A/N: Okay - tissues ready? I was told I should issue tissue warnings - even if they are going to be happy tears! So consider yourself warned.

It was early but still dark. I was enjoying one of my favourite things in the world, watching my Bella sleep. I let my eyes lazily linger over her beautiful body, her gorgeous hair and her soft pouty lips swollen from our passionate kisses last night. We'd made love twice and she was now lying on her stomach, naked and deeply asleep, one of her hands was under her pillow and the other was resting on my chest. The sheet was gathered so that it just covered her luscious and biteable arse.

As I quietly watched her, I was idly twirling the Diamond Eternity Bracelet I had put on her wrist while she slept. It was the second part of the set my father had given to my mother that I was giving to Bella one piece at a time. The bracelet had 6.75 carats of diamonds in a platinum setting and shone so beautifully against her skin.

She had started to rouse and whispered my name in her sleep. I could tell she was about to wake-up because her fingers started to twirl the soft hairs on my chest. She stretched and then the sheet slipped even further. I watched her naked body stretch as she woke, she let out a small moan and the sound went straight to my cock. I wanted her again. I always wanted her. I would always want her.

I slowly rolled over towards her, kissing my way across her shoulders while my hand slid down her back and over the soft curve of her hip. I slipped my hand down to cup her sex and she let out another moan. She was not quite broken from her sleep but she curled her body towards me responding to my touch. I continued to move my hand until I slipped a finger inside her and I rolled my thumb over her clit.

She smiled sleepily and opened her eyes to look at me. "Mmm," she moaned, obviously enjoyed my movements.

I kissed her neck and moved my body so that I lay over her with she was still lying on her stomach. I circled my hand under her hips and raised her pelvis slightly.

"Good morning, love." I kissed all down her spine. "I cannot resist you a moment longer."

She was wet and writhing so I pushed gently inside her. She moaned again and pushed back towards me.

We moved gently together in a slow rhythm. I raised her hips a little higher, she bent her legs so that she was kneeling but her chest was still on the bed and our paced increased. I moved inside her, going much deeper with this angle. Damn that was good.

The only noise that could be heard was our deep grunting and low moaning. Wanting more Bella raised her chest up off the bed and begged me to go harder, to go faster. So I did. Soon I was pounding into her. I moved my fingers to pinch and squeeze her nipples. She cried out in pleasure as she came hard pulling my orgasm for me as I pulsed inside her.

Panting, I leaned down on to her back and then slowly left her body. I didn't want to and she also moaned at the loss of our connection. I rolled onto the bed beside her and pulled her close to me.

"That was a lovely way to say good morning, baby. How long have you waited for me to wake up?"

I reached down and placed a small kiss on the top of her head. "Not long, love. I enjoy watching you sleep although it does make me horny as hell."

She giggled, "I noticed. You know what else I noticed this morning?"

She held up her wrist and spun the new bracelet around it. "Edward, this is so beautiful. It is so extravagant though. You are too generous."

"It was my mother's. I didn't spend a cent so don't talk nonsense. I want to give you so many things but most importantly I want you to have my mother's jewellery."

She reached up and gave me a soft intimate kiss. "Thank you Edward. I love it."

"C'mon, it is time to get up. I am sure Elizabeth will be awake soon. I want us to have some fun together this morning. What would you like to do today?"

"Lil Bit has been out the past few days. Could we just stay home and enjoy a quiet day?"

"Perfect." I stood up and pulled on my boxers and a t-shirt and just at that moment a small knock could be heard from our bedroom door. I went over and opened it and found Lil Bit standing there in her cute little butterfly pyjamas, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand and the book I was reading to her last night tucked under her arm.

"Wake up time, Eh-wed." She reached her arms up to me almost dropping her book.

"Good morning, little love. Did you sleep well?" I reached down and picked her up heading back to bed with Bella who'd slipped on a thigh length chemise and wrapped herself in a deep blue silky robe. Gorgeous.

"Momma!"

Lil Bit crawled over the bed and sat next to Bella, pulling open the book. "Wead pwease?"

"What's this? A new book?"

"Eh-wed giv me. I a pwincess."

"Esme and I took Lil Bit out …uh, shopping… yesterday. Of course that was after her bubble bath to remove the sandpit she'd collected in her clothes and changing her into clean clothes. We popped into a bookstore and when I found this book I thought it was perfect for her."

