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“Darryl! Why the ffff.... fudge is our daughters second name Apple?!” The next week after the decision to get married was pretty mundane and quiet. Autumn kept both of them busy, they didn’t stream or record since they had so much to get used to. Zak got the hang of it, mostly. He was the one to calm down Autumn when she started to cry... and after that Darryl had to calm him down. But in all honesty, he did not cry as much when she cried anymore! And that was what Zak called progress!... but then he found the adoption papers and the new birth certificate.
“Uuuuum...” Darryl picked from around the corner and Zak had to hold back laughter because... Apple. Apple. Really? However, Darryl had a brush stuck in his hair and was holding the baby, rocking her gently. Cute. “Okay, look. They asked me for her second name, I panicked and said the first thing that came to mind... but it’s Autumn Apple a cute name?”
“Oh my God, Bad.” Zak groaned and rolled his eyes, coming over with the papers. “She is going to be bullied!”
“...If someone tries to bully her, I will deal with them.” Darryl promised seriously, his eyes narrowing behind his glasses. “But really, Zak, who even tells people their second name anymore?”
“I do trust that you will protect her, so will I, but...”
“Zak, what’s your second name?”
“I- okay, yeah, I get your point.” Zak huffed and in vengeance decided to pull on the hairbrush in Darryl’s hair, making the older wince. “Autumn Apple it is! But just so you know that is such a ‘My Little Pony’ name.”
“Oh, when are you gonna let that go?” Darryl whined, tilting his head down and finally allowing Zak to get the hairbrush. “It’s a good show! And a man can like My Little Pony and Attack on Titan at the same time!”
“Whatever you say, dear future husband!” Zak purred, putting the papers down and taking Autumn from Darryl. He did not notice the way his friend covered his mouth, looking away to hide his blush.
Darryl could not say that it did not hurt, because it was obvious Zak did not have the same feelings for him. But it did not matter. He was doing this for Autumn and for Zak. Besides, marriages between best friends are statistically way more successful and happy.
“Bad...” Zak sent Darryl a suspicious glance as the older man picked up his coffee cup. “Can you count?”
“What type of question even is that?”
“I doubt you sometimes, Bad!” Zak laughed as Darryl huffed in offence, but smiled at Autumn who just stared back, attempting to copy his smile. “What I meant is, don’t drink too much coffee. If you’re tired you can nap. You stayed up late, and I can handle it.”
“Now that is something I doubt. You stayed up with me-“
“I fell asleep half-way through the movie.”
“Knew it! That’s besides the point, I’ll be fine! I can stop before... you know.” Darryl chuckled awkwardly, leaning back and looking away.
“Ah, yes! Before drunkboyhalo!”
“Shush! And don’t look at my like that! I’m not that tired.”
“Yet.” Zak said with a very snug grin as he nuzzled his nose into Autumn’s tummy making the girl laugh. Over the week it became quite natural: Darryl and Zak would be bickering and then one of them would do something to make Autumn laugh. It felt right.
“Yet.” The older agreed, rolling his eyes. “I promise I won’t let myself get to that far, Geppy. And for the record, this is just my 2nd cup.”
“Eeeh... okay, I’ll take that. For now.” Zak yawned softly, and leaned on the counter beside Darryl. “What are we doing today?”
“Well... we ought to tell our friends at some point. The Dream Team and Ant already know about Autumn, but they don’t know about marriage.”
“At some point, though. Not now. I wanna keep you two all to myself for now!” Zak took Autumn from Darryl’s hands and smiled. “I wanna go to the park before nap time!”
“Ooh! Good idea! Let’s take the doggos too!”
“Of course! I’ll go get Tumns changed!” Zak twirled around with the girl making faces at her to make her laugh. “Yes, my sweet apple! We are going to the park! And taking the doggos! You wanna see Lucy and Rocco play, don’t you?”
