Disclaimer: You know by now that I am not Stephanie Meyer.

A/N: HAPPY EPOV SUNDAY!! [It's close enough...]

First things first, you should listen to "Jump" by Van Halen before and during your read through of this chapter. It makes it a lot better. You'll see why.

Second things second, this is an old school EPOV, meaning that it is not the length of a usual chapter. I'm just warning you ahead of time, so you can't get mad at me, please! haha It's not as short as the first days of EOPV Saturday, but it's definitely not the usual length. This DOES NOT mean that all of the other chapters are going to be this short, it's just that I didn't want to leave the cliffy cliffing any longer. You all demanded a quick update, so this seemed the proper way to do it. Next chap will be a BPOV and will be normal length :)

Third things third, you guys are amazing. Thank you for every single review, PM, pledge to vote, question, everything! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Ok, Chapter 11 awaits you!

Ready, set, EDWARD!

Chapter 11 - Romeo Delight

BPOV

Alice sunk down to just one knee and looked up at Jasper confidentially.

"What I'm getting at is the fact that I want you to be mine, forever. Jasper Cullen, will you be my husband?"

Jasper froze, my mouth fell open, Emmett and Rosalie both gasped, Edward stiffened, and we all waited together in anticipation for his reaction.

I have absolutley no idea what could possibly have been going on in Jasper's head at that moment, but mine was chanting, "Don't be a dip shit Juliet, say yes, say yes, say yes...."

EPOV

I felt my entire body tense, even more than it had every time one of them shifted anyone weight while standing on top of my piano, and I waited with what felt like the whole world for Jasper to reply.

"Be smart, Juliet," I thought to myself in a demeaning manor.

With his foolish behavior towards himself lately I would not put it past Jasper to mess this up thoroughly. And I did not sacrifice the safety of Florence for him to be, as my beloved Bella would say, a dip shit.

I wouldn't have taken part in any of this had Alice not been so incredibly convinced it would work.

"Edward, I have to do it," she had said in the tone that meant she wasn't going to change her mind.

So I decided to help her in whichever ways I could, hoping desperately at the same time it would help my brother as well. I sucked in another tiny, paranoid, tense breath as Jasper idly shifted his weight and his foot slid across the top the piano. I vowed to never offer up Florence as a device like this again and closed my eyes briefly to remain calm.

Never again, Florence, I promise. Neither of us deserve this borderline torture.

"Jasper, say something," Alice said as she looked up at him from bended knee. She didn't sound angry or afraid. She actually sounded a bit annoyed that he hadn't responded in any way yet.

He still didn't reply and I wondered briefly if I should be worrying about Bella's health because I couldn't feel her breathing next to me. If our Romeo and Juliet's inability to get engaged kills my fiance I will go on a rampage.

We all continued to watch silently and tensely as he finally snapped out of his statue-esque stance and sank just as Alice had, except he landed on both of his knees as opposed to her one.

He searched her face for a second and it looked like he was actually going to say no, like he was actually going to ruin this for all of us...

But then Alice leaned toward him slightly, took both of his hands in hers, and simply smiled at him. Something changed.

"You're sure, Alice?" he asked her in a hushed tone that was both intimate and serious.

"Yes," she replied instantly and with force.

"Even though I-"

"Yes," she said again, harder.

"Positive?"

"Jasper."

He was really pushing it now. Her little eyes narrowed and she actually looked a bit dangerous.

Then it happened. He smiled widely, flicked his head slightly, flinging a few strands of hair from his face, and asked,"This isn't just so you can get into my pants is it?"

Alice squealed, Bella let out her breath, Rose muttered "thank God", Emmett whooped, and I cringed slightly as Alice threw herself at my brother and they landed with a rather loud thud on top of my precious Florence.

"That was the best way I've ever heard anyone say yes," Emmett said at an impressively low volume since Alice and Jasper were whispering private things to each other and then started kissing sweetly.

I kissed the top of my Bella's head and she smiled up at me, her eyes full of love and hope and happiness.

"Edward?" Alice called to me, breaking the invisible wall between them and us.

I walked over to the piano, knowing what she wanted and smiled at them as they sat up and the others followed me over. I brought the small box out of my pocket and handed it to Alice. She wiped a few tears from her eyes then turned to Jasper.

"Hold out your hand," she commanded.

The dip shit actually stuck out his right hand with a perfectly serious look on his face. At least his playfulness seemed to have returned full force.

"Jasper Cullen, don't make me hurt you," Alice's sweet little voice warned.

Everyone laughed in a reserved sort of way. We were still in the middle of a serious situation, as loving and happy as it may be.

