The characters in this story are from my favorite books, the Twilight Series, by the talented Stephenie Myers, and her copy write of the characters is implied.

Chapter 21: Planning Ahead.

At about 5 am, I felt Jacob gently roll me over on to my back, and stand up off of the bed.

"Where are you going," I asked.

"Just to the bathroom honey. I will be right back," he replied, and kissed me gently on my forehead.

Five minutes later he was back, and he returned to bed, with his clothes still on. I crawled back on top of him, as I had spent the majority of the night.

"Can I ask you something Nessie," Jake whispered into my ear.

"Anything, always, anything."

"Why did you just ask me where I was going? Were you afraid I was sneaking out on you," he asked coyly.

I rolled my eyes, and then answered him, "No, of course not, at least not in the way that you mean. I was afraid that you had to go on patrol or something."

"I would have told you if something like that was coming up."

"You promise," I pleaded.

"Of course I will, I always will," he replied, and leaned down to kiss my forehead.

"I love it when you hold me like this. I want to stay like this with you forever, Jake."

"That sounds like a good plan to me, except for those pesky things like family, eating, bathing, etc., which require you to get out of bed," he replied.

"If I could have one wish come true Jake, do you know what it would be? I would want us to spend a year or two all by ourselves somewhere. I mean we could keep in contact with the family by phone, but just the two of us, in a cabin, deep in the woods, with no distractions, that sounds like my idea of heaven,' I whispered into his chest, and then began kissing around his collar bone, and up his neck, to his ear, where I whispered "How does that sound to you?"

"Heaven, absolute heaven," He said and then added, "I promise I will do my best to make that happen for you, once this whole Volturi and Nahuel nightmare is behind us." He pulled me up to his lips and kissed me tenderly. Then he whispered in my ear, "My one wish already came true. I wished from the day you were born that you would someday fall in love with me and now you have."

We kissed and cuddled until 7am, when Aunt Alice pounded on the door, did not wait for us to say come in, and then started jumping up and down on the bed again. "Did you guy's decide who is going to be in the bridal party. I have to know right now!" Jacob held me tighter so I did not slide off him as she jumped up and down.

"Aunt Alice," I hissed, "first of all, you are supposed to wait to hear 'come in' before you barge into someone's room. Second of all, I am kind of being hunted by a bunch of killers who want to enslave me to bare their children, do you think you can just tone down the wedding stuff a little. I still want the wedding as scheduled, if possible, but it is more important to me that everyone is safe."

"I don't see the Aro, Felix and Demitri arriving in Forks for about 4 weeks. That gives me two full weeks to plan the wedding. Everyone else can continue working on our strategy to keep you safe. So no excuses from either of you," she snapped.

Jacob looked at me, rolled his eyes, and sighed. "I want Quil to be my best man, and Jasper, Emmett, Seth and Embry to be my ushers."

"And you Nessie, have you decided," Aunt Alice asked.

"I want you to be my Maid of Honor, and Aunt Rose and Kristen to be my Bride's Maids, and Claire to be my Junior Brides Maid."

"So basically," you both want almost everyone we are inviting to the wedding in the wedding party.

"Well yes, I guess," I said.

"Well then, I need you both to round up all the wolves and imprints and have them here tonight at 8 for fittings. I will start measurements on all us Vamps right now, well and you too Jacob," she said through excited giggles.

"Can we at least eat breakfast first, it smells like Dad is cooking," I asked.

"Of course dear. Take 15 minutes to eat and then meet me in my room," she said as she ran out of the room."

I looked up at Jake, and then he rolled over to hover above me. He pushed his lips to mine, and kissed me deeply. As we pulled away to catch our breathe, I whispered in his ear, "You go eat first, and I will jump in the shower, that way Aunt Alice can torture me first."

"Sounds good, I am hungry anyway."

"I figured my Jacob."

"I love it when you call me that," he whispered in my ear.

"I love saying it because I know that it is true."

I took a very quick shower, and hurried downstairs to the kitchen, where Dad had a plate of French toast waiting for me, and Jake was already reaching around the counter to take a second helping.

"Hurry Nessie," my Aunt Alice squealed, "you have 5 of your fifteen minutes left."

"Aunt Alice, have you ever considered a career in the military, because I think you would make a great drill sergeant," I snapped. Jacob and Dad looked like they were both going to fall over they were laughing so hard. Aunt Alice threw looks that could kill at all of us, and then stormed from the room in a huff.

After scarping down two pieces of French toast, and kissing Jacob, I made my way upstairs to my Aunt's room. I didn't mean to seem ungrateful. I am very grateful that my Aunt Alice will work her butt off to give me the wedding of my dreams, in just two weeks; it's just that she can be a little much sometimes.

"Sorry about getting snippy with you in the kitchen Aunt Alice," I said sincerely, "what do you want me to do first?"

