Footprints in the sand- Leona Lewis:
I promise you
I'm always there
When your heart is filled with sorrow and despair
I'll carry you
When you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand
Edward POV:
I still couldn't believe how beautiful Bella looked tonight. I knew that every man in this restaurant couldn't keep their eye's off of her and personally, I wanted to punch everyone of them. But Bella's beautiful melted chocolate swirls alone distracted me from doing that. Also the fact that I was so nervous, my palms were clammy and so was my forehead and I knew I sat in a weird position. I just hoped that Bella noticed none of this.
"Hmm.. Everything looks so delicious- what to have?" Bella mused over, with a massive menu in both of her hands.
"I know." I replied, but really my stomach turned at the sight of any food- what was I going to do?
I read the same top line of the first meal on the menu for about 1000 times, each time the words never sunk in.
"Hay!" Chirped a lady from beside me, making me jump nearly out of my skin.
Bella gave me a weird look, before saying "Hello."
I then looked up to the lady, to see that even though Bella just spoken to her- all of her eye's were on me. I went straight back to me menu- I hated it when girl's did this and they did it a lot.
"What can I get you?" I wasn't looking at her, but I could feel her eyes on me as she asked.
"Err.." I could hear Bella sounding a bit miffed, so looked up over my menu and winked at her, waiting for the predictable redness to fill her cheeks.
On cue, she looked down into her menu and blushed the most beautiful colour ever.
"I'll have.." I picked the first thing on the menu, " the lobster?" I looked back up to the waitress, to see her eager eyes on me.
"Of course sir, that all?" She smiled, scribbling down on her notepad.
"Um.. I'll have the mushroom ravioli please." The waitress's grin turned upside down as she wrote down Bella's order.
"Is that all?" She put on the sweet voice again as she looked directly into my eyes, blushing slightly- but it wasn't the same as when Bella blushed. The waitress just looked plain stupid now, not beautiful and cute like when Bella blushed.
I nodded and she frowned at the little answer I gave her, but walked away still, pulling another waitress with her. I could feel both of their gazes on me as they presumably talked about me, but managed to ignore them.
Bella pulled one eyebrow at me, before taking a sip of her red wine she ordered before.
"What?" I asked, honestly confused.
She just shook her head before replying, "Nothing." I tired to smile back at her, but I knew now that my nerves got in the way.
She cocked the other eyebrow at me again, "What is wrong with you Edward? Your acting really.. Weird. And Nellie and Alice at home! Why are we making all this effort to just come here?" She asked, honestly confused.
I could see her point, we were a bit dressed up for this restaurant. It was the poshest and most expensive in Forks, but Fork's was a small town. So this restaurant wasn't really posh at all, it was a bit crap to be honest. But I just wanted to do this in the most specialist way ever. I knew doing it here, would look lame- but where else could I ask her?
"Umm.. I don't know what you mean Bella." I tried to lie, but lying to Bella was very hard and me not looking in her eye, must of made it sound even falser.
"Hmm." Bella mused over, I knew she didn't believe me, but luckily she left the subject for a while.
The waitress- to my rescue, came over to give us our, to be honest crap food. God knows why I ordered lobster, when I hate fish, but I ate it anyway, trying not to puke. By the looks of it Bella wasn't liking her dish to much either- great, could this go any better?
We made casual talk during the meal, and I tried not to act suspicious again, but I knew that Bella didn't fall for it. We paid, then left, my brain trying so hard to think of ideas, of to where to ask her. The street road was hardly the place to do it, but then I knew that Alice would kill me if I didn't ask her tonight.
Then it hit me.
Bella POV:
I knew something was up with him. Getting all dressed up, barely speaking, fidgeting constantly and ordering lobster. I knew Edward hated any kind of fish- I was his maid for gods sake. The problem, was what?
I presumed we were just driving home, tonight had been very nice- the food was a bit pants but spending time with Edward was amazing.
"Where are we going?" I questioned, as Edward took a sudden turn down a familiar dirt road.
All I got was a wink off of him though- what was going on?
We drove down a farm road, though I could barely see a thing in the pitch blackness, I thought I'd been here before, but I couldn't be certain. Edward came to a halt, then turned to face me, smiling my favourite crooked grin, causing my heart to miss a few beats.
"Follow me." He whispered, grabbing my hand and pulling me out of the car door.
I still had no idea where we were, as all I could see was blackness. My heart was racing though at the sound of Edward's voice, adrenaline filling my blood stream.
He guided me down a rocky path, leading me to some gates?