Bella turned it over and read the blurb on the back cover, "Princess Elizabeth…," she looked at me and smiled, "plans on marrying Prince Ronald, who is practically perfect. However, a dragon arrives who destroys her kingdom, kidnaps Ronald, and burns all her clothes so that she has no choice but to wear a paper bag. Elizabeth follows the dragon and Ronald, and seeking to rescue her fiancé, challenges the dragon to burn forests with fire and to fly around the world. The dragon completes the tasks but after flying around the world a second time becomes tired and falls asleep. Elizabeth rescues Ronald, who is ungrateful and tells her to return when she looks more like a princess. Elizabeth realizes that she is better off without Ronald and sets off into the sunset to live her own life."

I leaned down and kissed the top of Lil Bit's head. "Perfect. You don't need to marry a silly Prince do you Princess Elizabeth?"

"Oh Edward." Bella laughed at me. "You are too cute. I love the story and the book is wonderful, but one day Lil Bit may just want to fall in love and get married."

"Nope. Absolutely no boys." I shook my head and crossed my arms over my chest. Bella shook her head and chuckled at my idiocy.

"Sef is my speshal fwend, Eh-wed. I marry Sef."

I was about to argue but Bella started reading the book which I had read to Lil Bit three times last night. No boys, not for my Princess. Well, I suppose that was going to be difficult considering that she was smart, sweet and cute as hell. Dammit. We'll have to send her to a private girls school. No one would be good enough for Elizabeth…. except maybe Seth, there was something very special about that boy. Maybe, Seth. Maybe when she was thirty.

I watched them for a moment, then I took the opportunity to head into the bathroom to enjoy a good hot shower. I came out with a towel wrapped around me just as Bella was finishing the story. She raised her eyebrow at me and licked her lips. I let out a laugh as I walked into the walk-in robe and pulled on some fresh boxers, old jeans and vintage t-shirt. I headed back out barefoot. I loved being barefoot at home.

"Fank oo, momma. Bwek-fast now?"

"Bella you grab a shower and dress. I'll take Lil Bit in the kitchen and get breakfast started."

I reached out to Lil Bit who jumped into my arms.

"Thanks baby. I won't be long." She disappeared into the bathroom.

I looked at Lil Bit. "Did you enjoy your story, little love?"

"Wes. I hungee, Eh-wed."

"Me too, let's go make breakfast." I popped her down on the floor and she toddled off ahead of me towards the kitchen. Damn, I loved this little girl.

I settled Lil Bit into her chair and she chirped away at me as I moved around the kitchen putting breakfast together. First I chopped up an assortment of fresh fruit and placed a bowlful with a nice dollop of yoghurt on top in front of Lil Bit . She enthusiastically tucked into that while I chopped and mixed together ingredients for spanish omelettes and toast.

Once ready, I leaned down to Elizabeth and whispered to her, "Let's go get the presents we bought for momma yesterday so we can surprise her when she comes in for breakfast."

"Yay…pwesents for momma." She was clapping her hands and trying to get out of her seat but I had her strapped in, so she reached her hands up to me and was kicking her feet. "Up, Up, Eh-wed."

I unstrapped her lifting her up into my arms, "Upsie, Daisie!"

"I not Daisee - Nonna say I petal."

"Yes, little love you are a petal…. a daisy petal."

She giggled as I popped her down on the floor and went into the lounge room to the cupboard where we'd hidden the presents. Lil Bit carried one gift while I carried the other parcels. I went to the guest bathroom to grab the flowers I'd placed in a bucket of water last night. Lil Bit and I had picked the flowers yesterday at Riley's florist shop the day before.

Together we went into the kitchen and placed the gifts on the side bench. I took the arrangement of flowers and placed them in a large vase in the centre of the breakfast table.

I put out some fancy tea cups and plates Bella had in one of the kitchen cabinets and proceeded to lay the table the way Esme had taught me too. I checked that I had all the breakfast things ready and brought another bowl of chopped fruit salad with yoghurt back in placing it on the table with a jug of juice. I made a pot of Bella's favourite Irish Breakfast tea and placed it on the table well out of Lil Bit's reach.

Just then Bella walked in, freshly showered and dressed. She reached up to kiss my cheek. "Edward, this looks so lovely. Thank you. Oh, I am so hungry." She sat down and immediately started feasting on the fruit. "This fruit is soooo goood."

I poured her some tea while she was in apparent raptures over the fruit. She took a sip, "Is this a different tea? It tastes a little funny? It's nice, it's just different." She put her cup down. Hmm, I think I may have gotten my girlfriend pregnant. I truly hoped so.

"Sit down, love. Let me make you an omelette. I saw this one on the cooking channel so I think even I can do it. Just enjoy the fruit and some juice while you wait. Maybe just sip the tea for now."

I went to the stove to cook the omelettes. I smiled to myself and I listened to Bella and Lil Bit chirping away, chatting, laughing while eating their fruit.