Jasper smiled in what I think Bella would consider a "Cullen" sort of way and then he held out the proper hand for what Alice was clearly planning on doing next.

The silence overtook us again, this time void of the thick tension from before.

Slowly, at about the rate the tear was falling from Alice's eye, she slid the thick onyx ring onto Jaspers hand. Of course she couldn't go with traditional gold or silver. Alice's taste will never be ordinary.

She lifted it up to her mouth and kissed it sweetly before looking up his eyes and smiling.

"My turn," Jasper said quietly. "I assume you've covered that base as well?" he smiled at her in a knowing way and Alice scoffed.

"How could you love me if I hadn't?"

I felt the ripple of laughter float through the group in appreciation of the uniqueness of Alice.

Jasper took the small box from where it was resting next to Alice and opened it. He studied the ring that lay inside and his mouth pulled down the smallest bit before he reached in and pulled out another onyx ring that was a great deal smaller than his and lined over the top with a thin line of diamonds.

"Alice, this cannot be the ring that you picked out for yourself," he said as he looked up at her with apprehension.

"Of course not, Jazz, that's just the wedding band. The selection of the ring ring is your duty! I'm not the boy!" she giggled a bit in a breathless manner and Bella leaned into me, raising on her tip toes to whisper in my ear, "Yeah right, Romeo."

I looked into her deep brown eyes and we shared a private laugh at our little inside joke before returning our attention to the event at hand.

Jasper continued to look slightly confused but he took Alice's left hand in his and held the ring directly in front of her ring finger, hovering it right at the tip before proceeding to place it all the way on her hand.

"You really think I can handle that Alice?" he asked.

"Of course Jasper. I trust you completely," she replied and it was easy to see she was speaking about much more than the selection of an engagement ring.

"You really twisted this whole thing around, you know that? It's all been done backwards."

He smirked at her and winked and she smiled back and it was apparent that backwards didn't matter to either of them, they were content in their ways. As they should be.

Suddenly Jasper leaned forward and kissed Alice hard as he slid the ring on the rest of the way. Once it was on she grabbed his face on both sides and held it to her own as the kiss continued. A few seconds later they broke apart, Alice with fresh tears and both of them with fresh smiles, and my brother rested his forehead gently against his new fiancé's.

"I love you Alice. I love you for loving me, and I love you for never giving up on anything, or caring about the right way to do things, and for being original, and completely different from me but completely my other half. I love you for this," he swept his had out, gesturing across the room and then rested it softly on her face. "I love you for doing this your way even though you know I hate romantic things that involve such a cliches as flower petals and candles..."

Again the laughter lifted each of us and Jasper kissed Alice one more small time.

"And I really love you for proposing in front of them," he turned his face and looked at our small group of four standing a few feet away, "so that if I said no my brothers could thoroughly beat the crap out of me for," his gaze focused in on Bella,"being a huge dip shit."

With that the laughter became full and the serious moments were over and the celebration began.

Bella cried, "Alice! You're engaged!" and all three girls cheered as they ran over to her, Emmett walked over to Jasper saying something about "getting it done," and all of them ignored my frantic pleas of, "Piano! Please watch the piano!" because Alice had started bouncing up and down and Emmett was air drumming dangerously close to Florence's top.

"Oh wow, Edward looks like he's going to cry," Alice pointed out when I ran over to redistribute the red blanket that had bunched up under Alice and Jasper during the proposal. It was one of the conditions I placed when Alice asked me if she could use my second greatest love as a device in her plan. The blanket was there for protection from their dangerous feet.

Once everyone was removed from a situation in which they could hurt something I cared about we settled into the living room and enjoyed the ambiance of the romantic setting around us.

Around two thirty in the morning, after discussing the many ways in which Alice and I had taken care of business that had to do with wedding bands and secret proposals, the front door opened and my parents returned from their party at the hospital.

"Hello all of my children!" my father greeted the room in a voice slightly higher pitched than the one he normally speaks in.

"Carlisle, get back here, you forgot your left shoe in the car..."

My mother came in giggling and waving around the shoe that, upon further inspection of his person, Carlisle did appear to be missing. Nothing seemed off about her like it did with him, except for the smile that she wore. I hadn't seen that smile in months.

"Dad, are you drunk?" Emmett asked with a laugh.

"No. No, no. No, Emmett I'm not very drunk at all!" our father replied with a lazy wave of his hand.

It was rather unconvincing, the way our father was denying being "very drunk at all" but smiling goofily at us and laughing for no apparent reason.

"Are you drunk?" he asked Emmett with genuine curiosity.

