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Triple T was minding his own business. Nothing out of the ordinary. He was simply going to the grocery store. That's when he saw him behind the counter. The shiny, attractive green ball known as Curiosity. Triple T felt breathless.
"H-hi..." Tung said shakily
"Heya! What can I do for you?" Curiosity said, wearing the friendly smile he always did.
"J-just uhm... Getting groceries" Tung put the groceries onto the conveyor belt and Curiosity scanned them. Tung paid for his groceries and walked out, feeling his heart pound against his wooden exterior. 'i shouldn't feel this way...!' Tung thought 'i shouldn't feel this way about someone I just met...! Especially not a boy...!'
Meanwjile, Curiosity sat there. He thought Tung looked nice. He could only think about his well carved wooden features and the wooden bat he held nervously in his tight grip.
Over the weeks and months, Tung and Curiosity talked more whenever Tung bought groceries. Then they started talking outside of the grocery store.
This faithful day, they were sitting together on a park bench.
"Hey, Curiosity...?" Tung began with a quivering mouth "do you... Like anyone...?"
Curiosity thought for a bit before replying "Do you?"
"Mhm... But... I don't know... It feels... Wrong to like this person."
Curiosity's smile dimmed a bit. Partially because he didn't like the thought of Tung liking someone else, but also because Tung felt bad. "How come? I'm sure she's a lovely lady!"
"... he's not a girl." Tung then put his face into his palms, this was all Curiosity needed to know.
"That doesn't matter, Tung. It's okay to like someone of the same gender!"
"That's not what my parents think! What would Papa Elon Musk and Mama SoraAI think of me?!" Tung started crying in his hands. Curiosity put a comforting hand on his back to make him feel better.
"Do you love them?" He asked softly
"More than anything!" Tung said through tears
"...Do they love you?"
"They do now."
"Real parents would love you regardless of who you like."
Tung wiped the tears off his face and turned to look at Curiosity properly.
"...What do you... Think of me now...?"
Curiousity smiled at Tung "You're still you. No matter who you like."
Triple T smiled at Curiosity "by the way... You didn't tell me if you liked someone."
"Huh? Oh yeah. I do."
"Who?"
Curiosity simply looked at Tung and smiled, Tung recieved the messaged and immediately hugged Curiosity.
They kept their relationship under the wraps for months until Elon Musk looked through Tung's phone, finding out he has a boyfriend. Triple T and Elon fought with SoraAI trying to hold Elon back. In a fit of rage, Elon walked out the house. Tung locked himself in his room, but eventually went outside the next day to go to Curiosity's house.
Tung knocked on his door.
"Curiosity?"
Strangely, no reply. Tung noticed the front door was a jar. Tung opened in, only to find his lover on the floor, a ghastly pale mint green. Seemingly poisoned by a drink Elon had given him.
Tung held Curiosity's body in his arms as he weeped.