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Chapter 18

Propose? It had been like 2-3 weeks. Would Charlie say yes? I do want to marry her. I just don't want to scare her. I would make this proposal special.

(A/N From now on just pretend that the conversations between Ty or Bella and their parents are in Italian. I will be putting in some text that will say if they are speaking italian with Charlie around.)

'Tyler, I know that you want to make this proposal special.' I nodded, the thought of proposing had been on my mind for the past week. Charlie could tell something was up, I just told that work had been stressing me out. 'So I have decided to help you out. I would never put this on you if I didn't believe that you could do it. When I proposed to you mother, I had a short and simple speech for her. I believe that you can do that yourself. Either write it beforehand or just let your heart speak in the moment.'

'I'm thinking a mixture of the two.'

'Perfect.'

My father excused me from the rest of my meetings of the day. He knew that I needed to process and prepare for the proposal. I made the plans, just had to made sure they were executed. The speech was an outline. I knew what I had wanted to say, I wanted to speech from my heart about the love I feel for my beautiful amore.

I felt kisses on the back of my neck. I turned and grabbed the person attacking me. There was a giggle/scream in response.

'Hey, I thought you were helping Bella this afternoon.' She smiled and gave me a kiss.

'Your mother told me you had a break so I ran right up here. I love you. I never get to see you. I value every moment I have with you.' She started happy then finished with sad. My mind only hoped that she would say yes to the proposal. Over the past week and a half, I had only seen her once or twice a day.

Charlie walked towards me as I opened my arms. She took a couple more steps before falling into my arms. I sat down and just let her curl up in my lap and sob into my chest.

'Il mio amore. I love you. You know that I would spend all the time in the world with you. I hate this to. But we will continue to value this time until we have some time off. While we are back in Illea, we will spend all the time we can together.' She nodded and leaned up to kiss me, I savored her sweet lips. I pulled back.

'Did you know I haven't had a great night's sleep since my parents separated us during the night?'

'Yeah, you have more prominent bags under your eyes and I have been the same way.' Charlie gave a light laugh.

'Now I would never know, because you look more beautiful than ever.' She gave out another laugh. 'I love you' I whispered as I closed my eyes, felt Charlie's breathing even out, then mine.

The light peeked through the windows of my office. I smiled.

'Looks like we finally got some sleep. Ty, I love you. You are the person that keeps me in check.'

'Viceversa il mio amore. I am going to be in trouble for skipping work for the afternoon and night and falling asleep on the couch in my office.' Charlie brushed her lips against mine.

'I think that they will just be happy that we finally got some sleep.' We both chuckled at that. I grabbed her hand. 'Come on we need some food, and after breakfast you need to pack. We are leaving tomorrow morning.' A hand went through my hair.

'We need to get looking presentable. Your bed head isn't going to make you look princely.' Another laugh escaped my mouth. I turned Charlie to look towards me. I kissed the beautiful girl in front of me.

'You don't have to get ready if you don't want to, you are already beautiful.' Her hand pushed against my chest to playfully push me away. My hand grabbed hers and I kissed it.

'Let us go face the wrath of my parents.'

We got ready and made our way downstairs. Knowing we were late, we ran down the halls. Once we got there we explained our selves, my father asked(in italian),

'Have you done it yet?' I shook my head. Charlie had question on her face. 'There is an assignment that I have to get to my dad by noon.' She nodded, understanding. I knew I needed to change the subject,

'So Bella, did you get your Christmas List to Santa?' She nodded enthusiastically.

'Yep, I made sure to tell him that we would be with Eli and his family. I want him to be able to find me. There wasn't much on the list. I just asked for stuff that I would like. Mom and Dad give me enough. I was talking to Mom and she said that we could have a day where we invite girls my age to spend a day with me.' Mom nodded along as Bella told us this. She never got to spend time with many girls her age. This would be very special for her.

'That's great. Is it when we get back?'

'Yeah.' She paused to look to Charlie. 'Mom said that she will be busy when we get back. Could you help me organize the event?'

'I would love something to do around here.'

I just spent the day in my meetings. My maids packed my bags for the trip tomorrow. All I had to do was get up and get ready in the morning. Charlie just started the planning with event with Bella. She didn't have to pack much since she was going home. Even though soon this would be her home.

Around 11 at night, I decided to see if Charlie was still up. We had to get up early, but she has been having trouble sleeping lately.

I quietly opened the door and saw Charlie sitting on the couch watching TV. I snuck over and wrapped my head around to kiss me. Her hands went up to my cheeks.

I pulled back and jumped over the couch to let her snuggle into me.

'What are you still doing up?'

'Well, for starters, I was hoping to see the man I love.'

'And who might that be?' I was sure that both of us were aware of the grin on my face. 'Charlie, il mio amore, have you been cheating on me?' I tried to pout without a grin coming through.

'Oh Ty, I'm sorry but I love this man too much. He is strong, loving and I couldn't imagine life without him. He keeps me safe and I will always love him for that.' As she said this, Charlie slowly climbed into my lap. My hand settled on her hips. Gosh, I love this girl. 'This man also gives me the best kisses.' I obviously took this as my cue to place my lips on hers.

'Now as much as I would like to find out who is taking il mio amore from me. We have to get to sleep. We have an early morning to get back to Illea.' Charlie smiled at me, her eyes were sleepy.

'Of course.' I grabbed her hips as she put her legs around my waist. Charlie hung onto me like a monkey as I brought her to her bed. I started to put her down, she clung to me like her life depended on it.

'Charlie, we can't do this.' She shook her head.

'I know, but just tonight.' I put her down and just climbed in. Not caring that I was still in my clothes. All I cared about was being with Charlie. Hopefully for the rest of my life and til death do us part.

The next morning we boarded the plane and spent the entire day traveling. Once we got to Illea, we barely said hello before falling asleep. When we went to breakfast the next morning, the only Selected left was Val. Charlie was elighted. Matt and Val stood up holding hands.

'We have an announcement.' They smiled at each other and left the rest of us in wonder.

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~cari