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The mood was lovely, soft chirping of ‘birds’ ringing throughout the room with the echoes of a waterfall in the back and soft classical music as the guests talked amongst themselves.
“Did you hear? The wedding was delayed thanks to the groom throwing a tantrum!”
“Oh yeah, I heard! Did you also hear that the ‘wife’ was planning to—”
The door swings open and all chatter stops as the co-host, Sprout walks in with a scowl on his face, glances here and there, but all the guests remain silent as he walks through the room with an angry stomp, a servant comes running behind with a phone and a worried pick to his step as he shouted after Sprout, “Sir, Sir! Your fiancé is on the phone, Sir!” The servant had said, still scampering after Sprout who was obviously ignoring him, “Sir—”
“I do NOT want to talk to him. Tell him to leave me alone for the night,” he goes over to the bar and grabs a drink, chugging it down before wiping his mouth clean, “Tell him not even to come, I don't want to see his face.” The servant looks at him and then down at the phone, quietly relaying the message. As expected, there was loud yelling from the other side of the phone, but with one word from Sprout, the yelling ceased, and the servant hung up the phone. “You, go away,” he tells the servant who slips off as ordered, Sprout looks around the room with a sneer, “What the fuck are you guys looking at…?” He asked and everyone started back talking as if nothing happened, but the mood was ruined and no more gossip was heard now that the subject was present.
A good 20 minutes went by and there were the sounds of paparazzi heard from a mile away as THE Dandicus Dancifer stormed in. His eyes were searching the crowd in the room and his eyes landed on the beautiful red skinned toon from across the room, he was at the bar drinking with some balloon guy, he could sense the sexual tension brewing between the two, could see the way the guy was blushing, the way Sprout was smirking with interest as he leaned in closer to whisper something. That's when Dandy stormed closer, standing just a few feet away from Sprout and his new interest.
“What are you doing without me here beside you?” He reaches to grab Sprout, but the new guy jumps up as if he was going to stop THE Dandicus Dancifer. “You. Whom do you think you are messing with my fiancé?” He shoots him a pointed glare, teeth bared as if he was going to attack and Sprout had to intervene with his owl scowl of hatred.
“Back off if you know what's good for you, Dandy. This is an arranged marriage, you know there is no love between us.”
“You say that, but aren't you the same person who will be begging me to fuck you?” He looks over at the guy and smirks, “What's your name? I need to know the person who thinks they can just steal what's mine.”
“L-Looey…” The guy said, Sprout had folded his arms as he pushed Looey behind him in a protective stance, Looey did let out a small confused sound, but he didn't speak up or anything, just sulked in the background, wishing he wasn't there.
“He's just a friend I just made Dandy. I won't ruin this arrangement for a silly scandal and you know that.” Sprout reassured him though his eyes told a different story and Dandy had noticed that but didn't say anything. Instead, he grabbed Sprout by his face, bringing him down to his eye level, and hissed out a simple demand:
“If I ever catch you with this guy– No, ANYONE again without my presence I will have their heads on a platter.”
“I understand, Dandy.”
With that said Dandy had dragged Sprout away, shooting rough glares at everyone who was looking, “WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!” He shouted at them as he dragged Sprout away, and while he did the poor guy named Looey silently watched wishing he could have another chance to meet that beautiful strawberry toon again…
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It was just like any other day for Sprout, he was either: getting stalked, getting harassed, forced to take pictures, or all of the above in that exact order which is why he's pushed up in the backseat of the car with two body guards on either side of him, he didn't particularly ask for them, in fact he was really uncomfortable with their presence, it's not like he was a big shot around these parts or anything—
“Can we stop here? I feel hot and you guys are suffocating me.”
“But Sir, Dancifer wanted you waiting at the penthouse for his arrival—”
“Does it look like I care about that? Let me out.” The car pulled over immediately, the driver parking just outside this small, rundown-looking cafe, and not long after the cameras were on him as more cars pulled up, taking pictures of him getting out of the car and being walked inside. The crowd followed him, but he didn't care, his eyes looked everywhere else but at them, and that's when he saw ‘him.’
“It's you. From the bar the other day?”
Looey wipes the sweat from his brow as he turns to actually look at Sprout, his tail wagging in eagerness, “Oh, it's uhm… You, Mister—”
“Seedly, but please don't call me that, my name is just Sprout.”
“Y-Yeah I kind of looked you up after our last meeting…”
Sprout smirks and steps closer, shooting Looey a once-over, “Yeah? I guess I didn't properly introduce myself.” Looey looks up at him, sees the way Sprout bit his lips and shivered, “Looey, right? Cute name, but why the get-up? You look like a clown.”
