Forever Sunlight

17. Leading Up to My Final Dance...Snowball

The next few weeks were a blur the only thing that stood out was Mom's birthday. The Cullens threw her a party and out of the pack only Jacob, Seth and I went, everyone else had something to do. The party was more like a family dinner, well for us anyways. We all had gifts for my mom. Dad added a diamond necklace to match the bracelet. Grandma and Grandpa gave her a pair of tickets for South America, something about Isle Esme. My aunts also gave her clothes to expand her wardrobe.

School was the same, and my practicing did work things out. I practiced on how long I could flow a memory. I was up to three hours straight. Then we did flowing time and length in combinations. After a week or two we started adding in nourishment to the equation. Overall in a month's time I could flow a memory ten miles away for five hours straight on one meal or five rabbits.

Soon Snowball approached and my goal for that was to find dates for my friends. For Janet a down to Earth guy that seemed to totally be her type. For Anaisa I found a great guy a few inches taller than her. Finding Beatrice a date was easy, I got a nice guy that had a sense of humor, and really made her strengths come out. Grace of course I had to pair up with Justin.

"So Justin do you have a date for Snowball?" I decided to ask.

We were in Spanish and he was the only one I could talk to, since everyone else was too busy finishing their class work.

"No. Did you..." He was getting the wrong message.

"Um...no I was...well Grace kind of wants to go with you." I watched for his reaction.

"Grace?"

"Yeah, I found out that she has a crush on you."

"Really? I don't know what to say."

"I told her to ask you to the dance, but she was scared you might say 'no', so I took the liberty to see if you were interested." I confessed.

He thought for a second. "Well I would go with her, but I have a crush on..." He looked at me.

"Justin you're a nice guy, but...Jacob he's amazing, and I...love him."

"What Brandon said...is it true?"

"What happened with Brandon?"

"Nothing, he just emphasized the ring on your finger. By the looks of it you're getting married."

"Yes, it's true I'm getting married. But Grace isn't and she really likes you. I'm sure she'll be a great girlfriend a lot better than me trust me."

He thought about what I had told him. I didn't know what exactly his thoughts were, but I did notice that he really didn't want to let me go.

"Justin, I can't make you happy. What I feel for Jacob is the best feeling in the world and the reason I'm telling you to be with Grace is because I bet she will make you feel happy."

"Grace...I have to say she's pretty great." Justin smiled.

"I'm glad you like her, and don't worry you will be both happy with this decision."

"I'll trust your wisdom, and one more thing...am I invited to your wedding?"

"Yes, you're one of my friends of course you're invited."

I was glad to get that out of the way and now I was actually looking forward to Snowball. All my friends had a date thanks to me. I was also renting a limo for all of us. I felt that leaving school after my marriage was going to be easy. None of my friends were going to be alone and I would have the school experience dad always wanted me to have

"Hey guys!" I greeted as the limo finally came to pick Jacob and I up at the Cullen house.

"Whoa! Is this your house?" Brandon asked.