just shut up and ask the next question!"

"I can't do both."

"…smartass."

"hypocrite!"

"Do you want me to answer the damn questions or not, Pup!?"

"Favorite drink?"

"Mint hot-chocolate."

"Favorite….ice-cream?"

"Mint chocolate-chip." I sensed a reoccurring pattern here.

"Favorite herb?"

"Mint." Well that was expected.

"Favorite animal?"

"Wolf." She smiled lazily up at me and I blushed a bit.

"You know this is supposed to be when you were human." I muttered.

"I know and I answered honestly, now: next question!" she snapped in fake annoyance.

"Favorite sport."

"Horseback riding." Now that made me curious. I'd tried before...but it didn't really agree with me. "Then I shall have to take you one day and force you to like it." She told me and I grimaced. I had always had a thing against horses. They never liked me. The first time I had tried to ride one the thing had thrown me off and then chased me around the coral. It was actually quite comical but I was still traumatized for life.

I heard Layla's laughter and looked down at her "You think that's funny?"

She nodded and fell of the rock she was laughing so hard and began rolling on the forest floor. I growled at her before pouncing down on top of her and landing so she was pinned underneath me with my hands restraining hers. I let another snarl rip from my throat and she looked at me, apparently highly amused, before she got an evil glint in her eyes.

"Why, Mr. Black! Is that a challenge?" I frowned as I remember how she had just kicked my ass a few minutes ago. I really didn't want to do that again so instead I crashed my lips down on hers. She was apparently not expecting this as she froze before she responded. She wrapped her arms around my neck to pull me closer.

The kiss made me feel wanted and I held her as close to me as I could. I needed to be wanted by this goddess, she made something good out of me and I tried to pour all my gratitude and absolute love into my kiss.

I removed my lips from hers to breathe but found I couldn't find the strength to stop kissing her. I moved my mouth down to her neck and kissed the now permanent mark in the junction between her neck and shoulder. I felt some sort of pride as she shuddered.

I nuzzled her neck and held her as close to me as I could manage. She wrapped her arms around my neck and hugged me back. I didn't want to let her go.

"You're so warm." She sighed. For me it was the opposite, she was always as cold as ice and it always made me hyper aware of her presence.

Why did I suddenly feel this way? Why was I so desperate to spend time with her and hold her? I always wanted this but why did I feel that if I let go she would disappear?

"Why do I feel as if you're going to leave me?" I whispered and I felt her stiffen. I pulled away a bit to look at her and saw her eyes were downcast and she looked sad. My mind went into overdrive "No! Layla, tell me what's wrong! Please!" I was practically begging.

She looked at me again, her silver eyes showing confusion. "I don't know. I plan on staying with you forever but…" she shook her head and I felt my heart begin to constrict. She looked up in alarm "It's not that I want to leave! And as far as I'm concerned, I'm not going anywhere. But I'm usually one who can make a good plan about what's going to happen. I'm not psychic like Alice but it's like I have a general guess about what's going to happen, it's not a power just intuition. I can tell that Bella and Edward are going to get married and I know that your father will eventually come to his senses and I can tell that there will be a giant party in Volterra to celebrate but…after that…I can't seem to make any plans. I can't see our lives after that but that's not it…it's like…I can see the Cullen, Bella included, and I can see my fathers and the Volturi and I can see different things and opportunity your pack will have and I can even see you becoming a part of the Cullen family but… the one thing I can't see is….me."

I hugged her closer and shook my head over and over again. What was she implying? That something was going to happen to take her away from me? As long as I lived I would never let that happen! "You know what you're going to do? You're going to be with your family and I'm going to stay with you forever. I'm not letting you go." I told her. I knew that I was trying to convince me more than her.

She sighed and put her head on my shoulder. "Kyle, if anything were to happen to me….

"Nothings going to happen to you!" I practically yelled.

"Kyle, please just listen. If anything were to happen, I don't want you to be sad or mourn. I want you to go on with you life." I couldn't believe what she was asking. Did she know that that was impossible and was she implying that I should move on?

"No one's ever going to be more important to me than you. Don't ask me to move on because I can't do that."

She chuckled a bit and flipped us over so that she was lying on my chest. She crossed her arms under her chin and rested her head on them. "I don't want you to. I want to be your one and only whether I'm here or not. I don't care how selfish that sounds; I can be a selfish person. I'm just asking you to not let the fact that I'm not there affect you too drastically." Did she really know how hard that would be? How I could probably not stand being away from her for more than a few hours? I was about to retort when she silence me with a small kiss on my chin. "And trust me when I say that I never plan to be gone for you for long. Even if I died I would find a way back, someway. I don't think even the deepest confines of Hell could hold me." I rolled my eyes, she got me there.

