Wednesday morning and another cup of tea, this time it was a lemon and honey tea because Keiichi hadn't had a good nights sleep with worry about his essays that he completed in record time.

While Keiichi was waking up Bell went to have a bath, which she had discovered recently, was a far better way of getting clean than using her magical powers as is was a far more relaxing experience.

Unsurprisingly Urd was nursing a hangover, and was therefore in a very fragile state and managed to remind everyone of that fact whenever they breathed, even though no one was listening.

Skuld was up and working on her bike as usual no one was quite sure what she was doing on it but it took a lot of time and made a lot of noise when she was working on it.

Making sure, he had everything Keiichi started out to college after saying goodbye to Bell and getting yelled at by Urd for making too much noise in doing so.

College came and went for Keiichi who had to turn back half way to the mall because he remembered that he still had to hand in the essays that he did last night.

Finally making it back to the jewellery store after several trips back to college because of things that he forgot to collect Keiichi finds the sales assistant that has helped him all along to pick up the rings.

"Afternoon I've got a ring ordered I was wondering if it was ready to be collected yet?"

"The angel ring isn't it? I'll just go and check for you."

"Thank you"

Browsing around the store while the assistant went to check on the ring Keiichi spots a sapphire pendent in the shape of a heart thinking that Bell would like it Keiichi checks the price to discover that because of been given the money by Urd an Skuld he could indeed afford to give it to Bell.

Jut as Keiichi thinks this the sales assistant returns to his side.

"The ring will be read in about twenty minutes sir they are just in the process of giving it its final clean and polish and if I may say so I think they've out done themselves with this one."

"Thank you, would it be possible to get that heart shaped sapphire pendent while I'm waiting?"

"Certainly sir which metal was it that you were looking at?"

"Platinum please I might as well keep a theme going through what I buy."

"Good point sir! Just one final question how long would you like the chain to be?"

Not expecting to have a choice in chain length Keiichi was slightly taken back, and tried to get his brain to recall the only other time that he'd been with Bell when she brought herself a new necklace.

"I think a 14 inch chain please but could one of the lady sales assistants of about my height to put it on so I'm sure please?"

"No problem one minute please and I'll get the chain ready"

Leaving Keiichi along again for a moment gives him time to think of anything that he might need go prepare for Friday since he should do it before he went back to the temple since he would not be without Bell again before he popped the question. Unfortunately while in this thinking process Keiichi drifted off to an alternative dimension and failed to realise that his assistant had returned while a female assistant modelling the pendent on the chain length that he had said until he got tapped on the shoulder.

"Sorry I was thinking to make sure that I'd got everything ready for Friday. That length is great thank you."

"Ok I'll get you one out of stock and collect you rings while out back as well."

Leaving the female assistant with him Keiichi's assistant left to get everything ready for him.

"Who ever you girlfriend is she is very lucky to have someone as thoughtful as you I've seen tat ring set and its really special I just hope that I meet someone like you. And this pendent only usually sells as anniversary presents because of its cost."

Leaving Keiichi alone at that point, the assistant made Keiichi wonder just what was so special about this ring.

Sneaking up behind Keiichi the assistant took him over to a counter where he showed the ring set to him which made Keiichi loose his jaw to the table with what made it so special.

