Author's Note: Hey great wonderful readers! =D yes i'm trying to butter you up. is it working? =)) No? Well this might. I wrote 2 chapters! =D I'll post this one now and the second one tomorrow night after people have read this one. But before you read this one grab a couple tissues it's a tearjerker. And remember you've been warned.

CHAPTER 21

EDWARD'S POV

"Give me the damn phone Alice!" I shouted for the umpteenth time. We'd been driving for about 45 minutes and I've heard her threaten Jasper, cry with Rosalie, get a lecture from Carlisle, thank Esme for her congratulations, and now FINALLY she's asked for Bella.

"Oh Bella I'm so sorry. What do you mean you're going to kill me?! Bella I thought you loved me?!" She was screeching. Damn pixie serves her right.

"Alice give me the phone or so help me god you will not live to see the day that Bella kills you!" I shouted.

She started apologizing to Bella saying, "Bella I'm sorry but I have to go your boyfriend is being a whiny brat and begging for the phone by threatening me." She handed me the phone. It's about time!

"BELLA?!" I shouted into the tiny pink phone.

"EDWARD?!" I heard her reply and my heart skipped a beat as her angelic voice registered through the receiver.

"Bella love, are you alright? What happened? How did my jackass brother get you sent to jail?!" Alice rolled her eyes.

"Oh Edward it's too long of a story to tell over phone. I'll tell you when you bail me out. I'm just glad that you're alright. You are alright right?!" She started panicking.

"Yes love I'm fine. I'm in the car with the crazy pregnant pixie, and the big bear is passed out upstairs at home. I think we'll be there in about two hours, maybe more depending on if the pixie learns how to drive the speed limit!" I looked at Alice hoping that she would get the hint and at least go 40mph instead of 25 in a 50.

"Edward you shouldn't have said that." She sounded cautious.

"Why's that love?" I asked.

"Look at Alice." She said.

I looked over at Alice she had the face of a lunatic who just escaped from an insane asylum. Next thing I knew she stomped on the gas pedal and we were going 95mph in 50mph zone. Of all times for Charlie not to be here. I let out a scream as we started approaching a cliff.

"ALICE STOP WE'RE LESS THAN 100 FT. FROM A CLIFF." I was screaming at the top of my lungs. Why is Emmett never in a life or death situation but Jasper and I always are?

"BELLA!" I shouted.

"EDWARD!" Her beautiful voice was stressed and worried.

"BELLA I LOVE YOU! AND I'M PRETTY SURE ALICE LOVES JASPER TOO!" Well I couldn't be positive the way that she was threatening him earlier.

"EDWARD I LOVE YOU TOO!" She was shouting as well I could hear the panicked voices of our family behind her. Then I said it, it was a spur of the moment event.

"BELLA I LOVE YOU WITH ALL OF MY HEART! WE'RE LIKE 40 FT. FROM THE CLIFF NOW BUT IF I MAKE IT THROUGH THIS I NEED TO ASK YOU ONE THING. BELLA WILL YOU MARRY ME?"

It might have been totally spur of the moment but I knew in my heart that I meant it. I had actually been planning to ask her after we graduated on our 5th anniversary at a fancy restaurant with candles, flowers, and music but I figured now was a better time.

I reached over towards Alice and turned the steering wheel towards the trees. She had gone insane for a reason I may never know but I had to do something. I kicked my leg over and reached for the brakes. I slammed on the pedal and the car came to a screeching stop with less than 5 feet from the cliff to spare.

I sighed a breath of relief as Alice came out of her trance. There was still a silence in the phone. My angle hadn't answered yet. I was starting to wonder if I asked her too soon or if she had a heart attack from all the stress.

"Bella love, are you still there?" There was no reply. "Bella it's alright I stopped the car no one's hurt." I was desperately trying to soothe her and get an answer but yet my angle was silent. I must've asked her too soon. "Bella it's alright love you can say no. I won't get mad I promise." There was still no answer. "Bells please answer me."

I looked at the phone still begging for her to answer. Then I noticed the sign on the screen. It read, DEAD BATTERY. Oh god how much had she heard. Does she know that I proposed? How long ago did the battery die?! She's probably crying her beautiful eyes out thinking that we're dead.

Bella's POV

He's dead. My wonderful, amazing, handsome boyfriend is dead. The tears started flowing uncontrollably and showed no signs of stopping. Then they started to flow faster as I realized that my not only was my boyfriend dead but so were my sister and her unborn child. I dropped the phone and slowly made my way back to my cell.

I walked into the cell, sat down on the floor, brought my knees up to my chest and buried my face as I cried and cried. I felt a hand start rubbing circles on my back. At first I thought it was Rosalie but it wasn't it was Jasper.

