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Six months later...
"Ooohhoohhoohhh all I see is signs all I see is dollar signs!"
It was the still slightly-off singing voice of his husband that Nasir was greeted with as he opened the front door to their newly acquired house. Tightening his hold on the crutch in his hand, he walked, or should we say hopped his way to the source of the noise: the guest-room.
As he entered the room, he couldn't help but laugh at what he was seeing: Agron with a painting roller in his hands, ear buds in his ear and specks of paint all over his overalls, singing some Rihanna song and putting some green and blue all over the walls.
Agron had been completely lost in his own little world all day, which was why he was startled when he felt a pair of muscled arms wrap themselves around him and a kiss was dropped on the base of his neck. He laughed softly, took his ear buds out, dropped his roller in its container and turned around. His eyes sparkled when he looked at his husband smiling back at him with pure affection on his face.
"Hey there." Agron said softly as one of Nasir's arms switched position from his waist to his neck, the other still holding on to his crutch.
"Hiya." replied Nasir, leaning up and giving his husband a loving kiss, making Agron wrap his arms around his lithe form, crutch included in them.
It had been a challenging six months, to say the least. Even though Agron and Nasir had woken up with all of their memories and motor skills intact, the physical toll the accident had took on the both of them had left them with still much to deal with.
The wreck had left Agron with broken ribs and a fractured arm, while Nasir suffered from a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder. And that wasn't talking about all of the bruises and cuts that the broken glass had left everywhere on their bodies and faces.
It had taken months of physiotherapy and tests to make the couple movable again. While the cuts and bruises had healed overtime, they were still feeling some of the effects of the accident today: Nasir was still walking around with a crutch in his hand because while the cast had been taken off his leg, it still wasn't at 100%, while Agon still had some problems from time to time picking up things because if his weakened right arm.
But despite all of this, what hadn't changed was the couple's determination and they both knew and expected to make a full-recovery. And most of all, their guilt over what had happened had completely vanished the moment that they woke up, like it had magically dissipated into the night. Both knew themselves and the other weren't to blame for the accident and their love from one another had only strengthened through all of this.
They had no real memories of what they had went through while they had been in that coma, but sometimes you could see them look at a mirror for a moment longer than necessary, as if they thought they would see something move on its own on the other side of the glass if they looked long enough...
Agron broke the kiss after a moment and smiled at Nasir. "So, how did it go at the coffeehouse?" he asked him.
Nasir smiled back and replied excitedly: "It went great actually! Everyone was so happy to see me, it felt pretty good to be missed, to tell you the truth. By the way, Chadara says hi!"
"Well, I'll say hi back to her when we go and see her again." Agron said, and with a curious raised highbrow, he added: "Speaking of which, when do you think..."
"I'll be able to get back to work? Well, I don't know exactly, because when I went to the doctor last week to check things out I...sort of forgot to ask him how things were looking in that area." Nasir finished for him and looked down, a bit ashamed to be such a air-head.
It was a kiss on the top of his head that made him rise up his face once again and see Agron smiling encouragingly at him. "Listen, like everybody has said: we got to take one thing at a time for the time being and what's the most important thing right now is our health and nothing else. You'll get back to work when the time is right, don't worry about that." he said to his husband, making Nasir nod in agreement and his smile returning. Wanting to change the subject, Agron waved his hand around and asked: "Well, what do you think? Do you like the colors?"
Nasir looked around the room that would become the guest-room of their new colonial-style house, the one that they had just acquired and that had somehow sprung right out of their dreams with its huge space, its modern plumbing, its state-of-the-art facilities and kitchen appliances (which were all a secret gift from both Duro and Saxa), but with still enough things left in it to be renovated so that Agron and his brother could feel like kids on a playground.
They liked doing this together so much that they had even begun talking about starting a business together...
