Twenty nine: argue
It had all started as a domino effect.
Rin woke up screaming, stumbling out of bed (almost crusing Haruka in the proccess and kicking Makoto in the face with no apology, of course waking them up as well), fumbling to turn off the still-buzzing alarm clock that read 7:30.
Meaning that he didn't wake up in time to do his needed daily routines and get to the pool for practice, Haruka would be behind his as well and also possibly wouldn't be ready in time to meet with his publicist, and Makoto was going to be late for class, the day before midterms.
The three scrambled to get ready, shouting at each other when needing to communicate quickly, and were out of the door and on their way in ten minutes.
Hopefully, things would get better later on in the day.
It didn't get better later on.
"Are you kidding me, Rin?" Haruka shouted, holding envelopes in his hand. "I put these on your bag so you can mail them out yesterday!"
"I told you I'm sorry, okay? It just slipped my mind!"
"Rin, these are important! Bills are important! This is the second time you've forgotten!"
"If you want I'll go out and do it now!"
"It's pouring down rain and you can't afford to go out and get sick, not when you have to swim tomorrow morning!"
Red eyes rolled. "Oh please, I'm an adult, I think I can handle a little rain."
"You want to go out and catch a cold and have your captain tell you that you're a fucking idiot? Be my guest! This wouldn't even be happening if you didn't wake up late!"
"Oh, so yet again it's my fault?"
The two were so lost in their own fight that they didn't hear the door open and close, or hear Makoto's quiet "I'm home" either.
After taking off his wet jacket and shaking out his umbrella, the exhausted teacher layed himself down on the couch, sighing deeply and putting a pillow over his face in a lazy attempt to block out the noise. For one he was tired for waking up late, and the one thing he tried not to forget today for his class needed to make sure he was ready for midterms the next morning, he forgot, so with everything the way it was now, he didn't know how to really react other than wanting to sulk and get some much needed sleep.
"I'm pretty sure you're just bringing up all of this shit to make me feel bad, Haru! It was just one thing, I forgot it, and I said I would do it in the morning so get off my back, okay!" Rin snapped, storming away from the kitchen and stopping when he saw Makoto's figure on the couch.
"That's not the goddamn point, most of the time when I ask you to do something you either ignore it completely, or forget!" Haruka followed the redhead, not willing to let this go.
Makoto sighed. "Hey...can we stop yelling for a few minutes, okay...?"
"Then I'll do whatever you want me to do, princess!" Makoto's request was completely ignored.
"Guys..."
"You're a real asshole, you know that right?"
"Hey..."
"God, will you just shut the hell up, Nanase?"
"HEY Makoto shouted, removing the pillow and looking at his bickering lovers. "Can we stop this, please? I had a shit day today, and my head hurts like hell, so if you want to continue to bitch at each other, go right on ahead! Just do it somewhere else!"
Haruka's eyes widened when he saw Makoto's faint bruise on his cheek. "Mako, what happened to your...?"
"It was when Rin kicked me in the face this morning! One of my students even asked about it, because he thought that it was one of you two, but I lied and said that I just hit it against the cabinet by accident. Do you know how embarrassing that was?" Makoto's eyes were dark, not their usual bright green. "And after this piss poor excuse of an awful day I figured that when I got home, it would be nice and quiet so I can unwind and get some sleep, but no, you two idiots are screaming as loud as you can, and it's pissing me the hell off!"
"M...Makoto-"
With a sigh the stressed teacher sat up, throwing the pillow onto the couch and stormed towards their bedroom, slamming the door behind him. Rin and Haruka winced, looking at each other with guilt all over their faces.
"...I'm sorry about what I said." Rin mumbled. "I don't know, I was just...angry?"
"No, I should be sorry. I shouldn't have gone off on you like that, it's really my fault."
"Can we just agree to disagree?" Haruka just nodded, biting at his lip when he heard the bathroom door slam shut as well.
"He really is mad..." Haruka lowered his eyes, looking at his feet against the carpet.
"That's because we're stupid as hell." Rin sighed. "C'mon..."
Rin took Haruka's hand and walked to their bedroom, opening the door and sat on the bed, eyes on the floor. Eventually they heard the shower turn off, and moments later Makoto walked out, in a pair of sweatpants, refusing to look at the two.
"I'm...we're sorry." Rin said. Makoto just grunted, sitting on the opposite side of the mattress. "Makoto..."
"We've never really yelled at each other like this before." Makoto said, voice quiet. "Argued, sure, but this-" He paused, running his hands over his face.
"Hey, hey..." Haruka and Rin crawled over, going to his sides, taking his hands and Rin started rubbing the brunette's shoulders.
"It'll be okay." Haruka said, feeling Makoto trembling. "We'll be okay."
"And you have no idea how sorry I am, Makoto." Rin's hands moved and his fingers ran over the darkening bruise on Makoto's cheek, frowning when he winced. "This day really was shit, huh?"
"I'll say." Makoto sighed. "That'll teach us for sleeping through the alarm, though."
"So..." Haruka squeezed Makoto's hand. "...are we okay?"
The brunette just smiled, resting his head on Haruka's shoulder. "...yeah. We're okay."