'This is your fault' I mouthed. Yoshiki rolled his eyes and mouthed something back.
'How`s it my fault? You suggested it?'
'Mayu made me' I replied. 'Why didn't you say no?'
'Ayumi made me' he replied. I wasn't surprised. The girls didn't notice our silent conversation as they were too busy doing the whole 'I like your dress' performance and 'Oh my, how are? It`s been so long' performance, even though they saw each other this morning. I had been roped into going out on a double date with Mayu with Yoshiki and Ayumi. Mayu wanted to go some new fancy western-style restaurant that just opened up in the city centre, so hey, here we are. Ayumi turned to me.
"Thanks for inviting us out Morishige. It`s nice to do something romantic for a change." She said, stressing the last sentence.
"Well, honestly, I didn't wan-" Mayu kicked me under the table.
"It`s nothing, honestly." I replied, forcing a smile through the pain.
"And you even offered to pay for us all." Continued Ayumi.
"I did?" Mayu kicked me again. "Yes, yes I did. It`s my treat." Yoshiki smirked at me and took a sip of his water. "Well, I say 'my' treat. I really mean 'our'. Isn't that right, Yoshiki." Said boy, choked on his water. Ayumi glared at him as if to say 'Stop causing a scene.'
"Ehhhhh, yes. Our treat." He replied, wiping water of his face. He shot me daggers. Payback`s a bitch. Mayu was eager to change the conversation onto something more romantic.
"So how long have you two been dating?" she asked. They both answered in unison.
"Too long."
"A while now." I laughed. The table jolted a little and Yoshiki winced. I assumed he got a kick to.
"What about you two?" Ayumi asked.
"Quite a while now, actually." Answered Mayu "A couple of years now, isn't it Shig?" I nodded.
"Yeah but it really doesn't feel like it to me. It feels like as long as I`ve known her since we were so close during middle school and high school. We were that close it was like we were already dating."
"Awwwww, that`s so sweet." cooed Ayumi, but she quickly turned sour. "Why can`t you be like that?" she said to Yoshiki. Yoshiki folded his arms.
"Because, if I was like him, then I wouldn't be me and if I wasn't me then you would never love me and that`d be said." replied Yoshiki. Ayumi`s facial expression softened.
"Well…good answer." This time it was Mayu`s turn to coo.
"See, that was sweet."
"Yeah but don't get used to it, he`s not normally like that." Ayumi said, trying to keep the smile off her face.
The waiter arrived not long after and we all ordered our meals; the girls both had fish, Yoshiki had the Steak and I had Pork. It was good pork. After our meal, we`d all loosened up a bit.
"You got any funny stories about your man? I know I have." laughed Ayumi. Mayu giggled and slid back in her chair.
"Oh yeah loads." She replied. "I once caught him strolling round the place singing some old songs from the eighties, he once came in home drunk and demanded I make him 'drunk nachos' and then once, back in high school, I walked in on him in the store cupboard dressed as a-" I clamped my hand over her mouth reducing the rest of her sentence to incomprehensible murmurs. She paused for a moment, and I moved her hand away. She mouthed something I couldn't decipher at Ayumi.
"What about you?"
"Oh yeah same." Ayumi replied.
"Well, I don't think we need to hear them." said Yoshiki, clearly starting to worry.
"Oh I think we do." grinned Mayu, evilly. "Tell us one."
"Well, I think the best has to be the 'blue dress' incident." Yoshiki face palmed.
"Oh no, come on. Please don't." begged Yoshiki, lightly tugging on Ayumi`s arm but the girl didn't budge.
"So…." She began. "One day I come back from the day my sister`s place and I walk through the door. And even though it`s dark outside, there`s no lights on anywhere in the house. And so I go upstairs and find Yoshiki stumbling around drunk, at night, in the pitch dark, in one of my favourite blue dresses." Me and Mayu burst out laughing as the 'boy in the dress' looked away in embarrassment.
"Just how drunk were you?" I asked him, wiping a tear away from my eye.
"I was…intoxicated." He replied.
"He was absolutely wasted." interrupted Ayumi. "What about you Mayu? When was the last time Shig got properly hammered?" Mayu laughed.
"The last time Shig got drunk, he staggered back home without his shirt and covered in dirt because apparently him, Yoshiki and Satoshi had been playing football in the park. So then, he got in the shower but he was so drunk he didn't clean himself, so I-" Mayu stopped as she remembered what happened next. "And then nothing indecent happened, and we went straight to bed." Smooth save, Mayu. Real smooth. Yoshiki sighed.
"Yeah, I remember that night." said Yoshiki, staring into space. "Drunk football. That was a fun night."
"Yeah it was." I replied. "We should do it again."
"Yeah we should," he turned to the girls. "Maybe you girls could join us." Ayumi looked at her watch.
"Yes maybe. But not now." She said, standing up. Me and Yoshiki 'split' the bill. And we all met up by the entrance. The girls hugged and kissed each other goodbye whereas all us boys managed was an extremely awkward bro hug, after which we swore to never do again. We waved each other goodbye and me and Mayu walked off back home, arm in arm.
A/N: I`m like 12% sure 'to coo' is a real verb. Also it`s 'Football' not 'Soccer' because I`m British. So I`m gonna call it it`s proper name (Soccer). Anyway, translation notes aside, thank you very much for reading, goodnight.