Chapter 3
The Proposal
He put me down but did not let me go. "Can I take off my blindfold now?" I asked.
"Allow me," he said.
I looked around me at the most beautiful, romantic setting I had ever seen. It even beat all of the movies.
What looked like millions of candles surrounded us, blanketing the ground in their soft, warm glow. They smelled faintly floral, like freesias, maybe. Wildflowers were popping up, adding to the beauty. Fireflies flitted about in the trees, giving the effect of Christmas lights twinkling in the night. Then I heard a barely perceptible peal of thunder and looked up at the sky, just in time to glimpse a flash of lightning fork across the sky. Altogether it created a rather beautiful effect.
"It's not going to rain, is it?" I asked, totally off topic. I knew Edward would be frustrated that I wasn't telling him what I thought about the meadow.
"No, Alice said it won't rain here," he said, "What do you think?"
"I think it's absolutely beautiful! Did you do all of this for me?"
"Yes. I wanted it to be perfect," he led me towards a ring of candles in the middle of the meadow. I'm so going to faint! I thought.
"It's so…wonderful, amazing…I can't believe you thought of this, Edward!" I said.
"I can't either," Edward mumbled, probably to himself. Now he started to look very nervous, but I could tell he was trying hard to hide it. This made me incredibly nervous. My heart skipped more than one beat. Then Edward knelt down in front of me.
"Bella, you are the love of my life, my soul mate. You are the wind beneath my wings, the sun in my sky. You are my whole world, my whole life…"
The whole time Edward was saying this, I could hear the song Hero by Enrique Iglesias playing in the background. (A/N—you should listen to this song while you read this part, it kind of creates the mood. Plus I thought it was the perfect song for the two of them.) I hadn't even notice the CD player, or Edward turning it on, for that matter. It was the perfect song, setting, and question (which I knew was what he was (inevitably) leading up to with all of this cheesy, gooey how much he loved me stuff. Of course, I love cheesy, gooey stuff!). Now all Edward needed was my (hopefully) perfect answer.
Edward was about to finish with the million dollar question, "I want to spend the rest of my life, if you can call it that, with you. Isabella Marie Swan, will you marry me?"
I knew it was coming, but when it did I was still left completely speechless. In that second I had made up my mind. "That was so cheesy, but I loved it! Yes!" I exclaimed.
"Yes?" Edward asked, "did, did you just say yes?" I could tell that while I had had that tiny delay to think, Edward had been mentally preparing himself for me to say no again.
"Yes!" I said again. It was only when Edward reached up to dry my tears that I realized that my eyes had actually betrayed the extent of my emotions.
"Bella, you don't know how much this means to me! You can't even begin to comprehend how happy this makes me!" Edward said, never letting me out of his heart shattering gaze. Then he slipped the ring (that I hadn't even noticed before) on my finger. It was gold with a big, sparkly, heart-shaped (A/N—should it be heart-shaped?) diamond in the middle and two smaller topaz's on either side. They were the exact same gold color as his eyes. It was beautiful.
I was suddenly so speechless that all I could do was shake my head. Of course I could comprehend how happy he was. I was feeling the exact same way.
Edward lifted me up and spun me around, then hugged me close and kissed me hard.
A/N--sorry it took so long to update, i will be updating at least once more before i go on vacation in a couple more days. (hopefully ;) ) i hope you liked it!! now, i love reviews, they make a writer a happy camper, or writer, well you know what i mean!! so i KNOW you want to go down a couple of inches and click the little blue button with the letters 'G' and 'O' on it!! please, even i "good" or a "bad" or an "it sucks" or whatever would be great! i love you all!! BTW, i accept anonymous reviews, so even if you don't have an account, you can still review!! yay! and you better start reviewing, people, cause ive got, like, 300 hits and only 9 reviews, so please start reviewing!!
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P.S. if you want to see the dress Bella is wearing, you can go to my profile and there should be a link, and if its not a link, then you can copy and paste the thing into the adress thing.