AN: Okay, last filler chapter for now i swear! From now on (maybe. at least for the next couple of chapters.) it will be pure TWILIGHT with Selene goodness. So Please ENJOY AND REVEIW!!!

A special thanks again to KD Skywalker! She inspired me to post FALLING STARS (my very first fanfiction) with her story TWO OF A KIND! And she's continued to follow the story faithfully! THANKS KD!!

Chapter Eighteen: Surprise

(Selene's POV)

My driving is so predictable! We got to the house exactly a half hour after we left the store. We still had a whole hour to kill before we needed to get to the baseball field we'd cleared out decades ago. I sniffed. Emmett and Jasper were home. Alice went outside to keep Jasper company. Rosalie went and started absentmindedly playing some classical music on the piano. Carlisle and Esme were in their study talking about the hospital and some new plans for a house renovation.

I listened around on the upper floors until I caught Emmett's thoughts coming from his room. I smiled, and slowly made my way up to the third story. I knew that he knew I was home and we both knew he was waiting to talk to me. No. I'm not conceited or shallow. Him wanting to talk to me was written plainly all through his thoughts. Anyway, so I took the steps one at a time, at a slow human pace. That would drive Em crazy!

Turns out, I was just torturing myself. I was eager to see him too. When was I not? So, on the second floor, I gave up on human and embraced my "God-given" extra fast vampire speed. I stopped right outside his door. Then, without knocking, I let myself in. I was greeted with a vampire crushing bear hug and a kiss on the tip of my nose.

Thankful I had left my bags by the front door, I wrapped my arms around Emmett's neck and pulled him in for a real kiss.

Our lips met and I was once again in my personal heaven. I broke off the kiss a minute later when I got a whiff of the nervousness in Emmett's thoughts. I didn't know what he was so nervous about, because he wasn't thinking about the reason, just that he was. Looking him in the eyes, I cocked my head, and arched an eyebrow curiously.

"What's wrong Emmett? Your thoughts are so jumbled."

He just shook his head.

"Nothing," he said, "Come here." He didn't say it commandingly. The words came out with love. He led me over to his bed. He sat down next to his nightstand and motioned for me to take a seat next to him. Still confused, I took a seat.

"Emmett? Are you okay?" His eyes were kind of darting around and he was wringing his hands absentmindedly. I was getting worried. He had never acted so nervous around me before. He then held up a finger and put it to my lips.

"Shh. Give me a minute. I've never down this with you before."

This confused me more. And to my complete frustration, Emmett was now conjugating Spanish verbs in his mind. A thought suddenly crossed my mind as to what was going to happen.

"Emmett. I'm going to sleep with you yet. Well, not that we could really sleep, but you know what I mean."

"No, no. No, that's not it!" He said. Emmett was totally out of character. He looked vulnerable. I'd seen his soft, loving side a million times, but never his vulnerable side. He looked around and then looked back at me. A new confidence sparkled in his eyes. He got off the bed and knelt ext to the nightstand. There, he retrieved a little black velvet box.

"Now. Please try to be nice. I've never done this with the one true person I was supposed to."

My breath caught in my throat as he knelt down to one knee in front of me. The corners of my eyes began to prickle, because, had I been human, I would have been crying.

"Selene. I love you more than anything in the world. You're more important to me than my own existence. And I've loved you from a far when I was with Rosalie. I'm sorry it took so long for me to come to you. But, now that we're together, will you: Selene Gabrielle Doyle Cullen, do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

I was speechless. I loved Emmett with all my hard, frozen heart. The thing that was holding my voice in was the fact that both times before, not long after I was proposed to, my fiancé died. Edward had succumbed, so I had thought, to the Spanish Influenza. Then, just a couple decades after I had married Cornel, the Volturi had killed him in place of Stefan and Vladamir when they had decided to go on a crazy killing spree and then had fled, leaving Cornel- completely innocent- to take the punishment. Now that I had my true soul mate, I didn't want to endanger him by saying 'yes'.

When I didn't answer right away, Emmett began looking worried and the hope started to drain from his eyes.

"Well. I understand if you don't want to take that step. I can always wait for us to have been together longer…" Making a quick decision, I interrupted him.

"No, Emmett! It's not that! Yes! Of course I'll marry you!" he and I were meant to be, so he would definitely make it! He had to! I was being so selfish, but he was mine and I couldn't turn this down.

A huge grin spread across Emmett's face as he opened the ring box. Inside was a thin gold band with a medium, colorless diamond. It was modern, but old fashioned at the same time. It was modest, yet very elegant. The ring was beautiful!

He slid it onto my left ring finger. There, with the exception of school, where it would be worn on a chain until the next year, that ring would absolutely remain for the rest of forever.

I beamed at him and his face had the glow of the happiest man on earth. Emmett stood up and he dragged me up with him. He put his hands on my hips and pulled me close. My arms went instinctively around his neck and our lips met.

"Thank you," Emmett whispered, "and I love you!"

"I love you too. And no. Thank you." Our lips never separated from each other's as we spoke those words.

We broke apart only when a giggle and a whistle were heard from the doorway. I hadn't even noticed the door opening, yet there they were: Alice, Jasper, Esme, Carlisle and Rosalie, all standing there; watching.

"Congratulations!" Alice squealed. Immediately I saw her mind already swirling around wedding plans.

"Oh! I'm so happy for you!" Esme said, coming over to give us both hugs. "You Two deserve this happiness!"

Carlisle walked over to us, clapped Emmett on the back and then pulled me into a warm, fatherly hug.

I'm glad to finally see you truly happy, Selene. Congratulations!

Thanks Dad!

He kissed my forehead and moved for Alice and jasper to come and hug us.

"Oh! I can't wait to show you your dress and to help with plans for the wedding!" Alice trilled.

"Dress? How long have you been planning this?" I asked Emmett.

He shrugged, grinning widely.

"A while."

Alice was tugging my arm, hugging me and dancing around so fast that she would probably be invisible to a human right then.

"Do you want to see it now?" my pixie of a sister asked.

"Fine. But you'd better have yours and Rosalie's as well."

"Why?" Rose and Alice asked together.

"Well, my bride's maids need dresses don't they?'

Both of my sisters beamed and, to my surprise, Alice and Rosalie both rushed up to me and smothered me with a huge hug.

"Thank you! Thank you!" They squealed happily.

I smiled and let Alice drag me to her and Jasper's room. I looked back with a helpless look on my face and Emmett just smirked back. He stayed back in his room with Jasper and Carlisle, while Esme and Rosalie followed us.

I wasn't too worried about the dress. Alice knew me really well, and with her seriousness about planning weddings, no matter how many multitudes of them we had in our family, she wouldn't mess around with me about my dress. Especially since this was mine and Emmett's first wedding to each other, and my first wedding as a member of the Cullen family. Cornel and I had never had a wedding ceremony during our time with them while he was alive.

We got into her room and she made me sit down on hers and Jasper's bed. Alice disappeared into her massive closet and was back instantly with three garment bags.

"Mine last," I said. She nodded seriously and put the largest of the three bags in the back.

"Okay. Rosalie's dress," She announced.

Alice unzipped the front, opened the bag and revealed a strapless red dress with black lace overlaying the red in the front. I nodded in approval. It would suit Rosalie very nicely. Alice grinned, knowing my little nod meant so much more than that plain movement. She rezipped the bag, moved it to the back and opened the next.

"Mine."

Inside was a black and white dress. The baddis was a black velvet that came around to cling to the neck. It was a total Alice dress. It screamed her personality.

I smiled and nodded again. I was getting nervous now. My dress was next and I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking for yet. What if it wasn't exactly perf-?

The zipper came down slowly. I didn't realize I was holding my breath until I let it out in a gasp. Not a mad gasp, but a surprised, happy gasp.

The dress was a shiny white silk with a simply beaded upper portion. The skirt came down in two simple parts: one a sweeping overlaying one that opened in a V to connect to the beaded portions. The other part of the skirt went down to where my ankles would be. It was just like my ring: Simple and modest, but beautiful and elegant. It was perfect!

The corners of my eyes began to prick again. I wished I could just cry. Having it pent up right then was hell. Oh well. I'd just have to deal with it. I stood up and reach forward. I caught the fabric between my index finger and thumb. It was softer than anything I'd ever felt.

"Do you like it?" From Alice's voice, I could tell she knew the answer and didn't need a verbal reply. Instead, I turned to her and gave her a huge, thankful, hug.

"Yes! Thank you Alice! It's perfect!" I whispered.

She pulled away and smiled widely. Right then, flashing through her mind, was the relief. It had only been there a second, but I had caught it. She wanted my approval all everything. She really did see me as her older sister and looked up to me. I smiled what would have been a teary grin and hugged her again.

Rosalie lightly coughed and I turned around to her.

" You too Rose! You two are the best sister's anybody could ask for."

And then, for the first time in the seven or more decades we'd lived together, Rosalie and I share a heartfelt hug; one that was a warm sisterly, accepting hug. We never would see eye to eye, but I could see a better friendship available in the centuries to come.

"You two are going to be beautiful, as always," I said. Everyone was smiling. That had been a good day. We all turned our attention back to the bed, where Esme was sobbing dryly. All three of us rushed over to her.

"Esme? What's wrong?" Alice trilled.

"You…you girls are all getting along for once. Thank God!" She sobbed. Esme smiled at us and stood up with her ears honing in on something. I had heard it too. The guys were walking down the hall.

Alice dove over the bed, very un-lady like, but like I should talk, and quickly rezipped my garment bag. She stashed them back in the closet and was back by our side before the door opened.

The wood banged open, and the guys filed in.

"Are we going to go play baseball or what?" Emmett boomed, as he pulled me off the bed.

"It is time to go," Alice replied, taking Jasper's hand. We all slowly walked through the house and down to the garage. Edward's Volvo was gleaming under one of the overhead lights. He had taken Emmett's Jeep to escort Bella to the field in, or at least half way to the field.

We all exited through the garage door without a car. It was a beautiful night for a run and a baseball game. Nothing could dampen my spirit today. I was engaged to the man of my dreams and I may have finally started making amends with Rosalie. Life as a vampire was pretty good just then.