"Well here goes nothing," I said to Edward as we walked through the door. "You don't have to say anything you know," he said, "I'll tell him everything. And I'll know when to stop so he hopefully won't blow up."

"Tell me what?" demanded Charlie. "Is there a reason I should be blowing up about now?"

Shoot, I thought. I hadn't meant to tell him this way. Maybe it was best to let Edward do all of the talking. I honestly wasn't sure if I would be able to speak.

"Charlie," Edward began, "I would like to ask you…"

"Ask me what?" Charlie said before Edward even had time to finish what he was saying.

I didn't need Edwards's mind reading talent to tell that Charlie was not in a great mood today. And he didn't even know what we were talking about yet. I shuddered to think what his reaction might be.

Edward continued, "Charlie, I would like to ask for your daughters hand in marriage."

"WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?" Charlie screamed. "ISABELLA SWAN! What the hell is going on in your mind right now? What on earth made you think I would allow this! You're only 18 Bella! And you know what happens when people get married young! I mean, look at your mom and me! And after all that's happened between you and him," He seemed to almost spit out the word with particular disgust, "You think you can just go and MARRY him? And you haven't even known him for that long. Bella?!?! What has gotten into you!!" He stopped to take a breath and seemed to just remember that Edward was still here. "YOU!" he yelled, "HOW COULD YOU EVEN THINK THAT I'D BE OKAY WITH THIS?!?!?! OUT, NOW!!"

"Dad, stop it!" I yelled.

"To hell I won't!", said Charlie.

"Charlie, just hear me out," Edward said with his velvet voice still unnerved, "Just listen. Then I promise I'll go home, but whether Bella goes with me or not is her choice."

"I want to!" I said from my shelter beside Edward.

"You have no say in this," Charlie growled.

"DAD!!! It's MY life! I can chose what I want to do with it! And this is what I want! Come on Edward. Let's go. If my dad doesn't want to accept the life I've chosen, he'll just have to accept life without me."

"Now wait just a second," started Charlie.

"No dad," I said, "I'll be back later to get my stuff. Bye."

Then I stormed out of the house toward Edwards's car. Even though I walked out the door far ahead of him, he was still there holding the door open for me as I climbed into the car.

"Bella, are you okay?" Edward said.

I hadn't even realized I was crying until he pointed it out.

"I'm fine" I lied.

"No your not. That much I can tell without being able to read your mind. What's wrong? Other then the obvious of course. I mean, I know we just had a huge fight with your dad, and you moved out, but it's not like you were going to live with him forever. And please don't say you weren't expecting him to explode."

"It's just… It's just I don't know how many more moments I am going to spend with Charlie as a human, and I wanted all of those moments to be happy ones."

"Its okay, it's all right," Edward spoke as we drove toward his house.

His voice comforted me, and I was able to relax.

Before I knew it, we were at the Cullen house