Side note! In the last chapter, the name "James Warden" comes from the amazing author "Margot-Eve"! I just didn't know her name until now! XD
In the main room, Syx was looking at the shocked faces of his friends and family "Yep. Honey where you at?" he called. Seeing Roxanne poke her head out of the door way he smiled "There it is." Realizing his slip up he quickly said "Come on down here pumpkin." She looked at him for a moment before smiling and walking over to him. As she was making her way down the clapping started as everyone began to congratulate them.
Minion and Lactea walked over to the smiling "Oh, Sir!" Minion gushed "I'm so happy for you!"
"Syx, I'm so proud of you." Lactea said giving her son a hug. "And of course I'm happy for you as well, Roxanne!" she said finally giving Roxanne a hug.
"Brake out the Champaign!" Minion called happily.
Once everyone had their drink did Roxanne quietly ask "So that was your idea of a perfect time to tell them we're engaged? Because your intuition was right on."
"Well I certainly learned from the best, now didn't I?" he countered.
Before Roxanne could say anything Minion spoke "So what's the story, Sir?" he asked happily.
The reluctant couple turned around to look at him "What story?" they asked in unison.
"About how you proposed." Minion clarified, still smiling. "How a man proposes says a lot about his character! I bet it was fantastic!" he cried.
Lactea laughed "I'm sure it was, and actually we would love to hear the story, Syx. Would you please tell us?"
Everyone agreed as they smiled nervously. Suddenly an idea popped into Syx's head and he smiled "Actually, Roxanne loves telling the story, so I'm just gonna let her take over." He said stepping aside and sitting down on the arm of a couch.
Roxanne smiled trying to hide her growing anger. Then taking a deep breath she thought 'Fine. You wanna play it that way? We'll play it that way.' "Alright," she said walking over to him. "Where to begin?" she asked looking at Syx. He merely shrugged offering her nothing. "Okay, well Megamind and I-"
"Wait, Megamind?" Lactea asked holding up her hand for a moment.
Roxanne smiled "My pet name for him." She answered simply. A chorus of 'awws' broke out and she smiled at his straining smile. "He loves it so much." She added wanting to further torture him.
Syx nodded smiling "Yes, yes and I call her 'Temptress'. Because nobody can ever believe what comes out of her mouth."
Roxanne forced a laugh while everyone else joined in nervously, not sure if it was okay. "Oh you." She said looking at him. "Well, Megamind and I were about to celebrate our first anniversary together." again a chorus of 'awws' came. "I knew that he had been itching to marry me, and he was scared like a little tiny bird." Some people started laughing. "So I started leaving him little hints here and there because I knew he'd be far too shy to ask me straight out.-"
"That's," Syx interrupted not able to take her crap anymore. "not, exactly how it happened."
"Oh?" Roxanne asked innocently. She got him.
"No. I picked up on all her little hints; this woman's as sudden as a gun." He replied smoothly.
Everyone laughed Roxanne forced another laugh as well. "Same could be said of you, darling."
"Yes well, what I was worried about was that she was going to find this little box-"
"Oh yes the decoupage box you made for me." Roxanne cried happily interrupting him. Syx looked at her, begging not to. "He had taken the time to cut out little pictures of himself and put them all over the box. It was so cute! So I opened that cute little box and out came hundreds of little metal shavings and filings that he had cut into little hearts." Syx was dying. "Once they cleared I looked down at the most beautiful, big, fat-"
"Nothing." Syx said quickly. Roxanne shut her mouth. "No ring."
Minion and Lactea looked at each other confused "No ring, Sir?" Minion asked.
"What?" Lactea asked.
"No, but inside that box, underneath all that crap," he added turning to Roxanne, who smirked "There was a hologram that said the date, time, and name of a hotel. Intellectual, manly type stuff." Minion smiled as another one of the men in the room shook his fist smiling, showing he agreed. "So Roxanne-"
"I thought he was seeing someone else." Roxanne finished. The two heard gasps echo through the room. "Yes, terrible time for me. So I went to that hotel," Syx gave her a look that said 'really?', but she continued anyway. "I pounded on that door, but the door was already unlocked. As I swung open the door, there he was,"
"Standing." Syx interjected.
"Kneeling."
"Like a man."
"On a bed of roses petals and a tuxedo." Roxanne finished, then looked over at Lactea. "Your son." Lactea looked a little confused. That didn't sound like Syx at all. "He was holding back soft, soft sobs." Syx looked at her a 'you kidding me?' face on. "When he finally held them back long enough to speak he said-"
"Roxanne will you marry me? She said yep, the end. Who's hungry?" Syx finished quickly. The room was silent for a few minutes processing all of this.
"That was quite the story." Lactea said carefully as everyone slowly started clapping.
Minion tapped Syx's shoulder "Sir! I knew you were a softy underneath!" Syx rolled his eyes.
"Hand cut confetti?" Lactea said starting to laugh.
Syx nodded and walked off, stopping next to Roxanne when one of the men called out "Let's see a kiss!"
Roxanne and Syx shook their heads. "No, no." Syx said. The crowd cheered and urged them on. "Alright, alight." Syx said smiling. Roxanne smiled too a bit nervous of what he was going to do, but when he grabbed her hand she nodded understanding. Syx kissed her hand, making a loud smooching sound in the process. "There ya go!" he cried.
