Crissy went to the apartment, along with Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Carter, to retrieve her stuff so she could move it all to the Cullen's house. I stayed with Edward while they were gone, we were listening to some of the music that we would have preformed at the wedding. Most of the band members would be preforming a song during the reception or wedding, we would only have one preformed during the wedding ceremony.
We were listening to the very first one that we would have at the wedding, the one that Crissy would sing, 'When you say nothing at all.' It was one of my favorites because it described Edward and I, we don't have to tell each other how much we love the other, we just know. This song wouldn't be preformed at the reception, it would be played at the wedding ceremony, just like I said, this was the only song that would be played at the actual ceremony.
After that we listened to 'I'll be', which Jasper would sing for the first dance, the one Edward and I would dance to. Then 'Butterfly kisses', the father-daughter dance, which Carter would sing. We didn't really have anymore songs yet, and Alice told us that she couldn't see anymore songs that we would write. The next CD that came out would be our last, if we even had another CD come out, and the next concert would be our last, Edward and I would announce that we were married at the concert and that it would be our last. That's right, 'The Lion and The Lamb' are coming to their end, with Chrissy and I being changed we won't be able to preform anymore, we would look and sound too different, and we didn't want people to get suspicious. The next CD would also be our last, we couldn't record with Ron looking at us, and hearing us, we would sound and look different to him too, and we couldn't tell him, that would only put him in danger, and we already had me and Chrissy in for a brutal beating, well not really but that's what I'm calling it, from the Volturi if we weren't changed, we couldn't have that happen to Ron too.
The wedding was only a few days away and Edward refused to go to his bachelor party, as did I to my bachelorette party. Alice and Emmett both threw fits when we told them, though Alice already knew, but she just threw a fit anyway. I don't know why Alice threw the fit, she already knew, of course, but she did, that's something that I will never know.
So now it was two days before the wedding, Carter and Chrissy had moved in and were going over the songs they were to sing, and I was the most nervous human being in the world.
I tried to act calm, I really did, but everyone saw right through my bad acting skills. Jasper tried to help but I was way too nervous for him to do anything with my emotions. Edward tried to get me to calm down too, the whole family did, but I couldn't calm down, I was just a nervous wreck, but Renee told me it was normal and not to worry. Emmett had been joking last night about me tripping and ruining the whole ceremony, did he have to make me even worse than I already was?
I didn't have to give Rose and Alice any kind of signal for them to both get up at the same time and walk behind Emmett, both of them hitting on the back of the head with a loud popping sound that hurt my ears and even made most of the vampires put their hands over their ears. Emmett had screamed with surprise and had ran up the stairs and into his room, screaming all the way.
That night was past me now and I had just been awaken by the sound of my lullaby being played softly downstairs. I slowly sat up and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes before getting out of the golden bed. I went down the stairs very slow, so I wouldn't trip, and saw that Chrissy was coming down the stairs with Carter also. I said good morning to them, but they seemed like they were mesmerized by the sound of my lullaby, after all they had never heard it before.
When we got to the bottom of the stairs the three of us looked at each other, I was confused, why would Edward be playing my lullaby this early in the morning? Crissy and Carter looked awed at the sound of the piece that my perfect fiance was playing for me on the piano.
"Edward, why are you playing my lullaby?" I asked when the three of us rounded the corner to the living room, and there sat all of the Cullens, starring at Edward and, when we came in the room, at us, too.
"No reason, love. I just felt like playing it. Did you sleep well?"
"Yes, I did." I replied as I sat down on the bench beside Edward. He stopped playing long enough to cradle my face in his hand and kiss my lips quickly, then he went back to playing the beautiful music. I wanted to cry, but I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of everyone, so I swallowed the tears of joy that were threatening to come if I wasn't careful.
Edward had stopped playing and I leaned my head on his shoulder as he rapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer and kissing me more deeply then he had before. At that moment I was in heaven.
