AN: Sorry for the wait my friends, but my computer has been down all August, and I just got it back. I am so sorry guys, but you have no idea what its like to go without a phone or computer for a month. PURE AGONY!! Anyway, here is the last chapter of Special Someone. I'll be posting the sequel in a little while, but I'll need a title. More on that later, now read!
Disclaimer:I don't own Twilight. -sob-
Chapter 10
(DPOV)
The day that it happened, I had just been in my room, my head resting on Alex's shoulder, watching the snow falling in heavy drifts outside. Things had become cozier than ever in the Cullen household, and nothing much had happened since our bizarre little shopping excursion. On which occasion, Alice had forced me into a couple pieces of lingerie that made my mind smirk as I imagined ways to torture Alex with them. Eventually. Though I was damn close, I just wasn't quite ready for that big a step. Not yet, but soon.
Alex and I sat there, propped up on those dozens of pillows Esme insisted belonged on my bed. A fire crackled in the hearth peacefully, and white fell against the black of night outside the window. The perfect winter night. All that was really missing was cocoa. But, being vampires, I think that cocoa might have ruined the mood instead of perfecting it.
I was resting there, closing my eyes, and trying to turn off my brain. When Alex shifted beside me, I mumbled disgruntedly and opened my eyes.
"Why are you moving?" I muttered, my voice laced with annoyance, but softened with contentment.
"There's something I've been wanting to show you." Alex reached behind him and drew out a black satin box and handed it to me. I held it gingerly in my hands as he explained, "It's one of my favorite rings, one that Lucian gave me to make up for Clarice's attitude towards me when she was first changed," I gasped as I opened the box, revealing a ring with bands of sliver dotted with diamonds twisted in intricate pattern around a princess cut sapphire clear and deep as the ocean. "Beautiful, isn't it?" Alex murmured, "Want to try it on?" he asked and I nodded, too dumbfounded to notice him slip the ring on my left ring finger. I stoked it once, the cool metal and bright gem smooth under my touch.
"Oh, Its so beautiful," I sighed wistfully.
"It's yours if you want it," Alex offered. I shook my head slowly.
"I couldn't-"
"Yes, you could. I want you to have it," he insisted, "and it looks exquisite on your hand like that." He closed a long fingered, pale hand around mine. "I want you to have it. It and me, all of me." Unbelievably touched, I brought a hand to Alex's cheek.
"And I'll take it. You know you have me too, right?"
"Of course."
"Good." I kissed him. A short kiss, my attention called back to the ring, shifting it from hand to hand. Suddenly, Alex got up, striding to the door.
"Good, then I can tell Alice to start planning a summer wedding." At the word 'wedding' my head slammed down from the clouds to bruising reality.
"Wedding? Who said anything about a wedding?" I stared in mortification at the finger I had automatically left the ring on. My wedding band finger. I quickly pulled it off and put it on my right hand. I can't believe I didn't see what he meant with the ring.
"Well, it sounded to me like you just agreed to marry me. C'mon, let's go make the announcement." As his hand touched the doorknob, my temper broke, and anger rushed in, the welcome feel of it covering up dashes of fear and hope.
"Just hold it one minute! I didn't agree to anything!"
"If memory serves me correctly, and it most often does, you did," he said, calm and serene. I lept up from the bed, stalked over to him and stopped barely six inches away,
"You tricked me into this, didn't you?" I accused, pointing my finger at him angrily.
"Possibly, but I would never have gotten the ring on your finger otherwise," he reasoned.
"Of course not. Because marriage is a huge step. And there is no way in hell I'm marrying you."
"Why not?" he asked, calm as a cucumber, and his calm demeanor only added fuel to my temper.
"Why not? Why not? Because we've only known each other for barely a half a year, that's why not! We can't get married!"
"Of course we can."
"No, we can't. Eternity lasts a whole lot longer than you think it does when you're a vampire. We can't get married. We spend more time yelling at each other than doing anything else!"
"So? It brings some excitement to the mix," Alex answered.
"Alex, we can't get married. We barely know each other!" I shouted, exasperated and sat down hard on the side of my bed. Alex walked over to me and got dawn on one knee to look me in eye. I looked heavenward at his traditional pose, but Alex brought my eyes back to his as he gathered my hands in his and squeezed slightly.
"I know you Dani. I feel as if I've known you my whole life. You're obstinate, hard-headed, quick-tempered, impatient, stubborn-"
"Those hardly seem to be marriageable qualities," I interrupted. It warmed my heart to see him bite back on the tight leash of control he held on his temper.
"Just let me finish please?" he took a deep breath and continued on, "You're also kind, soft-hearted, intelligent, sentimental, tender, and have a capacity for generosity that you don't even know of. You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and I knew that from the first time I saw you snarling at me at the front door that I loved you. I love you Danica, and I want to keep loving you until the world ends. So please, marry me, and be with me forever." Impossibly moved, and feeling that burst of hope and happiness outweigh the fear I had of being tossed away again, I threw my arms around him. Finally I felt fear melt away, and held on to him tightly. I pulled back, grinning like a maniac. I framed his face in my hands, touching a lock of deep chesnut hair and pushing it out of his eyes.
"Yes. For forever, yes," I murmured, and sealed it with a kiss, moving the ring from my right hand back to my left. From somewhere in the house, I heard Alice scream in joy.
AN: So, I'll be posting the third one soon, but only if you press the pretty purple button!!