Everyone booed. "Kiss her on the mouth, like you mean it!" the same man demanded.
Everyone nodded 'yeah!' they cried then started to chant 'kiss her' over and over again until Syx cried "Okay!" Syx and Roxanne turned to each other. They looked at each other for a minute before kissing each other again, making the smooching sound. They broke apart after about 3 seconds.
"No!" every sighed.
"Sir! Give her a real kiss!" Minion said frowning slightly.
"Yeah!" another person confirmed.
Syx and Roxanne looked at each other again as Roxanne said tightlipped "Let's just get it over with."
Syx nodded and they leaned forward and kissed. They held that kiss for a while looking around at everyone nodding and smiling. Clapping started telling them they could stop, but neither one did. In fact Roxanne and Syx deepened the kiss going so far as to reach out and grasp each other's hands. Once they came into contact with one another however, they both pulled away quickly. They looked around awkwardly not sure what just happened.
"Hmm." Roxanne said tightly.
Minion stood up and walked over to them giving them both a hug and forcing them to come together once again "I'm so happy! I'm so happy for you both!"
..::-::..
Lactea and Minion led Roxanne and Syx into a guest bed room once the party was over. It was 8:00 at night yet the sun was still out, it was Alaska. The bedroom was rather large and had a bed big enough to fit three people. There was also a balcony and a bathroom accompanying the room.
"Well here we are. This is your bedroom." Lactea said with a smile.
Roxanne looked around "Wow, this is beautiful and the view is wonderful." She added pointing outside. "So, where is Megamind sleeping?" she asked turning to Lactea and Minion.
Lactea laughed "Sweetie, we're not under any illusions that you two don't sleep in the same bed. He'll sleep in here with you!"
Roxanne smiled "Oh great." She said as Syx joined her by her side "Cause we love to snuggle, don't we honey."
"We are snugglers." Syx added nodding his head. Just then a loud sound that sounded like a mechanical dog barking came from out of the room as a floating robot with a blue dome and big red eye hurried into the room running into Roxanne.
"Oh!" she cried grabbing onto Syx for balance.
"Brain-bot!" Syx cried holding the thing away from Roxanne. The bot nuzzled into him.
"Sorry about him," Lactea said tapping the bots dome, the electricity chasing her fingers. "he just loves Syx so much. My son made him you know." She added smiling proudly at her son.
Roxanne looked at him "You made that?" she said shocked.
"Always the tone of surprise?" he asked with a smirk letting the robot go.
"Don't let it anywhere near technology, it'll eat everything." Minion warned.
Roxanne nodded as Lactea walked to a closet "There are some extra towels and blankets in the cabinet if you need them."
"Here use this." Minion said pulling out a large blue quilt and handing it over to Syx. "It has special powers." He finished mysteriously.
"What kind of special powers?" Roxanne said humoring him.
Minion shared a knowing smile with Lactea before replying "We call it the baby maker."
"Okay!" Syx and Roxanne said. Syx tossed the blanket onto the bed with a protesting Roxanne.
"Well we better turn in; it's been quite an evening." Lactea said smiling happily. She gave her son a hug and a kiss on the cheek before giving Roxanne a hug as well. "Good night!" she said waving as she left.
Minion grabbed the brain-bot and dragged it out as he followed her "Good night, Sir! Good night Ms. Ritchi!"
"Good Night, Minion!" they cried watching him leave. Only until he had shut the door did they part to get ready for bed.
..::-::..
Syx fluffed up the blankets he was using for cover. Underneath he had the 'baby maker' as padding. Being the man he was sleeping the floor for the weekend, giving Roxanne the bed.
"Haven't been home in a while." Roxanne said from the bathroom.
He sighed lying down as he placed his huge blue head on a pillow. "I haven't had a lot of vacation time in the last three years." He answered.
"Stop complaining." Roxanne said before tentatively saying "Don't look, okay?"
"Okay." Syx said drily.
Roxanne opened the bathroom door a crack looking out "Are your eyes closed?"
"Yes." Syx said drily once more, eyes wide open.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure."
"Alright, I'm coming out." Roxanne said before running over to the bed quickly.
Syx watched her and noticed she was wearing a very light blue, silk night dress with spaghetti straps that barely covered her butt. She looked rather pretty and suggestive in it, but that's not what came out of his mouth. "Those were the pee-jahmas you brought to Alaska?"
Roxanne rolled her eyes and pulled the covers over her as she laid down in bed. Choosing to ignore his mispronunciation she said "Yes, because I was supposed to be in a hotel alone." She added for emphasis.
"Stop complaining." He said using her words against her. "Being with my family isn't that bad is it?"
"Well it wouldn't be if your brother wasn't hinting that we-"
"Can we just go to sleep?" Syx interrupted, not wanting her to finish that sentence.
"Yeah." She said turning off the light. Roxanne closed her eyes and sighed happy finally to be sleeping, but because it was Alaska, the sun was streaming into the room, over her eyes, keeping her awake. She tried to adjust herself to make the sun not so glaring, but it didn't work no matter what position she tried. Finally she sighed "Looks like I won't be getting much sleep with the sun streaming in." before she even finished that statement Syx clapped his hands and the curtains closed. "Thank you."
"You bet." He said before rolling over and closing his eyes.