"I don't like it, I love it! This is perfect Agron!" Nasir exclaimed, loving the way the green and the blue reflected on the black ceiling and floor tiles, giving the room a homy feel that Nasir just adored. Hitting Agron on the chest with his hand, Nasir took his crutch in his hand and began hopping his way out of the room. "But I hope you're done for now, 'cause I've got a surprise for you. " he said with a mysterious smile as he turned his head around to look at his husband once more.
"Really? A surprise? What is it? Tell me, come on tell me, please!" Agron cried out, bouncing up and down like a little kid despite his six-foot stature, making the smaller man laugh out loud.
"Calm down you big baby, all in good time. Go get changed and meet me in ten minutes in the living room, I promise you won't be disappointed." he answered him and with that, Nasir made his way down the hall to prepare his surprise, leaving an excited Agron behind.
The taller man made his way to the master bedroom and quickly changed into something cleaner than his old overalls, all of the while thinking about what Nasir's surprise might be. A car? Nah, too big. A dog? Nah, too messy. A necklace? Where in the hell did that idea come from?
Meanwhile, Nasir was getting everything ready downstairs and waited, a little bit nervous. He hoped that Agron liked the surprise that he had prepared for him and wouldn't be disappointed by its simplicity. As he heard Agron's steps come down the set of stairs, he grabbed the nearby remote control and got himself ready.
"Nasir? I'm ready! Can I come in and check out my surprise? I really wanna know what it is!" Agron called out excitedly as he went down the last step of the stairs. He was about to sprint out to the living room and open its door with a bang when the sound of soft music stopped his intentions and made him freeze in his stride
"Nasir? What's going on?" he called out once again as he approached the living room in a weary way and opened its door slowly, revealing Nasir standing in the middle of the candles-filled room with a remote control in his hand and his crutch on the floor.
Wait...his crutch on the floor? Standing?! Was Nasir really walking toward him while bending both of his knees, like nothing had ever happened to him?
Seeing the slack-jawed look on his husband's face, Nasir felt a little bit self-conscious. As he stopped in front of his husband, he asked him with a bit of nervousness in his voice: "So do you like your surprise?" He got his answer when Agron picked his jaw from off the floor, picked his busband by the waist and kissed the living hell out of him.
As their lips separated, Agron whispered with a tender smile on his face: "This is the most amazing surprise you could ever give me." He then stepped back a few steps and looked Nasir up-and-down with a confused face. He added: "But I don't understand, last week when you went to see the doctor while I was busy working on the garage with Duro..."
"He told me that it was fine to stop using my crutch and that I could start to walk around normally."
"And all that time since..."
"I was only pretending to still need it."
"But why?"
"For this." With that, Nasir pushed a button on the remote control in his hand and a romantic song started to play. "We've been married for almost a year now, but I believe somebody still owes me a first dance." he whispered and, putting the remote down on the floor and getting back up, he smiled and offered his hand to his husband.
"May I have this dance, my love?" he asked Agron, candlelight shining in his eyes.
"Like you ever got to ask me for that, baby." And with that, Agron took Nasir into his arms and they began to sway gently to the music and feeling like the luckiest people on Earth: to have gone through what they had gone through and to have not only survived it all, but thrived above everything and now here they were, sharing their long-awaited and nearly never-done first dance as a married couple.
After a quiet moment of the both of them dancing, Agon broke the silence when he stopped swaying and said: "I love you so much, Nasir. I always will, I hope you know that." he looked at Nasir with his heart in his eyes.
Nasir looked at Agron with just as much love and replied: "I know. And I love you too, I love you so much and nothing is never, ever going to come between you and me."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
As Agron kissed his husband on the forehead tenderly one more time and Nasir smiled back at him, their love for one another radiating from their whole being, he said with a wicked smile: "Well, while I owed you a first wedding dance, I believe that you, dear husband of mine, still owes *me* a little something."
"And what would that be, oh dear husband of mine?" asked Nasir in a playful voice.
As he leaned down, Agron simply replied: "A wedding night."
And a wedding night they did have and luckily for them, their dream house that was now their home didn't have any neighbors living close by, because if there had been, they would have been given quite the show, that's for sure...