CHAPTER 26

(Kate's pov)

Looking at the time again on my computer screen, '22:27' I sigh deeply and look around the office. No-one apart from the late night/early morning presenter, June in the booth. I give up with the paper work. Pushing the heavy door of the booth open I smile at her,

"Thats me away June! See you later." She smiles back and waves, I leave the building and get into my little fiat 500. I connect my phone to the car bluetooth and phone Danny once again,

"Hey, thats me just leaving, I'll be home in five, do we need anything?" I ask sweetly,

"Nope, just your body next to mine is enough. See you soon" We hang up and I smile. Like I had estimated I was home within five minutes, I park up the drive, kill the engine, grab my bag and phone then head into the door, I pull down the handle and push. It's locked...It's not normally locked, I rummage in my bag and pull out my keys. I fiddle about and it unlocks, when I open the door wide There is a path of candles wit red petals making its way into the living room,

"Danny? Whats going on?" I ask in confusion, there was no reply, I enter the house, dump my bag on the floor shut the door behind me and follow the candle lit path. I reach the living room and see the room with no furniture just lit candles and red petals and standing in the middle of it all, is Danny he grins at me, I grin back,

"What's all this for?" I ask walking to him,

"All of this, is for you..." He says with a grin, I kiss him, pushes me away slightly and gets down on one knee on the floor,

"Holy shit! Danny!" I scream,

"Kate, I have wanted to ask you this since day we met." He smiles again, and I start to cry tears of joy.

"Kate Smith, I love you more than anything in this universe, will you make me the happiest guy in the world and marry me?" He opens the little Tiffany box in his hand to show a gorgeous diamond ring, I drop to the floor and hug him as tightly as possible shouting 'YES! YES YES!' The tears are sliding down my face.

(Danny's pov)

I wipe the tears dropping from her eyes and kiss her passionitly, and place the ring on her finger, I grin at her,

"I love you!" She shouts at me pulling me up and hugging me again, we kiss again and again then I retract,

"Guys! You can come in now!" She turns around at look at the living room door seeing Dougie, Shannon, Harry, Tom and Giovanna standing there smiling,

"I'M GETTING MARRIED!" She screams at the top of her lungs and runs to them all,

"It was so hard keeping it a secret!" Shouts Shannon, they both laugh and hug each other, Tom, Harry and Doug smile at me, I smile back. In the morning me and Kate were in bed, she was lying on my chest gazing at her ring,

"So, do you like the ring then?" I ask playing with her hair,

"Yes, I love it. Just about as much as you Jones." She smiles and kisses me.

"Good, I'm glad, mum helped me pick it" I tell her with a smile,

"Well, Kathy has good taste." She smiles, "Y'know, I havent proparly met Kathy yet, I mean I was in hospital when we met, maybe we should invite your family, and Kevin up for dinner tonight?" She sits up and looks at me with her big brown eyes, "Will they be up for that?"

"Yeah, course, what about the rest of your family though Kate, I mean, you gotta invite them too, you cant hate them forever babe." I say kissing her cheek. She looks away and gets up from the bed,

"I'm going for a shower." She says,

"Want me to come with you?" I wink

"No." She replies in a firm tone.