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6. PLANS

Jacob opened the door to the Cullen's house and held it open for me. As soon as I stepped inside, Alice appeared next to us. "Just what took… Well don't you look lovely?" She smiled and commented on my attire, which consisted of cut-off shorts.

I smiled sheepishly and Jacob laughed. "He does, doesn't he?"

"Is that a real tattoo?" Alice got real close to my chest, looking at the pack tattoo.

I nodded.

"So… What? Are you in the pack now?" She looked confused.

"Basically. Only, I don't have cool superhuman powers." I laughed. "Unless you qualify extreme nakedness as a super power."

Alice laughed a musical little laugh. "You've got that pack symbol everywhere don't you? Tattooed on your chest, on the bead on your necklace. I'm surprised it's not somewhere on your dog tag as well."

I brought my hand up and touched the bead on the woven hemp necklace. "Yeah, I guess so. I'm all about the wolf pack. 100% Team Wolf Pack. Although, I'm much more Team Jacob."

Alice and Jacob both stared at me, confused. "What?"

I shook my head. "Nothing."

Alice shrugged taking a few steps back and then spun around, hands on her hips. "Oh yeah! What took you guys so long? We're supposed to talk about your wedding plans! These things can't wait!"

Jacob laughed. "Sorry… That'd be my bad. Ya see, we were…"

From in another room, I heard Edward yelling. "For the love of God! Jacob, stop picturing that when you're near me!"

I turned red and covered my face with my hand. Jacob just bust out laughing even harder. "You're not even in the same room! That's not my fault!"

Alice laughed. "Only you guys can get Edward going like that. You're good for him."

"Anyway, let's just get this over with." Jacob walked into their dining room, followed closely behind by me and Alice.

Alice at on one side of the table and we sat opposite her. She had a clipboard and took out a pen. "Alright. Let's start with the guests. How many are we expecting? 300? 400?"

"You're joking, right?" I stared at her. "It's friends and family mostly."

Alice looked like she was going to say something, but then just scribbled something on her clipboard. "Ok… Who are you inviting then?"

"Let's see…" Jacob started. "Seth, Sam, Paul, Embry, Quil, Jared, Leah, my dad, Sue Clearwater, Levi Uley, and well you guys."

She wrote down each name as Jacob said it. "We should have it so it's each guest plus one, in case they have a date."

Jacob nodded. "Good idea."

"And for you, Terry?"

"Umm…" There wasn't very many people I wanted to have at my wedding. Namely because I haven't seen my family in ages, but Alice talked me into inviting them all.

"Ok, so that's a fair amount of people… No where near what I had originally planned… But that's ok." She looked up from her clipboard. "Now Jacob, I know your family is big on tribal traditions. Is there any in particular you want to have done during the wedding?"

Jacob looked thoughtful for a few minutes. "Well other than a big bon fire/party thing after, the only one I can think of is the ceremonial blanket."

Alice nodded and wrote it down.

"Ceremonial blanket? What's that?" Jacob never told me about his tribe's traditions.

"Well. It's a big… quilt, I guess you'd call it, and once we've been officially married, the blanket gets wrapped around our shoulders. It's supposed to show that we are one as a couple. The blanket was my dad's, I used to sleep with it as a kid. It's kinda like a hand-me-down situation. Every generation uses it for the wedding and then that couple keeps it for their… kids…" He shook his head quickly. "It's a pretty cool blanket too, I think you'll like it." Jacob smiled.

It sounded like an interesting tradition. The more I thought about it, the more I was glad Jacob had big tribe traditions like that. It really keeps the families close together, unlike my family.

We all continued to talk about wedding plans and basically what happened was we gave Alice the reigns and said 'have fun'. The only thing Jacob really wanted was to have the wedding take place at the beach. Alice said it would be complicated with her family being out if it was sunny, but then I suggested that we just marry on a cloudy day. There's plenty of those here in Washington. Alice said she'll see what she could do.

Alice promised us she would make sure we had a great wedding, and then took off towards another side of the house. When she was out of sight, Edward and Bella walked around the corner. Edward smiled. "I try to stay out of her way when she's in 'planning mode'."

I laughed. "It wasn't that bad."

Bella walked over to Jacob and I and hugged us both. "I can't believe you guys are actually getting married! It's so exciting!"

It was exciting. At some point in the near future, I would be united with the love of my life. I smiled as I thought about it and as if Jacob was thinking the exact same thing, he turned and smiled at me.

"So what're you guys going to do for your honeymoon?" Bella sat next to us at the table.

Jacob looked thoughtful and then Edward cried out. "My mind's eye!"

Jacob laughed. "We haven't really thought about where we're going to go. We know what we're going to do, that's for sure…" He winked at me.

Edward turned to us. "Well, let me handle the where. If you trust me, I promise you it will be some place you will both enjoy."

Jacob turned to me. "What do you think? Should we let him pick?"

It really didn't matter to me where we were. As long as I was with Jacob, it would be the best honeymoon ever. "Yeah, why not?"

Bella, who had been looking off into the distance for the past few moments, turned back to us. "That sounds like a great idea. Edward is really good at picking out great places to go. Wherever he picks, I'm sure you'll love it."

I turned to Jacob, who smiled and took my hand, squeezing it.