He smirked as Carlos barked at Shawn, telling him to not touch his baby until he put hand sanitizer on. Yuriel had suspected that Carlos would be a good dad and so far, he had been right. It seemed like the curse of the Salas name was finally broken.
And as that thought entered his head, his eyes instantly found Alison in the room. She was sitting in one of the two chairs next to the window, Rosita sitting in the other, and the two girls were leaning into one another, giggling and whispering, and as if she knew that he was looking at her, Alison moved her head to look at him. Her smile brightened the instant their eyes locked and she looked to Rosita, saying something, before she stood up and Yuriel watched her coming his way.
Without a word, she came to stand beside him, her arms slipping around his waist and, and he dropped his arm around her shoulders and she snuggled into his side. She smelled like a mixture of buttercream and gravy and he couldn't help but turn his head and nuzzle his nose into the hair at the top of her head, taking a whiff. Alison closed her eyes and smiled and snuggled even closer. He tightened his arm as if she was going to step away at any second and he didn't want her to go anywhere.
It had taken him a while – too damn long – but he knew now that without Alison, he hadn't had much of a life and now that he had her, he wasn't letting her go anywhere without him.
"Been doin' some thinkin'," he said, his nose still to her hair.
"Hmmm?" She tilted her head up slightly.
"'bout our first date…" he took a moment. "How 'bout we get your dad to watch Harvey and we get on my bike and just drive? See where we wind up."
Alison didn't say anything to that at first. She just tightened her arms around his waist and squeezed them around him. "I think that's the best thing I've ever heard," she said. She then tilted her head up to look at him. "Although it won't be our first date. I told you. I think this will be our eleventh."
Yuriel just smirked and shook his head a little, his nose going back to her hair. "Stubborn brat," he mumbled and she laughed softly.
"I love you, too," she then said in a soft whisper and he tightened his arm around her.
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The End.
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