Gates. Farm Gates. Edward's meadow. Memories I'd managed to store away suddenly came flooding back into my brain. Memories of the best day of my life ever. Pain soon took over it, as memories of what that day and night led too..
"Edward, why are we here?" I questioned, confused after all of the years why he would want to bring us here again.
He turned around, smiling and showing me his perfect white teeth, his hands wound around my waist, "To dance." He whispered in my ear, pulling me in further.
"But we have no music." I stated, starting to dance with him though, my arms wounding around his perfect neck, fitting perfectly like they had been sculpted to fit.
"Who need's music?" Edward laughed, reciting the same words as he had said last time we were here.
I was still confused why we were having this romantic evening, but never questioned it, I was enjoying it too much. It felt like I could dance forever with Edward, I was a crap dancer, but with Edward; it was like all the right moves and footsteps just flowed out of his body into mine. It felt amazing and so right.
I sighed out loud in contentment, resting my head on Edwards shoulder, burying my face in his breathtaking smell. But suddenly he jerked upwards, like he was asleep before, pushing me off him but taking hold of my left hand. He looked deeply into my eyes, before going down on one knee…
The moon light shone perfectly off of his head and a cool crisp breeze blew, but it felt nice, this moment felt perfect, especially with the breathtaking view behind Edward's head.
But I couldn't concentrate on the view, "Isabella Swan, you don't know how long I have wanted to do this," Edward said, seriousness coating his tone, his emerald eyes looking directly into mine, making it hard for me too look anywhere else- not that I wanted to. I felt my heart kick up another gear as realisation hit in, on what he was about to do, " You're my world, my sunshine, my life- Bella, your everything to me. I would rather die then live in a world where you were not in it. You make me smile every morning, knowing that your going to be there, you're the most beautiful, stunning, amazing girl ever! From the first moment I led eyes on you, I knew you were the one and since then I have never been the same. You have given me the most incredible wonderful child veer and I know at times, I have treated you more then wrong and I could never ever stop apologising for that, but Bella, please, you have to realise how much you mean to me, so please Isabella Marie Swan, marry me?"
I felt tears enter my eyeballs, but I didn't care, the man of my life- the most gorgeous man ever, just asked me to marry him! What was this world coming too?
"YES!" I screamed my head off, jumping into his arms, finding his face with my hands, before pulling him into a massive kiss. He kissed me back, so passionately and intensely, our breath forming into one and his sweet taste filling my whole mouth up.
He pulled out, taking my left hand and taking a big black box from his pocket- how hadn't I noticed the bulge there before? He opened it up, showing the most striking, gorgeous ring in the world. It was in an oval, filled with millions of little diamonds- it looked quite old, but still so beautiful.
"It was my Gran's." Edward whispered, putting the ring on my finger, already it felt so right for it to be there, like it had been there since I was born.
"Wow… Edward, it's just.. Word's can't explain it!" I exclaimed, moving my hand to see the diamonds sparkle in the moonlight.
"I'm glad you like it." Edward smiled, using one of his fingers to pull my chin up so he could kiss my lips again.
***
"Blimey! When I said take your time, I didn't think you'd be out all night!" Alice exclaimed as me and Edward walked through the front door. We stayed the whole night in the meadow, recreating scenes from the last time we were there, it was more then amazing. Luckily Edward had some spare blankets in his cars, for "emergencies" like last night..
"Sorry Alice." I blushed, ducking my head and walking into the kitchen. I could hear Edward and Alice mutter something behind me, I'd already figured out that Alice had been in on the secret all along.
Nellie was eating her breakfast, in the kitchen already dressed for school- looking very smart.
"Mummy!" She called, when she saw me, immediately getting up and running towards me. I picked her up into my arms, kissing her nose, then setting her back down.
"Nellie! Are you okay?" I asked.
She nodded, " Me and Alice played dress up!" She cried, jumping up and down.
"Wow! Did you have fun baby?" I asked her, but before Nellie could reply- a scream went off behind us, causing us both to look around.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Alice screamed, running towards me, exactly like Nellie was a minute ago, "YOU SAID ! YOUR GOING TO BE MY SISTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" Alice came crashing towards me, into a big hug, causing me nearly to fall backwards onto Nellie.
"Yeah." I blushed, as she finally let go of me, a massive smile on her face.
I could hear Edward laughing behind Alice, so moved around so I could give him "evils", he immediately stopped before saying, "Come On Nel's time for school."
