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Chapter 7 Ready or Not

Made by @cataclysmiceve1 on Twitter!
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Content Warnings for this chapter: I wouldn't call it non con or even dub con, but there is definitely unhealthy *pressuring* going on in this chapter that could be triggering to anyone who has been in an unhealthy relationship.

Enjoy!

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Things are different after that night--but it's a good different.

Suddenly, Dazai went from being alone on most nights to talking to Chuuya until falls asleep, or staying over on Fridays. They still study together, but now it's closer than that, like they can talk to each other about anything. Even the things Dazai doesn't wanna talk about.

"Dazai..." Chuuya frowns, resting his hands on his chin as he leans over the kotatsu. "You had a girlfriend before we met, right?"

Dazai's pencil freezes, and he looks up at Chuuya, raising an eyebrow. "...I did. We broke up at the beginning of August." Well, she dumped him.

Chuuya takes a deep breath. "Did you two ever...?" The way he's looking away, the pink crawling up the back of his neck--it tells Dazai everything he needs to know about what Chuuya is asking.

Dazai leans back to get a better look at him. "A few times," more than a few, "why?"

"Yuan..." Chuuya clears his throat. "Her birthday is in a few weeks, and she wants to, um..."

Oh.

Dazai can't tell if he feels nauseous, or like he's slowly being fed into a paper shredder. "And you've never...?"

"No," Chuuya shakes his head quickly, fidgeting nervously. "Yuan's the only girl I've ever dated," He mumbles, biting his lip. "And her parents are going out of town, and she says we could make it into this whole big thing, but I..."

Dazai wants to eject himself into the sun, but in the name of friendship, he answers. "You what?"

"I don't think..." Chuuya huffs, dropping his head into his hands again. "I don't think I'm ready."

Oh. Oh thank god. Dazai bites back a huge sigh of relief. "Have you told her that?"

"Kind of."

Dazai blinks. "Then I don't see what the problem is...?"

Chuuya looks miserable.

"I'm—she acts like I'm supposed to be jumping at the opportunity or something—Like all teenage boys are just...ready to get laid at any time, and I mean..." he turns his face away. "I get I'm not really normal, so—"

"Chuuya," Dazai frowns, "there's nothing wrong with you."

Chuuya looks up, slightly hopeful. "Did you feel that way, before you did it with your girlfriend?"

Sasaki was definitely not his first, but that's beside the point. "No, I—" was eager to get laid, like Yuan had said, "—I was ready. But it's okay if you're not."

Chuuya groans, dropping his head back down against the table. "I'm a freak."

Dazai shakes his head. "No, I have friends who have been through that. It's not weird, it's just different."