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EPOV

"Edward you looked amazing all of you and you were everything I could ever want… I love you so much." Her chocolate eyes were sparkling with unshed tears. I knew they were tears of happiness.

"Me too love.. me too.. I couldn't have asked for more.." I leaned down and placed a loving kiss on her beautiful lips.

"I'm so glad you like me better than David." I couldn't help teasing her a little.

"Who is David?" A booming voice asked from the doorway. We both froze.

"Emmett!" Bella and I both uttered in unison. He stood there with a confused expression on his face.

"He's a friend of Bella's." I decided to tease both Bella and Emmett a bit. A light blush spread across Bella's face but I didn't expect what she said next.

"Yes. And he's really handsome." I felt jealousy burn in me again. Jealous of a statue! What next? Emmett had an incredulous expression on his face. "Oh bro I'm really sorry. How does she know this guy? Did she date him?" Well as least I was not the only one Bella managed to dupe with her David.

"Really? How do you know him?" Emmett was trying very hard to sound normal but curiosity was eating at him.

"Oh he's been around for a while. Everybody knows him. Edward knows him. I think even you know him. And he truly is amazing."

She really was laying it thick on poor Emmett. The shrewd look on her face told me that she was getting back at him for all the jokes he makes at her expense.

"I don't know him."

Emmett was thinking of all the David's he had known through the years trying to figure out who Bella would know.

"I know him." Chirped a cheerful voice. ALICE! Oh my god! In my confusion over David and Jacob's medical needs I had completely forgotten to worry about what Alice must have seen yesterday. She must have seen me in all my naked glory and my cowardly behaviour hiding myself. I felt very embarrassed. I automatically buried my face in my hands I just couldn't look at her. Had she told the others? No she wouldn't. It's not like Alice to do that and Emmett had not teased me over it. I was surprised when I felt tiny cold hands hugging me, trying to pull my face out of my hands.

"Oh Edward! I'm so happy! Congratulations!" Holy shit! She was congratulating me for finally getting naked with my girlfriend! This was beyond embarrassing. It was utterly mortifying. I chanced a glance through my fingers at Bella and she looked equally mortified. All talk about David had ceased and the whole family was looking at me! I'll never live this down.

"Please say you will let me plan it! You simply have to Edward! I've waited so long. Please please please Bella! You've got to let me" The pixie was still talking non-stop, and in her excitement was not making much sense at all. Plan what? I have to stop making assumptions. I finally calmed myself enough to read her mind. It was full of floral arrangements and wedding dresses. Wedding dresses! Of course the engagement! The wedding! I couldn't believe the relief I felt. I burst out laughing and grabbed hold of the pixie spinning her around. I should have known that Alice would not at all be concerned about my nudity! In fact she wouldn't mind if I got married in the buff as long as she got to plan the wedding not that she would let me.

"Sure you can if I was the one who would be making the decisions about it. But I'm not the one to ask. You have to ask the bride." I glanced at Bella. She was also laughing now. I could tell she had guessed what all this commotion was about.

Everything happened all at once. Esme rushed to me.

"Oh Edward I'm so happy! Congratulations!" She hugged me . I'd forgotten that we had not yet told anyone about our engagement. Seth and the wolf pack knew I guess and Alice knew but we hadn't told the rest of the family. "I've waited so long for this moment" Esme thought at me picturing me dressed in a wedding suit with Bella on my hand. It was similar to the day dreams I had had about our wedding. I hugged her tightly to me.

"I know mom. And I'm so happy."

I knew how important this was for her. I was her first child and I always had a special place in both Carlisle's and Esme's hearts. Carlisle was the next to congratulate us.

"Congratulations son!" He hugged me to him then patted me on the back. "My son! Getting married…" He then hugged Bella. "Welcome to the family Bella." He was beaming with happiness his thoughts barely coherent. I had never seen him this happy except at his own wedding. So this is how happy parents are for their children's happiness. I felt a twinge of sadness for all that I would never have. I would never be a father and now Bella was going to loose the chance to be a mother because of me. But she couldn't live without me and I couldn't exist without her so there really was no other way than to change her. Perhaps we could adopt other vampires like Carlisle and Esme did. This thought gave me hope for the future.

I could tell the happiness in the room was making Jasper more jubilant and his hug was exuberant.

"Edward! I've never been this happy!"

He pointed at everyone around the room laughing. He must be feeling the combined happiness of us all.

Emmett gave me his big bear hug. "Congratulations dude." "I'm so glad this David character didn't win her heart" I had to laugh at that.