Darryl laughed, watching Zak with fondness. He was naturally amazing with the baby, knowing how to make her happy, how to make her laugh. Just watching him with Autumn caused a warm fire bloom in his chest. Although it always bloomed when he was with Zak. During recordings, during streams, when he watched Zak laugh about something, when he covered his smile with sweater paws, when he dyed his hair, when he yelled at Quackity for messing with him, when they played Bedwars and laughed and teased each other till they were both breathless. When they met up for the first time and Skeppy spend the first hour pouting upon finding out that Bad was taller than him, when they played Mario cart and watched horror movies, when they pranked Twitter by Skeppy saying that he never actually went... and when Zak locked Darryl out of his own house and then laughed so hard, he nearly fainted. Darryl had to get in through the window and help his best friend.
“Baaad! Hellooo!” Zak snapped Darryl out of his lovesick gaze by snapping his fingers right in front of his face. “Where are you flying at?”
“Huh? Oh, I just...” Darryl blushed, and chuckled nervously looking away. “I just remembered when you almost passed out from laughing after locking me out of my house...”
“Oh, psh, yeah! I was on the floor!” Zak smiled, watching as Autumn held onto his finger with her tiny little hand and reached for Darryl with another.
“You scared the muffins out of me!” Darryl grumbled coming over to take the girl’s free hand. “One minute you’re dying of laughter and the other there’s a bang and you are groaning in pain!... her hands are soft and tiny...”
“That’s weird actually. Cause you’re the one who gets lightheaded and dizzy more often. Especially when you laugh a lot.” Zak leaned on Darryl humming quietly. “Yes, it’s so adorable. And the way she grasps and holds on... I just love her so much.”
“Mm, yeah. It’s always like that with you though, so it’s no worries. Your dizziness was the cause of not eating breakfast.” Zak pouted and stuck his tongue out at the older man. Of course, he knew that he was right but no way he was going to admit it. “Don’t worry, I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again... yeah, me too. It’s impossible not to love her. Our princess.”
“Thanks, Darryl. I feel like that will never happen because your food is the best. Yeah... yeah, she is.” They fell silent watching as Autumn kept giggling quietly, just happy to hold their fingers. “We should go...”
“We should.”
Neither of them moved or said anything else. Darryl sighed happily, putting his head on Zak’s shoulder. Autumn blinked up at them and smiled brightly, bubbling softly. She let go of Zak’s hand and in return he cupped her cheek softly, then moving to pet her raven hair.
“Okay, how about we continue to marvel over her at the park?” Darryl asked moving away, making Autumn whine. “Aww, my little cinnamon. It’s okay, I’m here-“
“Daddy’s not going anywhere.” Zak teased, making Darryl chuckle softly and smirk back him.
“And for now, your Mummy-“ Zak chocked on air, scaring Autumn, and whipped around to glare at a very smug Darryl. “Is here for you as well.”
“Shut up, Bad- but yes. We are always here for you, Princess. I’ll go change her into a dress. And you should change that T-shirt too.” Zak made a show off looking Darryl up and down, giggling quietly and the dirty T-shirt. In return his fiancé rolled his eyes at him and nodded, mumbling “You too.” before leaving the room. “Come on, little Apple, we gotta get you dressed... oh, muffins! He’s right! It does make a very cute nickname!”
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Zak had dressed Autumn in a pretty purple a tine-tiny white apron and managed to get her puffy hair up and clip it with a flower hair clip. In short, she looked absolutely adorable.
Darryl drives them as usual, the dogs rusting in the back sit. Or rather, Rocco did while Lucy stared at him with a sense of weird superiority that all small dogs, and as Darryl thought — Zak, have. Rocco gracefully allowed Lucy to think she was the leader and ignored her chewing on his tail.
September in Florida was amazing. It was warm and still pretty hot, as Zak said perfect temperature. Although Darryl preferred the cold since he loved winter and snow. But for now her have to deal with the sun and lots of sunscreen, since in September it was still about 27°C.
The park was only 15 minutes away by car, but Darryl knew Zak would not want to walk, especially with Autumn and the dogs. Maybe when they get a proper stroller, they had a carrier like a baby car seat but were yet to buy a proper stroller. And yet their house was full of toys, baby clothes, diapers and baby food. Which neither of them minded, of course.
