"Hey, Macaque, your voice startled him.
"(Y/n), hey, you're here early," he managed his charming smile at the sight of you. He wore casually appropriate clothes for movies, his hoodie was up, hiding his ears and the majority of his head.
"MK said it was important, but seeing that we're in front of a movie theatre, I was obviously tricked into having friend time," you rolled your eyes. "What are you doing here?" you smiled at him, his world felt like it had frozen solid even though his face felt like It was on fire.
"Oh, well..." He lost his voice. He couldn't remember why he was there for a second, but collected himself and cleared his throat. "MK invited me too,"
"Oh, cool," you smiled at him then turned your attention to your phone as it went off.
It was MK texting you to let you know he was on his way, but running late. Luckily for him, you didn't have a busy day, so you didn't mind waiting a bit for him. Especially now that it meant having Macaque as your company for an extended period of time. You stole a glance at him to find he was already studying you with a somewhat content expression.
"What?" you smiled awkwardly at him, to which made him clear his throat and look away.
"Nothing," he tried to play it off as nothing even though his heart was skipping beats in his chest. "You just, um... look nice," was his lame excuse,even though he did think you looked pretty.
"Thanks," you glanced away to hide your blush. "MK said he's a bit delayed, so there's that,"
"Hm," he nodded as he took in this new information. Not really something he didn't already know, he was the reason they were delayed in the first place, after all.
"I know we should wait for the others, but we can get something light to munch on while we wait."
"That's fine," he gave a nod.
You and Macaque walked into the theatre and got in the short line at the cafeteria section. You both had looked over the menu in the hope to get a light appetizer while you waited for MK and the others. It was silent between you both, but not an awkward silence. You both unnoticeably stole glances at each other till you caught each other's gaze, to which you both looked away with blushes.
Once your appetizers were ordered and collected, you found an empty seat in the waiting area and sat down. Silence took over the two of you once more. You spent a good five minutes looking towards the entrance in hopes to see the group, but had no such luck.
"So, (Y/n)," Macaque's voice snapped you out of whatever trance you were previously in.
"Yeah?" you looked up at him with a curious smile."I was wondering if maybe..." his hesitance caught your interest.
"Yeah...?" you encouraged him to continue, which he did.
"I was wondering if you'd wanna do this again sometime...?" he asked. "With me... alone."
"Like..."
"Like a date," he nodded slightly and looked away to hide his embarrassment, which you thought was cute.
"Like... a date date?"
"Yeah, a date date," he nodded sheepishly.
He's too cute! You internally squealed before collecting yourself.
"As long as you promise it's gonna be a shadow play," you teased. He looked at you with a dorky smile. "I'd like that a lot."
"Really?"
"Of course," you couldn't stop smiling at him. "I really liked the one with the Warrior, the one with the Goddess was nice too,"
"I bet," he chuckled deeply and shook his head at your antics. It was no question about it, he was so smitten with you. "Tomorrow then?"
"I'm free," you smiled at him. You were now, anyway. "You have my number, let me know whento get ready," you added, then glanced around as people started crowding. "This place is starting to wake up, where are those idiots?"
"No clue," he shrugged, but he smirked to himself at the thought of how ticked Monkey King must be at that moment.
"I'm hungry, let's get something to eat before the lines start to get long. Then we should catch a movie,"
"I could eat," Macaque said as he lazily followed behind you. "Wait, a movie?"
"Yeah, who knows how long till they get here, I'm not gonna just wait around," you stated and looked at him with a mischievous smile. "We can call it a practice date."
That made him laugh.
"You get the food, I'll get the tickets,"
"Sounds good!" you grinned and once you decided on what to watch, and he told you what he wanted to eat, you divided to conquer.
Let's just say... the unexpected practice date was a
lot better than you'd thought it would be.