Rosalie looked a bit reluctant to come over. She was feeling a bit jealous that everyone was so hyped up about our engagement and the wedding because she loved weddings… well the ones where she got married. But I could read in her thoughts that for once she was genuinely happy for me.

"Congratulations Edward." She gave me a somewhat awkward hug. It was silly really considering how many hugs she must have given me over the years. But today's hug meant a lot to me. She didn't have the usual snide comments in her mind. Her congratulations were sincere. I knew that we were all going to get along well. She even went over to Bella and kissed her on her cheek wishing her well. Bella looked a bit surprised but smiled back at Rosalie. I saw Jasper and Emmett both congratulate Bella, the latter spinning her around. When he finally put her down she looked very disoriented and I rushed to her and held her to my side before she fell down.

"I bet David wouldn't spin you that well."

Emmett couldn't resist teasing Bella. I could tell he was digging his own grave. I wasn't going to rescue him, specially after the way he made Bella dizzy with his spin.

"No. He's the kind of guy who likes to observe and hang around in one place. People just gravitate towards him. Such is his attraction." Bella really was getting her own back at Emmett.

Emmett was looking more confused by the minute. Specially since I didn't seem to mind Bella's obsession with David. Carlisle gave me a puzzled glance.

"Do I know David?" He asked me.

"Oh yes you've known him for sometime now, and admired him."

I gave him a meaningful look and then stood in the exact position David stood. That was all the others needed as well to figure out who this David was. The room erupted in laughter, except for Emmett. This really was not his day. He still looked confused.

"It's Michelangelo's David Emmett." Rosalie finally told him.

"Oh sis you really had me fooled there!" Emmett smiled at Bella. He took the whole joke at his expense in a stride with good humour. The pixie was back in action the moment the room grew quiet.

"Please Bella… I would do anything you want! Just please let me do this.. let me plan your wedding."

Bella looked at Alice with a thoughtful expression. I could tell she was not going to be the pushover she once was. Alice was going to have a hard time persuading her. Alice had not got a vision of Bella saying yes so she was also having a sad puppy dog expression of her face.

"Ok. But I have conditions."

"Anything! Oh thank you so much Bella!" The pixie was bursting with happiness hugging Bella.

"Well the first one is that I will have the final say in everything. Nothing happens without my approval"

"Yes sure." Alice looked a bit confused because she really couldn't see Bella's next conditions. I knew Bella well enough to know that she didn't really have any conditions on her mind yet and she was just making them up along the way. This could very well be the first time that Bella ever thought of a wedding! But Alice didn't know that.

"I will let you know the dates after I talk with Edward and I don't want anything overly extravagant."

"Sure."

"I also have something to ask you. Would you be my bride's maid?" Alice's eyes grew huge. She was now beyond happy. My mind started spinning with the number of bride's maid's dress designs from Paris that ran through Alice's mind.

"Oh Bella! I would love that! We could…" Bella kept a finger on Alice's lips shutting her up.

"I'm not finished yet. I will be designing the bride's maid dresses." Alice's mouth hung open. Her visions of dresses and her in her dress went blank. She couldn't see what Bella would decide! This really was going to be fun.

"But.. Bella.." Alice barely got a word out before Bella interrupted her.

"No buts. You can do the bridal but of course I would have to like it. But the bride's maid dresses will be entirely up to me. I will give you the design and the material I want used and you have to get it for me and do the dresses."

"Oh thank you Bella." Alice actually didn't mind what she would wear as long as Bella was going to let her do the rest of the wedding including the bridal.

Now I was very curious to know how Bella managed to play with Alice's visions. She must be doing something similar to what Victoria did. But how?

"Well guess it's time for me to go home." I checked the time and Bella was right Charlie would be expecting her.

"I'll take you." Alice offered.

I turned to Bella and gave her a short kiss. I would kiss her later in the meadow. I was planning to propose to her properly again in the meadow. This time with the ring. I shuddered as I remembered my first proposal. As soon as I made the decision to take Bella to the meadow Alice had a vision but before I could read it she shut her mind up thinking of the wedding. I gave her a questioning look.

"You really don't want me to see that vision again Edward. I will have to look at it again if you want to know." Oh shit! She was right I didn't want her to see it again if Bella and I were going to be intimate again in the meadow. "Meet me at the river I want to talk to you." The pixie gave me a meaningful look. Oh this was going to be trouble. I could see it from her expression that she wanted to talk about last night. At least she waited to talk to me privately without bringing it up in front of Bella and my family. I was grateful that she had not mentioned anything about last night to the family. She hadn't even told them about the engagement that was a lot knowing Alice I know how much she would have wanted to share that bit of information with them. There was nothing to it I would have to talk to her.

