Hello friends! I hope you are having a good day! Have fun reading this chapter!
Once we got home we decided to just talk a little until Lulu comes back from shopping.
"Soo... What do you think Tristana planned for us?"
"I dunno really! But since we are talking about Tristana I'm sure it'll include loud and pretty explosions! Oh I can't wait!" Ziggs looked more and more excited while he talked about it.
"Thaaat... Doesn't really sound that romantic."
"Whaaat? Are you kidding? I can't think about anything more romantic than explosions!"
"Yep, I can imagine that you would find it romantic as hell! But I could list you a lot of things that I find much more fitting for a first date!"
"Liiike?" It looked like he genuinely couldn't think about anything else, which is a little bit concerning.
"Oh I dunno... Maybe a nice dinner in the moonlight?"
"Boring!"
"Then we could walk around for a little while and look at all the stars in the sky."
"Boooring!"
"And at the end we could sit on a bench and talk, cuddle and maybe kiss!" That sounded a lot more cheesy than I thought it would, but it would be a good first date... At least in my opinion!
"Bo-ring! Well, I guess the kiss and cuddle part is alright, but it could be a lot more exciting!" He nodded and grinned brightly.
"Well... A first date isn't really supposed to be all that exciting in the first place, now is it?"
"Oh, but it could be! Imagine all the things you listed, but with explosions! That would be the best of both worlds!"
"I mean, I GUESS it would be quite fun." I can't really deny that I like Ziggs' explosions. I don't know how he does it, but he makes them look very pretty.
"See? I knew you would understand me!" We then heard someone knocking on the door.
"Ah, I guess that is Lulu!"
"Yep, I'll open the door for her!" Ziggs ran to the door and opened it.
"Hey there... Lulu?" I decided to go to the door as well because Ziggs didn't finish his sentence immediately. It was... surprising. Lulu was standing there with a big smile on her face, and besides her were two enormous shopping bags that were even larger than herself.
"Okay, two questions Lulu. First one: Did you carry those bags by yourself?"
"Haha, of course not! The big, friendly man with the mustache who is loved by all the poros helped me!"
"I see... And why exactly did you bring so much stuff in the first place? I don't think that Vait and I will be able to even remotely eat all that food!"
"Well, I didn't want to bring so much food, but I couldn't decide what I want to cook, so I brought a lot of different stuff and now I can think about it here!"
"I... understand?" Her logic was... questionable. But that's Lulu I guess.
"Great! Now I just need you two to carry the bags into the house and then I'll begin to cook! Or rather think about what I want to cook for you!" She skipped into our house and Ziggs and I looked at each other. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to let her cook for us. But complaining won't help now. The bags were really heavy, but together we had enough strength to carry them into the kitchen. After we made it Lulu began talking again.
"Thanks guys! Alright, you go and put on some fancy clothes while I prepare everything here!"
"Aww, you don't think my clothes are fancy?"
"At least not fancy enough for a date! And now go!" Lulu sounded quite demanding, so we followed her commands. We went upstairs and once we entered the bedroom, Ziggs began to talk.
"Weeell, that is a small problem... I don't have anything that would really count as fancy!"
"Nothing? Not even one suit?"
"Nope! People usually don't expect me to appear in a suit, so I didn't find it necessary to get one! And I don't really like suits anyway, so yeah."
"I see... I don't really think we have to wear suits anyway. Let's just wear some regular, boring stuff!"
"So nothing with a bomb design on it?" He sounded kinda sad.
"I don't think Lulu would really count that as fancy, so nope!"
"Alrighty... I'll just put on this lame shirt!" He picked up a simple black shirt.
"Okay! Then I guess I'll go the opposite and wear a white shirt."
"Oh yeah! You'll look great in that! It fits your fur!"
"I guess so!" We put on the clothes we chose, but something was still bugging me.
"Hey Ziggs, don't you want to take off your goggles for this date?" He looked at me as if I said something disgusting.
"Whaaat? My goggles? I can't just take off my goggles for that! It would be as if I'm naked! Actually, I would be more comfortable going out naked than without my goggles!" Wow... He REALLY likes those.
"Aww, come oooon. Do it for me?"
"The naked part? Alright!" He gave me a thumbs up and I chuckled.
"No dumbo, the goggles!" I heard him sigh, but he continued to smile.
"Alriiiight, just for you... But I'll let you know that I'm not comfortable doing that!" He took off his goggles after saying that.
"Look at me! I'm totally exposed!" I rolled with my eyes and then we went back to the kitchen. It looked like Lulu figured out what she wants to cook for us. She noticed us, came to us and inspected the clothes we picked.
