Telling Charlie.

Edward and I were driving back to my house to face Charlie. I was terrified, although Edward seemed almost...excited. I've been dreading this moment since the first time Edward showed me the ring.

We pulled into Charlie's driveway. My heart was beating faster and faster, Edward chuckled as he got out of the truck and flashed to the other side to open my door. I took two deep breaths very slowly. Edward pulled me out, his arms around my waist mine around his neck. He pulled me into a hug, I could feel his icy cool breath in my ear.

"Calm down. Everything will be fine," he whispered. All I could manage was long and uneven sigh.

We walked to the front door Edwards hand still around my waist. As we walked into the house, I knew this was this was going to be hard.

"Bells? Is that you Hun?" Charlie called from the kitchen.
"Yeah Dad, Edward and I are both here."
"Oh," he said with no enthusiasm what so ever.
"Dad, we need to talk to you," I somehow managed to say He came out of the kitchen fairly quickly and said:

"Are you okay? You're not hurt are you?" He asked quite honestly though, if I had been I'm sure it would have been no surprise to him.

"No Dad, I'm fine, its just that we need to talk to you," for some reason Edward was being very quiet and I knew if he didn't start talking soon, I was going to go batty!
So the three of us went into the front room and sat down. Edward and I on the couch and Charlie on the chair.

"Okay. So what's up?" Charlie asked sounding very curious and confused.
"Well Charlie, I came to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage," Edward said very calmly and elegant. As soon as Edward got about to the 'daughters hand' part, Charlie's eyes shot wide open and immediately I wished Jasper was here to lighten the mood.

"You can't marry her!! She's just a baby!!" He screamed. I'm pretty sure he slipped a couple of profanities in there too.
He kept going on and on about me being a baby and, before even thinking I was up and out of my seat screaming right back at him.

"I'm eighteen years old! I'm not a baby!" Edward had reached up and squeezed my hand. Probably to tell me to stop arguing and let Charlie cool off, it wasn't working. I was still screaming, Charlie too, both of us adding a 'damn' or a 'hell' (and some others too) in our fight. Then in the middle of our argument, Charlie's mouth dropped wide open, his eyes about to pop out, and he had this facial expression of total extreme shock and a hint of fear. Suddenly I noticed Edward was standing by side (no doubt that he read Charlie's mind and knew exactly what he was about to say) and then Edward quickly started to say something.

"Sir I ---- ," Charlie suddenly cut him off.

Well Bells, are you...are you...?" He started to ask very calmly.
Edward squeezed my hand a little harder.

"Am I what?" I snapped.
"Are you... Pregnant?" He almost whispered the last word. I flinched when he said it.

"WHAT??? NO!!!" I screeched. He had a sudden flash of relief over his face, then back to being angry.

"Damn it Bella! You're too young to get married and that's the end of it!!" Charlie yelled. I was about to start up again when Edward beat me to the punch, and said:

"Sir I love your daughter with all my heart. I promise I will never let anything happen to her, ever." Edwards voice was so sweet but at the same time very stern. It was at that moment I realized that I did want to marry him, not just so that he would be the one to change me. He loves me, I love him. I truly wanted this as much as he did.
Charlie's face was red, his jaw was clenched and he was breathing very heavily thru his nose.

The room fell silent for a few minutes.
During these few moments Edward had placed his hand on my lower back and his other on my arm farthest from him, pulling me into this sort of cuddle hug, -I guess you could call it. Finally Charlie broke the silence.

"Are you sure this is what you want? You kids could be throwing your whole lives away," as he said this my mind suddenly flashed to Renee but, I really did want this.

"Dad, I know this is hard, but you have to trust me. I"ve never wanted anything else in my entire life!" I could feel Edward smile with the sincerity in my voice.

"But ---- ," Charlie started but Edward cut him off, breaking our hug at the same time.

"Sir, I promise that Bella will always have a nice place to live, with food on the table," or blood I thought to myself, ugh how could i think that?? "And warm clothes on her back and I promise I will never leave her... Again." He looked at me when he said this and I could tell it was hard for him to say that last part. Just then Charlie took the whole two steps to stand in front of Edward. He was clearly not happy.

"May I please have your daughters hand, Sir?" Then Charlie reached down and grabbed my hand (now noticing the ring on my finger) and Edwards in his other. He slowly lifted them up and placed mine in Edwards palm. Edward intertwined our fingers and then smiled the biggest smile I've ever seen on his face, I could tell that he had been holding it in (probably because he knew Charlie would say yes.)

"Thank you so much Sir." Edward said, and the sincere gratitude in his voice was extremely hard to miss.
I leaned up and hugged Charlie as tight as I could and whispered to him

"Thank you so much! I love you Daddy!" All this time I hadn't realized that I was crying. At first it was out of frustration but then gratitude. Then he pulled me away and Edward pulled me in wiping the tears off my cheek with his thumb. Then Charlie broke this short silence. He looked completely angry and looked at Edward straight in the eyes and said:

"If you ever hurt my baby, I promise I will hurt you."

"Of course. Although I know that's one thing you won't ever have to worry about that." Edward said as he hugged me tighter.