December 3rd

Max was up-and-at-em by 12:30 today. That and the doctor said he was fine. So all three of us went into work today.

That, and Max looked kinda stressed out. He was arguing with someone on the phone earlier, then literally stepped out to "take a breather."

Right now it's around 7:45. I'm reading over the movements for the MyStreet Machinima. I told Jess I would help her out with the positioning with the manikins for the 'Romeo and Juliet' play video.

I felt a pair of arms wrap around me. "Watcha doin'?" Max asks, kissing my cheek.

"Reading over Jess' script." I say, putting a hand on his. "You feeling okay?"

"Yeah, why?"

"You were arguing with someone on the phone earlier. You didn't sound very pleasant after that either."

He rubbed his forehead. "Nah. It was my mom. She got mad when I told her that we were going to your mom's place for Christmas."

"Oh. Yeah my mom did the same thing to me the first year I went to my dad's when I moved out. She got over it two days later."

"Takes my mom a week."

"She'll still get over it."

"Mm-hm." He buried his face in my hair for some reason. "Did you buy the tickets yet?"

"No, I wanted to do it with you."

"You wanna go do it now?"

"Sure." I turn off the computer and we both move to the couch in the main part of the office. More like lounged on it. I laid on top of him and went into the Delta website.

Max scoffs slightly at the two round trip flights I chose. "What's with the layovers?"

"That's all we can afford, Max. A straight on flight goes all the way into $4,000."

His eyes widened. "How much are we at now?"

"$2,000."

"Yeah, that's good. We'll just have to remember our chargers."

I roll my eyes with a smile and fill out the information. "There. On December 18th, our butts have to be up at 10 PM to go to the airport. Our flight leaves at 12:40 AM on the 19th."

He groans. "Too early."

I sit up. "We can sleep on the plane."

He winces when I get up off his lap.

"Are you okay?"

"Whatever you just did really hurt my back just now."

He slowly sat up straight. "Holy crap."

"Why don't you go with Adam on his massage trip thing this weekend?"

"What?"

"Yeah. Alesa and I are gonna go get our nails done on Saturday and Adam and Ross are gonna go to that massage therapy place while we do our thing. Why don't you go with them? Make a day out of it."

He just shrugs. "If it's okay with Adam and Ross."

Adam was walking out of his office with his bag and his phone.

"Hey, Adam." I say.

"Wassup?" He looks up and walks over.

"Max was wondering if he could tag along with you guys on Saturday."

"Yeah, sure. That's fine with me." His phone vibrates. "Hey, I gotta go. Mason's being a punk for momma." He gives me a slight hug and rushes out.

"I'll have Alesa send me the details for you."

He just smirks. "Come on, ya fun-sized dork. I'm ready to go home."

He gets up slowly and we both walk out with our stuff.

December 9th

"Come on, Max! We're gonna be late!" I say standing next to the bathroom door. "Alesa says they're gonna be pulling up in 5 minutes."

"Why is it always him?" Ross asks from the living room.

"I don't know. It's not like you need to use that much hair gel, Max.

"Gimme a sec!"

I slipped into my boots and put my coat on.

Max came running out of the bathroom, clipping his necklace on and grabbing his winter jacket.

"Hey, Max, you seen my ring?" I ask.

He looked at me in a weird way. "Which one?"

"The one my dad sent me back with. My grandmother's promise ring."

"Uh... No." His face flushed.

I was about to question him further when we all heard a horn honk outside. It was Adam and Alesa.

"We'll talk about this later."

We all walked out and got in the car.

~TRAFFIC SUCKS AGAIN~

Max's POV

I seriously thought (Y/N) was gonna figure out that I took the ring. I forgot it was the promise ring, okay? I need it.

Adam, Ross and I got done early in the massage therapy outlet and we were doing some Christmas shopping while we waiting for the girls.

"Ross!" Someone shouted behind us. We turned around to see a girl with blonde hair in jeans, a teal winter coat and a New England Patriots beanie running up to him.

"Oh, hey Ash." Ross says. "How've you been?"

"I've been good." She says. "You missed lunch yesterday."

"I did?" He stared off blankly for a second. "Oh, shoot I did! I am so sorry."

She shrugs. "It's okay. We can reschedule."

"Aren't you the author of this X Reader?" A boy asks.

"SH." She shushed him, and returned hr attention to Ross. "I'll text you the next day I can go out. Sound good?"

"Sounds great." Ross just smiled.

She waved at us and ran off. "ANTONY! YOU JUST BROKE THE WALL!"

Adam and I looked at Ross. "Who was that?" Adam asked.

"Just a friend." Ross say shrugging.

We continued on. I didn't say much. And I think they noticed it.

"What's eating at you, man?" Adam asks, nudging my arm.

"Huh? Oh, nothing. Just... Thinking." I says, rubbing the ring in my pocket with my thumb

"He's thinking about (Y/N)." Ross says. "He flushes like that whenever he is."

"Everything okay with you two?" Adam asks.

"Everything's fine. Great, actually." I sigh. "If I tell you this, you have to promise not to tell (Y/N)."

They look at each other. "Sure." They say in unison.

I breathe out. "I'm kinda... Thinking about... Proposing."

😱😨WAIT WHAT?! 😮

Ooooooooooh! I know it's been two months of you two dating but SERIOUSLY.

HOLY CRAP. THIS OUGHT TO BE INTERESTING.

This Cherry Blossom tho 👉theoriginalmonkey👈