“I’m in love with him.” Zekaj repeated. “Oh god.” he mumbled as he fell flat on Zekai’s bed.

Zekaj had just realized he was madly in love with Hunter. He was a demon in love with a human.

“I mean I’ve never even liked guys before, Kai!” Zekaj continued. “What do I do? This can’t work out, he’s human! He’s going to get another human as a fucking soulmate!” Zekaj’s anger at the thought of someone else being with Hunter had started.

Zekaj sat up and started gripping the comforters of Zekai’s bed in anger. Just the thought was causing Zekaj to fume with anger. His enraged form started to slip out and his arms enveloped in shadows. Shadowy claws appearing at his hands, ripping the blankets.

“Woah Woah Woah. Calm down Kaj.” Zekai stood in front of Zekaj and placed his hands on his shoulders. “It’s going to be fine.”

“But it wont Kai. He’s,” He sniffled. “He’s human. He’s going to find someone else and forget about me.”

“From what I’ve heard of this Hunter, he will never just forget about you.” He reassured Zekaj. “Am I wrong?”

Zekaj shook his head no.

“Good.” Zekai sat next to Zekaj. “So what are you going to do?”

“Hold back all my emotions and act like they don’t exist.” Zekaj answered quickly.

“That’s not healthy Kaj.” He laughed. “I like this new you. One who seemingly is ok with feeling emotion other than boredom and anger.”

“Hey! I felt things other than boredom and anger!”

“Like what?” Zekai questioned.

“Uh.” He thought. “I was horny sometimes.”

The brothers burst out laughing and Zekai fell flat on the bed next to Zekaj. Both just staring at the ceiling.

“That’s one good thing about this Hunter. He got you to stop with the mindless flings.”

“God they pissed Mom off.” Zekaj laughed. “She was always nice to them when they were in the castle, but the second they left.”

“She was on you HARD. She never let you breathe.”

“Oh god I always thought she’d kill me.” Zekaj said through his laughter.

“So why did you keep bringing them back?”

“I was bored!” Zekaj bellowed. They both continued to laugh.

The room had a comfortable silence now. Both were just staring at the ceiling.

“Do I have any chance?” Zekaj asked.

“What?”

“Do I have a chance of being mated to Hunter?” He specified. His tone had softened to one of sadness. Something Zekaj barely ever was. “You’re the smart one, is it possible?”

“A demon and human being mated isn’t not unheard of” he paused.

Zekaj quickly sat up.

“What did you say?” He asked.

“Well,”

“Spit it out Kai!” Zekaj shook his brother.

“Ok, ok! Well I was reading up on my own problem,” His problem being the nagging feeling of something missing in his life, not his soulmate though. “And I read how thousands of years before even we were born that some powerful human mage apparently had a demon soulmate.”

“So I just have to hope some old ass story will apply to Hunter and I?” Kaj questioned.

“It gets worse.”

“Oh god.” Zekaj covered his face.

“It was apparently a spirit demon.” Zekai said. Kaj only responded with a groan. “And the mage killed the demon because he couldn’t accept being mated with a demon.”

“Are you fucking kidding me.” He threw a pillow across the room. “There's basically no chance of us being soulmates.”

“Well I wouldn’t say no chance, maybe like a five percent chance.” Kai tried to reassure his brother. “Probably less.” Kai got a glare in response.

“Because that’s so much better.” Zekaj grumbled.

“Yeah, five percent.” Kai cheekily smiled. Zekaj punched Zekai in the shoulder. “Ow, you jerk.”

“I need to head back.” Zekaj said while standing up.

Zekai pulled his brother into a hug. “Stay in contact alright?” He asked. “No 2-year-long silences again.”

“I’ll make sure to visit every now and then. I wish you could meet him.”

“Me too, and I’m sure I will one day.” Kai smiled. He pulled Kaj into a hug. “See ya around.”

Zekaj responded with finger guns and faded into shadows, appearing in Hunter’s room.

Hunter was still sleeping in bed and his hand was still dangling off. The overwhelming urge to hold it came back and he had to ignore it.

Zekaj climbed up the front of the bed and got under the covers right next to Hunter. Hunter stirred in his sleep.

“Zekaj?” he mumbled with a sleepy voice. “Where have you-”

“I’ll explain in the morning, go back to sleep.” Hunter stirred in response and quickly fell back asleep. Zekaj wrapped an arm around him and drifted off himself.

***

Hunter woke up to the morning sunlight hitting his face. He went to move his hand to his face to block the sun but his hand was stuck in place. A grey arm was holding it in place.

Hunter turned his head as much as he could and saw a sleeping demon laying right next to him. At that moment he remembered Zekaj returning in the middle of the night and waking him up.

