[He's a little tempered by the gesture, but he's still kind of bothered in a way that he can't put into words. He tucks a hand behind his head and looks idly off into a random direction while she contacts her coworkers.
Unfortunately, he's not aware of how attractive his pouty face is.]
[She opens her phone quickly and blocks his phone number, his email on all of her mail apps, and then she sends a mass text before powering her phone off. No more of this bullshit, she's making up for lost time with Boxer and that's all that matters right now.]
Come on handsome, tell me how I can make it up to you.
[Her phone is pushed onto his coffee table, out of sight and out of her mind, before she drapes over him.] Because I was thinking a massage, to start with, and then dinner, and then this weekend, if it's okay with the guys at work, we could run off on a little weekend getaway. Four days of you, me, and a waterfront bed and breakfast.
[She needed to get away from all of this just as much as she needed to focus her entire being on her fiancee, and the life they were going to have in the very near future.]
Just ignore that it's also a beautiful place to get married and I wanted you to look at it.
[Boxer moves his other hand to rub at his face. In order to take the weekend off, he's gotta give ample heads-up...is there enough time for that? Four days...maybe not. He'll have to see.]
I'm willing to accept massage and dinner as a make-up, but I'd rather a weekend getaway is for wedding venue spotting only.
[Vacation is too much for an apology. If there was ever that big of an apology needed, it's probably more time for a talk than time for a getaway.]
[She tilts her head down to kiss at his collarbone, and dots a few extras to his broad shoulders and neck.] I think you're gonna love the place, though. It's right be the water and beautiful, big enough to host my obnoxious family and more.
[Since they're talking about the wedding and all that:] And since I've brought them up ... Would you be okay if we kept it a little small and private?
[Yeah, she really could have set that up a bit better, oops!]
That's what I mean, though! I want the people that I know to be there. The rest of them want to come because it's a party and I'm the last grandchild to get married, but the more I think about it the more that feels like bullshit.
[It would take their guest list from over one hundred people on her side down to about the mid-thirties, which is a vast improvement and still leaves more room for anyone Boxer might want to be there.]
It'll probably be better if we cap it at around three hundred people, total. Would that work?
[On top of her guaranteed thirty there's still coworkers that she likes enough to invite, Lena and some of her college friends ... So it's really just incredibly tricky crowd control, but she doesn't want to limit him in any sense.]
[For settling one of the many different variables they have to stabilize when it comes to their marriage, he gets a lil' kiss.]
Just one last thing - we kind of need a time frame. Or an actual day. A lot of places book in advance so we can look all we want, but it's impossible to do anything without that, so ...
[She's doing her best to not sound pushy about it, but there's an obvious, excited lilt to her voice. A date is important, that makes it incredibly real, it means that she might stop worrying that one of these days he'll just call it off and tell her he's not quite ready for it yet. But even nearly a year (?? A year sounds good) of being together Nariko still occasionally edits herself out of fear.]
I can't decide between Spring or Fall. If it's in the Spring we could have our honeymoon in Summer!
[And then they could have the orgy!] But if it's in Fall then I have the perfect day, and Christmas will be right around the corner.
[.... She's also kind of thinking it'd be nice to be knocked up around that general timeframe but even Nariko knows when to cool her jets a tad. The official starting of the family is still up in the air.]
[There's still a few things to figure out before then. Boxer stretches. He's not a model, he just woke up like this.]
Spring might be harder to plan for. That's when everyone else wants to get married, right? [He waves his hands as if to paint a picture.] If we got someplace with a view of trees in autumn, we could have a backdrop of color.
[Probably, yes. They still have separate apartments, after all, there's the honeymoon, getting used to being married, etc .... But she just wants to think about babies, she'll deal with reality in a far more logical manner.]
Mm. How about October, then? October 9th.
[He's got a point about the colors, and autumn colors are cooler than Spring ones!]