I watched as Bella left with Alice. I was already feeling lonely even knowing that I would see her in less than an hour. I would go to Charlie's as soon as I had my talk with Alice.

"Edward, son we would like to talk to you." I didn't expect Carlisle and Esme to call me up to Carlisle's study. When I got there I found them seated comfortably in the corner sofa.

"Edward, we are so proud of you. We just wanted to let you know that we would like to give you a small gift from the family." Esme was all smiles and she was picturing a small cottage. It looked somewhat familiar but I had never seen it. I was sure about that.

"Edward, do you remember that run down cottage at the other side of the river?" At Carlisle's prompting I remembered it. I immediately knew that the picture in Esme's mind had been the same one but with a lot of renovations.

"Yes dad."

"We would like you to have it. Esme has plans to renovate it so that you and Bella can move in once you are married." I was thrilled at the prospect of moving in to a small place of our own. I had even thought about buying some property in Forks for me and Bella but had been worried about offending the family. I also had to worry about her newborn years so I had given up on that idea.

I went to them and kissed Esme on her cheek.

"Thank you so much mom, dad.. you don't know how much this means to me. I'm sure Bella will love it!" Esme's enthusiasm knew no bounds she was already drawing up plans in her head.

"When do you think the date will be? We have to work fast to make it ready." Esme looked at me questioningly.

"I don't know. I still have to ask Bella. It would be her decision. She said she wanted it soon. I still haven't had the chance to even give her the ring properly. I'm hoping to do it today in the meadow." I knew how happy this would make them since they had actually wondered why she was not wearing my ring. The ring I had kept for so long hoping I would meet someone someday. As the years passed without me meeting anyone I wanted I had actually thought I would never get the chance to have the happiness the others had.

"Oh Edward, she would love it." I hoped Esme was right. I knew the early twentieth century design of my mother's ring might not be modern enough for Bella but I hoped she would like it. I would offer to get a new one for her if she didn't like it. This ring was special to me and I hoped she would accept it.

"Edward I'm back. I just had a great vision of you!" A cheery voice called to me from down stairs the pixie was back.

"What?" I called down knowing fully well she wouldn't tell me till I caught her.

"If you want to know it you'll have to catch me first."

This was a game she and I played regularly with me chasing her when she wouldn't let me see her visions. Carlisle chuckled shaking his head. It never ceased to amaze him that Alice and I never seemed to tire of our little game. If he only knew how interesting Alice's visions sometimes were. It was nothing compared to hearing them to see them in vivid colour in her mind the same way she sees them. But today was different. She wanted to speak to me and she might show me her vision of the meadow but I really didn't want to see that one. But I did want to talk to Alice and get it over with. I knew it was going to be awkward and I appreciated Alice's excuse of our usual game to get me to follow her to the river. I didn't want the rest of the family knowing what we might talk about.

I ran after the little pixie and easily caught her spinning a sqeecking pixie at vampire speed before setting her down gently on our log.

"So what's up?" I couldn't look up in to her eyes. I stared at the ground drawing Bella's name on the sand with a stick.

"Edward look at me." I didn't. I continued with my drawing.

"Come on Edward, you are my brother as well as my best friend. We can talk about anything right? We don't have any secrets between us and I want it to remain that way for the rest of our days. Nothing changed yesterday." A lot had changed for me.

"Yes they did Alice."

"Edward… so I saw a vision of you naked that doesn't change anything between us. How many times have you seen me naked it never changed anything." She was right about that. I had never even given it a second thought.

"I guess so."

"Well, I wasn't going to even talk about the vision I had of you last night but I had been having a serious of other visions that have had me worried."

She ran through them in her mind. In her visions I was worrying about what Bella had thought of me. But that was not the problem I could see in her visions that the worry was a never ending one with me always doubting Bella's attraction to me and my ability to satisfy her, creating a lot of unhappiness and doubt between us. I sighed. I knew I had these doubts but didn't know what to do about it. I was an ice cold vampire. My body though people perceived as attractive was simply a cold marble stone. Would I ever be enough for Bella? She had said she was happy with what I had to offer. But would she always be happy? Will she crave a warm more beautiful body than what I had to offer? Before I knew it I was pinching the bridge of my nose.

"Edward stop doing that." A tiny hand pulled my hand away and held it with both of hers on her lap.

