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Everything began once he started to let his guard down. If he hadn’t stopped it any later than he did, then they all could’ve seen just how vulnerable he could become. That wouldn’t be a good thing to happen, especially if they were to take advantage of it all. There’s always that lingering thought of “what if they would use his vulnerability against him?” even if they most likely wouldn’t.
SMG3 sat at the edge of his bed, sighing. Never in his life did he think he’d end up being so paranoid of those who are always around him. At least he could have the reassurance that none of them knew how to get into his evil lair. Or at least most of them shouldn’t. He already knew SMG4 could get here, but would he? SMG3, truthfully, didn’t know about that part. As far as he was concerned, SMG4 wouldn’t do such a thing. Although… The amount of time SMG3 spent in his lair without ever opening his cafe probably concerned SMG4 out of anyone the most.
“...SMG4 shouldn’t be worried about me isolating myself from everyone else. He knows I can take care of myself. I mean, who would I be if I didn’t?” SMG3 grumbled to himself, but he slowly started to sound unsure of himself. Sighing, he took a look around his lair, seeing that he really didn’t keep it clean now. He even looked at himself and the absolute hot mess he is. “Okay… Maybe SMG4 would be right to be concerned about me and bust into here,” SMG3 admitted to himself.
As SMG3 sat on his bed in his self-made eerie silence, he perked up upon hearing a ping noise from his computer. Lethargically, he stood up and sat himself in his chair in front of the desk, checking Discord. He kind of figured someone must’ve messaged him, which he was right. “Are you fucking kidding me…” SMG3 muttered under his breath, seeing SMG4 sending him a few messages. Of course the moment he’d have to be thinking about SMG4 and the well-being of himself, the other meme guardian had to message him. The general summary of the messages was just SMG4 asking if SMG3 is okay, which he chose to ignore. This isn’t the first time that the blue meme guardian messaged him. Soon enough, SMG3 just got up from his desk and went to lie down on his bed, staring up at the ceiling.
One message that he did miss was the last one that SMG4 sent to the purple meme guardian. It read, “I’m gonna come over there if you don’t respond.”
As SMG3 was just writing in his notebook on his bed, he froze up when the sound of the elevator sounded off a ding noise. Quickly, or as much as he could whilst doing it messily, he put his notebook away and grabbed his hat to cover up his messy hair as much as possible. Although, in the middle of him trying to make himself look a bit more presentable so he didn’t look like utter garbage, the elevator doors would already be opening as it revealed SMG4 tapping his foot in an anxious way rather than impatiently, wearing a face of concern and worry.
Almost as soon as SMG4 lifted his head up, his eyes met with the purple meme guardian's constricted eyes, full of panic. It felt like he, SMG3, was just caught in the act of committing some sort of heinous crime, but mostly because he knew how badly SMG4 will be worried about him and, probably, force him to get cleaned up. However… That part did frighten SMG3 since he wasn’t sure in what way the blue meme guardian would make him get cleaned up by, whether it was by SMG4’s own hands or a lot of… begging? Desperation for wanting his friend to get better? SMG3 didn’t really know. SMG4 can always mix things up. Sometimes.
SMG4 ran over to SMG3, yelling about something, but SMG3 didn’t pay attention to him as he kept thinking and thinking. What is even wrong with me? Why did I have to do this in the first place? Of course I worry about the one person who I don’t want to, especially when I’m such a wreck. It probably doesn’t help that we’re cosmically linked to each other, so that’s just wonderful! SMG3 thought before getting snapped out of it when he felt hands on his head, cupping his face to forcibly look at SMG4.
“Dude, are you even listening to me?!” SMG4 hurriedly spoke, his voice raising more than it usually would. Although, in his defense, he’s pretty distressed about how badly the purple meme guardian kept himself and his living space. He’d be pretty surprised if there was even a decent amount of food eaten each day since this has begun.
SMG3 only looked up at him, blinking. “Uhh… What were you saying-?” SMG3 awkwardly managed out. The blue meme guardian stared at SMG3 with a look that seemed to say “are you serious?” with a large frown. Both of them had a stare down that seemed to become really awkward the longer it went on. Although, SMG4 broke eye contact first, eyes squinting at the few tufts of hair that stuck out from under the hat. Letting out a sigh, SMG4 raised a hand and grabbed the purple meme guardian’s hat, taking it off of his head, revealing the absolute bird’s nest that SMG3’s hair is at the current moment.