"Hmm... It's good that you took off your goggles, but the clothes aren't quite as fancy as I hoped."
"Hey, it's our date, right? Shouldn't we decide what we wear?" I tried to convince her, but it didn't seem to work.
"But the first date is the most important! You can never have a second first date! At least not with each other!"
"Don't worry Lulu! I'm pretty sure that Vait and I know how we should dress for such an occasion!"
"Okay... If you say so. You two go sit down now while I prepare your meal!" She turned her attention back to the stove and Ziggs and I sat down.
"Well... So this is our first date, eh?"
"It sure is! Let's make sure we'll remember it for a looong time, alright?"
"But of course!" Pix came flying to us and brought each of us a glass of water. This little faerie is a lot stronger than it looks.
"Oh, thanks Pix!" He nodded and went back to Lulu. Ziggs and I talked for a little while. We then saw Lulu and Pix each coming with a plate. They gave us the plates and smiled.
"There you go! Bon appetit!"
"Ah, spaghetti! You couldn't have picked a more cliché dinner for a date, right? You should've also put it on only one plate, hehe~"
"Nah, that is only romantic if you haven't shared your first kiss yet! And now enjoy your meal! Pix and I have tried our very best to make it as good as possible!" They bowed down and left us.
"Well... Enjoy your meal!"
"Same to you, cutie~" We then began eating. It tasted extremely good, a lot better than all the other meals of spaghetti I ever ate. I'm pretty sure that they used some kind of magic to make it taste that way. But I don't really mind. Ziggs seemed to enjoy it as well, because he basically devoured it. He was finished pretty quickly and immediately shouted towards Lulu.
"Wow, that tasted amazing! Can I have seconds, please?!"
"Oh, I'm glad to hear that you liked it, but those were all the spaghetti I made. Cooking them is quite exhausting, you know?"
"Aww... Alright... Could you at least give me the recipe then? I want to make them just as good as you do!" Lulu giggled happily.
"I don't really think that you would be capable of cooking these the way I do it." Yep, that confirms my suspicion. And it looked like Ziggs also realised what Lulu used to make this meal.
"Ah, okay, I getcha!" I also finished my meal. Lulu and Pix came back once we finished and took our plates.
"There you go! I hope it was enjoyable?"
"Of course, it was very delicious!"
"I'm happy to hear that! We'll leave you two lovebirds alone now!" They left us alone again and Ziggs began talking.
"So, when do you think they will come and get us? Shouldn't be that much longer, right?"
"Hmm... Well, Tristana said that they'll be finished by tonight... so I guess it'll take a little bit longer?" It was still early afternoon.
"Alrighty! Then how about we do that cuddle and kiss part now~?"
"Hm? I don't see any benches around here, though. Can't really sit on a bench and kiss and cuddle when there is no bench, eh?" I tried to tease him a little.
"We have a couch! That's close enough, no?"
"I dunnoooo..." Ziggs then jumped up and pulled me to the couch. I chuckled and sat down on it with him.
"Okay, I guess this has to serve. But a bench outside is much more romantic!"
"Oh shut up and come here you adorable guy!" Ziggs came closer to me and wrapped his arms around me. I did the same to him and I rested my head on his shoulder. I heard him purring quietly, which made me giggle. He then looked at me and I immediately knew what he wanted. I came closer to his face and kissed him passionately. He happily returned the kiss and we made out for a while. After that we just talked for some time until we finally heard someone knocking on our door. We went to open the door and saw that Poppy was standing there.
"Hello there Poppy!" She looked a little bit annoyed at first, but then that expression changed to surprise.
"Hey guys! Wow, I don't think I've ever seen you without your goggles, Ziggs!"
"See?! I told you I'm totally exposed! Everyone will immediately notice!"
"Geez, calm down! It's dark out there and I doubt that most people will directly look at you."
"Okay... I guess it's alright then..."
"Great, can we go now?" Poppy was standing there and looked more annoyed again.
"Hm? Why are you so grumpy? Ah, it's because of my eyes, right?!" That was a weird thing to say for someone like Ziggs...
"Nope. I'm grumpy because I had to watch Tristana and Rumble work on your surprise all day and all I have to do is escort you to them. I would be much happier if I could have helped in another way as well. But that's not important right now. Let's just get you two to them!" Poppy started walking somewhere and we followed her swiftly. It was dark by now. The moon and the stars were shining brightly. I really forgot how quickly the time goes by when I spend time with Ziggs.
We had to walk quite a while. We even had to go past the city to reach our destination. But then Poppy stopped walking and looked at us with a smile.
