Christmas Proposal
Summary: It's Christmas and the Mako gang has decided to have a small Christmas party at the cafe. One of the guys, however, has a little surprise up his sleeve.
Word Count: 718
Ever since finding out that he had a sister, Zac couldn't help but enjoy Christmas a little more than he think he ever did as a kid. Though his parents didn't know the whole truth, he told them that he and Mimmi had found out they were siblings by tracing things back through their mother. Since the first Christmas after finding out about each other, Mimmi had been over for dinner with Zac, his parents, Evie, and her dad.
This Christmas, they decided to change things up a little.
Since Zac, Evie, Cam, Carly, and David had all recently graduated from college, they decided to have a party at the cafe with them, Sirena, Ondina, and Mimmi. They figured that they could do a party with all of them their and exchange a few gifts in the process.
Everyone had given their gifts to each other after their dinner, other than Zac who had yet to give his present to Evie. "Hey, Evie, I just remembered that I left your gift in the office," Zac spoke, getting up.
"That's an awfully weird place to leave a present seeing as how you didn't need to go in there," she said, furrowing her brow as she spoke.
"Maybe. But why don't we head back there and check it out," he said, starting back that way."
"Okay." Evie followed Zac back over to the office. He opened the door to let her go in first. "Oh my– Zac!" she exclaimed when she entered the office. "You got me a puppy?" she asked rhetorically, going over to pick the little puppy up. It wagged its tail happily and licked her face when she held it in her arms. It even had a little red ribbon tied loosely around its neck as a collar.
"Yeah. She's about ten weeks old and a golden retriever lab mix so she'll be active and can go running with you. And, she's not even the best part."
"What is then?" Evie asked, looking away from the puppy and over to him.
"Take a look at what's on the ribbon.
Evie looked back to the puppy and the ribbon around her neck to find what Zac was talking about. "Zac." She looked back over to him.
"Evie," he began. "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine finding anyone as great and wonderful as you. I consider myself pretty lucky to have met you back when we were just six years old. You're beautiful both inside and out. You love me for me, merman and all. I can't imagine spending the rest of my life with anyone else." Zac walked over to her and got down on one knee. "Evie, will you marry me?"
Evie's face formed a thin smile as she tried to hold back the tears that were just behind her eyes. "Yes," she spoke weakly, still trying to keep the tears from flowing.
Zac smiled and stood. He wrapped his arms around Evie and did her best to hug her without squishing the happy little puppy between them. When the puppy saw the tears one Evie face, she started licking them away; Evie let out a light laugh. Zac leaned over to give Evie a kiss.
"I love you and her so much, Zac."
"What's taking you guys so lon. . .g." Carly walked in and trailed off when she saw the two. "You got Evie a puppy?"
"And a ring," Evie added.
Carly's eyes widened. "Congratulations, you guys." Carly went over to hug her two friends.
"Thanks," Evie said as the two best friends seperated. Carly returned to the others, letting them know that Zac and Evie were fine, probably better than ever in truth. While she did that, Evie set the puppy down and let Zac take the ribbon and ring off her to put the ring on Evie's left hand ring finger.
When they returned to their friends, they gave the full explanation of what had taken them so long. Congratulations were offered all around.
"You know this means we either need to buy a house or find an apartment that accepts bigger dogs, right?" Evie said to Zac a little while later.
Zac smiled. "I know." He leaned over to kiss her cheek before they returned to their conversation with their friends.
A/N: So here was the little Christmas thing. This was inspired by a couple thing. First, I was watching several videos of people getting puppies for Christmas and remembered the line from season 2 where Zac's like, 'Promise me you'll never turn me into a cat' and Evie replies, 'Of course not; I prefer dogs.' so between those two things, I made this.
So Merry Christmas to everyone, happy holidays to those of you who don't celebrate Christmas. I hope you have a great day no matter what it is you're celebrating.
Hope you enjoyed it. Continue to review and let me know what you think and give me ideas for other one-shots and I'll try to see what I can do with it. Thanks for reading,
-CrazyHayniac
