Warnings for swearing, aka teenage boys being teenage boys. Apart from that, enjoy?


One

Shinra says, one day out of the blue, "Let's go to the beach," when it's too hot and groggy enough for all of them to agree, even Shizuo, who has been known to disagree with anything Izaya is in favour of just on principle.

Looking back, Izaya will realise that this is the moment in which he should have realised what a manipulative little bitch Shinra is. But in his defence, his brain was too busy dripping out of his skull at the time to consider anything more that sparkling cool water and those fancy little cocktails with pink umbrellas and suddenly, they'd all agreed and Shinra is saying, "So, I've actually booked flights to this island resort because they were half price if you bought five," and no one is really bothered to hit him for being a presumptous fuck, and no one also bothers to ask about the fifth because of course, "I've also asked the delightful Celty to accompany us, and as testament of her kind and generous heart, she has agreed!" He says this with much more enthusiasm than is appropriate for their context, and Dotachin says, with the long suffering air of someone who has had this discussion many times before, the kind of air that has Izaya's eyes narrowing in suspicion, "You just want to see her in a bikini."

Izaya opens his mouth, question on the tip of his tongue is this a trick who else knew about this before now because if the answer is Shizuo then they are going to have words. But then Shinra shoves Dotachin who manages to get his half ice cream on Shinra's face (the other half drips onto Izaya's shorts) before he falls off the ledge and it's all shouting and flailing limbs for a while after that and Izaya forgets, although he really shouldn't.


'Erratic writing style' mostly means really really short chapters because I can. And, as it seems, a lack of paragraphing? That is actually unintentional, though.