She had burned her hand pretty badly in the process, but Hunter had been determined to whip up a semi-edible brunch for Michi. After everything that she had said, done, and fucked up in the last twenty-four hours, she figured that she owed her girlfriend at least that. She still hadn't been sure where Mich had woken up, and the thought made her jealous and a little sick to her stomach, so when her phone began to vibrate while she was stirring the soup, she was elated.

Grabbing it with her unburnt hand, she stirred with her injury, using one thumb to quickly text back a simple reply: be up in 1 sec love ya.

It was the best that she could come up with, explaining everything awkward and dreadful she had done with Mack would have to come later, face to face unfortunately. When her food was read, the blonde gathered it all up onto a tray, hoping for the best as she began to cross the dorm kitchens, balancing the meal in her hands and silently hoping for the best. Reaching Michi's room felt like it took about a hundred years, though the slow shuffling walk that she had needed to use to prevent spilling hadn't helped, but when she finally arrived, she was quite relieved.

"It's me, boo!" Hunter called out, taking her hands and holding the tray with one hand for a second, long enough to twist the knob and use her hip to shove the door open. "Hungry?" she asked, seeing that Michi was already eating, but not feeling discouraged. Since Michi had gotten pregnant, she had been eating with a Hunter sized appetite. Between the two of them, they had brought down many stacks of snacks in the last few months. Setting the food down on Michi's desk, she moved over to flop down next to her girlfriend, making a face. "What ya watchin'? What is this crap?" she asked.

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"Hey boo," Michi said brightly when Hunter entered the room. "Ooo! Soup and sammiches!" she giggled. "Oh fuck and real pickles, how did you know?" she snuggled into Hunter's side. "This is the reality show where seven witches and wizards move into an apartment together and they have to live and work together for a few months," she explained. "Most of the time it ends up with someone getting too wasted to walk home and some sort of fight. I prefer to the bitch fights," she giggled.

She figured they would have to talk about what happened the night before. A part of her did not want to know where Hunter had been but she knew they would have to talk about it. "So last night was weird," she said. "I should have known by the scent that damn thing was a love potion," she had been chastising herself all morning for not having figured it out sooner.

She snuggled into Hunter's hair and sighed. Might as well get it over with. "I woke up with Shelby Ginnish in my bed. Nothin' happened boo I swear just... I played with his hair a lot."

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"Only real pickles for my boo," Hunter assured her, trying to snuggle down and get more comfortable as she scrunched her nose at the show. "Tinworth Shore? This stuff will rot yer brain, baby. Besides, the first season was better," the blonde laughed, immediately cutting herself short when Michi mentioned the night before. She tried hard not to, but she knew that her cheeks were flushing just a little bit. "Oh yeah, super.. fuckin' weird."

Hunter personally knew very little about potions, outside of what Michi had told her and what little she had paid attention to in classes. Sera had been trying to teach her little bits and pieces while she had brewed the polyjuice, but mostly Hunter had just been clueless. She was much more of a hands-on girl, brewing shit was for tea, and tea was for old ladies. Short of the glass saying 'love potion' right on it, Hunter never would have had a clue.

"Shelby?" the blonde gasped, her eyebrows immediately furrowing together. She'd have to hang him out of a window by his ankles or something if he touched her, but she let out an sigh of relief at hair playing. "Well.. he's a goon, y'know. Ain't fit for a girl like you," she replied, waving her hand a bit in the air, her other arm wrapped around Michi and pulling her closer.

She knew that it was her turn to come clean, but it was even worse now that she knew Michi and Shelby hadn't done anything. Not that she wanted them to, she supposed she would have needed to do more than just hang him out a window if he had been with her girlfriend.. but Mack had been with her. It made her stomach clench again, and she pulled her arm away from the younger girl, scooting free and getting quickly to her feet. "Aw gross," she groaned, her eyes closed tightly as she tried to shake mental images of Mack from her brain.

Stalking into the little bathroom attached to Michi's room, Hunter leaned over the sink, peering at herself in the mirror and sure that she was going to throw up. That was so wrong. Her and Mack was just.. weird didn't even cover it. "I uh, stayed over at Mack's last night. Sorta," she finally called out from the bathroom, feeling even more like she was ready to get sick in the sink. "It was uh.. y'know pretty fuckin' disgusting."

