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Hi people!!!! Happy Friday... well it is in Florida... the day is almost over... I have the weekend off and the beer is a plenty... yeah I don't really like beer but the band felt like practicing at our house tonight so I have to partake... a little.

To tell you the truth I plan on locking myself in my newly almost soundproofed room and writing some chapters... or reading... or stalking you never know the internet issss the internet.

Okay read on... the answer to all of everyones questions lies below. Have fun

Chapter 52 ETL

EPOV:

"HO HO HO MERRY UN CHRISTMAS!" my goofy ass brother bellowed from his wheelchair.

When he and Rose got upset a few weeks ago that we hadn't opened our Christmas presents because of the events, we figured we would just bring them up to the hospital and exchange. But no they wanted the whole Christmas celebration.

So here we are two weeks after New Year's might I add. Emmett was adorned in his Santa suit stuffing unnecessary with his size by the giant tree. We had to go for a fake one because who sells Christmas trees almost a month after Christmas?

Rose insisted that we decorate the house again, so my father and I carried all of the decorations up from the basement. Rose instructed us from her wheelchair on how to perfectly decorate the Christmas tree, the living room and in my mother's case how to cook the 'Christmas meal'.

"Merry un Christmas to you too Santa." Bella said carrying Evie over to Emmett to get pictures.

The second Evie was placed in Emmett's lap she looked up and started screaming. Emmett told Bella to hurry and take the damn picture and right before the flash went off, Evie let out a small giggle and grabbed Emmett's big white fluffy beard, pulling it and letting it snap back into his face. Emmett screamed like a girl and cursed loudly before Alice flitted across the room and picked Evie up.

"Good girl Evie." she kissed her cheek before turning to Emmett and grabbing his beard and letting it snap back into his face. "That is for cussing in the presence of my niece butt whole."

"Oh holy mother F-U-C-K-E-R." Emmett spelled out his expletives while rubbing his now red cheeks.

"Alright children! Let's open presents so that we can settle down for a nice dinner." my mom said as she and Renee walked into the living room untying their aprons.

"Alright Eddie my man, if you could be so kind as to wheel me closer to the beautiful Christmas tree so that I may hand out the presents... You know me being Santa and all." Emmett said.

"Don't call me Eddie jack A-S-S." I snarled as I pushed him closer to the tree before sitting down in between Bella and Alice who was still holding Evie.

Emmett reached for a gift but it was just a little too far for him. He sighed and straightened up. "Alright desperate times call for desperate measures." he huffed. "I need an elf to help me distribute the presents."

"Not it." everyone chorused except for Jasper.

"Aw, come on you guys I'm too tall to be an elf." he whined.

"Yeah but have you ever seen that movie Elf? He is super tall too." Bella snorted.

"No he's right you guys." Emmett interjected. "If we are going to do this we are going to have to do it right. Alice you're the shortest and even though you resemble a pixie instead of an elf, we will have to take what we can get."

"What? No I'm holding Evie right now. Nuh uh. I'm not doing it." she said clutching to Evie.

"Alice you should let Edward or Bella hold the baby anyways. It is her first Christmas." my mother laughed.

"Fine. But you guys have to wait while I run upstairs real quick," and with that Alice shot upstairs to the guest room. "WARDROBE CHANGE."

There was a collective groan. Who knew how long it was going to take her crazy ass to change and get ready for something as measly as to hand out presents at our non Christmas celebration. Evie was blowing spit bubbles and trying to eat my hand all at the same time, so she was able to entertain us while we waited for Alice.

After about thrity minutes we heard the distinct rustling of bells and all turned toward the stair case.

Instead of it being Alice. My childhood best friend had transformed herself into an actual elf. Complete with the pointy ears and pointed shoes. She floated down the stairs, the bells on her feet jingling all the way.

"Alice how did you come up with that outfit like that?" Bella asked snapping her fingers.

"Oh well, we had some of the elf ears from one of Emmett's themed parties. You remember the lord of the rings one right? Well I already had the Tinkerbell dress, so I just put the red tank top on top of that. And the shoes. I already had those because it's me we are talking about and I just love shoes." she shrugged. "Oh yeah and I couldn't be an elf without the hat and glitter. I sewed this bad boy." she pointed to her red and green hat. "In like two seconds and then I already had plenty of glitter so it was no biggy really."

"Arlight come on crack elf." Emmett laughed to himself. "We have presents to deliver helper elf."

"Ay Ay Mr. Clause." Alice saluted playing the part of worker elf to the T.

