masanari | [Futurelandia] An Eventful Valentines and beyond (happy new year)

[ He had some jelly legs too, honestly. But at the same time, there was obvious excitement in his every step, a spring of sorts ]

Yeah.

[ And as such, to the station they went. He led the way, one beg over his arm and holding Junko's hand with the other. He doesn't give her time to get her panties on right or for him to mess with the belt and his pants over much. They can fix that later. Or now, but whatever. He Hurries them along back to the bus and therefore home.

Successful shopping trip. ]

[Good job on your trip, Koji.

Veronica isn't there to greet him right when he comes home. Rather, she's in his room - his now cleaned room, because she's seemed to take on part-time maid duties in this house. It has less to do with any sort of kindness and way more to do with her inability to handle clutter and mess when she's concerned about something, or fretting. And good god has Veronica been fretting all afternoon while Koji's been banging and lording over people.

But it's ... Fine. It's fine, of course. She's worked it all out, she's got the words practiced. She knows how this is gonna go.

She just has to tell him everything, and the rest will just fall into place! What is it they say? The first step is always the hardest?]

Something like that ...

[Ugh, she feels sick again.]

[ Koji's had fun today. Of course the whole reconnection with Junko the day before had been a really great moment for him, but today was something else entirely. Today was a revelation. He was charged, excited. Possibly wanted for having done a lot of other stupid shit in public. He was still waiting on his text from Jasmine (probably) but really that's beside the point right now.

Because now he's home, he wants to find Veronica.

It's a thought he has all the tim these days, even if sometimes he's embarrassed by it. But today, waving Junko off at the door once they come inside and possibly smacking some other woman's ass as he passes her in the hall because he just feels that good (your pick on who or what shrug) he looks around for Veronica and - Not in the kitchen. Or her room...

Man he wants to fuck her.

Still, he wanders back around for her, calling lightly until he gets to his room and-]

Hey babe.

[ He meant to just bend her over and fuck her now, and it briefly shows on his expression until the cleaned room gives this whole situation a different mood ]

Edited 2016-05-30 04:26 (UTC)

[If not for the fact that Koji could probably see his face in one of his game systems thanks to how ardently she's polished all of them with gentle, attentive care, one could almost say she's already done half the work for him by being on his bed. But she's laid out on her back and staring up at the ceiling, if she looks at him they're going to kiss and then they're going to have sex which - man, sex would be great! But also her stomach feels weird, so there you go.]

Hey. [Just. Okay. Make it happen, Veronica. Just do it.]

I have to talk to you about something important.

[She sits up very suddenly, hangs her feet over the edge of his bed.]

... You might want to sit down.

[ . . . Well this is just mood whiplash. He grunts, and then trusting her to be sincere to him more than anything else in this moment, he pulls his phone out of his pocket to toss it aside onto a nearby desk so he couldn't possibly be distracted by it (not that he would be, but...) and then closed the door behind him with the back of his ankle. He keeps a confused, concerned look at her the whole time, and then shuffles off to the bed himself so as to sit next to her.

What. ]

I'm pregnant.

[There it is. The cold, harsh reality.]

I took a bunch of different tests last week, and then Emily took me to the doctor to confirm it, but she thinks I just went for my usual exam. I'm some months in. [What she really wants to say is that based on the timeline this probably happened within the general timeframe of their very first meeting. But it's still hard to react to that, so she keeps it to herself.]

This fall is my last year in high school, so I'm going to finish it out, even though it's going to be difficult. After that I'll get a job at a restaurant to earn some experience, but after a year I'm going to apply for culinary school.

[Deep breathes. This isn't so hard! Of course it doesn't help that she's talking rapidly enough to be understood, but so quickly that it might be difficult to figure out how to interrupt her.] I wanted to tell you first, Koji, but don't feel as if this has to mess up your life or anything. I'll do my best to make sure they're raised right, though I'm not too sure of what kind of mother I'll even be.

[But ... She's not getting rid of it. That's sort of the hint. Be angry or weirded out or in denial, but this kid is totally going to happen.]

