5

I woke up the next morning in Jacob's arms. I was lying across his chest, which had no shirt on. I must not have noticed because I was so tired last night, which I didn't quite understand. I traced the smooth, warm patterns of his beautiful chest and tried to absorb the perfect morning. His body shook under me as he laughed and kissed my hair. I couldn't help but continue stroking my hand up and down his body, not opening my eyes.
"Good morning my love," he said still chuckling.
"Mmm."
"Do you want some breakfast?"
"Not right now. I just want to stay here in bed with you for now," I said smiling. I finally opened my eyes to see him smiling back at me as he stroked my hair. He kissed me on my forehead, my nose, my lips...That's when I remebered...
"Oh my gosh!" I said breaking the kiss."Do my mom and dad know about this? I could get in so much trouble! Oh my go--"
"Nessie! Relax! They came back late last night, but went back the house to leave us alone."
"And they weren't mad that you were hear with me? In bed?"
"Nope. Bella said that, apparently, Edward use to do it all the time before they were married in Charlie's house."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Oh. Did they say anything else?"
"They just said to go to the house as soon as you wake up."
"I guess I'll get dressed."
"Okay. I'll wait for you outside by the car."
We got to the house where everyone was waiting in the main room. My dad was softly playing his piano, mom sitting next to him with her head on his shoulder. Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper and Alice on the couch, Jasper’s head in Alice’s lap and Rosalie sitting in Emmett’s. Esme was next to Alice as they were hovered over a huge pile of magazines on the coffee table. Alice, of course, was the first to notice us enter the room. She ran at full speed towards us, jumping up and down like a little three-year old girl on Christmas morning.
“Nessie!” She screamed, a bit too over excited. “Why didn’t you tell us earlier? I can’t see you in my visions, but you should have told Esme and me sooner! We could have--”
“Alice! What are you talking about?”
“What do you mean what am I talking about?” I thought Jacob had already—”
“Alice…” Jacob warned. “I haven’t… really… asked her yet.”
“What?!”
“Ask me what? What’s going on?”
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked in our direction. I seemed to be the only one not in on the secret.
“Ness—Renesmee Carlie Cullen.” He said my name without any hesitation what so ever. “I love you and I promise to love you forever.” He got down on his knee and held both of my hands in his. Oh my go--, before I even had the chance to finish my thoughts, he suddenly uttered the words, “Will you marry me?”
I was speechless. I couldn’t understand the many emotions inside me at that moment all at once. Happiness, confusion, denial, breathless… I couldn’t say anything, so tiny droplets just started falling down my face. I sobbed and pulled one of my hands free from his to wipe my tears away. He came up from he ground to pull me into a tight hug, trying his best to comfort me.
“Shh. Don’t cry. I’m sorry. If it’s too soon for you--”
“That’s not why I’m crying, Jacob,” I interrupted. He picked me up and took me to the couch to sit on his lap, as everyone went back to what they were doing before.
“Then why are you crying?”
“I don’t know. I’m just… confused.” I lay my head on his chest as I stained his shirt with my non-stop tears.
“I don’t understand. Am I going to fast? I don’t want to make you unhappy. We can wait. Maybe a few more years if that’s okay with you.”
“No! No! No! Jacob, I love you, I really do, and I really want to marry you. I’m just… really taken by surprise, that’s all.”
"Oh."
"I'm sorry. I'm just... so happy," I sighed. "Wow. We'e really getting married. Does that mean I get a ring?"
"Yes, it does." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small black box and handed it to me. I opened it without any hesitation, for I was too excited, and admired the giant, glimmering rock in my hands. I took it out and twirled it in my fingers before putting it on. He kissed my hair and whispered in my ear, "I love you." I looked up, a few tears still falling down, and said,"I love you too."
He took my face in his hands and touched his lips to mine, softly. I never really liked it when he kissed me so softly, I couldn't stand it. I put my arms around his neck, like always, but pulled him closer to me. One hand moved from my face to my waist and the small of my back, with his other on the back of my neck. My fingers tangled themselves in his long hair.
Then, someome in the room cleared their throat, Alice, making me break the kiss to look up at her impatient expression. I forgot there were oother people in the room at the time besides me and Jacob. Alice came over to me and grabbed me by the elbow, pulling me off Jacob's lap, and took me over to where she and Esme were working. She sat me down next to Esme, who was trying to tell me it was going to be okay, though I had a feeling it wouldn't be since Alice goes over board with things like birthdays and weddings, at least that's what my mom always told me.
"Okay, Nessie. We need to start on things immediately for your wedding. We need guests lists, bride's maids, color dresses for the bride's maids, where it's going to be held, hopefully here, and then Esme and I will do the decorations for I'm going to do what I did to your mother on her wedding day, I'm not going tolet you see the decorations until it's time for you to walk down the isle. Now we need a wedding date. Do any of you have one set?" I hadn't seen Jacob come over.
"Well," he said,"I was thinking we could have it in the spring, since it's Nessie's favorite time of the year. So I was thinking... May 13th."
"Perfect! Now I need you two to start the guest list. I need you to call any friend or family out of town right now and invite them to the wedding, mostly Jacob's family."
"Yeah, Jacob. Why don't you just go werewolf right now, give a quick howl and get them all here," Rose commented, a bit sourly.
"Ha ha. Funny blondie," he said sacastically."Why don't you go pamper yourself in front of a mirror right now?" Rose growled and Emmett had to hold her back from attacking him by taking her out of the room. It was a little entertaining, but at the same time, not very pleasent. I didn't like seeing my family fight.
"Hey!" Alice said, probably a bit frustrated. "Enough! We don't have time for that! We need to get this done, okay? Now you two go to Jacob's house and start planning the guest list while we plan everything else here."
"Okay."
I got up, taking Jacob's hand and we walked out the door.