WinterRose61 - Austin is finally a real part yes! Yea! Austin and Marco going to best buddies!

Zoysite - Aha then I'll just reply back in English! She is smart, sometimes too smart hahahha. Austin very happy to have a little sister, something to get used to, but full of love for each other! Ace is a big child hahahahah, Marco keeping them all together as the adult XD Thank you very much!

Ages:
Marco: 32
Ace: 19

Relationship status: Dating!

"What are you doing?" Ace as he was watching his boyfriend flip page after page without like... reading it properly?

"Trying to find a number-yoi. Google doesn't have it" He muttered dragging his finger down the page, looking over every line before turning the page.

"How is the flower pressing book going to help you?"

At this Marco looked at his boyfriend over the rim of his glasses. "You've never used a phonebook for what it is supposed to... Have you?" He knew Ace was younger than him but... this much younger?

"... For what it's supposed to? ... Pressing... Flowers?" Ace said slowly as he was thinking back to his childhood. Literally only having seen the book used to dry flowers and make them flat, even at his friend's places. He thought the scribbles are just adds or something, gotte put something in there.

"Ace, it's a phone book... it has people's names, phone numbers and addresses. I'm trying to find an old friend of Pops to see if he wants to come to visit. They used to be drinking buddies but Pops lost his number."

Ace turned red as Marco explained it as if it was obvious. Looking at the ground he played with the hem of his shirt. He feels so stupid now, Marco always knows everything and here he is thinking a PHONEbook is for flowers...

"I'm sorry, Ace." Marco gestured for the young man to come sit on his lap which luckily the boy still did. Though, without making eyecontact.

He carefully wrapped his arms around the raven's waist, "I'm sorry, Ace, I shouldn't have said it like that-yoi." He kissed his temple softly. It shouldn't be that strange to him that things go out of use. "Want me to show you how to use one? I mean, even if people don't use them much anymore, I'd still love to show you."

Ace nodded and laid his head down on Marco's shoulder, position himself so he could still see what Marco was doing

Closing the book Marco turned it to its side, pointing to the pages. "All the yellow pages are businesses. The white pages are people in the city or in the area only so far out. On the pages are people names and they are sorted by their last name." He flipped it just passed the middle. "You can tell what letter you're on in the book by this," He pointed to the letter on the top side of the page, "or by just looking at the last name." He softly smiled at Ace. "Do you want to try and find Pops?"

Ace nodded and took the book in his hands, putting it in his own lap. "Last name... So, Newgate then. And I can skip all the yellow automatically? I don't need to check it? Because Pops isn't a business."

"Right-yoi. Now, if this was a new and more up to date book, you would find me listed in the yellow pages, since doctors and such are also located there."

"But ... what if I was looking for you like ... Not as a doctor?" He asked while starting to leaf trough the book, searching for the N in the corner for Newgate.

"Well, then we would go to the white pages and look for Newgate Marco." He said gently, watching his boyfriend search the book.

Ace gave a small laugh. "So you're important, you're in it twice! - Aha!" Finding the N he started to focus on the letters before him, mirroring Marco's earlier actions and dragging a finger across the page. Licking his fingers before turning over. He mumbled "why are these letters so tiny..."

Marco laughed and kissed his head. "Well I'm only in this one once. It came out before I was a doctor so you'll only find me on the white pages. And well, they need to get a lot of people in there." He hummed and took his glasses off, holding them up slightly above the page making the words appear slightly larger.

Ace blinked for a moment before a bright smile took over his face, already having forgotten that he had been a bit sad that he hadn't know about the book's function. "Thanks, Marco!" He quickly kissed his boyfriend's cheek before continuing his search, every now and then saying a name out loud.

"Newgate, New-gate,... NEWGATE! I found it! ... Marco... This is the whole family!"

Marco chuckled, into his neck and brought his head up and kissed his cheek. "Yup. Other than Haruta everyone would be listed I think. Now looking at it will list everyone by their first name. So Atoms will be first since his name starts with the letter A, Pops should be the fifth one. I'm closer to the bottom since my name starts with M."

Swiping his finger across the page he went down until he found Edward "Ah, you're right, he is the fifth! You're so smart to remember it! ... So what now? You copy the number and call? 'Hey pops found you in the flower book!' haha just kidding"

Marco laughed, hugged his boyfriend and kisses his cheek. "Great job." He smiled looking at the book, "when I was a kid the first thing we always did was to look up our phone number if a new book came out. Don't ask why but it was fun to see where we were compared to the year before." He smiles looking at the book. "We won't bother him right now, but do you want to help me find the person I was looking for? Izo tasked me with looking for him."

Ace happily went back to the beginning of the book before looking at Marco with excitement "What's his name? I'll find him!"

