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it was late, very late around midnight, though surprisingly joe and cherry,who decided to stay over, heard a knock on his door. they looked at each other in confusion. “we’re you expecting someone” cherry questioned looking up from his tablet that he was currently finishing up some work on. “uh no i’m not” as joe started to get up the knocks got louder “i know your awake how i see the lights on” suddenly came a familiar voice.
breathing a heavy sigh joe went and opened the door “miya what did i say about-woah are you ok?” having a good look at the child he didn’t look..good. his face looks like it’s on fire and every five seconds he’s sniffling, “may i come in?” miya asked with unusual politeness maybe he was too sick to be mean. “yea sure sorry, are you alright you look really sick” joe said in clear concern making cherry now turn his full attention to miya.
“miya what are you even doing out this late if your sick?” cherry asked in his usual stern voice getting up to check miya’s temperature but it was clear he was also worried. shrugging his shoulders miya answered,”ion now, just didn’t want to be home right now, my parents are away again so it’s ok”
“well how about i make you some soup, it should help a little with the fever” joe said starting to get up until miya shook his head in protest “no i don’t want that i just…i-i want to lay down” joe furrowed his brows in slight confusion, “that’s ok too, you can lay here on the couch—“
“with cherry..”
stopped short they both looked at him in surprise. of course the all noticed how attached the boy has come to the pink haired male but didn’t really comment on it. whenever they were all at the restaurant he would sit beside cherry always, one time reki got to the seat beside the man first and miya growled at him and another time he skipped school just to show up and cherry’s office, yea it’s gotten pretty concerning at this point.
“never mind, i can just go home-“ miya began going to walk off until he felt a soft tug on his hand urging him to turn around. “miya chinen i will not allow you to go home alone at such a time” cherry said to the child in a soft voice, “do you still want to go lay down with me?” at the question miya nodded shyly.
“ok good, let’s go now” picking up said boy he started to joe’s bedroom and laid down carefully with this small child still in his arms. cherry threw the covers over the both of them and tucked miya’s head under his chin.
“comfortable?” he felt the boy nod almost asleep. looking back toward the door he saw joe standing there with a warm smile staring at them both. cherry hold out his free hand to him which joe takes with another too sweet smile, gosh this man is just tryna kill him huh. cherry then pulled said man into a kiss.”i love you okay” before joe could answer he felt a small hand against his chest.
“nooo papa leave mommy alone”
that’s it he’s officially dying
little arms wrapped around him tighter, “my mama..” miya mumbled out softly clearly falling asleep again.
his soul has ascended.
“aww my sweet baby yes i’m all yours mama’s here” cherry said softly petting the boy’s making him snuggle impossibly closer to the older male. cherry then looked back at joe with a smug smirk to which joe just rolled his eyes “did you still want that tea? i could just reheat it?” joe questioned “you can, but also good luck getting mr koala off me”
with another quick kiss later he went downstairs to get cherry his tea which he was previously working but obviously turned it off once miya came. not five minutes later the tea was ready and joe began to carefully bring it up the stairs to see cherry fast asleep, he looked at the clock and realized it was almost 2 in the morning. placing the tea on the bedside table with a promise of taking it up later, climbed into bed and fell asleep peacefully.