•MCD One-Shotsᵀᴾᴬ

Dante x Aphmau // Jenga

Name: Jenga
Ship: DanMau
Song: Jenga Cover by Rachie
Author: LittleGirl231

| Aphmau |

I looked at my watch, as it read: 5:36pm, Friday. It was going to be a minimum of 4 minutes for Dante to arrive so we could play Jenga. We played Jenga all the time, because that's actually the way we met.

I walked into the store, and made my way to the counter, on my way to order my latte. I looked around and saw only one table left and planned to go there, once I ordered my coffee.

"One latte please." I told the barista, while getting my wallet out, taking 2 dollars.

I paid the barista, getting my cup of coffee and going to sit at the small table placed near the back of the small coffeehouse.

As I walked closer, I noticed that there was a broken Jenga tower lying on the table. For the fun of it, I decided to rebuild it.

When I finished doing so,  a man with blue hair came up to me while holding a cup in his hands.

"Mind if I sit here? There's no more empty tables." He asked, nonchalantly.

"Sure. Go ahead." I replied. "My name's Aphmau, by the way."

"My name's Dante." He said. "Nice to meet you, Aphmau. Is that a Jenga tower?"

"What? Oh, yeah. I saw it lying around so I decided to fix it."

"Wanna play?" I nodded in response.

I walked into our house and put the Jenga box and started building the tower. I knew he didn't mind me doing this, it was just a way of saving time. When there were only around 15 or 17 pieces of the tower left to build, I heard the door open and smiled softly, but I didn't turn around from my seat.

Soon enough, I could hear light footsteps coming towards me from behind, as I pretended not to notice him walking.

He then, stealthily wrapped his arms around me as if he was trying to frighten me.

"Haha, you didn't scare me Dante." I said, giggling, as he pecked my cheek and went to go sit in the chair in front of me.

We continued to build the Jenga tower, until it was done. I took the first turn, by grabbing the middle piece of the layer ontop of the first one and laying it on the top, all while being careful. As he started his turn, I decided to break the silence.

"You know," I started. "I never noticed how similar this game is to love." Dante tilted his head in confusion, as I started getting a piece from the bottom. "Like, love is the tower. You build it up through your relationship and enjoy. But, once the tower breaks and falls, your love does too. But it's not entirely gone, as the pieces of the tower are still lying on the floor, and fades away once you clean it up. And when you rebuild the tower, you do different things, in different ways, and again, it falls and tears apart.

"And yet, there's still a winner and a loser. The winner, is the one who feels happy about breaking up, while the loser is heartbroken. While there are times, when they are both losers, as they want to play longer."

"I don't know how you're so sophisticated, yet it still one of the things I love about you." Dante smiled, yet continued. "Yet, I believe you missed one thing." I was confused. "Telling the difference."

"Oh? Then what is the difference?" I smiled widely at his explanatory response.

"That one tower, will last forever. Not falling apart, as it stands there, building itself up, every moment. Just like us." Suddenly, as he grabbed the piece, the tower went toppling down.

"Oh, you lose."

"No, I didn't. I won. I didn't follow the rules of Jenga. Our tower came crashing down already, but we still keep going."

A/N This is how I want to meet the love of my life. *cries silently in the corner.

To the moon and back,
Lena