"Rayleigh Silvers. So it should be under the S. Or... it might be under his wife's name Shakky." He was so happy to see his boyfriend excited.

"okay, okay, i got this! give me a minute!" Ace quickly went trough the alphabet, softly saying the alphabet to himself, smiling when he found the S before the tracing the paper started again. "Hmm, Ah, already found him! he's at the very top... which is logical since the second letter is an A haha, this is kind of fun, like a little treasure hunt!"

Marco chucked, and brought a hand up to Ace's cheek and caressed before gently turning his head towards him, "You're so smart-yoi" and captured his lips.

Ace blushed while melting into the kiss, they haven't been together for long yet, but he hopes it will never end and that moments like this will keep repeating itself.

"I love you." Marco whispered after a little bit, breaking the kiss.

"Love you to, Mar"

After a few minutes of Marco running his hand through Ace's hair, he brought the hand down, taking his phone. "I'll call him now, then how about we go out for supper?"

"That sounds nice" Ace peacefully replied while as he snuggled into the other, his boyfriend could call with some weight in his lap

Hearing the call had ended, Ace hugged Marco a bit harder and pushed his head against his neck before nuzzling the side of his face. If he needed to leave this nice lap soon to go eat, he would make sure to get some more cuddles in, maybe some kisses even before getting off.

Chuckling the blond kissed his head and wrapped his arms around him. "Where would my darling boyfriend like to go and eat-yoi?"

"hmmmmm, some place that has an all-you-can-eat."

"What about Chinese, or pizza?"

"Chinees!"

Marco chuckled, "Chinese it is." He kissed him again.

"We going to the local place then? Do you drive or shall I drive since it's not that far?"

"Mmm... you can drive there. I'll drive home."

"Alright, let's get ready then and go, i'm already starving thinking of it!"

Marco chucked, "Let's get changed first."

Ace gave a quick peck before getting up and pulling on Marco's hand to get him to join him, they had the same destination anyway

Once in the room Marco took out a pair of jeans for himself and a pair for Ace. "T-shirt babe?"

Raised an eyebrow the raven looked back, "you say that as if you're giving me the option to go to the restaurant half naked? which i don't mind, but i thought you would care a bit more"

"Haha, I meant, did you want short or long sleeves?"

"The T-shirt you have is fine," he winked at Marco "you know i am always hot."

Laughing he tossed him a black t-shirt and pulled out blue long sleeve for himself. "And you keep me warm."

Catching the shirt Ace waited a moment to watch his boyfriend get dressed, enjoying the little show before quickly pulling his own shirt over his head as if nothing happened. He walked up to Marco, gave a quick kiss and whispered "And I love to do so" before making his way out of the door.

Marco spun around watching his boyfriend leave the room, and chuckled. He finished getting dressed and walked out of the bedroom. "Please wear a jacket tho. It's still chilly out." As he pulled their jackets out.

"Fine fine, i wouldn't want to worry you, birdy"

Getting in the car, they both buckled up before Ace started pulling out of the lot. He was actually a very good driver, it had taken a while for Ace to be comfortable driving after getting diognosed, but once he did, everything went smoothly and as long as naps were taken nothing had ever happened before. They were of course still careful.

"Your nearly a better driver than Haruta." He joked, staring at his boyfriend.

"I guess not hitting anyone yet is an achievement yea" Ace laughed.

"Yea, a big plus." He smiled, as they drove down the street, "It's just a few blocks down on the left." They hadn't been to this one before, it was newly opened last month.

"I hope they have those meatball things wrapped in batter."

"I'm sure they do-yoi."

Ace smiled and gave a short sideways glance to Marco "You're going to get all their chicken dishes aren't you?"

"Of course I am darling."

Barking a laugh at the evil grin, Ace focused on the road again, making a last turn, "oh they have a small parking lot in the back, that's nice!" The downside of a city is that most of the time you were looking for space next to the road, hoping one would be close by. So seeing this new place somehow made their own little space was nice, it would probably attract more customers in the future just for easy access.

Once parked Ace nearly jumped out of the car, closing the door behind him and rushing over -nearly slipping of the slippery pavement- to open Marco's door who already looking confused at his boyfriends' actions, but could help but smile as his door was opened. "Why thank you kind sir." Marco said getting out and lent over and gave him a kiss.

Smiling brightly Ace kissed back for a moment before standing straight and holding out his hand for Marco to take. It was at least 20 steps until the door, far too many to do without holding onto his boyfriend.

Entering they were greeted by a waiter "Table for two?"

"Please, could we get a large booth please? My boyfriend tends to eat a lot." Marco responded and held Ace's hand.

