enthralled • shouto t./momo y.

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shouto woke up as momo harshly opened the curtains quick. she looked back at the groaning man who just woke up, giving a smirk. "please do wake up, we have to do the laundry." she said before letting go of the curtain and walking outside the bedroom. he just sighed as he sat up, watching the woman he currently lives with, walk outside the bedroom wearing a robe.

he stood up and stretched before following her outside and there he saw her carrying a laundry basket. some of the clothes were falling off the hill so he went and snatched them from the floor before following momo to where she was going.

as he expected, they both stopped walking at the room beside the garden. the trees were covering them from the blazing heat of the sun, there's also the cool breeze to keep them cool. at that small garden area, there was a bar where they could hang the wet clothes and wait for them to dry.

"do you know how to do laundry?" she asked as she looked at him, expecting an answer. he bit the insides of his mouth as he haven't done any laundry before. he would come to laundry shops and leave his clothes there. then just come back when its afternoon to pick up his neatly folded washed clothes.

as momo expected, he shook his head, indicating a no. if this guy doesn't even know how to cook, then of course he wouldn't know how to do laundry as well. "why have a big ass mansion if you can't even do simple chores apart from washing the dishes." she looked at him with a judging look before bending down to get the pile of laundry and separate them.

"first off, separate the white clothes from the colored clothes to avoid turning the white ones to colored ones." she said and started sorting the clothes. shouto helped her with it which sped up the process. she told him to fill up the washing machine with water up until it reached half of the tub.

she then put the white clothes on the water inside the tub. her hands quickly grabbed the laundry detergent and the fabric softener, putting it on the two containers the washing machine has especially for those two substances. momo told shouto to turn it on and when he did, the washing machine started spinning. 

"while it spins, we wait." she said and smiled at him, walking outside to the garden and sitting on the bench. shouto decided to sit beside her and they both stared at the sea. the waves crashing on the shore.

"this place if beautiful. though i don't like how you just decided to kidnap me, but i appreciate the view. it's like a vacation after weeks of running errands." she sighed in relief as she continued to look at the shore, not looking away.

"also, why were you avoiding me last night. did i say something or did something wrong?" she then asked, her black orbs looking to his black and blue ones. he scratched the back of his head, trying to think of an excuse. he didn't want to say the true reason, it would shock her.

"don't think about lying. tell me, i'll take whatever you'll say." she said which scared him more. he just admitted defeat and told her right away, "you were tempting me." 

what. it took some minutes until momo understood what he meant. her eyes widened and her cheeks flushed red. she then realized that she was still wearing a robe, with only underwear under it. "are you tempted right now as well?" she asked which made shouto flinch.

"not really." he said which made her sigh in relief. "you better not fantasize about me, just thinking about it is gross." she said before standing up and leaving him alone on the bench.

and just like that, she left him alone. why bother asking though...

he stood up and followed her back inside the small room where the washing machine was along with other laundry equipment. the spinning stopped and there were bubbles around. momo then opened the drier and started to squeeze the clothes one by one to let the excess soap drip before putting it inside the drier.

"let me help you." he said and started squeezing the clothes as well then giving it to momo to put inside the drier. "i thought that driers are only used when you're done with laundry?" he asked and she looked at him.

"looks like you have a faint idea what laundry is and how it's done." she sighed, "i put them in the drier so i wouldn't have a hard time rinsing the soap afterwards." she said and continued to do work.

after that, they put the colored laundry to the washing machine and let it spin. they waited once again before squeezing and putting it in the drier. when shouto gave her the last cloth, she had something on her hair.

his hand randomly went up to get what that something was, which left bubbles on her hair. momo turned to look at him after what he did and that was when he noticed what he just did. he was expecting momo to get angry so he was already apologizing but was silenced when she put bubbles on his clothes.

"what." he just said as he blinked. momo laughed as she looked at him. he then realized what the situation was and started to get bubbles from the washing machine tub, momo knew what he was about to do so she ran outside the room and to the garden.

"catch me if you can, hotshot!" she yelled as she ran farther away from him. he smirked as his competitive side showed up and started chasing her down. she has the speed, but he's more faster. she jumped on some big rocks and some tree trunks as obstacles and he was amazed at how skilled she was.

but of course, he didn't wanna lose so he chased her still. he grabbed ahold of her wrist and pulled her to make her stop running before putting the bubbles onto her face. he laughed as he looked at her face all covered with bubbles. she then smirked and put some of the bubbles on his face.

they both laughed wholeheartedly and then soon came to a stop.

"thank you, for making me have fun and laugh once again." he gave a genuine smile to her which sent her heart fly to the moon.

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