"I'm pretty sure the devil would be begging God to give you a second chance just to get you out of his hair. And what makes you think you're going to Hell?" I asked her, trying to change the subject before I broke down.

She smirked "Well, I'm pretty sure heaven won't want me and really I don't plan to go anywhere. I'll always be close by, and I don't care how corny that sounds, it's true."

She rested her head on my chest over my heart and smiled as she heard its steady beats. "Are you ever sad?" She asked quietly.

"About what?"

"That I don't have a heart beat?" I felt my heartbreak a bit; it was times like this that she seemed so vulnerable.

I kissed her forehead "You're perfect."

She smiled warmly before it became playful "Yes, yes I am."

I laughed and held her closer. I couldn't tell how long they had laid there like that but I was happy, all fear vanish, but there was still the nagging sensation that something was about to happen.

Suddenly I felt Layla tense and she shot up so suddenly it scared me. She looked down at me and she appeared to pale. "Stand up and turn around!" I did as she said immediately; I had learned long ago not to ask questions.

Once I did I felt her leap on my back and she wrapped her legs around my waist and hooked her arms under mine. "Run!" I took off as fast as I could without phasing. I heard the sound of wings and the next thing I knew the ground left my feet and I was flying much faster than I had been running seconds before.

We zoomed in and out of trees and I noticed we weren't traveling higher than the tree ling but high enough to where my feet weren't touching the ground.

I could tell she was tense by the way she was flying and how she was holding me. Her arms were stiff and clingy while she was just barely missing the trees.

"Layla, you need to tell me what's wrong." I needed to be calm right now and do whatever she needed me to do, but first I needed to know what was wrong.

"When was the last full moon?" She asked in a detached, rushed voice.

"Eleven days ago, why?" I could answer so quickly because the memory of her glowing the entire night and she had looked stunning.

"Shit-fucker!" well that was a new word, she must really have been stressed. "You're dad's past is about to come back and bite him in the ass! Hard! And it's to close to the new moon for me to do anything about it! We have to find Bella! And then we're going to have to go to La Push, if we don't your dad and the entire elder pack is screwed! And I mean royally so! King Henry the Eighth style plus a whopping helping of King Tut S.C.R.E.W.E.D!"

….This was bad. She was rambling and ranting and oh my God I think that tree passed about three inches away from my face.

"What did you see?"

"We just have to find Bella. I know she'll be able to stop it before…well…I don't particularly like your dad because of that whole trying to kill you thing, but I don't think you particularly want to see him dead right?"

Dad, what did you do? I thought in exasperation.

BPOV

I was sitting in Edward's lap on a giant boulder. We were watching the stars. He didn't need to feed from animals anymore but I wanted to come on this trip with his family to spend a bit more time with them. The rest of his family was around here somewhere and I could hear the thought of my family telling me they would get to the rendezvous point – where Edward and I were now – in a few minutes.

Edward fondled my ring before bringing my hand up and kissing the ring. "So how's the wedding planning going, love?" I rolled my eyes at the humor in his voice. It was not appreciated.

"As if I would know. Our sisters are keeping me totally out of the loop, of my own wedding! Not like I have a problem with not planning it, I just have a problem with surprises. My own wedding isn't supposed to be a surprise!" I heard him chuckled as he kisses my shoulder.

"You're cute when you're angry." I crossed my arms and huffed. I didn't see what was so funny.

"I'll show you cute." I muttered. I felt his arms wrap around my waist.

"You know you can't stay mad at me." I told me. Stupid arrogant vampire that happened to be my perfect, amazing soon-to-be husband. And he was right. I couldn't.

I ignored him anyways and looked at the sky. For some reason over the past few weeks the sinking feeling that something bad was about to happen wouldn't leave.

I was pulled back to earth by the sound of excessive chatter. I looked down to see the rest of our families around us, all seated and talking about anything and everything.

I leaned back against Edward and rested my head on his shoulder. He wrapped his arms around me. "So does this mean I'm forgiven?"

"Maybe, if you're good." I tried to make my voice scolding and from the timbre of his chuckles I'm pretty sure I didn't succeed.

"So, lovebirds, made any choice about what color my awesome robe is going to be? And no I have a question: how many references can I make to when Bella was human? And what about Edward's, OW! Rose, what was that for?" Emmett asked Rosalie who had just slapped him over the head.

"Just shutting you up before I lose my husband in some mysterious incident relating to his future sister." Rose teased. I smiled.

