Summary: On Zac and Evie's first wedding anniversary, they both plan surprises for each other that involve them getting home earlier than they normally do, surprising each other more than they intended. So in reality, this is just some Zevie fluff.
Word Count: 1887
Zac Blakely rolled over in bed, turning to face his wife whose back was to him. Their alarms were about to go off so instead of letting that wake up his beautiful wife of exactly one year, Zac moved over to her and wrapped his arm around her waist. He traced kisses down the back of her head to her neck. Her eyes began to flutter open.
She turned a little to face him. "Morning," she spoke, her voice rough after not having been used for about eight hours.
"Morning," he said in reply.
"Happy anniversary," Evie added, realizing that exactly one year ago she and Zac had been married. One year ago, she had taken the last name Blakely when she married her best friend.
"Happy anniversary."
"Are you just going to repeat everything I say?" Evie asked jokingly, turning to fully face Zac.
"No," he laughed. "How about instead of going to work today we just stay at home and have a day to ourselves."
"Sounds great, but you know I can't," Evie replied.
"C'mon. David and Carly know it's our anniversary, they were in our wedding, they'll understand."
"I've got to finish training my new manager," Evie said. "I can't stay home."
"Then I guess we better start getting ready," Zac spoke, throwing the covers off himself. He threw a pair of sweatpants on, Evie also got dressed and they headed down to the kitchen to get breakfast ready.
Cooking breakfast together was a daily occurrence for the last year. Sometimes they just ate prawns and other times they'd make bacon, eggs, and pancakes, or even just have fruit as a simplicity. Today they spent time cooking eggs, bacon, and pancakes together. They moved around the kitchen almost as one, practically reading each other's minds to know how to work perfectly as a team. Once their breakfast had been cooked, the two sat at their relatively small kitchen table to eat. They talked a little as they ate, even though they didn't need to.
About an hour or so later, Zac and Evie were kissing goodbye before each heading their own way to work. When Evie got to her small shop in an outlet mall, her new manager had already opened up for the day.
"Hey," Evie greeted.
"Hey," the new manager, Caroline, replied. "I thought you'd stay home today. I hear it's you and your husband's first wedding anniversary."
"It is, but I really should be here," Evie said, walking to the back of the shop where she set her bag down.
"Why would you need to be here. I know exactly what to do to take care of the shop. You trained me well."
Evie laughed. "Okay," she admitted. "I'm leaving a little early–"
"That's the spirit!"
"But Zac doesn't know."
"What?"
"It's a surprise. I have to finish getting it ready so I'm leaving a little earlier than normal."
"Okay," Caroline said. The two women got to work as a few customers entered the shop. Caroline took care of helping them while Evie went to the back to take care of some of the accounting in the back.
CHCHCH
"You're not staying home with Evie today?" Carly asked when Zac entered the cafe.
"No, she still has to train her new manager and can't leave the shop," Zac explained, sounding down about not being able to spend his entire anniversary with Evie.
"And so goes the life of a small business owner," David said, speaking from his own experience.
"I guess that's true. You've had to suddenly skip out on things with Sirena because of having to take care of something with the cafe."
"I'm just glad nothing problematic happened during our wedding or while we were on our honeymoon for that matter."
"Well, nothing Zac and I couldn't handle," Carly laughed, recalling the incident that happened only a couple weeks ago. She and Zac shared a look before turning back to their work.
"Wait, you never told me there was a problem! What happened while I was gone?" David called after them as they went outside to take orders. They ignored him and got to work.
The remainder of the day carried on normally for Evie at the shop and Zac at the cafe.
CHCHCH
Evie didn't end up leaving the shop as early as she would have hoped. There were several things that came up that she had to take care of. Caroline ended up practically ushering Evie out of the shop and away from her work.
"It's your anniversary, go home and get whatever surprise you have for your husband ready," Caroline loudly declared while leading Evie out the door. "See you on Monday!" she called, turning away so Evie couldn't protest anymore.
Evie laughed as she walked away; Caroline was quite the character sometimes, but she was positive even on the worst days and knew how to get a smile out of anyone, it was one of the many qualities Evie had admired when she hired Caroline.
To get everything ready for the surprise, Evie had to make a quick stop at the supermarket on her way home from work. Ten minutes after entering, she was again on her way home with the last part of the surprise tucked safely away in her bag.
When Evie got home, she retrieved the small box that the two items would go in. She wrapped the box and its cover separately. Evie then retrieved the item from her bag and opened the packaging to place it in the box along with the other item. She put the box on the table next to Zac's side of the bed and returned to the main level of their home to wait for Zac to get home.
