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"We have a problem," Tanya said at our next meeting as she sat down in the chair across from me.
My face fell at this. She knew about mine and Edward's past. Here I thought we could get through this without her finding out about Edward and mine's past. I thought this would be a simple meeting about colors and flowers.
"I have to leave for a week and a half so I won't be here to help with all the decisions." she said as she flipped her hand in the air.
I looked at her with my eyebrow raised. "Well Tanya we do have a short period of time to plan this wedding. I suppose as long as you can pick out the major things today and we can schedule walk through's for the location when you come back we should be fine."
I fought back the temptation to roll my eyes. She had given me three months to plan this extreme wedding and now she was going on a trip. That gives me 2 months and 2 and a half weeks to plan this and make my name known universally.
"Bells," she had for some reason become accustomed to calling me this even after repeatedly been told I hated the nickname, "we can't put a halt on preparations. And the location I want, we need to book as soon as possible. So, I know this is a little unorthodox, but I was thinking you and Mason could take over for the week and half?"
"Really, Tanya, it's not necessary." I said quickly. I didn't want alone time with Edward. Even more then that, I didn't want to be planning Edward's wedding to another woman alone with him.
"Nonsense Bella. He's fine with it and another thing," she said while flipping through colors. I blew out a breath hoping for the best. "The appointment to see the place is tomorrow morning."
"Er, well I guess we'll just work something out. Have Mason call me, I suppose." Tanya smiled at my cooperation while I internally threw up. This was going to be hell. But calling him Mason was helping with not connecting things in my brain as fast.
"I want baby blue for the bridesmaids dresses. I think that the one's you did for this wedding is absolutely gorgeous!" she exclaimed at the picture of the Mavalli's wedding last summer. Baby blue was a cliché pick so I wasn't surprised, but I clicked the apropiate buttons on the computer.
"What about flowers? Have you thought about that at all yet?" I had asked her to come prepared with which flowers she had wanted to this meeting but the look on her face told me clearly that she hadn't. I was just waiting for her to tell me roses. The cliché of wedding flowers.
"Well I wanted roses but everyone keeps telling me that it's to overdone. So I asked Mason and he wanted lilacs for some reason." She rolled her eyes at this seemingly stupid remark from her fiance. "But I realized that this is my wedding right? I want the roses. But can we get the white ones and make them blue?"
Of course she would want blue roses.
"Sure. It's not hard we just have to make sure the order is in by next week, so if you're sure, I'll send it in this afternoon?"
"This is going great already! Well I've got to go because I have to catch my plane in a couple of hours, but I'm going to tell Mason to call you with all the details about tomorrow." We stood up at the same time and she grabbed me into a hug. I found this highly uncomfortable but apparently she didn't. She waved again as she walked out the door.
I leant back in my chair and sighed loudly. Tomorrow wasn't going to be good. But dinner with Alice tonight was going to be worse.
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"ISABELLA MARIE SWAN! Tell me everything right now." the black haired pixie yelled at me over our spaghetti.
"What's there to tell? He's getting married. That's the gist of the story." I said in between bites.
If looks could kill, I'd be dead. This was worse then when I don't want to play Bella Barbie with her.
"Bella, this is Edward. The man you loved. The man you still love. And you're telling me that's it? There wasn't any sparks anymore?" she said speedily. Her energy never ceased to amaze me. She could give the energizer bunny a run for his millions.
"No Alice there isn't." I replied when my phone began to go off. Alice had changed my ringtone to My Life Would Suck Without You. As if I needed a ringtone telling me this. I glanced at the number I'd never seen before.
"Who is it?" Alice asked me. I shrugged my shoulders at her and battled whether I should answer it. I reasoned it could be an emergency of some sort and flipped it open.
"Hey this is Bella?" I said into the phone in a peppy voice but it sounded more like a question.
"Are you sure you're Bella?" a velvety voice asked me. My face grew hot and Alice watched me in anticipation as I mouth Edward at her.
"Pretty sure," I said carefully. Alice scooted her chair over next to me and we listened together.
"So Tanya told me to call you and discuss with you tomorrow? I had no idea she was leaving so quickly but apparently this can't be rescheduled." he said in his ever so dreamy voice. Alice mouthed where to me and that stumped me. I didn't even know.
"Yeah, three months and she's leaving. But hey, where are we going to tomorrow?" I asked hoping it was close by so we would spend as little time as possible together.
"Er, it's the Legion Of Honor in San Francisco," he started. Alice's mouth formed a small 'O' as she realized that was a five hour drive. A five hour drive I was sure I was going to end up carpooling with him. "So I figured we could ride together."
"Sounds great. What time?" I tried to speak in my best professional voice but it was hard considering the client and the inapt fear of being in a confined space with him for ten hours the next day.
"We have to be there at 1 in the afternoon. So I figured we'd leave around 7:30. Traffic and all you know?"
"Meet me at my office?" I asked as I scribbled down the time on my napkin and Alice shook her head at me. There was no way I was going to have him pick me up at my apartment.
"Why don't I just pick you up at your apartment? What's the address?" he asked and I looked at Alice. I didn't want him to know where I lived. This was getting too personal. But Alice nodded her head at me and mouthed 'do it'.
"I live at the Trio in Pasadena," I replied as I prayed that would be farther out of his way. I heard beeps coming over the line and realize he was messing with his GPS.
"Works perfectly for me. See you at 7:30 love," he said quickly and the line disconnected.
"Bella, he just called you love. Do you know what this mean?" Alice's face grew wide with excitement and I could already see her brain going a million miles a second.
"Alice he probably just slipped. It's not a big deal." I said as I sipped on my long island.
It was just a slip of the tongue right?
A/N: Hey I can't wait for the next chapter with the Edward and Bella interaction. Thanks for my reviews and the alerts! Read and Review please! Much love, LilD