75 Godiva St | Afternoon

[defenderofdesmoines]

You know that stage of moving where your major furniture is all set up, and you can technically live in your home, and you're considering maybe just that your life is cardboard boxes forever, and maybe they're actually sort of cute? Cardboardcore. Start a new trend.

Anyway.

"What should we actually do with all of these boxes when we're done?" Annie wondered, opening up yet another box of books. For such card-carrying members of Team Himbo, they had, like, way too many of these. Kindles for everyone before the next move. "Make a fort in the backyard?"

Aww. They had a backyard now.

[for the husband!]

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"That bit of it was annoying," Diego admitted, tossing the clip back in the box. "Can we just say you win? This is already more than I want to do today."

They were going to be lucky if the house was unpacked by the time the twins came.

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"I think we can sleep in here the way it is," Annie decided after a moment's consideration, dropping a throw pillow back into the box she was unpacking since she didn't know where cute things like that would go yet. "We'll just have to chip away at it."

She kicked her box to the side lightly, crossing over to wrap her arms around Diego again. "Like how you eat an elephant, you know?"

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"Is that a saying or did you pull that out of your ass?" Diego asked, putting his arms around her in return. It was kind of cute that there was a little bump separating them now.

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"It's a saying," Annie replied, rolling her eyes at him and similarly still tracking the novelty of her teeny little bump closing the distance between them a bit earlier than she was used to.

Again: this summer was going to be a revelation for Annie, considering how fun her itty, bitty first-trimester bump was.

"You eat an elephant one bite at a time," she explained as she reached up to smooth a hand over his hair. "Same way we'll unpack these boxes: one at a time."

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"I like that plan," he said, leaning in for a kiss. "Until we realize we packed something we need."

But that could turn into a fun game in itself.

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Annie leaned up into the kiss with a soft, happy sigh. "Well, that's when we rematch."

Just unpack this house in a series of insane box-unloading races.

"Or we get a new one." That option was also looking more and more appealing by the hour.

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"Then we'll have more stuff to put away," Diego said with a grin. "I think the problem is we have too much stuff."

God, and they haven't even started buying two of every baby thing they needed.

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And that was, honestly, the biggest reason Annie was irritated her mom kept buying things in pinks and blues. Shareable neutrals, Donna!

"I think we have just enough stuff," Annie countered, raising her eyebrows, "but you also might have a point. Maybe some of this unpacking is also a little...downsizing. 'Cause, like. We're super not done buying stuff, Diego."

And baby stuff -- weirdly! -- was both pretty bulky, and also legion.

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"Oh, I know it." He didn't even know what some of the stuff they apparently needed did, Annie. "And two of it because I know we're going to be teaching sharing is caring, babe, but it doesn't work with siblings."

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"Maybe it will if we try to teach it to them at a young age?" Annie, the only child, suggested like an idiot. "And maybe it's different with twins! Maybe they'll love sharing."

No. But Annie and Diego probably had weird twin language or unspoken conversations taking place in front of them to look forward to.

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"We can try our very best," Diego said, in a tone that clearly expressed his views on how well that would go. "Maybe we won't have our own personal WWE going on when they're older."

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"Or maybe," Annie suggested, eyes going wide, "they'll just team up. 'The Hargreeves Twins' is a perfect tag team name. Coming to WrestleMania, like, 2045."

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"Oh my god I would be the greatest manager." He could have a punny name like Paul Bearor.

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Legacy was a huge thing in wrestling lately, too! Everyone was getting their parents and/or children involved in this.

"You would." Annie would stay away from anything too managerial regarding their kids, for fear of accidentally becoming her own mother, but she could agree with that. "We just need to make sure they don't, like, become high flyers at a young age."

Otherwise Annie saw few problems with this.

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"Oh yeah, definitely," he said with a nod. "That's gonna be so sweet. We should also make a American Ninja Warrior course for them in the backyard."

"...a child one, I mean." But man it would be cool to get a real one for himself and Annie.

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"Maybe a kiddie course and something bigger?" Annie tried, obviously intrigued by this idea. "I mean, for after they're born. I'd stay off it until like December, promise."

Yeah, 'cause nothing says 'I just gave birth to twins' like wanting to tackle an obstacle course a month later, Annie.

(She'd probably be up for it realistically by next summer, though!)