She found herself imagining Mack's lips again, real up close and leaning in for a sloppy kiss, and she let out a violent gag, clutching the basin.

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"Yeah! That's the one!" she said. "I only watch it when I need some real and true brain rot," she giggled. "Their lives are train-wrecks, it sorta makes you feel better about your own."

"Well yeah, he's a nice kid but I aint in love with him or anything," she snorted. "I mean we kissed a few times but ya gotta promise not to rip his head off or toss him out a window or anything," she mumbled. "Weren't his fault or nothin'." She already felt guilt weighting her stomach but when Hunter got up and walked away she just felt terrible.

She forced herself up, much to the dismay of Tiger, and padded over to the bathroom. Leaning in the door frame she watched her girlfriend's reaction. "Aint nobody's fault," she said more softly. "Y'all don't have to go into it. So long as we can just get over it. Just one little bump in the road right. No one was in their right head last night."

She laughed a bit. "I mean, Shelby promised he wasn't gonna smoke anymore. How insane is that?"

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She was more than a little relieved when Michi told her that she didn't have to go into detail, she didn't think that her brain could really handle that right then, and she turned her head a bit to smile weakly at the younger girl. "Yeah," she sighed slowly. "I guess ain't nobody we can blame.. 'cept whoever did it, and I got a feelin' they ain't comin' clean. If I wasn't so fuckin' grossed out, I'd say it was a hell of a trick."

Leaning heavily on the sink, she spit quickly before wiping her mouth and shaking her head a bit. How was she supposed to look Mack in the face after last night? She was pretty sure that she had read somewhere before that the brain had ways of repressing and dealing with trauma in totally crazy situations.. she could only hope it was true.

"Pretty insane," she agreed, chuckling a little and straightening up. She stepped closer to Mich in the doorway, looking at her closely. "I did somethin' more insane, I betcha.."

She could feel the weight of the ring in the pocket of her shorts, even as tiny as it was. It was pressed against her leg like a hundred pound brick in that moment, and she fidgeted a little bit, feeling the pocket out briefly. Taking it back from Mack had been one of the first things she did upon waking, there was only one person supposed to be wearing that ring, and it wasn't her.

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"Yeah," Michi said pulling one arm across her body and squeezing her elbow. "Real fuckin' funny right?" she said with a small defeated laugh. She watched Hunter carefully, trying to measure her words. There was no reason for any of them to feel bad about what had happened. There had been no helping it and there was no changing it. No need to let it ruin anything.

Michi put her hands on Hunter's hips when she stepped closer and grinned up at the taller girl, pulling her into the bed room. "Didya really?" she teased, pulling at Hunter's t-shirt playfully.

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Letting herself be pulled back into the bedroom, Hunter gave a little sigh of her own as she looked down at her girlfriend. "Uh huh, I sure did," she agreed. It wasn't as if things like expressing her feelings came easily to her, and although she had thought and planned meticulously for this moment, it wasn't coming as easy as she had imagined. She had been sure after thinking out her words so many times and planning the dramatic kiss afterward, it would be a piece of cake, but now she felt choked up in a way that she rarely experienced.

"Fixed it though," she added quickly, squirming her hand down and into her pocket, taking the ring in her closed fist. She hesitated before actually taking it out. "Promise not to laugh?" the blonde asked cautiously, an eyebrow raising. She felt like her heart was in her throat.

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"Laugh?" she asked, a little quirk of a grin on her face. "Please don't tell me y'all found a twenty four hour chapel?" she joked then looked at Hunter seriously. "Of course I won't laugh at ya." Up on her tip toes she gave Hunter a little kiss on the lips.

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"That's a promise," Hunter reminded her gently, closing her eyes for a quick moment as the younger girl kissed her. It was enough to give her a little burst of courage, even if she still felt like a complete idiot none the less. Clearing her throat, the tall blonde took a step back away from Michi, fixing her with a rather serious look of her own.

"Well, I.. no, we didn't find no chapel. I wouldn't really wanna marry Mack, think I'd hafta shoot myself in the face if I did.. but uh, well, the thing about it is.. I wouldn't really mind if I was, y'know, married to you? If you're.. followin' where I'm goin' with this.."