"Of course. Please follow me." He led them to larger booth, one seemingly for 4 people. "Here you gentlemen are. I take it you will be having the buffet tonight?"

"Please." Ace responded nodding.

"Anything to drink?"

"Water please for both of us and orange crush. Could you bring pitcher, please-yoi?"

"Of course." He wrote everything up, "I'll bring your pop and waters. Buffett is to the left. Please enjoy."

Both men said simultaneously and thanked their waiter.

"so, Ace-yoi, we still going to be allowed to come back after today?" Marco asked with a laugh, it wouldn't be the first time a restaurant would rather not see them return after they ate all they could at their...all you can eat buffets.

"I make no promises."

A small chuckle escaped Marco, he honestly didn't care if they got banned, he wouldn't want his boyfriend to go hungry just for the sake of being presentable or anything, if the restaurant didn't want their all you can eat to be just that, then they had to put a limit on it, "Then, let's start filling up our plates for a first round, shall we?"

"Yes please!" And took Marco by the hand and made his way over to all the food, picking up a tray and two plates. As they went along Ace took a few things of everything, not wanting to be an asshole and clean them out right way.

Almost reaching the end of the line Ace suddenly looked very excited at one of the dishes and called out for Marco who was still picking up some things a few trays back. "Marco! Marco, Marco Marco! Look at this, they have Pineapple chicken!"

Marco looked at his boyfriend and chuckled at his excitement and made his way over. "I don't think you have enough room on your plates. Put yours on mine, some for me too please."

"Thanks Marco!" Stacking both their plates as much as they could, they made their way back to their table to start eating. Ace picking random pieces off of Marco's plate that he had put on, not touching any that Marco had taken himself.

Suddenly Ace coughed a few times, taking some drinks from his water and hitting his chest, "oof, almost choked hahahahha"

"I will make u choke on something else later."

"M-Marco!"

"Ah, did I say that outloud-yoi?" Marco said as if he was actually surprised, but the grin on him outed him and the leg that brushed beside his as he said that definitely showed it was a lie!

Ace blushed and tried to ignore the feet brushing over his, focusing on his meal before him. He looked up slightly to see Marco casually eating as if he's doing nothing, not even the slightest blush to be seen, how does he do it!

"Something wrong?" Marco hummed as his feet played with his boyfriend's under the table.

"N-no, Nothing..." Ace was blushing like mad and tried to kind of pull his legs closer to him, it wasn't that he didn't like what Marco was doing. It was just that... they were in a public place, how was he supposed to react? What as Marco's plan with all of this?

Marco frowned at Ace's reaction and reached out his left hand, "I'm sorry, Ace." He brought his feet back and rested them closer to his own chair. "In no way did I mean to make you uncomfortable-yoi."

"It-... it's okay." A silence engulfed the table for a little bit before Marco spoke again "Ace, open up."

"Huh ehm okay." Opening his mouth he took the piece of meat Marco offered. His eyes opened wide and he looked in awe at his boyfriend "What's this!? It's so good!"

"Chicken marinated in honey garlic." Marco smiled seeing his boyfriend happy again. "Question for you, darling. Would you want to buy a house together-yoi? My lease is done at the end of June. If you don't want to, which is fine, I can just lease the apartment again."

"Hmm this is amazi- huh?" too stunned to speak Ace just looked at his boyfriend "Buy a... House? Together?"

Marco nodded his head. "Yea. I mean if you want to that is. If not we can just renew to lease for the apartment." He repeated before hesitating slightly, "I mean I'd love for us to get our own place together..."

Ace took some time to think, he really loved Marco and even though he had been devastated by the loss of his own living space before due to the fire, it had really proved to him that Marco loved him for who he was and not for something else. "I would love to have a place with you too..." Ace said softly, blushing at his own words. "But... Is it enough time though? June is only a few months away, doesn't paperwork take long to get a house?"

Marco couldn't have smiled any wider, and shook his head. "Sometimes it can. But I'm sure we can find one that will work for us. We can even start looking online tonight already. We can make sure you have a proper space to game."

"really? that would be so awesome! I could hang lights and make a poster wall and ooh I could make a figure corner and..." He kept rambling for a little while, mentioning things that he could do, already picturing it before him. Also mentioning how he could put a couch in there so he and Marco could play together too!

Marco smiled at his excitement and took a bite of his food. He felt his phone going off and pulled it out to see who had sent him a message. Unlocking his phone he went to his message. "pppfff" the message was barely open and he already snorted at it, trying to withhold a laugh seeing it.

Ace looked up weirdly "What is it?"

Marco turned his phone around for Ace to. Haruta had sent him a picture of the two of them eating. "Don't know if I should be laughing that she took a picture of us on a date or be mad." He hummed. "I'll make try and make it my background later."