“...You’re gonna go wash, and I will not let you escape from hygiene. This… This is just something else, Three!” SMG4 partially cried out, but he had mostly been concerned and worried with SMG3’s own hygiene and whether or not he even has been taking care of himself. When SMG3 was about to protest, he was starting to get dragged to the bathroom as he groaned and complained before being told off to quit it and that he needs to accept it. Even though the purple meme guardian did not want to accept that SMG4 is going to bathe him, but obviously with clothes on. That would be awkward without any. He did NOT want to think about how it would go without clothes on.
Soon enough, they both were sitting in the bathtub with an occasional protest coming from SMG3. Although, SMG4 shut him up by threatening, whether he actually would go through with it or not, SMG3 that he would purposely rub soap into his eyes if he didn’t shut up. “Why can’t you be a normal person and NOT forcefully bathe me? Let alone be in the tub with me??” The purple meme guardian complained whilst having his eyes closed. He mostly had his eyes closed in case soap would get in his eyes for whatever reason. “I’m fairly certain you already know I’m not a normal person, Three… You also REALLY needed it and you’d probably fight me if I didn’t hop into the tub with you,” SMG4 blatantly responded, pointing out how SMG3 probably would fight him. “Besides, you can’t escape taking care of yourself, especially from me when you practically isolate yourself from the world,” The blue meme guardian pointed out as he started to get pretty drenched.
When SMG3 was about to defend himself as he opened his mouth to speak, he quickly snapped it shut as he realized he really couldn’t. “You… You got me there, I’ll give you that man,” SMG3 grumbled. Although, something that the other SMG noticed is how Three started to lean forward as he was rubbing in the soap and washing it back out and doing the same with the conditioner. Despite wanting to comment on it, SMG4 decided to not to do that incase the purple meme guardian decided to lean back instead of forward and acted like he didn’t enjoy it.
Soon enough, SMG4 turned the water off when he reached behind SMG3, which felt awkward being that close as he did that, but brushed it off. He made sure any soap or conditioner was out and gone from SMG3’s hair as he grabbed a towel and started to rub the towel about to dry off the purple meme guardian’s hair. “Was complaining really all that necessary to do now, Three?” Despite asking SMG3 a question, all SMG4 got in response was some sort of growl noise. “It wasn’t even that bad,” He tried to reassure SMG3 in some way. After he was sure he dried off the purple meme guardian’s hair, he climbed out of the tub with an awkward smile as he offered a hand to help up Three, but it was declined.
As they both were out of the bathtub, the two SMGs decided to just leave the bathroom. Well, mostly. Since they’re both utterly drenched, SMG3 obviously changed (making sure SMG4 wasn’t looking), but he exchanged glances with the blue meme guardian. “...Do you need something?” SMG3 asked in a puzzled tone. Despite SMG4 not saying anything and just gesturing to himself, SMG3 caught on pretty quickly for the fact that SMG4 didn’t bring any of his own clothes and looked like an actual sopping wet cat just standing there. “Right. Riiight… You didn’t bring any spare clothes with you,” SMG3 stated the obvious before catching onto what SMG4 is trying to say without verbally saying it. “...Oh. You want me to give you some clothes?” There was a nod in response to the purple meme guardian’s question. “...Well, I hope you can live with purple then, that’s uh… just about all I have,” SMG3 awkwardly spoke, making a nervous laugh at the end of what he was saying.
Even though SMG4 really didn’t feel like wearing SMG3’s clothes, he didn’t have much of a choice. He either can leave while looking like a sopping wet cat and dripping with water OR he can have dry clothes, but have the chance of getting people like Mario suspicious of him wearing SMG3’s clothes and not his own. Reluctantly, he took the clothes that SMG3 quickly grabbed for him to wear and changed into them, also making sure that the latter wasn’t looking. “Hey uh… Thank you for the clothes, and thank you for not fighting me that much in the tub,” The blue meme guardian said as he thanked SMG3 for not being that difficult and all as SMG3 started to just go and lie back down in his bed, acting like this didn’t really just happen. Despite SMG4’s better judgment, he walked over to SMG3 and stood next to where he was lying at and decided to give him a small, yet quick, kiss before leaving. SMG3 just laid there, gobsmacked at what just happened.
