Nearly a month passed since the death of some of his family. Young Shuichi has been grieving his loss since then. No matter what good thing would happen it seemed like nothing would bring him out of his state of despair. Not his father, not his best friend, not even the fact that he was in the dance committee would be enough to bring him out of this funk. As if losing his mom and sibling wasn't bad enough, he found out that his father was dating again and planning to get remarried. He found this out in the most uncomfortable way possible; through his father's emails.
Flashback, one week ago
While doing his homework one school night, the pink haired teen's bad luck began to surface when his computer suddenly crashed.
"Dammit!" he shouted. Then he covered his mouth. He was never one to swear. But he was angry about losing his work. He had to go into his dad's room and start on his paper all over again. Mr. Shindou had to work late that night so he had the computer to himself. But when he got to the room and sat in the chair he saw that there was a site for widowed men looking for dates. He saw his father's profile. Then he went further into the site that his father failed to log off of and saw a picture of a woman named Ayumi Aizawa. He saw that there were countless messages sent back and forth between them and that they planned to meet up that night. Young Shuichi was disgusted and appalled that his dad would lie about working late. And on top of that, go out with someone else just days after his mom's funeral.
"How can he do this?" he ranted. "How can he betray mom like that! I mean sure, Ms. Aizawa lost her husband and has a son too but that doesn't mean that they should be together just days after their loved ones died. I don't know if dad really loved mom at all!"
End flashback.
Since that day the boy hasn't looked at his father the same way ever again. Also Mr. Shindou and Ayumi went out much more often. It seemed like things were getting serious between them. The more time his dad spent with his soon to be stepmother, the more irritated Shuichi became. He would rant about it to hiro every day that his father went out. This day was no different.
"I'm telling you Hiro, there's something not right about that Aizawa woman!" Shuichi said over the phone. It seemed like he had finally had it with that woman. On the other side of the line, Hiro was doing his best to calm him down.
"Its okay, Shu." Hiro said. "The best thing that you can do right now is to just hang in there for your dad's sake."
"I don't know," he said with a sad tone in his voice. "all of this is gonna take a lot of getting used to. Besides today I'm supposed to be meeting her and her son. I really don't know how this is gonna go."
"Just try to get along with her son. Maybe if you do that, things will get better." Hiro suggested.
The pink haired teen thought about what his friend said for a moment. Sure things were not going as he thought but maybe if he just rode it out, it would get better. But that didn't mean he would like his future stepfamily. He would just try to tolerate them.
"I-I guess you're right Hiro. I'll at least try to accept Ms. Aizawa." He said. Then he hangs up the phone.
Dinner time approached and it was finally time for him to meet his father's new girlfriend and her son. Hopefully there wouldn't be any bloodshed or a big swear -off because he wouldn't get along with them. Shortly after the table was set, the doorbell rang. rushed to the door and threw it open. He saw that it was a woman with black hair and crimson colored eyes. And her son was the spitting image of her. Shuichi looked through the door and saw that this was the woman from his dad's computer. But he recognized her in the strangest way possible.
"You're the woman from my dad's email! "He blurted out without conscious. Then he saw his father looking at him with a hint of anger in his eyes. "Oops…"
"Shuichi, have you been looking through my emails again?" he shouted. Then the teen knew that he was in deep trouble. This wasn't the first time that his dad forgot to log off of a site that he was on and he ended up looking through it. But every time it would seem like Shuichi hacked into his computer.
"Umm…you forgot to log off and I saw everything." He said. "That's how I knew about your chats with Ms. Aizawa."
I have got to log off before leaving my room. Mr. shindou thought. I mean that was even worse than the porn incident. His mother wouldn't let me use the computer for a month.
At the Dinner table things seemed to be going smoothly. Ayumi and Shuichi's dad talked about dates and weddings the whole time. She even mentioned moving in with them. Shuichi and her son barely said anything to each other or their parents. One thing was for certain, her son was just as irritated about being in that house as Shuichi was to have him here. Other than that, the room was very quiet as they ate their dinner.
As soon as that uncomfortable meeting was over, the pink haired teen finally tried to make nice with his future stepbrother.
"Hi, umm… I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Shuichi Shindou." He said holding out his hand. "And you are-"
Smack. Suddenly the other boy rudely slapped Shuichi's hand away from him. He looked like he meant business.
"The name's Taki. And don't even think that I'm one of your geeky little friends at school. I'm not any happier about my mom getting married again than you are but let's get something straight; when they get married, I'm the boss around here. You're gonna do whatever I want whenever I want got it. And if you even think about disobeying me I'll break your face!" and with that he walked away from the boy.
Shuichi seemed confused about what just happened. He thought by trying to make peace with Taki things would get better but it looked like it just got worse.
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