“You know what?” Zak murmured as Darryl put his hand around his sit to look behind them while parking.
“Mm?”
“We should get her more onesies. She looks adorable in onesies!”
“We should.” Darryl agreed, parking and stepping out of the car. He took both of the dogs and then extended a hand for Zak, even though the younger did not need it. It was just manners... and the fact that they were engaged.
Darryl was not exactly sure how he was supposed to act. In private especially. Since in public they were definitely playing a couple, at least as far as Darryl putting his hand on Zak’s waist or just holding his hand... and he absolutely could not control the blushing, but that happened in private as well. They were always close. They cuddled last time they met up but now it had a whole new meaning and it was a bit... awkward.
Either way.
They settled under an Ivy tree next to a pond because Zak wanted to show Autumn the duckies and Darryl thought no one would bother them there. Usually it would be a struggle to keep Rocco from getting into the water because he was a labradoodle, however this time, all the dog was focused on was the baby girl and Lucy.
Darryl brought a bottle for Autumn and sandwiches for Zak and him. And a Polaroid camera. Zak wanted to get bread for the duckies too but Darryl told him that bread is bad for ducks.
“Hold her up. I want to take a photo of you two.” Darryl picked up the camera, checking that it has ink and special paper in.
“Aww! Making memories?”
“Of course! I want to make a photo album later. Plus she looks adorable. You look adorable. It’s perfect.” Darryl purred snapping a picture and turning slightly red. Zak raised his eyebrows and cleared his throat but did not comment.
“She does look adorable... OH MY GOD!” Darryl immediately looked up from the photograph he was waving in the air to clear.
“What?!”
“We need to get her a Duckie onesie!”
“Zak.” The older groaned and narrowed his eyes. His heart almost jumped out of his chest. “Never scare me like that again. I thought something bad has happened.”
“Oh. Sorry.” Zak giggled making guilty puppy eyes. “I’m sorry, Bad. Forgive me, Bad. I won’t do it again, Bad.”
“Okay, stop saying Bad-“ Darryl hissed, moving closer and turning the Polaroid to take a picture together. “You know you can just call me Darryl, right?”
“Yeah, I know. It’s just I am more used to calling you Bad.” Zak shrugged smiling to the camera. “I’ll try to...you know...”
“It’s fine, Zak.” Darryl gently nudged the younger with his head and then turned his full attention to Autumn. “Wanna show her the duckies now?”
“Oh! Yes!” Zak stood up, carrying the happy baby girl towards the water and looked back towards Darryl who stayed sitting. “What are you waiting for? Come on!”
Bad laughed softly and stood up following his fiancé, the dogs looked up at them, Lucy making a small yap but got shooshed by Darryl. However, Rocco licked her to comfort the Maltese.
Crows croaked, awakened by the distant barely audible noise of a passing train, shouting something violently in his trail. If the birds had not spoken, no one would have guessed that it had passed. The iron horse ran away, but the disgruntled birds disturbed the silence and high hoarse “ka-ar, ka-ar” for a long time. Gradually they calmed down, and silence fell again. Only one, apparently the most displeased, flew away, leaving the rest to sit in the trees.
A light breeze made Zak shiver, and Darryl immediately frowned, draping his hoodie over his shoulders.
The water in the pond was clear. Zak shifted, lifting Autumn, so she could see the muddy bottom, algae, driftwood, large stones that have somehow got there. Since the day was warm Autumn could see flocks of small gray fish scurrying along the bottom. The girl immediately made a happy noise and reached for the movement, not quite comprehending what exactly it was.
There was a sound of something landing on the water. Then another, and another, and another. Splashes flew in different directions, forming circles and lines on the pond. Zak smiled and leaned on Darryl, as Autumn made small excited gasps.
“Hey, Darl?”
“Mm?”
“How many ducks are there?”
“Uuuh, I don’t- Seriously?!” Darryl pouted after he counted the ducks that landed on the water. 14 ducks had visited the pond. Seven males with green heads in a parandom uniform and more modest females in brown elegant dresses. They swam in the pond, quacking all the time.
