Roadtrip Oneshots-Requests open

On lock

Hey guys! Thanks for commenting on the last chapter, I decided on Rack because I don't do them enough tbh. I'll make sure to do some of the ships there, if not all of them. If there's more you want to see, then keep commenting and I'll see them :)

I might have tried to type the title as 'On Lick' by accident 😂😂😂

So I had this idea on the bus and it was kinda really cute. So here we go!

I watch through the video Rye's mum put together for us. It was supposed to be a birthday present for me, but it just happened that Rye's mum had a lot more usable photos and videos than he probably did. He apparently didn't want to use the ones from the vlogs, and I took it by the blush when he gave it to me that he just wanted it to be more personal than that.

A few minutes into it, Rye comes in just as one video fades out and another one is coming in. He smiles at me and carefully lies beside me. I take his hand and again turn my focus to the video.

Younger Rye's sitting on a small bed with a baby in his arms. There's a loving look on his face, but he's clearly unsure of what he's doing. The video doesn't have much audio at the start, but there's a lot of emotion in it already. Letters fade in, then fade out of the screen: "Shaun & Rye."

I look to Rye beside me and smile fondly. He's blushing a little, as if he knows exactly what this is.

I turn back to it to see Rye taking a bottle and holding it to Shaun's mouth. The way he cradles the tiny body close to him reminds me of how he holds me at night sometimes when things are rough. The closeness, the happiness, the soft strength.

When Shaun pushes the bottle away with his little hands, Rye is able to create a sort of bed with his arms so that the boy can fall asleep. But instead, Shaun makes a face and tries to sit up. Rye seems to get the message that he wants to play.

I rest my head on Rye's chest.

The Rye on the screen laughs quietly and I melt at the sight of him tickling Shaun's little tummy. Shaun squirms and giggles and it makes Rye look really happy, his face glowing with affection. He starts to play one-handed peek-a-boo with his brother, both of them laughing.

When Shaun settles down, Rye leans down and kisses the top of his head. There's a fond look in his eyes, one that I've seen a thousand times before.

When the video cuts out, there's photos of little Rye, of when he was just born, to riding a bike, to embarrassing school photos. I laugh a little at him, with half of his teeth missing in one photo. In each one he's got on a grin that makes me chuckle, whether it's the wide kind of weird grin of a first grader or the one of him laughing as he gets older, presumably because his friends are making faces behind the camera. He told me of all of the things they'd done before.

Then it gets into photos of us. Cuddling at Christmas when I went to his house, photos that Rye must have gotten from the other boys, ones from the studio or just random walks on the beach.

"I did this part," Rye whispers, squeezing my hand. My heart clenches and I can't help but smile really wide. Like those little first grade photos.

The screen goes dark for a moment, then slowly gets brighter. The picture is an outline of our hands intertwined.

White words come up in the darker background.

I can't deny that you've got my heart
On lock

Then the picture changes to one of a ring held my two fingers. The words come up on the screen.

Marry me? It says. I immediately look up at Rye. He looks a little nervous, which is strange for him.

"Rye?" I ask timidly. Is this what he wants? Does he want to marry me?

"Y-you don't have to if you don't want to, I just thought that maybe I could put the offer out there just in case if you-"

"Yes, Rye."

He looks a little taken aback.

"You-you'll...you-" He stutters. I laugh and tackle him in a hug.

"Yes, I'll marry you," I whisper in his ear. He wraps his legs around mine and his arms pull me closer. I don't ever want to let go, don't ever want this moment to end.

He pulls apart after a minute and reaches over to my nightstand beside the bed.

"Rye?" I ask again. He just continue rummaging, down to the bottom.

He comes out with a ring, the shiny silver piece from the video. I can't stop smiling.

"Jack Richard Daniel Duff, my heart is forever yours. I love you so much." He slides the ring onto my finger and I laugh again. I can't believe this is happening.

"And I love you even more," I whisper. He smiles.

"You'll love me even more if you check the inside of the ring," he says.

I take it off and look at it.

Baby you know I'm yours

The next lyrics to the song in the video. My heart melts at it, then turns to a fiery feeling, loving Rye more than ever.

I know this marriage will last.

That's not exactly how I planned it-like I said I thought of it on the bus but it was just the image of little ten(ish) year old Rye holding a baby and just being really cute. I don't know. That would be adorable. Those videos of the boys with little kids-👌😍

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