Lovesick on Valentines Day

Warning, this fic is self shipping, if you have a problem with that, please skip this one.

Maple was nailing in some decorations at the town hall, covering it in Valentine’s Day themed things. He was almost finished with his work for the day, even if he didn’t have someone to spend the day with, it was fun enough having an easy job to do all day. He looked down at what he had left to do and decided it was time to take a final break before finishing off the day’s work. He climbed down the ladder and stretched out, pulling a can of beer out of the cooler he brought with him, then sitting down on said cooler and playing on his phone. He took a big sip and then got a sudden text from Giggles. “Hey Maple! If you’re interested I got you a blind date for the night! I think the two of you would be perfect for eachother!” Maple was blown away by that message, he took another sip of his beer as he thought about it. It was from Giggles, she seemed to know everything about him, surely she wasn’t kidding when she said perfect. After a minute he quickly replied. “Sounds like a blast! Where and when?” “Jimbo’s at 7, remember to keep an open mind!” Maple grinned widely as he put away his phone. He chugged down the rest of his beer and as fast as he could, grabbed all of the stuff around, finishing off the day’s work in a blast. —-

Maple arrived home with some determination he rarely ever had. He quickly snapped his boots off and ran off to go have a shower. He spent quite a few minutes brushing his fur after the shower, making sure it looked as good as it could. He found the nicest casual clothes he had in his closet and stretched himself out, ready to feel good. He cracked another beer and started sipping it down as he impatiently waited for time to pass. Eventually it was close enough to the time that he wouldn’t be too early if he left now. He got in his truck and realised how much dust he would get on himself if he stepped inside. Acting quickly he called up a taxi and before he knew it he was on his way to the restaurant.

Due to how early he left, he still showed up quite early. He tipped his driver and stepped out of the taxi. He took out a pack of gum and started chewing on a piece as he stepped into the restaurant. He checked in at the front and was brought to a table that was reserved for him and this blind date that he was getting more and more excited to meet. He had some time to himself now and devoted it to scanning the menu, looking for what would make a good drink/meal combo. He delved on the menu for a while until after a while the host reappeared. “Here is your table sir! Enjoy the meal!” Cuddles chuckled a bit as he sat across from Maple and grinned a bit. “Oh hey Maple!” Cuddles leaned his elbows onto the table and held his chin up with his hands. Maple looked up from the menu and gave a confused look, but ultimately put on a polite smile. “Oh hey Cuddles! Didn’t expect to see you here.” He puts the menu down and leans back in his chair. “I’m actually waiting on someone right now but I suppose I don’t mind a bit of company.” Cuddles chuckled a bit as he looked around, putting it together that he was that someone. “Oh really? I’m also waiting for someone…” He shoots Maple a bit of a devious look. “Someone big and strong who knows their way around almost anything…” Maple lowers an eyebrow as he felt a little off. “Hold on a sec here…” He pulls out his phone and pulls out his phone, finding a text from Giggles. ‘How’s it goin’?’ Maple was a little perplexed. ‘Well, she hasn’t shown up yet and for some reason Cuddles is at my table.’ Maple watched as Giggles started and stopped typing multiple times before finally after a very long minute and a half finally responded. ‘Did you consider that there is a good reason?’ Maple furrowed his brows and looked up at Cuddles. “Uh… Cuddles?” Cuddles gives a sly look at Maple. “Mmmyes?” “Are you supposed to be the person who Giggles set me up on a blind date with?” Maple’s tone of voice quickly snapped Cuddles out of his silly little mood. “Uh, yeah… Yes I am…” He seemed quite disheartened. Maple let out a long sigh as he facepalmed. “Does she think this is funny?” He muttered to himself. Cuddles frowned a bit more. “Am I really that undesirable…” Maple looks up and quickly puts on a bit of a friendly look. “No no- You’re fine Cuddles, the problem here is that I’m straight.” Cuddles quickly went from despair to confusion. “Wait really?!?” Maple seemed taken aback. “What do you mean ‘really’? I’ve never been into guys!” Cuddles had to hold back some laughter. “It’s a surprise to me-.” He had to physically hold himself from laughing. But he instantly snapped out of it as Maple gently hit the table in anger. He got up and pulled out a 20 dollar bill, putting it down on the table. “Get yourself something nice, have a good day Cuddles.” He let out one more sigh before walking out of the restaurant. He’d call another taxi and head home.

