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27 – “Get over here now and bring a tarp.”

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“Get over here now and bring a tarp.”

“Excuse me?” Hux asks. He looks out of his window and can see the pouring rain. There’s no way he’s going out there. Not when he’s huddled in his favorite blanket, has a nice blend of tea on his night stand and Millicent purring next to him happily. “I’m not going out there. Where should I get a tarp anyway? What are you doing? Are you outside?”

There’s a grunt on the other end of the phone conversation.

“Well, I have to.” Kylo sounds a bit defensive and now that Hux concentrates on it, he can hear the sound of the pouring rain in the background. “They just sprouted. I don’t want the rain to ruin it. The soil is this close being washed away.”

Hux is lost.

“What is sprouting? Kylo your small garden is lawn and weeds only. And that big, ugly oak you refuse to get rid of.”

There’s a beat of silence. Then a sigh, and Kylo says, “I planted the avocado pit.”

Hux pulls the phone away from his ear and stares at the screen incredulously as if he’s sure, Kylo’s playing a prank on him. When there’s no laughter from the other end of the line, he presses the phone back to his ear and tells Kylo, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Our avocado, Hux. Remember? Our meeting? Four months ago? The fight about the last avocado? I stole it right out of your cart and you ambushed me in front of my car.”

Hux can feel his cheeks heat. “I am aware how we met, yes. Are you telling me you planted the avocado pit because you’re a sentimental fool?”

Kylo mutters something that Hux doesn’t catch. He’s already standing up and on his way to his garage, wondering if he has indeed something like a tarp stowed away there. “What was that?” He asks, rummaging around, and squeezing himself behind his car to get to one of the shelves.

“I said it’s the seed of our love. Of course I planted it!”

Hux bites his lower lip and grips the phone harder than intended. His heart is racing and he tries to calm down. That’s what Kylo always does. He brings Hux’s life out of order. Be it stealing an avocado right from his cart, ask him out on a date after Hux yelled at him, or blurting out I love you after their fifth date only.

“I should have known better than date an over-dramatic actor,” Hux says.

“Oh fuck you, Hux. Are you coming over or not?”

Hux reaches out to grab something blue and folded. When he pulls it out, he sees that it’s really a tarp. It’s not big, but it’ll do. 

“Yes,” he says and turns to his car. “Yes, I will.”

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