"Hurry!" Margo rushed Antonio as they hastily placed the many stuffed animals in a spare closet.

"Sorry, I wasn't aware I was eating cookies and having a tea party." Antonio rolled his eyes but smiled, "Tell me again why these can't be in your room, bella?"

"What would I tell Gru? 'Hey, yeah, I came home and the room was full of stuffed animals. Weird, right?'"

Antonio chuckled as he placed the last of the animals in the closet, "I suppose that would seem strange."

Margo sighed contently as she stepped away and closed the closet door, "Now all we have to do is get you out of here and it will look like nothing happened."

"What about them?" Antonio gestured to the little yellow minions peeking at them from the door.

"They won't tell." She looked at the minions, "Unless they want me to tell Gru about the golf incident, that is."

The minions suddenly became terrified and began shouting odd things in their language. Margo laughed at them.

"They won't tell."

"You can understand them?"

"I've been here long enough to learn what the minion's mean at least." She smiled at him. She was no longer painted like a kitten, but the smile was still cute to Antonio. He looked around the small spare room to see that they had missed a toy, a little stuffed lion to be exact.

"Looks like this poor chico was left out." He picked it up and opened the closet door. He was about to set it with the rest when Margo stopped him.

"Wait!" She grabbed the lion from his hands, "I think I'll keep this one in my room."

"And what will you tell your father?"

"I'll think of something." She looked away from him and focused on the lion, "I think he's cute."

"Cuter than me, Margo?" The boy smirked and flipped his hair to the side.

She didn't answer his question as she rolled her eyes and walked out of the room, "You need to leave before Gru gets here. He'll do worse than just freeze you if he catches you here with me."

Antonio quickly reached out and grabbed her hand as a sudden realization came over him. He still hadn't told her why he had taken her out, or about the traditions of the Perez motorcycle. If he left now, it would be breaking the traditional promise every Perez man makes.

"Is... something wrong?" The girl blushed slightly at his touch.

"I still haven't told you about the tradition of my bike. You were curious, weren't you?"

"Yeah, but Gru could be home at any time now. Once he finds Derek and gets told I'm here, he'll practically fly here."

"Getting frozen and all the other things your father will do to me is worth telling you about this."

"Fine," Margo looked up into his brown eyes, "If it means that much to you, I'm all ears."

Antonio sighed in relief at his words, but tensed again after remembering that she still might say no even after they had had such a great day together.

"You see, Margo, the tradition of the motorcycle has been around since my great, great, great, great grandfathers in Spain have started it. You see, when a Perez man finds true lo…. a true feeling of a certain emotion, he must take the target of that emotion with him on a motorcycle ride. It doesn't matter where you go or how you go, just that at the end of the ride, you tell the person why you took only them and never anyone else."

"A-Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Margo looked up at his sincere eyes. Although she was scared, she felt as though she could get lost in their warmth.

"Margo Gru," Antonio grabbed her hands over the stuffed lion and looked into her brown eyes, "I have fallen completely in love with you. You've managed to change me from my evil ways with just a simple plan and the amazing heart you possess. I know I don't deserve your forgiveness for anything I've done, but hurting you was my biggest mistake. I never thought the day would come when I would fall in love, but you've somehow managed to make me do just that."

Margo was stunned at his words. Her mind kept screaming it was a trick to get back at her, but somehow she knew that wasn't true. She could see it in his eyes. He was telling the truth. Antonio Perez had really fallen in love with her.

"So will you take me back even after all the terrible things I've done to you?"

"Antonio, I-" Just as Margo was about to give him an answer, the sound of the front door slamming open thundered throughout the house.

"Margo! Are you here?!" Gru's voice boomed as his footsteps echoed up the stairs where her room was.

"Hide!" Margo pushed Antonio into the closet and grabbed a book that she had left lying on a table a few days ago. She put on her best composed face and walked out the spare room to her room where Gru was grumbling.

"Hello, Gru."

"Ah! Margo! You're here!" Gru turned to her in surprise.

"Were you expecting me not to be?" She casually looked up from her book.

"Well I thought that you would be with that blond boy, but then I couldn't find him and remembered that other devious boy you wanted to destroy, so I went to his restaurant and you weren't there so I called you and you hung up on me. I tried looking for that Duffin boy for the longest time, but when I found him, he told me you were here. Why?"

"Well after you freaked out about Derek and I planning to trick Antonio, we left to get some food, but something came up and Derek had to do something else for a while. I decided to walk home and plan further ahead when you called. Needless to say I was very upset that my own father couldn't trust me to make good decisions."

Gru frowned and placed a hand on his daughter's shoulder, "I'm sorry, kitten. I just don't want to see you get hurt anymore. Whenever you go places with boys, it scares me. I just want you to be happy."