As he drove home, his wave of emotions would quickly drive him to anger as he opened up his texts with Giggles. ‘You’re very funny, you get me all excited for something on the loneliest day of the year and then you pull that shit, how fucking dare you. Don’t respond to this, I don’t want to talk to you for a while.’ He put his phone down and just sat in silence until the taxi arrived at his house. Once he got home he fished a full pack of beers out of the fridge, intending on drinking the entire thing tonight. Slowly as he drank, a pile of cans started to grow around him, only adding to his already messy house. — Giggles was sitting on the couch beside Petunia and Flaky. The two were currently getting all cuddled up to Giggles’ side as Giggles continued texting Cuddles. She was very worried about Maple right now, too much so to sink into the affection of her partners. After a bit of back and forth, Petunia nudged Giggles’ shoulder. “Gigs get off your phoooone, it’s Valentine’s dayyyyy.” Petunia put on a long complaining voice, but Giggles’ look of worry transfered over to Petunia and it quickly made her get serious. “What’s wrong?” Petunia followed up as her and Flaky calmed down. Giggles let out a sigh as she put her phone down and buried her face in his hand. “You remember that blind date I put him on Tunie?” “Uh huh.” Petunia followed up, but Flaky gently let out a. “Wait what?” She looks off to the side away from them. “He’s straight Tunie, I set him up with a guy on Valentine’s Day and he’s straight!” Petunia had to hold back laughter, but Flaky quickly leaned over. “You did what?! Giggles, that’s so cruel!” She sniffles a bit, snapping her head over, the emotion making Petunia quickly snap out of it. “I KNOW IT’S CRUEL FLAKY! I THOUGHT I WAS DOING HIM A FAVOUR AND I HURT HIM.” Petunia grew a look of concern as Flaky slowly leaned away, the worst case scenario painted all over her face. “What do we do?!? I can’t just do nothing! I feel so bad for him… All the stuff we do with him and I thought he was fine with it…” Petunia put her hand on Giggle’s shoulder and rubbed it a bit. Giggles looked over at Petunia, tears started growing in her eyes and, acting quickly, Petunia grabbed her head and buried her face into her own chest, gently rubbing the back of her head as Giggles started crying. Petunia was really worried, Giggles never got this bad unless it was beyond important to her. As she comforted Giggles she looked over at Flaky, as though to ask for any kind of guidance. Flaky seemed to think about it for a bit. “Well… well what if we uhm…” She looked down and pulled her knees up to her chest. “He probably feels so alone… Maybe we should go make sure he knows we still love him…” Giggles suddenly stopped crying as she looked up at Flaky, a big look of realisation appearing on her face. “I… I do love him…” Giggles slowly let out as she slowly picked herself up. Petunia slowly opened up to the idea as she looked over at Giggles. However Flaky was still a little conflicted. “Are you sure…? What if you’re just hurting…” Giggles sat up and took a few deep breaths. “No… I really do…” She leans against Petunia and looks up at the ceiling. “I can’t stop worrying about him all the time… I know everything he suffers from, I know everything he likes, I go out of my way to make him happy…” She looked over at the two for a few moments, but then Petunia looked down. “I get it… I think I used to totally crush on him… I insisted on him always being around us…” Giggles chuckled a bit. “Oh Tunie… You still do…” She said in a bit of a sarcastic tone through her choked up voice. Petunia leaned back. “What?!? No!” … “Okay maybe just a little bit…” Giggles sniffled and chuckled a bit, Petunia slowly joining in. It took her a moment to accept it, but Flaky chuckles a bit too as she leaned in. “I suppose I’ve always looked up to him… I feel safe whenever he’s around… I guess getting into this relationship has made me realise just how much he does for me…” They all got together in a little cuddle pile as they all chuckled the sadness away, but after some time eventually reality set in for Giggles. “Well girls… I think it’s time we pay our sweet little beaver a visit…” —-