[ Koji really should be kind and supportive, here, to say something nice or perhaps touch her in some sincere or comforting way. But even more than not his style that's totally outside his realm of possible actions right now. Because while he does, to his credit, keep eye contact with her the whole time to hear out everything that she had to say, every bit of the confession and lets her finish...

His first reaction, on an impassive (or at least, too surprised to know how he should be reacting) face is to say, ]

What the fuck?

We had sex and didn't use a condom, now I'm going to have a child.

[That's the greatly simplified version. Maybe it'll go over better?

It's fine either way. She knows he's just trying to mentally get his head around it.]

Look, I just didn't want to start ballooning up and not tell you. That's all.

[ Okay, he's processing...

He's processing... ]

What the fuck?

[ . . . It's apparently not going quickly. His face might have paled or his eyes might have narrowed a little, but for the most part the action now is in his hands, gripping the hem of his pants a little ]

[... She doesn't like repeating herself so Veronica's just going to sit here and watch him for a little bit.

Whenever you're ready, Koji.]

[ . . .

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. . . ]

Months?

[ Well it's another word ]

[Good job. So proud of you, mate.]

Technically eight or nine weeks.

[They'd met a little before Christmas, and then there was all of January, and the current half of February. Her math might be a little off, but.]

So it probably happened during one of the first times we had sex.

[ Okay so it would be beyond lame for him to ask how does she know it's his, right? Totally like way more than beyond lame. So he doesn't say it even if he's thinking it really hard right now to the point that he's pretty sure it's telepathically broadcasting.

But also like.

What the fuck? ]

Right. [ A beat ] Why're you keeping it?

[ That was probably something not meant to be sad. But he asks his anyway because that plan she just outlined was weird and insane and what was their future now??? Is it their future??? or hers??? or what?????? ]

[She wasn't fucking anyone but Koji nine weeks ago! Hell, she didn't really sleep around now, either! But as if that logical possibility wasn't enough to contend with his actual question is so much worse.]

Why wouldn't I?!

[She sounds as outraged as she feels at the mere suggestion. And to be fair, it's not as if she hadn't considered the possibility, so it has nothing to do with a moral or even religious standing. She just couldn't imagine actually doing it, it didn't feel right so she wasn't going to get rid of her own child like it was trash to be thrown away.]

Look, your life isn't the one that has to change because of this, what are you even freaking out about?

[ Why indeed?

... and man, this had been a good day. Koji groans, and more or less not sure how to respond to either of those he covers his face in his hands and flops to lay on his back on the bed next to her. His hands remain over his eyes, but he shifts them so he can speak without his hands covering his mouth. Seriously...

Why indeed?

About the kid and about the freaking out? What even were him and Veronica? It feels like it would be lame to ask that too. Did she know and he was ignorant or were they both in the dark? ]

I'm not freaking out.

[... His vocabulary solely consisted of 'what the fuck' for at least five minutes.]

Mmhm.

[It's not a point she'll bother arguing.]

I'm so not.

[ Said the petulant teenager with his hands over his eyes groaning there and ignoring that judging look he knows that you have there mate, he can see it in his mind's eye.

In a way, he wishes she would bother arguing, or shift the dynamic here... but he'll need to, won't he? After all, she's more fucked up than he is ]

[He deserves the judging look. She will never apologize for it. Veronica will be that 89-year-old version of Rose from the Titantic and she will not apologize for the look he feels on her face without seeing it.

... But even though she hadn't even vaguely hoped that Koji would be happy or excited about this, she can't keep up this faux strength either.]

Koji.

[He's not good with emotions, and neither is she. What an awful set of people to be parents.]

I don't want anything to change between us.

[But it will, won't it? He's not going to be interested in her when she's huge and probably uncomfortable and depressed all the time. There's no arranging, cleaning, or sorting that she can do to fix that.]

[ He groans, and perhaps ironically for how they normally operate his choice of words as he sits up, trying t regain his composure is, ]

Oh fuck me.

[ But it's not an order, more an epitaph for how much of an ass he is and how much of an ass he's being here and how he really needs to step it up but at the same time it was such a good day?! He was going to come home and fuck her and kick off a new and glorious chapter in his life. And now there's this and he's mildly afraid Jasmine will call his phone instead of texting it and just make all of this way more stupid. Or Junko will come in and make it more stupid. Or both.

