"I swear Sykkuno, to everything holy, if you don't tell me who it is, I'm going to magically become imposter and kill you myself."
"Who says you're not already imposter?"
"Leslie, shut up!"
Sykkuno stared at the emergency meeting screen as his friends bickered around him, turning they're Among Us stream into an actual interrogation. "I HAVE A LIST!" Poki spoke up, breaking off the petty argument between Leslie and Rae.
"When did you make a list?" He asked, running his finger along the sun tattoo on the side of his (opposite) ring finger. "Just now! It has questions that you need to answer. Or we're voting you out."
"Uh, okay..?" He stuttered, a mix of confusion and fear lacing his voice. Poki cleared her thought, the sound of pages in a notebook flapping around caught in the mic, "Okay number one, who is it?"
"I'm not telling you," Sykkuno laughed, coving his mouth as he did. He glanced at the chat all of them spamming ship names of him and his friends to the point he didn't even know what the names were.
"Well damn, that's like, questions 1-7 down the drain," she mumbled, the rustling of paper coming through. Rae groaned, "Where'd you meet! And how long have you guys been together!"
Sykkuno had to think about the second question, he remembers they got together in October so.... "8 months? Almost 9 now? And we met online," He said, trying his best to be vague and not make Corpse uncomfortable.
He listened in to the discord, not picking up Corpse's voice amongst the others. "Oooooo," Rae and Poki giggled like little kids at a slumber party.
"How do they make you feel?" Jack said, making his voice more high pitched to sound like the girls.
"Do they make you feel special," Toast did the same, even if he was supposed to be dead.
Sykkuno couldn't help but laugh again, "Uh, yeah. He makes me feel very special," He said, stumbling over his words. No one in the discord was surprised though and all of them never made a big deal of little things like sexuality. But he had to ignore Twitch, too worried what his fans would think.
"He's so sweet and cares about me, we got matching tattoos, he also knows how much I love ice coffee," Sykkuno let out a small giggle, and the screen next to him binged. An emoji with steam from nose next to a blushy face emoji popped up on his discord messages. His eyes shifted from off the screen and to the Among Us voting lobby, "Though he tends to pamper Bimbus more than he does me."
Everyone awed and cooed but Corpse stayed quiet. "Aw, Corpsey you don't have to be so jealous," Rae said, poking fun at her friend. "I'm no jealous, I'm just-"
Loud scratching and snuffling came over Corpse's end, cutting him off. Corpse sighed, his chair squeaking as he got up, "What are you doing in here?" Sykkuno heard him say, though it sounded almost far away.
Corpse came back a minute later, the small dark of a dog then heavy panting came over the mic. "What's that?" Toast asked.
"Uhhhhh... My dog?"
"I didn't know you had a dog Corpse!" Poki said excitedly, becoming distracted from asking Sykkuno questions. As Corpse stumbled over his words, Sykkuno could vaguely hear Rae mumbling to herself, like she was trying to figure something out.
"Wait a minute!" Rae yelled, getting everyone's attention, "Corpse! You have tattoos right?!"
"Yeah, why?"
"What kinds?"
Corpse hummed, "Well... I have a sleeve of flowers that I get new ones added to every time I reach a milestone, uh my sister's initials on my ribcage... Oh, I have some on my hands," He said, seeming nonchalant as he spoke.
"Hmmm hmmm..." Rae hummed as well, "Corpse sus."
Everyone in the Discord crowded with different variations of; "Yeah yeah, sounds legit." And with that Corpse was voted off at the last minute of the emergency meeting. The victory screen faded in and everyone burst out laughing, not talking about Sykkuno's relationship for the rest of the stream.
...
Around the time Sykkuno and Corpse were washing dishes, both of their phones made a dinging noise. "Your turn, soapy hands," Sykkuno said, hands deep in the sink as he scrubbed a pot.
Corpse nodded, moving away from the drying rack as he whipped his hands on his jeans. He tapped at the phone, "A notification from Discord," He said, tapping at the phone to get it unlocked. "Rae sent into the group chat that she wants... to do a group call if we're all free, video optional," He readout.
"What is it for?" Sykkuno questioned, placing the sponge in his hand on its space above the sink. "Uh, it's about me and you." A smile spread across Corpse's face as he said, "What do I write back?"
He thought about it for a second then nodded, "Say we're free, if that's okay, We can put the phone on the windowsill and they won't see you in the frame." Corpse chuckled, placing the phone up where he told him to after he messaged back. Then he leaned in and kissed his boyfriend on the cheek, "You always think of me."
Sykkuno giggled, turning his face before Corpse could turn away and kissed him slowly. Which he knew surprised and delighted his boyfriend as the other had moved his fingertips to brush along Sykkuno's hip, pulling him closer.
He always loved kissing Corpse, it was one of his favorite things, just being able to feel Corpse's lips on his and take in a deep breath of him, the smell of his vanilla body wash filling his senses.
His phone buzzed on the windowsill, pulling him out of their little world. Sykkuno looked over at his cellphone, seeing the Discord calling screen pop up. Corpse pecked his lips one last time, then back up to continue drying the dishes.
Sykkuno swiped up on the screen, accepting the call as his video came on, "What's up guys?" In the call, Toast, Jack, Felix, Rae, and Poki greeted each other. "Where's our little Corpse?" Jack grinned as he spoke, propping his phone up on a pillow as he sat in his palatial bed.
"Yo," He said from off to the side, waving his hand in the frame.
"HA! I'M BIG BRAIN NOW! YOU OWE ME 10 BUCKS TOAST!"
Rae screeched over her mic and Poki cackled on the other screen. "I accept Venmo bitch." Toast rolled his eyes on his end, curling up in his gaming chair as he typed away at his phone.
"I'm so confused," Sykkuno mumbled as his boyfriend laughed from beside him. "I'm guessing they made a bet on our relationship babe," He explained.
Rae giggled innocently, "Not quite, we made a bet on whether you dense, I mean this with love, idiots, would actually get together. But uh I didn't want to outright say it in the stream. We didn't know you guys had been together this long."
"Ooo show us your matching tattoos!" Poki said, clapping her hands excitedly as she spoke. Sykkuno grinned and whipped the soup off his hands, showing off the small sun tattooed onto the side of his finger, while Corpse brought his into the frame showing off his but it was of a crescent moon.
"We agreed that we didn't want each other's names so this is what we went for," Corpse explained off camera.
"So much pain, I do not plan for more," Sykkuno giggled. He was pulled off-screen and into a chaste kiss, "No more?"
"No more," He pouted.
"Okay," Corpse cooed. Everyone on the Discord call awed and Sykkuno felt accomplished(?), he'd finally gotten a secret off his chest that he'd been keeping for almost a year.
When they finished the call, Corpse lifted him off the ground and spun him around, laughing as he rambled about how happy he was and how he hopped Sykkuno was happy too. And he was. Just being with his adorable, Insomniac, boyfriend, with an equally cute name, made him incredibly happy.
