Macaque's Redemption

Chapter 9- The date

 (Wukong POV)

"You can thank Demon Bull king for that , Wukong." and I was mad that the oversized cow would tell my student something like that but I guess it made sense if he wanted to get blackmail on me. Soon enough MK and Mei got to explaining what I was gonna do for this date that they were setting up which seemed to be that I take the basket that has the food, blanket and something else for me to give to Macaque. 

Find a good place for this picnic, let MK know where it is, set it up, and wait for Macaque to show up and surprise him with this date night and hopefully apologize to him during the night while MK and Mei watch from the sidelines to make sure we don't fight. "Alright, so I just have to find a good place for this to set up and then you're gonna somehow get Macaque to meet me there?" MK nodded as Mei untied me and handed me the basket "Yep, but I'm not telling Macaque why he's going there, just that I need him to meet 'me' there."

I nodded and went out onto the deck, making sure that Macaque doesn't see me on the way since I haven't seen him since we got on the TEA to head home, probably still in his room that Sandy gave him when we got on board. Thinking to myself about the perfect place that we could go to and then it came to me, our first date at the waterfall, it would be perfect for me to apologize and if he wants me to leave at anypoint there's the short path that can allow me to leave quickly. I looked at MK and told him the mountain top to tell Macque to meet me at and he nodded as I summoned my cloud and headed there to set up something special, now gaining confidence that I can do this. After around 15 minutes, I arrived and began setting up the picnic and then used my magic to create lanterns floating in the trees, cushions for us to sit on and then went around the hill to the flower field that was still there.

Looking around I was trying to find what I remembered as Macaque's favorite flower, which was purple prairie gentians, picking a good amount to create a small bouquet and then went back and looked around at the trees which were chinese wisteria trees, "Perfect." Soon enough, I heard footsteps and hid behind the tree to surprise Macaque when he showed up and he came through the tree line and froze in confusion and awe. I stepped out and faced him, and he turned to look at me with a look of surprise that I was there but confusion as to what I was doing. 

Walking towards him and handing him the flowers "I got you your favorite, since the flower field is still here as well." looking down not wanting to see his face on whether he was gonna laugh or walk away. However, he took the flowers and when I looked up, I saw tears building up in his eyes as he looked around and then looked at me, "What is this?" I sighed "This is my apology for everything I have done to you. I realized that I had abandoned you when you needed me, I ran away from the problems that I should have taken the time to fix, and I ran away from us."

Macaque finally allowed his tears to flow as I continued to apologize for everything and eventually he just stepped forward and hugged me which caused me to freeze and stop talking as he did so. "It's okay, you're trying to fix things now." "What? You can't just forgive me like that." and he shook his head, "I don't forgive you yet, just that I accept your apology but we can work on forgiving you." I nodded in understanding and then led him to the picnic that was set up next to the waterfall and facing towards the moon, "So, how did you manage to come up with this elaborate surprise?" "Well, I'll say it was MK and Mei who gave me the push I needed to do this for you, since I owed it to you for all these years of nothing between us." Macaque just chuckled while looking up and I stared at him since the lighting of the lanterns and the moon caused him to be so beautiful and I couldn't believe that I ran away from something like this.