Short chapter, I'm going on hiatus for a bit, I have some writer's block
The moment Jasper and I enter the house, Alice is on me, Jennifer and Pandora are standing in the doorway, not too far behind, while my fiancé rushes off with a smirk on his face, I vague register Emmett practically tackling him, while Edward watches with a smirk from the side, Bella wandering in from the living room. "Let me see it! Let me see it!" Alice chirps, fluttering around me in a blur, while I bite back a laugh.
"What's going on?" Bella asks.
"That's what we'd like to know." Jennifer answers, crossing her arms over her chest, Garrett is surprisingly not at her side, for once.
"The engagement ring!" Alice squawks, causing the other three girls to look at me in surprise. "I want to see it!"
"Me too!" Jennifer crows, scurrying over to crowd me, even Pandora rushes over, while Bella delicately picks her way towards the front door, the three of them tag teaming me, causing me to smile, and hold out my hand.
"Wow!" Pandora says in a surprised tone.
"He did good, didn't he?" Jennifer asks, caressing the diamonds with her thumb, before Alice squeals, clapping her hands excitedly, and Bella smiles up at me softly.
"Congratulations, Lilith, you guys deserve to be this happy." She ignores the pointed look I give her, seeing Edward's unfocused frown, before he and Jasper wander over together, Alice loops her arm through my own before Jasper can rescue me, and she drags me off into the living room, where she makes me flaunt my ring to Esme and Rosalie.
"So, I was thinking a June wedding." Alice says, causing my to look at her like she's insane. "I can get the planning done in a month!" She defends.
"No." I state, running my fingers through my hair as Alice looks at me in surprise, before narrowing her eyes at me.
"You are not running off to Vegas to get married!" Alice barks.
"Alice, you'd go all out. I just want a small wedding." I explain, causing her to cross her arms, pouting at me. "Don't you dare." I hiss as I narrow my eyes at her.
"You are my sister, and you don't even love me enough to let me plan your wedding!" Alice howls in false tears, yet guilt eats at me.
"But, I-"
"I want to give you a dream wedding, and you won't let me!" Alice bawls, causing me to swallow thickly, looking at Jasper for help, he only shrugs, and Edward takes this time to rush Bella out the front door, while Carlisle and Emmett join us. "I want to plan your wedding!" Alice sobs, causing me to sigh, hanging my head defeatedly.
"Alice, I… fine!" I hiss, causing her to perk up instantly, hugging me as she hums happily. "But, I have stipulations!"
"You can pick out the bridesmaids, and you have control of the guest list. I will not hide the dress from you, and you can go barefoot." Alice answers, causing me to blink, before rolling my eyes in a go figure you already know sort of way. "So, not June this year, what about June next year?" Alice asks, causing me to wrinkle my nose, before sighing.
"I want a rain wedding." I state, causing her eyes to light up. "So, I was thinking about a November wedding, but not this year- next year. I want to be nineteen." I glance at Jasper, who is leaning against the archway, arms crossed, smile on his lips, and his ocher eyes sparkling with happiness. "That way I am Jasper's age, when I am changed." Everyone in the room stiffens at that, causing me to frown.
"You want to be changed?" Rosalie asked.
"Yes. Jasper and I have talked about this. Though I physically am 18 forever, I can still die from human things, such as cancer, or being shot, or even really bad pneumonia." I glance at Jasper, who makes his way over to me. "It's not like I'll be giving anything up. My family are immortal, I can't have kids, and Bella will be immortal too." I glance over at Jennifer, who smiles at me, nodding supportively.
"I think it's a great idea!" Alice suddenly chirps.
"It's still something we can all discuss, it's not something I'm forcing you all to accept. If I change my mind later, Jasper won't be upset, and things will not have changed, but for now, this is something I need you all to think about." I explain myself, causing the tension in the air to dissipate, before Rosalie leans forward, and smiles.
"So, a November rain wedding? I guess we'd better break out ponchos for everyone." She says, causing me to burst into laughter. Things would get better, I know that, and they know that, this battle is not one that we can lose, if we all work together, and that's what we are going to do.
Standing in the kitchen of Jasper and I's house, I am slicing up some tomatoes to throw into the spaghetti pot, Jennifer is flipping through a magazine in the living room, and Pandora is sitting in the windowsill, her magic sparkling above her hands. Rainn is playing a video game on the couch, while Grace (who agreed to come help us, while Peter and Charlotte are doing reconnaissance) is watching her with great interest. The other wolves are doing border patrol, while the other Cullens, minus Edward, and Garrett are out hunting to power up for the battle, Bella and Edward are at the house, while Pandora, Grace, and Rainn are here to protect myself and Jennifer as well, while our coven are training for the battle.
"So, I heard someone got engaged." Grace suddenly says, causing me to look up from stirring the spaghetti sauce together. She's looking at me like the cat that ate the canary, from across the room, causing me to look down as I blush, and Rainn sits up.