The eggs were quick to cook and looked pretty good even if I say so myself. I carried in the three plates and set them down on the table, "Voila!"

"Yummy, Eh-wed."

"This looks lovely, baby. Well done."

Thank you cooking channel. I'll never cook like Bella but I'd like to think I could manage more than simple toast or chopped fruit so she doesn't always have to do the cooking. Especially as I know she doesn't like Lil Bit to have take-out.

We all tucked in to our eggs and they honestly were pretty good. Once we were done Bella went to take the plates but I jumped up and cleared the plates from the table. "No love, let me take care of the dishes."

"Edward, you cooked. It's only fair that I clean up."

"Just stay there okay, please love. I have a surprise for you."

"Sir-pwise for momma!" Lil Bit was clapping again.

Bella chuckled. "Okay, I'll sit here and wait for my surprise, I love surprises."

I went into the kitchen, clicked the music track on with the playlist I programmed in last night, grabbed my parcels and headed in to my girls. The first song, Savage Garden's 'Truly, Madly, Deeply', played softly in the background.

"Oh, I love this song… what are all those gifts? It's not my birthday, Edward. What are you up to mister?"

I handed Bella the first parcel. She took it giving me a quizzical look while she started ripping the paper off the gift. I was glad she wasn't one of those neat careful unwrappers. She just tore that paper right off. I chuckled and shuffled nervously.

She looked at the book and read the title out loud, 'Love: Quotes and Passages from the Heart'. There were two white satin ribbons marking passages. She pulled on the first one which opened to the front inside cover where I had handwritten our favourite passage.

To my sweet one,

'Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.'

I promise to always try my best to love you as you deserve.

Yours always and forever,

Edward

She read it out and I leaned down to kiss her cheek. Leaning over her shoulder I pulled on the other ribbon, opened the book to the next marked page and read the very short quote from Lao Tzu softly into her ear, "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone gives you courage."

I kissed her cheek and then knelt down beside her. As she realised what I was doing, she took a breath and I could see she was trying to calm herself down. I smiled a nervous smile.

"You have given me your love, my Isabella. You've also given me the courage to love and to be loved.

"I had given up on ever finding a love like my father had for mother, like Carlisle has for Esme, like Aro has for Sulpicia or like Marcus had for Didyme. But I found you. I waited so long for you.

"You are my heart, you are my future, you are my forever. You are my sweet one, my love, my Isabella… please… please… say that you will now also be my wife."

She looked down to my outstretched hand, to the diamond ring lying in my open palm.

"My father gave this ring to my mother. It was designed by Harry Winston as part of his Belle collection." I looked up into her beautiful face to see her surprised look.

She still hadn't spoken, so I took her left hand in mine and slid the ring along her ring finger stopping when I reached the first knuckle. I looked back up into her soulful, tear filled eyes.

"We are so connected, my love. You were meant just for me and I was meant for you. Please say that you will be mine, that I can be yours, that you will be my wife. Please say yes. Please say you will be Mrs Edward Anthony Masen Cullen."

She let out a shaky, emotion filled breath and smiled the most amazing smile I have ever seen. She slowly, gently and silently nodded her head. I slid the ring all the way on to her finger, reached down and kissed it. I stood up grabbing her with me as I stood, pulling her tight to my body and gave her the deepest most passionate kiss of her life. I kissed the hell out of my fiancé. Damn. I was engaged….to be married.

I looked into her happy face, "Sweet one. Just for me, say it, say it out loud… let me hear you say that you will be mine. Please?"

She laughed. "Yes." Kiss. "Yes." Kiss. "Yes." Kiss. "Yes." Kiss. "Yes." Kiss. She kissed all over my face and I was laughing too.

I looked down to see Lil Bit wriggling to get out of her chair, clapping and laughing. "Momma, Eh-wed is or pwince and oo his pwincess."

Bella unclipped the straps holding Lil Bit on to her chair and lifted her up.

Lil Bit sang out, "Upseee, daiseee petal." I held them both in my arms and closed my eyes to offer a silent prayer to any power that was listening. Thanking them for sending me my beautiful girls and promising to care for them always.

I pulled back and reached over to the end of the table to get the last two parcels. "I have some presents for you too, Elizabeth."

"Yay, Lil Bit pwesents."

Bella sat down with Lil Bit in her arms and I sat next to them, handing Lil Bit the first gift. She tore off the gift-wrapping just the way Bella did, to find a book called, "Daddy Loves His Little Girl." by John Carter Cash. There was a long white ribbon marking one of the pages.