Maple was sipping away at his 14th beer now, he smelt like beer and was covered in a pile of beer cans as he mindlessly watched TV. Eventually through his stupor he heard some knocking and let out a big sigh, slowly getting up as all the empty beer fell onto the floor. He drunkenly stumbled over to the door and leaned against the frame. “Who is it…” He let out in an annoyed tone as he fiddled with the door to open it. After a few seconds he opened it up and saw Giggles, just standing there politely with her hands held together, she had her signature smile on. Maple was unimpressed and put on a mean tone. “What do you want Giggles?” Her smile grew a bit. “Just want to spend some time with a furry little beaver…” She had a bit of a mischievous, albeit cute voice on. Maple was still unimpressed, but then Petunia poked her head out to Giggles’ left side. “I want to wipe a nice big smile onto his face!” Petunia put on a bit grin as she got all excited. This caught Maple quite off guard. Last but not least, Flaky poked out on the other side of Giggles. “And I wanna make sure he is feeling all better!” She held her hand out as she got all cheery too. Maple couldn’t help but smile a bit as he leaned against the door frame, but quickly the smile turned to emptiness. He lets out a bit of a sigh. “Thanks for this but…” He stumbles a bit, leaning more into the door. “I don’t want this right now…” Giggles steps forward a bit, getting a bit of a look. “Don’t worry, I think I know exactly what you need right now…” She turns to look at Flaky and Petunia for approval and they both nod their heads. “Now what does that mean?!? Listen Giggles, it was an aggressive text. I’m sorry, I just need some time to recuperate. “You could hear the slurring in Maple’s voice as it became apparent to the group just how drunk he was. Giggles just grinned wide. “Well what if I had a gift from your secret admirer~?” She put on a bit of a flirty tone. “Wh-.” Maple went to respond, but was cut off as Giggles grabbed a clump of his chest and pulled him down. Before he had a chance to react she just placed a nice lil smooch right on his lips, holding it for a few seconds before slowly pushing him back up to leaning against the door frame. Maple’s entire face went completely red as he was reduced to little more than a stiff ragdoll. She just chuckled a bit as Maple’s brain had an error and was struggling to compute. She just turned to the other two who were also chuckling quietly and motioned them to follow along. She stepped forward and wrapped Maple’s arm around her shoulders, helping him walk back over to the couch. She saw a mountain of beer cans and looked over at Petunia, getting a bit of an awkward look. She sighed a bit as she crossed her arms. “This is even worse than Flaky’s house…” She pulled some medical gloves out of her tail and went to Maples kitchen which was thankfully a lot tidier. She found a garbage bag and got to work on picking up the cans on the couch. Giggles let Maple fully lean into her, his face still red as he was still convinced this wasn’t real. Flaky went to Giggle’s side and helped her keep Maple up, hugging him from the opposite side of Giggles. After a bit, Maple was finally able to regain himself, wrapping an arm around Giggles, and working an arm between Flaky’s quills slowly but surely to give her a nice big hug too. “So this is real huh…?” He let out as he leaned against the couch, allowing him to give the other two a nicer hug. Giggles chuckled a bit as she nuzzled her face against Maple’s chest. “Mhm! I’d say it’s unofficially been like this for some time!” Giggles said as she started purring a bit. “Are all three of you sure about this?” “Welllll, Flaky thinks of you every time she needs help with something…” Flaky suddenly jumped in. “What?!? No I don’t!” She seemed a little embarrassed, but Maple’s hug already had her trapped in affection. Giggles looked over and Giggled. “Oh really? I remember just the other day when you called his name out 3 times!” Flaky buried her face in Maple’s side out of embarrassment, causing him to chuckle a bit. At this point he was having a hard time keeping his eyes open. After that he looked over at Petunia, who quickly returned the look, though she looked more so at Giggles. “No.” Is all she said. Giggles couldn’t help but giggle to herself, covering her mouth as she looked at Petunia. “NO! Stop it!” Petunia added. “I haven’t even said anything~.” She said in a flirty tone. Petunia looked away and crossed her arms, letting out a hmph. Giggles just looked up at Maple and he actually understood what was going on.

Petunia let out a sigh, she put the garbage bag of beer cans down, out of the way and sat down on the couch, thankfully it seemed clean besides the cans, making her able to enjoy sitting down. Giggles, now noticing the clean couch, tugged on Maple’s arm, pulling him over as she basically threw him onto the couch. Petunia quickly got down on his left and cuddled up to him. Maple wrapped an arm around her and pulled her in, giving her a nice big smile. Petunia nuzzled her face into Maple’s shoulder, leaning heavily into him. Giggles sat down on Maples lap and leaned against him, purring like crazy now as she snuggled up nice and close to him. Finally, to complete the trio, Flaky sat down on his right and leaned against him, hugging him gently around his waist as she closed her eyes. Maple looked between the three of them, noting that he only had two arms for 3 people and just decided the one who wanted them the most could have them. He wrapped his arms around Giggles and held her close as the three engaged in yet another snuggle pile, but for once, Maple was allowed to indulge in this peaceful pile without having any worries in the back of his mind. It took a while, mostly because they were all enjoying it too much, but eventually sleep would start claiming them one by one. Flaky was the first to pass out, but shortly later Petunia would join her. It would take some time, but lastly Giggles and Maple would succumb to sleep, Giggles still purring even as she went unconscious. The end