Pushing Daisies (Fanfic) [HOLD]

1. Hear Them Bells?

Some three years, eight months, seven weeks, nine days, two hours, and eleven mintues passed before the Pie Maker realized he was madly in love with a girl named Chuck. Her hair was ever so brown, the colour of chocolate, her eyes so transparent he feared he would become trapped in them should he stare too long.He knew he was in love with her many years earlier, when they were children, but it seemed that Ned wanted something more...something only they could have.

Meanwhile, Olive Snook, with all her heart to give and no one to give it to, watched on in a heartbroken silence as the Pie Maker got down on one knee and said the four magical words:

"Charlotte Charles," he began with a nervous laugh, "I mean Chuck, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?"

Perhaps four words was too few a number, but the message was clear. Chuck smiled a smile that neither of them had seen in years. It was the kind of smile she wore when she was a child, playing in the front yard with her father, before he, like Ned's mother, met his end in Couer de Couer that fateful day.

Chuck nods and Ned sets the timer on his watch. One minute.

"I'll make it a good kiss!" he exclaimed, pouting a little.

She laughed, pulling him close. "You better,"

They kissed for what seemed like forever, but all too soon their moment would be over, and they would have to return to the life they knew: the life that denied them the simple pleasure of affection.

And so, a girl named Chuck and a Pie Maker named Ned were about to set off on a new journey together, one that would require countless timer alarms set to one minute and not a second more. Neither Ned nor Chuck would mind the hassle of the everyday reminder, because all they wanted since the day they were children, was to be together.