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X’s POV:
X yawned, stretching widely. Blinking awake he rubbed his eyes as sunlight poured in through the window. Something felt off, he looked to his side to see that Four was already up. Huh weird. Although he wanted to stay in the warm cozy bed forever he reluctantly rolled out of bed to look for his partner. He must’ve overslept BAD if Four was up before him, but who could blame someone for sleeping in when they were sharing a bed with the algebralien who stays up all night- every night- watching and editing pirated clips of BFDI into full episodes and playing baldis basics. X honestly had no clue if Four had ever gotten more than- at most- 3 ½ hours of sleep per night in his entire life.
Stumbling to the kitchen he saw Four cooking, how long has he been up? X wondered.
“Four?” X asked, catching Four’s attention. He let out a shriek and shoved him out- slamming the door shut. X’s eyes widened in surprise, he stood still in shock for a second before knocking on the door. “Four! Is- is something wrong??” After around a minute of muffled scrambling and a tiny cloud of smoke bleeding out in between the hinges in the door. Finally Four peeked out through the crack.
“Go back to bed! I have a surprise!” Four ordered, his voice cracking like it always did, it made X’s face flush and forced a smile out of him.
“O-ok!” X rolled his eyes, secretly livid at the excuse to crawl back under the warm weighted blanket he and Four shared. Tucking himself in he sighed- the window was kept open from last night- when Two couldn’t force Four to close the window even though it was still cold outside. On the window sill X glanced up at his wilting aloe vera plant, until his attention was quickly directed over to Four, who held a tray of food in his hands.
“Four! Is that for- is that for me‽” X asked immediately sitting up.
“For us! But yeah mostly you- I don’t know I feel like since it’s Valentine’s-”
“Four, Valentine’s day was a week ago.” X pointed out.
Four stood stunned and frowning with the tray in his hands. “W h a t..?”
“Yeah! Didn’t you see everyone giving each other cards and flowers and teddy bears-”
“Ok! Ok! Ok! Shuddup!” Four set the tray on the foot of the bed, not hard enough so anything would spill, but just enough to distract X and make him shush. “You know I’m not good with these sorts of things…”
X chuckled. “It’s ok Foury… I think it’s cute :3 Now-” X tapped his hands on the brim of the blanket. “Show me what you spent all morning making!”
Four smiled and climbed in next to him, setting the tray of food in between them. “It's breakfast in bed! I thought it’d be nice to take a US day after hosting and cooking and defending so much recently.”
X picked up one of what he assumed were supposed to be chocolate dipped strawberries and sniffed them before immediately recoiling, How does it smell stale‽‽‽
“Yeahhhhhhh I get it… baking is more so one of your values- but in my defense! Getting you to cook everything would ruin the surprise.” Four defended himself while rubbing the back of his head.
X shook his head. “Whaaaaaaaaaat‽ No no no no no no no it smells… I mean it looks… well don’t judge a book by its cover and all that!” X smiled, holding the strawberry up to his face. Internally counting to three he finally ate the strawberry, Four leaned against a pillow as he watched his partner eat the damn thing. X swallowed and coughed slightly. “I’ll *hrrk* just stick to the other stuff if you don’t mind.” X chuckled, making Four roll his eyes.
“More for me-” Four picked up one of the strawberries and popped it in his mouth, almost immediately freezing and his face scrunching up. Slowly he opened his mouth and let the strawberry fall out, catching it with his hand he reached his cartoonishly long arm out the window and used his second pair of arms he scraped at his tongue making X laugh.
Four grinned. “Find that funny huh? Oh I’ll give you something to laugh about~”
“Whuh- WAIT NO FOURY I DIDN-”
Four grabbed a hold of X and began tickling him profusely making X burst out laughing. The two of them accidentally kicked the tray off the bed, making the chocolate lava cake- that seemed to be somewhat like actual lava based on the way it was melting the floor below it once some of the chocolate lava started flowing out the hole in its side. Four paused, allowing both of them to catch their breaths and see the mess they made.
“Oh no- no no no no no No NO NO NOOOOOOUGHHHH!!!” Four screeched, “I spent so much time on those!!” He curled up his fingers in frustration. Getting out of bed he began scooping stuff up to the best of his ability.
“Foury! It’s fine really- I don’t really care about the food! I just like being able to hang out with yo-”
“But it was supposed to be PERFECT!!” Four groaned, burying his head in his hands, X was sure he heard quiet sobbing, “I’m so so-sor-rry X *hic* I-I- I just- Grrrrngh!” X frowned and climbed over to sit by him at the foot of the bed, spilled ‘food’ on the floor below them. X opened his mouth to speak before closing it after he realised he didn’t know what he wanted to say yet.
“I- I j-ust-” Four took his face out of his hands and stared at his blue palms that were wet with snot and tears. “I wanted-” He took a deep breath. “I-I just wanted to- wanted to- take care of YOU for a change- You’re always being the caring one- and I feel… BAD! I wanted to- I guess- I guess I just wanted to give you a break… But- I messed everything up!! And now you’ll never say yess…” Four sighed shakily, wiping off his tears with the back of one of his hands.
X clenched the sheets before hugging Four tightly. “Thank you Four.” X could feel Four's heart rate slow down and he wrapped his arms around X’s back. “Nothing’s messed up! I know it might seem like it is- but this is honestly the best Valentine’s day- or late Valentine’s day I’ve EVER had!”
X squeezed himself as hard as he could against Four’s chest. Before pushing away slowly. “Wait what do you mean- ‘say yes’?” Four’s face went red and he looked away.
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I wasn’t meant to say THAT out loud-”
“Well now I REALLY want to know!” X beamed.
“Its nothing really-”
“Please!”
“How about we just pick up the food before it stains-”
“PLEASEEEEEEE!!!” X grabbed onto his bottom right arm and squeezed, preventing him from leaving.
Four shook him off. “FINE! I was…” Four gulped and took a deep breath. “I was going to ask you since… Well since we’ve known each other for a long time and have been through so much together… You’ve become one of the only people I tolerate- and and so I um- I was going to ask if you’d like to be… lovers..?” Four asked awkwardly, his face fully red.
X blinked in surprise, his cheeks growing warmer. “Oh- OH! Heheh- Well- I um-”
“You don’t have to say yes! Just say that you won’t stop being my friend! I can’t lose you X pleas-”
“No no- It’s just that I kind of thought we already WERE lovers-” X giggled. The room went silent before Four and X both started loudly laughing. Four collapsed onto the bed next to X.
“Soooooooo is that a yes?” Four chuckled.
“Of course you doofus!” X hugged him. “Lovers for LIFE!!”
“Heh- y-yeah! Lovers for life!”
“Buuuuuuuuuuuuut…” X muttered.
“What?”
“You said today was about me right? You taking care of me and doing what I say?”
Four cocked an eyebrow. “I guess so yeah…”
“I have a request.” X stated.
Four leaned up. “What is it?”
X dragged Four under the covers with him before bopping the space in between his eyes. “Go to freaking sleep!!”
The end.