LOVE SYNDROME [NAN & MAC] - Short Stories

Chapter 20 - Wedding (Final)

" What are you doing?" the moment Nan picked up, had Mac's eyes rolling at no 'Hi', 'Hello's' like other couples.

" erm... maybe cheating on you?" Mac teased, anticipating the response.

" Oh... and who dares to be with you knowing I will kill them?" Nan challenged, turning over on Mac's duvet spread in the garden.

" P'Eua is hereeeeeeeee" Mac sing-song'ed, excited he got his turn to irritate, twirling in his office chair happily. P'Eua was indeed visiting but not Mac, the factory in reality, to ensure his orders were ready in time for shipment.

" So you choose death, huh?" and Mac's children swam towards him, congregating by the water edge, finding the threat distasteful, staring at him, plotting their own revenge, to assassinate him if it meant protecting their Dad.

" Hahaha... You want to marry me or kill me bastard?" the laughter lifting Nan's mood a little.

" I'll spit in your dinner I tell you." dishing Mac like a playful brat he was.

" Well, poor you because I'm going to dinner with P'Eua. His buying at Intercontinental" triggered a long rant he knew he had coming, pretending to wipe blood off his ears while P'Eua waved at his glass door, having just arrived.

" Always eating hotel food. Will it hurt your ass to sit home and eat normal food like us? Can't eat rice and braised pork? Must be sushi kishi and shit...." had Mac bursting out in laughter despite Nan almost bursting a vein there.

" Got to go Nan, P is here to start the meeting...cha chao!" had even P'Eua smiling away. He could see what Nan saw in Mac, the gummy wide smile with rosy full cheeks, hair thrown back in laughter springing by the sides. Indeed Mac was beautiful, but that boat had sailed, his cousin the winner.

' He'll eat and come" Nan grumbled later at the dining table.

" Oh..." Wei acknowledged cheerfully.

" His eating with Eua" Nan spat, the rice cooker lid his victim, slammed loudly on the kitchen counter.

" Oooooouuu" Wei winced, slowly making his exit. He was indeed hungry too, but he rather eat the safety cones than sit through this difficult dinner with Nan.

After their work meeting, as expected, P'Eua invited Mac and Dad for dinner as family. They could do away with a lot of business formalities thanks to Mac, soon to be Eua's real family.

" Thanks P, but I have to decline..."

" Ow... scared of Nan now, are you?" Eua remarked, his fiery cousin the cause of course.

" No... but I teased him enough. He'd be pulling a long face now, so...I want to reconcile" drew a smirk from Eua, candidly saying Mac was already a full wife, allowing him to return for dinner, promising to meet up another time. If Mac thought he had won, now as he flipped one plate after another, there was literally nothing left for his growling tummy. A short walk to Wei outside confirmed he had cooked, suggesting Nan had eaten everything out of spite.

//Oh// If Nan knew, the bastard will starve him tomorrow as well to get even. When he did return past 3am, Mac was already bundled up, pretending to sleep albeit unsuccessfully with an empty stomach. If he just held in his breath a little longer, Nan would enter the bathroom and Mac would get away with the teasing. At the click of the door, Mac turns face up, screaming when a face appears suddenly by the lit lampshade.

" Oh...Ah...arghhhhhh" Mac wrestles the finger pinching his nose, soft slaps hitting his cheeks.

" Pretending huh? huh?" Nan mocks, pressing both palms on Mac's collarbone, trying to strangle him.