“H-HEY DON’T LEAVE! YOU CAN’T JUST DO THAT AND LEAVE YOU- YOU-” SMG3 yelled after SMG4, but before he could finish his sentence, the blue meme guardian was already gone. He could hear the elevator going up to the cafe. Is it really worth it to go after him…? But I do kind of want closure on why he suddenly up and kissed me then LEFT! Who does that!? Well… I mean, that loser did. SMG3 just shook his head, getting rid of his thoughts as he felt it go down a train that he did not want to continue running.
SMG4, on the other hand, was kind of panicking a little bit. Well, maybe not exactly panicking, but he was pretty flustered and he felt adrenaline. Why am I feeling like this? WHY did I do that? Nevermind about that, it might’ve just been the heat of the moment. Maybe… Was it? It doesn’t even make sense, what am I saying?! SMG4 sighed as he quickly started to head to the castle, noting how the weather started to become more overcast compared to how sunny it was earlier. Or at least he thought it was sunny earlier, he wasn’t sure. All he did know is that he was focused on worrying about the health of SMG3 earlier opposed to looking up at the sky.
For SMG3, he just kind of sat there on his bed, contemplating still on what had happened. However, his thoughts were broken up as he heard Eggdog’s barking and he sluggishly got up to go ahead and take care of Eggdog with his regular schedule of feeding and all of that. Honestly, he is pretty tired, but still managed to use his energy to make sure Eggdog is okay still. “...Damn. I really did not look after myself one bit, but I at least took care of Eggdog. That can’t be healthy…” SMG3 muttered to himself. As he patted Eggdog softly on the head, he moved away to go and sit down on the edge of his bed, mostly pondering about random things.
SMG4, on the other hand, made his way to the castle and entered in hopes of no one being in the main area, as unlikely as that is, but was in despair real quick. Not only is there someone in the main area of the castle, but more than just one person. Even though it’s only two people, those two being Meggy and Tari, it wouldn’t look good for him since he is literally wearing SMG3’s clothes. At least he can be happy that Mario isn’t here, otherwise he would be royally screwed. The blue meme guardian hoped that he could just tiptoe past Meggy and Tari, but despite Tari being coached by Meggy, they noticed him pretty quickly to his horror.
“Oh, hey Four-! Wait… Are you wearing Three’s clothes?” Meggy called out, pointing out the obvious. Now SMG4 really wanted to go and fall into a ditch and be buried. “...Uh, it’s- it’s a long story, I don’t think you’d have the time,” SMG4 quickly responded back, trying to get to his room. Despite trying to get to his room, both Meggy and Tari walked over to SMG4 and stood in front of him, but leaving him with his personal space.
“We can always continue later, Four. Besides, we have all the time in the world!” The way Meggy sounded so cheerful in some form made SMG4 really think that this was a bad idea in the first place to do. “N-No, that’s not what I meant! I was meaning that, uh, you wouldn’t understand!” SMG4 nervously spoke, feeling himself ever so slightly start to sweat.
“What would we not understand?” Tari asked. SMG4’s eyes darted around as he tried to look for some sort of exit to distract them to get his ticket out of this awkward situation that he basically put himself into. “You guys just wouldn’t understand, okay-? Go back to the whole coaching thing, it’s not anything to worry about, I swear!” Even though he tried to not sound suspicious, the more he spoke, the more he would dig his own grave. Meggy and Tari both exchanged a quick glance, but SMG4 swiftly booked it out of there as soon as he could when their eyes were off of him. Luckily, it caught them a bit off guard to give him enough time to escape and quickly shut the door behind him once he got to his room. Sighing in relief, he quickly flopped down onto his bed. At least he didn’t have to deal with that nightmare of a situation, or at least what it could’ve been.
Although, for SMG3, he just kind of sat on his bed and zoned out. Eventually, he did come back to reality and decided he really did want closure on that kiss. The purple meme guardian then got up and put his hat on before leaving his lair and went up the elevator. Luckily, he didn’t have to wait too long for the elevator to get up to the cafe as he ran out of the cafe, which remained closed like it has been for the past few weeks. “Oh come on, I’m not even used to doing this much now! Why did that idiot have to kiss me like that and leave?! He gave NO reason at all!” SMG3 loudly grumbled to himself as he sprinted, or as much as a sprint as he could do with being pretty tired, to SMG4’s castle.
