Chapter One

"Will, can I please open my eyes now?" I asked as he led me.

"Al—most," he answered sweetly.

I had absolutely no idea where he was taking me, all I knew was that we were outside and that it was nighttime, I could feel the breeze of the warm summer air. Finally he took his hands off my eyes, "Open them!"

I opened my eyes, I was amazed! It was beautiful!

"Will!" I said as my hand flew to my mouth and I turned to hug him as tight as possible, "Thank you!"

There was a little gazebo with white light on it, and a pathway up to it with a covered archway above the path also covered in lights.

"Your welcome," he said hugging me back and kissing me sweetly.

"How did you do all of this?" I asked in amazement.

"I just did," he said smugly.

"Very funny."

He took my hands in his, "Seriously, I would do anything for you Elizabeth, no matter how difficult… I love you, and I always will…"

We kissed again, "I love you Will," I whispered lightly.

He smiled, "Come on, I don't want our food to get cold…"

"Food?" I said as he took me down the beautiful pathway, "You cooked?!"

"I did indeed! And it looks pretty good, if I don't say so myself."

We reached the gazebo and inside were a little table with a white tablecloth and dinner set for two.

"Oh Will! You've really outdone yourself!"

He laughed a little as he pulled out my chair for me as I sat down.

I just kept thinking, oh god, what is he up to this time? What broke? What did he do wrong this time? But I could never be mad at him, not Will, I loved him too much.

He sat down at the next to me, "Will, you made my favorite, our favorite!"

"How could I forget? I know how much we both love Italian food and what's better than pasta? Or more specifically spaghetti."

I laughed as I began to take a bite but he stopped me, "Nuh, uh, uh."

I looked at him confused.

He took the fork from me and got some of the spaghetti on it. He then held it up to my mouth. We both smiled.

After an hour of eating and reminiscing of all the wonderful times we'd shared together over the past years.

"And then you fell!" He laughed.

"I did not fall!" I laughed. He looked at me funnily, "Okay maybe I did, but hey! You weren't so graceful either!"

"Good point, but that's why I love you!"

"You love me because I'm more graceful than you? No offence darling, but those are not hard shoes to fill."

"No… I love you because… because you love me even though I'm the biggest dork in the world and I can't believe that you would even ever think of spending time with me, let alone loving me. Elizabeth I love you because you're not perfect, and neither am I. We are both klutz, we both have weird little quirks that each of us either find annoying or love. I have so many things that I want to share with you, I never want to leave your side."

"Oh Will," I whispered sweetly as I embraced him tightly.

"Elizabeth, I know that you could have any man in the world and I also know that your father is not too fond of me but… I want to give you everything you've ever wanted, I want to love you forever, I want to wake up ever mourning next to you and make you breakfast and have a beautiful house tat you've dreamed of and the beautiful family we've both dreamed of…" he sat up from his chair and knelt down on one knee to the floor. I felt as if it was all a dream! He reached in his jacket pocket and took out a small velvet box.

Will continued, "Elizabeth Sarah Swann," he opened the little box to reveal the ring, "Will you marry me?"

I was in shock, I knew I wanted to marry him, but I had never dreamed of such a perfect proposal, "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

We both smiled uncontrollably, he put the ring on my finger and we both stood up.

"I love you!" I exclaimed.

"I love you!" He exclaimed picking me up and thrilling me around. We both laughed.

He stopped thrilling me and then we stood their looking into each other's eyes as he held me in his arms.

"You have no idea how long I've waited to do this," Will said calmly.

"I think I have a little idea," I joked, "Will this ring is absolutely stunning!"

"You like it? I'm sorry it's not bigger but I—"

I put my finger to his mouth to stop him, "Shhhhhh… it's perfect! I wouldn't want it any other way."

He smiled as held me tighter and took me to a little bench on the opposite side. We sat down in each other's arms for what seemed like forever. Just relaxing, imagining the wonderful road ahead of us.

"June is to hot, July's the same," Will said.

"Good point, and February is Valentine's Day and then we would only have one holiday a year where… yeah."

"Yeah no February… I've got it! How about… December."

"Hmmmm, that could work…" I said smiling widely.

"Yes… and maybe it could be in the snow, an outside wedding…"

"Oh Will! That would be beautiful!"

"Well, anything is beautiful when you're there," he said smiling down at me.

"You spoil me…" I said leaning up and giving him a kiss.

"Not as much as I want too…" he said kissing me again.

I slid up and turned around as he deepened the kiss, just as it was getting good, his phone started ringing… of course.

He took it out of his pocket and answered it, "Hi dad… yes I did it…. She said yes… of course… I'll tell her… Thank you dad, see you tomorrow… bye," he hung it up, "Sorry 'bout that."

"It's okay," I smiled, "I'm glad he's excited for us… you're father is so sweet Will, I don't know what we would do without him."

"I know, he loves us both with all his heart. But I believe I have some business of more importance…"

"You do?" I said sarcastically.

"Indeed I do…" he said coming to kiss me again. I giggled a little bit as we kissed and then, once again, the phone rang! He pulled it out and looked at it.

He groaned, "It's Jack…" and without a second thought he stood up and went to the table.

"Will? Where are you going?"

"I'm turning this thing off… and putting it out of my sight for the night…" he said putting the phone inside the little basket on the table. He then turned around and walked slowly back towards me.

I sat on the bench tiring as hard as possible to look good. He came up to me and stood for a moment. I patted my hand on the open part of the bench. He raised an eyebrow and leaned in close to my face. He was testing me; he knew that I couldn't hold myself back much longer…

"Now… where were we?" he said seductively.

"Hmmmm, you'll have to refresh my memory…" I said seductive right back at him.

"I believe I was about to do this," he sat down next to me, I followed him like a hawk, "Then I was about to do this," he put his arms around me and pulled as close to me as possible, "Then I believe I was about to—"

I couldn't take it any longer, I kissed as passionately as ever, and he did right back. We spent the rest of the night "refreshing his memory", if you know what I mean…(Hint, hint, wink, wink)…