"Yo Alya.", Nino called out from beside her, his feet snuggled against hers. She looked up from her corner, tilting her head at him as she eyed him. Only then he looked up from his phone, grinning and turning it around.

On the screen she could recognize Instagram's layout and sighed when she tried to read the picture.

"Wait, hold on.", she moved forward a little, to see the picture better and to read the text on it.

It was a blanket fort and, in the description, stood that everyone who had done this when they were young, they should leave a like.

The red heart beneath the post gave her the reason of Nino's broad smile and she rolled her eyes at him before double tapping the pic again, the heart once again flashing.

"I mean, who didn't do this back then?"

His grin didn't falter and he didn't take his phone back in his lap. Alya suspiciously eyed him.

"What do you want?"

He giggled and got closer, too, now kneeling so he took her legs between his, his face suddenly close to hers.

"Let's build one now.", he tried seducing her and even if she couldn't deny the slight feeling of excitement on her stomach, just this little twinge of childishness, she shook her head.

"We can't build one now.", she declined and saw the same childish excitement that she felt dying down a little in his eyes, "We should've long gotten up and done our homework. My mom and the twins will be home within the next hour and we haven't even cleaned up the kitchen yet."

"And yet we're still sitting here~…", Nino tried again, leaning forward a little more even.

"No.", she firmly said and looked down at her phone again. Relaxing for ten minutes was fine, but building a blanket fort and playing in it? That would probably take up hours.

"That's an adult answer.", Nino pouted and rested his chin on her knees, hugging her legs as he tried the puppy eyes. Her boyfriend be damned for having these beautiful golden eyes.

"So what if it is an adult answer?", she countered but he just pulled even bigger puppy eyes, a whine escaping his throat.

"Please?"

Alya kept her stance for about .2 seconds before giving in and putting her phone away, unable to deny the same joy she felt at the thought of building a blanket fort.

"… Fine.", she finally agreed and earned an overexcited kiss on the nose from her boyfriend, making her blush slightly at his grin.

"Yes! Get up, we need the pillows! And chairs! And blankets!"

She laughed as she got up and followed him to the living room to carry in a few chairs, watching her boyfriend giggle like a small girl.

"Okay, I think four should be enough.", he nodded, making and important face, "Onwards, woman!"

She grabbed two chairs by the backrest and shook her head at him with loud laughter, feeling the warm happiness bubbling up inside her.
"Alright, alright, Bob.", she soothed him but only got a confused face.

"Why Bob?"

"Bob the Builder? Don't tell me you never watched it as a kid!"

Nino gave her a hearty laugh and kissed her cheek, nodding.

"No, I've seen it. Okay! Position your chairs there and I go here and then we take the backrest pillows from the couch to make rooms and when we've done that, we'll put blankets over it!"

"Aye aye!", Alya responded but took a pillow and used up a whole ten minutes to start a pillow fight with him. In the end he let her win and they got started on the blanket fort, excitedly creating rooms for their own tiny house.

A bedroom, a kitchen, a bath, a living room, and an entrance, really important. Alya almost knocked a chair over while laughing when Nino tried to position two backrest pillows on top of each other for the entrance. In the end they settled for a normal entrance for their house, a rift between two pillows, and put the biggest blanket they could find over it as a roof.

Without even waiting for Alya to put enough weights on her end of the blanket, he carefully dived inside, awing at their house.

"Alya, it's perfect!", he exclaimed, his legs still sticking out. She giggled at that and sat down on his butt to lied down on top of him, looking into the house over his head.
"Ooooh, it's a little dark in here!", she huffed as she fished her phone out of her pocket, turning on the flashlight. The nostalgia overcame them both in a fit of giggles when they looked into the house, down the two hallways and four rooms they had created, everything looking exactly as if they were still five and this was their world for a few hours.

"You did well, Bob.", Alya praised him and kissed his cheek, resting her head on his shoulder. He grinned and turned his head to nuzzle her nose before wiggling a little underneath her.
"I wanna go inside!"

She laughed and got off of him for him to crawl inside and get into the bedroom which they had stuffed out with an extra layer of pillows as a ground.
"Man, that's really comfy!", he laughed into the light of her phone and she smirked, following him into the tiny room that barely let them both fit in. She closely snuggled up to him and grinned at his warm face next to hers, deciding to pull him down to her to press a loving kiss to his lips. Nino moaned against her and nudged her nose, before parting again and chuckling.

"My, my, Miss Lahiffe.", he mumbled with a grin, "You seem like you're awfully eager to inaugurate our bedroom~…"

She merely snorted at that, poking his nose.

"You're a dork for thinking I'd take your name."

For a moment, as she left to inspect the kitchen, Nino seemed to deflate, then he called after her.

"What, you don't wanna marry me?", she heard his indignant but still mocking tone and giggled, calling back.
"I do, but you take my man and get me a bigger house!"

Instantly, he followed her, carefully crawling on all four.

"W-Wait you really do wanna marry me when we're older?!", his pubertal voice almost jumped up an octave as he said that and she shrugged with a grin, poking his nose once again.
"Okay, deal, I take your name and you get me a bigger house."

All he could respond while choking on his saliva was a muffled, hidden under coughs, "… D-Deal."