Kansas City, MO, Monday Evening

[vanillajello]

Tara and Max had been spending their holiday weekend in a productive way, by finally cleaning the garage and sorting out the crap that had been accumulating in there for almost two decades now.

And long story short, after a quick trip to OP, Kate was now sitting on the bed safely back at the apartment going through a big box of stuff she hadn't seen in years and years. "Ohhh my God."

A diary from when she was five? Priceless.

[ooc: NFB, but open for the guy and calls and texts and stuff!]

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[therewaslife]

"What are you looking at?" asked Bod, coming over to peer inside the box. "Is that from your parents house?"

[vanillajello]

"Garage treasure trove," Kate confirmed. At a quick glance, the box seemed to be mostly My Little Ponies, notebooks, drawings, and assorted small stuff a young girl might like. Like a little Kate time capsule. "This was way in the back."

[therewaslife]

"And what are you going to do with it all?" Bod asked, picking through a few things idly. "Give them to Seamus?"

[vanillajello]

Kate looked mock affronted. "I would never! I'm gonna look through them, and then I'm gonna see which I actually wanna keep and what goes back to my parents so I can pretend they're not getting thrown away."

[therewaslife]

"And what will you do with the ones you keep?" he asked, lowering himself onto his knees to help her go through the box. "Should I clear a shelf on one of the bureaus?"

[vanillajello]

"I don't know," she admitted, putting the diary down in her lap so she could pick up a drawing with... were those dinosaurs? Drawn in fetching purple and pink. "I mean I'll probably just put them in a smaller box and bury them in the closet."

[therewaslife]

"I sometimes wish I had things like these," he said, picking up one of the My Little Pony figures and giving it a smile.

[vanillajello]

Kate gave him a smile that was a bit more on the wry side. "Yeah, not really big on typical modern day child stuff in a graveyard, are they?"

[therewaslife]

"Not really," he said, shaking his head and waving the My Little Pony at Seamus who had come toddling up to stick his nose in the box too. "I had a few things that I tended to find around the area but nothing like this. Silas didn't keep a box of memories."

[vanillajello]

"Whereas I'm pretty sure I still have like half my childhood stashed away in boxes in Overland Park." Hell, a lot of it was still in her old room, even. "We were really bad about throwing anything away. Maybe because there was so much Mom couldn't even remember."

[therewaslife]

"Understandable," Bod said with a nod. "Maybe they kept it just in case you needed it for some strange reason in the future."

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted. "Yeah, maybe," she said, picking up the diary again, flipping to a random page and looking at it. "Because I really needed to know that 'Mosh' was dumb, D-U-M with no B, because..."

She squinted at the diary.

"Yeah, I can't even tell what that says."

[therewaslife]

"Mosh, huh?" Bod leaned over to peer at the diary and...Seamus nudged in to join them because he was a puppy. "Is that a brother I haven't met yet?"

He knew who it was.

[vanillajello]

Kate snickered and gave him a little nudge with her shoulder for that one.

"Funny."

[therewaslife]

"Poor Mosh," Bod quipped with a little laugh. "So unloved when he was a child."

[vanillajello]

"Oh, I'm sure there's something in here somewhere about really liking him," Kate replied, waving the diary at him. "Like if he's shared a cookie with me or something."

[therewaslife]

"Oh, did you write about your tiny boyfriends?" Bod asked, snickering. "I'd love to hear about them."

[vanillajello]

"Oh God, please, as if I had tiny boyfriends," she scoffed as she shook her head. "What kind of a girl do you take me for?"

Exactly the kind who'd try and get married in someone's backyard at six years old.

[therewaslife]

"The kind who probably had a tiny boyfriend or two," Bod replied with a shrug. "Call it a hunch."

[vanillajello]

"Based on?"

She was already flipping through the diary to see if she could spot any actual mentions.

It seemed like about half the diary was actually drawings of various things. Like butterflies, and flowers, and horsies.

[therewaslife]

"Doesn't a hunch mean its not based on anything but intuition?" Bod asked. "So, intuition."

[vanillajello]

"Intuition could still be vaguely based on something," she argued. Although not too seriously. "So, I thought it might be."

[therewaslife]

"It's based on the thought that you were most likely an adorable little girl and tiny boys would be stupid not to notice you," Bod replied.

[vanillajello]

"I did get, like, all the Valentine's ever in grade school," Kate admitted with a shrug. "Yeah, I was pretty adorable. But that's obvious, because I still am."

[therewaslife]

"And I'm sure your ego hasn't dimmed one iota since childhood either," Bod quipped, snickering.

[vanillajello]

"Hey now, I didn't have as much of an ego as a kid!"

Well, not quite, anyway. She'd always been healthily confident.

"That's a more recent development."

[therewaslife]

"Still, I can't ever see you not being confident," he said and reached over to brush his thumb along her cheek. "You're too confident for that."

[vanillajello]

Kate tilted her face towards his hand. Just a reflex at this point, like she was trying to nuzzle his thumb.

"Maybe."

[therewaslife]

"There's nothing wrong with being confident," he told her, smiling. "I like it."

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted. "Well of course you do. I don't think we'd be together anymore if you didn't."

[therewaslife]

"I know but I just felt like telling you as much," he said, brushing this thumb against her cheek a moment longer before dropping his hand and shifting things in the box.

[vanillajello]

Unearthing more stuff like unicorn drawings. The ones near the bottom had glitter on them.

"And I do like hearing it, boyfriend," Kate assured him with a smirk. "Just in case it ever changes."

[therewaslife]

"It won't," Bod assured her, brushing some glitter off his fingers and laughing. "There are a lot of interesting things in this box."

[vanillajello]

"I knooow." She finally spotted something in the diary. "Ooh. Here, I found one tiny boyfriend! Jamie. I'm pretty sure that says Jamie."

Her spelling had not been the greatest.

"Says here he kissed me, aww."

[therewaslife]

"Wow, he started young," Bod said, snickering. "Was he your first kiss?"

[vanillajello]

Kate shrugged. "Who knows?"

Who could remember all those kisses, come on.

"I have no recollection of this. But I've written that he smelled nice."

[therewaslife]

"I remember my first kiss," he said, leaning over and kissing the top of her head before getting to his feet again. Seamus wound his way around his ankles, barking a bit.

[vanillajello]

"Was it me?" Kate asked, looking up. "Even if it wasn't, you should say it was."

[therewaslife]

"It was," Bod said, reaching down and picking Seamus up to kiss his fuzzy head. "And I'm not saying that because you told me either. Besides the kisses that my family gave me, it was you."

[vanillajello]

"Awww. It's an honor." She would think that. "You gonna go take the little guy for a walk?"

[therewaslife]

"I thought I might," Bod said, nodding. "Mostly, so he doesn't chew up your things and because he hasn't been out in awhile and I'd rather not clean up any puppy messes."

Seamus barked, taking exception to the the idea that he made messes!

[vanillajello]

Kate snickered at the puppy. "I think he's offended," she said. "Even though you're right. No messes, thank you."

[therewaslife]

"You keep looking through your box," Bod said, walking over towards the door to grab the leash. "We'll be back shortly to help, I'm sure."

[vanillajello]

"I will try not to get buried under nostalgia!"

Hey, these things happened.

"But if I do, tell my parents they need to stop hoarding stuff."

[therewaslife]

Bod chuckled and blew her a kiss before he opened the door and had to run out the door since Seamus took off like a shot.

Ah, puppies.

[vanillajello]

Kate laughed at them both before going back to her very important work.

Ah, life was pretty good.