Her speech wasn't really going as smoothly as she planned, and it was coming out more and more awkwardly with each second. She wasn't some nervous little kid who got all jumpy and wigged out. She was a grown ass woman, and it was high time to prove that she could act like it sometimes. Pulling the ring out of her pocket fully, she promptly dropped down onto not one but both knees before holding it up to the younger girl. "I ain't even worthy, but.. hell, I sure wouldn't mind. If ya wanted."

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Michi's heart was in her throat when Hunter started talking about marriages but then she was on her knees and holding up a ring at her. "Oh my god..." she said feeling wet tears splash onto her cheeks. "OH MY GOD!" She tried her best not to flail around but she couldn't even believe it.

"Are you kidding me?!" She leaned down, putting her hands on either side of Hunter's face and kissed her with everything she had. "Yes," she whispered into Hunter's hair, still leaning over. "I wouldn't wanna marry anyone else on this damn planet!"

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"This ain't shit to kid about!" Hunter managed to get out, laughing weakly and feeling like an incredible weight was lifted off of her shoulders as the younger girl leaned down and kissed her. When she said yes, it was impossible for the tall blonde to contain the maniacal grin that crossed her face. "Seriously? You mean it?"

She knew that she did, but she still wanted to hear it. After last night, it didn't feel like it was real. It felt like it was too good to be true, especially after all of the fuck-ups. "Look, uh.. don't think it's gay or anythin' but I thought.. uh, emeralds cause the broad at the store said that's the uh, birthstone for May. Like, for Monkey. An' then I.. got four of 'em, for us an' the boys. What ya think? Fuckin' stupid or what?"

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"Yeah I mean it," she said wiping hurriedly at her eyes, unable to stop smiling. She finally looked at the ring when Hunter was explaining it. "Hunt..." she could barely get the words out. She just leaned into the older girl and let herself cry softly. "I never thought I would get to be this happy," she admitted.

"It aint gay er nothin', it's some damn sweet," she laughed gently, admiring the emeralds. "I love it, I love everything about it." Hunter had really put a lot of thought into it and all she could do was cry and smile. "I love you," she kissed her again.

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Letting out a laugh of relief when Michi didn't tell her that she was a moron, even though she felt like one, Hunter pulled the younger girl tighter into her arms as she started crying. She could feel herself tearing up too, but she cleared her throat quickly, trying to fend it off. "Me neither," she murmured back, smiling and pressing her lips against the side of her girlfriend's cheek, kissing it loudly.

"I love you too kid," she assured her, still grinning with slightly damp eyes as she leaned into the kiss. "Don't tell Mack that I was a big sappy ass about it though, or I'll hafta drown her.."

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"I won't tell her nothin'," Michi laughed. Though she would proudly wear the ring and she was sure they would have a ridiculous wedding, this was their moment and it was incredibly private. "Aint no one else's business," she sniffled, laughing gently.

"Oh my god Hunt, we're going to have an amazing wedding," she giggled. "Like cowboy boots an' barbecue an' little hats," she laughed and let herself lean into the older girl more heavily, burying her face in her blonde hair. "Oh jesus I'm all shakin'," she laughed again, admiring the ring on her shaking hand.

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"Right? It's gonna be the best.. we'll have all the fixins, y'know. Whatever ya want," Hunter laughed back, squeezing the younger girl gently in her arms as Michi nuzzled into her hair. "Me too," she admitted, with another nervous laugh. Holding onto her girlfriend was keeping some of it under control, but there was still a nervous tremble that she couldn't shake.

It was a big step, a big deal, but so was having a kid and they were already jumping headlong into that. She didn't see any reason to beat around the bush once they were in that deep together. "I figured.. ya know, maybe a summer weddin'.. or like, fall! If that ain't long enough, I dunno. I figured you'd.. pick out all of that important shit. I'll jus' find the cowboy hats," she grinned.

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"I gotta get you a proper ring! And we should pick out dresses! Oh and flowers and cake! I don't give a damn what kinda cake it is as long as it's cake," she laughed. "And Mack can give us away!"

"Really?! I always thought a summer weddin' would be nice! And Monkey can be like a proper little ring bearer," she cooed. "Yori can like carry him down the aisle in their little suits!" she giggled. "They're gonna be so fuckin cute, I'm gonna die," she laughed.