[They really are, and working out her job and what comes with maternity leave and how would that even work for Boxer ... It really will be a whole thing that needs working out, won't it? But at least it's still A Thing, and a real one at that. Everything else is just patience.]
Nine is my lucky number.
[That's a big part of it.] It might also still be a little warm then, too. [As opposed to farther into the month when it's far more likely to be fucking freezing.]
[And she's so grateful for that, as well as having an actual date. .... Would it be lame to get married on Halloween, though? That'd be kind of cool. But it might also be cold as hell.]
Everything else will fall into place.
[It won't, of course, there's a lot of planning that goes into weddings but this is a good and reasonable start!]
[And yet she's giggling right along with him! It tapers quite naturally and the quiet moment that follows is a little heavy, she doesn't look up at him but it does need to be said.]
... I'll look into a restraining order tomorrow.
[It's painful to admit to because she hadn't wanted to worry Boxer, hadn't wanted to think it could grow into such a problem but there's probably something upward of a hundred missed calls on her phone by now. Trying to look at it from her fiancée's perspective for a moment tells her how utterly nuts it all is.]
I told him to leave me alone when he tried to get into my apartment.
[She could have been accused of not being clear enough in the very beginning but hollering that she'd kill him if he ever tried to break in ever again was pretty straightforward, right?]
[Communication is important ok. Just because the two of them have it in spades doesn't mean everyone else is up to speed.
It might not mean anything when she says that she'll kill him because some people make those kinds of threats all the time--but he's never seen Nariko be like that, so he assumes she's not one to make light threats.]
[Considering that she's experienced enough physical violence to last her a lifetime she doesn't make those sorts of threats lightly by any measurement. And Christian damn well knew it, too.]
I thought about that, too! But the other places I was looking at all have wait lists. I wouldn't be able to move for a month, minimum.
sorry about the long tag waits...been trying to get jerb
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[He's a little tempered by the gesture, but he's still kind of bothered in a way that he can't put into words. He tucks a hand behind his head and looks idly off into a random direction while she contacts her coworkers.
Unfortunately, he's not aware of how attractive his pouty face is.]
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Come on handsome, tell me how I can make it up to you.
[Her phone is pushed onto his coffee table, out of sight and out of her mind, before she drapes over him.] Because I was thinking a massage, to start with, and then dinner, and then this weekend, if it's okay with the guys at work, we could run off on a little weekend getaway. Four days of you, me, and a waterfront bed and breakfast.
[She needed to get away from all of this just as much as she needed to focus her entire being on her fiancee, and the life they were going to have in the very near future.]
Just ignore that it's also a beautiful place to get married and I wanted you to look at it.
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[Boxer moves his other hand to rub at his face. In order to take the weekend off, he's gotta give ample heads-up...is there enough time for that? Four days...maybe not. He'll have to see.]
I'm willing to accept massage and dinner as a make-up, but I'd rather a weekend getaway is for wedding venue spotting only.
[Vacation is too much for an apology. If there was ever that big of an apology needed, it's probably more time for a talk than time for a getaway.]
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[She tilts her head down to kiss at his collarbone, and dots a few extras to his broad shoulders and neck.] I think you're gonna love the place, though. It's right be the water and beautiful, big enough to host my obnoxious family and more.
[Since they're talking about the wedding and all that:] And since I've brought them up ... Would you be okay if we kept it a little small and private?
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Getting mixed signals here. You want it to be small but you want to invite your family?
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That's what I mean, though! I want the people that I know to be there. The rest of them want to come because it's a party and I'm the last grandchild to get married, but the more I think about it the more that feels like bullshit.
[It would take their guest list from over one hundred people on her side down to about the mid-thirties, which is a vast improvement and still leaves more room for anyone Boxer might want to be there.]
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[He runs his hand down his lower face. He gets what she means and he can probably accurately guess the majority of those thirty-some people.]
How many can I invite, then?
