The little girl found a page that held a journal page, telling about a very special night for a young Hannah.
She asked her grandfather what it said, and he told her it was about the night, her boyfriend asked her to marry him.
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It was just Hannah and her dad home tonight, Sammy and Danny were gone, over at a friends house, and Jude has a show tonight, then she was going out with Sadie, Maggie and Kat.
Tommy was in the basement studio that he and Jude had put in right after Hannah was born, and Hannah was sitting on the couch reading a book, when the doorbell rang. When she opened it, and smiled at seeing who it was. "Hey, what are you doing here?"
William leaned in and kissed her cheek "Hey, is your dad home?" Hannah nodded "Yeah, why?" William stepped inside "Can I talk to him?" Hannah looked slightly confused "You want to talk to my dad?"
He just nodded her head and gave her a smiled, and that's when she realized what was going on. Hannah smiled and grabbed his hand "Oh, ok, umm....come in and sit down, and I'll go get him."
Hannah went downstairs to get Tommy with a huge smiled across her face. She saw him sitting in a chair with a guitar in his lap, and a notebook in his hand, and he raised his head when he heard her walk in. Tommy saw the smiled and wondered what was going on "Hey Han, what's going on?" Hannah motioned up the stairs "Daddy, William's here, and he wants to talk to you." Tommy raised a brow "He wants to talk to me?"
Hannah's smiled grew as she nodded, and that's when Tommy knew, and he wished Jude was home.
Just then they heard a noise come from the door Hannah had left open, and seconds later, Jude emerged.
Tommy looked at her "Hey,What are you doing home?"
Jude sighed "I don't know, some kind of emergancy with Jamie at home, so Kat had to go, and Kwest called Sadie and said one of the kids got sick and wanted her, so me and Maggie decided to call it a night also. What's going on here, I saw William in the living room, and he said you guys were down here."
Tommy sighed "He says he wants to talk to me." Jude looked confused, then she glanced at Hannah, and saw the smile, then back at Tommy who looked like he was going to be sick. "Why does he wants to talk to....Oh, he wants to talk to you?"
Tommy nodded "Yeah, Hannah, go tell him I'll be right there."
Hannah nodded, and went back up the stairs.
She walked into the living room and smiled when she saw him. "He said he'll be right up." William turned at the sound of her voice, not having heard her come in, and nodded with a smile "OK."
Hannah poitned behind her "I'll be in the kitchen." She said with a smile.
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Jude sat in the chair beside Tommy, and sighed "Already?" Tommy nodded "Looks like it, yeah. What are we gonna do?"
Jude smiled at her husband "I think we know what we have to do." Tommy nodded and sighed again "I know, I just hoped I was wrong." Jude chuckled "You better get up there, you've left him waiting long enough."
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(Stealing Cinderella, Chuck Wicks)
i came to see her daddy, for a sit down man to man
it wasn't any secret, i'd be askin' for her hand
i guess it's why he left me waiting,
in the living room by myself
with at least a dozen pictures of her sittin' on a shelf
William was waiting for Tommy to come, and pacing. He was nervous, but he knew he was doing the right thing, nothing had ever seemed so right.
He stopped infront of a shelf full of pictures, and they were all of her as a little girl. Smiling he saw her dressed up in a play dress as Cinderella, and in one she was running through a spray of water from the sprickler. There was another where she had the biggest smile, as she sat on a shiney new bike, and another of her and her Dad in her room, as she was in mid-bounce holding a pillow and smiling at him.
she was playin' cinerella, ridin' her first bike
bouncin' on the bed, and looking for a pillow fight
runnin' through the sprinkler, with a big popsicle grin
dancin' with her dad, and lookin' up at him
As he looked at them, he could see right infront of him, just how close she was with her dad, because it was him she was running to on the other side of the water, and he had ahold of her bike as she say there smiling for the camera.
William realized, Tommy was in almost everyone of them with her. Then right there, next to all the ones of her and Tommy, was the one of the two of them, the night he came for dinner.
He leaned in to look closer at it, loving her smile in it, when he heard a voice behind him.
in her eyes i'm price charming,
but to him i'm just some fella,
ridin' in, and stealin' cinderella
"She's something isn't she?"
William turned and nodded at Tommy "Yeah, she's a beautiful women." Tommy just stared at him for a second before slowly nodded, and William realized, no matter how old Hannah got, to Tommy, she would always be that little girl in the cinderella dress.
i leaned in torwards those pictures,
to get a better look at one
when i heard a voice behind me say,
now ain't she something son
i said, she quite a women, and he just stared at me
and i realised that in his eyes, she will always be
playin' cinerella, ridin' her first bike
bouncin' on the bed, and looking for a pillow fight
runnin' through the sprinkler, with a big popsicle grin
dancin' with her dad, and lookin' up at him
Tommy cleared his throat "Hannah said you wanted to talk to me." William nodded "Yes sir....uh Tom." Tommy nodded torward the couch "Let's sit down." Tommy looked at him "So what's going on?"
William took a breath "I love your daughter." Tommy nodded and chuckled "Yeah, I know." William nodded "I care about her, more than I've ever cared about anyone else, and I would like to marry her." Tommy just looked at him, waiting for him to go on.
William cleard his throat "I would like your blessing to ask her to marry me." Then he waited as Tommy looked away, over to the pictures, then slowly nod his head, and look back at him. "OK." William smiled "OK?" Tommy nodded again and gave him a small smile "OK, you can ask her." William smiled "Thank you sir..uh Tom, thank you."
Tommy nodded and they stood, Tommy clapped a hand on Willams shoulder and looked torwards the kitchen "Han, can you come here?" Hannah slowly walked out, and over to them, and when she saw the smiled on Williams face, she smiled and threw her arms around Tommy's neck and hugged him hard.
oh he slaped me on the shoulder,
then he called her in the room
when she threw her arms around him,
that's when i could see it to
As the stood there, hugging, William watched them, and for just a second, saw it to, the little girl that Tommy sees.
He to, saw the little girl in the Cinderella dress, standing on his feet as they danced around the room, and he smiled.
she was playin' cinerella, ridin' her first bike
bouncin' on the bed, and looking for a pillow fight
runnin' through the sprinkler, with a big popsicle grin
dancin' with her dad, and lookin' up at him
After they let go, Tommy turned to William "Well I guess we'll see you later Will." Willam looked confused and glaced at the door, then back at Tommy "Umm..well I um....."
That's when Tommy laughed, and William realised he was just giving him a hard time, and smiled. Tommy looked at Hannah "I'll leave you two alone, I'll go see what your mom's doing."
he gives me a hard time, but i can't blame the fella
i'm the one who's stealin' cinderella
He left the room, and found Jude in the kitchen. She smiled when he walked in, and went over to give him a hug.
They pulled back, but left their arms around each other, and Jude sighed "Well, it was only a matter of time. We knew that." Tommy nodded "Yeah, but it hasn't been enough time yet."
Jude smiled and opened her mouth to say something, but was interuped but a squeal from the living room. Then Hannah came running in, and over to Jude, with her hand out, ready to show her the ring Willam had just given her.
Jude hugged her, and looked at Tommy and smiled, he smiled back, because no matter how hard it was for him to let her go, when he saw her so happy, that was all it took, to make him happy.