24 Day 'till Christmas [One Shot Collection]

Day 9: Box In A Box In A Box

Ship: Djwifi

Word Count: 2.034

Summary: It was their seventh Christmas together. They always celebrate it by buying each other gifts. Alya had been pretty curious about what was in the biggest present, however when she kept getting smaller boxes out of the present she started to get more and more annoyed.

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I'm sorry in advance if there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes in the text. I did my best to make as less mistakes as I could. Since English isn't my first language, I might have not noticed some of them.

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Nino was passing through the living room. Today was the day, the day he would ask his girlfriend he moved in with seven years ago to marry him. He had bought the most beautiful engagement ring he could find and he hoped Alya would think so too. The ring was put in a black box, which he had put in a slightly bigger decorative box, which was put in another slightly bigger decorative box and so on until the box was a little bigger than a shoebox.

He wanted to surprise her, but he went a bit overboard with putting it in boxes. It was probably because of his nerves, the more boxes he used, the longer it would take her to find the ring, the more time he would have to prepare himself on asking the question.

He was still Passing around the room when his phone went off. He took it out of his pocket as quick as he could, causing it to fly up into the air. Fortunately he caught it and answered the call before it would go to his voicemail.

"Hello?" he said, the nervousness clearly in his voice.
"Hi Nino, how are you doing? Hope you're not dying of the nerves." Adrien said with a chuckle.
"Me dying of the nerves? I already died the moment Alya left the house with Marinette to go shopping."
"Nino, try to relax a bit. Marinette will keep her with her as long as she can so you can get mentally ready for asking her the big question."
"Relax? Dude I don't even know how I can do that. The time is passing so fast and I feel like freaking out! Are you sure you can't come over..."
"Sorry I can't... I have to look after the kids."
"Can't you bring them to their grandparents?"
"That's not possible. Tom and Sabine are in China for the holidays and my Father is in Milan for a business trip."
"What about Nathalie?"
"She's my father's assistant, so obviously she's with him in Milan."
"Just take the kids with you to my place... I need my bro for mental support or else I'll be really dead before I even got the chance to ask her to marry me."

Adrien let out a sigh before he responds to his over dramatic freak out session.

"Fine, I will take the kids with me. But seriously, there is no reason to be so over dramatic..."
"Thank you so much. What time will you be here?" Nino asked, deciding to ignore the fact Adrien though he was being over dramatic.
"I'll be there in fifteen minutes."
"See you then."

Fifteen minutes later the doorbell rang. Nino rushed to open the door as soon as he could, revealing Adrien who stood there with little Louis in his arms, a giant bright green flower printed mom bag over his shoulder and his left hand held Emma's right hand. Hugo stood in front of him and held a small red bag with some of his toys.

"Uncle Nino." Hugo shouted in excitement and hugged Nino's legs.
"Hi, little Dude." Nino greeted back and picked Hugo up.
"Where is Aunty Alya?" Emma asked. Normally it was Alya who would be there at the door as well.
"She's shopping with mommy." Adrien said to his daughter, who was pouting because her favorite aunt wasn't there.

Hugo really had taken a liking in Nino, while Emma really like Alya a lot. Little Louis was still too young to pick a favorite of their friends, he was sleeping most of the time anyways.