"Holy shit!" Lauren screamed jumping on the couch. "Joe! Joe come here please! Help!"
Joe came running in, assuming that there was a real emergency. "What's wrong, Lo?" He looked around and did not see that she appeared to be injured or have anything wrong with herself.
She pointed at the ground shakily. "Spider." There was a tiny spider that was crawling around, minding it's on business. It did not look vicious at all. Joe began to chuckle but stopped as she gave a death glare at him. "Don't just stand here! Get rid of it!"
"Lo, it is a tiny spider. It is not going to hurt yo-"
"It could inject me with venom or some shit. Just kill it!"
He grabbed a tissue and squashed the bug. "Happy now?"
"Very." She replied, getting off of the couch. As she did so Joe put the tissue containing the dead spider in front of her face as a joke, but she instead started screaming and ran to their bedroom. He followed her after placing the tissue in the trash can.
"I didn't mean to scare you. It was only a joke." He sighed.
"It wasn't funny." She pouted, acting like a preschooler. Her eyes pricked with tears, spiders were the scariest things to her. Joe sat next to her and wrapped his arm around her, wiping away the tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry. I won't do it again. I promise." He held out his pinky like a grade-schooler would do to make a "pinky promise." Lauren giggled and wrapped her pinky around his. He smiled now that she appeared to be happy. "I love you."
"Love you too." She responded before kissing him. Not even a spider could stop her from loving Joe.