"Okay the first gift goes too." he said looking at the large box. "Miss Evie Elizabeth."

Alice being the good little elf took the package from our Santa and walked over to Bella with the present. This continued for almost two and a half hours but eventually we found ourselves in the kitchen eating our non Christmas dinner.

"Uh oh." Bella said from beside me shifting Evie in her arms uncomfortably.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"Evie left you a present dear." she said handing me my stinky daughter. "The diaper bag is in the living room by the couch."

I shook my head and chucked as I carried Evie away from the family. As I changed her diaper I noticed that my hands were shaking a little. I was nervous about how tonight was going to end. For tonight I had big plans. BIG PLANS. HUGE LIFE ALTERING PLANS. And it all depended on how Bella would take it.

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Our Un Christmas celebration went smoothly. It was perfect.

We all gathered around the dining room table, Rose and Emmett at each end because it was easier for their wheel chairs. Edward and I sat side by side and as did the rest of the couples. I had Evie in my lap because she was awake but she decided to be funny and soil her diaper while we ate our un Christmas deserts.

"Uh oh." I said as I tried to shift the smell away from the table.

"What is it?" Edward asked.

"Evie left you a present dear." I smiled handing her over to her father. "The diaper bag is in the living room by the couch."

He chuckled as he walked away carrying a very smelly Evie with him.

"So what was everyone's favorite gift this year?" Rose asked as she scraped the last bit of cool whip off the plate.

"Evie enjoyed the paper that all of her gifts came in." Everyone laughed. "I enjoyed the trip to the day spa from Carlisle and Esme. God knows I need a day of relaxation."

"My favorite gift is the new BCBJMAX boots, you got me Bella. They are freaking awesome!" Alice jumped up and lifted her leg showing off her new shoes she had changed into the second she opened the box ruining her elf persona.

"Yeah you left not so subtle hints about those boots every time we went shopping Ali." I laughed.

"My favorite gift was the football jerseys mom and dad got me." Emmett said with his mouth full of pie.

"Eww Em. Shut your mouth." Rose laughed. "My favorite gift would have to be the tricked out wheel chair that Alice made for me."

We found out that Rose would be in a wheel chair for a few months due to her injuries. Alice thought it would be nice to decorate a wheelchair for her so that she was still highly fashionable. I thought it was a good idea until I saw the monstrosity.

Alice had taken hot pink duct tape and wrapped it around the handles, she hot glued about a billion sequins on the back of the seat and rhinestones of different colors covered anything that Rose wasn't sitting on. Of course Rose being Rose loved it and demanded that Jasper and Edward help her into it immediately. Emmett huffed and grumbled that he didn't get a tricked out wheelchair. But he should have already been out of his. He claimed that he didn't want Rose to feel different. We all knew he just liked to not have to walk around.

"I loved the diamond necklace that Carlisle got me." Esme said as she pulled the necklace out of her shirt to show it off.

"I loved the three day cruise that Esme set up for the two of use." Carlisle said.

"I loved the skydiving lessons that Charlie got me." my mother squealed.

What in the hell was my father thinking? It's like the tootsie roll pop mystery the world may never know. But the look on my mother's face when she opened the box revealing the tickets to the local sky diving school was totally worth the stress and panic attacks I was sure to have when they went for their lesson.

"I loved the new fishing gear from Bella and Edward." my dad said as he ducked his head.

"What did I miss?" Edward said as he carried Evie back into the dining room and over to Rose's awaiting arms.

So that was why she inhaled her desserts. I thought to myself as I watched her face light up at Evie.

I had been worried that Rose's attitude towards Evie would start to change. Call it paranoia or whatever you want but I am her mother and that stuff worries me. But Rose only showed love and devotion towards my daughter.

Evie grabbed a lock of Rosalie's hair and yanked it roughly babbling nonsense and laughed as Rose cringed and yelped in pain.

My mother reached over to help her extract her hair from my daughter's fist.

"We were just telling what our favorite gifts were. Your next." I said kissing Edward's cheek.

"I don't have one." he said grumbling something at the end.

"What was that?"

"Oh nothing I burped excuse me." Edward chuckled nervously as his ears turned a little pink.

Something was different in the way he had acted since we woke up. He was edgy the entire day but I couldn't put my finger on it.

We sat around the table sharing stories of our past Christmas's including the one when Emmett thought it would be funny to go down the unlit fireplace in the middle of the night. We all woke up to Rosalie screaming at him for being a damn idiot.

