A/N: So I have a list of story prompts I found on Tumblr and it has some really good prompts from different quotes and short phrases! There is like 300 on the list so I've been working off it to get some story ideas.
This is prompt 256: "This is the dumbest thing you've ever done."
So if anyone wants to throw out a random number between 1-320 then I can use that prompt to work on a one-shot for this story! Enjoy this one!
Timeline: Mid-20s.
Summary: Maya has a small surprise for Lucas when he gets home.
Surprise!
Lucas walked up the stairs of his and Maya's apartment building. The elevator was still under repair and he was really starting to regret letting Maya talk him into getting an apartment on the 10th floor. A deep sigh released from his mouth. It had been a long day at work and he was looking forward to lying in bed with his girlfriend. She had worked a late night at the gallery the night before and she had the day off today. Just a couple errands she had to run and then that would be it. Finally making it to the 10th floor, he walked a few feet to their front door. He stuck his key inside, twisted it, and pushed the door open like he did every day. But when he walked inside he saw a sight he didn't see every day.
"Maya… what's going on?" Lucas asked, frozen in the doorway.
He looked on at his girlfriend as she sat on the floor, surrounded by 5 small, energetic puppies. Maya's blue eyes looked at him with surprise. Since the time she got home with the energetic bunch, she had been racking her brain for an explanation. Lucas quickly closed the door when he noticed two of the dogs run up to him.
"Maya? Why are all these dogs here?" he repeated, picking up one of the dogs. He wanted to resist, but they were just so darn cute.
Maya's nervous eyes kept on the puppies as they begged for tummy rubs and attention. "Aren't they cute?" she said, avoiding the question at hand.
"They're adorable. But again, why are they here?"
"Huckleberry," Maya started. Lucas was always a little bit more forgiving if she used the old nickname. It was a way of buttering him up that only worked when Maya used it. She could see it already working its magic when her boyfriend's eyes softened a little bit. "I went to the gallery today to drop off something and it was a nice day so I decided to walk back home." Maya tried her best to beat around the bush and Lucas knew it. The little shy look on her face was enough to make Lucas smile. But Maya was too busy avoiding eye contact with him to notice it. "And you know if you take 8th street home there's that animal shelter?" Lucas knew the one. Back their senior year of high school, Lucas did some volunteer work there. Maya would visit sometimes when he worked there and bring food for him and the other workers. Lucas thought it was an excuse just to come and play with the dogs in the back. Maya always wanted a dog, but the apartment building she grew up in didn't allow them. "Well I just went in for a minute to see if Lucy was there. She was. And I thought it was good idea to let her show me the new animals. And the second I saw these guys I was hooked!" She was so elated. There was one dog she had particularly bonded with: the smallest in the group. Maya picked that tiny dog up and held it against her chest. Her eyes moved up and caught Lucas's. The smile he had on his face seemed like a good sign to her, but then again, he usually smiled when he looked at her, so maybe it didn't mean much.
"Maya there's 5 of them!" he laughed. He wanted to be mad, he really did. As a vet, he knew how hard it was to take care of even one animal, let alone 5. It was a little mind-boggling to him that Maya didn't think it would smarter to start with maybe just 1 dog.
"Well Lucas they're siblings! I couldn't split them up," Maya said. Making it even harder for Lucas to say no to keeping them all, Maya stuck out her bottom lip and looked him right in the eye. A certified yes would come of it, it always did. "Please can we keep them?"
Lucas ran a hand through his hair. Frustrated, he looked at all the puppies as they ran through the house and searched for toys to play with. "Maya they're a lot of work to take care of," he breathed out, voicing his concerns. His girlfriend was still holding the tiny little dog close to her. The puppy began resting it's head against her. At that moment, Lucas knew he couldn't tear that dog away from her. His Shortstack had already bonded with that Shortstack.
Maya, pressing the puppy to her face, mouthed out words for it to say. "Please let me and my brothers and sisters stay Lucas. Please please please," she begged. Laughter could be heard coming from Lucas. God she made it hard to say no.
"Five though babe?"
"Please!?" Maya begged. She knew when she picked them out at the shelter that she would have a hard time convincing Lucas. But she had an even harder time trying to just pick one to take home, knowing the rest of them would have to stay at the shelter and probably be split up eventually. "How can you say no to this face?"
"To your face or the puppy's face? Because both are pretty hard to say no to," Lucas admitted.
"I promise I'll take care of them! And I already bought food and toys! Please Huckleberry?" she begged, whipping out the nickname again. "You love animals! You used to have a bunch."
Lucas laughed at the words. "Yeah when I lived on a farm. Maya we live in an apartment," he said. The dogs were terriers and they wouldn't get much bigger than they are now. But it was still a small New York City apartment that didn't have much room.
It was becoming increasingly harder for Lucas to say no as Maya's sad pout grew increasingly sad. "If you say we can't keep all of them, then you have to be the one to take them back to the shelter because I'll cry if I have to do it," Maya promised. She put the dog in her hands down and scooted closer to her boyfriend. Her arms linked behind his neck and her lips found their way to his cheek. Kiss after little kiss, she planted pecks on his cheek and neck. "Please? Please? Please? Please?" Maya asked after each kiss.
"Maya! There's one huge problem," Lucas mentioned. Maya's little smile disappeared, thinking she was losing this battle. Mentally, she prepared herself to have to say goodbye to all but one of the puppies she had already bonded with.
"What?" her quiet voice asked. Lucas's facial expression was hard to read, but soon his blank expression turned to a smile.
"We're going to have to name all of them," he whispered.
A large, toothy grin grew from ear to ear on the tinier blonde's face. "You mean we can keep them?"
"I already have your little puppy dog face here that I can't say no to, so why not just add 5 more?"
Maya threw her arms around the cowboy so fast and with so much force that he was knocked on his back on the ground. 5 excited puppies ran up to them and piled on top. The blonde rested on top of her boyfriend. His fingers pushed her messy hair out of her face and behind her ears, making the way clear as she pressed her lips to his mouth. They both felt the fluffy fur all around them as the dogs playfully attacked their form. Maya let her chin rest on Lucas's chest once the kiss was over.
"This is the dumbest thing you've ever done," Lucas laughed.
"You love me," Maya teased.
Lucas looked around at all the dogs surrounding him. Maya drove him absolutely crazy sometimes. There were so many things she did that annoyed the crap out of him! But her huge heart, the heart that he didn't think he deserved sometimes, that made her do so many things that just made him love her more. That huge heart of hers made her want to adopt 5 dogs so the siblings couldn't be split up. There was nothing he wanted to do more than add to his little family with Maya.
"Yeah I do love you," he spoke, pressing another kiss to his girlfriend's lips.
A/N: This story is really cute and light-hearted because next week's one-shot is angsty and emotionally heavy… so this is just buttering you up lol Love you guys! Review!
See you next week!
