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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[knife_bender]

"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.

[defenderofdesmoines]

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.

[knife_bender]

"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.

[defenderofdesmoines]

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.

[knife_bender]

"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."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"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.

[knife_bender]

"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."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"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."

[knife_bender]

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

[defenderofdesmoines]

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.

[knife_bender]

"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.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"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!)