Love Stage: Hidden Love

Dinner

Here's the file." Rei walked into his bosses office behind the stage.

Seiya glanced up at him. He nodded while talking on the phone. Just as Rei set the file down, the man hung up the phone. He looked up to Rei. Noting the others slightly flushed face, large pupils, Seiya narrowed his eyes. He was about to ask what had happened.

"Um, so you know, Shougo came home early." Rei said.

Seiya noticed how the teen's hand twitched as if he wanted to run it through his hair. The man lifted his hands up as he lowered his head. He hid the smile as he watched the teen twitch a bit nervously before him. Rei hardly ever showed the slightest emotions, unless it was anger or frustration at someone.

"How did the meeting go?" He asked watching the boy.

"Oh, um f, fine." Rei stuttered.

"Shougo said he would be there when Izumi gets home." Rei offered.

Seiya couldn't hold back the chuckle. He covered it with a throat clearing as Rei's eyes danced over him. He leaned back tapping a pen against the desk.

"I see, but I wasn't asking about you meeting my son..." Seiya stated.

"Oh! The Cushing meeting. Yes, everything is set up. We are all on track." Rei switched to his professional mode as he recounted the meeting he had to attend before going to collect the file.

"Thank you, Rei. Can you go see what it is that costuming needs?" Seiya asked.

Rei nodded practically running out of the office. Seiya leaned back. He had often wondered about his eldest son. Shougo was a different sort of character. Smart, talented, but he lacked motivation or ambition. In the past Seiya had sent women to see about getting his son to do certain things for the family business. They all reported back the same thing.

Shougo Sena was a perfect gentleman. He never tried to hit on them, would goofily flirt but never pushed past that. He was attractive and more than one girl came back with hearts in her eyes for the teen. Yet, to a one, they never got Shougo motivated. Dinner would be interesting tonight. Seiya picked up he phone to call his chef and maids. He needed to see this first hand.

Why? Why did I have to go on about his son? Rei was only half listening to the shrieking woman. She was upset that whatever fabric she had ordered wasn't the right quality. During the first five minutes of her rant, Rei had already contacted the seller. They had stated they had this issue from one of their contractors before. They looked into it. Within six minutes Rei had their response. The contractor wasn't going to be supplying their stock any longer. The company was going to resend the order from another supplier. Now Rei just had to wait out this banshee of a woman so he could inform her.

Shougo. The name, the face, the sounds... They kept circling around Rei's mind when he was least expecting it. What did he know of Shougo Senya?

He was Izumi's older brother. Therefore Seiya's eldest son. He was away at boarding school. Something they had tried to do with Izumi, but the boy failed to thrive. He was sent home, expelled if you would, for not talking with others, making friends or in anyway socializing. How strange was that?

But Shougo! He thrived within the confines of his London based school. His only obsession was his baby brother. Rei had found it cute how Izumi would grin while talking about his brother. How he informed the teen that Shougo was the best big brother any boy could have. He now saw the feeling was reciprocated in the older sibling. Hmm, to love someone that much....

Rei suddenly realized the room he was in was quiet. No more screaming. He looked up from his tablet to find the costume designer slumped in a chair. Her head held in one hand as she clutched the fabric she had been waving under his nose. He ran a hand up his face as if to push up glasses that he wasn't wearing. He sighed, he should get new ones. Not that he needed them to see, but... well he used them for other things. He smirked.