"I am happy, Gru." The girl gave an annoyed sigh as she closed her book, "I would be much happier if you trusted me though."

"It's not you I don't trust, Margo. It's the boys I'm worried about."

"Gru," Margo looked up at her father, "I can handle the boys by myself. If I get hurt, it's just life. You have to let me make my own decisions in life. You can't protect me forever."

As a tense silence hung in the air, Gru's grimace slowly turned into a soft smile, "Okay, Margo. As much as it will make me hurt and rage inside, I will leave the boy handling to you, but if I by chance see anything I don't like, I will freeze them with no hesitation, and I trust you to use the lipstick tazer when needed."

"Thanks, Gru." Margo hugged her father, "It means a lot to hear you say that."

"Anything to make my daughter happy." Their touching father daughter moment was interrupted by the sudden ring of Lucy's voiced through a transmitting device.

"Gru, sweetie, I know your busy trying to needlessly track down Margo and whatnot, but we need you back at base for an emergency weapon repair."

"Can't it wait, Lucy? I'm in the middle of things."

"Sorry, Gru-bear, but this is urgent."

Gru groaned and let go of his daughter, "Fine, I'll be there soon."

"Yay! Love you, Gru-bear!" Lucy giggled into the transmitter before clicking off.

Margo laughed as she saw her father turn red at Lucy's words of affection, "You two are so cute."

"Yes," Gru coughed to cover up his embarrassment, "Well, I am off to help save the world!"

"Good luck." Margo gave her dad a quick hug before he left the room.

"I am glad we had this little heart to heart, Margo!" He smiled as he walked the stairs, "I will see you later!"

"Bye, Gru!" Margo waved to her father as he closed the door and walked out to his car. Once she had seen him leave, she placed the book on her bed and practically ran back to where she had left Antonio. Her mind was still buzzing from his confession, and she felt like she was floating on air as she finally reached the spare room.

"Antonio?" She called as she reached for the closet doors. She opened them only to reveal the large pile of stuffed animals that they had placed there earlier. It seemed that Antonio had disappeared. Margo felt the sudden familiar emotion of heartbreak start to beat upon her. Of course it was a lie. Antonio would never learn how to love. He-

"Is it safe to come out now?" Antonio's voice rang throughout the room. Margo carefully looked around the small space as a relief came over her when she realized he hadn't really left. But where was he?

"Yeah." She said hesitantly as she glanced at all the possible hiding places in the room, "Gru's gone. Where are you?"

"Right in front of you, bella." His voice called. Margo was sure it came from the pile of stuffed animals, but that couldn't be possible. Unless…

"Are you under all the prizes?" She laughed as she began moving the animals, eventually revealing a smirking Antonio.

"Found me."

"What are doing hiding there?"

"I may have gotten a little jumpy when Mr. Gru came back. I see no shame in it." He shrugged his shoulders coolly.

"If he had found these stuffed animals, he probably would have moved them anyway." Margo continued laughing at the Latino boy.

"I was under pressure." Antonio smiled up at her, "It worked, didn't it?"

"That's only because he wasn't suspicious." Margo playfully rolled her eyes.

He chuckled, "I suppose I look foolish then?"

Margo pulled out her phone and snapped a picture of the moment and showed him, "No, it's cute."

"I'm glad I can amuse you." He held out his hand, "Care to help me up?"

The girl grabbed his hand and helped him escape the small mountain of stuffed animals, "You know, for such a cool guy, you can be ridiculously silly at times."

"Only when I'm with you, mi amour." The boy gave her a breathtakingly beautiful smile, "Now, about the question I asked earlier. May I have an answer?"

Margo blushed heavily and tried to compose herself before looking into his eyes, "Antonio, in the past you've really hurt me. When you ditched me at the party, I felt like my whole world was crashing down. I was blinded by my lovesickness for you, and you just instantly ripped me apart."

She could see regret in his gorgeous eyes as she continued, "But in the past day, you've managed to make me feel lighter than air even without dulling me into a lovesick trance like before. I don't think I've ever had as much fun as I did when I was with you today, and I'd like to have a lot more days like this with you. I know it seems crazy, and I can't believe you've made me feel this way so quickly, but I think I'm still in love with you. I'm going to give you one more chance to prove you feel the same."

Antonio could not hold back his happiness as he hugged the girl tightly in his arms, "You won't regret this, Margo. I swear on the honor of the Perez family name that I will do my best to treat you like you truly deserve to be treated, with the greatest love, respect, and care."

Margo hugged him back, "You're just a regular Romeo, aren't you?"

"Only for you, mi amour."

She smiled before letting out a worried sigh, "Please don't make me regret this, Antonio. My heart can't take it."

"So long as I breathe, I will do anything to make you happy and prevent your sadness." He spoke softly.

And when she looked up at him, Margo could only see the genuine truth and love shine in his eyes.