A/N: this was a really hard chapter to write, I'm not really sure why, so that's why it's rather short. Hope you like it!!

"Smile, Jasper!" Amanda laughed as I looked up to be greeted by the blinding flash of a camera.

She adjusted the settings on the camera and looked at me thoughtfully before asking, "Do you show up on film…cause, you know, Dracula didn't."

"As far as I know I do," I chuckled, still seeing spots.

"I guess it's getting too dark to take good pictures this far into the woods, we should head out towards the clearing," she said as she adjusted the F-stop on the camera (I'm a photography nerd…it's embarrassing :P) I had given her a few weeks before. She hadn't had the chance to try it out before now, so I suggested we go into the woods so she could take pictures of trees and plants and…whatever. Rocks maybe.

We walked out to the fringe of the woods where the light trickled through in between the trees with more regularity.

"Much better!" she declared and snapped another picture of me. "You're gonna look cool in black and white!!"

I laughed at her as she crouched on the ground and put a new roll of film in. She held the button down a few times and took several shots of something. I wasn't looking, I'd gotten distracted looking at some bark on a tree. Having super clear vision made me pretty ADD sometimes.

"You're sure you're okay?" Amanda asked again, eyeing me skeptically. She had meandered up beside me to see what I was looking at.

"Positive," I lied, trying to convey poise and keep my anxiousness at bay. It was strange that she could pick up on my different moods without actually being affected by them. Weird.

She shrugged. I didn't think she believed me, but whatever. I loped behind her as she dashed about, snapping random pictures of things I'd never cast a second glance at. A strong wind suddenly gusted through the edge of the forest. I instinctively tensed and scanned the area for any of the unwanted guests we were expecting.

I suggested we head out towards the meadow, with the eventual intent of heading home. It was going to get dark shortly; one of us had to worry about getting hypothermia. Even in late May it was still entirely too cold here. Way too frigid for my southern bones.

Amanda looped her arm through mine as I led the way, weaving between the trees. I tried to quell the nerves that were bubbling throughout my body. I wasn't being successful.

I shoved a shaky hand into my pocket as Amanda detached herself from me and wondered a few paces ahead, totally absorbed in documenting oddities in the forest. I lingered behind, unsure of what to do. I knew what I wanted to do, but it was still nerve wracking. Incredibly nerve wracking.

I shook a piece of my unruly and nappy hair out of my eyes. I could practically feel Alice's desire to take a flat iron to it, even from here. She really wanted me to be a metrosexual vampire. I wasn't for it. She could straighten my hair the day that Emmett wore that pink shirt she bought him. I'd even told her that and she seemed disappointed… I thought I was pretty safe.

Amanda had perched herself on a log and was tinkering with something on the camera. I sat beside her silently, to see if she was too focused on her camera to pay any mind. Luckily for me, she was. The small box in my pocket suddenly felt like it weighed a ton.

"I love you," I said simply.

She smiled and met my gaze. "And I love you. There's no question of that."

"Can you do something for me then?"

She nodded and snapped the back of the camera closed. I used this moment of distraction to take her hand and slide soundlessly down onto one knee. I knew she wasn't one for tradition but I wanted to do this right.

"Will you marry me?"

Her eyes widened in surprised and a smile curled at the corners of her mouth. "Are you serious?"

"Deathly serious," I smiled. Her habit of bringing humor into serious situations must have rubbed off on me.

"Of course I'll marry you!" she laughed and jumped into my arms.

I kissed the top of her head as we embraced.

"I almost forgot," I said and reached into my pocket, pulling out the velvet box. Amanda adjusted so she was sitting on my still bent knee.

"It's perfect," she said as I slid the ring on her finger.

I was relieved; Alice and Rose had gone ring shopping with me and they both had insisted this was the perfect ring from the moment I laid eyes on it, but I was skeptical. I tended to over think things and this was a big event. I didn't want to mess it up. But I could tell that Amanda was incredibly happy. That made me happy…and the fact that the girl I loved more than anything I could have imagined had agreed to marry me.

"Is this why you've been so weird all day?" she asked, looking up from her ring. Her engagement ring.

I laughed and nodded, relief flooded through me like an open vein.

"Did you think I'd turn you down or something?"

I shrugged. "No, but proposing is an intimidating thing to do!"

She laughed and laid her head on my shoulder. "I'm marrying a lunatic. I'm getting married. I never would've seen that coming."

"I don't want you to feel pressured or anything," I began to explain. "I mean, we can get married as soon as you want, or we can wait as long as you want. Tomorrow or a few decades from now…it's immaterial to me. It's all up to you; you're the one wild enough to agree to put up with me."

Her kiss silenced my rambling.

"So what's my last name gonna be?" she asked with an amused smirk as I scooped her up. She reached down and grabbed her camera from the log where she had left it and I began heading in the direction of home.

"For all intensive purposes Whitlock," I said. "But, I guess we'll have to stick Hale and/or Cullen in there too, if the occasion should call for it."

A permanent smile rested on my face as I carried my fiancé in my arms.

"This is so crazy," she laughed as I dashed back to the house.

Alice was sitting on the front steps waiting for us, a huge smile plastered on her face.

"I told you so!!!" she grinned triumphantly, engulfed Amanda in a hug and then me. She ushered us inside where we were quickly bombarded. I didn't mind the attention this time, though. Maybe my days of wanting to melt into walls had passed.

"Baby sister!!!!!!!!!!!!" Emmett nearly shrieked, swallowing Amanda and I up in a giant embrace. "And Jazzy!!!!!"

We were passed around the room, being hugged so many times I wondered if they had accidentally dislodged any part of Amanda with their iron-like embraces.

Bella and Edward were there, too. Bella congratulated us politely and enthusiastically, but I picked up on a twinge of jealousy. Edward was excited for us, I knew he was still skeptical of my willpower, but he later told me he was glad I was finally happy.

"How did everyone know already?" Amanda asked me quietly as the excitement began to die down a little.

"It's hard to keep a secret in this family."

"I guess I'll have to get used to that," she smiled.