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"Yeah, you bet! We'll have all that shit, babe.. yer gonna look gorgeous in your dress," she replied, smiling slowly at the thought. "Y'all really want that bitch givin' us away?" she grinned. "Like she owns me or somethin'!"

Summer wedding meant that it was coming much faster, it gave them a lot less time to talk about things especially with everything else they had going on, but Hunter wasn't put off. They'd pull it off somehow, even if she wasn't totally sure how they were going to pay for it all yet either. She'd figure it out.

"Gonna be the cutest," she agreed. "He won't be old enough to remember it, but y'know.. he's gonna be there. That's pretty damn cool. Us and our boo."

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She laughed. "She is the closest thing to a dad I ever had," she joked. "Yer gonna look gorgeous too," she said pressing a little kiss against the other girl's neck.

"I wouldn't have it any other way," she said patting her tummy gently. Summer wasn't terribly far away but it didn't really phase her. It had only been months since she found out that she was going to be giving birth. That was the bigger change in her life. There was no way she wouldn't be able to prepare a wedding by the end of summer.

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"Ain't gonna be nothin' beside you.. c'mon now," Hunter replied softly, closing her eyes as the younger girl kissed her neck, making her shiver a little.

Stepping back a little, she looked down at Michi seriously, smiling slowly. "We'll figure it all out. Get them bitches to give us a hand.. we'll sort it out.. leave it to me. I'll make sure everything comes off without a hitch."

It was sort of a big promise to make, but she had every intention of making it true. From everything with Monkey, to their wedding, she wasn't going to fuck up.

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"You're full of it," she flushed, smiling like an idiot. "Yer always beautiful."

"We got this," she took Hunter's hands in her own and smiled big. "Ser's wicked smart, she'll be able to help and Tate's got that band, they could totally play at our wedding!" she said brightly. "We're gonna be alright."

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"I ain't full of it!" Hunter protested, grinning right back at her. "I never told a damn lie in my life."

She nodded her head in agreement. "We got Kia, too.. she's gonna have a shitfit when she finds out, she'll wanna plan the whole thing. I say we leave it up to her and Sera and jus' put our feet up?" she suggested, laughing. It was sort of what she had done with the babyshower, but she didn't think it would work for a whole wedding. But she didn't know she was going to be depending a lot on her friends for it still, even if they didn't do the whole thing. "We'll be fine, babe.. all ya need is love, right? Ain't that what the Beatles said? Think it's true?"

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"I snagged the hottest blonde bombshell this side of the Mississippi," she grinned. "Aint no way yer gonna look more amazing on our wedding day," she flushed. Their wedding day, she couldn't even believe it.

She laughed brightly. "Oh man, momma Kia will have our heads if we don't let her help. She's gonna want color schemes stat," she grinned. "Oooo! We should do peacock, like purple, green, and peach," she gushed.

"True enough," she grinned. "The Beatles always know what's up. I'm pretty sure they had it right."

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"Well, it's jus' lucky for me that y'all got a soft spot for hot blondes," Hunter grinned back, leaning forward to brush their noses together affectionately. "Big momma bear, she'll do a number on me if I leave her out.. good thing I couldn't be without her anyway," she laughed.

She nodded her head eagerly with color schemes. "I like peacock! It's like.. yer favorite color, my favorite color, and then.. peach. I love peaches, so there! Perfect, right?"

Though she was still nervous, she was getting more and more excited the more they talked about it. Color schemes were only half of the decision, they'd have a lot more things to pick out, things Hunter probably hadn't even though about yet. They'd need a wedding party, that would be something for sure. "It's gotta be true, they weren't no liars either."

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Michi pushed a bit of Hunter's hair behind her ear and kissed her lips gently.

"Big momma bear has been a real help anyways," she said patting her tummy. "I don't think we'd be half as aware and confident without her," she laughed.

"It is perfect!! It'll look so cute too!" she gushed about the color scheme. "Who's gonna be the best man and woman?!" she asked. "I think it should be Mack and Tater, they can argue about who the man is," she laughed.

