Disclaimer: All recognizable people/places are not owned by me, but by Stephanie Meyer and everyone else involved in writing and making the twilight saga.

A/n: Okay, this obviously takes place after Breaking Dawn, about 8 years in the future, since in the book it said it should take about 7 years for Nessie to fully mature. Anywho, onto the story!

Jakes POV:

I stood in Gale's jewelry store looking at various diamond rings as one of the associates babbled on about how to pick out the perfect ring for the perfect girl. I wasn't paying attention as I looked over every single stone. This was my third store today and I just couldn't find something that screamed out Nessie to me. I sighed, thinking back to when Nessie told me about her "fantasy" wedding ring when she was three years old.

It had to be a silver band with three rows on small diamonds, the center row being slightly bigger than the outer rows. In the center there had to be a square frame of diamonds with diamond "petals" going out on each side. In the center of the "petals", there had to be a baby blue sapphire that would stick up from the petals like a rose. She had loved the idea then and has dreamed of it even more recently. I knew I would be able to find this perfect ring somewhere, and I wouldn't give up until I got it.

"Do you have any rings that look like flowers?" I asked, cutting the associate off in the middle of her sentence. Her face brightened up and she nodded her head while indicating for me to follow her into the back of the store.

"We have a small collection of engagement rings that remind people of flowers," she began as she moved around a counter and began to unlock a drawer that was beneath the rings on display. "I know you said when you came in here that you didn't exactly have a price point, but these are on the upper end of most people's price points."

She pulled out the drawer and set it down on top of the glass. It really was a small collection, since there were only 5 rings here. I studied each carefully, trying to figure out if I could add or replace stones to make it into Nessie's dream ring. I sighed, two of the rings were really bulky that it could easily take up her whole finger, while the other 3 were so small and so flat that you couldn't even tell it was a flower.

"See anything in particular that you like?" the associate asked me. The hope faded from her eyes as I shook my head no. "Oh. We have many other unique designs as well beside just flowers. Do you have anything else you think the lucky lady might like?"

I chuckled before answering. "No, I don't think so. Thank you for your time." I began heading toward the door more disappointed than before. Nessie's fantasy ring had to be out there somewhere; I just couldn't find it yet.

I got into my car and began to drive back toward the Cullens' house. I had called Edward earlier and asked him if I could talk to him today. It sounded old-fashioned, but I wanted to ask for Edwards's permission to marry his daughter. I knew that he would really appreciate it, plus it never hurt to score some extra points with the vamps. I was hoping I would have the ring when I went to talk to him….but things were not going as planned today.

I sighed, hoping this streak wouldn't continue much longer. They saw bad luck travels in three's, and I sure hope they're right. Although Nessie and I will officially have been a couple for a year in three days, I knew Edward still wasn't completely comfortable with it. Sure, he accepted it and acted like it was perfectly fine, but I knew him better than that. He hated seeing his little girl grow up so fast; hell, if I was a father I would feel the exact same way.

My mind began to drift back to the ring. Maybe I could ask Alice for help? She definitely knew where enough jewelry places were for us to find the ring. I shook my head and brought my mind back to the road. I didn't want to tell Alice. The only person I wanted to talk to about it before I asked Nessie was Edward…and that's only because of tradition. I passed a sign advertising a high end jewelry store that was "guaranteed" to have the perfect ring for everyone.

I looked at the clock. I still had an hour before I was supposed to meet Edward, and I might as well test out the whole bad luck comes in threes thing. I got off the highway and turned left, following the signs to the new jewelry store.

A few minutes later I was pulling into Etsystatic's Jewelry store. They had a "GRAND OPENING" sign plastered against their front windows and the parking lot seemed pretty full. Hopefully this was a good thing.

Sighing, I got out of my car and locked it as I headed into the store. A woman that looked too happy for her own good was the first one to greet me as I walked inside.

"Hello, welcome to Etsystatic's! Feel free to look around until one of our associates is available to help you!" She pushed a brochure into my hand as she was talking. Opening it, I began to make my way around the room, looking for where the engagement rings were held. I glanced at the brochure every so often, but made sure I kept looking for the counter with the engagement rings. The brochure listed various jewelry items they sold, prices, specials, and said how to get the biggest bang for your buck.

I laughed, then folded the brochure in half and stuck it into my pocket as I found the engagement rings. I began to study them all. Most were diamonds: big, small, flat, round. There were a couple different sapphire ones, but they looked really gaudy. Plus, there were no flower-shaped rings here at all.

So much for bad luck travels in threes. This was my fourth store and it didn't appear as if I was going to have any luck here either. I turned around and came face-to-face with a tall male associate with graying hair.

"Hello, my names Eric and I'm here to help you today. I see you're looking at engagement rings, finally ready to pop that question eh?" He winked at me as he said this, making me want to shudder all over.

"Yea," I replied lazily looking back at the engagement ring counter, "but I don't think you have what I'm looking for." I stepped sideways, hoping to get out of here fast, but the associate Eric followed my step and was standing in front of me again. He wasn't going to lose a sale so soon.

"This isn't our whole engagement collection," he began, "this is just our most popular engagement rings. What do you have in mind? We may have just what you're looking for in the back." I sighed. I doubted a store so new would have what Nessie wanted, but I figured I might as well humor him.

"I want the top of the ring to look like a flower. Preferably with the center stone being a blue sapphire."

He began to nod his head while I said this. "Flowers, yes, we do have several engagement rings that look like that. They are becoming very popular with younger couples. What is your price point today? I would hate for you to find the perfect ring that you cannot afford."

"There is no price point. I just want to find the ring." He nodded at me as if he knew exactly what I was going through before heading toward the back of the store. I turned back toward the case of engagement rings. Why did this have to be so hard? Why couldn't I just tell someone what I wanted and it automatically be here? I knew not many people would choose this ring, but you would think it would be different enough to make people want to see it and tell someone who would like it about it.

I was jostled from my thoughts as the associate set a box down in front of me. "This is all of our flower engagement rings we have. There are only 3 in here that have a sapphire as their center stone, but keep in mind that we can always put in a sapphire, instead of a diamond, when we order it."

With that being said he opened the box. My eyes flickered over the first two rows of rings and settled on one in the third row. I gasped and picked it up. It was perfect….

A/n: This is the picture of what I picture the ring to look like except with the center stone being a baby blue sapphire.

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