Calleigh awoke to find her and Eric in the bed. She didn't know how they got there because the last thing that she remembered was that they had fallen asleep on the couch. Eric must have gotten up in the middle of the night and brought her in the bedroom. She also noticed that his arms were still around her waist. She looked over at him and he looked so cute sleeping. Erica had somehow ended up at the foot of the bed, and she was all sprawled out across her and Eric's feet. She looked at the clock, and it read 9:45. She had never slept that later in her life.

Calleigh realized that she really had to go to the bathroom, but she didn't want to wake Eric up. She tried to unwind from his grasp, but he stirred and his grasp tightened just a little bit and he opened his eyes.

"Good morning Calleigh. Where are you going?" Eric asked.

"Gotta go to the bathroom." Calleigh said.

Releasing her, she went to the bathroom. When she left, he thought to himself that he didn't want to ever leave her again or lose her. While she was in the bathroom, he got up and went into the closet. He took a look around and his eyes fell upon where he had hid the little baby-blue velvet box. He had hidden it there after he had been released from Immigration custody. He could hear her finishing up in the bathroom so he hid the box behind his back and got back into the bed. He then put the box on her pillow.

Calleigh came back into the bedroom and noticed that Eric wasn't in the same position that he was in before she left. Then her eyes fell on the velvet box resting on her pillow. She got into the bed and went to open the box, but before she could, Eric said something to her.

"Calleigh before you open that box, just hear me our now?" Eric said.

"Ok will do." Calleigh said.

"I know it has taken us seven years to get to know each other. You are the only one besides Horatio who I trust with my life. When we first met, I was so intrigued by your beauty that I couldn't think straight and I used that horrible pick up line on you (Calleigh remembered and chuckled). But these seven years have been the best years of my life because I know you and I love you with every fiber of my being. Will you marry me?" Eric asked, holding open the box. Inside was the diamond engagement ring, with a green emerald in the middle of the diamonds, just like the color of her eyes.

Her eyes filling with tears, Calleigh hugged him and said, "Yes I will marry you." Eric slipped the ring on her finger and the morning sun-light sparkled onto the green emerald. Calleigh kissed Eric with all of the love she has for him, and he kissed back with the same love and a whole lot more love.

Her stomach growled and that caused them to break the kiss. Eric heard her stomach and he chuckled because every time she was really hungry her stomach would growl that loud.

"Hungry?" Eric asked her.

"Yeah I guess I am. What do you want for breakfast? "Calleigh asked him.

"Well I missed cooking breakfast for you, so I will cook. What do you want? Pancakes, French Toast, eggs?" Eric asked her.

"How about chocolate-chip pancakes? They are so good." Calleigh said.

"Sure no problem. Coming right up. I will meet you downstairs." He said getting up and putting his robe on and left the bedroom and went to the kitchen.

Calleigh got into her own robe and went downstairs and into the kitchen to meet her fiancée. She got there and he already had the pancake mix ready. While he was cooking them, Calleigh got out the plates, the syrup and the utensils and a gallon of milk, because she always liked to have a glass of ice-cold milk with her pancakes.

As soon as the first three pancakes were ready, she went to the table and literally drowned her pancakes in syrup. Eric came over and sat down with his pancakes.

"You have got too much syrup you know?" Eric said laughing.

"Nope I don't. You barely have any on yours." Calleigh said.

"This is how I eat them. You can taste the chocolate-chips better this way. You have drowned yours." Eric said.

Calleigh just stuck out her tongue and went on eating her drowned pancakes.

"So who do you think we should tell first about our engagement?" Eric asked her.

"I was thinking that we should tell Alex first. I never got to thank her for saving my life after I collapsed from that smoke inhalation. She has been my best friend since we all started together." Calleigh said.

" Sure thing. But we do have to tell Horatio next because if we don't. we are going to be in big trouble." Eric said.

"Sure no problem. I am sure that Ryan, Natalia, and Frank will catch on once they see the ring on my finger." Calleigh said.

" Yeah. So what do you want to do today? Beach, mall, shopping?" Eric asked her.

"I just want to stay home with you in my arms and watch movies. We can just be lazy." Calleigh said.

"Sure if that's what you really want to do." Eric said.

"Yep that's what I want to do. Just be with you all day. Of course we are going to have to share some of the day with Erica." Calleigh said.

"Okay." Eric said.

So after breakfast they decided to bring the T.V. and the DVD player into the bedroom to watch movies ad cuddle up with each other. They watched a whole bunch of movies then went to sleep around eleven. They had decided earlier that they were going to tell Horatio and Alex tomorrow. Eric's arms were around Calleigh's waist as they passed from consciousness into the realm of sleep.

Chapter 8 soon.