The young couple was spending a long weekend at Joe's old home. It was the first time that Lauren was going to be meeting his parents, so she was incredibly nervous. Once they finally arrived the pair was greeted warmly. They had spent the rest of the night relaxing with the Walker family and just chatting with everyone.
The next morning Lauren, being the morning person she was, got up before Joe had. She walked down the stairs of his house and was greeted by his mother.
"Good morning." Lauren said before reaching the living room.
"Hey there, Lauren." His mother replied, looking up from her magazine. Lauren sat down on the couch across from her and began to fiddle with her thumbs awkwardly.
Joe's mother looked up and saw this and smiled to herself. "Lauren?"
"Yes?"
"You seem bored. Do you want to look through some old pictures with me?"
Lauren smiled brightly and exclaimed, "Yeah! That would be awesome." Soon enough the old photo albums had been taken out and the two women began looking through them. Lauren laughed as she saw pictures of Joe in his superhero and Teenage Mutant Teenage Turtle costumes from when he was younger. The pictures of him covered in food as an infant and taking a bath in the tub with tons of toy boats and such surrounding him.
Just as she started getting to the really cute pictures she heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
"Morning." Joe simply said walking toward the couch. "What are you two doing?"
"Just looking at baby pictures of you." Lauren replied nonchalantly.
A look of pure panic was on Joe's face. He tried to grab it out of her hands, but she held onto it for dear life. "Ugh, mom, why did you take these out?" He whined looking at his mother.
She just smirked. "Well I thought Lauren wanted to see how adorable you were as a kid."
"Yeah come on, Walks. Look how cute you were!" She smiled at up him showing Joe a picture of himself, a little Joe smiling big while wearing a diaper at age one. Lauren's smile was one that made his knees go weak. He sighed, knowing that she had won and there was no possible way he could get out of this now, and decided to just look at the pictures with her.
While she was flipping through a page, Lauren giggled at the sight in front of her. A toddler version of Joe, mooning the camera. "You still haven't lost your immaturity that's for sure." She smiled and gave him a soft kiss on the lips before cuddling into his side.
"Well," Joe thought to himself, "When I visit her parent's house next, I know what I will be looking for."