"Bella, Bells what's wrong?" He asked. He actually sounded concerned and sad as if he could feel my emotions. I rarely saw this Jasper. The Jasper we usually see is stupid and idiotic and always getting into some sort of trouble. But this was our friend and brother Jasper.

How in the hell was I supposed to tell this sweet and caring Jasper that his brother, girlfriend, and unborn child are dead? I cried harder I didn't want to tell him but I had to. I really wanted to wait until he was jerk Jasper again I didn't want to hurt the sweet Jasper.

There was only one way it would come out so I said it. I kept my face buried and mumbled "They're dead." The tears still flowed uncontrollably. I wonder if they'll ever stop.

"What?" The rubbing on my back stopped. "Who's dead?" He asked. I didn't know if he was just in denial or if he really wasn't putting the pieces together. I dreaded the next answer I was forced to give.

"Alice and Edward." I uncovered my face and starred at his. He was just starring at nothing. I wondered what was going through his mind. Then one lone tear fell from his left eye and ran straight down his cheek and dripped off of his chin. Another tear followed out of his right eye until they were just flowing like mine.

He hugged me tight and I buried my face in his chest. "He proposed." I mumbled. He looked down at me and I pulled out of the hug to look at him. I studied his expression. There was confusion, concern, and just plain wonder in his eyes. "How did it happen?" He asked. I knew what he meant, how did they die?

I took a deep breath and began. "Edward told Alice to speed up. Whenever you tell Alice to speed up she goes crazy and thinks you're picking on her. Well with that mixed in with her hormones she went insane. She floored the car and drove straight towards a cliff. Edward begged her to stop but she wouldn't she just kept going. Edward told me that he loved me and that Alice loved you." More tears start flowing out of both of our eyes when I said that and I continued. "He then said that he loved me with all of his heart and that if he made it through that he wanted to know if I would marry him. The line went dead before I could answer. All I want now is to be able to tell him that I would marry him even if he wasn't so close to death when he proposed."

He hugged me tight again. I still couldn't believe that any of this was happening. "All I want now is the chance to propose." Jasper said. His voice muffled and cracked. I have NEVER seen Jasper so messed up before in my life. "I know." I soothed. It was my turn to try to comfort him.

He pulled out of our hug and reached into his pocket. He pulled out a small square box and opened it. He starred at the object inside as another lonely tear fell. "I was planning to ask her on graduation day." He turned the box around so I could see the object inside. The ring was beautiful and just Alice's taste. There weren't enough words in the world to describe it. It must have been custom made. There wasn't one huge diamond but many small ones. The small diamonds made a heart on a gold band.

"They didn't make any rings small enough for her fingers so I had to have them cut the band and make it smaller." He again was starring at the ring.

"Jasper it must have cost a fortune." I said. I was amazed at how good of taste Jasper had in engagement rings.

He looked up at me and starred me straight in the eye and said, "Bella the price didn't matter to me. I could've gone into debt for the rest of my life and I wouldn't care because I was spending the money on the most beautiful, wonderful, amazing woman in the world. And the fact that she was pregnant with our child meant even more. Although it wouldn't matter to me if she were pregnant or not I would still love her just the same and I still would've proposed to her on graduation day with this very ring."

Those were the most beautiful words I had ever heard anyone say. Our tears were flowing harder than ever now. But he was still starring at my eyes and he looked as if he still had something to say. I stared back at him hoping that he would continue.

"Bella Edward didn't want to propose to you like that over the phone. He had already planned everything and ran it by me, Emmett, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, and Rosalie at least 20 times to make sure everything was and I quote, 'as perfect as the angel that is so very crazy for loving someone as sick and masochistic as me.'"

My jaw dropped to floor. Tears were falling faster than I thought ever possible. How could he ever say any of that? None of it was true. I'm not perfect I'm not an angel by any means. He is defiantly not sick and masochistic, and if anyone was crazy for loving anyone it was him for loving me.

I was in complete denial now. All I could do was sit there on the cold hard floor of the jail cell and mutter why over and over again. I was aware of everything happening around me but nothing was registering. All I knew was that Rosalie was apparently moved over to cell with Carlisle and Esme before I ever got off the phone and they still didn't know about any of this and that I had somehow moved into Jasper's arms and he was now holding me and trying to soothe me while tears were still falling from his eyes.

I knew that he was rubbing my back again and stroking my hair while whispering "Shhh. It's okay Bella it's all going to be okay." I wanted to ask him if he was sure about that and how he knew that but the only words that I could say were why and how. I just wanted to see my Edward one last time and tell him that I loved him more than anything in the world and that I would marry him. I sent another silent prayer up to heaven, 'God please don't let them really be dead please let someone find them alive please let us see them again let us tell them that we love them please, please, please! Amen.'