As SMG3 entered the castle, he immediately spotted Meggy and Tari chatting to each other about something. However, he did notice that they occasionally looked over at SMG4’s room. Even though SMG3 tried to be quiet when entering, both of them noticed him almost immediately and squinted at him as if he just committed a crime or something. “Why are you looking at me?! I’m not disturbing you!” The purple meme guardian shouted out before running over to SMG4’s room. While he knew he should knock, he didn’t as he just bursted into the room, but quickly closed the door behind him. He walked over to SMG4, who is now sitting up in his bed and looking quite startled from SMG3 suddenly bursting into his room.
“Wh- Hey! Why are you bursting into my room without knocking?! You could’ve been invading my privacy!” SMG4 yelled at SMG3, but was greeted with just an eye roll. “And you think that that’s rude to do and NOT that kissing someone and leaving ISN’T rude?!” The purple meme guardian argued back. At this point, they both were standing in front of each other with a snarl on their face, staring the other one down.
SMG4 was about to try and argue back to defend himself, but he didn’t even have a reason nor a way to defend himself from the fact that he did randomly kiss SMG3 with no warning and no reason at all. “Cat got your tongue?” SMG3 said aggressively, but it came out more teasing, which he didn’t intend to do. “Well, what else do I say?! I don’t know why I did it, okay?” SMG4 answered.
After SMG4 spoke, the two of them just had a weird tension between them build up as they both remained silent. Neither of them dared to break the silence.
However… Eventually SMG3 couldn’t take it anymore and decided to kiss SMG4 right on the lips, deciding fuck it, might as well take advantage of the moment if neither of them were gonna talk. He did pull away after a few seconds, although he easily noticed how the blue meme guardian’s face flushed red as he leaned in to actually kiss him again. Even though SMG3 is pretty surprised with it, he, surprisingly, is actually pretty okay with it… he would even dare say that he enjoyed it. Slowly, as if he were hesitant (even though he was), he kissed SMG4 back as he decided to slowly raise his hands and cup the blue meme guardian’s face. SMG4, feeling SMG3 do that, decided to respond by putting his hands onto SMG3’s waist. To both of their surprises, they kind of just melted into the kiss.
As Meggy and Tari both exchanged a few more glances, they got suspicious of the fact that both SMG3 and SMG4 are in SMG4’s room and that they couldn’t hear any kind of yelling anymore. “Meggy… Are you sure it’d be a good idea to intrude on whatever they may be doing?” Tari hesitantly asked, having a nervous look on her face. “Trust me Tari, if we see anything we shouldn’t then we can quickly shut the door without them noticing. Probably,” Meggy reassured Tari, placing a hand on her shoulder.
Despite Tari’s initial reluctance, Meggy opened the door with Tari behind her. What they saw was definitely not what they were thinking of at all. Meggy, admittedly, was trying to hold in a small giggle. Luckily, the giggle didn’t get out as it was able to get stifled, but Tari looked away in private from the fact that SMG3 and SMG4 still remained to be kissing. Meggy did take the hint that she really should close the door, so she did, even though it wasn’t as silent as she hoped it to be.
“...And you were sure that you wanted to look in? I didn’t want to in case of privacy reasons, Meggy,” Tari looked at Meggy. She is pretty confused as for why Meggy seems to be trying to hold in laughter. As much as she was confused with whatever Meggy finds funny, she hoped the best for SMG3 and SMG4. “Well, we saw what they’re doing, so we can presume the whole coaching session now, Tari!” Meggy replied, getting rid of her giggles as she went to her confident and energetic voice.
SMG3 could’ve sworn he did hear the door open and close, but he ignored it. SMG4, however, didn’t even notice the door. After a little longer, the two pulled away with their faces being as red as tomatoes. “...Well, that seemed like enough closure for me…” SMG3 spoke, having a slight chuckle at the end. “I guess so,” SMG4 responded, having a slight nervous laugh before he just surprise attacked SMG3 with a tight hug. Despite the fact that they both just kissed, SMG3 froze up for a moment before giving in to the hug, embracing SMG4 just as tight.
“I don’t think I ever said this, but uh… I… I love you, Three.”
“I love you too, Four.”