After boxing and bagging everything for him Keiichi paid the assistant for the pendent and chain and made his way to his motor bike thinking how he was going to hid the ring from Bell for two days.

~~~*~~~

Back at the temple Bell was trying to keep Skuld from killing Urd.

"Well at least I'm popular enough that I don't have to stay in drinking every night Urd."

Taken back for a change Urd did not manage to think of a reply before Skuld had left the room to get ready for her date.

"Its not that I can't go out with people it's just that well I prefer the company of other gods to these mortals."

However, Bell wasn't listening to her sister as she ha felt Keiichi's persona leave the

mall and started to head home so she'd gone to the kitchen to start preparing lunch for the two of them to take into the forest behind the temple so Blessed Bell could stretch her wings

Seeing that she was been ignored Urd returned to her room and put her TV on loudly as if trying to make a point.

Pulling onto the road behind the temple Keiichi turned the engine off so he could get a little head start on Bell knowing that he'd got back.

After hiding, the ring set in his room Keiichi made his way to see Bell in the kitchen holding the pendent in his hand.

Humming that loudly to herself Bell didn't notice Keiichi had entered the room until he put the pendent round her neck.

"What's this for Kei did I forget something important?" said a really worried eyed Bell trying to hide worry from her voice as well but not doing a very good job of it.

"Don't worry Bell you didn't forge anything, I just saw it and wanted to give it you to show you how much I love you."

Seeing the relief in her eyes Keiichi was just about to kiss Bell when Blessed appeared and gave him a hug then disappeared again, confusing Keiichi until Bell explained what that was all about.

"She's happy that you're around for three months now since it means she can stretch her wings a bit more often, that and she was also thanking you for the pendent, it is really beautiful."

"Oh," said a still confused, and now glowing red Keiichi, "it was nothing."

"I thought we could take a picnic into the woods just the two of us and Blessed, because she really wants to sing for some reason at the moment if that's alright for you."

"That would be brilliant Bell is there anything that I can do to help?"

"I would just like you to stay close to me today."

"How about we go to the cinema tonight then?"

"That would be lovely but how would you expect to avoid having Skuld and Urd come along like they usually do?"

"I'd been thinking that we wouldn't tell them where we were going to go because if they don't know any better they will think that we are going to the park and they never go with us there."

"That would be lovely, there's this English film out at the moment, um… what's it called?"

"Well there are two at the moment The Full Monty which is meant to be a comedy and Four Weddings and a Funeral which is a romance film."

"I think I want to see The Full Monty the word around campus is that it's really funny."

"Yeah I've heard that and we could do with a laugh, its been a while since we had one."

Presently Bell finished making and packing the picnic and they left for a quiet afternoon together.

~~~*~~~

Seeing that Bell and Keiichi had left for the woods, Skuld sneaks into Keiichi's room to try and find the ring that he brought in so that she could see the ring that her favourite big sister will be presented with on Friday after several minutes of hard searching and loud noise making Urd appeared at the door to find out what she was doing in Keiichi's room.

"What are you doing in here Skuld?"

"Trying to find the rings."

"Just wait till Friday night then you'll see them since I doubt that you would be able to find them since Keiichi has got better at hiding things from you after what you did last Christmas."

"I'd noticed although he won't be able to hide it from me for 2 days."

"No he probably won't, however I forbid you to carry on looking."

