Fan Fiction |
by Sensitivegal
Chapter Forty-Six ‘Will You Marry Me?’
‘So…? What will it be?’ Edison said after couple of minutes of silence.
‘Wow,’ she began. Taking in huge breaths. She was over the shock and loving the idea. ‘This is a huge step, you know?’
‘If we both love each other then there is nothing wrong,’ he wisely responded. She assumed that he did give a lot of thought to answer in confident. ‘So can I get the answer?’
‘Well…’ she thought of playing with him for a while. ‘Since you are still in Canada you’ll have to wait for the answer. I want to say it face to face.’
‘If you say so, just one more thing did you looked for the ring, yet?’
‘No,’ she said, frowning. Where was she meant to look for it?
As if reading her mind he said, ‘its on the bouquet of red roses.’
She then found her answer at the plastic roses. Opening the boxes carefully she found no ring. She put one had on her hip and the other scratching her forehead. Did she lose it?
‘Looking for this?’ she heard his voice. The ring was in front of her with Edison holding it. Instead of taking the ring she jumped on him for a big hug. It nearly made him lose his balance but he stepped back before they fell.
‘Charlene Choi Reeves will you marry me?’ he said close to her ears.
‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’ she shouted deafening him.
Everyone around them clapped and cheered. The guys whistled. The girls dreamily sighed. Charlene and Edison then escaped into the elevator. They didn’t want to kiss in front of those guys. He stole a kiss from her.
‘Oi,’ she giggled. ‘Don’t I get the ring?’ she pouted.
He quickly searched for the ring he placed on his shirt pocket. He held it out. She shook her head not taking it. She held her right hand out for him to slip it on. ‘I bet you want me to go on my knees and put it on,’ he muttered.
‘Hey, you offered,’ she shrugged her shoulder. Edison cursed. Then apologized. ‘You won’t go on your knees for me,’ she pouted. She was going to cry.
‘No!’ he quickly rushed the word out. He bent down on one knee and looked into her eyes. ‘I love you and I will do anything for you. May I take your hand in marriage?’
Charlene covered her mouth with one hand and cried. She was so happy that he was being romantic just for her. She nodded her head. He took the answer and slid on the big diamond ring. She held it out in admiration. ‘Thank you,’ she whispered. He got up just in time the elevator doors opened. They got out and walked to her office hand in hand.
‘Char,’ Vanness stood up. He saw that she was in a happy mood but then he saw the tears. ‘Are you crying?’ he asked in concern.
‘Yes,’ she responded. She held out her hand proudly. ‘I’m engaged.’ Her water works started again.
‘Char, let’s go inside,’ Edison suggested. He didn’t like the fact that Charlene kept crying for little things. His heart would always break into pieces when just one teardrop fell. Inside he said, ‘if this makes you cry then I think we shouldn’t get married.’
‘No!’ she said mortified. ‘How could you say that?’ she cried.
‘I don’t want you to cry,’ he tried to reason with her. ‘When you cry my heart breaks into little tiny pieces and it hurts too much.’
She tried to hold her tears in but it failed miserably. He clasped his hands together and sighed. He gave her see-what-did-I-tell-you look. ‘But I can’t help it!’ she wailed. ‘You are being so romantic that I’m so happy!’
‘So you crying because you’re happy?’ he concluded. She nodded furiously, happy that he understands her. ‘And I have to go through the misery and see those tears come?’
She stopped nodding her head when he said that. ‘No, I don’t want to see you in pain. I love you. Whatever pain you go though I will go through it as well.’
‘Just try to stop the tears okay?’ he said softly. She nodded. He stepped forward to her and takes hold of her back neck gently and tugged. He then took her lips in his and kissed meaningfully.
Minutes went pass and they were still in an embrace kissing but this time Edison was sitting on Charlene’s leather chair and she was sitting on his lap. She pulled back to catch her breath.
‘I guess that was original enough?’ his voice was a little shaky still trying to breath normally.
‘You know that!’ she laughed.
‘I love you,’ he all of a sudden brought up again just looking at her bright face when she laughs.
‘I love you too,’ she whispered, all serious.
‘I love you more,’ Edison played.
‘I love you more than more,’ she responded not knowing what else she could say.
‘Please, you can’t love me more that me,’ he laughed. ‘Coz I love you more than more than more.’