"No way pops, I haven't been down to Pina Colada Ville in a while," we all laughed at the very colorful memories we had of Emmett and his beloved Pina Colada Ville. "Besides," he continued,"I have a lady that keeps me intoxicated with her love." He kissed Rosalie and Carlisle "awed" audibly at their display of affection. The effects of Romeo and Juliet's engagement must still be lingering in my oldest brother. Or Sexless Emmett is really making an effort to break Rosalie down.

"That was sweet," Carlisle cooed from the entry way. I noticed my mother was busying herself with hanging their coats and cleaning off their shoes, smiling beautifully the whole time.

"Mom, dad's drunk isn't he?" Jasper finally asked bluntly.

"No!" our father laughed again. Then he turned to our mother and whispered rather loudly, "don't tell them. I'm going to go get some pumpkin bread and I'll be right back." He actually winked at her and then turned to us, waving his hands at us as he held them in a gun shapped manner like he was shooting silent bullets through the room.

"I'm sorry kids, you father may be a tad tipsy," our mother informed us as she came to sit between Bella and I and Jasper and Alice on the couch. Rosalie and Emmett were in the chair across the room as usual. My father could be heard banging around in the kitchen and singing "Jump" by Van Halen rather loudly. The story is that Carlisle used to be rather musically influenced like his sons, back in his day.

"I get up! And nothing gets me down..."

clang clang clang

"That's unusual," I said after turning my gaze from the doorway and nodding towards the kitchen while chuckling with the rest of the room. A tipsy Carlisle literally is unusual. I'm told he "let loose" at one of our Christmas parties many years back, but I was about four at the time so I have no recollection of it.

"Well, we've had a very unusual sort of night," mom said quietly drawing our attention into her even more. The way she said "unusual" was odd. She almost caressed the word, as if it had a deeper meaning.

"You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real!"

clang

"So I'm guessing the party was fun?" Rosalie asked with a small laugh.

"Oh, it was lovely!" my mother glowed as she answered. All of the beautiful women in the room were only more so with the soft glow of the candles still filling the room.

"Everyone was there and they had ice sculptures and champagne fountains! It really was an all out affair for Forks." We laughed and I raised my brow at the mention of the champagne fountain as I twisted my fingers in and around Bella's. That was probably my father's downfall. He secretly loves things like that.

"I ain't the worst that you've seen, oh can't you see what I mean? Might as well jump!"

clang bang

"Might as well ju-"

BANG

"Carlisle!" mother laughed as she turned around in the couch to face the kitchen. My poor tipsy father seemed to have taken his enthusiasm to a level he's not equipped to handle.

"Yes dear?" Tipsy Dad sauntered into the room rubbing his hip and smiled sweetly.

"Are you alright?" Esme asked with a nod towards where he was rubbing his hip.

"I am fantastic, angel," Tipsy Dad said sweetly as he quickly removed his hand from his hip and held it behind his back.

He stepped down into the living room and impressively walked gracefully over to the couch as we all adjusted our positions to accommodate for another body. I cradled Bella closer to me and saw Jasper do the same to Alice as he lifted up her left hand and kissed the thin band of metal and diamonds before settling both of their hands in his lap.

Tipsy Dad put his arm around our mother and then whispered overly loud (again), "you didn't tell them did you?"

She laughed with the rest of us and then replied, "of course not, it's your news to tell."

"News?" Emmett asked as all of our interests grew.

"Yes my children!" Tipsy Dad adresses us all again as he had when he first entered. "I have some fantastic news to share."

He then reached inside of his vest, to the pocket that my Bella envied, and pulled out a rectangular piece of paper.

"This," he held it out towards us and paused as everyone got a good look at it. It was a check. "Is a check!"

Esme chuckled, I would guess that it was at the way he was speaking to us, as if everything painfully obvious thing he said held the upmost importance.

"This check is the first of many that the hospital is going to pay me for my work there. All of my work there!"

He smiled triumphantly but the victory he seemed to feel was lost on all of us.

"That's great dad, but, uh, hasn't the hospital been paying you to work there for the last few months?" Emmett asked.

"Yeah, isn't that the reason we've had to eat instant mashed potatoes, they're checks aren't as much as we would like?" Jasper added with a grimace. He never has getten used to Uncle Ben's potatoes.

"No, this check is better!" Tipsy Dad retorted. It was then that Esme stepped in by laying a hand on his arm and gently saying,"why don't you let me explain."

"Apparently your father is a bit too excited to explain this thoroughly," she said with a smile and a glance at our father. He smiled goofily and held his hand in front of her, indicating she should indeed proceed.

