León72Azul: Writing... Has never been a forte of mine. Throughout my life I've been called a "Jack of all trades, master of none" which honestly I'm fine with. I can do a lot of things just fine and that's alright with me.
I just wish I could form the right words to express how much Red_Red_Red writings mean to me
I just read an entire notebook of just his writings an
I need my next fix PRONTO
My favorite line from this entire notebook is "I want to drown myself in a toilet"
Which honestly describes my Freshman experience lmaoooo
Pls follow my boyfriend y'all
There is multiple reasons as to why I like the color red, but of course blushing to the point where I am red is not one of those reasons. I get off my bed and put my phone to the side. I have to find Lance the next journal that I want to send him.
On the floor underneath my bed is where I keep all of them in multiple boxes. Do I go for something in the beginning or do I do something more recent? I think I gave him one more recent the first time around, so I guess I'll give him one of my middle school ones. The box on the far left is the one with all the middle school ones, so I pull that out into the middle of my room and start digging up the dirt of the past.
After like my tenth journal I started numbering them. As of right now I am on number sixty four and all the ones in the box I pulled out don't go past twenty. Now... try to find something semi embarrassing for Lance.
Before I could really get down and dirty with the dust on these things I hear someone knocking on the door.
"Keith, time to eat."
"Okay Shiro."
I'll get back to this eventually. I wipe off my hands and get my phone before heading down stairs. Lance is supposed to call me within the next hour, so I should eat quickly. I turn the corner at the end of the stairs and I see that my dad made chicken and rice which is Shiro's favorite… Did something happen to Shiro? The last time we had this meal was when he accidentally ran over a deer and before that it was strictly Shiro's birthday meal. Quietly I make my way to my seat and wait for the rest of my family to be settled in. Mom is in the living room trying to finish up her business call and Shiro is helping dad set up the table. To pass the time I pour myself a glass of water. By the time I finished the first full glass out of anxiety everyone was at the table ready to eat… or talk. My dad was the first to speak.
"So Takashi, there was something you wanted to announce?"
We haven't even served ourselves food yet, meaning this must be important.
"Uh, yeah. This might be a lot for you guys to take in but… I decided to drop out of college."
I hear the pin drop in the room and I turn to my mom for her reaction.
"...Was it because you weren't able to pay for college? You know we could have helped out more Takashi."
"No its not that its just- I don't… I don't think college is the right thing for me in life right now. I need a break from it at the very least. I honestly don't want to go back and I want to pursue something different. I'll be hitting my thirties in five years and I want to do things while I'm young enough to do them."
I've seen my mom lose her cool a handful of times, this time being one of them.
"Takashi, if you get a degree doors will open for you! You're so close to getting your degree, aren't you?"
Shiro starts scooping the rice onto his plate.
"Actually, this last semester I had I failed three classes."
My mother gasps and my father starts choking on his food.
"Takashi, why are you failing your classes? Are you just spending time partying instead of studying? Your lack of time management should be no excuse for you to be failing classes."
Shiro continues to get himself chicken to add to his rice. I can tell within his facial expression that he is pissed.
"No actually a lot of my time was spent crying at three in the morning because I felt like I failed not only as a son and a student but I failed myself thinking that I could pile more crap on top of myself and be fine with it. The amount of times I had a panic attack… or passed out drunk thinking that I didn't want to wake up is… wrong. I don't want to feel like that again."
The table goes silent. I knew that Shiro has been struggling with this for the past few years, but never have I guessed at this level of stress. I decide to speak up.
"No matter what I'll support you."
My dad nods his head and puts his hand on Shiro's shoulder.
"It's true you know. We want what is best for you and if you think that college isn't the best thing then so be it… So can we start eating already?"
My mom still looks mad, but she quietly makes her peace by digging into the rice first. My family is strict when it comes to education since my mom had to jump through a lot of hoops to be where she is now. A lot of immigration problems along with a language barrier.
I was about to grab food myself when my phone started to ring. It became awkward quick because Lance's ringtone on my phone is "Helpless" from Hamilton. I quickly press the end call and try my best to go back to eating… but of course Shiro will pester me.
"Who was that?"
Fuck you Shiro.
"Oh just Lance."
My dad gives me a knowing look, and my mom picked up on the air in the room.
"Who is Lance?"
I swallow the lump that started in my throat. I guess this can't be worse than me coming out.
"Lance is my boyfriend...Um yeah sorry about the late notice."
I should have been expecting this reaction really, but everyone at the table got up and started to hug me.
"Oh Keith that's wonderful!"
"Why didn't you tell us sooner?"
