Violet Eyes

Chapter 64

"Oh, fuck this," Hitoshi said as soon as he saw the occupants of the room.

In my defense, I had no idea this was going to happen. Mitsuki must have called our moms while we were talking upstairs.

I latched onto his hand as he stepped back from the living room. I didn't know if he planned to book it for the door or Katsuki's window, but either way, I wasn't planning on letting him get far. While I didn't agree with our parent's methods, I did share their sentiment. All four of us were crumbling and it was starting to scare me. I could recognize that something needed to change, I just wasn't qualified to decide what. 

Well, I mean, I could quit coke for starters, but beyond that I was clueless.  

"C'mon, Toshi," I mumbled, giving his hand a gentle pull toward the living room. "What's the harm of hearing them out?" 

"I'm not sitting through another fucking intervention," he fumed, quickly pulling his hand from mine. 

I winced, remembering the only other time our mothers had worked together to try and help us. When the singular AA meeting did nothing but cause us to become stoners, they did an intervention. Like a full-on, could have been filmed for a TV show (with a therapist and everything), intervention. It... hadn't exactly gone well. Hitoshi and I may or may not have been high and laughing the whole time. 

"AA and an intervention? And you've never even considered therapy?" my sweet airheaded Eijirou spoke, probably without meaning to. Oh god, I was rubbing off on him. 

"Ei," I hissed in his direction, because even if he was right and even if it was funny, it was still not the time. 

"All of you sit your asses down," Mitsuki instructed, pointing at the couch in front of her. 

Oh god, it really is an intervention. 

"No," Hitoshi said again, taking another step back. 

Himari placed a careful hand on Mitsuki's arm in an attempt to calm her down. "Being aggressive and confrontational isn't going to help anything," she said in a soft voice. 

Thank god, there's at least one adult that kind of knows what they're doing.  

"Well, we have to do something," Mitsuki snapped with her lips pulled back in a snarl. Honestly, it's the most Katsuki I'd ever seen her act. It was unsettling, to say the least. "Doing nothing clearly isn't working for you two and now my kids are getting dragged into it." 

Oh. 

Oh, okay. 

That hurt a little bit. 

Damn. 

I just kind of... zoned out after that. Of course, dragging the boys into my own problems was a thought that occurred to me before. Actually, I thought about it frequently, but no one else had ever mentioned it. Every time I brought it up, it got shot down as nonsense. 

Mitsuki pointing it out though... well, that was just definitive proof. I was fucking up their lives to the point that someone else noticed. 

What am I supposed to do with that? 

I shook my head to clear my thoughts and take stock of the situation again. I instantly regretted it as I realized everyone had dissolved into shouting. 

Wow, maybe I shouldn't have talked to Mitsuki. 

It was like I wasn't even in the room anymore. Hitoshi was yelling at everyone while Mitsuki screeched at him. Katsuki was shouting at both of his parents while Eijirou watched, looking torn over whose side to take. Himari was still trying to diffuse the situation, but even her voice was rising. My mom just looked close to tears on the couch.