"Fine."

~~~*~~~

Out in the forest Bell and Keiichi had just finished eating and were resting on their backs trying to decide what the clouds in the sky looked like.

"That one looks like an elephant."

"No it's a hippo."

"I like doing nothing with you Bell, it's just so relaxing."

"I know what you mean there is nothing better than resting with the person that you love."

"Did Blessed still want to come out? Because she'd better soon so we can go back and stop your sisters from killing each other."

"Yeah good point lets go and find the oak."

With that, they pack up and walk further into the forest to spend the rest of the afternoon singing for Bell and Blessed and listening to his goddess sing for Keiichi.

Getting back to the temple after a longer singing session than they had planned Bell and Keiichi were pleased to see that the temple was still standing which surprised them considering how long they had been gone. However as they got closer to the temple they started to worry since they couldn't hear anything of Skuld or Urd which would be expected given how long that they had been left alone.

"What's going on here Skuld? I expected to come back to the site of world war three."

"Nothing happened, Urd's started drinking and watching TV so there hasn't been any reason for conflict for a change."

"Ok well I'd better go and help Bell get dinner ready just don't go too far."

"I won't. Keiichi is it alright if I have a friend over tonight?"

"I would have thought so but I'll check with Bell."

"Thanks."

Walking into the kitchen Keiichi say's "I'm getting worried Skuld is asking me for permission to do things."

"That's good she's finally accepted you and isn't going to do anything to try and kill you any more."

"Anyway she wanted a friend over tonight I didn't think that there would be a problem since we are going out and, well I think it's going to be Sentaro that she wants around."

"No I don't have any reason that Skuld shouldn't have anyone around and I like Sentaro maybe Skuld has a little crush on him," said Belldandy with a small giggle at the end.

"Well he certainly likes her and they are really good friends, maybe something will happen from that."

"Anyway dinner will be in about 15 minutes would you tell Skuld please, and tell her that I say it's ok for her to have her friend around."

Leaving the kitchen to tell Skuld that it was ok for her to have her friend around and that dinner would be in about 15 minutes, Keiichi wondered if he was right and the friend that Skuld wanted round was Sentaro, but he soon decided that it was not his place to know so he wouldn't ask her.

Back in the kitchen Belldandy was thinking about going to the cinema later that day with Keiichi then she had in her mind a naughty thought, which made her go beet red and hum even louder.

Dinner that night was for a change in the temple very quiet since for a change Skuld wasn't having a go at Urd, which at the back of their heads worried Bell and Keiichi. Bell wasn't saying a lot since she was still worried about the thought that she had, had while preparing the meal. Keiichi was just thinking about spending time alone with Bell and Urd was just drinking herself into a hangover.

Finishing the meal quickly Bell and Keiichi made a run for the bike before anyone could ask them where they were going. Arriving early at the cinema, they got time to talk before the show started.

"Kei?"

"What is it Bell?"

"I had a thought earlier…" seeing that Keiichi was listening to her and wanted her to continue, Bell carried on "well actually it was more of a pondering since we've been together so long I was wondering if we could sleep together tonight?" looking down in a sheepish manor Bell was bracing herself for something of a question filled Keiichi. However when no reply came she started to worry if she had frightened off the man that she loved, so overcoming her fear she looked up to see that Keiichi's face was full of shock.

"Kei say something."

"…"

"Please," now very worried Bells voice sounded like a plea.

"I'm hearing things," said Keiichi cleaning his ear out.

"Your not I did say that, but I didn't mean in a physical way I meant just like for the two of us to sleep in the same bed."

"I just don't know what to say, this has come out of the blue."

"Oh…" said a teary-eyed Bell.

"Bell there is nothing that I'd like better than to be in the same bed as you I'm just taken back so don't worry, if you still want to we can sleep in the same bed tonight."

Seeing her smile Keiichi took her in his arms and gave her a long passionate kiss, when they came up for breath they realised that they were about right to go into the theatre proper for the movie to start.

~~~*~~~

After inviting Sentaro over to the temple to play tricks on Urd when she had passed out from drinking her sake, Skuld wondered what she was going to do with him before that guaranteed occasion for practical jokes, since he was not overly bothered about technology and didn't own a Game Boy. Maybe she should show him the Ninja that she had finished working on earlier that day.

Presently Sentaro arrived and Skuld took him out back to look at the now rather supped up Ninja.

"Wow I bet this is fast, but you can't ride it your too young."

"I know I'm not keeping it for myself I'm giving it to Keiichi for his engagement present since he is going to ask big sis to marry him on Friday."

"Some present."

This was followed by a period of awkward silence, were Skuld noticed that her heart was pounding in her chest but didn't understand why. However, the silence was broken by really loud snoring from Urd the moment passed and her heart rate returned to normal.

Managing to set up the trick without waking up Urd, Skuld said goodbye to Sentaro and went to her room to contemplate what had happened to her earlier.

~~~*~~~

Getting in really late Belldandy and Keiichi made their way to Keiichi's room as quietly as they could since they saw that Skuld was planning on playing a trick on Urd which meant that it was indeed Sentaro that had visited earlier since he was as up for playing tricks on Urd and she was.