Hunter just rested his head on the pillow again and started to notice Zekaj’s hard body pressed up against his. There wasn’t even space to fit a piece of paper between them.

It was nice, very nice.

Hunter’s feelings continued to worsen as they laid there and with them came the dark thoughts.

Demons and Humans can’t be mates.

He’s way out of your league.

He definitely fucked that girl last night.

That last thought sent him over the edge, literally as he pulled himself out of Zekaj’s arms and slipped out of bed. Zekaj was in too deep asleep to notice, but subconsciously he gripped Hunter’s pillow.

Hunter started getting ready for the day and left for the bathroom. He took a quick shower trying to focus on anything besides the whereabouts of Zekaj yesterday.

He got out of the shower, wrapped the towel around his waist. He looked at himself in the mirror, examining every part of himself. He had dirty-blonde hair and brown eyes, a body with a decent bit of muscle he was never sure how it got there.

You’re not his type. His mind kept telling him.

“Stupid voice in my head.” he muttered, leaving the bathroom for his room to get dressed.

As he entered, the demon, taking up most of his bed, was still sound asleep. Hunter rolled his eyes and opened up his closet. He looked at each shirt trying to find one he liked. Eventually getting to Zekaj’s shirts that were hiding far to the right of his own, hidden out of sight.

Zekaj’s original clothing was there hanging up. The arm bands, shirt wrapping and the cloth he wore around his waist was there. He held onto the shirt wrapping looking at it all. He then realized everything was just something he could easily slip into when summoned in the middle of sex.

Sighing, Hunter just grabbed a random one from the rack.

He closed the closet door and grabbed a pair of underwear and shorts that matched his own. Again, in the back of the drawer were various shorts and jeans that belonged to Zekaj. Each article of clothing was also various shades of black. Hunter always rolled his eyes when Zekaj tried to explain the difference between the colors like “ebony” and “obsidian.”

He was about to drop his towel and change when he saw two gold eyes staring at him from across the room. Hunter huffed and left again for the bathroom. While he was also angry at Zekaj, he was also embarrassed to change around him now even though Zekaj had seen him naked before.

Back in the room Zekaj was in a state of panic.

“He saw me staring and now he knows and is going to break the contract and send me b-” He stopped the thought as Hunter entered the room dressed.

“Hey.” Zekaj said, drawing out the “y.”

Hunter looked at him and rolled his eyes.

“Oh he’s definitely mad.” Zekaj thought.

Hunter threw his dirty clothes he carried from the bathroom into his clothes hamper. Zekaj continued to watch from the bed as he walked over to the bedside table next to him and unplugged his phone grabbing his headphones.

“Or maybe he just can’t hear me?” Zekaj thought.

“Hey!” Zekaj repeated giving his best smile.

Hunter huffed again and rolled his eyes in response. Zekaj didn’t know what to do now.

“What happened when I was gone?” He asked.

“Nothing.” Hunter said morosely. He gave his own question. “Did you have fun with her?”

“Who?” He said. “My mom?”

Hunter looked at him with wide eyes.

“W-what?” He said, shocked.

“What?” Zekaj replied. They both stared at each other, confused about what the other meant. “What do you mean.”

“I- I meant the girl you were going and seeing.” Hunter answered. “You were in the middle of uh, ya know.”

Zekaj looked at him blankly before bursting out laughing.

“You-” He continued to laugh. “You thought I was there having sex with her? Why would she be waiting for me after like 2 years!” He screamed and laughed.

Hunter’s face was bright red and he tried to hide it behind his hands. Zekaj himself continued to laugh and pulled Hunter into his arms, messing with his brushed hair. Hunter struggled to get out of his grip but he soon started laughing as well. They continued on for another 5 minutes till they both calmed down.

“I’m sorry that it took me so long to get back. My parents and brother just wanted to know where I've been.” Hunter looked him in the eyes before staring down at the floor.

“I’m sorry for being moody. It’s just we haven’t been apart for more than a couple hours that it was weird. Old, depressing thoughts from before I summoned you started popping up and it got to me. I shouldn’t have gotten mad at you.” Hunter said quietly, rubbing his thumb on the back of Zekaj’s hand.

“We were both in a rough time before we came into each other's lives. But we're better now. I’m less of an angry horny demon and you’re happier and enjoy life.” Zekaj said. “We're better with each other than we are apart.”

“We need each other.” Hunter added. “Isn’t that unhealthy?” They both laughed.

“Maybe for others, but not for us.” Zekaj and Hunter put in a headphone and watched Netflix on his phone.

But it was true. They needed each other immensely, and that scared both of them more than anything.