You don't know how you know this is your Jake, but you do. You know why you feel so happy around him now, because you've missed him for so long. You don't know how you knew him from before, or if he even knew you, but you are just glad to have him now.
"Uh, Dirk?" he's confused, and you don't care.
You just want to hold him for right now.
Hold him and forget about everything else in the world except for him.
"Dirk, I really think I should be getting on with the story now."
"Go ahead."
Things are getting hella more complicated right now.
You don't even know why you ever thought that John would be someone you could be with.
What a stupid stupid thought that would be.
And geez, how dumb even are you.
You make you way back to the castle, not even bothering to take care when rushing out of the forest.
Rose is waiting for you when you get back.
"Dave." she smiles at you apologetically and wraps her arms around you.
And you just lose it.
No words even have to be spoken, because you know that she knows what happened.
You are hurting, just because some guy you met (and fell in love with?) is getting married to your sister.
And you stILL CAN'T FIND BRO.
You pull away from her finally and make your way to your room. You know she won't follow, she knows not to.
She knows you just want to be alone right now.
Everything is kinda messed up. Extremely messed up right now.
}skip forward a couple months{
Everything is falling into place.
The wedding is a couple weeks from now, and you couldn't be more excited.
Well, you could.
In fact, you aren't excited for this wedding at all.
Because in the few months that you have known John, you have only fallen more and more in love with him.
And it hurts.
So much.
Because he's getting married to your sister.
"Dave!" his voice echos a little bit in the empty hall, and you turn to see him running towards you. "I've got great news!" he smiles brightly, rushing forward and hugging you tight.
You wait.
Several seconds pass and you pull out of the hug to look at him.
"Oh! Right. Well, uh...as it turns out..." he pauses, fiddling with his hands and trying to find the right way to say words.
So you wait.
"Rose doesn't want to get married." he blurts out, his face flushed a bright red.
"Wait!" you stop Jake there, completely confused.
"What's the matter?" he asks surprised at your outburst.
"What, the fuck?!"
"Dirk." Jade warns, glaring at you slightly. You nod to her and continue on,
"None of this is making any sense." you explain, flopping back on the couch and leaning on Jake for support. He lays his head on your shoulder and sighs.
"Mom? Could you tell the rest? It's better when you tell it..." he smiles to her, and she smiles back.
"Of course dear." she says lovingly, before opening her mouth to continue the story.
"I mean, we still are, but she doesn't want to marry me." he explains, his face still bright red. "And...uh...I don't want to marry her, either." he says quietly.
You stop for a moment.
"Why?"
He looks up at you and smiles.
"I'm in love with someone else, but we still have to get married. She says she's in love with her knight! Isn't that the sweetest! The point is, we are still getting married, but we both agreed we could love whomever we wanted to." the redness in his face still hasn't gone down, and him being this close to you is making things hard to concentrate on.
"Knight?"
"Yeah! His name's Kanaya*! And he's a really sweet guy, really he is!" he shouts.
Several emotions are running through you right now, and you are starting to get a little light headed. You are pretty confused right now.
"So I just wanted to let you know...cause you know...you were never too happy about me marrying your sister. Now you don't have to worry so much!" he says, finally moving so his arms are no longer around you.
Everything spins.
"Who?" you ask, placing your hands on both of his shoulders to steady yourself. He seems to understand what you are trying to ask, even if you yourself don't.
"Who I'm in love with? Oh uh...yeah about that..." he mumbles, flushing again and taking your hands in his.
Your dizziness goes away the moment his fingers intertwine with yours.
"John." you don't know what you are trying to say, but you need to say it.
"So...Dave. The wedding is in a week, and it's...it's going to be hard for everyone, really it is. I really hope that you and Jade are happy together, since this wedding all of us are doing involves you two as well."
Right, you forgot about your bride-to-be. This whole double wedding thing is really screwing you over, though. Because things are really starting to get annoying.
You look up and notice that tears are starting to pool in John's eyes, and you panic.
"John?"
"She's beautiful. I wish you both happiness." he sobs lightly, almost about to turn away when you stop him.
"You know..." you start to tell him something. You aren't sure what. You started to say something a moment ago as well, but you still aren't sure what it is you want to say.
"You and Jade look just so in love, I'm jealous." he cries.
You realize what you want to say.
"Jade's in love with the cook." you blurt out, thinking over what you should say next. "I'm in love with..." and you run out of words. That's the limit.
You have never hated this spell as much as you do right now.
"Dave?" he stops crying, and he pulls you into his arms. "You used all your words up again, didn't you?"
You nod into his arms and almost start to cry.
You wanted to tell him you were in love with him.
The one time you actually had something important to say, and you can't. All because of some stupid fucking spell.
You remember something.
"Jade?" you look up at her, and she smiles. "You married Dave?"
"I did. But my lover is Tavros, he and I had Jake together."
"Yeah, but Dave comes around a lot! He loves seeing how his best friend is doing, plus, he has to keep up appearances, least the public get suspicious." Jake laughs, hugging his mom.
"Actually, Dave is supposed to come by sometime today." Jade says, hugging the boy back. "Him and Hal and coming over."
You freeze, thinking things over.
Because wait...why were you walking around the forest again?
"Oh my god, Hal." you stand suddenly, and start to make your way out the door when Jade stops you.
"He'll be here soon, Dirk. Don't worry."
You don't know how, but you know that the Hal they are talking about, is the same Hal that is your brother.
The one you were looking for in the forest.
And if Dave is with Hal, wouldn't that make him Bro?
But everything is just so confusing right now.
You are starting to get another headache.
"Let's just continue the story for right now...alright?" Jade says, settling you back down on the couch next to Jake.
"I told you not to do that." John reminds you softly, rubbing your back affectionitly.
You remember when you first told John about the curse:
"How come you don't talk much?" John asked.
"I'm cursed." you mumbled, after a moment of debating whether or not you should even tell him.
"What?"
"Cursed." you repeat, careful with your words because you are already running out for today. "Ask Rose." you tell him, knowing you only have a few words left.
"Alright...I guess."
He asked Rose, and she explained everything. All about the stupid wizard. And how much you hate that wizard. How 'Eridan the Great' had cast a spell that would 'teach you how to watch your mouth'. And how there was no way to break the spell.
He understood, and he was so awesome about it.
"We can talk about this in the morning, okay?" he whispers to you, still holding tight.
You only nod.
"See you then, Dave." he lets you go, and you almost pull him back into your arms, but you don't.
There's no point in doing so if you can't say anything to him.
...
Fuck, I know I wanted it to be longer then this, but wow this sucks.
And it's so fucking confusing! I'm getting a little confused here!
Anyways, see if you can't figure things out for yourself.
*I almost forgot! I made Kanaya a guy in this story for reasons you will find out later.
I'm thinking just a few more chapters, because things are being a lot more rushed then I wanted them to be.
Wow I suck at multichapter fics.
I should just stick to one-shots.
Thanks again to my favorite beta reader, cobcorn!
