Love as rich as chocolate ~TodoBaku~

Chapter 4: what does it mean?

Akio Todoroki

Well...my parents were not happy when I trudged through the door at midday on Saturday. I was quite confused to be honest when Dad pulled me into a massive hug, calling through to the Old Man who was in the kitchen.

"For god's sake Aki, we were ten seconds away from calling the police! PLEASE answer your phone when we call you!"

"It died! Besides, I got back here as soon as I could! I didn't want to be walking around the city still half-fucked from last night!"

"Language. And please, try to control yourself in the future. I don't want this becoming a habit"

Ugh, he was always the strict, rational one! Never let me go off and have fun unless he was completely sure it was safe. I guess it's good parenting, but fuck off no it's not. I stormed up to my room, sitting on my bed as I was joined up there.

"So...you get laid or what~?"

Ugh, I knew the Old Man would do this! Always poking his nose in my business, he was always the first to know every little thing that went on in my life, and this was no exception. Plus, talking about sex while undergoing a sexuality crisis was not what I needed right now. Of course, he wasn't to know that, so I had to keep up my facade of not-confusion for a little bit longer.

"Nah"

"Huh...doesn't matter, not like you're running out of time!"

"Please god can we stop talking about this?"

"Hah?! Me and your father used to get teased to hell and back by Denki and Hitoshi, so why can't we tease you?!"

"Because...NO!" I said, feebly trying to get him out of here. It was lighthearted in essence, but in truth I really wanted him out. I needed to be alone right now, and whether he picked up on that or not, he promptly left the room, closing the door behind him. I let out a huge sigh and flopped back onto my bed, staring at the ceiling as if it had changed colour. My mind whirred with thoughts, most of them incomplete, boiling down to a cycle of boys, not boys, boys, not boys.

Ugh! I wish I could just snap by fingers and forget this whole bullshit stuff! Why, for 18 whole years, am I comfortable with who I am, then suddenly, my whole world feels like it's tilting?!

If there's anything I pride myself on, it's my lack of shame. Got hit in the face with a basketball? Laugh it off! Tripped and scraped my knee? Funniest joke of the week! Nothing, nothing ever fazed me. But this...this has me reeling, no doubt about it. It wasn't pleasant, and my already pounding head felt like it was being crushed between two giant compressors.

To be honest...it was a weird thing to even be confused about! It's not as if I was an ugly kid! I have long, dark brown hair, thick and high volume as it draped over my shoulders, or rested down my neck in a neat ponytail. I was lean, not overbearingly muscular, my chin wasn't a weird shape, I didn't have weird fingers...I'm hot!

If there was one thing that people always commented on about me most, though, it was my eyes. I had sparkling blue eyes, not quite the stereotypical light shade, but more of a sapphire colour, shining on my face. It was a feature I was proud of, regardless of the lack of effort I expended in getting them that way. What can I say, natural beauty cannot be topped.

But anyway, I think I might be gay! And, as I was trying to say before getting distracted...it's not like I'm worried about boys not liking me. Call me brash, but as far as I'm concerned, I see myself as a pretty good looking guy, so it wasn't so much that aspect that had me worried. It was...just sort of sudden. Unexpected. I didn't quite know how to handle it right now, which left me in a bit of a mental limbo. I also didn't have many great ideas on how to figure it out right now. Sure, the easy option might be to stick some gay porn on and...see what happens, but I wasn't too fond of that idea when both my parents are in the house.

So...I decided to do something really stupid!
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Shoto Todoroki

"Hey Sho?"

"Yeah?"

"...I think something is up with Aki"

"Hm? What?"

"I dunno, just..got that feeling. He seems a little...dejected? He seems like he's trying to work through something he can't do on his own!"

"It's probably just that last night wasn't exactly what he expected, y'know? I mean, maybe it's because we hyped it up with our own selves as an example. We met when we were 18, so he probably expected to meet someone important immediately, and he's disappointed."

"Mmm...mmm, maybe. I'm sorry, you know I worry about him"

"Don't apologise, there's no need to. Now, come here, let's watch something, yeah?"

I extended my arms to my loving husband, and he practically fell into them, joining me with a thud on the couch. He always curled up in front of me, nuzzling his head back against me like a cat would...I miss the cats. They were annoying sometimes, but felt like important staples of our family, leaving great memories and large gaps in our household behind. Wilson was the same...he'd gone a lot more recently. Just woke up one day, and his legs failed him. Tragic, and we didn't want him to suffer, so that was his last day. He didn't cry when the vet carried him away, only wagged his tail gently, staring at me with those big eyes. All three of us had bawled our eyes out that night, but none more so than me. As much as he was Kat's dog...he was my friend.

"Sho? Are you crying?!"
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Really sad tangent! 😪

Fact of the Day: I have really long, high volume hair myself, so Akio is loosely based on me.

He's waaaaay hotter tho, no doubt 😅