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[On top of her guaranteed thirty there's still coworkers that she likes enough to invite, Lena and some of her college friends ... So it's really just incredibly tricky crowd control, but she doesn't want to limit him in any sense.]
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[By name, anyway. Which means those that he'll invite are even less.]
So...yeah. S'pose that works for me.
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[For settling one of the many different variables they have to stabilize when it comes to their marriage, he gets a lil' kiss.]
Just one last thing - we kind of need a time frame. Or an actual day. A lot of places book in advance so we can look all we want, but it's impossible to do anything without that, so ...
[She's doing her best to not sound pushy about it, but there's an obvious, excited lilt to her voice. A date is important, that makes it incredibly real, it means that she might stop worrying that one of these days he'll just call it off and tell her he's not quite ready for it yet. But even nearly a year (?? A year sounds good) of being together Nariko still occasionally edits herself out of fear.]
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[Man. How do you even pick? 365 days of the year and you gotta pick just the right one.]
Any preference on what time of year? Prefer it wouldn't be summer because I don't want the temptation to turn our wedding into an orgy.
[...unless she wants to.]
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[And then they could have the orgy!] But if it's in Fall then I have the perfect day, and Christmas will be right around the corner.
[.... She's also kind of thinking it'd be nice to be knocked up around that general timeframe but even Nariko knows when to cool her jets a tad. The official starting of the family is still up in the air.]
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Spring might be harder to plan for. That's when everyone else wants to get married, right? [He waves his hands as if to paint a picture.] If we got someplace with a view of trees in autumn, we could have a backdrop of color.
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Mm. How about October, then? October 9th.
[He's got a point about the colors, and autumn colors are cooler than Spring ones!]
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Why the ninth?
[He's not arguing, he's just curious.]
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Nine is my lucky number.
[That's a big part of it.] It might also still be a little warm then, too. [As opposed to farther into the month when it's far more likely to be fucking freezing.]
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[Remember this guy doesn't have a birthday so he's kind of in the mindset that dates have to have particular meanings to them.]
October 9th it'll be.
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[And she's so grateful for that, as well as having an actual date. .... Would it be lame to get married on Halloween, though? That'd be kind of cool. But it might also be cold as hell.]
Everything else will fall into place.
[It won't, of course, there's a lot of planning that goes into weddings but this is a good and reasonable start!]
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In case she doesn't get it:]
"Fall" into place.
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[Fall!] That's awful!
[And yet she's giggling right along with him! It tapers quite naturally and the quiet moment that follows is a little heavy, she doesn't look up at him but it does need to be said.]
... I'll look into a restraining order tomorrow.
[It's painful to admit to because she hadn't wanted to worry Boxer, hadn't wanted to think it could grow into such a problem but there's probably something upward of a hundred missed calls on her phone by now. Trying to look at it from her fiancée's perspective for a moment tells her how utterly nuts it all is.]
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[Has he really been that much of a pest? Should Boxer get involved?]
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[She could have been accused of not being clear enough in the very beginning but hollering that she'd kill him if he ever tried to break in ever again was pretty straightforward, right?]
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[Communication is important ok. Just because the two of them have it in spades doesn't mean everyone else is up to speed.
It might not mean anything when she says that she'll kill him because some people make those kinds of threats all the time--but he's never seen Nariko be like that, so he assumes she's not one to make light threats.]
Maybe it's time you moved out of there...
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I thought about that, too! But the other places I was looking at all have wait lists. I wouldn't be able to move for a month, minimum.
sorry about the long tag waits...been trying to get jerb
...Why don't you move in with me?
[Why would she bother getting a new place when they're getting ready to tie the knot??]
obtainment of the jerb is important, I understand friend I will cheer you on from here
this most recent attempt has been going well so far
Good!!!
we should have boxer run into chris when he comes over to help her pack
I was literally thinking the same thing, high fives
great minds, etc
tiiiime skip here if that's chill
never, ever chill
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