Priestly's apartment, Friday night

[lovemykilt]

So Priestly and Dinah, being untraditional in all of the things, hadn't actually gotten around to celebrating their one year anniversary on the actual day.

Or the day after the actual day.

Or the few weeks after the actual day.

Whatever, they weren't about that kind of thing. They were all about casual and cozy and just being awesome together. Still, there was nothing wrong with celebrating their casual, cozy, awesome togetherness lasting without major upset for more than a year, right?

Right.

Also, Tia and Mark were both planning to be out of the apartment for the night, and Priestly had gotten himself a fancy new toy he'd been wanting to try out. He gave Stevesie a treat ball to play with, tucked him away in the bedroom, parked Dinah at the kitchen island, and started setting up his mise.

"We should have music," he said. "Something to set the mood. Any ideas?"

[for her and the inevitable ooc peanut gallery, and likely to go SP at some point]

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[blondecanary]

Dinah's eyes got huge briefly, and then she started laughing. "Vegas, baby!" Ahahahah they would never find out that way!

[lovemykilt]

Well, that was better than her panicking and running away, which was how this conversation went in at least one of the versions in Priestly's head. "Only the finest Elvis impersonator may officiate."

[blondecanary]

Dinah snickered, and buried her face in his shoulder. "Not today, though. Right?" Right? Because if he was talking about today, there would be massive freaking out. Or, you know, next week.

[lovemykilt]

"You don't honestly think I'm the kind of person who would decide to throw you a surprise wedding, do you?"

[blondecanary]

Dinah pulled back and gave him a dubious look.

"Naaaah."

Although.

"Not without proposing for real, first." Which begged the question. "Was that-- was that a for-real question? About getting married? Sometime?"

[lovemykilt]

"No?" Dammit, take the question mark off that, dude. "I'm also not the kind of person who would just propose out of the blue without having at least discussed it casually first." He read the internet, he knew better! "So . . . that was me bringing it up casually first."

[blondecanary]

"Oh." Hunh. "Oh!" Um. Dinah paused, then scooped up a bite of ice cream and held it out to him on a spoon. "Gimme a sec here." This was not sudden, except for the way she still felt like she was waaaay not mature enough to ever get married. And it was them, so it was not ... dreamy-silly romantic, just fun-romantic, and...

"I ..am surprisingly, kinda, okay with this idea?" Her heart-rate was speeding up, and she felt a little panicky about being okay. "I mean." Wow, feelings. So many. She butted her head against his. "You jerk. I don't have any words yet."

[lovemykilt]

Priestly took the bite of ice cream and laughed at the head-butt. "Did I ask you for words? We can go back to making up an imaginary velvet Elvis wedding if you want."

[blondecanary]

"With me in the tux and you wearing the dress." See, that was a way more comfortable conversation! "I'm still wearing heels, though. And, I wanna go on the roller coaster after we say our vows." Giggles were starting to bubble up, but Dinah managed to keep a lid on them long enough to ask, "What brought this on? Our not-anniversary?"

[lovemykilt]

"I'll have to find a good strong veil then. Don't want it flying off when we go down the first big hill." Priestly snuck a corner of crepe and popped it into his mouth, then shrugged. "I dunno. That. And I'm getting to the point at school where people start asking 'what are you going to do next'. So . . . I started thinking about it."

[blondecanary]

"And your answer is 'Dinah'? Ahem." Dinah snickered again, and rubbed her thumb over his lips, then licked off a bit of ice cream. "But. No. I sort of get that." Because she liked her life, and there were-- sorta goals? And. "I mean, whenever I imagine the future, you're in it with me. I guess seeing us together in various weird weekends about six times helps with that." She grinned, settling into his side. "And having crushes on you over and over. So." Her grin widened. "This could be so fun."

[lovemykilt]

"Yeah?" Priestly waggled his eyebrows back. "You had me worried there a sec. But, I mean. We're never not going to be in each other's lives, right? That's already a given. Might as well reap the tax benefits and stuff while we're at it."

[blondecanary]

"I would mock you for your romantic tax-streak, except that we did decide that what, eight years ago?" Dinah snickered. "And yeah. Yeah." She could see, maybe, getting a crush on other people, but she couldn't see not telling Priestly about it first. And she couldn't right now see anything breaking them apart. "Annnnd... do we want to live together first? Or would that be just asking for trouble?"

[lovemykilt]

"Dunno. Could you take that much Stevesie all at once without building up to it?" Priestly asked. ". . . It might be nice to get some distance between me and the snark twins here, though."

He loved Tia and Mark, but they really did wear on you after awhile.

[blondecanary]

"I love living with Gabby, but... I mean. Camille and Stevesie need to hang out at some point." And wouldn't that take a lot of adjustment? "And, we'd need to find a place first, maybe. And other roommates for our roommates. I don't think Gabby would want to move in with Tia and Mark." The more she thought about it, the more complicated it sounded. "So, yeah. It's a thing. To think about. Or talk about. Something."

Going to Vegas and getting married would be so much simpler!

[lovemykilt]

"Lots of complexities," Priestly agreed. "For now though . . . I'm thinking more ice cream?"

[blondecanary]

"More ice cream," Dinah said gratefully. Then gave him a deeper kiss, pulling back to whisper, "And then the promised make-outs."