“Fourteen.” Zak giggled, kissing Autumns head. “It never stops being funny, doesn’t it?”
“I am not going to answer that.”
After a while, two ducks separated and swam to the shore, trying to hide in cattail. While diving, they began to get food: algae, duckweed and other edible plants. Two more ducks soon joined them. Sinking to their waist, dropping their heads and leaving an amusingly protruding tail on the surface, they moved their heads in the water in search of familiar food. This went on for about ten minutes. During which Zak and Darryl were both surrounded in silence, which only was interrupted by Autumn’s quiet bubbling. The dining ducks, although they were most likely eating breakfast or lunch, were constantly changing, distributed in groups, in places with food. Apparently they thought that the food of others tasted better. It was impossible to track one duck. They now and then hid in plants or came to the banks of green wide and long leaves, with yellow flowers, miraculously kept afloat.
Suddenly, with an indignant quack, all the ducks broke loose, creating many lines on the water and flew to another more distant part of the pond. Somewhere out of sight, a safer place.
Autumn’s eyes immediately filled with tears, as she reached for the flying birds. She seemed to really like it.
“Aww, sweetie.” Zak mumbled, pressing the girl closer. “It’s okay, don’t cry. Rocco scared them away... but we can come again and see them.”
“Should I get her bottle?” Darryl asked, giving his hand to the girl to hold to calm her. “She gets her love for duckies from you-“
“You love ducks too, shush.” Zak answered, fully focused on not crying himself and calming the girl. He really did not want to start crying too. “Shh, little cinnamon, sweet apple. Don’t cry. I’m here, I- um...”
“Zak, can I hold her?”
“Wait, a second, I have an idea. Autumn! Tumns! Look at me, my cinnamon!” Zak lifted the girl, so she would be at eye level with him and smiled. “Quack!”
Darryl made a low happy hum, a proud smile growing on his lips. This was the first time Zak handled a crying crisis all by himself, without crying, and he did it so easily. Darryl watched as Zak continued quacking until the girl stopped crying watching him, wonder in her big green eyes, and then he joined in as well. Autumn loves that, her eyes growing bigger and a smile finally appearing.
“There we go.” Darryl whispered as Zak got out a few more quacks. “A smile suits you way more than tears, Tumns. That was amazing, Zak. I’m so proud of you.”
“Oh, um... thanks.” Zak settled Autumn in his arms comfortably, supporting her head and turned to Darryl. “I learned from the best.”
“Well, I do suppose you’re my best student.”
“You suppose?”
“I know so.” Darryl purred, moving a little closer. He wanted to kiss Zak, at least ok the cheek, but instead he settled on simply, tickling Autumn.
“Aww, you two have such a cute baby!” The pair froze, Darryl turned and Zak stared over Darryl’s shoulder. There was an elderly lady staring at them with a sweet smile.
“Thank you...?” Zak mumbled, suddenly growing shy. They were out in public before but never actually had someone come up to them.
“How long have you two been married?”
“We are engaged, actually.” Darryl answered carefully, his hand sliding across Zak’s lower back and curling around his waist.
“Oh! Wonderful!” The old lady clapped her hands and leaned in a little to coo at Autumn. Zak pressed the girl closer and cuddled to Darryl not liking the action much. “Well, she- it’s a her, right?”
When the woman got the nod she wanted, she continued on:
“She is adorable! What’s her name?”
“Autumn.”
“That’s an usual name!”
“Yeah, my fiancé came up with iii...t.” Darryl noticed the somewhat expecting gaze the lady was giving them and sighed, bring his lips close to Zak’s ear. “She expects us to kiss.”
“Wha- Bad! No!” Zak whisper yelled back, hoping that the woman would not hear, as she was too focused on Autumn.
“I am not saying that we should do it, because I’d never force you to do anything. But we are engaged and you should expect it next ti-“
“Oh, just shut up and do it.” Zak hissed glaring up at Darryl. He nodded when the older raised an eyebrow asking if he really is okay with it and waited for Darryl to lean in.
