Red (Ted Sweeran Romance)

17- Q is for Queen

"The stars must shine out for you," Ed smiles quietly, his eyes sparkling just like them.

"Not for me," I mumble. "For us."

His lips are against mine, gentle and tender, and my arms wrap around his neck as we share this moment in the dimness, only us in the quiet. The oy noise I can hear is the muffled rumble of the engine, and otherwise it's only silence, which is perfect.

The emotion I feel isn't joy, or passion, or even love. The emotion is a total mixture of them all, stirred up into one.

The emotion is red.

*

"Have you ever considered having children, Taylor?" Ed lies down his guitar on the floor of our tour bus and looks at me curiously, probably taking in my surprised expression. I wasn't upset by his question, just taken off guard. One minute he'd been playing me a song off his upcoming album, the next he was asking me a question that was completely out of the ordinary. I considered my reply for a moment as he smiled cheekily at me, noticing my surprise.

"Er... Well, yeah, I guess," I answer slowly. "I've always wanted to start a family with someone. I want to have two or three kids. Soon."

"I feel the same way," Ed agrees gently, taking my hand in his. He looks at me seriously- a look he doesn't give me very often at all. I immediately feel a sense of tension in the air. "And... I want to start a family with someone special. Someone I really, truly love. I've known you since June last year. Exactly thirteen months ago today, in fact."

"You worked that all out in your head?" I remark, astonished. Ed hates maths and it's really cute for him to be working out our little anniversaries. He nods proudly, grinning.

"We started dating four months ago," he continues. "But I've pretty much loved you since the day we met. Pardon my corniness," he adds as a blush tints his cheeks and I giggle gently. "I really do believe in love at first sight. We got back together last month; exactly thirty-nine days ago, in fact," Ed goes on, blushing. "And those days have been the best thirty-nine days of my life."

I don't suspect anything until it happens, and then my lungs forget what they're even supposed to do.

I watch in complete amazement as he kneels down on one knee, his entire face bright red, and digs his hand into his pocket as I cover my mouth with my hand.

"Is this really real?" I squeal, my breathing racing, my heart smashing against my ribcage so hard I could burst. Ed chuckles heartily and tugs a tiny velvet-coated purple box out of his pocket, grinning at me. Just the box is so silky and perfect that I could die.

My breath catches in my throat and my lungs take a break, leaving me motionlessly staring.

Ed slowly clicks the lid of the box open, revealing the most beautiful ring in all of history. The band of silver twinkles in the moonlight shining through the window; it's encrusted with tiny sparkling diamonds, their glimmer reflected off the glass, and on top of the band is a perfectly sized 13, dotted with bright scarlet rubies.

"Taylor Allison Swift," begins Ed, his eyes glistening with hope. "Will you marry me?"

That's it. I burst into tears, bending down and throwing my arms around his neck. Ed drops the ring and its box to the floor and stands up, laughing as he heaves me up off the ground. He swings me around and around until we are the only people on the planet, simply twirling through space and time. I am the queen when I'm with him.

He slows down and drops me back to the floor. As my feet touch the ground my lips crash into his, and fire burns in my heart as I kiss him. It's a kiss I've never felt before. It's more passionate, more wild, more reckless... more red.