I'm Not Giving Up On You [Tadashi Hamada X OC] [COMPLETED]

Aha! Moments

Tadashi's POV

Cherry and I lie on each other casually on my bed, reading (or secretly planning how to propose whilst hiding behind my robotics textbook) and listening to Hiro beat himself up over not instantly getting hit with an idea for his showcase. We both know how he feels: this part of entering SFIT was the hardest.

We finally put down our books and grin at each other as we hear him hitting his head against the desk saying, "Nothing! No ideas! Useless, empty brain!"
"Wow," Cherry comments from where her head is lying on my lap, "washed up at 14. So sad."

I stifle a laugh at my brother's expense and he throws himself back into his chair, complaining and looking alarmed at his situation. I register this and immediately push Cherry off me gently and rush to the chair as he's saying, "I got nothing! I'm done! I'm never getting in!"

"Hey!" I insist firmly as I push the chair to meet me, "I'm not giving up on you."

I pull Hiro off the chair and throw him into the air, catching his legs and pulling them over my shoulders as Cherry laughs from my bed. My brother protests, yelling from behind me, "Ahh, what are you doing?!"

"Shake things up!" I shout over his shouting and Cherry's unnatained magical laughter, "Use that big brain of yours to think yourself out! Look for a new angle!" I give him the same advice Cherry gave me when working on Baymax, and Cherry snorts in glee then immediately covers her mouth. I stop jumping about with Hiro and let him hang on my back as I face my girlfriend who just made one of the funniest noises that ever came out of her mouth.

She widens her eyes as I narrow mine.
"I didn't do that-"
"You so did," I interrupt with a cheeky smile on my face - and I'm interrupted by Hiro wriggling on my back.
I look over my shoulder. "What are you doing?"

I put him down and he rushes over to his bot and picks it up, holding up parts of it to the light with an interesting look on his face.
Cherry gets up off the bed and walks to cuddle me where I'm standing watching Hiro get his idea.

We both watch him run with his robot down the stairs, exchange excited looks, then run after him ourselves holding hands.

We pass Aunt Cass serving in the cafe, who tries to ask us something before we disappear out the shop door and after Hiro into the garage.

My brother sets down the bot, sits at the desk with the holographic touchpad screen and begins to graph and plan furiously.
I go to ask him what he's doing, but am stopped by Cherry's hand on my shoulder. She whispers into my ear, "Don't distract him - he might be onto something good," and I take one last fleeting look at my little brother growing up and designing plans for a huge invention, sigh at how grown up he's getting, and let Cherry pull me out of the garage back into the Lucky Cat.

Aunt Cass jogs up to us at the door and asks, "What's gotten into you lot? Where's Hiro?"
I reply proudly, "He's in the garage working on his showcase invention," and her mouth smiles widely.
"Oh, yes! I would hug you both right now but I'm carrying a customer's coffee. By the way, if you two are free, could you help me out? The cafe's full to bursting - even more than usual on a Sunday!"

We nod and get extra aprons from the back, and Cherry gets straight to the counter and notes orders down in a flash.

And in that moment, I get my own flash:
What if, on the night of the showcase, when we're out celebrating Hiro getting in, then I propose?

I glance at her giving me notes of what foods to get with her expression set in perfected Customer Face. That would be perfect. More than perfect, because everyone would be there and there would be more stuff to celebrate. Imagine, Hiro getting into SFIT and Cherry and I getting engaged on the same day!

I slice pavlova and brownies with a splitting grin on my face, finally forming a coherent plan as to how I'm going to propose to the love of my life.

But will I be able to keep my burning question in me for almost a week?