AJ had finally gone back to work after a few weeks of getting her and her body back to normal. It had been tough these past few weeks, of course it was, but she couldn't let it burden the rest of her life. She vowed to pick herself straight back up and continue on with her life.
Max's behaviour had improved with leaps and bounds from AJ and Punks perspective. He barely ever went out, and that was never Punks intention, he wasn't stopping him from going out, he just didnt want him to hang around with the older boys he was hanging around with, but Max stated that he didn't mind having nights in now.
Punk had been working away just the same at the gym. He was glad that the worst of the tragedy they went through was over, and now they just had to get on with normality. It was something that would always be in his mind, but he was learning to look past it.
He felt like he and AJ were stronger as a couple now for what they had been through. Yeah, they snapped at each other throughout it, but that was to be expected after what they had gone through. Now however, their relationship was at it's best and they had learned to confinde in each other rather than hide from each other.
Since AJ's birthday was coming up, Punk had been thinking of one particular present he was going to get her. Since they moved to New York, AJ had this list that she made right from the very beginning, starting off with things like getting a job, finding a place to stay etc. And in the midst of the list was a dog. He always was a dog lover, and he knew AJ just adored dogs, and since everything with the baby and her father happened, he figured she would love a furry little friend to cuddle with.
"Phil... I'm home." AJ exclaimed as she walked in the apartment door, dropping her bag at the door and kicking her converse off. She knew it was Punks day off today, otherwise he would have still been working.
"Hey..." Punk walked out of their bedroom with a edgy smile on his face, giving AJ her suspicions.
"What's with the look on your face?" She unzipped her sweater and pulled it from her body, throwing it over the back of the sofa.
"I have your birthday present." Punk smiled, balancing back and forth on his tip toes and heals.
"In the bedroom?" AJ pointed to the bedroom door, raising her eyebrows. She wondered when he would ever be satisfied.
"Yes, it's in the bedroom but... it's not... it's not what you think it is, just come with me." Punk took her hand, opening the bedroom door with a smile and leading AJ into the room as her eyes caught on to the most adorable puppy timidly walking on their matress.
"Oh my god." AJ looked up to Punk in shock, clasping her hands over her mouth before walking towards the puppy, "How did you know I love pitbulls?" AJ asked, so happy she could have cried, lifting the puppy up who just stared her with the most beautiful puppy dog eyes ever, holding it into her chest under her arm.
"I called your mom." Punk smiled, putting his hands in his jean pockets, "She told me you had one when you were little and you loved it." Punk smiled, "He was the last one to leave the litter. The guy I got him from said nobody wanted him." Punk frowned as AJ pouted and looked down at the puppy, his claws catching on to her t-shirt as his little nose twitched with smelling her and the perfume she wore.
"Nobody wanted you? Huh?" AJ scratched the puppy's tummy and behind his ears, "Well I want you." She smiled. The little pitbull was so small and soft, and extremely friendly for being so young. She loved him already. She wasn't expecting this and that's what made it even better.
"So you like him?" Punk asked, already knowing the answer.
"Phil... I love him. Thank you so much." AJ smiled to her thoughtful and amazing boyfriend, placing the puppy down on the ground, wrapping her arms around Punk and pressing a soft kiss on his lips. He wasn't just an amazing lover, boyfriend and bestfriend, he was an amazing person and everything he done for her, he done because he loved her, unexplainabley, and she loved him just as much.
They pulled back from their sweet kiss when the new addition to their home had pulled one of AJ's bras from the radiator, dragging it with his small but sharp teeth out of the room and into the living room. AJ chuckled and rested her head against Punks shoulder, hearing him laugh too. There was no better sound than laughter.
Later on...
"What are you going to call him?" Max asked, sitting on the floor in front of the TV petting the puppy who was sitting in his bed, waggling his tail back and forth with his tongue hanging out, such a happy little thing he was.
"I don't know yet. I like a few names." AJ shrugged, sitting on the couch beside Punk who was just enjoying the smile AJ had permanently on her face since she seen the puppy. He knew she would love him, he was just an adorable little ball of soft and cuteness.
"What are they?" Punk asked.
"Well... I like Roley, cause he has a chubby little belly. I like Toby, Kaizer and Coal, because he's grey." AJ smiled.
"I like Coal." Max said, scratching the puppy behind his ears.
"Yeah, Coal is a nice name." Punk nodded to her.
"Hmm." AJ thought to herself, sitting up and looking over to the puppy, "If he responds to Coal, then that's his name." AJ looked from Max to Punk who both nodded, watching the small puppy.
"Coal." AJ patted her thighs for the puppy to come to her. Shockingly enough the small pitbull trotted out of his bed and scuffed his way towards AJ, dancing at her feet and looking up at her as Max and Punk smiled.
"Well... there you have it." Punk smiled as AJ chuckled, lifting up the puppy to sit him on her lap, "Coal." She scratched his velvet head softly, "Coal." She repeated, smiling at the smoakey grey pitbull, so in love with the furry little friend already. She knew he would make a great addition to their home.
A few weeks had gone by, and Coal, the newest family member to the apartment, had been the most mischevious puppy in the whole of New York. In the midst of still trying to train him not to do the toilet in the apartment, to wait until AJ, Punk or Max took him out, he ate and chewed almost every one of AJ's bra's. Punk found himself putting on boxers with holes in them, some of Max's homework had even been shreaded by the puppy. But they all loved him the same.
"Coal... stop it! I have to go to work." AJ chased the small puppy around the sitting area in the apartment in her underwear, Coal having excaped with her t-shirt for the day.
Finally after catching him and having a tug of war with the t-shirt, she got it from the mischevious puppy, little teeth marks in the t-shirt now preventing her from wearing it.
"You're worse than a child, Coal." AJ cursed, picking him up and walking back into her and Punks bedroom where Punk was still sleeping.
She placed Coal back in his little puffed round bed in the corner of their room, watching him sit with sad eyes as he looked at his owner get ready to leave.
"Don't look at me like that." AJ looked over at the sad puppy dog eyes on Coal as he watched her zip her sweater up.
Her and Punk made it a rule not to let Coal up on their bed or the sofa, but sometimes it was just so hard.
"Alright, fine. Just this morning." She said, walking over to the puppy and lifting him up, placing him on her side of the bed beside Punk who Coal licked a few times without waking before walking around in circles and collapsing down to rest his chin on the soft pillow.
It was a beautiful sight, so beautiful she had to take a picture and put it as her phone lock screen. Coal was a precious little thing, he wasn't just a dog, he was part of their family now.
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