"Call him back we want to meet him!"
I am going to murder Shiro later, but as of right now I have to deal with my parents.
"You want to meet him?"
All of them release me from the group hug and my mom speaks first.
"Of course! We've noticed you've been happier lately and we want to know the cause of it! Call him back now."
Welp time for Lance to have a heart attack. I click the call back button and since it's a regular phone call my family is trying to listen in.
"Heyo Special K! I hope I didn't catch you at a bad time considering you didn't pick up the first time."
I look between my parents and Shiro… yeah of course not.
"Well um, do you have time to Skype? My family kinda, um… wants to meet you?"
I hear silence on the other end for a split second before it goes into heavy breathing.
"What are you serious? Oh mierda I am not ready for this but what the heck lets do it. I'm gonna brush my hair and put on a shirt and I will woo your entire family I swear to it! I'll meet you on Skype in two babe!"
With that he hangs up on me… great he is nervous and I have to let my family into my room in order to Skype him properly.
"Well he will be on Skype in two minutes so lets go to my room."
The table with all of the uneaten food rests there as the Shirogane family climbs the stairs into my room. We brought the kitchens chairs and arranged them around my computer the best I could in my small room. I can tell that my parents are ecstatic and Shiro keeps giving me the shit eating grin like always. I think I'm gonna shave his head tonight… or maybe put fire ants in his bed.
Either way my Skype is ringing and I have to answer it. After a couple of rings the image clears to Lance sitting on this bed in his usual Skype set up. Not to be gay here, but he is wearing my hoodie and it looks incredibly cute on him.
"Um… Hi the Shirogane family! I-I'm Lance!"
I can hear Shiro gushing right next to me and my parents are both beaming. My mom surprisingly speaks first.
"You have to tell us all about you! Keith wouldn't give us all the details other wise."
Lance looks shocked and his anxiety meter probably maxed out.
"A-Ah I uh… swim? Um… Oh geez it's tough remembering what I do in life… Keith help me out here!"
Almost instantaneously I start listing things off about Lance.
"Lance has a big family and he lives in Southeastern Wisconsin. He is incredibly smart, especially in math, and in his free time he likes to do DIY projects or go swimming whether its for a competition or for leisure. His star sign is Cancer, his favorite animal is a cow, he is afraid of blood, he loves orange flavoring even though its disgusting-"
"Hey orange flavoring is the best! You are a grape heathen"
"Grape is underappreciated and you know it."
My family starts to laugh at our argument, and Lance is looking a lot less nervous.
We talked for a solid five minutes before my mom calls it all off.
"It was so nice to meet you Lance. Maybe over spring break you could come visit us? I understand if it's out of the way or expensive."
Wait… My mom just invited Lance over for spring break? Will he say yes…?
"I would love to if I could! It's something I would have to look into, but I'll see what I can do!"
With that we say our goodbyes and hang up the call. It went A LOT better than what I was expecting… and maybe Lance will come visit when spring break rolls around. Either way I have cold food that I'm gonna eat then I have to find the perfect journal for Lance to read.
Keith's family is such an amazing family. I'm glad I agreed to the Skype call cause I was seriously considering declining. His mom is a fairly forward person and his dad loves making small talk. Shiro on the other hand wouldn't stop making fun of Keith and I was living for it.
Keith I know has to finish his food before I could call again, so I decide to visit Rex because it's been awhile since I gave him an update on Keith.
I check his room first expecting him to be there but he wasn't. I know he didn't have any plans with Noah or Circe tonight so he must be out in the garage.
It's fairly quiet in my house considering it's not that late. Everyone is casually doing their own thing. Mama is reading a book and my Papa is flipping through TV channels. Before I got downstairs I seen Mariana doodling at her desk and Jonesy was on his phone casually scrolling. I was almost out the door before I seen Diego tending to the plants that reside on the counter. He was measuring different parts of the plant while recording the information in his tiny notebook. He doesn't lose focus when I open the door and step out.
From the front door I can see the garage light on and Rex is definitely in there. I make my presence known to him by knocking on the garage frame once I reached the entrance. He still jumps since that's just who Rex is.
"Come in whoever you are. Unless if you're a murder then go away please."
I take my usual stool in the corner until Rex gets out of the hood and greets me properly. He does so after a few seconds and half of his face is covered in grime.
"Oh hey Lance! You're just in time. I was just about to go get you."
I raise my right eyebrow.
"Um, why?"
Rex uses his hand to usher me over, so I guess I have no choice but to get off of my lovely stool and see what he wants to show me.
"...What do you think?"
