Shouta Aizawa has inherited his parents' teahouse and is having trouble finding new staff. Y/N has quit her job and is about to end her life, when she sees the poster about the open position and decides to give life another chance.
TW: themes of sui...
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It took Y/N a while to calm down. For a while she was wondering whether she had been imagining everything worse than it actually was, because of her hormones or whatever. But she knew that there was something off about Shouta, as soon as he had gotten suspicious that she might be pregnant. And when she had actually said it he had almost seemed afraid of something.
Y/N knew about Shouta's past and about his child dying, but she hadn't really expected him to get so angry and upset about it. She felt like she should have seen it coming, but she honestly didn't. She had completely not thought about this. But what else was she supposed to do? Keep all this a secret until it was too late and he noticed by himself? Get an abortion without telling anyone?
She knew that that would make things worse than they already were. Y/N hated to be in this situation. She felt bad enough for getting pregnant. She wasn't even sure how it had happened, but... well, they hadn't been too careful, if she was being honest. Still, she should have been more careful. This was just... This wouldn't work. Not if Shouta panicked like that every time she brought up children.
Y/N had no idea what to do now. Shouta was upstairs doing God knows what and Y/N was down here, stressing out over what might happen to her now. She could feel her heart sinking and she could feel the pull in her chest when her mind almost instinctively drifted in the same old direction again... Maybe it would be better if she was just dead... if she was dead, all this would end.
She shook her head. No, no, no. It wasn't just about her anymore. How the hell could she let this happen? Why did she think Shouta would react differently? Of course he wouldn't... and he even had a valid reason to be scared of this. He had lost a child before. Y/N got it, she really did... but it didn't change the fact that she felt absolutely alone right now. Y/N thought she knew what being lonely felt like, but she realized that she didn't have a clue until right this moment.
It felt like every bit of air was knocked out of her lungs. And there was nothing she could do. She was absolutely trapped in this arrangement. She definitely didn't have enough money to take care of herself on her own. She didn't have anywhere to go whatsoever. The only people she knew were her uncle and her boyfriend and while she might be able to stand it if she was there on her own... there was no way she could bring a child into any situation like this.
If Shouta wasn't going to help her with this, she had no one. She had no one at all to support her. She wouldn't be able to move out. She wouldn't be able to work for a while. She couldn't imagine that Shouta still wanted her around, so she'd basically be homeless again, without a penny to her name and with another mouth to feed. Y/N felt like crying, but there were no tears coming out of her eyes.
In a way that was even worse. When she was crying, she at least had some release, some way of letting it all out. But when she couldn't even cry... that's when it felt like she couldn't breathe, like she was constantly weighed down, like something was dragging her down and slowly killing her from the inside.