"I has a speshal book with a wibbon too, momma."

I reached out my arms and Bella passed Lil Bit over to me. We opened the book to the page marked with a long white satin ribbon. I read the words on the page:

"Daddy loves his little girl,

deep as the ocean blue.

Wide as the mighty river,

forever I love you."

She smiled and I looked down to her handing her the second present which was a little blue Tiffany jewelry box. Bella gasped and Lil Bit shouted and clapped. She took the box and I helped her open it. Inside was a platinum necklace with a miniature diamond ring hooked onto it.

"I love you with my whole heart Elizabeth, my little love. Deep as the ocean blue, wide as the mighty river, forever I will love you. I hope you'll let me be your daddy so I can take care of you when you are sick and play with you when you are well. So I can share every day with you and protect you always. Will you Lil Bit? Will you say yes? Will you be my little girl and let me be your daddy."

Lil Bit smiled up to me while tears were streaming down Bella's cheeks. "Wes, Eh-wed… oo be I daddee."

I kissed her cheek. "Thank you little love. Thank you."

I placed the necklace around her neck, locking the little clasp as well as the safety clasp. She played with the ring with her tiny fingers.

"I mawwy oo, just like momma."

Bella laughed and I cried with pure joy.

I don't think I have ever been so happy in my whole life. I sat and read the book to Lil Bit while Bella played with my hair wiggling the fingers on her left hand every chance she could so she could see her ring sparkle. The ring fitted perfectly and suited her so well.

When we finished the book, I looked over to Bella. "Shall we call the family and our friends to tell them our good news?"

"Oh, yes. They can all come over here to eat. I can cook … "

She stopped suddenly and had her hand over her mouth. She was looking a little green. "Bella, are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

She didn't look fine.

"No, really I am perfectly fine. I was thinking of what I could cook for everyone… oh, dear."

Bella clasped her hand over her mouth while she sprinted to the guest bathroom, which was the closest. I stood Lil Bit up and ran after Bella.

"Are you okay, love?"

Stupid fucking question, Cullen. I could hear her violently throwing up before I even reached the bathroom. Yup. I think we have a little someone on the way.

I reached over and grabbed her hair to hold it out of the way while she puked up her breakfast straight into the toilet bowl. We stood there like that for a while as I stroked her back gently.

"Momma sick, daddy?"

Oh my god. Was it wrong that I reached a new level of happiness in just that moment. Probably.

"Yes and No, Lil Bit. Momma will be okay, we just need to help her for a little while, okay?"

"O-kay, I help."

"Good girl. You sit there in the hall and look at your new book while I take care of momma."

Bella vomited again and then stood up. I looked at her giving her a shrug of my shoulders and a guilty smile.

"I need to brush my teeth," she said as she moved past me and went over to the basin.

"And take a pregnancy test… " I muttered.

A/N: Not quite the visitor you were expecting? expecting… LOL. So did you like the proposal? I thought it was perfect for these two - they're not the showy, big display kind of couple. And Lil Bit is marrying Edward too. I'd love to hear your thoughts.. oh and there is another visitor … next time.

A few people have suggested I start a facebook page for the story - what do you think? good idea?

Three cheers for Stephanie Meyers for writing Twilight. Three cheers also for my beta gooseonline.

And three hundred cheers for my readers and reviewers.

I love y'all so much for supporting my story.

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Credits:

'The Paperbag Princess' (one of my daughter's and my favourite books) Written by: Robert Munsch; Illustrated by: Michael Martchenko; ISBN: 9781865049212; ISBN-10: 1865049212; Audience: Children; For Ages: 3+ years old; Format: Paperback; Language: English; Number Of Pages: 28; Published: 1st February 2006; Publisher: Scholastic Australia

'LOVE: Quotes and Passages from the Heart' Written by B.C. Aronson; ISBN: 0375722165; Publisher: Random House Reference (March 3, 2010); Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.; Language: English

'Daddy Loves His Little Girl' written by John Carter Cash (this is a delightful book). Illustrated by: Marc Burckhardt; ISBN: 9781416974826; ISBN-10: 1416974822; Audience: Children; For Ages: 3 - 6 years old; Format: Hardcover; Language: English; Number Of Pages: 32; Published: 27th April 2010; Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Songs on Edward's proposal playlist (i listened to these on repeat while writing the chapter)

'Truly, Madly, Deeply' performed by Savage Garden (JONES, DANIEL / HAYES, DARREN; Columbia Records)

'As' performed by George Michael with Mary J Blige (STEVIE WONDER; Epic)

'Feels like home to me' performed by Chantal Kreviazuk (Randy Newman; Randy Newman Music)