Chapter 7: The Blessings and The proposal
*5 years later*
Nate was nervous, he was in the presence of the only thing that would allow him to propose and marry his girlfriend of 6 years, Julchen. He was for sure that he made a good impression, he met her family's expectations, they lived together, and he helped raised her daughter, he was sweating bullets now. "So, in order to gain my blessing, you have to treat her right, through thick and thin, promise to never leave her, and I get the biggest piece of wedding cake." "Deal." "Okay, the you have my blessing to marry my mama." Nate had let out a breath he hadn't realized he was holding in. He had finally got the blessing to marry the love of his life from the first important thing in her life: Her 6 year old daughter, Danielle. He had wanted to talk to the little girl, but, she had made a big deal out of it (since her awesome grandpa had let her look at the Godfather last time she stayed with him). She had called him in her light purple and blue room for a 'tea party' to discuss the arrangements. He wanted to laugh until he looked into her red eyes that she inherited from her mother that she wasn't playing. He had never seen the child so serious before. "Dad? Are you okay?" "Huh, yeah kiddo, I'm fine." He smiled and ruffled her hair, chuckling when she swatted his hands away. "Hey, watch the bow!" "Alright, now, where's your mom?" "I think she's outside on the patio, now remember our deal, right?" "Right, thanks a lot Dani!" He kissed his 'daughter' on the forehead and almost ran out her room, looking for his girlfriend, and true to the little girl's word, there was his beautiful Julie, sitting on the patio, wearing a pink sundress with no shoes, her long pale blonde hair in a ponytail, with a pale pink flower in her hair, reading a book. He smiled and quietly tried to sneak up on her, red velvet box in pocket, although, when he stepped on that one floorboard he usually avoids, not even looking up from her book, she automatically knew it was him. "What's up Nate?" Julchen asked, setting her book down after saving her place. "Uh, well, Julie, we've been together for 6 years, correct?" Ja, und what does that mean?" Nate then got on one knee beside her chair, and pulled the velvet box from his pocket. "From the time that I've known you, you are the most beautiful woman I have and still will ever see. Your talented, smart, graceful, and everything I could ever ask for, and from that moment that we kissed on our first date, I knew we were meant to be. I've gotten advice from many people on how to do this, but I'm pulling all this straight from my heart." And then he opened the box to reveal a beautiful diamond ring. "Julchen Caroline Beilschmidt, will you please marry me?" And with that, he was tackled by a pink blur which was his girlfriend kissing him long and hard on the lips. After breaking apart for air, she smiled at him with that all too contagious, 1000-watt smile of hers. "Yes, Yes and a million gazillion times yes!" He then smiled wider than a open door and slipped the ring on her finger and kissed her again. From around the corner on the other side of the room, Danielle was texting two pictures, one of him proposing and one of him slipping the ring on her finger to everyone on the contacts of Nate and Julchen's phones, the actual text saying "He finally popped the question and she said yes!"