NOTE: Many thanks to Xahraxs for drawing Nai and Elma. It's a NSFW photo mind you. Here's the link:

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As I eat dinner, Elma places a folded white paper in front of me.

"What's this, hun?"

She doesn't reply and simply turns her back and walks to the sink.

I unfold the paper to see it's an Invoice for some things I ordered online.

SHIT! How did she get this?

"I- I can explain Elma."

She continues washing the dishes and acts like she doesn't hear me.

I approach her.

"Are you mad?" I ask, feeling slightly scared because I don't know what to expect. She has never given me the cold shoulder before.

I touch her hand. She swats it away. This causes me to pull away my hand quickly.

She turns around. Her face holds a very stern expression.

"Nai, you seem to forget I do laundry on Tuesdays. I found that in your blazer's pocket. Answer me, why did you have that invoice and why were the items delivered to your office?" She crosses her arms and raises her eyebrow waiting for me to speak.

I grin nervously. "Ah well, you see, I kind of went on a splurge online to buy some anime merchandise. The website had a sale and I couldn't resist. I just didn't um- expect the sum to be

this high" I say scratching the back of my neck in nervousness."Oh? And you had those items delivered to your office so I wouldn't find out that you were spending all of our savings to buy otaku things Those items aren't even returnable!" she screams. She's five months pregnant with two dragons. Her tummy is huge.

"I might be a dragon, but that doesn't mean I'm you had shown me this Invoice when you got it, I would have been angry with you but now I'm outraged you hid it from me. What happened to saving up for our children? Did you just forget about them?"

"I'm not you ok! I can't be as honest as you are! I'm a coward- that's why I hid it in the first place" I feel my eyes beginning to tear up now.

"NO DON'T YOU CRY! You're trying to make me feel sorry for you but it won't work this time. We're married. We shouldn't keep things from each other! What you did was selfish and dishonest." she blurts out, her veins, very visible on her she speaks, one hand is on her hip and she's waving her index finger in the air with the other.

"Well if you're so angry, then hiit me if it will make you feel any better!" I reply loudly.

"I don't believe in unnecessary violence. I'm going to bed." she storms off into the bedroom.

I don't follow her. I don't have the guts to lie near to her after what I did. I have royally screwed up by wasting $85,000 Yen on Otaku content and hiding the purchase from her added fuel to fire. What's wrong with me? She was right. We have gotten into arguments before but not as serious as this. She had never given me that look before. I shudder as I think about it. But I was to blame. Elma and I took months to save that money for our unborn children.

I lie on the couch but as much as I toss and turn I can't sleep - feeling the tears run down my face as I lie on our living room couch. I feel like a piece of trash.

Marriage sure comes with its trials and tribulations.

I take a sleeping pill and doze off.

When I awake in the morning, I find a blanket over me. I slept here the entire night. Elma must have seen me sleeping on the couch and covered me with this blanket.

I march to the kitchen where I hear the sounds of pans and plates.

"When you're mad at someone you don't do kind acts for them!" I say, with her back turned to me.

She doesn't acknowledge me. What will it take to make it up to her? What the hell should I do?

I take a deep breath. 'Look, you can't keep on ignoring me forever. I was wrong okay. I shouldn't have done what I did. I'll work lots of overtime every day of the week. I'll even work weekends just to make back the money."

She finally turns around, her sapphire eyes meeting mine.

She lets out a sigh. "Baka! You haven't thought this through fully.. What will happen to your pregnant wife if you overwork yourself and end up on a hospital bed? She pauses and shifts her gaze as if she had just realized something.

"Nai, you're here and you're alive and healthy. I should at least be thankful for that. I'm sorry I was so harsh on you...Wait, why am I the one who's always apologizing?" she squeaks, flapping her arms up and down like if she was a bird, ready to take flight.

"I should be the one apologizing. I didn't want to hurt you. I don't know what was going on in my mind when I did something as stupid as that." I look her in the eye. "I know I don't deserve it but I'll still ask anyway, will you forgive me?"

"Well, I can't raise two dragons by myself in this world" she replies with a slight smile.