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“Dude, I don’t- I don’t care you’re sleeping on the couch tonight you always end up talking into my ear when you sleep man.” Ze shoves Regect out the door. “Dude, c’mon it’s not serious man you snore like a pig-” Regect squirms against Ze’s arms, pushing him out. "Kicking me out of my land like Netanyahu." "DUDE, IT'S OUR ROOM CHILL THE FUCK OUT." Ze stares down Regect before slamming the door shut. Before Regect walks away he can hear Ze faintly from the other side of the door, "And don't make any loud noises, I'm gonna see if I can actually sleep for once." Regect, annoyed, wanted to start banging against the door until he got run over by Moe heading to her own room.
"Oh shi- Oh hey Moe!" Regect's voice perked up, his ugly mug shaped into a friendly smile. Moe returns the gesture with a tired smile and a small wave. "Hey, you wanna go like- uhm" Regect pauses to think, "Y'know what Moe? Wanna go out to go-" Before he could even finish Moe shook her head and pointed towards her room. "Oh- uh yeah, alright no worries- Uh, goodnight, Moe!" Regect stuttered and replied as Moe nodded as a return before walking away.
Regect, slightly frowning that nobody's up, heads downstairs towards the kitchen. He creeps towards the kitchen and opens the fridge, shoving away the cans of whipped cream Moe buys for her diet goals- or pranks? Doesn't really matter, Regect needs his scooby snacks. Moving the cans, he finds the leftover garlic knots from spaghetti night. Plate full of the last of the knots, he feasted like a fat fuck. However, putting his dish away he can hear the horn of Moe blasting throughout the house as if she was calling for Regect.
Regect shifted away and darted up the stairs, almost tripping against himself. "Hey keep it down Ze's trying to-" Regect gets into Moe's room, noticing Moe tucked into bed looking towards Regect with big round puppy eyes. Regect shifted quickly, darting his eyes away, thinking he shouldn't have been shouting at Moe, who only wanted his attention. "So uh- what do you need, Moe?" Regect awkwardly smiles. Moe looks at Regect with a smile, pointing towards the bookshelves. "Want me to read you something?" Regect asked, not with any confusion, it's pretty normal for Moe to ask for such. "Okay- hmm, let's seee…" Regect crouches down to the books, mostly are ones they've read together. Moving through the books, he sees one, unlabeled and pretty dusty compared to the other books. "Huh, let's do this one for tonight." Regect grabs a seat and pulls it towards Moe's bed to sit down, with an excited Moe with an obvious beaming smile under her blankets.
Regect sits on the chair besides the bed, crossing his legs to get comfortable. "Mkay let's see.." Regect flips open the book, barely being able to see Moe kicking her feet in her bed waiting for the story. However, as he looks down to the book, it's blank. Regect sat there awkwardly before looking at Moe with a smile. "So, uh- You won't believe this-" Moe's bright smile would quickly turn into a frown, Regect can't let her get sad. "You won't believe this…it's..my favorite story!" Regect fakes a nice smile and tone of his voice brightens as well. "Now let's see uh..There once was a brave explorer. Preparing for a uh…" Regect pretends to squint into the book as he tries to think of a story. Despite this, Moe seemed quite excited and happy from a story coming from Regect again, been a while. "Preparing for an adventure! Yeah- Now this hero, well he went to prepare! He gathered the villages stash of uhm…carrots, yeah." Regect seemed a bit hesitant on continuing the way he was going, but Moe's eagerness and happy sounding honks is something he cannot let down. "Well, our hero ventures into the forest! The MAGICAL forest." 'I bet I'm like Shakespeare all over again, heh.' "Through the trail he encounters a jester! The funniest gesture in the world and..their name was uhm…Nolla!" Regect looks up to Moe kicking her feet in excitement. "Heh, well uhm, Nolla, you see Nolla was there to support our hero! Through the forest they would find…they would find…" Regect pauses, finding out he lost all of his creative thinking. Moe in her confusion starts honking at Regect begging for him to continue. Regect stammering and tripping against his words, but nothing can come out. This only causes Moe to only get louder to push Regect to continue reading. "Moe keep it down!" Regect panickingly shouted out over Moe's honking. Regect starts fidgeting on the pages as everything goes completely silent. Moe stops honking as she sees Regect's eyes widen and go still. Footsteps coming from the hallway.
Regect closes his eyes as he hears the footsteps stomp upon the carpet, hand gripping the door just for it to slam open. "What did I say about keeping quiet." Ze's quiet, tired voice spoke volumes into Moe's room. Regect, in the way of Moe, looks back at Ze with his eyes now wide open. "Look l-look man I can explain!" He gets off the chair backing away as Ze got closer to him. "H-hey man look I was just reading a story and-" Ze grabbed him by his shoulder and pulled him straight to his face. The anger in his eyes only convinced Regect that it's his last night ever. But, before Ze spoke, his eyes diverged behind him, to Moe in bed, under the covers with her eyes peaking out. The hand digging into his shoulder lets go and the only thing Regect could hear is a sigh. "So, what were you reading?" Ze looks back at Regect, before squatting near the chair Regect sat on. Regect in total fear stood there for a moment, expecting for his ass to be handed to him on a silver platter, before muttering "W-well came from me, y-yeah. This h-hero and jester." Regect slowly sat down, hesitant to be near Ze as he can feel his anger still coming off him. His ears perked, not a word said, but he was intrigued. Regect watches as Ze gets off his feet and sat against the side of the chair, the anger washed away into a tired slump. "W-well uh- where…where were we?" Regect looks up at Moe, still processing everything, Moe didn't seem to be afraid anymore, or at least covered her fear. Seems like she just wants to hear the rest of the story as she looks at Regect urging him to continue with head nods. "Well, our hero, and our jester, Nolla, wandered through this magical forest. They played, they danced, they built all day and all night. It was until then, they had a brilliant idea!" Regect looks up at Moe and Ze, both faintly listening as they were dozing off to sleep, "Well, they thought, 'Hey! Why not build a house together, we can live together and continue playing the next day!' So, they decided to build a grand house in the forest, one that they can rest to play again tomorrow. The end" Regect looks up, proud of him making the story himself, just to see both Moe and Ze asleep at where they once were.
He gets up from his seat, tucking Moe into her bed and dimming the lamp. Looking towards Ze, Regect let a smile crack through, maybe it's cause of the way he's drooling like an idiot, or the fact that he's drooling, like an idiot. Regect goes towards him, hesitantly, he decides to pick up Ze, fuck he's heavy as hell though. Struggling to lift him, he picks up the fat man into his arms, the warmth of his body against his, the beat of his heart, Regect pushed onward. Struggling, he shuffled Ze slowly towards his room, however whilst in the hallway he sensed someone. He darts his eyes just to see Wakafonte! Oh- wait nevermind he's playing slots on his orb. Whatever, Regect continues to bring Ze into his room and lay him on his bed. "Fucks sake you're heavy man." he whispered, Regect looks down at Ze asleep on his bed, his arm over his chest, his light snoring assuring Regect that Ze couldnt hear him. Looking at him, he kneels down, laying his hand against Ze's chest, feeling the soft heartbeat. Regect stayed there, resting his hand on him until Ze moved to his side, mumbling to himself. "Goodnight, Ze, I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" Regect gets up, looking at Ze again before putting one of Regect's blankets on him to keep Ze warm. Regect walked out the room, slowly closing the door, and headed to the couch for tonight.