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He was fine.
That’s what macaque keeps telling himself Anyway.
“I’m fine!”
“We’re doing good!”
“They care!”
.
.
.
“They love me.”
A loud yell of his name snapped him out of his little daze.
“Macaque! Are you even listing to me?!” Asks the angered avian from besides macaque. They were on a date!… well, they were SUPPOSED to be on a date. Peng wouldn’t stop complaining about even little thing tho.
“It’s too warm.”
“the grass is itchy”
“stop holding my hand we’re in public.”
But it was fine. Macaque was used to it.
“Oh.. yeah, sorry I just thought you’d like this place… my apologies.” Macaque apologized almost shamefully
“Ugh. why do I let you pick out the places we go. I’m leaving.” Peng rolled their eyes and turned to leave.
Macaque stayed. He looked out onto the beautiful sunset. He thought peng would enjoy the sight. But he was wrong… Again.
No matter what he did, he could never truly win over peng. He feels like peng is kinda just.. using him. playing with his emotions like a toy. Sometimes it’s like they want to make macaque feel like shit… but surely not. surely they DO love him!
..Right?
Just as macaque can feel tears sting his eyes, his ears pick up on movement from behind. He tensed and turned slowly…
And then something was crashing into him.
He was knocked down and something heavy was weighing him down. His nose filled with the sent of peaches and sweat.
..Ah, it’s wukong..
“MAC!!” yells the stone monkey. A grin on the face. He puts his hands on either side of macaque head and pushes himself up, looking into macaques widened eyes with a warmth only he can
seem to admit.
Macaque looked back into those warm eyes, and he smiles. he winced a bit at the loud yell so close to him but his smile didn’t falter.
“Hey peaches, watcha doing here?” He asked with a slight tilt in his head and furrow in his brow. Wukong seemed to freeze a bit and that, but he got over it and answered. “oh uh- yknooow… i’m um, on patrol! This mountain won’t protect itself!” Wukong beamed. He rolled to the side and off of macaque, turning to face him, he rests his head in his hand and smiles. “so why are you here mango?”
“oh, um. I brought peng here for a date.. i thought they’d like to watch the sunset but I guess not..” macaque shrugged and looked up at the sky. Pinks, yellows, oranges, all mixing to make a beautiful display above them.
“Ah I see.. weeellll, if mx. grumpy pants wants to miss out on this, i’ll watch the sunset with you!” wukong sits up and crosses his legs, looking down at macaque with a grin
“really? you wanna watch the sunset with me?” macaque asks as he too, sits up and turns to face wukong with a smirk and a raised brow. “Mhm!!” beams the king “in-fact.. i’ll get us better seats!” he grinned as he took macaques hand and suddenly shot up, running for the edge of the cliff and jumping off it, macaque in tow.
Macaque screams out once they start falling. “WUKONG? WHAT THE FU-“ but before he finishes, his back hits something… soft..
He looks down and sees a white fluffy cloud carrying him. And when he looks back up he can see wukong smirking at him smugly. “I hate you.” macaque deadpans “Love y’a too bud!” Wukong retorts with a wink.
Before macaque can decipher the words and wink, they were shooting upwards into the clouds. Macaque clamps a hand over his mouth to stop from screaming again. feeling the wind rush pass him was.. exciting. but once they stopped and he sat up, his breath was taken away.
The sky was beautiful… reds, pinks, purples, blues, oranges, all come out to make this beautiful sunset.. it looks like a painting really.
“oh.. wow..” macaque gasps with a smile. he sits up fully and gawks at the beauty of it. “It’s so.. beautiful.”
wukong was busy admiring something even more beautiful beside him tho..
“yeah, really is…” Wukong says softly.. almost a whisper, almost to himself. but macaque hears it. he turns to look at wukong with a smile. “hm?” he hums in acknowledgment.
“you’re really pretty.. did you know that, macaque?”
..what?
“what..?” macaques eyes widen and his cheeks flush red.. but so do wukongs.
“OH UH- IM SORRY I UM- I…” he Panics and flails around a bit. macaque looks around slightly and scoots closer to wukong on the cloud. “yoooou.. what?” he asks almost smugly, Chuckling at wukongs panic
“I…” Wukong stopped his flailing and slowly looked back to macaque, eyes darting to everywhere but macaques “I um.. I really like you.. yknow..?”