Much to Evie's surprise, she heard the front door opening as she reached the bottom of the stairs. She cautiously ventured towards the entryway of the house, Zac wasn't supposed to be home yet.
"Zac?" Evie spoke.
"Evie!" Zac said in surprise. He looked down at what he had in his hands and hid it behind his back. "You're not supposed to be home yet."
"Neither are you."
"I guess we both wanted to surprise each other," Zac laughed as Evie made her way over to him.
"Yeah."
"So I got you this. I was going to wrap it but seeing as how you're here now. . ." Zac trailed off and held what he had gotten out to her.
She took the box and opened it. Zac watched as her face lit up, the light catching in her eyes when she smiled. "I love it," she managed, taking the bracelet out to examine it. She set the box it had been in aside.
"I know you've been eyeing it. I mean, I know it's not much but–"
"It's perfect," she cut him off. "Thank-you, Zac." She put her arms around his neck in a hug and his automatically wrapped around her waist, pulling her closer to him. "I love you," she whispered into his ear, leaning her head on his shoulder.
They stayed that way for several minutes, just holding onto each other. When they did separate, Zac helped Evie get the bracelet on. "Perfect," Zac said. "So, what were you doing home so early? I thought you had to finish training your new manager."
"Well, Caroline is pretty much fully trained, but I didn't want to leave her on her own for the entire day."
"Mmhhmm. Then you're home now because. . . ?"
"I had to pick something for you up on the way home."
"Where is it?"
"In our room."
A mischievous, childlike look crossed Zac's face, he side stepped Evie and started towards the stairs.
"Zac!" Evie called after him. "Wait!"
Zac laughed and kept going. Evie didn't want Zac to see what she had gotten him quite yet so she caught up to him and jumped onto his back, wrapping her arms around his neck and legs around his torso to try and slow him down. Instead of trying to get Evie off him, Zac put his arms back to the underside of Evie's thighs so he was essentially giving her a piggy-back-ride and continued towards their room.
"Zac," Evie attempted to whine, though it came out more like a laugh.
"Yes?" he asked, starting up the stairs.
"What are you doing?"
"Carrying you up to our room since you decided to jump on my back."
"Zac," she drew his name out.
"Eves," Zac drew her name out the same way she had done with his. He was the only one who ever called her 'Eves' and it did something to her every time for that reason alone. Evie leaned her head against Zac's back as he walked, knowing he wasn't going to put her down.
When they got to their room, Zac let go of Evie's thighs so she slipped down and off him. His eyes had immediately landed on the small box on his bedside table. He turned to Evie. "I know you said to wait for me to get it so I really won't unless it's okay with you."
"You can go ahead and get it now, it's all right."
"You sure?"
"Yes."
Zac went over to his side of the bed and and picked the small box up. He took the cover off and set it down on the bed while walking back over to Evie. After placing the cover on the bed, Zac looked at the two items in the box. "Evie, why'd you get me a pacifier, I'm not a baby."
"I know, look at the other thing that's in there."
"What is it?" Zac asked, pulling it out.
"Read it."
"It says pregnant and shows a symbol then not pregnant with a symbol and. . ." Words failed Zac. His mouth fell open and his eyes darted between the two things on the pregnancy test. "You're?" Zac started, Evie nodded. "And we're . ." She nodded again. He set aside his present and moved over to her. He placed a firm kiss on her lips and wrapped his arms around her waist in a tight hug.
When he pulled away, he took a step back to see if he could see much of a baby bump. Now that he was looking for it, Zac could see the slight way her shirt rested differently than normal. He first placed one hand over her stomach and then moved so he stood behind her with both hands over her stomach. "How long have you known?"
"About a week."
"I'm glad you waited until now to tell me. This is the best present I could ever get. I love you so much and I can't wait to meet our little guy or girl face-to-face."
"I can't wait either," Evie said, placing her hands over Zac's.
They didn't know how long they stood like that and in reality, it could have been hours. They only moved when they began to feel hungry. They ordered Chinese. "The cravings are starting," Zac had jokingly declared, though he seemed a little fearful of all of what was to come. The rest of the night was spent lying in bed watching TV. Sure it wasn't a fancy anniversary dinner date, but they had each other, what more did they really need?
A/N: As I stated before, this was just fluff because I needed Zevie and there wasn't enough of it so I wrote it myself. If I remember correctly, the original idea this spurred off of was just Evie jumping onto Zac's back because I thought that would be kinda cute and then I made it into this.
So let me know what you liked and what you didn't like or what I can improve on. As always, requests are welcome. I might not get to them right away depending on when inspiration strikes, but I hope to eventually write something with all the requests I have. So feel free to leave requests in the review or PM them to me. Thanks for reading,
-CrazyHayniac
