Stitching A Broken Heart

Chapter 7

Three days have passed and Macaque was almost finished with the house all he had to do was clean the floors and he was done. Macaque was walking through the forest to the river with a wooden bucket in his hand, soon he reaches the river and walks towards the edge, as he dips the bucket into the water he sees his reflection from the water and saw the bandage over his right eye 'My eye should be healed by now' he thought taking the full bucket out of the river and placing it on the ground next to him, his hand slowly hovered over the the bandage tie and hesitated at first but he took a deep breath and untied the bandage his heart beating fast in his chest as he removes the bandage, when he finally unraveled the bandage over his eye, he took a deep breath, opened his right eye and looked into the water

But his eyes widened at the reflection over his right eye was a small scar over his eyebrow, but there was a big scar going down his face stopping at the bottom of his eye but that wasn't  the only thing that scared him his right eye was no longer golden like his left but a white color. Blind. Macaque pulled away from the river covering his mouth in shock as tears filled his eyes, he closed his eyes as tears poured down his face as he let out a sob. He quickly wiped the tears off his face as he covered his right eye with his hand, he removed his hand and where the scar and blind eye was were gone replaced with a golden one making his eye looked like it was never scarred. He then stands up, picks up the bucket and began walking back to the house 

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When Macaque made it to the house he placed the bucket down, rolled up his sleeves, dips the rag into the bucket, picks up the soap, pulls the wet rag out, rubbed the soap against the rag until there were suds, and began scrubbing the floor. When half of the floor was done his ears twitched and looks up to see Iron Fan with Red Boy in her arms "you know you shouldn't push yourself too much" Iron Fan said walking up to Macaque "I know but I'm almost finished" Macaque said looking at the half that was clean "with this room, but there's still other rooms, you can't keep pushing yourself too hard, your body can't handle it" she said placing Red Boy down and kneeled down placing a hand on his shoulder. Macaque looked at her and placed a hand on his stomach "....alright" Macaque said finally giving in "go have a break, I can do the rest" Iron Fan said taking the rag from him, Macaque nodded and got up leaving with Red Boy following him

Macaque sat at the stairs of his home watching Red Boy play in the grass hearing him laughing and giggling, Macaque couldn't help but smile at the sight his hand going to his stomach imagining his child and what would they look like, and how they and Red Boy would play together. Macaque snapped out of his thoughts when he felt Red Boy touching his stomach in curiosity and Macaque couldn't help but laugh "they're not done yet, you have to wait for another eight months" Macaque said gently patting Red Boys head "but soon, you'll have a new playmate soon, isn't that exciting" Macaque said and Red Boy giggled, he then spots the area's were the dead trees were and had an idea, he picks up Red Boy headed to the kitchen, grabs the jar of water, the small jar with his tail and headed back outside. He then placed Red Boy down along with the water jar and pulled out a mango seed from the jar, he placed the seed in the hole, burys it and poured water on it, he does this seven more times with the help from Red Boy who burys and patted down the planted seed "I see you two are having fun" Iron Fan said leaning against the wooden column with a smile 

"The floors are nearly cleaned, just the floor at the front of the house" Iron Fan said walking up to them "I could help you with the floor" Macaque said standing up, Iron Fan nodded and the two went back inside the house. It didn't tale long but the two finally finished cleaning the floors, the house was now fixed, cleaned, and in perfect living conditions. Just as Macaque placed the rag in the bucket, Red Boy came up with an armful of muddy rocks, leaves, sticks, and a couple of roly polys and dumped it onto the clean floor, Macaque looked at the pile in surprise as well as Princess Iron Fan but when they saw the big smile on Red Boys muddy face they couldn't help but smile as well, they'll clean that up later