"Stand perfectly straight with your arms out at your sides," she said, and then began measuring every angle of my body. After I had been standing with my arms out for about a half hour, I reminded her that I was only half human, and I needed to put them down. She chuckled and let me shake out my muscles for a few minutes before continuing.

While I was standing there with my Aunt, a thought occurred to me. I had chosen her to be my Maid of Honor over Aunt Rosalie was because she had never babied me, well at least not as much as the rest of the family. I always felt she was my best girlfriend. I just met Kristen this week, and well I was asking her to be in the wedding because she was Seth's imprint. So I really didn't feel ready to discuss my sex life, or lack thereof. Claire was 11, so she wouldn't be up for adult subject matter, and I really didn't know anyone else I could talk to about feeling insecure about our upcoming wedding night. I wanted to show Jacob how much I love him, and I needed some advice.

"Aunt Alice, do you mind if I ask you about something which is kind of personal," I asked.

"Of course Nessie, you can always ask me about anything," she said, as she grabbed a book full of wedding invitations and indicated that I should start looking through it.

"Well, I am not sure if you know this, but you probably already do, but Jacob and I are both virgins," I paused, took a deep breath, and continued "And he wants to wait for our wedding night, for you know, so that it will be more special. Well I am afraid that since I really don't have that much of an idea of what I am doing, that it is not going to be the special, for him I mean."

With the way I was babbling, I was not sure if she exact knew what I was trying to say, but she glanced at me sympathetically, and then said, "I know that it will be special because of how much both of you love each other. Uncle Jasper has been quite amorous since we got back because he is picking up on the affection that you and Jake have for each other."

I rolled my eyes, "TMI Aunt Alice, TMI."

"My point is that it will be beautiful because you will both be learning together. You will both teach each other what it is that you like and what you don't like," she replied.

"Well, Jacob and I were telling each other about a dream he had where I was wearing a white teddy, with white silk stockings and a garter belt for our wedding night, would you mind helping me get that since I am on lock down here," I asked.

"Of course Nessie," she said with marked exuberance, "I have some catalogs from Victoria's Secret and Fredericks of Hollywood. You can look through them and let me know which ones you think you will like. That is one piece of advice that I can give you, the sexier and more confident that you feel with what you are wearing, the more that Jacob will respond to you."

"My next question, well, its just, will it hurt," I asked staring down at the book of invitations, "since I am a virgin, I mean. According to all the medical books that I have read, it hurts, and the woman bleeds. Am I going to ruin the whole thing by crying out in pain and hemorrhaging?"

Aunt Alice started giggling, which evolved into incontrollable laughter, she actually fell off the bed where she was sitting next to me, and was holding onto her chest as if her insides were going to fall out.

"Forget I said anything," I said sulking.

"Nessie, if having sex was not fun, there would not be anyone left on the planet." She took a deep breath to hold back her laughter and said, "Yes, the first time hurts a little, there is a little bit of blood, but it feels so good otherwise that you forget that instant of pain within seconds."

"Thank you Aunt Alice, even if you did laugh at me, I was a little scared about what my first time will be like," I said and then added, "Most of what I know about sex I learned in anatomy lessons taught by my father, so it is nice to have a female perspective."

"Anytime Nessie," she said, "and I will try not to fall off the bed laughing next time, I promise."

"What's so funny up here," I heard Jacob call from the hall.

"Nothing, just girl talk," I replied, and then added, "It's your turn to get measured now. I have moved on to picking out the invitations." I then turned to my Aunt Alice and said, "Shouldn't we just call everyone or send an email, we only have two weeks, the invitations will probably arrive in Denali by the day of the wedding."

"The three of us are all going to do both. We will call and email the few people who we can invite, but it is just proper that a formal announcement be sent, so pick the one that you like the best.

Jacob reluctantly walked into the room, and said, "This isn't going to hurt too much is it?"

Aunt Alice rolled her eyes and said, "You'll survive, Nessie did. Now stand straight, with your arms out and your sides and don't move."

"I went wolf before I came up here," Jacob replied, "Everyone who is a non-vampire knows to be here at 8 tonight."

"Thanks Jake," I said, as Aunt Alice just nodded and continued to assault him with the tape measurer.

"What are we going to do this afternoon then," I asked Jacob.

"I thought that I could teach you how to drive," he replied. "You have a brand new Ferrari that hasn't left the garage."

"Will Mom and Dad let me out Aunt Alice," I asked.

"I can't see that one Nessie, but I will tell them that I do not see any immediate danger to the family as a whole, so maybe they will," she replied.

Jacob behaved very well during his measurements, although he was obviously miserable. Once I picked out an invitation with a castle over looking a forest, and picked the color burgundy as my choice for the Bridesmaids gowns, she told Jake and me that we were free until 8pm tonight.

The three of us then went down stairs to talk to my parents about letting me out of the house. Aunt Alice said that she was convinced that I was in no immediate danger, and that the afternoon learning how to drive would be advantageous incase I ever needed to make a fast get away. She did most of the arguing for us with my parents, so they quickly caved.