I.L.Y. - A MewGulf AU

Extra: Masquerade - aftermath WAI + Announcement!

YENNA (I_callyoumoonchild): This is an extra one-shot written by my amazing BETA-reader (unusual_pb on AO3!), further expanding on the story of Dee and Wai in the movie Masquerade!  All credit goes to her for coming up with this so please leave a comment if you like!
At the end of this will be a small announcement about the sequel as well! 

UNUSUAL_PB: To all the I.L.Y. readers, Welcome!!!!
Hope you like this one-shot and get a better view of Wai and Dee.
This one-shot takes place a while after their night at a Masquerade party where Dee and Wai, best friends since high school days, unknowingly slept with each other. Dee takes advantage of the anonymity to hide his feelings for Wai but he keeps in contact as the masked man to explore his feelings.As for Wai, his dream relationship with his high school crush is going nowhere, he's suddenly thrown off balance when he spends an eventful night with a masked man who will not leave his head. And his ever-present, problem solving best friend is also out of reach.

A huge thanks to Yenna for beta-reading this.

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Wai is in a difficult situation. His feelings are all jumbled up in a mess that he couldn't see past.

The thing is Wai has been in love with this girl for a long time now. But they could never get past the barrier of phi-nong. He truly loved her since high school. And it is now, after they have grown up and were each headed their own way that he's been able to progress this relationship to a probably dating stage. However, he's in a dilemma as he cannot see a future to this relationship. Now that they're dating and all, he's realised it's not as good as he imagined. N'Lisa is a great girl and partner but he can't feel like there's something missing in this relationship. Somehow, she must have picked up on his thoughts because she has already made several comments about the producer's lack of enthusiasm for their burgeoning relationship.

Which brings Wai to his second problem, he went to a masquerade party a few days back where he slept with someone else. Even worse, with a man he had never met before. Now, he's no homophobe nor does he have issues with gays – he even agrees that some men could be really attractive – but the man never thought that he could be attracted to a man enough to be able to sleep with him. He had to admit that said night was one of the best nights of his life.

The next morning, it didn't come as a surprise when his partner was missing from the bed. Wai was however left with a note with that person's number. After much thinking, he sent a sticker of a bear waving. He didn't receive any response for a few hours and was ready to give up when the producer received a message asking who he was. And thus, began their text affair.

All of this contributes to his current predicament. On one hand, Wai is technically still dating N'Lisa but he's debating whether this relationship will go anywhere. And on the other hand, he slept with a guy that he's still talking to through text almost every day. They still haven't met up after that initial night, however he has a feeling they will meet if things go on the same. Talking to this guy brings him a sense of passion that was missing from his life that he only got from music before. And now even the music can't match up to the euphoria this guy brings to him.

So, now Wai is going to the only person that can maybe help him out of this mess. His best friend Dee.

Before today, the only time Wai went inside Dee's office was when he first got the job, to help his best friend settle in his office. The designer liked to keep his work life a separate from his friends. Arriving at the building, the producer went directly to where his office is supposed to be. As he expected Dee was busy working. So here Wai was, coming to bother his friend who's busy at work. He normally wouldn't do this, but he felt like this couldn't go on like this.