The kiss was awkward. Like... really really really awkward.
Probably because Zak made a pretty mouth, making teasing kissing noises at first but when Darryl’s lips actually touches his, he froze. It looked very childish to be honest.
Darryl only kept his lips on Zak’s for about 5 seconds before pulling away. Mainly because Zak did not close his eyes or move the position of his mouth, his lips still pursed together and making a weird position.
Oh, Goodness this was going to be hard.
Zak dated before. Darryl knew that. Why was he... not to be mean, but why was he so bad at kissing? He did not move, he just froze and made that weird thing with his lips. Was it because Darryl was a man? Or just because Zak did not have any romantic intimacy with anyone in a while?
Either way. That was something to work on later.
“Zak, darling, I know kissing me always makes you dazed, but could you please unfreeze?” Darryl said softly, glancing at the lady with an apologetic smile before turning his affection towards Zak. “Zak?”
“Aha...”
“I’m sorry, I think he needs to sit down.” Darryl chuckled softly, turning to the woman. “
“No worries. You two are really cute. Have a nice day!” The woman walked away and Darryl lead Zak back to the tree helping him sit down. He decided to give Zak some time and took Autumn to feed her, since it was her lunchtime anyway.
They set in silence for a while, Rocco walked over and out his head on Zak’s thigh. Autumn happily drank her milk and proceeded to play with Darryl’s T-shirt after.
“Okay, Zak, you’re starting to worry me.... Geppy?”
“I’m... fine.” Zak finally unfroze, blinking rapidly and focusing his eyes on Darryl.
“You were hardly blinking and staring into space.”
“Was I?” Zak frowned, shaking his head to break the daze. “Sorry, I- god, that was so embarrassing.”
“Heh, yeah... a bit. It’s fine now though.” Darryl shrugged, sighing softly. His free hand grazed over his lips absentmindedly, as he remembered the brief feeling of Zak’s lips. “Eat your sandwich. I think it’s better to head home soon. Tumns is due for her nap soon...”
“Yeah...”
“And if I am being honest, I would make you nap as well. If it was up to me.” Zak turned to send Darryl a poker face but was met with a mischievous glint in his eyes and could not help but smile.
“Oh, you shut up!”
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“Um, Bad?” They were home now and Autumn was down in her crib for her nap. Rocco laying by the legs of the crib, guarding the child just in case. And Lucy sleeping on him just because it was warm. Darryl took a photo before leaving the room, for the collection he was making. So far he had three.
“Yeah?”
“I was thinking... shouldn’t we practice?” Zak hanged himself over the back of the couch, lips curled in a confident smirk as he stared at Darryl who came out of the kitchen holding two cups with jasmine tea.
Zak has spent most of the ride back home, silently thinking about this. It was on his mind, and he really wanted to...
“Practice what?” Darryl raised his eyebrows, and Zak honestly could not tell if he was pretending to not understand or if he actually did not know what the younger meant. He could never tell with Darryl. He was too good at the innocent act by now.
Zak sent Darryl a look, as the older took his sweet time walking around the couch and placing the cups down. “Bad! You know what I mean!”
“I think it’s a bit too early to practice wedding vows, Geppy.” Darryl smirked as he sat down, cradling one cup in his hands.
“...you are a bitch, Badboyhalo. Fuck you.” Zak hissed turned away from his fiancé, although he could not help but smile when he heard Darryl’s offended gasp.
“Language! Do not say that! Why would you say that?! Okay, language times 5! And I am not talking to you!” Darryl sounded genuinely upset now and Zak whipped around in instant reaching for Darryl and frowning when the older shrugged him off.
“Hi.” Zak whispered, poking the older in the cheek and pouting when he got no reaction. “I miss you.”
Darryl did not reply again, and turned away but Zak continued poking him, this time on his back. It was pretty awkward as both of them were silent.
“I can hear your smile.” Zak said not even trying to hide the fondness in his voice anymore.
