To say this was not the reaction Alfred had been envisioning when he had first decided to bring this up was an understatement. Evander looked as though he had a stress headache coming on. At least Zelda wasn't here to witness his reaction; small mercies, because Alfred was sure she wouldn't have been amused. "Well, don't look too pleased," he said with an exasperated huff. He leaned one elbow on the table and tried to decide whether the conversation was over or not. Evander looked as though he wanted to be alone in a dark room for the foreseeable future, but Alfred felt trying to excuse himself would have been conspicuous.
"Congratulations, I guess," he added, as an afterthought.
"Congratulations, I guess," he added, as an afterthought.
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER