I split the proposal chapter into 2. This is part one and the other part will be up tomorrow, sorry to keep you guys waiting, enjoy :) xx

"I think you should ask her." Laurel told me, making me laugh to myself.

"She's never going to actually marry me. She might like the idea of it but I don't think she'd go through with it." I admit, my head sinking down to look at the floor.

"Of course she would. She's fallen head over heels for you, she loves you." I look up at Laurel, I know what she's saying is true but I can't help feeling nervous.

"Ask her tonight. There's no point in waiting, you'll only talk yourself into not doing it." Her words made so much sense to me but I still had my doubts. What if she didn't want to marry me? What if Laurel was wrong. I soon realise that battling with the thoughts in my head wasn't going to give me any answers. There was only one way to find out.

I'd been sat in the pub for a few hours, drinking my pint in a daydream. My trail of thought soon came to a end when I was interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Chas asked me as she took a seat next to me.

"Oh, hey sis." I say as she gave me a concerned look.

"You okay?" She wondered, obviously sensing something was bothering me.

"It's Harriet." I say, looking up at her.

"Why what's happened now?" She questions, thinking something had gone wrong.

"No nothing. Not yet anyways." I tell her, looking down at my half empty pint.

"Well what's going to happen then?" She asked, obviously confused.

"I'm going to ask Harriet to marry me." I admit, looking at chas to see her reaction.

"Really? I never thought you'd ever get married again." She says, clearly taken a back from my revelation.

"Yeah me neither. I just have no idea how to ask her." I was nervous and had no idea how to begin to ask Harriet to marry me.

"How do you feel about her?" She asked me, prompting me to confess my feelings.

"I love her. She means everything to me and I want her to be my wife. I want to spend the rest of my life with her." I looked up at chas to see her smiling at me. "What?" I ask her.

"Nothing. I just like seeing you happy, you need to just tell her how you feel." She tells me, as I smile at her, knowing she's right.

"I need your help first." I say, confusing her once again. "I need you to help me choose a ring" I tell her, moving closer to her for her to stand up.

"What right now?" She asks, grabbing her bag from behind the bar.

"There's no time like the present, I guess." I smile as we head out the door and get into my car.

We soon arrive at the ring shop just outside Hotten, I didn't want any chance of Harriet seeing us. I start to get nervous as we walk through the door, realising what I was about to do.

"You okay?" Chas asks me as she walks up to the engagement rings.

"Yeah, just nervous that's all." I say as I help chas to choose a ring.

"This was is perfect." She says picking up a cute little ring with a medium sized diamond on. It looked like it was made for Harriet.

"How much is that?" I ask her, not expecting it to be too much.

"£1200" she told me as I swallowed hard. That was expensive, but I knew she was worth it. I also knew what she might say if she found out how much it was so I would just have to make sure she never looked at the receipt.

"She's worth it" I tell her, fetching the ring to the counter.

"She's a lucky lady." She shop keeper told me as I smiled.

"I'm the lucky one." I replied, collecting the bag and heading for the exit.

"There's only one thing left to do now Cain." Chas told me as she smiled.

"Wish me luck." I say as we both get into the car as I prepare to ask this life changing question.