DoMayStic Day 9: Unlabelled Container (by @astrobookwormsinger)
Adorabat fluttered around the bedroom. "Does Mao Mao have any secrets?" she asked, perching upside-down from the ceiling.
"Uh… yeah? Have you been paying any attention to his dramatic emotional reveal moments?" Badgerclops replied, sounding half-offended. "He always keeps secrets. Even from me. After everything we've been through—"
"What kind of secrets?" Adorabat cut in, her curious eyes wide.
"Eh. It's mostly all deep dark insecurities and family past. Buuut…" Badgerclops' cybernetic arm extended towards a cupboard on the opposite side of their triple-bunk bed. "He is also the type to have a secret locked chest full of items that he'll never show us unless we break it and see."
His arm opened the door and pushed aside piles of identical sets of Mao Mao's red sheriff uniform, and a few piles of his old green one and a pile of old paperwork. A small chest with a written warning from Mao Mao lay underneath, almost perfectly matching the description.
"Wow!! Badgerclops, you know him so well! I wanna know Mao Mao that well…" Adorabat sulked, before flying over to the bottom shelf.
"Yeah, you would expect that after so long of being partners-in-solving-crime, I'd know at least that much," Badgerclops said, proudly. He then looked down at that chest.
They were both thinking the same thing.
"If he doesn't wanna tell us, maybe we should… leave it be," Adorabat said slowly, hesitantly.
Badgerclops seemed to consider the thought for just a single moment before nonchalantly going, "Nah, I'm opening it."
Adorabat stared at him with big eyes, and then, enthusiastically, "Okay!"
