The beginning of a new friendship

One cloudy, muggy afternoon King Kong and Terkina were sitting in their nest and were in the middle of a funny discussion.
"So Isuku was showing symptoms of a cold and sneezed 10 times in a row. The more he sneezed the more serious illnesses we mentioned to him. We started with the common cold, then diagnosed him with intestinal parasites and sciatica for fun, then we claimed this was pneumonia paired with sciatica and at the 10th sneeze we shouted at once: E-bolaaaaaaaa," reported the silverback. "Then we suggested that he should go near Rafiki, the oldest elder of the troop, and ask him to lift his arm. When Rafiki lifts his arm, the awful smell is released from the glands in his armpit, which is so putrid, that it kills everything that causes disease," he continued.
The female, being a visual type, imagined the scenes and laughed as a result.
"And have you tried curing yourself that way," enquired Terk with a grin on her face in hopes of receiving a humorous answer.
"Yes, one time I did. When my throat was inflamed I went to Rafiki. I was 3 meters away from him. The second he exposed his armpit I felt the yellow, smoke-like substance collide with my face like a wind then, passed out due to the revolting stench. When I woke up the sun was setting already and I felt itchy all over my body. After closely looking into my fur I realized I was infested with lice! The front that had come out of his armpit had transported lice into it that had reproduced in hours. Maybe the old one's lice reproduce so quickly because they come into contact with the substance responsible for the smell and that significantly shortens their reproductive cycle. I had to bathe in the ocean for hours to get rid of those pests. As I was trying to scratch them off while soaking the water began turning light grey and cloudy around me. That's when I realized I was successful in removing the lice, but it doesn't end here. Soon, I was surrounded by a school of small fish eager to have an easy meal. They began gobbling up the critters, as soon as they ended up in fish's mouths, the fish's eyes bugged out and the fish disappointedly spat them out. Those who swallowed them immediately died and turned over. Then, the bigger fish arrived and began consuming the lice and the little fish. The majority of them, who ate the dead fish and lice, deceased. Next came even larger fish and ocean birds. They were very happy to see food around me that they didn't have to work for. As they began feeding and caught witness of some of their mates dying they turned against me. One exceptionally large fish swam up to my face, turned around and began slapping it with its tail, while the birds started pecking me and the other fish were diligently biting my butt. That's when I left the sea," explained Kong.
Terk chuckled. After she finished the silverback began scratching her under the chin with one finger. His mate really enjoyed this, closed her eyes and exposed the area where she was being touched even more. She didn't notice that a female was nearing her and her husband. Her husband caught sight of her but ignored her.
"Hi," greeted the young gorilla girl.
Terkina got startled out of her bliss and instantly shifted her attention towards the female. The specimen was a bit younger than her, had a similar weight and height as Terk and was studying the couple with curious brownish yellow eyes.
"Hello," said King Kong.
"You scared the dickens out of me," exclaimed Terk with a bit of anger.
"Sorry! You're Terk, right," enquired the female shyly.
"Yes," replied Kong's mate. "Why do you ask," she wondered.
"I remember you from Indira's welcome baby party. Do you remember me? I smiled at you a few times after hearing your reactions to the other ladies' words. I began feeling better because of your replies, finding out that I'm not the only one who is on that same wavelength regarding relationships and having children. Currently I'm looking for a mate," she expounded kindly but nervously. "By the way my name's Inkesha, I'm Mirindi's daughter. We may look quite alike but we're totally different on the inside. Not long after my troop became one with your troop and the other ones and when getting acquainted with the members of the other troops some of them thought we are sisters," she added now less sheepishly.
It began dawning on Terk as she replayed the memories in her mind that the female speaking with her was indeed the one who had sent signals of agreement to her and encouraged her with them as well.
"I remember you. I had suspicions you differed from the others. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who thinks differently than them regarding certain topics. Good luck finding a mate," she replied. "How do you get along with your mother," she asked wanting to know what a mother-daughter relationship is like with the related ones significantly differing in mindset.
"I don't know if I'm ever going to find a monogamous life-mate. The males just mate with different females for baby-making and pleasure coupled with lust not out of true love. How did you and Kong meet? When I began maturing my mother started teaching me the female's way of life. She had explained to me the same things she told you at the welcome baby party. After that, I got scared realizing her thoughts about males, mating and reproduction are different than mine, but I managed to squeeze my own views out of myself. I shocked her with this causing her to remain speechless. As time went by she tried several times to convert me to her beliefs but I clung to my own. Eventually, we both realized that if we want our relationship to remain good we are going to have to accept each other's opinions and stop bringing up these delicate topics over and over again in hopes of persuading one another. So we agreed that these themes are taboo and have left them out of our discussions ever since," explained Inkesha.
