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Two weeks prior:
Regect and Moe had been sitting in the living room of the house while Moe was texting someone and Regect was doing whatever he did.
“Who are you texting Moe?” Regect asked
“Just my parents” Moe honked back
“Hmm I didn't know you had those”
Hey!”
“I'm just joking okay. I'm sorry”
“Its all good, actually they were thinking of visiting soon”
“Ohh”
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“I'm nervous to meet Moe's parents.” Ze said, wringing his hands
“What are you freaking out about? It's literally Moe. Her parents are probably just a bunch clowns like her” Regect responded with a mocking tone
“I don't know, I just hope her parents don't think were weird”
“Bro, it's not that serious. If her parents don't like us then who gives a damn. As long as she likes us its fine”
“yeah whatever. We still need to start the food, so I'm gonna go start cooking the food” Ze said standing up to head to the kitchen, with Regect following close behind him.
“Nu uh motherfucker you are NOT helping me cook, you can't cook for shit”
“Im not trying to help you with shit, I just want to watch you cook.”
Ze sighed and started the stove, starting the pasta in one pot and cooking zucchini and other vegetables in a pan.
“How far away is that airport that it takes Moe this long to get there and back?” Regect said watching ze cook. Ze’s cooking isn't as good as moe’s but it is mildly decent.
“I think that it's the fact that it takes really long to get off the plane and through security” Ze responded, straining the pasta and adding the pre-prepared Alfredo to the vegetables.
“Yeah, I don't get why security is so strict now compared to before 2001”
Ze turned around quickly “are you joking? 9/11 happened”
“I thought that happened in 2011”
“... I don't even know what to say right now, your just so stupid”
After that interaction they sat in silence for a few moments as Ze finished the food until they heard the door open and close and Moe honking to alarm Ze and Regect that her parents were here.
Ze and Regect walked out to the entryway to greet Moe's parents.
“Regect, Ze meet my parents” Moe honked at ze and Regect
“It's nice to meet my daughters' boyfriends," the woman with red hair said “my name is apple and this is my wife, dawn.”
Ze and Regect were mildly shocked that Moe had two moms but not disappointed.
“I second that,” the taller woman said. She had a softer color pallet and an eye where her head would be, which made both Regect and Ze mildly uncomfortable.
“Well I'm Ze and this is Reject," Ze said to the very tall woman and the slightly less tall woman.
“(Yeah I can definitely tell where Moe got her height from)” Regect thought.
“Me and Regect will get you guys your plates of food and Moe will show you where the table is.” Ze said, grabbing Regects arm and dragging him to the kitchen.
Once they were in the kitchen (and out of hearing range) that started to dish out the pasta and zucchini Alfredo sauce.
“Moe’s mom’s seem pretty nice”
“Yeah but I wasn't expecting them to be so.. normal?”
“Yeah I can second that I guess” Regect said as he scooped the last of the noodles and handed the last plate to Ze who put Alfredo on the noodles and they both started walking out of the kitchen with Ze carrying three of the plates and Regect carrying two.
Once they sat down they began to eat the food and talk in between bites.
“So how did you two meet?” Apple asked.
“Well me and ze met due to me haunting him and then we met Moe in an abandoned castel”
“Hmm that's… interesting” dawn said in a mildly judging tone with a small glitch partway through the sentence. Even though Moe had warned Regect and Ze about the glitching before her parents had gotten there, it was a bit disturbing.
“Well what about you two?” Ze asked
“Me and Dawn met on an old server,” Apple said in a happy tone.
“That's nice”
“What was Moe like as a kid?”
“S…MA…LL C>HIL..d” Dawn said glitching a lot more than before
“(Yeah no shit)” Regect thought.
Once they finished up their food he started to collect the plates and apple offered to help him with the dishes.
As they did the dishes Ze and started talking to pass the time.
“Im happy that Moe is happy with you and Reject" apple said to Ze
“yeah it makes sense that you would want the best for Moe.”
“also I'm sorry if dawn made you uncomfortable, but she can't exactly control her glitching thing, it just happens when she gets nervous.”
“It's really fine, moe had told us about it before you got here” he said as they finished up the dishes.
As they walked out of the kitchen into the dining room they realized that there was an awkward silence.
“How about a movie” Ze said
“Actually me and Dawn should be heading to bed, considering we're still a bit” apple said.
“Oh ok” Ze said feeling a bit guilty
“I'll show you guys where the guest room is” he said
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Once Dawn and Apple had gone to bed, Ze, Regect and Moe had time to sit in the living room and talk a bit.
“Moe your moms are very sweet” ze said
“I know, they literally raised me” Moe honked in response
“dawn was a little creepy though" Regect said
“Yeah I know but it doesn't really affect me considering I saw it all my life” Moe said, putting her horn on the table and putting her head on Ze’s shoulder. Ze combed his hands through Moe's hair.
“Why does dawn do that though? Do you know?”
“I don't know specifically, but I do know it was something that happened before I was born, in the old server.” Moe signed, because she set down the horn already.
“Maybe we should go to bed” Ze said
“Yeah I'm really tired”
“I guess…” Moe signed, not wanting to have to experience the nightmares of the fire that haunts her every night.
“Okay, goodnight everyone” Regect said heading towards his room with Moe and Ze heading to their rooms soon after.