365 Days of Starshipping (Part 2)

Halloween Plans

10/28/19

It was one day during breakfast that they reached a conundrum thanks to Jack. It was for the best, since it was something they should've figured out way earlier, but at least they were doing it now.

"What exactly are you guys doing on Halloween?" Jack asked, cutting at his pancakes with one side of his fork and not looking at them in favor of the food, "I know Crow's taking the day off just because he can, but what about you two?"

"That's... a good question," Yusei replied, sharing a look with Judai and smiling sheepishly - both of them had been so focused on just getting through the tournament and every-day life with getting used to Yusei's new schedule that it'd completely slipped their minds that they needed to find something to do on Halloween.

Last year, Yusei'd had it decided for him pretty easily because the twins were around and needed adult supervision to go out trick-or-treating, but this year they weren't here and had their parents for that (which they were pretty much guaranteed to have for the night because of how badly their parents were trying to make-up years of not being there), so the night was open for them to do something else. They couldn't really go trick-or-treating, not with the costumes they'd chosen since they'd be recognized pretty easily and wouldn't be able to use Judai's little shadow trick if they needed to interact with people, so that wasn't an option.

"We'll, uh, get back to you on that one," Judai ended up answering, laughing when Jack gave them both a dry stare in response.

"You guys seriously don't know? It's in only a couple days," Jack huffed, stuffing his mouth with another bite and chewing before sighing, "Then again, I only know what I'm doing 'cause Carly told me what we're doing and I'm just going along with it."

"And what would that be? We need some ideas here, help us out," Judai asked, not looking anywhere towards Yusei yet somehow knowing that he needed the syrup passed to him and doing so. Yusei gave him a quiet 'thanks' before going back to getting his second helping of food, only half-paying attention to the story as he focused on making sure it was full of as much of that berry syrup that Judai'd made as possible - it was insanely good, especially when paired with pancakes, and it was kind-of at the top of his priorities list right now.

If anything, Yusei and Jack had that in common - they pretty much let the other person in the relationship plan things and decide what to do, then they'd just be there to go along for the ride. It worked well for them since they really just cared about the other person having fun with whatever they were doing, and they could agree on not minding pretty much anything that they decided on. For him, as long as Judai was happy and smiling then that was all he needed to keep going.

"Er, it was some sort of event that she wanted to both go to and be able to write a story on... I think it was one of the big community ones around here. Maybe at the central park?" Jack hesitantly replied, looking a little lost himself before stabbing one of his pancakes and looking away from them in embarrassment, "Okay, maybe I don't know what we're doing, but she definitely does."

Both of them let out a short chuckle at his expense, though Yusei was quick to say after, "Don't worry, that's how I feel with Judai a lot."

"That's 'cause you're always busy, all your brain power gets used up on work and then you start to fizzle out," Judai joked, sending him a teasing smile and giving him a light punch on the shoulder before continuing, "Seriously though, that helps a bit. I'll start looking around at all the larger public events around here and see what I can find, then I'll get back to you on that." He paused for a moment afterwards before saying, "Uh, or... should I tell Carly?"

"How about both of us, and Crow?" Jack snorted, raising his brows at them in exasperation and teasing, "Honestly, you two are both idiots."

"And proud of it!" Judai stated, standing up in his chair with a little grin and a hand on his hip while he cheered before he flopped back down in his chair, "Anyway though, on another note - how's the food? I haven't made syrup before like this, so I'm hoping it's up-to-par with the rest of the stuff I usually make."

At that, both Yusei and Jack shared a look before very dryly staring at Judai, both of them with forks hanging out of their mouths and already half-eaten second servings of pancakes on their plates.

"Ah... right, it's good then. Too bad Crow couldn't stay for breakfast this morning, he's missing out I guess."

"Just make it again and you'll be fine," Jack replied, clearly fishing for him to make it again on another date.

Yusei nodded enthusiastically along in agreement while Judai laughed at their antics, promising to make it again.