Before I could walk over to my door Alice burst in, always full of too much enthusiasm.
“You will not believe what Edward told me.” She immediately launched into a conversation without so much as a ‘hello’. I was right to say it was about the wedding. “I was just on the internet browsing for Цветы when he walks in a little earlier than usual. I knew he was going hunting with Emmett and Jasper so it didn’t throw me.”
I nodded and smiled as she spoke. It was best not to say anything when Alice was speaking или Ты got an evil glare Ты never thought someone as innocent looking as Alice was capable of.
“But then he walks over to me and asks what I’m doing, so I reply ‘I’m looking for Цветы to match the dresses’. He asks what dresses and I say ‘the wedding and bridesmaid dresses’ and he says ‘Oh I bought Kayla’s wedding dress yesterday, will Ты tell her for me?’ and then just wanders away to find Jasper as if he hadn’t сказал(-а) anything at all distressing или life-ruining.”
Distressing – yes. Life-ruining – not so much.
“He bought my dress?” I asked. “But how does he know what I want. I haven’t even mentioned anything, hell I haven’t even looked myself. We were supposed to go dress hunting tomorrow.”
“I know!” Alice threw herself on my bed, burying her head in my pillow. “This is a disaster, Kayla. The dress won’t arrive for eight weeks and I don’t even know the style или colour или what make или where he bought it.”
“Um, Alice?” Was she honestly this stupid?
“If I only I could have just a little peek at it, a one секунда glance is enough-”
“Alice.”
“How dare he go and buy a dress! This is my wedding-” She sat up fast and looked at me. “Our wedding,” she added hastily.
“Alice!” I said, exasperatedly. “Are Ты thick? Ты are a bloody psychic!”
Realisation dawned on her face and she smiled. She zoned out for all of two секунды and was back looking confused.
“What’s wrong?” I asked. “There was a dress, right? I mean, it wasn’t something like a mini-dress или a suit или something?”
She shook her head and she seemed to have Остаться в живых all enthusiasm.
“There was no wedding.”

*

Alice was pacing up and down Edward’s bedroom. As soon as we had arrived in the Cullen’s home, about ten минуты ago, she had ran up here and ransacked Edward’s room and then put it all back together again. She had made quite a mess. Why did she ransack his room? For clues to an investigation she was launching into why she saw no wedding. Edward was the prime suspect.
“Just because he bought me a wedding dress does not make him responsible for the wedding being non-existent in the future,” I сказал(-а) for the eightieth time. “Alice, you’re getting too obsessive about this.”
“I am not obsessive,” she snarled at me. She covered her mouth with her hand and looked at me apologetically. “I guess I’m a tad obsessive.”
A tad? I think it’s a little еще than a tad obsessive.
“Just calm down,” I said, sitting on Edward’s couch. “Maybe I’m ill или I had an accident. или someone else was ill или had an accident.”
“No, I would have seen that.”
Alice was right. She scoured the entire future for any illnesses или broken limbs или anything that would mean the wedding would be cancelled.
“What did Ты see exactly?” I asked. I hadn’t pried into her mind to see my wedding dress. I wanted it to be a surprise.
“I tried to see your wedding on the день it was supposed to be and there was just blankness. Well not blankness but just like as if nothing had been decided.”
Alice was really slow today. I waited for her to pick up on what she had just said.
I had to wait a while.
“Oh!” she said, jumping up and down. “You, Edward или I probably had to Переместить the wedding to another день because of something. I get it.”
She cheered up considerably and started to discuss Цветы with me. She wanted Цветы that matched the colours of the dresses but was having difficulty picking the right flowers. I thought that I was going to pick the Цветы for my bouquet but...
“Now I was thinking maybe if it was just a bouquet of one type of flower,” Alice was saying. “Because I found this цветок and it matches your dress and the bridesmaid dresses. It’s a-”
I cut her off here. I needed to ask something.
“Is Rosalie going to be a bridesmaid?”
Alice looked down. I was hoping to hear something positive and didn’t hear anything at all. She stared at her hands for a while before looking up and changing the subject entirely.
I leaned back on Edward’s диван, мягкий уголок and closed my eyes. Rosalie still hadn’t changed her mind then. Ever since Edward and I had announced our engagement properly, Rosalie had been cold and distant.
“You’re going to marry a human?” She’d scorned as soon as the words were out of his mouth. “Marrying someone who it pains Ты to be near? Someone who is constantly in danger every time we turn around.”
“I would go through infinite pain if it meant her life was spared, Rosalie,” Edward had сказал(-а) in reply. “And it’s a good thing I’m here или else she’d be dead now. As Ты said, she’s in danger all the time. She needs me to protect her.”
