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Special Thanks to Twimarti for beta'ing and Kitty Vuitton for pre-reading!

Now that I have written about 75% of the story, I will start to post a bit more often. Hopefully 2 updates a day and then when I finish it should change to 3 or 4 per day.

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CHAPTER 10

•~Bella Swan~•

Son of a monkey butt! He was proposing?

Luckily, I'd already swallowed the spicy tuna roll I'd eaten when Edward popped the question... well... asked to pop the question really, but yeah, had I not already swallowed I might have inhaled it into my windpipe which would have been a waste of good food, truly.

"Oh fuck, Bella! Are you okay, beautiful?" Edward asked worriedly, his large hand rubbing my back in a soothing manner as I wiped at my watery eyes.

"Of course," I rasped before taking another sip of water, letting the cool liquid soothe the sore ache in my throat.

"Of course – you're okay or umm... of course – to my other question?" he asked uneasily. I could tell he was serious about this whole permission nonsense.

Nonsense, because he and Renee had been dating for at least eight months, not to mention the fact that he was at our house so often he practically lived there. It wasn't like I was some irrational child that thought he was gonna come and steal my mommy away, or try to replace my daddy, which was pretty laughable to be honest because it wouldn't have taken much to be better than Charlie.

If his proposal hadn't been so dang sweet, I might have had a much more difficult time holding back the eye roll that threatened to escape. Instead I placed my much smaller hand over his, resting it there for a moment. "I'm fine, and of course I'd love for you to be my new Daddy," I told him, taking a childish tone.

"Step-Dad," he corrected with a self-satisfied smirk, making me happy that he didn't mind my sense of humor.

"To-may-to, To-mat-to."

A/N

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