“Don’t talk to me.”
“I can hear your smile.” Zak breathed out through soft laughter as he draped himself over Darryl’s shoulders.
“Don’t talk to me.” Darryl grumbled angrily, Zak giggled quietly, and started to trace ‘Im sorry’ into Darryl’s shoulders. “No, I don’t wanna hear it. Go away.”
When the tracing did not stop the older hissed, tried and failed to shake Zak off:
“Go away, stop. Go away. I see what you’re trying to do. Go away. Stop, stop! No!” At this point he had turned to face Zak and the younger immediately leached onto him. “Stop. Stop. No, no, leave me alone!”
Zak smiled even wider, putting his hands on Darryl’s cheeks and pulling lightly, irritating Bad even more:
“No, you said something mean, go away!” Darryl scowled and actively avoiding Zak’s eyes, because he knew the moment he looked in them, he’d melt. “Shoo. Shoo, go away! Geppy this isn’t funny! Go away!”
His voice was muffled due the fact that Zak was squishing his face, still not saying anything: “You said a naughty word, you didn’t even say sorry. You just said it and now you’re trying to be mean.”
Zak stuck his tongue out, immediately tracing more of his ‘im sorry’ letters into Darryl’s, this time all over his cheeks and forehead. “Oh, yeah, you’re saying sorry on my skin...”
Zak pursed his lips trying to hide his smile, Darryl did not even sound mad anymore. He was just being stubborn which was honestly - their normal.
“Darryl.”
“Are you really sorry?” Darryl finally looked up and allowed Zak to see that his lips were twitching as he tried to contain his smile.
“Yes.” His voice bright with contained laughter.
“You promise never to say that word again?”
“I won’t say it to you ever again.” Zak pressed his cheeks to Darryl’s happy that his fiancé was talking to him again.
“Will you never say it in your entire life ever again?” The soft reply made Zak giggle as he shifted to look into the ender eyes of the man in front of him.
“I can’t promise I will never ever say it again, but I will try.”
“Good enough.” Darryl finally smiled openly and started petting Zak’s hair. “So you were saying?”
“Uuuh... I forgot...um... um... Oh! We should practice kissing!” He watched as Darryl’s eyebrows flew up and blushed covered his cheek, and giggled in embarrassment. “So I don’t... freeze up on you again.”
“Alright. So um...” Darryl turned a bit and up his hand on Zak’s shoulder.
“How do we do this?” Zak blurted out, watching Darryl’s lips but not knowing what to do.
“Have you not kissed before? I swear you had girlfriends before...”
“I have not kissed a guy before!” Zak groaned in embarrassment And covered his face peeking out from behind his fingers. “Well... before like an hour ago...”
“Same thing, Zak...” Darryl said, prying the younger’s hands away from his face and holding them softly. “As Vurb would say... just kiss me, so I can really feel it in my toes.”
“Really? Really, Darryl? You had to phrase it like that.” Zak deadpanned watching as Darryl dissolved into laughter at Zak’s reaction. He freed one hand and punched the other’s chest a few times for good measure. “You’re so stupid, shut up.”
“Okay, okay... so this kiss. I want it to be... hot-“
“Bad! How do you know that word?!” Zak gasped in fake offense and now he was the one who received a ‘Really?’ look. “Never mind... do go on. Please.”
“And now you’re talking all polite, huh... as I was saying. By hot I mean... as real as it can get. If we are gonna do it, let’s do it right.”
“Good idea.” Zak mumbled, allowing Darryl to move his hand to his cheek and bring him in.
The kiss lasted longer this time. Zak did not do the pretty mouth thing, however he did freeze. All that was happening was Darryl moving his lips gently, while Zak, once again, blinked slowly, staring at Darryl’s face. Closed eyes, relaxed, locks of hair falling over his forehead and... did he always have such long eyelashes?