"Seriously, Em. Layla and I have been sticking up for each other ever since I became a vampire. She won't take lightly to you making my wedding day miserable for me…or Edward." But I'm sure she would absolutely love it if you embarrassed me in some way. I added that last part in my head. She loved to torture me and sometimes she seemed more like my annoying little sister than anything.

"Oh yea! Remember that time Demetri tried to make Layla drink blood? Bella froze him in a block of ice for five months in the middle of a hallway and we couldn't unfreeze him until we god a new addition that was pyrokinetic and it even took him a few weeks to get him out of there." Felix's laugh rang out and I scowled. It had been about a month since we had been turned and Layla had started screaming as soon as she saw the blood but Demetri, being the total monotonous ass he was, kept trying to force her to drink it. He hadn't accepted the fact that there were such things as vampires who didn't drink blood.

"And don't forget that time Layla managed to cut me off from all two hundred and thirty bank accounts we have for a year because I stole the CD Edward gave her." Heidi said. I grimaced. Heidi had been trying to make me get over him and had stolen the CD of my lullaby. I had been devastated and Layla had made her give it back plus freezing all of Heidi's accounts so that she couldn't shop for a year. The last part was actually quite funny.

"If I do remember correctly, Bella was the one who blocked all your senses because you tried to force Layla to tell her about her past." Aro laughed at Caius, apparently finding the situation funny. It hadn't been. Caius had forced Layla to sit in a chair during a new moon and beat the answers out of her. It was horrible and I had made sure to put a field around him so Caius couldn't see, hear, feel, taste, smell or even talk for what he tried to do. Neither Aro or Marcus had known what he was attempting and as soon as they found out they were furious. Luckily for Caius, Layla was used to beatings, a fact that we hadn't known then, and she forgave him, told us not to punish him and walked out of the room.

Caius frowned at Aro, he had always been ashamed of what he had done and didn't like being reminded of it. "Yes, and if memory serves correctly for me Layla was the one who told you to 'burn in the deepest layers of Hell' after you tried to set Bella up with a date for one of your obscene parties. I hope for your sake that you never pass from immortality to the world of the dead." Caius seethed. Ok, this was starting to get ugly.

I was about to tell them to stop fighting when I heard the distant sound of wings. I thought it was a bird at first but it had to be one big and fast bird. "Bella!" I looked up to see Layla flying towards us carrying Kyle.

She landed in front of me, her eyes frantic with worry. "We have to get to La Push! The pack's in danger!"

"What happened?!" I asked, I knew it was bad.

"You know those other two members of the old pack?" Layla started.

"You mean Paul and Jared?" Kyle asked incredulously and Layla nodded.

"Well, I was trying to 'see' your father and a memory popped up of them when they were all kids and my mind turned to Paul and Jared. As soon as I thought of them I saw them, they're headed here but not with good intentions. Over the past years they've been able to build up an army of werewolves for the one purpose to come back and kill the old pack! They've been up in northern Alaska until now but are now headed here. If we don't get Jacob and the others to agree to try to talk things out with them then…" she trailed off.

I immediately began forming a plan. "We'll need to bring all the werewolves obviously. How do you think we can get them to agree?"

"I don't know but maybe a near death crisis will make them come to their senses!" Layla growled out. I wonder what had her so worked up.

"Layla, how many werewolves are we talking here?" Kyle asked, he was a bit shaken up. Apparently Layla hadn't told him this.

"I don't know the exact number. I just started freaking when I saw what they had planned for the rez and didn't take a good look but I would say at least a good fifty of them." Layla said. "And to make matters worse…I can't do anything. Bella, you might have to kill them. I don't think they want to talk, they want bloodshed. They want a werewolf war." So that's what's been bothering her so much. She hated to be useless and she knew that I hated killing. But I was a lot stronger now that I had Edward…I would regret the lives I took but I knew he would be there to hold me together.

"Wait, what do you mean you can do anything? Can't you just be all like 'don't fight' and they'll stop?" Emmett asked.

"No, don't you remember? That only works between half moons and it being only two nights from the new moon I can't do shit! Bella's going to have to fight, I know she can do it but it's me not doing anything that I have a problem with." Layla said "Now we need to go!"

As we all took off towards home I was trying to think of ways that if worst came to worse I would be able to do this.

I saw Layla exchange a glance with me. We both knew the same thing: if this didn't help Jacob realizes we were on his side nothing ever would. But that was beside the point now, an army of angry werewolves were coming out way and I could only hope that we could stop them.

Long chappie! Sorry this didn't really have a lot in it but it was needed. The next chapter's a bit more actiony. I know this had more Kyle and Layla stuff but it was needed.

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