“I uhm… I work here regularly. I'm an entertainer, but nobody likes my jokes or my tricks…” He watches as Sprout walks around to. one of the chairs, he watched him pull it out and sit down, and crossing his legs, “What—”
“Show me.”
“Show you w-what?”
“A trick or maybe even a joke.”
Looey looks at him, his ears perking up before a sheepish smile crosses his face, “Please, you'll have more entertainment with my friends than me…”
“Did I ask for your friends?”
“N-No…?”
“Then get a move on. I want to be entertained.”
Rubber paws grabbed nearby bowling pins, pads held on tight as Looey attempted to juggle, his form was shaky just like his smile, and a bead of sweat rolled down his face as he tried not to look at Sprout, but as soon as he did and he saw the hit of interest reflecting at him that's when his concentration slipped and the bowling pins came tumbling down. Fear struck him and he nervously started sweating noticeably a bit more, looking up at Sprout and down at the pins as he frantically began to clean them up, “I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, here let me uhh—”
“Hahahaha!!” Ok, Looey was not expecting that at all. “You're funny you know? How come I didn't see that last night?” Sprout sits forward, eyebrow raised as he looks at Looey, “Nervous?”
“Ah– Very. My first time at a big gig like that, I was supposed to entertain, but I panicked…”
“Yeah? Was that before or after I arrived? You looked pretty damn nervous when we spoke last.”
“Ah… W-Well your fiancé scared me, sure, but that was before I met you, my friends, or well really my coworkers had to take over for me, and I just kind of…”
“Sat back and watched?”
“Y-Yeah…”
“You got a funny head on your shoulders, I can see you making it big.” Sprout says as he turns to a nearby waitress who was jumping up and down in joy at catching his attention, “I want an order of your best dessert, make it snappy.” The waitress writes it down with a squeal before running off to the back, the sounds of excited squeals were heard, but Sprout gave zero fucks as he rested his face in his palm, “Tell me about yourself, where do you come from? Family? Anything.”
“Well, you know my name is Looey, no family I'm an orphan… And I'm an entertainer?”
“Wow, I couldn't tell.” Sprout responds with a sigh, a soft chuckle bubbling up as he is now sitting back, “I can not wait to know more about you, you are far more entertaining than you think.”
“Y-Yeah…?!”
“Absolutely.”
There was a loud ringing noise that Sprout knew all too well and a guard came up and gave him the phone, “WHERE ARE YOU?! WHY AREN'T YOU WITH YOUR FIANCÉ??” The voice on the other side rang out, it was Sprout's adoptive mother, she was a human unlike him, found him on the streets and gave him a better life all because he was ‘majestic’ as she had put it, Sprout called bullshit, but he never questioned it, just smiled as he was spoiled after riches upon riches, but that's a story for another time.
“I don't want to go, Mom. What did he call you crying about how I wasn't waiting for him legs spread?”The voice on the other side gasps and his smirk widens, “Yeah, yeah don't worry, we'll pop out a baby soon as he finds my secret stash of birth control.”
“You– Hm, fine.” He hears a deep sigh and smiles knowing he's getting under her skin, but that smile poofed away when he heard her next words, “Remember our deal, Sprout, or else.”
“Yeah, I will, Ma'am.” The phone hangs up with a soft click, a shadow hiding Sprout's face as he stands, nodding at his guards as they step closer to him, “Sadly, I have to go Looey, it was nice meeting you.” He dug in his pocket, giving Looey a card with his personal information on it, “Here's my number, ring me up sometime?"
“O-Of course!!”
“Hm, you're kind of cute.” All Looey heard as Sprout left once more, his heart was aching for more of that sweet deep voice, but he knew better to wish for that, so he watched once more as that handsome man walked out of his life for the second time…
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Moaning echoed throughout the room, Dandy hovering above Sprout as he thrusted in and out, “You feel good– Agh~” He leans down to kiss Sprout who turned his head to the side to avoid it, and Dandy didn't like that, “Why are you being so difficult—”
“Stop, please—”
“No, just kiss me.” He goes to kiss him once more, but Sprout once again turns his head and so Dandy has gripped his face and forced him into the kiss. Sprout had bit his lip, pushing Dandy off him as he tried to sit up, but Dandy had gripped his wrist and pushed him back down, “Stop moving…”
“Dandy fucking stop— Stop I said– Ngh– pull out NOW.”
“No, just quit—”
Sprout had freed his hand, punching Dandy off of him before scampering up, kicking Dandy away with his legs as he held the blanket to his chest, “I said to stop… W-Why did you…”
“Did you forget the bargain? We need to birth a son, so quit being so difficult and just let me give your family what they want.”