He felt a gentle finger slide down from his cheekbone to his ear lobe and then Darryl opened his eyes. He had large, very beautiful green eyes. Something in them told Zak that he was kissed by the innocence itself... and something else said that was not the case at all. It seemed that he was a saint, far from real life. On the other hand, by the shape and color of his eyes, he resembled a big cat, who was ready to flatter and purr, as soon as you caress him. Very pretty. Enchanting. Dark on the edges, like the ocean, getting lighter like spring grass closer to the iris.
“Zak? Are you with me?” Darryl asked softly, squeezing Zak’s hand a little.
“Ah, yes, sorry... your eyes are pretty.” Zak observed, feeling a bit smug, as Darryl’s cheeks colored with a faint blush. Huh. Green and red. The blush made Darryl’s eyes even brighter and Zak sighed happily. Green eyes were so beautiful. And two of his favorite people had green eyes.
“Thank you...?” Darryl stumbled and shook his head. “I just wanted to say that... maybe relax a little? Don’t purse your lips that hard and try to enjoy it, okay?”
“Okay. Let’s try again...”
It was better, since Zak tried to move a little. And he closed his eyes. But Darryl still pulled away pretty quickly.
“Ow! You bit me!”
“Sorry, sorry, I just- nervous...” Zak looked like a kicked puppy and Darryl sighed, cupping his cheek once again.
“Okay, listen to me. Relax. Don’t be so uptight and open your mouth.” He gave Zak a minute to breathe before asking, “Ready?” And only continuing when he got a nod.
Darryl leaned forward, his free hand moving to rest on Zak’s shoulder, and gently kissed his parted lips. He did not want to come on too strong.
Light touches were followed by a more tangible touch of lips. Soft and slightly wet, they seemed to merge together. Darryl, feeling like he was some sort of weird teacher, continued, not only kissing, but also beginning to gently suck on his ‘student's’ lips. Soft and tender, it seems, even slightly trembling lips, more and more opening mouth... Darryl might have gotten carried away with practice, hugging Zak by the shoulders, and not resting on them.
While Zak just let himself dissolve in the tender bliss, getting carried away as well, finally covered Darryl’s mouth with hiss, deepening the kiss, but still letting his teeth collide as little as possible. The sudden response to the kiss made the ‘teacher’ shudder all over, but the instant fear quickly turned into a pleasant wave of goose bumps and warmth. Zak, learned quickly. He finally remembered how to kiss and repeated what was shown, but now he is already doing something even more pleasant, getting his fiancé to cuddle closer, drowning in his arms and even got to climb over on his lap, at last releasing Darryl’s lips.
“Holy.... wow...” Zak breathed out, still dazed but this time in a good way. “You’re... a very good kisser.”
“You too. When you don’t freeze up.”
“Yeah...” Neither of them wanted to move, enjoying the closeness and the warmth. That was quite rare in general... for the touch starved Minecraft YouTubers.
Besides.
Darryl leaned in and connected their lips again. Light touches, relaxed, not as intense as before. Just perfect.
Until Lucy started barking alerting the couple that Autumn woke up.
“There’s our radio nanny...” Zak mumbled letting go and slowly getting up, but not letting go of Darryl‘a hand. “I’ll get her.”
“Yeah, um... I’m right here if you need help.” Darryl was pretty sure he was blushing like mad, and staring at the hand Zak was holding even though they just kissed... or rather made out.
“I know. Thanks, Darl.” With that Zak leaned placing a soft kiss on Darryl’s cheek before fleeing the room to tend to Autumn. He left a completely dazed and lovesick Darryl staring after him:
“God, that boy drives me crazy.”
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The next two days were filled with domestic bliss, as Zak and Darryl got more comfortable around each other. They did kiss more. Trying to make it normal. But they did not have a make out last that again. Sadly, in both of their opinions. However, talking about it seemed like... something that would make things awkward. So they did not.
What they did do, was finally gone to the mall to get a proper stroller for Autumn... and a ring for Zak. They went for the ring first.
That went... well. For the most part. They had a teeny argument in the jewelry store about who was going to pay for the ring. They had a whisper yelling divorce before marriage in the middle of the shop...
Things have been said. A lot of things.
“Bad, I swear to God. I will marry Technoblade before I let you buy me this ring.”