When all her arguments failed with Edward she turned her golden blonde head to me.
“Why are Ты wasting your life with someone who can’t do the same for you?”
I stuttered at this.
“You’ll continue to grow old and he’ll forever look like a teenager. Do Ты want to be mistaken for his grandmother?”
“The venom!” I сказал(-а) in triumph. “The venom will make me immortal.”
“Are Ты sure? Carlisle doesn’t know for certain. The way I see it Ты have two options. Remain human или become a vampire. You’ll die either way. The only difference is; with one Ты have longer to live.”
So after Rosalie’s little pep talk I hadn’t been too sure about the whole venom thing. I worried about what was going to happen to me. At that point I was still seventeen so I was bit concerned about what to expect on my eighteenth birthday. Carlisle took some samples from me. Blood, tissue, skin cells, anything where he could find any vampish quality. He did the same on my eighteenth birthday and again a few days ago. He wasn’t giving me the results until he was satisfied he had an answer.
And so, Rosalie had refused to be a part of the wedding. Even though Alice and Esme had pleaded with her and Emmett had tried to. She remained stubborn.
“Didn’t think so,” I said, opening my eyes and sitting forward. “So what happens in twelve weeks when I get married? Is she just going to stay inside while the ceremony takes place outside?”
“I don’t know,” Alice replied. She looked ashamed. Ashamed that her sister would act like this.
“Emmett’s going though?”
“Yes, Emmett’s still going,” Alice smiled slightly. “He thinks he’s going to marry Ты and Edward. He says he will download a pastor license from the internet.”
Alice and I burst into laughter and. Emmett marry me and Edward? That would be hilarious. Can Ты imagine the vows he would think of? He would make a joke of the whole ceremony.
“What’s so funny?”
Alice and I shut up fast. Standing elegantly in the doorway was Rosalie. She watched us with cold topaz eyes, her golden hair framing her beautiful face. She wore a simple ivory silk dress and it hugged the curves of her body emphasising her beauty. So really, it looked еще than simple on Rosalie.
“Hello Rosalie,” Alice said, regarding her sister with a cold stare. Alice wasn’t such a big Фан of Rosalie since she refused to take part in the wedding. She was one bridesmaid down and it was Rosalie’s fault.
I didn’t know what to say so I сказал(-а) nothing. I just looked up at Rosalie and politely smiled. Maybe if I didn’t say much and smiled a lot she’d be nice to me.
“I have some eye drops,” Rosalie сказал(-а) to me, ignoring Alice. “I know you’re visions hurt your eyes so I thought they might help.”
Wow. I guess the shutting up and smiling thing worked.
“Thanks,” I said. “It’s nice of Ты to think of me.”
The coldness in her eyes thawed a little and she even smiled.
“If you’d like Ты could put some in now? You’re eyes look a little sore.”
I looked at Alice who looked confused. It was rare for Rosalie to think of anyone but herself and I was having trouble figuring out why she would think of me. I was just some human who her brother had a thing for according to what she’d сказал(-а) not too long ago.
Alice nodded and I stood up. Should I be scared?
Rosalie smiled wider but it didn’t help. She stepped back into the hallway and began walking ahead of me and I followed her downstairs to the living room.
“Carlisle says they’ll be okay for your eyes,” she said, picking up a white handbag that sat on the sofa. “I checked with him first. I didn’t want to pick anything that would hurt your eyes.”
She handed me a small bottle of clear liquid.
“Rosalie, this is very nice of you.” I held up the little bottle. “But I don’t understand.”
“What don’t Ты understand?”
Her beautiful face looked mystified.
“You haven’t spoken to me since Ты ridiculed my engagement to Edward,” I told her. “You mocked our decision to marry, Ты insulted both of us and Ты stalked off and rejected my offer for Ты to my bridesmaid.”
Rosalie had the courtesy to look down.
“Do Ты know how I felt about that?” I asked her. “I want Ты be at the wedding, not only because you’re Edward’s sister and a part of his family but because I feel that you’re my sister too and I do not want my sister to miss my wedding.”
“I’m sorry,” she said, looking at me. Her eyes were surprisingly full of regret. “I didn’t stop to think about you’re feelings. I just want Ты to stop and take a look at what you’re heading in to. Ты diving into this with your eyes closed.”
“Talk to me,” I said, sitting down on the sofa. “I’m a big girl, I can handle it.”
I wanted to know what was wrong with Rosalie. Had she had some sort of epiphany and realised she was a bit of a сука and decided to mend her ways?
“Okay,” she said, sitting Далее to me. “Where do I begin?”