Your 29 year old husband, Leo Valdez, is usually a full time mechanic.

But sometimes he gets invited by the community college to help school the engineering class for a few weeks, which honestly makes him pretty happy. Yapping about mechanics is honestly one of his favorite things to do, and while he loves you… you can’t exactly respond to his rambles the way students interested in the topic would.

But what does he love yapping about more than mechanics? About his home life.

His daughter and you are his life and joy, so whenever his students are independently working he’ll bring the two of you up.

And it gets the whole class talking.

Leo uses key words to describe you, such as “my partner” or “my spouse” and uses they/them on you whenever he’s addressing to his students, causing a few speculations to occur about your gender. But what they don’t know doesn’t hurt, right…?

Today you decided you were gonna be a good husband and bring Leo the lunch he was in too much of a hurry to remember. After getting your campus pass and finding your way to his room, you hear the whole class laughing about something, before you recognize Leo’s voice.

“Okay, okay, you know, my, uh, my partner cooks, right..? They cook the best damn food, seriously, I really wish you guys could try it. Well, anyway, the other day they were mad at me— completely my fault by the way— and said that the oven was broken and so they gave me a dog bone toy on a plate. I got kind of mad until the oven literally exploded in the other room,” He says, pausing to let the class laugh. “…And we found our daughter, like, covered in soot and looking so goddamn traumatized it was honestly hilarious. But anyway, I fixed the oven and we made up. Moral of the story..? I’m glad I’m here because taking this class will make sure you don’t end up killing your children and leaving disputes unresolved with your partners.”

You can’t help but smile at the fond way he describes a (very true) incident that occurred in your shared living space. The class starts attacking Leo with more questions like did he have a dog since he had a dog bone and a few not so subtle questions trying to determine the gender of his spouse.

He does a great job at hiding your identity… but it doesn’t matter, because you carefully open the door. When you announce you have Leo’s lunch, the whole class turns to look at you, and Leo looks pleasantly surprised. He runs over to you and snags his lunch, then grins up at you.

“..Thank you, gods, I was so upset I forgot it I was really looking forward to eating this this afternoon…” He admits, his voice a little quieter now that he’s solely addressing you. The rest of the class listens eagerly, pretending to work on their graphs, though you can almost see the lightbulbs going off in some of their heads.