Young Love Chapter 12
"Married! Your 16 years old and Emma's 15 you can't be getting married!" Will's father yelled not believing what Will was saying. "She's not knocked up is she!?"
"What! No of course not! Were just engaged dad and were not getting married soon"
"Well I sure hope you're not that stupid Will!"
"What are you saying dad that I am stupid!" Will said raising his voice. "Is it stupid for me to show my fiancé how much I love her and want to spend the rest of my life with her!"
"You are 16 years old Will! When you get older you will know what love is!"
"I know what love is dad!" Will grabbed Emma's hand "This woman here is the woman who I know I love and I know in my heart that I love her! You cant tell me how I am feeling and if its real love or not!"
Will's father couldn't even say another word to him about this so Will's mother stepped in "Will honey I know your upset but please be rational here, our 16 year old son just told us he is engaged to his girlfriend. This is kind of a shock to us both"
"Well I was hoping you could be supportive of our decisions"
Will's father now had more to say but this was something Will would not like very much. His dad looked at Emma "I can't believe you said yes to him, I thought you were smarter then this" Emma's eyes shot open and the adrenaline in Will made him even forget the pain in his legs.
"What did you just say to her!?" Will said nearly shouting.
"You heard me"
"Don't ever talk to her like that again! I will not stand here and listen to you insult Emma like that!" Will shouted, as Emma remained silent.
"Well you want to be treated like an adult so I'm treating you like one. Just don't expect me to be happy about this. If you want to ruin your life then go ahead and do it. I'm telling you this is all a mistake to get engaged this young and so soon into the relationship"
"Emma is not a mistake, I love her and I wont stand here listening to you talk about her like she's not even here!" Will walked to the door and helped Emma put her jacket on then slipped into his jacket and walked out the door.
"If you walk out of that door don't plan on coming back here!" Will's father shouted as Will slammed the door.
"Will please talk to your father, I don't want to be the reason you and your father never speak again"
"No I won't talk to my father not after the way he talked to you in there" Will said still mad at what his father said.
"Well I'm not going to take this till you do cause I don't want to feel guilty for the rest of our lives" Emma said as she removed the ring Will had just given her.
"Emma please don't do this, you're the only family I need."
"Will just hear me out on this one. I have realized that life is too short. My father just died not that long ago and I hate seeing you and your father fighting, and because of me. What if your father dies tomorrow before you get to talk to him again, do you want your last memory to be of you both fighting? Can you imagine the amount of guilt you would have? You should be the one person to understand how easily life can get taken away from you. So please will you just talk to your father, for me?" Emma said with that cute smile that made Will so happy to see.
"Alright I will talk to him, I just want to let things cool down first and I will talk to him first thing in the morning." Will smiled "I love you Emma. You always know what to say, you are so good at helping people out with their problems"
"I love you too and thanks I love helping people out with there problems. It's been something I have been always good at."
"Yes you are great at that" Will smiled
"Well let's go back to my house and you can sleep on the couch tonight and in the morning you can go talk to your father"
"Ok sounds good, thanks Emma"
The next morning Will and Emma went to talk to his father and even though his father still wasn't happy about such an early engagement he did apologize to Emma for what he said and Will was happy he did and Emma accepted it.
"All we want for you both is to be happy and engagement is a huge commitment. Your both so young and have only been dating six months." Janet said
"I know were young that's why I just wanted to tell Emma that I want us to last forever and I just wanted to show her that. I wanted Emma to look at her left hand and see the ring on it and smile knowing that I want to be with her forever. Is that so wrong?"
"No it's not wrong but I still hope when you both get older that you will feel the same way about each other"
"I know in my heart I will still feel the same way about Emma as I do now. I may be young but I know I love her"
"And I love Will also and I know I want to spend the rest of my life with him, and age is just a number"
"What does your mother have to say about this?" Janet asked
"Well I haven't told her yet"
"Actually your mother knows already" Will said looking over at Emma.
"How does she know?" Emma asked confused
"Well last month I went to go talk to your mom about how she felt about me proposing to you and having a long engagement"
"And?"
"Well she was happy for us, she did say she was glad I was asking for a long engagement but she knows that we love each other" Will said as he smiled.
"Really she was ok with it?" Emma said smiling now
"Yes she was very happy for us, but we should go and tell her today since she doesn't know when I was going to ask you" Will smiled "So do you want to go back to your house so we can do that"
"I would love to" Emma said beaming as she grabbed Will's hand
"Great lets go then" Will said
Will and Emma made the short walk to Emma's house and walked in to the living room where Rose was sitting down on the couch watching TV.
"Mom can we talk to you?"
"Of course you can, What's up?"
"Well at midnight last night Will proposed to me" Emma said smiling as she held up her hand showing her the ring.
"This is amazing! I'm so happy for you both!" Rose said jumping up from the couch and went to hug Emma first then Will "Well I guess this means I have another son now" Rose said as she smiled towards Will.
"Mom!" Emma said as she rolled her eyes "Were engaged not married yet" Emma said as she softly chuckled.
"Ok ok future son, but still I'm so happy for you both! This is the first engagement between any of my kids, who knew the first one would be my 15 year old daughter" Rose smiled
"Oh mom" Emma giggled "It's a long engagement"
"Oh I know so whens the date! After high school or after college?"
"Uh I'm not sure but probably after college" Emma said unsure since there not positive on when"
"Well I would say wait till after college for sure" Rose was getting excited about one of her kids getting engaged even if it was a long engagement.
"No worries, we plan on waiting till we are ready for marriage and I would like to have a good job where I can take care of Emma" Will smiled as he looked over at Emma. "I love Emma and I want to make sure we are ready for marriage because I want to make sure this last forever"
"You two are going to last forever, as a mother I know it when I see it and I would never of agreed to this early proposal if I didn't see it"
"Thanks mom" Emma smiled. Emma loved knowing that her mother approved of Will and loves them both and only hoped for the best.
"I only wish that your father was here to celebrate this" Rose said as she began to get emotional. "Your father loved Will and when I talked to him after you left that evening he was so happy to of met Will. I knew he knew it was close to his time because he told me that you both had his blessing in marriage whenever you decided on it"
"Really mom? Dad gave us his blessing?" Emma asked as her eyes fogged up with tears.
Rose shook her head "Yes honey he did and he's looking down at you both smiling, I know it"
"Thank you mom for telling me this" Emma said as she hugged her mom as the tears broke free from her eyes.''
"I love you Emma"
"I love you too mom" Emma turned in her mothers arms and looked at Will "I love you too Will" Emma said smiling as Will walked over to the two woman.
"I love you Emma" Will said as he kissed her "And I love you mom" Will said as they all chuckled at Will calling Emma's mom 'mom'.
"Oh I love you too Will" Rose said as they all pulled into a group hug.