“Oh, will you now?!”
“And Jealousboyhalo is back, hooray!” Zak rolled his eyes, going away from the people with Darryl on his tail, as he did not want anyone staring.
“You just said you’ll marry Technoblade! How else am I supposed to react?”
“Bad, just-“ Zak took a deep breath and turned on his heel coming face to face with the older man. “I don’t want you to waist your money when I can easily pay-“
“Zak, I am not waisting money. You have already spent so much on me over the years and I just want to do this for you. Okay?” Darryl asked softly, he would put his hand around Zak, but he could not. He was holding Autumn who was having the best time, yanking at his hair.
“Well, I-“
“Okay, that’s it. I’m paying, I now know your ring size...ow, sweetie, let go of my hair please. Zak, can you-“
“Nuh-ah. Since you’re paying for the ring, you can deal with our sweet apple yourself.” Zak had the most smug grin ever on his face, but than was quickly wiped off his face as Darryl looked at him with that special look and his green eyes and... Autumn might have taken one glance at her father and copied the look exactly so... “Oh, what the heck. Gimme.”
“Don’t say heck, Cookie. Now, go wait outside... please.” Zak rolled his eyes and made a very exaggerated groan but did as he was asked.
He stood outside, admiring his baby. His daughter. How crazy was that? His daughter. His Autumn. His and Darryl’s.
He watched as she smiled up at him and reached for his fingers, as her curious eyes ran around the room admiring all the sparkly things and as she became fascinating by the fountain, probably finding the sound and the changing colors pretty. Zak was just as fascinated by the reflections from the colors in his daughter’s eyes.
“You are the most beautiful baby ever, Autumn. And I will probably spoil you rotten no matter what Darryl says...”Zak giggled quietly and booped the girl’s nose. “But you, my Princess deserve it.”
“Deserves what?” Darryl reappeared next to him, holding a velvet box.
“Is that my ring?” Zak shifted and smirked at the older, not expecting him to drop to one knee and smile mischievously.
“Yes, it is. Hand please?” Zak extended his hand, mouth slightly open in shock. He did not expect Darryl to put on a show... “Zak Ahmed. Will you marry me?”
“Are you officially proposing right now...?” Zag whispered, suddenly feeling a bit breathless and dizzy for an unknown to him reason.
“Yes, Zak. Yes, I am.” With that Darryl opened the velvet box and... that was the most beautiful ring he had ever seen, and the most expensive, but given that Zak did not see a lot of rings as he usually did not pay attention to them. It was silver. With deepenings going across and along it in waves. The middle deepening, the biggest one, was filled with diamonds and... there was an engraving on the inner side which said ‘You are my sunshine.’
“Oh, god, Darryl... yes, yes of course, I will marry, you dork!” Zak hissed as Darryl laughed, putting the ring on his finger and pressing a kiss to the back of his hand. He waited for the older to stand up, before pressing his forehead into his shoulder as an act of affection.
“Let’s go home, Geppy.”
“After we get that stroller, though!”
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@JustVurb:
_@BadBoyHalo you should just marry @Skeppy already_
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@Badboyhalo:
ÒwÓ Alright ^~^ We’ll do :3
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@JustVurb:
...I did not expect that response...
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@Spifey:
BAD??? Wait, no, you can just leave it like that! Explain!
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@Skeppy:
Way ahead of you, buddy! [insert photo of Zak’s left hand. On his ring finger there is a silver coated band, the ring was actually gold. It had three cuts in it at the top and in the middle cut there were 3 gem stones. A sapphire, a ruby and an amethyst in the middle. It looked like a very expensive ring.]
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@Skeppy:
Bad is a taken man now. @Quackity. Word of advice. Stop trying.
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@JustVurb:
TS RN BOTH OF YOU!!!!!!
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@Quackity:
I just woke up! What do you mean a taken man?!...
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@Quackity:
guys? Guys, please. I know this conversation was 2 hours ago but I want to be informed. Guys please. Let me in! LET ME IN!!!
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