‘Whatever! That doesn’t even make sense, stupid!’
‘Well, you’re marrying this stupid,’ he reminded her.
‘Oh what a horror,’ she cried out. She did a little acting for the affect. ‘I am marrying a stupid man. What have I done to deserve such torture?’
He chuckled. ‘And the stupid man marries the best actress of the year Charlene Choi!’ he pretended that he was announcing it.
After playing with each other Charlene asked seriously, ‘how did you get the idea? I never seen or heard anyone propose that way?’
It took him a second to think of it. ‘I was, eh, dreaming about giving you flowers and every time I give it you would always kiss me.’ He smiled lost in his thought.
She punched him playfully. ‘Pervert!’
‘Wh-what?’ he snapped back to reality.
‘Omg! I’m marrying a pervert,’ she joked but with serious face.
‘I’m only pervert with you,’ he replied cheekily, grinning widely.
‘Eww,’ she smacked him playfully again. ‘What do you dream of?’
‘What I dream of is me to know, and you to know when we’re in our honeymoon,’ he teased.
Her face was all red. She shyly looked away. ‘Stop,’ she pleaded.
‘How does a groom feel when he has a virgin bride?’ he asked more to himself and to her to taunt her. ‘I think the groom would feel the luckiest man alive coz she will be his bride’s one and only,’ he answered his own question.
She screwed her face. ‘How does a bride feel when she has a groom whose first love was her?’ she thought for a while. ‘I think the bride would feel she is the luckiest woman alive coz he will be hers one and only.’ She stuck out her tongue at his shocked face.
‘Ah-hem,’ he cleared his voice pulling himself together. ‘Back to our conversation,’ he changed the subject. ‘Was it romantic enough?’
‘Yes,’ she said.
‘I wanted it to be original enough as you wanted,’ he explained. She stared at him in blank. ‘Remember that day when we were talking about how your uncle proposed to Jane?’
******************************Flash Back******************************
‘So, how did Chase propose to Jane?’ Sam asked.
‘I wanted to ask the same question,’ Charlene screeched.
Everyone looked at Carl to answer. He just shrugged his shoulder saying, ‘the usual way. Dinner and then tell.’
Charlene moaned. ‘The way you say it, it doesn’t sound romantic.’
‘Come on, how romantic do you want it?’ Carl asked.
She actually didn’t know. ‘I don’t know!’ she was still moaning. ‘All I know is that when it comes to me, I want someone to propose to me using romantic original method. Not ‘Dinner and then tell’’ Charlene mocked the last sentence.
‘Girl, keep dreaming!’ Clark called out.
‘You’ll never and I mean never find someone like that!’ Nicholas cut into the conversation.
‘Whatever! I’m just saying,’ Charlene defended herself.
***************************End Of Flash Back**************************
‘Aww, you still remember that?’ she cried.
‘Yeah I remember every single detail of how we met, every conversation we had,’ he leaned forward, lowering his voice, ‘and every kisses we shared.’
She blushed. ‘I don’t want to remember our first encounter,’ she avoided what he had said.
‘Why?’ he enquired.
‘Well, I didn’t like the way you looked at me when you saw me,’ she opposed.
‘How did I look at you?’
‘You just said you remember every single detail of how we met,’ she protested.
‘I do!’ he said, bewildered. ‘Okay, we did hit it off at first but I was attracted to your eyes and oh yeah your scream.’ She covered her face with his shirt. He tilted his head to look down at her. ‘Come on, your scream is one of a kind,’ he teased a little more.’
She shifted her face on his chest. ‘Stop picking on me or I won’t marry you,’ she threatened.
‘That’s not very nice. Threatening won’t get you nowhere, missy!’ he scolded her.
‘Yes, sir,’ all embarrassment gone, she lifted her head. ‘Enough, reminiscing! Lets plan our wedding,’ she ordered
‘Lets do better than that. Lets practice our kiss we have to share when the priest gives us permission. I want it to be better than my dreams.’ She raised an eyebrow mockingly. He just claimed her lips and thrust his tongue in her stopping her from protesting. He knew she wanted to start planning the wedding but they had time for that later.
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comments plz. just 2 let u guys know that afta this chap it will be with charlene and edison the mushy bit. nothin that i need ratin just them teasing each other. n oh yeah u'll luv da next lot of chaps u can count on it!
Luv Sensitivegal