Chapter 31:
Bella's POV
Rose sat me down in the fancy hairdresser chair in Alice's bathroom. Alice actually bought a chair just for doing my make up and hair on my wedding day. I remember her saying, 'I want you to be as comfortable as possible." She should have added, "... while we torture you."
"Okay Alice. I am doing hair or make up?" Rose asked Alice.
"I'm on make up. You handle her hair." Alice answered.
"Yay! What sort of style do you have in mind?" Rose asked excitedly. Alice walked behind me and started discussing the way she wants it done, while I just sat and daydreamed. Why should I have to endure the torture of knowing what they are doing to me?
"Now Bella. It is time to start with your face." Alice said. I groaned. "First I am just going to put a simple cleansing mask on, so your face is absolutely clean. You will have to leave it on for about half an hour." Instead of responding, I just closed my eyes, and she began to apply the mask. I daydreamed of Edward and about the start of our life together. That day in biology, the meadow, when he left. Remembering that stung alittle. But then when he saved me, when he propsed to me, and the next time I am doing something important like today, I will be remembering today. Hopefully I won't be remembering it as a disaster.
"Bella!" Alice sung as she skipped back into the room. "Time to take the mask off and start your make up!" She squealed happily and it made me smile. Alice is truly one of a kind.
She began to scrub my face with a rag. When she finally got all of it off, she began to apply an amethyst color eyeliner. It actually looked pretty cute! Then she added mascara and a touch of blush on my cheeks. She stood back to look at me.
"Rose. Something is missing. What is it?" Alice asked. Rosalie walked around to look at my face.
"Oh she needs some dark red lipstick." Rose said.
"Oh duhhh! How could I forget that!" Alice almost yelled. She applied a quick layer of lipstick to my lips.
"Now that is what I call perfection!" She squealed.
"I finshed her hair as well." Rose said happily. "You look gorgeous Bella."
"Thanks." I said before standing up to look in the mirror. It was true. I did look pretty beautiful. My hair was pulled up into a little fountain of curls at the top of my head. It looked nice. I smiled.
"Okay come on, come on. We have to get your dress on." Alice pulled me towards her closet.
Rose and Alice helped me slip the dress on without ruining my hair or make up. Then Alice passed Rose my shoes and she put them on for me.
"Alice is Jake here?" I asked.
"Yes, he is dressed and ready. He just left to pick up his girlfriend." She answered. Then she ran out of the room to grab the finishing touch. She ran back in an flung something at me. I barely caught it. It was a garter.
"I would have lent you mine, but then you would't have your own special one to keep." She giggled, while she lifted up the bottom of my dress to shimmy it up my leg. It tickled and I almost fell over. A vampire falling over. That would have been embarassing.
"Rose and I have to go get ready now. Can you hold yourself together until we are done, or should I get Jasper in here?" Alice asked. Apparently she noticed the insane amount of shaking I was doing.
"I think I'll be fine." I said. I wasn't very convincing.
"Jazz!" She called.
"Yea?" He appeared in the hallway.
"Can you keep Bella calm while Rose and I go change?" She asked.
"Sure." He answered. Alice and Rose ran out the door.
"Bella. You need to calm down. Everything will be fine." Jasper told me. I felt a wave of relaxation come crashing down on me. It was very soothing and I stopped shaking. Jasper came and sat down on the bed next to me.
"This will be the greatest day of your life. I promise you." He said. "If anything goes wrong, we are all here to help you." His voice was soothing.
"Thanks Jasper." I replied and gave him a hug.
"You're welcome and besides, if you can face the Volturi and defeat them pretty much single-handedly, you can survive your own wedding." He joked.
"Alright, you are free to go Jasper. We are getting ready to start in a minute, you better get down there." Alice said as she burst through the door. I smiled at her.
"Jazz must of done a good job. You are actually smiling." Alice said and I hugged her.
"Thank you Alice." I told her before joining Carlisle at the top of the staircase to walk down.
Bella's POV
We all lined up at the top of the stairs. Alice handed me my bouquet before getting in line. The music of Claire de Lune began to play and Esme began to walk down first. The music was strangely calming. Rose was soon following behind her.
"Are you going to be okay?" Carlisle asked me as we locked arms after Alice began to follow Rose.
"I hope so." I smiled. And then we began to walk down. Watching Alice dance down the stairs made me want to laugh, but I didn't want to screw this up.
As I got to the bottom of the stairs, I took in all of the decorations. It was so beautiful. Flowers and ribbons everywhere. It looked perfect. I looked up at my best man's face. He smiled the biggest smile I had ever seen. He mouthed, "You look beautiful," to me and I smiled back at him. Then I mouthed, "So do you." He looked like he was going to burst into laughter, but he held it in.
Finally I looked at Edward, his beautiful dazzling, crooked smile was there staring at me. I wanted to run down the aisle and hold him in my arms. It seemed as though everything was moving in slow motion.
I eventually reached the end and looked away from Edward to see Emmett. I choked down a giggle when he grinned at me. Edward smiled too.
"I now pronounce you, man and wife." Emmett said. Wait? What? Did I like blink out and skip the rest of the ceremony?
"Emmett, aren't you missing somethings?" I whispered.