"Say what now?" Rainn asks, causing my blush deepen. "You and Jazzy?"
"It's… new." I answer, causing her to squeal, bouncing up and down on the couch, causing me to wince at her high pitched shriek, and she bounds over to me.
"Why did you call me? Why didn't you come see me? Where's the ring?" She bombards me with questions, causing me to wince, and stick my hand out, showing her the ring as she grasps my hand, narrowing her eyes sharply on the band. "Oooh! It's pretty." She beams up at me, and I let out a laugh.
"Isn't it?" I smile down at the pretty band around my finger, then smirk as I look up at Rainn. "So, when's Seth popping the question?" I taunt, causing Rainn to blush, spluttering as Grace, Jennifer, and I all burst into laughter, the red hybrid wanders over to the couch, sitting down as she crosses her arms over her chest, before spitting out a retort, aimed towards Jennifer.
"What about you, and you Gar-Bear?" Jennifer freezes, eyeing Rainn like she's insane.
"Garrett and I? We're at each other's throats, more than we are, just talking and getting along. We stick to each other's sides, because despite that, we feel protective of each other. It's mate bond. Jasper and Lily had it, before Lily even had her magic abilities." Jennifer suddenly jumps up, crossing to the spice cupboard, before holding out an all too familiar green vial to me, causing me to grimace. "Powering up for battle." She reminds me, pulling the cork to her own, and downing her own potion with a shudder, and her nose wrinkles.
"Bottoms up." I state, pulling the cork from my own vial, the scent of raspberries, toothpaste, and oranges with a hint of fish smell, hint my nose, causing my stomach to roll as I pinch my nose, tossing back the potion, can swallowing it all in one go, before I throw the vial in the garbage.
"At least you guys get to fight- I'm on guard duty on the rez, trailing after Charlie and Billy." Rainn huffs, before leaning back in her seat to pout.
"You have an important role." I point out. "I'm merely casting shields in the background, and basically bait." I remind her, causing her to sit up.
"Yeah, I don't like that idea any more than Edward does with Bella wanting to be in the fight." Grace says.
"Cheer up, Chesh, at least you'll have my back." At my nickname, Grace smiles her cheshire smile, and crosses her legs, her bright purple combat boots dangling off the side of the window bench.
"You forget, I'm going to be absorbing as many powers as I can, Chip." Grace answers, her nickname causes my ears to tinge a bit pink.
"Chip?" Jennifer asks.
"She calls me Chesh, because I remind her of the Cheshire cat from Alice and Wonderland." Grace explains.
"She calls me Chip, because of my fascination with Beauty and the Beast, I seem to remind her of Chip." I explain, causing Rainn and Jennifer to both burst into laughter.
"Anyway, we should finish dinner." Jennifer says, going back to her spot.
"You mean I should finish dinner." I retort with a snort, and Jennifer just smirks at me.
"Exactly."
"Anyway, after dinner, I'm going to bed. I'm exhausted." I state, causing Jennifer to frown.
"Are you sick?" She asks.
"No, just Alice has been keeping me up late with wedding plans." I answer.
"Alice." The three of them say in unison, for silence settles over us all, while I cook some noodles in a second pot, tossing some mushrooms into the spaghetti sauce.
"So, how far do you think Bella and Edward have gotten, yet?" Grace suddenly asks, causing me to drop the spoon in my hand in shock, glancing over at her as I lift the wooden spoon from the floor.
"What?!" I ask.
"Bella and her dad had a talk today, and I saw the look on Bella's face. Oh, one of the powers I absorbed allows me to see the past. Anyway, Bella's totally going to be trying to bed Edward tonight, how far do you suppose they've gotten?" Grace explains.
"God, I do not want to know that!" Jennifer cries, before Rainn's brow crinkles.
"Do you mean… sex?" She asks in confusion, causing me to look at her as Jennifer and Grace both laugh.
"What, you and Seth haven't done that yet?" Grace asks.
"What? No! I'm 15, not stupid!" Rainn answers, causing Grace to nod in understanding.
"Yes, that's what Grace was talking about." Jennifer answers. "Just how far have you and Seth gotten?"
"Uh… kissing?" She answers. "I mean, I sleep over sometimes- he sneaks me into his room at night, and we lay there, holding hands until we fall asleep." Rainn explains, causing me to smile softly.
"That's cute." I state, causing Grace to grimace at me words, while I roll my eyes, and look at Rainn. "Don't lose that cuteness. The innocence."
"Okay." Rainn answers, nodding her head.
"You and Jasper probably do the same thing!" Jennifer bites at me, teasingly, causing me to duck my head, blushing brightly as she looks at me with wide eyes. "You didn't!" She cries. "When?!"
"At the hotel… the night we stayed there together." I clear my throat. "A few times after."
"You little minx!" Grace laughs, causing my face to burn even more.
"Oh, like you're innocent!?" I laugh at her, causing Grace to look a bit sheepish.
