-Stephenie Meyer owns all her characters
It had been two weeks since Murtagh and Lacey had left their lives. When Nickole and her family had arrived at their home, they found it a bit disastrous. The downstairs living area was emptied out, and the Hummer gone. Not that they were sad about this, it gave Murhuret and Esme a chance to redecorate. Mahuret had explained to the school they she had gotten a divorce from Marcus, and he had taken the other two children with himself. The school had bought the story, especially with the help that the amazing Dr. Carlisle Cullen to testify for it. With The Cullen's coming to their house almost every time of the day, it was perfect, Nickole finally felt like she was home. Edward never smiled so much, having two homes to spend with the most amazing woman he had ever met. Yet she always tried to pry into the one part of his mind that he had covered from her view. The part where he was planning on how to ask her to marry him. He had finally decided the most perfect magical way, but Alice always badgered him to let her help. Edward sighed again, looking at Alice.
"I want to do this on my own, I don't need your help Alice."
"Oh come on Edward, you and I both know you couldn't plan something to save your life. Now just let me decorate a little bit, come on you won't be unhappy." Edward growled a little, giving her a roll of his eyes.
"I can plan, and I happen to have something Nickole is going to love." Alice crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"Okay what is the amazing plan you have for her?"
"I am going to leave her a note to meet me at our oasis, where we first spent the night together. I'm going to line the willow trees with white twinkling lights. Then when she walks in, I'll be standing in the middle of it, dressed in a suit, holding her favorite flowers to throw her off. Then when she takes them, I'm going to tell her how much I love her, how amazing she is to me. Then I'm going to ask her, how about that?"
Alice didn't speak, she just stared at Edward. Her expression hard, for a moment he thought she hated the idea. Then he heard her thoughts, heard her crying from joy. He smiled at her, as her face finally cracked. She screamed and jumped into his arms.
"EDWARD! I HAD NO IDEA YOU HAD SUCH CHARISMA!" Jasper ran downstairs, staring as his wife hugged Edward. He quirked a brow at them, as his hands rested on his hips.
"Guess she's happy then. At least I won't hear here complain about not getting to help plan this." Alice released Edward, snickering at Jasper.
"Haha very funny. So when are you doing this all anyway Edward?"
"Tonight, which is why I was rushing out the door before you stopped me. I sent over a dress to her house for her to wear tonight. I told her I was going to take her somewhere special, to celebrate everything we went through. So I had better get going before she leaves and nothing is set up."
"Good luck then, I want to see her right after you do this."
Edward smiled, turning and heading for the garage. He loaded his box full of lights into the trunk of his car, and jumped in. He was running out of time, thanks to Alice's butting in at the end. He raced along the road, coming to where their oasis existed. His eagerness made him feel a bit nervous as he got out of his car. Night was beginning to fall slowly as he started to lace the trees with the beautiful white twinkling lights. It looked like he had pulled the stars down from the sky and placed them around their clearing. He eyed up his handy work, turning to his suit, it was his turn to get ready now.
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Nickole slowly pulled the curlers out of her brown locks, letting her fingers run through the bouncy soft curls. She pulled out a pink lily flowered clip, placing it on the one side of her hair. As she stood up, she eyed the beautiful dress Edward had picked out for herself. It was a beautiful dark pink strapless dress that went down to her knees, the ruffled underskirt picking up her dress underneath. She pulled the orange cord that tied a bow around her waist, and drifted out from there. She knelt down, putting the clasps closed on her silver open toed heels. She gave herself a twirl in front of her mirror, smiling at her dress. She couldn't wait to see her Edward tonight, to see the surprise night he had planned for each her. She looked over to her clock, seeing it was seven forty five, time to get going. She slowly walked down the stairs, as her family stood at the other end. Jessie started snapping photographs of her. Nickole placed her hand up, trying to block the flash of the camera.
"Why are you taking pictures of me? I'm only going out with Edward for a bit." Jessie smiled at her, putting the camera away.
"Sorry, it's just been a long time since I've seen you so happy, and dressed up. I wanted to savor this moment."
"You better get going, or you're going to be late." Lestat let his arm lay around Jessie's shoulders, smiling. Nickole smirked running over to Mahuret and giving her a kiss on the cheek, Mahuret embraced her tightly.
"You look so beautiful. Have fun my dear."