He's just- ]

Are you at the point where you feel sick all the time yet? [ He groans and shakes his head.

... What the fuck is between them? She knows, right? Right? So why doesn't he? ] I could do... something.

[Hey, he's free to go along with the first part of that if he can recover from the awkward mood, and if the idea of a tiny, eventual human in her doesn't make his dick wilt! Right about now it'd be a comfort to know that he's still into her.

She sniffles at his question, and shows him a set of big, watery eyes.] What?

[What????]

N-No, I'm fine! I mean, just sometimes in the morning but it goes away.

[So he's not going to ignore her? Or start dating his sister?!] Koji ...

[She's so relieved that it's almost pathetic. Her mate doesn't hate her!!]

[ How is he supposed to think anything negative with those eyes. Honestly, it just makes him feel more like an ass and ... and he doesn't know what to say here other than he should try to turn this around into being happy, or at least acceptable after she just went and blindsided him. It would help if he knew what they were. Were they even mates? Junko seemed to think so and he figured maybe but.

Did Veronica know?

Well okay, let's put a smirk on his lips and, ]

In a way, it's pretty awesome I knocked you up first. Plus I did it before anyone else did in the house.

[ His father was in the midst of a painful reversal of a vasectomy because he wanted to do that himself, and he beat him? Bad...ass??? ]

[It had been very easy to keep from crying out of fear or sadness but it's very difficult to keep from crying from relief! What girl wants her mate to be upset with her?! Which is to say: Of course she knows. But she doubts he wants to hear it so ... She'll just keep it to herself like usual!

When he actually frames it in a proud sort of manner she goes back to her usual, beaming self.]

Exactly! And it's not like Yamato's even done it! And isn't it important for a pack to have kids?

[Is it wrong of her to use their brotherly-ish rivalry to her own advantage? Maybe. But anything that keeps this going is her goal.]

[ Koji's not very dense, in a way he knows he's being exploited here, but even as he's aware of it, it's impossible for his emotions to feel anything but proud when she points it out, is eyes betraying him in particular in how they sparkle. But he quickly shakes his head, exhales hard through his nose, and then leans up and forward to wrap both his arms around her, a move too affectionate to be purely sexual.

Was he the stupid one here? Or were they both stupid?]

Right? Right. His fucking seed didn't even catch for you, it was too late then.

[ She probably meant in general. But all the same, even if it's stupid his heart can't help but sing that out ]

[For what it's worth she knows he isn't that dense either, this is very much an angle they can both relate to in order to make the situation better. Because even if it's sort of bullshit she can't help adoring the excitement he's showing her. Is it really so wrong to want to produce those sorts of reactions in him? The answer is no.]

Nope, you'd already laid claim there, so no one else stood a chance. I bet your dad couldn't have even done it.

[That feels like an incredibly bold, verging on wrong sort of thing to say considering she takes her loyalty to her Alpha quite seriously. But she's relieved and Koji's holding her and she's happy, so just this once she'll speak out of turn and squeeze him back a little. He probably has no idea how scared she was of being left behind again.]

[ It is, but at the same time he sort of wants to say something sweet to her, kind and out of character... but he can't pull it off right now, not yet. Maybe he will after they run this around a little more. He squeezes her tight, burying his face not in her boobs but more in her neck so that she can't see his face.

... But that was, ]

Holy shit, babe.

[ That was incredibly un-artful on his part but still ] ... Still, true.

[ still un-artful, but the laugh he has afterwards, a bit strained at first but then going into genuinely mirthful and happy but on the verge of insanity did show it made an impact ]

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breaks tagging order because this so weirdly mortifying and funny at once

ROFL GOOD glad to impress or smething

he's just usually such a little shit I think this temporary change in dynamic is amazing

It's a struggle for him to be anything less than "sweet" to her he's so mush

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But the chain of pregnancies tho so sentimental here

reacharound kindness

It's so sentimental tough it's funny to imagine how the ideas we had before go but hey there's time