"No I was told to skip the boring stuff." He whispered back. Then he boomed, "You may now kiss the bride."
Edward pulled me into his arms and we kissed for five minutes straight. Finally Emmett cleared his throat and said, "Save it for the honeymoon, you two."
I lightly slapped his arm, but Edward was glaring at him and I giggled. If I was human, I would have been red as a tomato by now.
We walked outside to the reception, where there was a live band playing. The rest of the guests followed. The first arms that found me were Billy Black's.
"Billy? What are you doing here? You know?" I asked.
"Yea, sorry I kind of crashed but I wanted to see for myself that you are okay." He said apologetically.
"No its fine! I would have invited you if I knew! Just don't tell my dad." I choked on the last few words.
"I'm so sorry Bella. I know it must be hard for you." He hugged me tighter.
"It is, but I am more worried about my dad." I said. "Can you please try to cheer him up? Let him know that I loved him?" I asked.
"Of course sweetie. You are like a daughter to me too. Congrats!" He smiled.
"Thank you so much, Billy. I'll catch up with you later." I walked away with Edward.
I was pulled into so many hugs in the next ten minutes, I hardly recognized the people. Then Jake came up. He pulled me into a hug and the girl beside him flinched.
"Congrats you two. Bells, you were awesome!" He smiled.
"Thanks for coming Jake. It made it so much better that you could be here. I love ya!" I hugged him again. This time Edward flinched. Oh well! Edward and Jake's girl would have to get used to it. Jake is my brother and best friend.
"I love you too, Bells. Speaking of love. Ashley this is Bella and Edward. Bella. Edward. Ashley." Jake introduced us.
I jumped forward and hugged her. "I am so glad Jake has found you Ashley! I really am! I hope we become the best of friends." She was a little shocked at first but then she hugged back.
"Thanks. Jake has said great things about you. I am sorry for you loss though. Congrats on the wedding." She smiled. Strange, but this girl reminded me of me. Creepy, but oh well! As long as Jake loves her, so do I.
Edward just shook her hand. "Nice to meet you." He said. I guess he hadn't hunted in a while.
"Likewise." She smiled. "You guys aren't as scary as I thought you'd be." She admitted.
"Yeah that is what I thought too." I giggled.
We all sat down at one of the tables and talked for an hour and a half. Finally Alice interupted.
"I hate to interupt, but you have to leave in an hour and you haven't even had your first dance." She said.
"Alright, Alice. Sorry but I have to go. We will be back in a week, so swing by the house and we can talk more." I said to Jake and Ashley.
"No problem, Bells. We will." Jake smiled and hugged me. "I'll be stealing a dance from you before you leave."
"Bye Bella! Have fun!" Ashley giggled.
Edward and I walked out onto the dance floor, and my lullaby began to play. It would be our song.
"I hope I picked the right song, Mrs. Cullen." He said.
"You picked the perfect song, Mr. Cullen." I replied with a giggle.
"So that wasn't so bad, right?" Edward smiled.
"It was absolutely perfect. And I am so glad that Jake didn't have to suffer threw it. He has someone special too now. She seems a little over protective of me and Jake though." I said.
"You mean when she flinched after he hugged you?" He asked.
"Yeah. I mean. Jake and I are just friends." I said.
"No she didn't flinch because of that. She flinched because you are a vampire and she is worried about him." He said sadly.
"Oh. Well I would never hurt Jake and I have hugged him plenty. I guess she realized that too because she stopped flinching." I said.
The song changed and Emmett walked over.
"Can I cut in? I want to dance with my new little sister." He grinned.
"Sure Emmett." Edward let go of me and went to go dance with Rosalie.
"So what did you think of the ceremony?" Emmett asked with enthusiam.
"You did a perfect job, Em. I am glad that you skipped the boring parts." I smiled at him.
"Thanks, Bells. I told you I could do it." He said happily.
Jasper came to cut in next. Then Carlisle. Then Seth. Jake came last.
"Hey Bells." He said.
"Hey Jakey." I smiled.
"You are a beautiful dancer." He complimented.
"Thank you. From what I've seen, so are you." He blushed.
"It is not fair that I am the only one who can blush now." He complained.
"That is a perk of being a vampire." I giggled. And he laughed too.
"So where are you going for your magical honeymoon?" He asked.
"I haven't been told and it is very annoying. The worst part is that Alice packed for me." I giggled.
"You don't have any ideas?" He asked.
"Nope, except that I will be swimming or sunbathing." I replied.
"It will probably be a great surprise!" He said.
"Probably." I agreed.
Then the music changed again and Edward cut back in.
"I'll see you when you get back. Have fun!" Jake laughed before we began to twirl.
"How are you doing?" Edward asked.
"Fantastic." I replied. "You?"
"Never been better." He paused to kiss me. We were kissing for like five minutes before Alice came up.
"Bella, you have to change to leave now." She said while trying to pull me from Edward. I groaned.
"If you don't come, you will be boarding a plane in your wedding dress." I still didn't budge and neither did Edward.
"Let her go now Edward or I will tell her where you are taking her." Alice hissed. Edward froze and let me go. Then he hissed at Alice.
"Stupid annoying Pixie!" He growled.
"You have plenty of time for that later." Alice said to him as she pulled me into the house.
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