"Babe, can you help me hang up a picture in the living room?" Tuana called.
"Sure thing!" Luca said as he practically jogged in from the kitchen, seeing the hammer and nails already laid out on the table.
He picked up the hammer and shrugged, "Where?"
"Over the plant." Tuana answered as she jerked her thumb that way.
"Alright…" Luca grinned and leaned over to press a kiss against her forehead, "So just above that big leaf thing?"
Tuana nodded.
Luca nodded and hunched down to move the plant. Then he picked up the nail and started moving it around while Tuana directed how he should move it next.
"There." She finally nodded.
"Alright." Luca nodded and prepared to hit the nail.
The first two cautious swings went well, and Luca moved his left hand an inch before taking a proper swing at it.
Tuana winced as well as she watched the hammer slam into Luca's thumb, and the nail he was meant to hit dropped to the ground.
"SON OF A B-" Luca growled as he wrapped his right hand around his left thumb.
"Do you need some ice?"
Luca groaned and nodded.
"Just a minute." she said as she headed into the kitchen.
She came back a minute or so later with a plastic bag of ice and a kitchen towel.
"You want to put it on yourself? Or help?"
He shook his head, "No, just give it to me."
She nodded and made sure that the ice wasn't stuck to itself.
As he let go of his thumb and took the cloth and ice.
"Can you move it?"
"It's not broken." Luca answered, "Just hurts like heck."
Tuana nodded.
"You've got a needle and a candle?" he asked afterwards.
"I think so…"
Luca nodded, "Can you go get it? I think I need to puncture my nail."
"Puncture?"
"Relieve pressure." Luca nodded, "My thumb's going to feel a lot better once that's done."
"Alright, alright…" she nodded, "If you say so."
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Tuana felt a bit bad for having Luca attempt to hang up the picture earlier. He had finished the job after poking a hole in his thumb nail, but his thumb was looking painful.
So she decided that the proper way to apologize was with a good old-fashioned homecooked meal. So she prepared lasagna for the two of them, her mom was watching Kelly.
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Luca loved that Tuana had decided to make lasagna for them. What he loved even more, was that she INSISTED on letting it set for 10 to 15 minutes before they started eating.
Just enough time to make sure they remembered to take care of each other, and work up some more appetite.