Apparently his shoulders were too broad and he got his body stuck halfway in halfwayout of the chimney. He called for help but when no one came to his rescue, he somehow got his cell phone out and called Rose. It was five thirty in the morning when Rose got the call and all she could hear was muffled nonsense before she thought to get out of bed and look for the imbecile.

Four hours, a call to the local fire department, many pictures of all of us taking a turn spanking his ass that was hanging out of the top of the chimney, the firefighters of Forks pulled a very purple faced Emmett out of the chimney. They still laughed at him about it in town.

"You guys suck you know." Emmett blushed as he started to pile plates in his lap to wheel into the kitchen to help clean up.

I stood up to go see what needed to be done but Edward grabbed my hand.

"Wait." he said nervously.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Take a walk with me?" he said standing up."Edward it's getting late and we need to help clean up." I said trying to pull away from him.

"Don't worry Bella. I got Evie and the other's can handle cleaning up." Rose said as she wheeled into the living room with my daughter on her lap.

"Fine let's go." I said walking to the front door to grab my coat.

Edward helped me get bundled up but when I grabbed my gloves he said that he would keep my hands warm. He put his jacket and scarf on before grabbing my hand and leading me outside.

It was twilight the most beautiful time of day in Washington; snow was falling softly on the ground where it lay almost four inches thick. There were no stars out tonight, only the billowing snow clouds that you grew accustomed to living in Forks.

I started to walk towards the street but Edward yanked my arm and led me toward the back of the house.

"Where are we going Edward?" I laughed.

He didn't answer me but just kept walking, twitching nervously every now and again. I decided to let it go until we got to our destination.

We walked into the woods and I shivered at the thought of being in the woods when it was almost getting dark out. Edward thought that I was cold, wrapped his arm around my shoulders and kept leading me down the path.

We walked past our fruit salad clearing and kept going so I figured we were headed for the friendship rock. I knew I was correct when I saw a light up ahead. Edward let me go and I walked ahead of him towards the light.

Breaking through the thicket, I found myself in the small area where our friendship rock was. There were dozens of candles lit around the rock a few had been blown out from the wind or snow but it was beautiful. I ran my hands over all of my friend's names until I came to mine and realized that something had changed. Our small undetectable gold chain that linked our names had been repainted only this time it was thicker and more noticeable.

Tears were streaming down my face as I turned to find Edward.

My tears turned into sobs when I turned and directly ran into him.

He was down on one knee right in front of me. His eyes glistening with unshed tears. Snow had fallen into his unruly hair making it wet and stick close to his head but he had never been more beautiful.

"Bella Swan." he choked out. "I have known you since the day I was born. Even when we were little I knew I was in love with you and wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. I thought I had ruined everything two years ago but you came back." he broke into a sob but his eyes never left mine.

"You came back and swept me off my feet just as you had when we were in kindergarten. I thank you for coming back and giving me another chance. I can't thank you enough for giving me our perfect daughter. I want us to be a complete family now, not saying that we weren't but I want it to be official." he grabbed my left hand. "I want you to be the mother of my future children and I want you to be by my side for the rest of my life. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

He flipped open the box one handed revealing Grandma Cullen's engagement ring. I didn't know he had received it in the will. But she was almost as close to me as my own grandmother and when I fell in love with Edward, I would dream about wearing Grandma Cullen's ring on my hand.

I opened my mouth.

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Praying that Evie wouldn't cry while I ran out to finish my plans, I placed her in her pack n play and ran out of the house without my coat. I found the bag with all of the materials I needed and ran around the house towards the path that lead to the friendship rock and started setting out the dozens of candles that I had bought.

Lighting them was the tricky part and I just prayed that enough of them would stay lit because I didn't know how long it would take to convince Bella to come for a walk out with me. After stashing the bag behind the friendship rock, I ran back to the house and softly opened the door before rushing into the living room.

Evie was sucking on the hand of her hot pink monkey when I picked her up.

"Thank you for being a good girl sweetie." I said kissing her temple as I carried her back into the dining room.

"What did I miss?" I said handing Evie to an anxious Rose.

Rosalie had been doing remarkably well with everything. Sometimes it was a little scary how well she had coped with the recent events.

"We were just telling what our favorite gifts were. Your next." Bella said kissing my cheek once I was settled next to her at the table.

"I don't have one." I replied before adding a quiet. "Yet."

"What was that?" Bella asked turning to me.

"Oh nothing I burped excuse me." I laughed nervously at the fact that I almost gave myself away.

I listened as they reminisced about our previous holidays together including the one when Emmett took the whole 'Santa' thing a little too far and almost suffocated in our chimney on Christmas morning. Before I knew it, Emmett was helping clear the table and Bella stood to help everyone clean up but I grabbed her hand.