“I mean I would hope so, we’ve been friends for like-” macaque starts, raising a brow in slight confusion
Wukong pushes a finger to macaques lips to shut him up, a faint blush only barely noticeable ”No macaque, I..” *he looks away from the other simian for a moment, contemplating if he should really say this.
after a moment of internal struggle, wukong closes his eyes and takes a deep breath before turning back to macaque to look him in the eyes, his hand falling down and resting in his lap “I reeeeeeeaaally like you.. um.. Like, Like like..” *He says, blush becoming more noticeable from embarrassment and from just being flustered. “A-And I KNOW you’re dating Peng B-but they don’t treat you right..! A-and I just think you..”
Macaques eyes widen and he froze, he didn’t hear anything after the confession. shock and warmth flooding his body. Wukong.. What?
Macaques mind reels.
He LIKES me..?
Is this a joke?
Pengs going to kill me
..please don’t be a joke..
”Are you serious..?” Macaque asks weakly, almost afraid of the answer
Wukong immediately stops his rambling and nods shyly, looking away from macaque in thinly veiled shame. “Y-yeah, I am.. I’m sorry..”
Macaques heart skips a beat.. and then starts hammering in his just so hard even Wukong might be able to hear it. He hesitantly leans closer to the other, something like hope shining in his eyes. “You are..?”
The king looks up to look at his counterpart “.. sorry or serious? Because um.. yes I am, for both of them..” he says, struggling to meet macaques gaze
Macaques gapes slightly, still trying to wrap his head around it
he really likes me?
should i be mad? happy?
my stomach feels weird.. am i disgusted?
I just feel loved..
”Prove it.” Macaque blurts out, surprising even himself with the words, a blush spreading through his face
Wukongs eyes snap to macaques, now seemingly unable to look away “..prove it..?” he echos in disbelief. Macaque nods sharply “Yes, prove it.”
wukongs face is painted in shock before he chuckles and shakes his head, a warm smiling splitting his face “if you say so.” he says, voice full of fondness.
And then wukong starts leaning in closer… and macaque watched him intensely, almost shuddering when the others hand caressed his cheek, the warmth of the palm sinking into his very soul.
..And then wukong kissed him.. his lips warm against macaques own. A million thoughts raced through his head, but only one truly mattered.
Ive never felt so loved before..
He knows he should’nt be doing this.. He knows he’s being a terrible, awful boyfriend but… he couldn’t stop.
Macaque leans into the kiss and closes his eyes, wukong does so too. he places his other hand on macaques other cheek and deepens the kiss. They both pull away for air but they dive right back in after a second.
After a few more times of breaking apart and kissing again, over and over, they finally stop. looking into each others eyes with adoration for one another.
“woah…” macaque is the one to break the silence.
“woah..” wukong repeats. after a moment he catches his breath and his lips curl into a smile “i’ve wanted to do that for a long time..” “…you have?” macaque sounded a bit surprised.. they’ve been friends for centuries… how long is a long time…
“mhm…” wukong reply’s after a moment.
“…wannaaa.. do it again?” macaque offered, looking down with a shrug. By the time he looked up, wukong was already kissing him.
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When macaque got back home, he was red in the face, his hair was a mess, and there were purple marks littering his neck. he has a dorky smile on his face.. that is till he heard someone clear their throat..
he snapped his head to the right, where he sees peng.. in his house.. fuck.
“PENG! I uh- what are you doing here!” macaque says and he try’s to fix his hair and hide the marks
“you didn’t follow after me when I left out date earlier like you usually do. when i went back to the spot you weren’t there. so I thought you must be at home.. but then i saw you shoot up into the sky with none other then sun wukong.” peng looked at macaque with a cold glare. macaque felt a drop of sweat roll down the back of his neck.
“Peng I-“ in an instant peng was in-front of him. and then they did something they said they’d never do.
Peng hit him.
Slapped him across his face.
“Y’know, i never loved you, right? I mean, you were fun at first. But you lost your entertainment value fast. so honestly, i feel bad for wukong.” peng grabbed macaques face roughly “he’s fallen for a worthless maggot.” peng throws macaques head to the side and walks out of the house. slamming the door behind him.
macaque didn’t move. he stood there, eyes wide, claw marks on his cheeks and tears streaming down
“Fuck..” his knees were suddenly to weak to hold him up. he fell to the floor, grabbing at his hair roughly and hyperventilating “shit shit shit shit shit-“ he sobbed on the floor of his lonely home. sobbed his heart out really.
He fucked up. big time. he needs to find peng, talk to them. maybe if he begs, pleads, he could have a chance of being forgiven. maybe if he-
The door opened. why did the door open.
he shot his head up at the sound, looking at the doorway to find none other then the king himself.
great.