“Get the fuck away from me.”
“Sprout, stop disobeying me, you know what you have to do.”
For context: Sprout was signed to give an heir since birth, snatched right off the streets for the better is what they told him, but he found out the truth years ago, he was sold away by his birth mother, his father long out of the picture, just him and his mother living life on the streets and when that opportunity came she took it with a grain of salt. He was adopted into the family just to marry the rival family, they lied, said he was their biological child, but he wasn't family, just a bargaining chip to get the rival family off their backs for a while then Sprout's use will be unrewarded.
But since coming out as transgender they were quick to speed up the process, not wanting a “Queer” within the family name. Best to get him married, sold off, and pregnant, huh?
Yeah, Sprout knows.
And now Sprout sits there frantically looking at Dandy with a slight hint of fear in his eyes, “I don't want to do this anymore…” He whispered, kicking his legs over the bed as he moved to get dressed, Dandy let out a drawn-out huff of anger, throwing a pillow at the wall in frustration.
“YOU CUNT!” He shouted, throwing another pillow before completely trashing the bed, “Just you wait… Just you fucking wait…”
As Dandy spoke to himself Sprout was in the bathroom, tears streaming down his face on the other side of the door, listening in fear of the crazed man that was his fiancé…
“What do I do…”
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Looey looked at the stars above them, they were outside on top of the rooftop, it was the only place Sprout could get some decency of privacy without the paparazzi or Dandy spying on him through cameras. “Hey, Sprout? Do you really love hanging out with me?” Looey asks, his gaze flicking to Sprout before going to his fingers where they twiddled with their nails, “Don't I bore you?”
Sprout looks over at the balloon toon next to him and scoffs, shaking his head, “Of course you don't bore me, I enjoy your company…” His hand rests on Looey's, a faint blush on his cheeks, “I really enjoy it…”
Looey's ears shoot up and his face turns a different shade, but instead of pulling away and mentally berating himself he leans in closer, “Yeah? Well… Ahem– We can enjoy it in other ways too…”
“Hmm, you think you're slick don't you?”
“Ahaha, not at all, Mr. Se—” Sprout pulled him in for a kiss, his tongue being forced down Looey's throat causing him to choke, it was surprisingly a bit long, very slithery like a snake, and it caught Looey off guard, “Mphh~ Ah– W-Wait—”
“Tsk- I said not to call me Seedly didn't I?” He pushed Looey back a bit, his lips trailing down to his collarbone and sucked a hickey there, he heard Looey gasp and moan his name, it rolled off sweetly, hot, and breathy, making Sprout smirk against his rubbery skin before he pulled away, “You're cute, Looloo~”
“Hah- O-Only my friends call me that…”
“Hmn, wouldn't it sound better if I were moaning it instead~?”
“F-Fuck…”
“Hehe, thought so.” And with that, they dove back in, Looey flipping Sprout over on his back, he swooped down to kiss him before going to his neck and biting him, earning a moan from Sprout, “E-Eager?”
“Mhn, very.” Sprout's clothes were off, Looey's pants were down, it wasn't a surprise of what following events happened and afterwards they lay beside each other, covered in each other's fluids and sweat.
“T-That was…”
“Good?”
“No… My first time….”
Looey blushed and his voice got caught in his throat before he cleared it away with an anxious chuckle, “I was your first?”
“Not that way… Just my first time cumming and liking it… I don't count the others.”
“Why not if I can ask?”
“Dandy.” All Sprout said before he sat up into a stand, wiping himself clean as he fixed his clothes, Looey had done the same, but his movements were a bit more stiff.
“Does he—”
“I don't want to talk about it, Looey.”
“Understood… Ahem- Uh, see you again at the same time or—” Sprout kissed him, it wasn't like before where it was full of hunger and had teeth, it was a deep kiss full of love and passion.
“I don't want to end this on bad terms, Looloo. I'll catch you again, right?”
“I– Yes, yes you will.”
“I better… This was great, Looey.”
“Yeah…” Looey watches as Sprout walks away once more and once he was out of view he hugged his head into his hands and cried, he didn't understand these feelings, but he knew they were real, and he knew he and Sprout were meant to be.
Dandy can not have him…
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Shelly raced to the wedding suite, carrying flowers, makeup, and the veil as she raced through the halls to where Sprout was sitting in a chair with a not-so-happy smile on his face.
“I refuse to wear the dress.”
“But sir you have to… Your mother suggested it—”
“That woman is NOT my mother. She long lost that title to even be called human.”