"Wait." I said nervously.

"What is it?" she said trying to pull away.

"Take a walk with me?" I asked standing up before I lost my nerve."Edward it's getting late and we need to help clean up." she said as she tried pulling away from me again

"Don't worry Bella. I got Evie and the other's can handle cleaning up." Rose said as she wheeled into the living room with Evie on her lap.

"Fine let's go." Bella huffed and walked toward the front door.

I helped her bundle up in her thickest jacket and scarf foregoing the gloves, but of course she noticed. I told her I would keep her hands warm and luckily she let it go. I grabbed my own jacket and scarf before taking her hand and leading her out into the cold.

I couldn't think of a more perfect night to attempt to do this. Something in the back of my mind screamed that Bella was going to refuse to marry me, and the fear of that becoming a reality was almost enough to make me back out. But I knew what I wanted and refused to let it go without at least trying.

Bella started walking towards the street but I pulled her back towards the backyard. I was trying to hurry up because I knew the candles wouldn't survive long.

"Where are we going Edward?" Bella laughed.

I tried to answer her but I felt like I was going to vomit from being so nervous and gave up but continued to lead her to the trail in the woods. Bella shivered and I put my arm around her, leading her past the clearing where we made fruit salad before we almost got arrested when we were younger.

We kept walking and I was happy to see that some of the candles had survived the wait. I let Bella go so that she could walk ahead of me while I tried to get my shit together.

This could go one of two ways. One she could say yes and we will live happily ever after, me being the happiest man alive. Two she could say no and I would be a broken man for the rest of my life.

I watched her break through the thicket and walk towards the friendship rock taking in the candles. Over half of them had stayed lit. I watched her run her hands over all of our friend's names until she found hers. She let out a small gasp when she saw that I had redone our chain. I wanted us linked together forever but I wanted everyone to know that we were together. So I set out one morning with a tube of gold paint and a paintbrush recreating the gold chain.

I walked up to her silently as tears welled up in my eyes. Getting down on one knee and taking the box out of my pocket right before she turned to me tears falling down her face. As soon as our eyes met she started to sob.

"Bella Swan." I choked out trying to get my emotions in check. "I have known you since the day I was born. Even when we were little I knew I was in love with you and wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. I thought I had ruined everything two years ago but you came back." my body rocked with sobs but I never let my eyes leave hers.

"You came back and swept me off my feet just as you had when we were in kindergarten. I thank you for coming back and giving me another chance. I can't thank you enough for giving me our perfect daughter. I want us to be a complete family now, not saying that we weren't but I want it to be official," I grabbed her hand. "I want you to be the mother of my future children and I want you to be by my side for the rest of my life. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

With the hand that wasn't holding hers, I opened the box revealing the small white gold band with a large diamond nestled on top. Bella gasped as she recognized the ring. It had belonged to my grandmother Elizabeth left in my possession when she passed away.

Bella stared at the ring in my hand before looking me in the eye.

"Of course I will marry you Edward." she choked out.

I put the ring on her finger with anxious hands before standing up and crushing her mouth with mine. Our tongues tangled together fighting for dominance before we had to break away for air.

"I love you." she whispered.

"I love you too." I said pulling her toward the house.

"Are we going to tell everyone?" she asked nervously.

"Damn straight." I chuckled as I pulled her onto the porch before kissing her again. "Thank you."

"Thank you."

I opened the door and we found our family sitting in the living room watching the Grinch. It was at the part when Cindy Lou Who wakes up to find the Grinch stealing the Christmas tree. If it wasn't mid January it would be cute but now it looked ridiculous how everyone stared at the TV intently.

We walked in and everyone looked up.

"Where have you been?" my mom asked.

"Bella gave me my favorite Christmas gift this year." I said.

"Eww bro, gross no one wants to know what the two of you do in your free time." Emmett whined.

"Shut up Emmett." Rose said smacking his arm. "What was your gift Edward?"

"I asked Bella to marry me." I started before turning to Bella.

She lifted her left hand showing off my grandmothers…well now her ring. "And I said yes!"

Someone told me that it would be cute if Edward proposed to Bella in the playground at the elementary school but the playground is Bella's sancuary... yeah it would be nice to have something really good happen in a place that bad shit always happens I just didn't want to do it... and besides... Jon proposed to me at a school so yeah. ITS MINE BITCHES haha.

I'm hoping to update my other story tomorrow. DFWP so yep see you soon ;)

XOXO Ashley

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