~ Shipper's Pain ~ Book 2 ~

Chapter 12 ~ Several Weeks Later

January 2023

Max POV:

With the help of Mew and Tul, my life has changed completely. I am now moved into his amazing condo in my own room. I learned quickly, though, that Tul does have his own room, and so does Mew, but Mew and Tul like to stay in one room a lot. I am hoping, in time, it will be the three of us in one room. I love all the comfort and cuddles from them.

I must say Mew keeps his distance, though. I think he is only doing it to give Tul and me, time together, but Tul is back in school now. From what little they have told me, I know that he has been through a lot with Art and Gulf.

All I can do is hope he will start opening up to me with tonight's date, which is date three. Perhaps he will also kiss me for the first time. From what Tul has said, Mew is a very private person now, all because Art and Gulf did whatever they did. he bottled up, and Tul barely got in, so Mew doesn't give in easily anymore.

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Mew and Max Dinner Date # 3

Max:

Hey Mew, how have you been?

Mew:

Hey Max, I am doing okay, just a little stressed. To be honest, Gulf is bugging out on social media again. Art is back in BL, too, which is crazy since I swear that devil said he was leaving and not ever coming back. It's a good thing I don't act in anything because I might lose my mind if I had to pretend to be around either of those backstabbers again.

My goodness, just the thought of being forced to work with them in front of the camera again, even to make fans happy, makes my skin crawl.

Sorry, I am sure you don't want to know my drama. Like I said, I am just stressed out a bit.

Max:

No, I want you to open up to me, please. I want you to trust and be as close to me as you are Tul.

Now I know mostly already about Art; he is your ex who ran his mouth on social media and tried to end your career, but you managed to survive with the help of Gulf. Right?

Mew:

Okay, well, I guess you need to be let in since I still need to confront Gulf, as Tul said.

Right, you are on the right track. Let me tell you a story about Gulf and me from over a year ago now.

I tell him. First, he needs to understand Gulf lives in a delusional land where he thinks he can claim me even though he has no feelings for me just because he's my BL partner, and our fandom is a huge success.

The problem with this is I wasn't aware of his delusion until that night Gulf and I had an event to close out the end of our show. At the time, I thought I was in love with him and was going to confess that night.

I picked him up to go to the event before we even got out. Once there, he started making out with me. I thought this was a good sign of returning feelings that I would later admit to.

After the event, which went well, Gulf was drunk and stubborn. Gulf didn't want to go home, so he came to my place. I am not dumb or stupid. I set him up in my guest room for the night and figured I would confess tomorrow in the right mind.

Well, I guess unknown to me, at some point, Gulf sobered up, and came to my room around 4 am. I remember it so vividly. It ended like a nightmare.

I make him voice consent after he climbs on top of me and kisses me. What I didn't know is his play on words.