Aww mc! Au sonny bringing his gfs Dad to the house! That sounds adorable and cute

carisi-dreams:

it’s so cute!! sonny is so sweet & thoughtful. [mentioned here & here]

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His girlfriend’s dad walked around the house slowly. He paused every once in awhile to open a cabinet, knock against a wall or inspect the ceiling. Sonny walked around behind him nervously and tried to emanate confidence. It was a nice house. Big enough that it wouldn’t feel cramped for the two of them, with the possibility of space when they started having children, but not too big that it would be overwhelming to maintain. The backyard needed a lot of work and the kitchen was outdated, but Sonny was confident enough that he could pull off most of the repairs himself. The entire place needed a serious deep cleaning after having sat on the market for the last several months after being foreclosed on, but that’s what prospects were for.

“Hmm,” the older man mused to himself as he stood in what would become their main bedroom. Sonny looked around and tried to see it through new eyes. It wasn’t the fanciest place in the world and now he was beginning to feel like getting his girlfriend’s dad’s approval was going to be tougher than getting the bank to sell it to him.

“It needs work,” Sonny repeated. “But I can do most of the repairs myself. Have the prospects clean it up…I’d get it in much better shape before we moved in and then spend time updating each room methodically.”

“Mm-hmm,” the other man agreed before turning to look at Sonny with a piercing expression. “What exactly do you want from me, Sonny?”

Sonny concentrated on not fidgeting or dropping his gaze lest any of his nervousness work against him. “Your opinion…do you like it? Do you think she’ll like? Once it’s cleaned up and updated and stuff…?” Her dad just looked at him and he continued on. “I want to make her happy and take care of her—for forever if she’ll let me, but…you’ve been looking after her for her entire life. It matters what you think. To her and to me, sir.”

“It needs a lot of work,” he agreed as he ran a hand over his chin roughly. “A lot. Are you sure you’re up to it?”

“Yes, sir. There’s odds and ends I can get from work. I have all of the tools and the skills and anything I can’t do I know who to reach out to. The city had someone do an inspection and I brought in a friend a couple of days ago to do one as well. I, um…I just want to make her happy. Do the right thing and take care of your daughter,” Sonny confirmed as he jammed his hands into his pockets. 

The other man walked closer to Sonny and clapped him on the shoulder. “Trust your gut, son. It’s a good house, nice firm foundation and a backyard. I think she’ll love it, but quite frankly I don’t know if that means much. Something tells me you could buy a tent and set it up in an abandoned lot and she’d still love it,” he said wryly. Sonny heaved a sigh of relief and made a show of wiping his brow with the back of his hand.

“Well, I do want your approval so I think we’ll stick with this. Although a tent would definitely be cheaper.”