Shelly nervously watched the two go back and forth, a small smile on her face as she hung up Sprout's dress and had instead fished out a suit that was hung up elsewhere, she didn't say nothing as she silently got her area situated, but once she did she had turned to Sprout with a little squeak, “We can work with no dress, but I can tweak the suit a bit, we have time, but you have to wear the veil, and your hair down.” She said as she grabbed a seat in front of the sewing machine, “Please let Glisten do your makeup in the meantime ok?” She quickly set to work as Glisten came and grabbed his own supplies.
“Don't worry, I'll be extremely light with it, won't even notice it's makeup!”
Sprout scoffs but closes his eyes, letting Glisten dazzle him up.
A bit after Sprout had opened his eyes to see himself reflecting in Glisten's face, “Beautiful, huh?” Glisten smirks but it falters with a raised brow, “I mean me of course, but you look okay too.” He quipped before falling silent again and moving out of the way.
“Yeah… Thanks.” Sprout muttered as Shelly came and helped him get dressed, “Make the corset a bit tighter I can almost breathe!” He said sarcastically, his eyes rolling in annoyance, but Shelly had quickly tied it back before fixing his suit and hair.
“Glisten, what do you think? Doesn't he look nice?”
“Well… it'd look better on me, but he looks handsome as well!”Glisten says with a coo, swiping a piece of Sprout's leaves out his face and into the back, “Wow, you should make me some more clothes soon, hun!” He leaves Sprout to go grab the veil, he draped it over him with a smile, tilting Sprout's face towards his, “Absolutely wonderful~"
“Can I get someone who won't flirt with me on my wedding day…?”
“No, hun you're stuck with me! Come now we have to get you ready to walk with your father!” Glisten replied, hooking his arm around Sprout's as he slowly walked him out. Sprout had swallowed a big lump in his throat when he saw the man that calls himself his father.
“Where is your dress? I didn't ask for a groom.”
“...Sorry, it didn't feel right.”
“Damn you to hell… I didn't raise this, but the sooner you're married with kids the less I have to worry about you.” He held his arm out and Glisten had reluctantly let go of Sprout, giving him a gentle look as he gently nudged him towards his father. “You, get out of here, I don't need your kind further rotting my daughter.”
“I'm not— Yes, sir.” Glisten says with a bow, tilting his head a bit more to hide his grimace of anger, “You're a beautiful groom, Sprout.”
Once he was gone Sprout was already walking out, the sun was bright, the music was blaring, people were chatting before going quiet at the sight of him—
“Where's her dress?”
“Oh, I feel sorry for the person marrying that.”
“What an ugly 'groom', it should've been me instead.”
The jealous words rang hollow in Sprout's head as he walked down the aisle, he looked up to see Dandy standing there with a smile, it felt weird seeing as Sprout wasn't happy, but he didn't show that, he smiled big and proud, wishing this day could go by faster.
“Bite your tongue, girl.” His dad had whispered before letting Sprout go stand at the podium, the priest cast him an once over glare, but said nothing about him.
“Why do you look like that?” Dandy had mouthed, but Sprout ignored him, his eyes looking off to the side as he numbly listened to the priest's words. He vaguely remembers the sound of Dandy's voice as he repeated his vows, barely remembers his lips moving to speak his, but he did tune back in on the priest's next words:
“Are you prepared, as you follow the path of marriage, to love and honor each other for as long as you both shall live?”
“I do,” Dandy says, his gaze fixated on Sprout who was barely there in the moment.
“And you, Ms. Seedly?”
“I…” Sprout starts but then pauses, the priest looks at him expectantly and Dandy does the same, except it was like he was challenging Sprout to say otherwise, but he didn't have to worry, Sprout was going to say yes regardless and he knew that. “I do.” Sprout says, sealing his fate with a ‘smile’ and tears of ‘joy’, “I do, I do…” He says, trying to convince himself that he wanted this loveless marriage.
“In the sight of God and these witnesses, I now pronounce you husband and wife! You may now kiss!”
Dandy grabs him, pulling him down into a kiss, it was demanding, it was forced, made Sprout's skin boil and burn, but he didn't react. No, he stood there and took it, pulling away and looking down at Dandy like a bride would… With love.
“You look handsome…” Sprout says dully, the life was seemingly drained out of him as Dandy led him down the stairs hand in hand as the witnesses cheered them on from the bleachers.
“And you look… Neat.”
“Thanks… I'll just…” He doesn't finish his sentence, just starts walking off, but Dandy stops him by tugging at his sleeve.
