bad together | joe keery (2)

24: moving and questions

( note: sorry for the year and a half time skip lols / one more chapter then epilogue !)

"Where did you put the box with my shoes?" Valoria asked, her hands on her hips as she let out a small huff and turned to her boyfriend, who shrugged his shoulders as he folded up an emptied box that formerly held clothes.

"Its probably under the bed, that's where I stored most of the unopened boxes. You own so much more shit than I do."

"Hey! You've moved twice in your life, I've only moved once. Give me a break." She defended, bending down to pull out a large box from under the bed and began emptying it out in the closet.

After Joe and Valoria hit their two year mark and celebrated it with a weekend getaway at Disney, he finally asked her to move in with him. Valoria agreed almost instantly, seeing as she stayed at his house for the majority of her days, however wanted them to start fresh in a new apartment. They stayed in the same building, but did find a bigger and more suitable apartment for the both of them.

Once Valoria finished emptying out the shoes into the closet, she made her way to the completed living room and plopped down on the sofa with a sigh. Joe followed her lead minutes later, ordering late night cheeseburgers and fries for the two of them.

"Moving is so hard." Valoria said tiredly, resting her head on Joe's shoulder. He let out a small chuckle and wrapped his arm around her, pressing a chaste kiss to her forehead. "It'll be worth it though, baby, we finally have a place."

She grinned, tilting her head to look up at him. "I love you."

Joe affixed his gaze on her as he placed a soft kiss to her lips, "I love you."

His gaze wandered around the room after that, before finally saying, "Hey, there's a box in the bedroom that has something for the dining table. Its on the bed, can you grab it?"

"Why can't you?" Valoria whined, "I'm tired."

"Because you're the one decorating, you might think it belongs somewhere else." Joe chuckled, "Please go?"

She huffed but complied anyway, going to the bedroom with shuffling feet and tugging the box on the bed open. The brunette dug through the contents of the box, which was mainly miscellaneous objects that happened to be Joe's favorites, before her hand fell on a small, velvet jewelry box.

Her entire body froze, small tears welling up in her eyes before she could stop them. She clutched the velvet material between her finger tips tightly while her feet moved before her brain did as she ran to the living room and tossed herself onto the sofa beside Joe.

"Please tell me this is for me and not for some side thing you have going on with some other chick because so help me Joe if you have someone else I will kick you so hard." Valoria rambled, and Joe let out a loud laugh with slightly furrowed brows.

"As amusing as this is, I need to know what you're talking about." He said, and Valoria took in a breath as she scoffed. "Stop playing dumb! You know what I'm talking about!"

He laughed once again, his hands moving to cup the one that held the box as he took it from her grip and stood up.

"I bought this almost three months ago when I was out with Charlie. He told me it was way too soon but that same moment he said that you sent me a snap of you pouting because you came home to an empty bed after a long morning of shoots. That Snapchat picture was enough to make me look at Charlie and say that no one else in the world would be enough for me, because no one else was you, Val. And you're it for me."

He let out a breath he unknowingly held in as Valoria's lower lip began trembling. "I've been debating when to propose to you for a month now. The original plan was at Disney, but that was a massive cliche. The second one was last night after sex, but you fell asleep in my arms and I thought the moment was too good. This morning I thought I was going to take you out this weekend and do it, but you make me do crazy ass shit and now all I want is to ask you because I want to know you'll be mine forever."

Joe knelt down on one knee, his hands moving to prop open the small, velvet box that contained a ring Valoria could only dream about. Valoria wiped at her cheeks to rid them of the tears, however they didn't seem to be stopping anytime soon.

"Valoria Wolfhard, I'm in love with you. I have been, for almost three years. When we first met and I gave you that yellow sweater that was huge on you, I knew you were it. You gave me that shy smile and your cheeks flushed and all I could think was, 'this girl is fucking beautiful and I want to make her mine'. Througout those prank wars, the on set lunches, and the late nights where you, Natalia, David, and I would talk about anything, I fell for you harder than I've fallen for anyone else. I thought you were a fling, but then I realized you were so much more. I finally had you after so much struggle, but in that week that I lost you, I realized just how much I needed you. I don't want anyone else to have, and I can't stand the idea of you walking away and finding anyone else. The entire concept of you meeting someone new and letting me go fills me with a massive mix of anger and jealousy that I never want to actually have to experience. I want you to grow old with me and have children with me and love me forever, because I know I'll spend forever loving you. Valoria Wolfhard, will you marry me?"

Valoria nodded, her arms flying out to wrap around Joe's neck as she buried her head into his chest, "Yes, oh my fuck, yes. Yes."

Joe chuckled as he wrapped his arms around her, keeping them in that position for a moment before she pulled away and gave Joe the largest smile with watery eyes. "I love you so, so, so, so much, Joesph Keery. Always."

He grinned as he slipped the ring onto her finger, "I love you so fucking much."

She kissed him instantly, this kiss different from all the ones before. This one held promise, held forever, held hope. Joe and Valoria were forever, and now it was official.