He's my home | Marlex

XV

Alex's Pov

I knocked on the wagon's door with both of my paws, trying to make as much noise as possible, tears threatening to fall down my cheeks. "Marty!" I said desperately. "Marty please!"

"Fuck off Alex!" He said, his voice breaking. I could tell how much I had hurt him. What the hell had I done? I had hurt the person I loved the most just because of some stupid feeling of lust. "Marty I'm so sorry" I said softly. "That's what they all say! Could you at least try to be more original?!" We stood silent for a while until I heart him crying. "Marty please, please let me come in"

"Never!" He answered, "Go talk to your jaguar girl and stop loosing your time with the fag zebra if that's what you want, you don't have to try to apologize to me, cause I don't care!" I sighed deeply as tears started to roll down my cheeks. "Marty I can't undo what I did, but I promise this will never happen again" I said. "This getting boring Alex, could you please stop being so cliche?!" He answered. Anger ran through my veins as I felt that no matter what I said, he wouldn't listen to me. "Right! You want me to be less cliche?! Then I'll go date her let's see how cliche that is" I said furiously 

"I don't care what you say Alex, go kiss that jaguar girl of yours, do even more things with her if you want! You know one day  you're gonna miss me and you will never have me again! Ever!" He shouted. I stood up and touched the door for a while, wanting to walk in and hug him, but I thought he would never want to be with me again after what I had done, so I walked away, looking down

Marty's Pov

I heard the sound of Alex's paw on the door and opened it, feeling terribly guilty for making him sad and refusing to give him a second chance even if a knew he was telling the truth, but when I opened the door he was walking away. I looked at him for a few seconds, wondering if he would ever turn around and look at me, but he didn't do it. I sighed and sat down in the wagon again, resting my back against the wall and looking at the wall in front of me, thinking about all the good memories I had with Alex.

Some time passed by, I don't even know how much, but at some point the horses knocked on the wagon door. "Marty? It's us..." Esperanza said. "We want to know if your alright..." Esmeralda added. I put my hoofs away from my face and stood up slowly to open the door. Once I did they hugged me tightly. I closed my eyes, feeling at home with them.

"He doesn't deserve you Marty" Ernestia said softly. I nodded, sighing deeply. "So how much time do we have left until you have to perform?" I asked. "We already performed Marty" Esmeralda explained. "What?" I asked. "We told everyone you were feeling sick" Esperanza said. "And did it work?" I questioned.

"Yes, although Gloria and Melman didn't understand why Alex wasn't helping you out" Ernestia answered. "Well Gloria and Melman know about what I had with Alex, so it's not a big problem" I said, looking down. "Hey Marty, it's ok" Esmeralda said, "You can cry with us, you're safe..." I smiled a bit. "Thank you girls, but I already cried way too much" "That's what we thought too" Esperanza grinned. "Wow what are you girls planning?" I grinned back a bit. "We might have arranged you a little date with Stefano" Esperanza explained

"Oh my god" I mumbled. "Of course if you don't feel well enough for it we could just tell him so" Esmeralda said. "No- No it's not that" I answered, "He's... He's just so pretty and- and I don't even know how to start talking to him I mean I don't even know what interests him" "Maybe you could talk to him about your circus act" Ernestia smiled. "Yeah maybe he could be lucky enough to know what your circus act is, as you haven't told anyone yet" Esperanza added with a joking tone of voice

I chuckled, shaking my head. "I'm just embarrassed It won't be as good as the ones you have" "About that..." Esmeralda sighed. "What happened?" I asked. "Well let's just say the audience wasn't really surprised by our performance..." Ernestia explained. I looked down. "What are we gonna do now?" I asked quietly. "I don't know Marty, but it's nothing for you to care about" Ernestia said. "Yeah just go in there and be the gay queen you are" Esperanza said. 

I laughed and we walked into the tent. Alex's expression turned into a serious one as he saw me laughing. I looked into his eyes with sadness, feeling my heart breaking again, before the triplets took me out of that cloud of sadness. "Let's go get some food Marty" Esmeralda said. I nodded. The horse and I got in two hoofs and they helped me walk to the kitchen, by holding my hoofs.

As we arrived at the kitchen Esperanza, Ernestia and I sat down while Esmeralda cooked some food for us. The horses were triplets, but I could still recognize that they had a similar behaviour to normal siblings. Esmeralda acted like the big sister who took in most of the responsibilities, Ernestia acted like the middle one,  her behaviour being between both of her sisters, being both mature and childish at the same time and Esperanza acted like the little sister, the one that caused trouble to the others and needed to be cared of the most

"I'm going to cook you a spanish speciality Marty" Esmeralda explained. "It's too late to eat paella" Esperanza complained. "No it's not paella you dumbass" Esmeralda answered her. I couldn't help but laugh. Seconds after Esmeralda put four plates in the desk, which contained a round food that I had never seen before. It had the color that potatoes had, but it also had white in it, which made me doubt what it was.

"Sorry for taking so long Marty, but Esperanza won't eat her tortilla if it has onion in it, so I had to make another one for her" Esmeralda explained. "Tortilla?" I asked curiously. "Mhm, it's made out of potatoes, eggs and mostly onion too, that's for normal people at least, but Esperanza doesn't like it" Ernestia joked. "Hey! I just don't like the way it tastes ok?" Esperanza answered. I shook my head, laughing and tried my food. It was the best meal I had ever had.