“We're going to dance.”
“I don't want to.” Dandy clicked his teeth and had sighed heavily, but that turned into a dangerous-looking sneer as his hold on Sprout's sleeve tightened to the point Sprout could hear the fabric tearing a bit.
“I wasn't asking. We're dancing, Sprout and that's final.” Dandy held his hand out, waiting for Sprout to make the first step towards officially accepting his fate by a simple dance. The taller toon had raised his hand, reaching out for Dandy's as he tried not to shiver at the fingers gripping his waist, “I love you…” Sprout's whisper hung hollow, and he looked dead to the world, but none had dared to say or do anything.
“You better,” Dandy had said with a smirk getting ready to kiss him, but suddenly there was a loud crash and screaming—
“WHAT'S HAPPENING?!” A voice screamed.
“IS THAT A CAR?!” Someone else had shouted as a car came flying through, driving by recklessly before skidding to a stop in front of Sprout and Dandy who were both backing away.
The car door in the back slammed open and a familiar face came out, “Sprout! You don't really want this, do you? Come with me, we can get out of here, together.” Looey had said, a determined glint in his eyes as he held a paw out for Sprout to take.
The said person stepped forward, but the annoyed growl from Dandy kept him rooted in place, “I don't want to go with you Looey. I'm happy here—”
“Bullshit! Those moments when it was just us– Were those all lies? Did they mean nothing??”
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“Why are you looking at me like that?” Sprout had said when he caught Looey staring at him, they were once again on a rooftop except it was a sunset, “Don't say something corny like I'm beautiful—"
“You are.”
“Bullshit! You're cute, Looloo, but let's not.”
Looey snickers and leans in close, his nose booping Sprout's as he looks him in the eyes, “You are so perfect in my eyes, Sprout. I love your voice, your eyes, the way you walk, the way you talk—”
“Aren't you just repeating the same thing?”
“SHUT UP I'M TRYING!!”
Sprout giggles and boops Looey's nose with his finger before kissing him on the lips, “You're the best guy yet, Looey. You really changed me…” He rests his hand in Looey's, rubbing them with his thumbs as he rests his face on his shoulders.
“I love you.”
And Looey smiled.
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Back to the present, Sprout looks between Dandy and Looey “I-I…” He starts but stops, he looks one last glance at Dandy before tearing himself away and running towards the car, Looey makes room in the back, giggling softly at the presence of Sprout.
“I knew you'd choose me.”
“Bet you I did.” Sprout replied, twisting his ring off before throwing it out the window, “And you can keep this fuckass ring!!” He shouts, rolling the window back up with a snicker. He looked up to the front of the car where a messy-looking woman and broody looking guy were, “Are these your friends you keep talking about?”
“Y-Yeah– Ah! Step on it Blot!” Without another word, the car speeds off and Looey grabs Sprout's hand, “I'm so glad you ended up with me and not him.”
“My parents are going to hunt me down, what if you get hurt?!”
“Anything for you…”
“Oh, Looey…”
“HEY LOVE BIRDS WE'RE HEREEEEE!!” The woman shouted, bouncing excitedly in her seat and the guy in the driver's seat had to shake his head with a sigh and made some type of motion with his hands that had the girl giggling, “Ok, ok!! Lookie, lookie!!” They strolled up to a beach, the woman jumping out of the car immediately along with the guy named Blot who had gotten out to hold the woman's hand.
“Yatta and Blot can you guys give us privacy or…” Blot had nodded briefly, tugging Yatta along with him, she was ecstatic it seemed because she ran directly into the water. “Now that we're alone…”
“Wait, I just want to say… That today was great– Well the part when you came in at least.” Looey blushes and quickly turns away, his tail was wagging fast like he was happy. “What are you doing?”
“Hehe, nothing~” Sprout clicks his tongue and goes to look over Looey's shoulder to see what he's up to, but he turns to face him, catching him off guard, “Well, maybe I was up to something~”
“What's in your hand?”
Looey silently gets on one knee, and Sprout lets out a startled gasp, “Sprout—” He doesn't even have to say the words because Sprout was already pouncing on him, they fell to the floor, the flower rings almost dropping out of Looey's hand, but he gripped them tight enough so they wouldn't. “I DIDN'T FINISH!!”
“You– YOU DUMMY OF COURSE THE ANSWER IS YES!!” He kissed Looey deeply, his hands cupping his cheeks and Looey turned his head making the kiss even deeper, “I love you…”
“Mhn, I love you too, how about we…”
“YES.”
And then they had passionate sex, but what more could come out of this new relationship? What troubles or miracles will ensure?