"Shit!" I exclaimed, "Work!" I ran upstairs, to change into my work clothes as I was still wearing last night's clothes.
I never heard Alice run up behind me, so she scared me shitless when saying, "Bellaaa…"
"Ahh!" I screamed, jumping around to see Alice's pleading face, "What?" I immediately questioned scared of what she wanted.
"Well it was just… you know now you have a whole wedding to plan for, well I was wondering if you needed some.. Help.." In Alice word's that meant she wanted to plan basically nearly all of it, which to be honest I didn't mind. Work was hectic at the moment and planning a whole wedding wasn't going to help.
"Sure." I smiled, back at her- returning to find my clothes again.
"Really?!" She asked, her voice getting slightly higher as she said it.
"Yes, now Al, sorry but I really need to get changed." I told her, finally finding my work clothes and turning towards her.
"Sure Bella, umm can I come round tonight?" She chirped, jumping up and down.
"Sure, but don't you have work, or something?" With Carlisle connections, Alice had grabbed herself a clothes designer deal with a top company- she was amazing at fashion though.
"Nah, I'm in a middle of a big project, which means I get to work at home!" Alice and Jasper had also moved back to Forks, to be closer with the family.
"Okay great, umm come when ever." I replied, turning around to get changed.
***
My job wasn't exactly fulfilling, but I did enjoy it and it paid the bills. I loved writing, but I knew writing for the Forks local newspaper, just wasn't me. I wrote novels at home, lots- I'd never told a soul that before. Reading and writing stories was my greatest passion, I was just scared of showing anyone my work, encase they laughed.
"Hay Bella." Ben smiled at me as I walked into the grand glass doors.
"Hey Ben." I smiled back, walking towards where his desk was, Ben was the main receptionist here and also my PA- I loved him. "Any Goss?" I asked, knowing that if you wanted gossip for this place, then he was the one to ask.
"Nope." He frowned, but suddenly started to smile again, "Buttt, you do have a apparently very good looking guy coming to get interviewed by you today!"
That was right, a fire had broken out the day before in the mechanics nearby and one of the 'brave' firemen, rescued someone who had got caught up in it. I completely forgot about it, after the events from last night.
"Meh, I don't need a good looking guy." I smiled, showing Ben the ring on my finger.
"OH. MY. GOD. BELLA! He askeddd! At last." He cried, looking at the ring on my finger.
"I know!" I smiled, liking the feeling of showing the big beautiful ring to people. "Well I need to go and start writing up an interview." I said, going into my spacious office and closing the door behind me
Hmm, what to ask him? I mused over, taking out a pen and paper. I managed to write down a few helpful questions, before Ben buzzed me, saying that he was here.
There was a light knock on the door, "Come in." I said, looking down at my papers to check I had everything.
I heard a big in take of breath and a "Oh.", before looking up too see Jacob.
A/N: EEE! ITS CHRISTMAS EVE! AND YOU GET AN UPDATE :D I'm shattered by the way ): so your all VERY lucky ;)
Anyway, I wana say now JACOB AND BELLA WONT GET TOGTHER OR ANY OF THE BUSINESS AGAIN :L I just wanted to add a spark of drama- this wasn't planned, but nothing BIG will come out of it :D
Okay I hope you like the engagement :D it took me ages to figure out what words Edward would say- so I hope I did okay (yn) sorry if not :P
Also, sorry for making Ben gay :L I just needed another character and realised foolishly that I put angela and Eric together and not ben and Angela- I apologise, what a dooshbag am I :L
Also Bella won't be finding about Jessica for a WHILE- (maybe near the wedding… ;)) I have it all planned how they meet tho :D it's exciting (: and kind of sad (N) Btw I hope this isn't dragging out tooooo long, I apologise if so, its just I really want to do the jess and bella meeting bit and the consequences….
I had no beta for this as she is in scotland on holiday (N) I miss her ): so sorry for mistakes :P Im sooooooo tired at the moment anyway so Im sure u can all find more then 2 :L sorry ):
Umm its kind of christmas 2mrw, so no update for a while0 but after xmas I will have LOADSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS of free time :D and no more work (even tho I got my wages today :D ee £300 J guna get an ipod touch ;)) so that should be good :D
Ooh and also Jessica- ty for your reviews:P but I can't reply to you, becoz ff doesn't show emails- so mail me (and anyone else if they want to :L) at laura_.uk :D
And guys PLEASE REVIEW :D AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS :D :D IM SOOOOO EXCITED- your NEVER to old not to be ;) haha
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Laura :D x