"Please Edward look at me." I reluctantly looked at her.

"What I'm going to say to you now will change those visions and you will save a lot of years of worries. But this is going to be the most embarrassing and mortifying thing I have ever done in my life." Now I was terrified. What was Alice going to do? I stared at her in horror.

"Oh for heaven's sake Edward it's nothing bad. I'm just going to give you my honest opinion on something." I relaxed a bit but I could not help the tension still seeping through me.

"Do you trust me Edward?" Clear pleading eyes stared at me.

"Of course Alice with my life"

"Good. So do you trust in my judgement and what I believe in?"

"Sure."

"Well right now I'm going to talk to you as your best friend not your sister. I'm also a women so I know what I'm talking about.. you have to trust me on this. So here we go. Edward, you are very handsome all of you." Oh dear god I didn't know where to hide myself in my embarrassment. I opened my mouth to say something I didn't know what but Alice held up her hand.

"Listen to me. You know how attractive females seem to find you. Well Bella thinks of you the same way and her attraction runs deeper than any of theirs. She loves you for who you are. Like she said she has never stopped loving you. And Edward although you think that you have a cold hard body that no one would want you are everything that a woman would ever want. You have nothing to be afraid of. Once Bella changes she would also be more like you and you will be able to express your love for her more freely. The hardness and the cold will also no longer apply. But even now you have to trust her judgment as well as mine when we say that you are very handsome and attractive. Ok there I said it." I finally found the courage to look up at her. She was looking down and I could tell it was her turn to be embarrassed. Her thoughts resembled what she told me. She was being very sincere and this really was her honest opinion.

"Oh Alice thank you."

I can imagine how difficult this must have been for her. I put an arm around her pulling her closer to me. She rested her head on my shoulder. We stared into space not talking to each other in a companionable silence. I thought about what she had told me. I knew the truth in her words. She was right I trusted her judgment. Bella wasn't lying she truly did find me attractive. If both Bella and Alice say I'm attractive who am I to argue? I knew she was speaking from years and years of visions and her own assessment of human nature.

A series of new visions passed through her mind as soon as I decided to trust in Alice's judgement, but she quickly shut them up.

"Oh good lord Edward! Behave yourself!"

"What?" I asked in surprise at her outburst.

"Brother dearest, you are going to turn into a love machine as a result of this talk! Please try to spare your poor little sister's peace of mind and try not to give her too many scandalous visions."

"As if I have a choice."

"Well you could try to practise abstinence."

"No way! I have so many years to make up for. But I will try to be good at least in your visions." We both laughed out loud at my little joke.

I knew this was something I really couldn't do. And the grateful smile Alice gave me told me that she wasn't fooled a bit but she was glad for my token offer. I couldn't believe I was joking with her about a topic that had embarrassed us both a moment ago. It spoke of how much the two of us knew and trusted the other. I was very grateful to her for putting my mind at ease even though it had been very uncomfortable for both of us.

"Thanks Edward." Alice leaned in and gave me a peck on my cheek.

"Thank you Alice for putting my mind at rest. Love you." I kissed her temple and playfully ruffled her hair.

"Love you too Edward. Now go and give her that ring and set the date so that I can start with the wedding planning."

"Will do." I got up to go to Bella's.

"Oh by the way Bella would love the idea of making videos of her human life so that she won't forget."

"Thanks Alice." I had been thinking of making small clips of her everyday life so that she had permanent memories of her human life once she became a vampire.

As I walked to the Volvo I heard Rosalie's thoughts. She was under her sports car as usual fine tuning it. She was feeling sad that Bella had not asked her to be a bride's maid as well. I knew Rosalie liked getting dressed up but I was surprised she wanted to be Bella's bride's maid. I thought about telling Bella of Rosalie's disappointment but decided against it. I had to let Bella make her own choices. It was her wedding and I wanted her to be comfortable with it. Rosalie had hurt both me and Bella very deeply and although I have forgiven her in my mind, deep inside the hurt was still there. It was not something you can forget easily even for a human and I never forgot anything. It would be the same for my Bella. I sincerely hoped that Rosalie wouldn't make this an issue and hurt Bella again.

As I drove towards Bella's I thought of her… her skin so soft… so beautiful.. all of her.. as she revealed herself to me. I wanted to see her like that again. I knew something would happen in the meadow because Alice had had some kind of an embarrassing vision. I had run there a short while ago to make arrangements and everything was ready to make a memorable proposal to her. I couldn't wait to get her to the meadow.

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