Nickole looked at Mahuret, raising an eyebrow. She had never seen her act like this, it was as if she was going to cry, even though she couldn't. Nickole shrugged as Lestat held her keys out in front of her face, trying to distract her. She quickly grabbed them from him, hugging him and Jessie before heading out to her car. She raced down the road, following the note he had left for her, telling her to meet him at their oasis first. Nickole pulled off the side of the road, parking beside his car. She got out, smoothing out her dress as she ran through the forest. Edward could hear her footsteps coming through the forest, but hearing them stop suddenly as she saw the twinkling lights that lined the willow trees.
'It's okay, it's only me. Just come straight through my love.'
'Alright, I'll be right through.'
Nickole came through the willow trees softly, pushing back the branches and leaves that hung over. Her eyes drifted throughout the beautiful twinkling lights, and falling directly on Edward who stood in the middle of the clearing. She smiled, walking over to him, giving him a little twirl as the dresses in her skirts lifted up a little.
"The dress is so beautiful Edward, I love it. Thank you so much." He smiled at her, placing a hand to the side of her face softly cupping it.
"Yes it is, but it can not compare to the beauty I have in front of me." He held out a beautiful bouquet of Lilly's as she took them in her hands, taking in a deep scent of the beautiful flowers she held.
"Thank you so much Edward, they are beautiful. This is all so wonderful." Edward smiled, leaning in and kissing her softly on her full lips. Nickole let her arms slide up around his neck, pulling him into a tight embrace, which Edward broke off gently. He wanted to do this perfect. She eyed him curiously, something was up and she knew it.
"Nickole, I have something I want to tell you, and I just need you to be silent. Promise me this, okay." She felt a bit of fear rise inside of her, but felt it begin to calm when he placed his hand to the side of her face.
"I promise."
"You are the most amazing person I have ever met. You made me see that there is a reason to live, and that reason is in your eyes. You made me see the sun rising in the sky, and let me watch it set on your face. If it wasn't for you, I would probably be dead right now had. Ya know, people are always praying to god, and for awhile I believe he didn't exist. Then when you walked into school, into my life. I realized that there must be a god, because he created you for me. He let me have some type of solace in this cold hard world. I have never been more happy, than I am right now. I don't want to ever lose you, not again. I want you to be in my life every single day."
Nickole felt a tear rising up in her eyes, as she watched Edward drop down to one knee. He held tightly onto her hands, smiling up at her. His golden eyes glittering in the twinkling lights that surrounded them. He pulled the small blue velvet box from out of his pocket, holding it out in front of her. He flipped the top open, revealing the beautiful ring inside of it.
"I would be honored if you would be my wife, and spend the rest of eternity by my side."
Nickole took in a deep breath, looking down at the ring that Edward had quickly slid on her finger. She was so caught up in the moment that she hadn't realized it.
"I will." Edward smiled, jumping up and pulling her into his arms. She wrapped her own arms around his neck, laughing and smiling. Their lips crashed upon one another's, feeling the love that ripped through themselves. As they broke their heated kiss, Edward laughed lightly. Running his hand down over her cheek.
"You've been planning this for awhile, havn't you?" She couldn't help but feel like a bubble bursting with air. She was in heaven right now, and her angel was beside her.
"Of course, why do you think you haven't been able to read my thoughts at all? You know I would never keep them from you." He suddenly picked her up bridal style. Her hands running over his cheek as she smiled.
"Edward I love you so much. I can't wait to tell everyone about this...Wait they all know don't they?" He laughed, nodding his head.
"No wonder Jessie was taking pictures of me getting ready and walking down the stairs. I was wondering what was wrong with her."
"You think that's bad. I had Alice begging to set this all up for us, and then had her trying to pick out your dress."
Nickole laughed lightly, nuzzling into Edward neck. Nipping gently at his neck. He growled in response to her, loving the feel of her mouth over his neck.
"Now what are we going to do?"
Edward answered her question by his mouth crashing over her lips. She felt his hands find the zipper in the back of her dress, lowering it. She sighed in pleasure, loving it all. Her own hands played with shirt, ripping off the buttons to reveal his perfect chest. His shirt fell to the ground, her dress falling down with it as well. They stood there before each other, their hands caressing over their bodies. It was a perfect night, and was going to be even better in the morning.