"The way Kong and I met is an interesting story. I didn't live on Skull Island, Kong was abducted by humans and transported to a place called New York, where I lived in an enclosure. He was situated and chained in a place called a theater. In a theater people gather together to watch other people perform stories by acting. By the way New York is inhabited by humans. Kong escaped from the building, he was on a rampage while looking for a blue-eyed, blond-haired human female named Ann. After they had found each other I was hurrying towards them with one of my keepers, a person named Tarzan, behind me. I was entrusted with the task of luring Kong into my dwelling place so that he doesn't get killed by humans armed with weapons since he was counted very dangerous to them. We reached Kong and Ann, Tarzan signaled to me with his hands. He commanded me to show body language in order to make Kong fall for me. He got love drunk, lost interest in Ann and wanted to mate with me. I galloped into the enclosure with him closely following me, my other keepers shut the gates afterwards to block his escape. I tried showing him that I don't want to court him by continuing in trying to avoid him. It didn't work and I tired out. I turned to face him and made dismayed screams. It had no effect on him, he got up on his hind legs to hug me. I tried pushing him away but he was too strong and held me tightly. I really hated what was happening to me, shortly I got the idea of punching him in the face. I did that powerfully and he let go of me. He was very surprised, after a few seconds he expressed the rage he felt towards me. It was a pretty terrifying sight, he madly roared at me while vehemently beating on his chest then, punched the ground, looked at me broken heartedly then, sauntered away. I hated him for trying to have his way with me. He hated me for acting like I wanted to have sex previously then, rejecting him and not giving him what he wanted. He didn't know that I acted that way to lure him into the enclosure to rescue him from getting murdered. That night we slept in the two farthest points in our living place as distant as can be from each other. So these are the events that happened on the day that we met," reported Terk.
"How did you make peace," asked Inkesha.
"This started when Terk gave me a bag of fruit. She was bribed to do it by Tarzan who gave her her favorite snack in return. Then, I presented her with a cluster of bananas due to my feeling indebted to her. That's when we began speaking to each other. It was a rocky start I was still mad at her and felt offended, I acted coarse with her. She tried telling me that she was part of a rescue mission in hopes of preventing me from getting shot down. She proved it to me by mentioning my behavior and my killing humans when I was berserk. She was right but I was too ashamed to let her know that and roved off. I finally decided to admit that at the end of a long talk I had with her that night. From that point on we conversed on a regular basis and got to know each other better and better. We became friends, then boyfriend and girlfriend, then husband and wife that is life-mates," expounded King Kong.
"So you two were locked up together hated each other and became life mates? That is amazing, I mean if two complete strangers of the opposite sex are locked up how small could the probability of that be that they turn out to be soulmates? It could have backfired," replied Inkesha enthralled.
"Yes, that's true. We started realizing that there's a high chance for a serious relationship when I went into estrus the first time ever since Kong was living with me. I had it planned out that I'd try to interact with him the least as possible. I was less chatty and gave short answers at breakfast when we were conversing. Kong found my behavior strange and enquired about it. I told him that we shouldn't spend time with each other for a few days. He thought he had hurt my feelings. I told him he didn't. I was tense because I didn't know how he'd react to my being in heat whether he'd try to force me to mate with him or not. I said to him that I don't want to get pregnant and have children. He was amazed and mentioned that this isn't bad and added that this is awesome news for a one-lady male who doesn't want kids either. I assumed he was referring to himself, I felt better and thought that we may become life-mates in the future. However I mentioned this wasn't the secret I was thinking of. Having known he doesn't want to found a family I finally told him I was in estrus. I mentioned that when I'm lovesick it's best that we stay apart," explained Terkina.
"And how do you manage estrus here among the troop? You don't have to answer if this is unpleasant for you, just wondering how to manage this when you're living in a band with your mate," enquired the female.
"We don't sleep in the nest together. I snooze in the nest, Kong sleeps a bit farther from me out of touching range. We spend a lot of time together but in our circle of friends and take part in activities with them that keep me occupied. We avoid physical contact such as play fighting and showing affection. If I can't stand it and try loving Kong he slaps me, I let him do it so that I come to my senses. He does it as much as it's needed increasing the hits in power. He has an easier time when I'm in estrus than I do, since I'm going through it and he isn't, I'm more easily tempted than him," expounded King Kong's wife.
"So slapping is effective against lovelornness," questioned Inkesha seriously.
"Yes," assured Terk. "It'll snap you out of it in a split second."
"Good to know," reacted the lone female happily. "Would you both like to come over to the place under my nest this afternoon," enquired the brownish yellow-eyed female.
"I do," responded Terk.
"Me too," replied King Kong.
During the visitation the three apes got more acquainted with each other and discovered they have several things in common besides the views of male-female relationships including humor and activities.