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Hunter giggled, resting her hand briefly on Michi's belly as well. "I know I wouldn't know half the gross junk I do without momma bear.. she don't skip on the details," she laughed. Kia didn't really believe in letting her get off easy, and she had gotten her fair share of lectures and talks about how serious this all was since Kia had arrived on the campus. She was made well aware of all of the worst things awaiting them. "Makes me feel prepared, y'know.. like I got a game plan. Like when your water breaks, I won't even be confused! Cos y'know, I didn't know y'all could get water up in there before.."

Scrunching her face a little at the question of who would be best man and woman, Hunter tapped a finger absently against her chin. "Sure, I guess! I think we gotta make room for.. I dunno, Ser and Le in there! An' we gotta get Mari's ass in a dress, too!"

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"Yeah," she grinned, blushing gently. "I feel prepared too, game plan or not I feel much better about it," she put her hand over Hunter's and smiled. "We're gonna be a proper family and all," she grinned.

"Oh yeah! Can you imagine Le in a little tux?! He's gonna be so dang cute," she giggled. "Mari's definitely gotta get in there as well. We need one more," she said. "Even numbers. Oh my god and the guest list! Everyone is coming!" she giggled. "I can't wait!"

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"She's gonna be real helpful when Monkey gets big an' he starts gettin' into trouble too.. gonna be glad to have auntie Kia around then," Hunter smiled back. She was eternally grateful to have both of her surrogate sisters, even if Mack was a pain and Kia was a nag. She wouldn't be where she was without both of them. "Plus when he gotta get shots and all that stuff, he'll be mad at her an' not us! She'll be the one doin' it!"

Hunter couldn't help but laugh loudly at the thought of Le in a tux. "Maybe one of them t-shirts that got the tux painted on there," she giggled back. She tried to think for a moment on who they could use to even up the numbers, furrowing her brow a bit. "Even numbers? Well, we can always put miss momma bear herself in there. I'll take Mack an' Le, maybe Sera.. and y'all can have Mari, Kia an' Tater-tot. You three guys can make her look like a real girl for a day!"

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Michi laughed and nodded. "Oh I know, Monkey will be a handful but thanks to Kia we might know how to handle it. I do like that he'll be mad at her about the shots though," she laughed. "We can show up with lollipops afterwards and he'll be pleased as punch," he grinned.

She couldn't help but laugh at that. "Oh Le," she shook her head. "He probably already owns one of those little t-shirts," she shook her head. "Oh my stars yes! Tater in her little dresses is so cute!" she squealed.

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Hunter had been taking a moment to once again worry about how they were going to pull all of this off in the end, but the thought of Tatum in her 'little dresses' as Michi called them, made her burst out laughing loudly. "She looks like a kitten that got thrown in the damn bathtub when y'all see her in them dresses.. gonna make me laugh, even if it ain't good for much else!"

She was pretty excited too though, and she couldn't help but grin at the thought of getting everyone all ready and dressed up properly. She began to lead Michi back over to the bed, flopping down onto the edge and pulling the younger girl down with her. "We'll all look pretty fly. I dunno if we'll get Sera into a tux, might have to give her a dress.. or maybe a pantsuit, Clinton style."

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"Awwww," Michi cooed. "She won't look like a sad kitten," she giggled. She didn't know how they were going to do it but they had gotten through bigger hoops in the past. They would find a way and until then there would be wedding magazines and tons of planning.

Michi obliged, snuggling up close to Hunter as they sat back down on the bed together. "Sera can totally wear a dress though if anyone could rock the Clinton pantsuit it would totally be Ser," she laughed. "We need to get one of those check lists! Oh my god we're gonna have a million check lists," she laughed. "One of the wedding, one for Monkey, one for post-baby work outs," she laughed. "I do love check lists though," she rambled.

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Hunter's head was spinning with just the thought of all the lists and organization they were going to need to pull everything off. "Yeah, check lists.. lots of damn check lists," the tall blonde laughed, squinting her eyes closed for a few moments. "We're gonna be up to our eyeballs in shit we gotta do, but we'll get 'er done."

She was excited with the prospect, but a little bit intimidated too. They were definitely lucky that they had friends, and their own little hand-picked family, to help them along the way. Their own parents might be no help, but they had Mack and Kia, and Sera and Le. They had lots of people to help them, and they'd all get it done.

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