Overflowing (Book 3)

~Chapter Twenty-One~

~ One Week Later, Wednesday ~

Another week has come and gone, three weeks without Daichi. I miss him like crazy. Just makes me realize more how much I want to actually finally marry him.

Therapy this week was short and easy, thank God. Nothing triggering really, mostly talking about Daichi and how nervous I am at this point to finally see him again. The one thought stuck in the back of my head is that all this time apart is going to make him realize he doesn't want to marry me. That's what I'm afraid of. I know it's a slim chance of that happening, but we know how I overthink things.

The group, including Bokuto this time, had plans to head to the arcade after I got back from therapy. We decided to make it a weekly thing on Wednesdays to go out to help get my mind off the therapy session, seeing as the last few I came out of it in a bad mood. Even if this one was different, I was still looking forward to hanging out with them. I'm also glad that Bokuto was starting to come back around.

I got back to the dorms after therapy to find Asahi, Kuroo, Bokuto, Oikawa, and Iwaizumi sitting outside waiting for me. They saw me pull in and pretty much just immediately hopped into my car, with Asahi sitting shotgun and Oikawa ended up on Iwaizumi's lap because I only had two rows of seats.

When we got to the arcade, we grabbed some energy drinks from the concession stand and then headed straight for the skeeball games. We've been trying to see who can get the highest scores, and so far Kuroo's outdone all of us by a long shot.

And today was no different. Bro was about three hundred points ahead of second place.

About halfway through our outing, Asahi's phone started going off. He looked hesitant to answer it, but did anyway.

"Hey, what's up?" He asked, he sounded concerned. I tried to listen in and see who was on the other end, and I hated that I did.

It was Daichi.

"Be there in ten." He said before hanging up, "Guys, I gotta go." He said.

"What's going on, Asahi?" I asked. The first time in weeks I hear Daichi's voice, even muffled through someone else's phone, and this is how it goes.

"Suga, you know I can't tell you, that breaks the agreement." Asahi said.

"I just need to know he's okay, and not like...going to be going to a hospital."

"I'll tell you that much, it's not an emergency." Asahi reassured me.

"Go." I nodded. I tossed him my car keys, the rest of us can take a cab, or train, or something. Daichi wouldn't have called if he didn't need someone, and even if I can't be the one there with him I'm gonna help whoever is able to.

"You sure?"

"Go. Just don't wreck my car and if the situation changes to an emergency I need to know."

"Can do." Asahi nodded. He rushed out of there to get to Daichi and all I could do was stand there and take a few deep breaths to keep myself calm.

"Suga?" Bokuto looked over at me.

"I'm good, let's keep playing games for a bit." I nodded, putting some quarters into the skeeball machine I was still standing next to.

"I'm proud of you. You didn't pry for information, you didn't argue anything, you did what you could given the circumstances. Just a few weeks ago, that situation would've been so different. I'm so fucking proud of you." He smiled, pulling me into a hug. That was when I realized I really was making progress with things.

"Thanks, Bo. You have no idea how much that means to me." I smiled a bit.

"We're all proud of you, dude." Kuroo stated.

"OK, before I start crying." I laughed. I pulled away from Bokuto's hug and started playing skeeball again, still determined to hopefully beat Kuroo at least once. I was worried about Daichi, sure, but I knew Asahi was going to be by his side. He won't let anything happen to him. I trust him, and I can continue to be here with the rest of the guys without much of an issue knowing that.

I know he'd be proud of me too.

~*~

Eventually, the crew decided to call it a night and headed back to the dorms, using a train. Asahi got back to the dorms not too long after the rest of us did. We all were hanging in the dorm when he came walking in.

"Before you ask; He's fine. I wouldn't have left if he wasn't." Asahi looked right at me with a small smile.

"I wasn't gonna ask. I know that, Asahi. I trust you. Daichi is your best friend, you care about him probably as much as I do. If you say he's alright, I'll trust you." I nodded with a small smile.

"Good. So, how was the rest of the outing?" He asked as he tossed my car keys into their usual spot on the corner of my desk.

"Kuroo can't even pretend to be bad at skeeball. He fucking crushed us." Oikawa laughed.

"I came close to beating him." Bokuto bragged.

"You were still about a hundred and fifty points off, my dude." Kuroo teased.

"Just pretend you suck next time." Iwaizumi rolled his eyes a bit as he laughed.

"You guys only played skeeball, didn't you?" Asahi laughed.

"Yep, what else is new though." I replied.

"Fair enough." Asahi finally sat down on his bed.

"So, this is random...but any of y'all got alcohol?" I asked.

"I do..." Kuroo said skeptically.

"I'm just in a mood to get buzzed. Not crazy drunk, maybe three, four shots tops. I know how I get drunk, and I know how I get hungover. It's been a while since we sat and drank together and I wanna do it again, but I want to be able to enjoy it and have fun." I said. Which wasn't a lie. Plus, I definitely was planning on drinking at my wedding a bit and I need to know I'm able to actually control myself once I start drinking. If I can't, then there's no way I'm drinking at my wedding.

"I'll go grab it." Kuroo said. Iwaizumi said he'd be the sober one, just in case it was needed. I'm not sure we'd need it though, but better safe than sorry anyways. When he got back, we each took a few shots and then pulled out our phones to play some among us, because quite honestly this game is a lot more fun when you're drunk. I did only take four shots, like I said I would. And it was honestly one of the best experiences I had, even If I wasn't blackout drunk. I don't need that to have fun, I don't even need alcohol or weed to have fun. I've come to learn that I can have fun with my friends anywhere at any time.

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