"At the party tonight there was an announcement made that the hospital has come under new ownership. It doesn't effect much in terms of the way things will be ran, most people won't even notice a difference besides the lovely idea the new owner has for upscaling the design of the place, which by the way he wants my assistance with," my mother smiled proudly and Tipsy Dad kissed her on the cheek as we all congratulated her.

"Anyway, the new owner also had something to discuss with your father. He pulled us aside and told us that he himself was a retired doctor, unfit to practice in a hospital since the hours are rather demanding, but still interested in helping people. He's recently retired in Forks after working in Seattle for many years, and he has a lot of money he wishes to pour into the hospital. And it's staff."

She paused and again gained a new level of interest. This has the ability to lead somewhere good, for all of us.

"After discussing out current, unfortunate situation with him we were informed that the hospital wanted to insure that your father remained there after our lawsuit was settled. They said they were willing to do anything to make that a reality..."

"They love me," Tipsy Dad interjected with awe in his tone. Bella patted his arm and he looked at her in such a loving way I was definitely certain in that moment that she was his favorite.

"They do," mother continued,"they love him so much they gave him a raise. A rather giant, impressive, unecessary raise." Her voice broke and the happiness leaked out through her words and Tipsy Dad could hold himself back no longer.

"They wouldn't take no for an answer! My children, our life as we knew it is back! The whole staff is getting a generous pay raise. Thanks to the kind board of directors at Forks Hospital, we are now more financially stable than we have ever been."

I watched his smile widen with every word and I knew in my heart that his happiness had nothing to do with acquiring more money. Our father's joy over this matter was based around the fact that he no longer felt like a burden to our family, but once again like he could provide for us and grant us all he thought we deserved. Life hadn't gotten hard for us over this short period of struggle, but that is only due to long, hard hours my father committed to in order to maintain a close reflection of our normal lifestyle. Now that he didn't have to spend time away from his family to keep them out of the dark, he could rest easy.

This really was a blessing.

Before I knew it Rosalie and Emmett were out of the chair and piling on top of my parents in the middle of the couch, pulling everyone in around them until we became one mass of arms and love.

We broke apart and the air was crackling with joy.

"That certainly explains Tipsy Dad," I said as the room resettled after the group hug-pile.

"I did some celebrating, what can I say?" he defended. "Their champagne fountains were marvelous!"

"I want a champagne fountain at the wedding, Alice," Rosalie said suddenly. Tipsy Dad cheered a little bit and Alice clapped her little hands as my Bella groaned.

"I forgot, it's after Christmas and Alice is allowed to talk about weddings now."

I turned to my love and smiled,"So sorry our wedding such a burden, love." I decided to play with her because I knew she would not appreciate that comment very much.

She hit me in the chest. Hard.

"You know that's not it at all, Edward," she glared at me and I smiled. She's completely adorable when she's angry.

"Bella's just not naturally equipped for things like wedding planning," Alice said as she took out her Blackberry and started looking intently through it's contents. "And even though I am, I have no idea how I'm going to plan three at a time..." she said almost to herself. She turned to Jasper and he smiled at her before leaning in and whispering something in her ear. She simply nodded once at him and then returned her attention back to her phone.

"Oh my gosh! We forgot to congratulate you!" my mother gasped as she looked at the newly engaged couple.

"Let's see the ring!" Tipsy Dad interrupted before she had a chance to actually congratulate them.

Jasper held up his hand and showed our parents his ring causing the whole room to laugh and Tipsy Dad to look very confused.

Romeo and Juliet explained the larger details of the story of their difficult road to the proposal and then we filled our parents in on how the surprise proposal went.

"Wow Alice, you will have your hands full with three weddings in one year," my mother mused. "It's too bad you can't combine them all and have a triple wedding," she laughed.

Alice and Rosalie looked briefly like someone had kicked them in the chest and Bella said, "best idea ever," under her breath with laugh.

"Maybe I'll just plan the same wedding three times," Alice joked. "I'll just order three of everything and the eight of us will be the only ones that know all three weddings had champagne fountains." Everyone laughed and in the middle of it Alice got an evil glint in her eye and turned to me. "Or a Jack Daniels fountain, right Edward?"

I groaned and ran a hand through my hair. I knew now that my one drunk story had made it's way into our lives no one would let me live it down. It took almost two years for Jasper and Emmett to stop laughing about it the first time.

I noticed Bella nodding her head franticly and then I shook my head and laughed when Jasper reached over our parents to high five her. Those two being so close was shaping up to be nothing but trouble.

"Speaking of Jack Daniels..." my mother said seriously while turning her face towards me. I grinned because I knew what was coming next. "Edward, why is there a giant bottle of it on the back of your toilet?"

I threw my head back and laughed. Ah, Bathroom Whiskey.

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