MHA # 2 | Saturday Afternoon

[knife_bender]

After work Diego had rushed home to enact his plan. He had promised (or warned?) Annie, that the only thing stopping him from buying an engagement ring was that he needed to deal with the whole lost siblings thing first. Well, they have now been found and Diego was wasting no time. He had taken Klaus and Allison out to Baltimore that very week and bought a ring.

Along with about ten empty ring boxes. Because he was going to have fun with this. Allison thought it was a bad idea but what did she know, she was divorced and her second husband was 60 years in the past.

[For the girl!]

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[defenderofdesmoines]

"I don't want to get turned around," Annie replied. She also wrote a descending column labeling each of the rooms in the apartment (though you know what she didn't include? Closets and bathrooms, and she was gonna come to regret that when she noticed.) "And see this way I can cross off each room once I clear it."

This was all starting out with the best organized intentions and was going to end with everything they own on the floor and Annie climbing shelves.

[knife_bender]

"I love it. Love everything about it," he said, just so thrilled about this. "I wouldn't be this organized."

He would have already torn the place to shreds by now.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Well, that's just making me want to hide something important for you to find, one day," Annie decided with a bright, if slightly nervous smile as she recapped her marker. "I'm going to start in our bedroom, I think. 'Cause it's the most romantic room, if you're curious about my thought process."

It was not a deep one, in this case.

"I would start in here," she added, "but I don't see you hiding my ring in the guest room that until minutes ago mostly was the time math board room."

[knife_bender]

"Solid logic," he said with a thoughtful nod. "You're going to find it in no time."

Yeah, it wasn't in the bedroom.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Ooh, I thought we said no hints," Annie teased, unable to resist snagging a kiss on the way to the bedroom.

Maybe she'd be able to focus better if she could stop getting distracted and kissing him? But then again, considering the task at hand, asking her to lay off the affection and really buckle down seemed both impossible and kind of not the point.