It was a day before the wedding and Alice started to decorate already, setting up every table outside, the tent as well, and she even folded every single napkin the same way, making each one look like a tiny elegant piece of art that sat at every place. I still couldn't believe that this was happening to me, I was marrying Edward, he was so perfect and I was so ordinary, I didn't see how this could be real. I felt as if I were dreaming, and forever couldn't wake up. But when I reached the alter everything would disappear, and I would wake up, without Edward, and be back in Phoenix with my mother and Phil. But I knew that this wouldn't happen, I would be with Edward for all of eternity.
"Emmett, no! Emmett, don't do that! Noooooo!" Alice screamed, a shatter coming from outside. Alice started dry sobbing and Edward and I looked at each other a bolted for the back door, Edward carrying me, of course.
There were pieces of ice scattered around the yard, Alice sobbing in the middle of them and Emmett standing away from all of the shattered ice with his arms crossed over his chest and the same pouting two year old look on his face.
"Alice, what's wrong?" Edward asked.
"I wanted to have an ice sculptor of you and Bella for the wedding, but Emmett grabbed it and it shattered into a million pieces!" She shrieked, sobbing harder and harder by the second.
"I just wanted to help, Alice. I'm sorry." Emmett said from his spot away from all the ice shatters.
"Well you didn't help that much did you?!" Alice yelled at her brother.
"Alice, we don't need an ice sculptor. If you really want one couldn't you just make another one, you made that one, I saw you working on it yesterday, it didn't take you that long." I tried to make my soon-to-be-sister feel better.
"I guess you're right, I'll make another one. Sorry I yelled at you, Emmett."
"It's okay, little sis."
"Hey Alice, I want to talk to you about the dance for me and Edward."
"Okay."
"I want to change the song from 'I'll be' to a song called 'A thousand miles.' I just heard it last night and was going to ask you about it then, but I forgot and I just now remembered"Of course, Bella. I love that song. Who do you want to sing it?"
"Carter, everyone will be dancing and I already talked to him about this, he said that he didn't mind singing it."
"Okay, then we'll change the song, but Jasper will still sing 'I'll be' after the father-daughter dance, okay?"
"I like that idea."
We all went back inside for a little while, well all of us except Alice, who went to clean up the mess of ice and to make another one to put inside the tent, which had air conditioning so the ice wouldn't melt. The sculptor was so life like, Alice should be an artist.
We started watching a TV show, I didn't know what it was called, I was too lost in my thoughts, and no one wanted to pull me out of them, so I was in my own little world.
The day didn't last too long, Alice had everything set up outside, and inside, and it was time for me to get some sleep, Edward came with me, but Alice pulled him away when we reached the door, telling me to tell him goodnight. I did as I was told as did Edward and we went our separate ways.
I didn't like going to bed without Edward, it didn't feel right. I got to sleep somehow, I'll never know how, but I dreamed of the wedding, and it was perfect. I hoped everything went as smoothly as it did in the dream, and with Alice there, and Rose, and a lot of other vampires there, I doubt it wouldn't go anything under perfect. Everything was going to be better now, but I didn't know how to say goodbye to Charlie and Renee, I would be making the painful change into a vampire after all and I wouldn't be able to see them anymore. I wouldn't be able to stand that, but I really didn't want to put either one of them in danger.
I woke up, the dream had taken a terrible turn. I was dreaming of Charlie and Renee sobbing while talking on the phone with someone. I knew what had happened in that scene, I had been turned into a vampire and we had faked my death so my parents wouldn't suspect anything.
This was going to be horrible, I don't think I could stand doing that to either of them, not now, and I knew that I would hurt them more than ever, but I needed to be with Edward, and it was what I wanted, right? I didn't need to be having second thoughts right now, that wouldn't help anything.
I looked at my clock one last time before I got myself to sleep, it read twelve twenty-eight. I let my head fall on to the pillow and closed my eyes, drifting in to a beautiful, dreamless sleep.