"Casual sex is… different." Grace retorts, causing me to roll my eyes again. "It is! It's just… sex! You and Jasper don't have sex, you make love- there is a difference."
"I-" Rainn jumps up, cutting me off as she covers her ears, cheeks bright red.
"Can we cut this out?! Change the channel! Something!" She cries, causing all of us to let out a laugh.
"Okay okay!" I agree. "Dinner's done." I state, once I'm done draining the noodles, and stirring them into the sauce, Rainn and Jennifer both hurry over, grabbing plates as I take mine, wandering over to Grace's side, sitting down to eat.
"I mean it though." Grace murmurs in my ear. "What you and Jasper have. What Jennifer and Garrett have. What Carlisle and Esme, Rosalie and Emmett, Alice and Pandora, or Edward and Bella have. What Rainn and Seth have even, I would kill for. A reason to fight, a reason to live."
"Don't worry, Chesh. You'll find it, I promise." I nudge her. "And if not, you have me. I'll always be your friend." She smiles up at me.
"Thanks, Chip, you're a great friend." She wraps an arm around me, quickly giving me a side hug, before letting me eat. She offers to do the dishes as I wander upstairs, falling into Jasper and I's bed, once I've changed, once I've curled up in the egyptian cotton sheets, my last thoughts are I have such good friends and Maybe, one day, everyone can be happy again. Because, they deserve it before I fall fast asleep, falling in deeply, everything is soothing, and relaxing. The next morning, I wake up, rolling over to find out why.
"Morning darlin." Jasper greets, causing me to smile, stretching a bit.
"Good morning, my love." I murmur, causing Jasper to chuckle, pulling me to him, kissing me passionately, before we separate and I sit up, my fingers digging into the pattern of the quilt over top of me.
"Jennifer and Rainn are passed out in the guest room, Grace went for a walk, just to get out for a while." Jasper says, rubbing my back soothingly, pressing and kneading knots that I didn't even know that I had. "In a way, it's just you and I." He says, causing me to hum, looking over at him sleepily.
"How was the hunting?" I ask, causing him to chuckle.
"Filling. How was girl's night?" He responds.
"Fun." I answer, leaning back in his arms, just relaxing for a bit as the sun starts to rise in the sky, a comfortable silent hangs over us both, something neither of us feel the need to fill. He strokes my hair, lulling me into a have awakened state, soon the door opens with Alice twirling in, smile becoming sheepish as she stops at the foot of the bed, causing me to groan, rolling over to hide my face in Jasper's chest, for in Alice's had is the dreaded wedding planner binder. "Get her to go away. I want one day together, before the battle." I grumble, winding my arms around my fiancé's neck, his own winding around my waist as he chuckles.
"I came to kidnap your lovely bride to be." Alice states, I can hear to too chirper tone in her voice.
"Nope." Jasper responds. "No kidnapping today. We have one last day, before we have to get ready for the battle, and my lovely fiancée and I are spending it being lazy together."
"From what I've seen, you two wouldn't be lazy at all." Alice retorts sharply, causing me to look over at her.
"That's up to us, not you, now is it? We moved out for peace." I answer, causing her to sigh. "You didn't even knock."
"I'm sorry." Alice sighs again, before turning on her heel, flashing over to the door, and knocking, before ending up right back in her spot. "Better?"
"I'm still not getting out of this bed." I answer, causing her to groan, turning and walking out, shutting the door behind her, causing me to smile up at Jasper, pecking him swiftly on the lips, causing him to smirk, rolling us over so that I'm trapped beneath him, the two of us kissing passionately. A few hours later, Jasper sits in the living room in his boxers, while I'm in my silk bathrobe, in the kitchen, making myself some cocoa, which I pour in my mug, before wandering over to sit beside him, but he pulls me in his lap, and turns on a movie, pecking my neck softly, just over one of the stained spots on my neck. "You have a strange fascination with giving me hickies, you know." He smirk at me.
"Not everyone can see the ring on your finger." He answers softly, causing me to blush, and lean up to kiss him sweetly, before we settle back on the couch, watching the movie. This is bliss. I think to myself, smiling up at my fiancé, and he looks down, smiling back at me. This is, indeed, love.
I've got a lot to say, so here it is. These books, this story, everything is only possible, because of you all. I would not have continued writing, if you hadn't wrote the reviews that inspired me to keep writing. I just want to thank you all, for your nice comments, and I'm sorry for those, who do not like this stories, or the ones that think it doesn't match up to your expectation. To be honest, these fanfictions on here that are twilight, even the ones deleted, are my first tries. I've never written twilight before this account existed, and I wish I had, it's a great series.
To be honest, I was in a dark place, when I was writing the first book, Breakaway. I was bullied in school, and it was getting harder to care about myself, or others, but the reviews, the love I've gotten from writing these books, every person who's even just read these books. You are all amazing, you pulled me up from the darkness, and you brought light back into my life. I've made a few friends with the people who read my series, and I'm hoping that these stories, will help others out there.
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