These characters do not belong to me, they belong to Meg Cabot and Disney. Neither do haribo. Chaupard's don't belong to me, though there jewellery is so nice. Neither do I-pod's.

"wow Joe, that's amazing!", Mia breathed as he flipped open the box. The ring sparkled immensely, it wasn't massive but seriously beautiful. It was antique gold, with two bands twisting into each other. The two bands had small rows of the most finely cut diamonds and rubies- Clarisse's two favourite gems.

"do you think so?", he questioned with a proud smile.

"she'll love it and if she doesn't, give it to me", she hinted, " she can have this one", she continued, raising her index finger with the jelly sweetie ring on it. She totally had to eat haribo's while she done paper work, it took away the monotony.

"err, I don't think so", he laughed, closing the box over with a snap.

"where did you get it?", she questioned, it looked pretty rare.

"auction house a few months ago, it's an original 1876 "Chaupard's"", he smiled, he'd waited the whole day on it for her- he wanted this ring to be special.

"ohhhh, how much was it?", Mia inquired innocently.

"that's for me to know and you to never find out", he laughed, shaking his head.

"awww, that's not fair", she moaned, pouting all too much like Clarisse.

"ok let's just say that the bid before mine was $10,000 U.S. Ok?", he questioned. Mia, a little like her grandmother knew how to manipulate Joe but was never as successful. She sighed and gave in.

"you know, you should have got it engraved with something like "C&J 4eva", she said, writing her unconventional peace of spelling on her stationary. Joe looked at it and burst out laughing. She frowned, she was only trying to be cute.

"err, well perhaps if you could spell it properly", he teased, "and anyways I'm a step ahead of you. I already got it engraved", he continued.

"really?", she exclaimed, " aww, what does it say, can I see?".

He flicked open the box and removed the ring, hading it to her along with an eye glass. She studied the inner band of the ring intently and read ;

"Nunc scio quit sit amor."

" Joe, it sounds beautiful but what does it mean?", she said, looking up.

"it means, " now I know what love is"", he smiled gently.

"Joe, that's so beautiful. She'll love it. How couldn't she. She'll love it just like she loves you", she smiled. She loved her grandma and Joe together, they fitted perfectly. She just wished someday she'd be like that.

"you know what Joe?", she said.

"what?".

"I knew from the minute I seen you together you loved each other, so I think even though it's a beautiful quote, you've both know what love is for quite a long time", she said with a shocking amount of wisdom.

"thank you Mia", he smiled, "and I bought you something, I'm ever grateful to you for convincing her to have her happy ending", he laughed handing her an gift-bag. She opened it greedily and pulled out an I-pod.

"woohooo!" she jumped up and flung her arms around him, " thanks grandpa", she teased.

He rolled his eyes and smiled.

"glad you like it".

"yeah and I just know she'll totally love that ring!", she said, " making her way towards her lap top- the paper work could wait.

"well I'll leave you too you're new toy then", he laughed, making for the door.

"hey Joe?", she shouted, making him turn.

"she's really lucky to know what love is".

Hope you liked it, nearly finished. Awwww. I've decided I'll only ever write one story at a time, lol.

Yours,

M