It was a simple blue 2009 Ford Fusion. It's the same car he has been working on for the past few weeks. Normally I'm not a car person, but man I would love to have a simple car like this.
"It's really nice actually. If I had a car I would want something like this."
Rex smiles at the compliment. He reaches into his tool box and pulls out a key.
"Well this car really gave me a lot of trouble, but it was worth it in the end."
He tosses me the key and I barely catch it.
"Happy early birthday, Lance."
What… Holy fuck he can't be serious.
"Um Rex… You're kidding right?"
Rex leans on the car with his right arm propped on top of it.
"I'm dead serious. You can finally be the one to drive our siblings everywhere. On top of that you and Pidge don't have to walk everywhere… Oh and you can finally visit that boyfriend of yours. It's gonna be underneath my insurance. You just have to sign a few things and get a license plate on it and it's ready to go."
"R-Rex I can't- I mean an entire car!? You can't just give an entire car to me!"
Rex stops leaning on the car and instead slings it around my shoulders.
"Oh but I can and I will. This is payback for the time you got me an entire $500 set of tools plus a bunch of expensive car parts for my birthday. I still have no idea how you got your hands on all of that, but either way we are even now."
Tears were sitting on my eyes for some time now, but after what Rex said I'm balling now.
Since we are on our own property Rex let me drive the car around the farm. I do have my license, but this baby isn't properly registered and I didn't want to push my luck. Rex did such an amazing job on this car. I have no idea what he did to it but I'm not experiencing any problems and the surround sound in here is awesome!
I went to go park the car back in the garage when my phone started to ring out "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance. Oh Keith is calling!
"Hey babe!"
"Hey! Sorry about my parents… Hopefully you liked them?"
Rex is standing in the garage with an eyebrow raised at me. I use the shooing motion with my hands while I unbuckle my seat belt.
"I loved them! Also Shiro is my absolute fave."
"Ugh don't say that to him. It will inflate his enormous ego… just like someone else I know."
"Hey! You love my ego!"
Keith laughs on the other side of the line. God he sounds beautiful.
"Um, anyways what are you up to?"
Rex being the asshole he is decides to shut off the garage lights while he leaves through the garage door… So now my phone is the only thing producing light. I turn the light on in my car to counteract the darkness.
"Oh ya know, just sitting in..."
… Holy shit I could keep the car a secret and visit Keith…!
"...the dark."
"Why are you sitting in the dark?"
"Oh I was hanging in the garage with Rex and while I was on the phone with you he decided to turn off the light and leave. So now I am sitting in the dark… So what are you up to?"
I turn on the flashlight function on my phone while I turn off my car light. Meanwhile I'm trying my best to close the car door without making too much noise.
"Here's an idea… How about you go back inside your house and Skype with me before we have to go to bed?"
I managed to close the car door silently, but my dumbass self clicked the lock button on the keys and the car beeped… LOUD.
"Lance, are you fucking around with Rex's cars?"
"Ugh you caught me Special K. Rex decided to trust me to leave me in here alone… So I mean this is really his fault. I'll stop what I'm doing and head back inside to talk with you."
I'm smooth as fuck. Keith bought it and I closed up the garage while Keith talked with me about conspiracies for the rest of the night. He mentioned he was gonna send me a new journal for me to read and I decided that I'm gonna return the one I read with some other goodies that I've made for him.
It was time for both of us to go to bed, so I blew a kiss into the camera before Keith ended the call. He caught it of course, and he blew one back which obliterated my fucking heart.
"Night Baby Blue."
"Night Special K."
We never want to end the calls, but we've somehow managed to click off of Skype.
… Now it's time to have my plan spring into action.
León72Azul to dadboi01: Could you do me a huge ass solid?
ok so WOW life has kicked my ass. Not only am I still in college but I'm working two jobs while trying to keep my cosplay hobby afloat. I've been sitting on this chapter for so long,, so like sorry you guys had to wait on this. I hate it when people don't update and I've sadly became that for a bit. I want to continue and finish this story obviously,, I just have no idea what the upload schedule is gonna be like. If you guys are interested with my everyday life and such I'm constantly on my cosplay instagram rox6564 ! ((Same username as my tumblr omg)) and y'all can feel free to yell at me to update. I have BIG plans for the future of this story so hopefully I can find the time to write!
The Best Guesst- lmao your wish of wanting them to be physically together shall come true... eventually
Seijuro Dazai- We all gotta talk about mental illnesses! Thanks for letting me know that I didn't write it like garbage .
BoredomIsAnUnderstatment- Omg you're the first person to point out who Rex is! Now guess the rest of the siblings and where they are from!