Stay With Me (Onodera x Takano)

Chapter 7

My best friend and I went shopping for Halloween costumes today and she forced me to get a matching peanut butter and jelly costume with her... After two whole hours of convincing me, It worked... So I thought "what if Ritsu and Masamune wore matching Halloween costumes?" And that's when I realized I haven't updated in a while. So here you go!!!

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Masamune got out of the car but noticed I wasn't moving. "Hey... Is something wrong?" He asked. "N-no! Of course not!" I said with a smile. "Just got a little lost in thought, that's all." He gave me a suspicious look but just shrugged it off and said to himself, "Why did I fall in love with an idiot?" I knew he was just teasing but I still yelled at him. "Hey! What was that for?!" and I started to get out of the car.

The truth of the matter is, I actually really was kind of scared. I was thinking, "What if they bring up what I said yesterday about wanting to change my career?" But I ignored it because they probably forgot about that since I didn't say much about it and I changed the subject about it pretty quickly. I just didn't want Masamune to worry and think that I would leave him again.

"I would never do that."

I blushed at my last thought.

"Never do what?"

And that was when I realized that I said that out loud. "W-what?"

"You said you would never do that... Wait, were you thinking out loud again? How do you manage to do that?"

But before I could say anything else, my mom came walking to us at a fast rate. "Ritsu!" Well at least Masamune wouldn't try to get me to say what I was thinking. Well, for then at least.

She grabbed me and gave me a huge hug. "Mom! I saw you just last week. You don't need to do this." She backed slightly away. "Aww you're just embarrassed because your lover is standing here and you don't want him to get jealous." She said, while pinching my cheeks. "Th-that's not true!"

Then I heard Masmaune laugh. "Don't worry." He said. "I won't get jealous since you're his mother. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Onodera." He said with a bow. "Oh! He's so polite too! You've picked a nice one, Ritsu." My mom said. "Please, come in and have some tea." She said as she guided him to the front door. "Oh my god." I thought. "Just how will this turn out?"

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It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. We all sat in the living room, Masamune and I side-by-side on the couch and my parents on the chairs across from us on the other side of the long coffee table and we all had some tea. My parents didn't mention anything about my wanting to change careers besides asking Masamune how I was doing at work and talking about how stressful it was being a manga editor. Masmaune also told them about how we met in high school and all of that mess.

Even my dad seemed to like him. "Well," he said. "I sure hope you can cook much better than Ritsu. Hey, remember that time-"

"Don't say it!" I cut him off. "Awww come on, tell me what happened." pleaded Masamune. "Well..." My dad started. "You see, he wanted to cook for us on our anniversary one night when he was about... Eighteen. And while we were waiting for him to finish, we were sitting in the living room and all of a sudden, we heard a loud crash and smelled smoke." He laughed and so did Masamune. "Oh no... What did he do now?"

"Well let's just say it ended up with a fire extinguisher being used and half of our dishes having to be replaced." They all started laughing. I blushed from embarrassment but also because of Masamune. He was so... Sexy when he laughed. He seemed to notice so he pulled me to his side and said, "Oh come on, we're just joking around." He kissed my forehead. "Besides... It'll never happen again because I'll kill you if you try to even touch anything in the kitchen besides silverware and dishes."

Afterwards, we all said our goodbyes. Just before we left, my father said, "Well, Takano... We approve of you. "But don't you dare ever hurt him on purpose or I'll hurt you, tenfold."

He smiled. Don't worry, I don't plan on anything of the sort. Have a nice evening, Mr. Onodera, Mrs. Onodera." He said with a bow. "Oh, no need to act so formal!" My mom said. "I guess you could say we're somewhat family."

After that, we departed to the car. "You sure do have an affect on people." I mumbled. "Yes but it seems to have no affect on you." He replied. "That's because I know the jerk side of you."

"Yes, well..." He planted a light kiss on my lips. "I'm only myself around the people I love the most."