Ch.16
It was 6 long months since Piper and Leo had rented the house. The landlord, Michelle, was still a little unhappy about renting it to teenagers, but Victor had changed her mind. Leo had built everything for the nursery in the room that had the outdoors look to it. He wanted the nursery to look like the one at the Manor. The crib, changing table, dresser, and rocking chair all matched together because of the light colored wood they were made out of. Piper had bought her toys and put them into the toy box that Leo had built for Taylor. Victor and Angela had helped them all they could with getting them everything they had needed. Leo and Piper had loved the house. Taylor was now 11-months-old, and looked more and more like Piper everyday. Taylor's hair was dark brown and in Leo's words, had her Mommy's chocolate brown eyes. Leo and Piper couldn't believe how big she had gotten already. Taylor could stand by holding onto things, could walk whenever someone held her hands, and could say a couple of things like mommy, daddy, tired, hungry and no. Their life had seemed perfect for now.
It was 8:45 in the morning. Leo and Piper were still asleep but Taylor wasn't. She was lying in between the two of them because of having a bad dream last night and not being able to sleep.
"Mama," Taylor said, pushing Piper's face. After seeing her mommy wouldn't wake up, she turned to her daddy. "Dada," she said, pushing his face too. She started to pout, before loudly crying. Piper and Leo quickly sat up. When they did, Taylor started laughing at them. She always laughed at them when she had gotten her way.
"Looks like someone is awake," Piper said.
"Yeah, we should be up too. We got to go to work," Leo said. Piper just looked at him before letting herself fall back onto her pillows.
Half an hour later, Piper and Taylor were in the kitchen. Leo came down from taking a shower and said, "You ready? We have to be in by 9:30."
"Yeah, we're ready," she replied, before they left. They dropped Taylor off at Victor's, said bye to her, and left for another day at work. 9 hours later, they got out of work, spent about an hour and a half with Taylor, before the two went out to dinner. It was their 5-year anniversary. After about an hour at the restaurant, Leo and Piper were talking and laughing.
"Ok Piper, are you all done eating?" he asked, as they smiled at each other.
"Yeah, why?" she asked.
"I want to ask you something," he replied. Leo stood up, took something out of his pocket, and got down on one knee in front of her. "Piper, I love you more than anyone can ever imagine. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and Taylor. Will you marry me?" he asked, showing her the engagement ring.