Seconds later Haruta came up to the table all dolled up, "Hey you two."

Marco looked at her, "What have you done to my sister-yoi?"

"Jerk." She huffed, and rolled her eyes. "I had a date."

"Oh! How didn't go?" Ace asked looking to her, only to see her frown.

"Hard to have a date with one person." She shrugged her shoulders some. "So I stuffed myself silly of food and alcohol. Had some ice cream and I'm going to cab home, get in something comfy and watch a nice horror movie and eat some more ice cream."

Marco frowned, He didn't like his sister being stood up.

"Oh ehm... Would you like to join us? It's not a date... But... We could kind act like this an evening with friends?" Ace said unsure.

Haruta laughed some and shook her head. "Thanks but no thanks. My cab should be here any minute. Besides you two seemed to having a good time. I don't want a mess up someone's chances." She patted Ace on the shoulder, "Take it easy on my brother." Before he could answer her she started to walk away.

"Text me when your home-yoi! I want a time stamp photo!" Marco called to her.

"a time stamped photo? A normal one isn't good enough?"

"She just started to send me the same picture after awhile. She literally has pictures of herself in her different pj's holding up different fingers and will send which ever one matches what I ask her for. So yea.. a normal one won't do"

Ace looked stumped for a moment before he took his own chin and mumbled "that's pretty smart. Different pj's, fingers... I could have done this with Sabo"

Marco laughed at him and shook his head and smiled. "Ready for round two?" He looked at his phone and blushed and shook his head.

Ace turned his head "always. And was that Haruta? what did she send?"

Marco stood up, pocketing his phone. "I'll show you when get back to our seats from getting food"

Being slightly confused at his answer, ace just shrugged and stood up, taking their plates to refill them. Reaching the food, he gave Marco his own plate "I'm going to take a tray so i can hold more plates" if he was only taking one plate at a time they would be here for ages.

Marco chuckled and went ahead of him collecting his items. He felt his phone buzz a few more times.

"i'm heading back to the table, you going to be okay?" He looked over to ace stacking his plates far too high "Yea, i got this!" Shaking his head at his boyfriend's antics he took a seat again and took out his phone only to see a bunch of text from his sister telling him to delete the photos above. He scrolled looked and set his phone face down and held his head. He didn't need that. He really didn't need to see that.

Before he could delete it, Ace had sat down already and had taken his phone. "Ace -"

"Just gonne see what haruta sent before"

"Wait-yoi ,wait n-"

Ace looked and blinked and set it back down, his face and neck both burned red, pushing the device ever so slightly back to the blond.

Marco quickly took the phone and deleted all stuff that they shouldn't have seen before looking at Ace who was just peacefully eating "Ace, are you okay?"

"Hmm? Why wouldn't i be? Nothing happened right now for me not to be okay."

"Ah...", He's going to deny the existence... he wished he could do that too. He texted his sister to tell her he deleted them and to be safe. No questions asked. Marco shook his head at the new pictures, boxes of condoms. Well, now he knew she had the things to be safe atleast.

After eating and Marco paying the bill, they made their way to the car. Marco held Aces door open for him this time. Once he was in he went around and got in the driver's seat. Starting the car up he took his phone out. "This is what Haruta sent before, what she actually meant to send." Marco said showing him the random lube bottle and condoms. He did get a text from her with her make up still on and that she was home. He knew it was from today because she usually never wore makeup any other time.

"... That's...nice"

"Yeap" with a chuckle Marco drove them home. Getting home they both went inside.

Before Ace could walk to their bedroom to put on more comfy clothing, Marco grabbed his hand and pulled him back.

Cocking his eyebrow Ace looked at the blind, he looked guilty for some reason. "Marco?"

"I'm really sorry about what happened at the restaurant. In no way did I mean to make you feel uncomfortable. Anytime at all that you don't feel comfortable with something please tell me." He brushed his thumb over Ace's knuckles. "Forgive me?"

He was a little shocked that Marco brought up the footsie thing, even apologized again for it, he had already forgotten about the whole thing. "Of course I forgive you! I was never angry at you or anything to begin with! It's just... Just ..." Once Ace looked down, playing with some part of his shirt. "I ... It wasn't that I disliked it. On the contrary... But I... I just... I didn't know what to do ... How I am supposed to react in public to it... I don't know what's really expected... I'm sorry."

Marco wrapped him in a hug quickly. "Darling, to things like this, if we're together, you react however you feel. How you naturally want to react, not thinking of what the others would think." He kissed his head softly, "I'm by your side every step of the way."

Smiling at it Ace hugged him back, hiding his face in Marco's chest and nodded. "I'll try, thank you... Love you."

"I love you too-yoi."