Jared POV

The next couple of months went by slowly to me. I had decided after Sam and Emily's wedding that I would propose to Kim in September, which had been I'd imprinted on her two years ago. As July and August went by I got more and more nervous. I was confident she'd say yes, but nervous about how I'd ask. Kim wasn't an overly romantic girl; I knew she wouldn't want a big fanfare. There would be no fireworks, or banners saying "Kim, wanna get married?" It would be just her and me, and a simple question.

The biggest problem I had was where. Would I ask her? At our house…or in the woods where she found out what I was, and I knew she'd be in my life forever?

I had asked my dad and he said you can plan all you want but at the end of the day you'll know when it's right.

Fat load of help that was.

When the day finally came I was a wreck, but hid it from Kim. It had been a Sunday, and Kim was off from work. We spent the morning with Elan and Louise, and Elan ended up taking me aside.

"So is today the day you finally do something with that ring you've had in your pocket for what almost a year now?"

"Shut up, I don't see you proposing to Lu."

"We haven't been together that long. You guys have hit two years now you better hurry up."

"Or what."

"I don't know. I'd like to say or she'll find someone else but your little imprint thing shot that idea to hell."

I laughed with him and told him that today was the day I just didn't know when.

"Damn lemme get Lulu the hell outta here then so you can get on with it."

"No, then she'll suspect something. I'm going to later tonight, God hold your damn horses."

"You're lucky I talked Lu outta harassing you into proposing. She started that nagging the day she graduated."

"I got Emily, Aiyanna, and my dad nagging me about it already so thanks for taking that hit for me man."

Elan and Louise left a while later, and I started making dinner. I had decided the whole hiding the ring in a drink, or a cupcake was a bad idea. I also thought it was too corny. Any proposal was corny, but I didn't want anything that someone could actually laugh at. This would be one of the first stories we tell our kids one day.

I'd ask after dinner. I'd take her for a walk around the woods, and when I felt it was right I'd ask her.

Dinner was the longest half hour of my life.

Something got into Kim after we finished the dishes. She looked at me with a gleam in her eye. "You wanna go somewhere with me?"

I was caught off guard since I was going to ask her that exact question in a few minutes. "Where do you want to go?"

"It's a surprise. Why don't you go grab my backpack from the living room and meet me in the back yard?"

"Oh ok." I was confused as I went to grab her backpack and went out the door. She was smiling that beautiful smile right at me when I reached the yard. She was standing towards the edge of the woods.

"Alright Thail strip."

That made me stop. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me. I don't want you ruining your clothes when you phase so put them in the backpack, I'll carry it."

"And I'm phasing because…?"

"We haven't traveled that way in a while, and it'll take less time. So hop to it and strip."

This was certainly different behavior for Kim. I shook my head grinning at her and took off my clothes and put them in the backpack, making sure the ring box was safe in the pocket of my jeans. I tossed the backpack to Kim, and phased. I walked over to her and laid down so she could climb on my back. Once she was secure I took off running, listening to her directions on where we were going. She patted my fur, indicating I should stop, and I realized I was in the woods by the high school.

As she jumped off she put the backpack near me, and I phased back. Her wavy hair was dancing around her waist in the breeze, and she looked more beautiful than I'd ever seen her, with that sneaky gleam in her hazel eyes. I got dressed and patted my pockets making sure the box was still there. "All right what's going on Kim, why are we at the school?"

"Because we haven't been inside since graduation, I think we should make a little visit."

"It's closed."

"Is that going to stop you?"

Now I was shocked. Kim had never done anything in which she could get in trouble for. Now she wanted to trespass?

"Why are we going in the school, and how do you plan on getting inside you gonna break a window now badass?"

She stuck her tongue out at me and started walking to the back of the building. She went right up to a window and pulled it open. It wasn't even locked. My eyes widened, as she turned to me. "It's La Push; did you expect an alarm system? We are here because today is the very same day you imprinted two years ago. I thought it would be fun to come back here for that occasion. I might have bribed a janitor who I was always nice to, to leave the window unlocked, and a classroom; in exchange for my homemade brownies."

I smiled at her as she explained all this, looking slightly ashamed, but over all pleased that she'd surprised me. She turned and lifted her leg through the window, and climbed inside, and I followed after her. We were in one of the science class rooms, and she smiled as she closed the window we came through. "You know the day you imprinted, I had this class after English. I remember seeing you go out the exit, and I sat down and looked out the window wondering why the mighty Jared Thail had been talking to me. I heard a wolf howl and when I looked out the window towards the woods I saw a shoe. I figured out it was you later."

I smiled at the memory as we walked out into the hallway. "I had needed to phase. There was a lot of emotion brewing from finding you."

She chuckled as she led me down to the room that started it all. As she turned the door knob I knew this was it. When I left that same room, I'd have a fiancé. Just as when I left that room two years before, I had an imprint.

She walked over to the desk that would always be hers in my mind, and took a seat in the chair. I followed sitting on the top of what had been my desk. "You know before I walked into the room I felt like there was something pulling me inside. I didn't know it was you, I didn't even notice that someone special could be in there. I just knew I had to get into this room."

"I felt the same urge to look up. It was like I knew you were going to be there. At first it was just shock over seeing you look so different, and then it was a deep need to see your eyes. Then you looked at me."

She grabbed my hand as she said it. A shy smile was on her face, the same that had been there when I first asked her name. This was it.

I knelt down in front of her taking both her small hands in mine. Her eyes scorched mine with the same emotion I saw when I first laid eyes on her, after my time of blindness. When I saw my sun for the first time.

"Kim I knew that moment I imprinted on you that I loved you. You were this intense brightness that I wanted to be around constantly. Your shyness pulled me in, your smile was a jolt to my system, and your sense of humor surprised me. My whole life changed that day, and I thought I couldn't have been happier, but I was wrong. My happiness grows every day I'm near you, and so does my love for you. We may fight, or annoy each other at times, but at the end of the day, you are exactly what I want and need. I love everything about you." I freed one of my hands and took out the ring box, placing it on the desk. She glanced at it and bit her lip, which I knew she did any time she wanted to cry. "Open it." She took the box and opened it, shuddering out a breath when she saw the ring. I took it from her holding the side of her face with one hand, and picking up her left hand with the other, and slipped the ring on her finger. "I promise I will love you every single day of our lives together. Will you marry me?"

My heart tightened in my chest as I awaited her answer. She beamed at me, and whispered the most beautiful words I'd heard from her. "Jared I love you, and I would love to marry you." I let out a yell and caught her as she threw herself into my arms with a yelp. Her legs wrapped around my waist and she grabbed my face with both her hands and kissed me. One of my arms wrapped around her waist, the other was lost in her hair. I let the thrill of the moment seep into every part of me, drowning in bliss.

The long awaited proposal. I'm sighing right now. Review please! ~Ales