Monstrous Love [Shizaya (Sequel to Psychopathic Love)]

Chapter 12: Family

"Papa's ignoring me." I look down to see Zenko pouting. He calls Izaya 'Papa' and me 'Daddy.' He told me it's because he feels more comfortable with me.

"Again?" I ask.

He nods and I sigh. I walk into the other room. "Izaya," I say loudly.

"Hm?" He mutters half-heartedly, not giving me any of his attention.

"Why are you ignoring Zenko?"

"I'm not," he replies with the same tone.

I go closer to him and look over his shoulder. He's moving his hands over the embossed paper. He decided to learn braille and surprising learned it fairly quickly. It's only been a year since we got married, but he already knows how to read flawlessly for the most part.

"What are you doing, anyway?"

"Shizu-chan," he puts the paper aside and turns his face to me. "I think if we ever get another child we should get a girl and name her Mystique."

"What the hell?"

"You know, because Mystique sounds like 'mistake.'" He says nonchalantly.

"Is that hinting at something?" Tears start to fill our son's eyes.

I flick Izaya in the forehead without restraint and hug Zenko. "No. He's just being stupid."

"That hurt, Shizu-chan," Izaya complains. Then he gets up and feels his way over to us and joins the hug awkwardly. "It wasn't anything. It would just be fun. Think about it. The reactions of both the child and the others around it. With all the teasing at a young age, how exactly would a five year old handle the pressure? Wouldn't that be exciting to find out?"

I push him over. "Stop it with your sick games and don't get Zenko involved."

"Papa, can I play games with you?" He asks hopefully.

"No," I tell him. "Papa is not a good person and you should not be like him."

"Don't listen to Daddy," Izaya tells him. "I'm a great person. Plus, Daddy is the type of person who rapes others when they're unconscious."

"IZAYA!"

"What's rape?" Zenko asks, tilting his head to the side.

"Well, rape is-" I tackle Izaya before he can continue. "He's five! Don't tell him weird things." I turn to Zenko. "Rape is just a word for replacing tape with toilet paper."

Izaya laughs against my hand and mumbles something. "What?" I move my hand but keep it close by incase he does something stupid.

"You know, he'll go around school using that word now," he whispers. "He won't even know why he gets in trouble." Shit. I hadn't thought about that. "Now let me go so I can fix things and show you up again." He really likes showing me up. Thanks to his stupid hobby, he knows all about human reactions.

I get off of him and he scoots over to Zenko. "Daddy doesn't know what he's talking about." I'm already not liking this. "Rape is actually a term used to describe forcefully making another person to do something. However, you shouldn't use the word 'rape' outside of this house because it was used when slaves were popular and when you have a slave, that's not good."

He nods and smiles. "Okay, I won't use it." Then he looks at me. "Why do you always confuse your terms, Daddy?"

I glare at Izaya even though he can't see it then smile at Zenko. "Papa just knows more things than me."

He runs over and hugs me. "Well even though Papa's smarter, you're nicer." I know Izaya doesn't like this, so I nudge him with my foot to hint that I'm giving him a smug look. He glares at me and shakes his head.