Ultraviolet

Chapter 14

A/N:
Thank you Toru and Julen for that masterpiece ;)
Credits for the photo attached to this chapter belong to Julen, and I grabbed it from Toru's instagram.
(And yes I did fuck up my timeline compeltely to accommodate that being their anniversary...)

The next day they got up early to travel to Boston. Taka expected the rest of the bandmates to tease him about sexting his girlfriend, but they didn't. He also noticed he left a hickey on Toru, but they didn't mention that either. Taka eyed them suspiciously all day, waiting for the jokes to start but they never did.

After the concert, Toru posted his favourite pictures of the night to his instagram. As he went through all the photos taken that night, he realised him and Taka may have gotten a bit too close on stage, but shrugged it off and figured they did that all the time before they actually dated.

After the show, Ryota and Tomoya said they were going to go back to the hotel, which raised Toru's suspicions. They hadn't teased Taka about his anniversary, which seemed weird for them.

Toru got settled in his room and was about to go see Taka for their proper anniversary night, when he heard a knock on the door.
“Why the hell do you two have so much beer and food?” Toru asked as he saw the case of beer and junk food Ryota and Tomo were carrying.
“There's a rumour going around Japan about Mai and some guy” Tomoya explained.
“She denied it, but, the pictures were, y'know, date-like” Ryota added as he thrust the beer case to Toru.
“And…?” Toru asked, confused.
“And it's her anniversary with Taka today, is it not? She's cheating while he's in America. We're gonna go cheer him up” Ryota explained.
Toru just nodded as he sent a message to Taka to warn him and then followed them to his room.

“Ah, so this is your plan. Get me drunk and I'll confess to you about my relationship. You're gonna need something a lot stronger than beer for that” Taka laughed as he let them in his room.
“We already know you're dating Mai” Tomo said as he walked into the room.
“Oh right. Forgot about that” Taka said, continuing his lie.
“Anyway. We need to talk to you about that. You probably want to sit down for this” Ryota said as he watched Taka sit at the desk. Ryota handed him his phone.
“What am I looking at?” Taka asked, looking at the phone.
“Mai was on a date with some guy” Tomo said, looking at Taka for reaction.
Taka just looked at them and laughed.
“I didn't even recognise her. Last time I saw her was when she left my apartment crying a year ago” Taka said, suddenly feeling bad he never cleared the air between them.
“Wait, what?” Ryota asked, suddenly confused.
“I was a jerk. I don't really wanna talk about what went wrong” Taka admitted.
“But isn't she your mystery girlfriend?” Ryota asked.
“No. I just never corrected you” Taka said as he laughed.
“Then who are you dating?” Tomoya asked, confused about why Taka would lie.
“I already told you, you're gonna need something a lot stronger than beer to get me to confess” Taka laughed as he grabbed a bag of chips.
“Where are you going?” Ryota asked Toru as he left the room.
“Forgot something, I'll be right back” Toru said.
Toru came back a few minutes later and knocked on the door.
Ryota got up to go answer it, “good idea” he said as he saw the bottle of teqila in Toru's hand.
Toru put the tequila in front of Taka, as Taka looked up and saw Tomo getting shot glasses for them all. Taka just stared at Toru, wondering if this was some kind of way of approving him spilling the beans.
Tomo put 4 glasses in front of them as Toru poured them all shots. They made strange faces as they slammed the glasses on the table.
“So Taka, who is it?” Tomo said as soon as he finished.
“Alcohol takes a while to kick in you idiot. Give me an hour and 10 more shots, then I'll start spilling my secrets” Taka responded as he poured himself another shot.
“Oh yea, Toru, how was last night?” Ryota laughed as he pointed to his neck.
“Oh right, I was waiting for someone to tease me about that” Toru said as he covered his hickey with his hand.
“Random hookup?” Tomo asked.
“Uhhh no, someone I'm dating” Toru admitted.
“You're dating someone and never told us?” Ryota said quickly.
“How long for?” Tomo asked as he looked at Toru.
“A while I guess” Toru responded.
“Are you guys in love? When are you gonna get married?” Tomoya asked.
“No one's actually mentioned the L-word yet” Toru responded. Which was true, he was never sure when a good time to tell Taka would be.
Taka looked over at him and took another shot, wondering if Toru was in love with him.

The night went on, they mostly joked about random things. After a couple of hours, Taka poured himself another shot. He couldn't actually remember how many shots he had, but he definitely felt the alcohol. He stared at the shot, wondering if he was ready to spill his guts. He couldn't decide if he should do a shot before or after telling them.
“Drink that shot Taka or I'll drink it for you” Ryota joked before Taka decided to just take the shot.
“The reason…” Taka started, making sure he had the attention of everyone before he confessed. He didn't want to have to admit this twice. “The reason I never told you about my girlfriend, is because I don't have a girlfriend”
“What?” Tomoya asked, confused.
“I don't have a girlfriend. I have a boyfriend” Taka said as he felt himself start to cry.
“Is that why you were so afraid to tell us?” Ryota asked as Taka nodded and cried.
“We're your friends, Taka. We love you regardless of who you love” Tomo said.
Taka got up and stumbled over to the bed, “I love him so much and can't tell anybody” he cried, as he noticed just how incredibly drunk he was.
“It's ok…” Toru said as he rubbed his hand on Taka's shoulder and Taka continued crying.
They all sat in silence for a few minutes as Toru continued rubbing Taka's shoulder as he sobbed.
“I hope Taka's boyfriend isn't the jealous, because he would definitely be jealous of this” Tomo said as he felt Ryota elbow him. Toru just looked up and glared at him, wondering if Ryota had figured it out.
“We're gonna leave” Ryota said as he dragged Tomo out of the room.
Taka heard them leave and heard Toru turn off the lights, but was too exhausted from crying and drunk to do anything. Toru pulled the blankets over both of them, put Taka in the drunk position and fell asleep.

The next morning they were woken up obscenely early by an alarm. Taka groaned as he held his head in his hands.
“Are you feeling ok?” Toru asked as he looked at Taka.
“I think I got hit in the head by a pile of bricks” Taka responded as he got out of bed. “What even happened last night?”
“Well. You told the other members you have a boyfriend” Toru informed Taka.
“So they know about us?” Taka asked as he went to find aspirin.
“No. You told them you have a boyfriend but didn't say who it was” Toru responded.
“Did we drink all that last night?” Taka asked as he looked at the half empty bottle of tequila.
“You drank all that, yes” Toru laughed.
“No wonder I feel drunk still” Taka said.
“You drank all that in a couple hours, then only slept for 3. You're definitely legally drunk” Toru laughed. “you should probably eat a big breakfast before we get on a bus for 5 hours”
Taka groaned as Toru dragged him out of the room.

Toru dragged Taka to the breakfast area and forced him to eat pancakes and stashed a few muffins for later.
“Oh, hey, didn't think we'd see Taka alive this morning” Ryota said as they sat down at the table.
“I think I'm still drunk” Taka groaned as he drank his coffee.
“i'm not surprised” Tomo laughed as he began eating his pile of bacon.

A/N:
Taka drank half a bottle of tequila in the span of a few hours and then slept for 3. You may be wondering how he's still alive. I ask myself the same thing everytime I realise I accidentally drank half a bottle of tequila in one night.