"There we go! Have fun you two!" She waved us goodbye and then left us. We saw the big sea before us, which was illuminated by the moon. But we didn't see anything else... No Tristana, no Rumble, no nothing.
"Where are they?" I asked, but then we heard some crackling noise. We looked in the direction the noise came from and then we saw several fireworks flying up to the sky. They exploded in all kinds of colours. We stared at these the whole time and then the last one flew up. After that one exploded it formed a red heart. I thought it looked really beautiful! A few moments after the last firework was shot, Tristana and Rumble came to us.
"So, what do you say? Rumble and I spent the whole day making these, so I hope you think that these pretty explosions were worth it?" She smiled happily. I bet she already knew that they totally rocked it, considering that we stared at it the whole time.
"Is that even a question? Of course that was worth it! They were sooo cool! Let me help you next time, then they'll be even cooler!" Ziggs looked at her and was quite excited.
"Haha, alright! But I gotta say Ziggs: you look good without your goggles! You should take them off more often!" Ziggs then backed off a little and went pretty quiet.
"Uhm... thanks... but I don't think I'll do that..." Ziggs is getting really defensive when it comes to that... I wonder why? I guess I'll ask him later.
"Anyway... I hope you two had a good first date?"
"Yeah, I had lots of fun!" I looked at Ziggs who smiled back to me.
"Absolutely same! It was awesome! Thanks to you guys!"
"Great, then I'm sure you'll help us cleaning stuff up here, right?" Rumble asked us with a smirk.
"Sure, wouldn't be fair if we let you do that all alone!" With all fours of us helping it didn't take long to bring all that stuff away. After we were finished we parted ways with them and Ziggs and I went back to our home. Ziggs immediately went upstairs to put on his goggles again. After that he came back to me and smiled relieved.
"Haha, that's much better!" I guess now is the best time to ask him about that.
"Hey Ziggs? Why are you so obsessed with your goggles?" He looked at me with a surprised face.
"Obsessed? I'm not obsessed! I just like how they look!"
"Come on, you become so quiet when someone mentions that you don't wear your goggles, even when they say that you look good without them. That certainly isn't how you would react normally." He stayed quiet for a while, so I continued talking.
"You didn't react that way when I took off your goggles and saw you without them. So why do you react so differently when others see you without them?" He sighed and began talking.
"...Well, that's because I know I can trust you... Don't get me wrong! I also trust the others, but not as much as you."
"But why would you need to trust someone for something like this?"
"I don't really like talking about this, but I guess you won't rest until I told you, hm? Oh well, I can't blame you, I would do the same!" He chuckled quietly and then continued.
"It all started in primary school... During that time I started having fun with explosions and started to make my own little bombs. I had a blast doing that, but the combination of making bombs, ALWAYS having a big, bright smile on the face and having quite big eyes wasn't really good. The other yordles started avoiding me and calling me names like 'psycho' or 'crazy'. I guess it is understandable, but it still hurt. So I tried to look less like a psycho. The smile was my trademark, so I couldn't change that. But I started to make and test my bombs only when I was absolutely sure that no one could see me. And I also started to wear goggles that hide my eyes. After I did that I got insulted less frequently and some of the yordles approached me again! And that's the reason why I always wear goggles! With time it was getting harder and harder for me to hide my love for bombs, but even when others found out that I have such an explosive hobby they rarely called me crazy. I guess that's because of my goggles. Or maybe because I interacted with more adult people. Either way, that's the reason why I feel uncomfortable when I go outside without wearing them!" He looked kinda relieved when he finished his story.
"I see... I'm sorry to hear that..." Now I feel kinda bad forcing him to take off his goggles for the date. He must have noticed , because he immediately began talking again.
"Oh, don't feel bad! You didn't know that! And to be fair, even I think that this is a stupid reason. But I really can't stop feeling weird and uncomfortable when I don't wear them outside."
"Nah, it's not a stupid reason. If you feel that way then you should continue wearing them. I don't mind, especially since you are alright with taking them off around me!" He gave me a big smile.
"Yep! I know that you would never call me psycho or something like that, at least not in a mean way! So I'm fine with you seeing me without them!" I also smiled after hearing that. It's good to know that he fully trusts me. I saw him yawning and he started talking once more.
"How about we go sleep for now? I'm kiiiinda tired!"
"Oh? You are tired? That's a new one! But this time you'll take the bed!"
"Alriiiight... Remind me to get us a bed that is big enough for the both of us!"
"Gotcha! Sleep well, handsome!"
"You too, cutie~" He gave me a goodnight kiss and then went upstairs. I smiled, undressed myself and lay down on the couch. It didn't take long until I fell asleep...