Countdown ~TsukiHina~

~307~

~Hinata~

I won't lie, I'm scared. I don't think I've ever been more scared in my life. You wanna know why? My dad's coming back tonight so I've decided this is the perfect, and only, opportunity to come out to my family. Now, my family aren't homophobic, they're very accepting people in general. Even Natsu's very accepting of me liking guys, she's the only person I've explained it to, but I think she's too young to understand the concept of gay and straight; to her love is love and I really like that mindset. Even so, I can't help being scared. What if something goes wrong? What if they've only been pretending to be accepting and they suddenly turn on me and kick me out? Oh god... maybe I should just put this off for another few months. Oh, but I can't put it off again! I want to introduce Tsukki to my family soon and introducing him as a friend would break my heart into pieces so I need to tell them now!

"Shoyo! Natsu! Tea's ready!" Mum calls from downstairs. Here we go, the moment of truth begins.

I go downstairs and slink into the kitchen, smiling at my dad who's seated across the table from where I usually sit. "Shoyo, how is my favourite son?" He looks the same as he did a year; the only difference is that he's wearing different clothes but that's expected. If he was wearing the exact same clothes I'd be pretty freaked out, not going to lie.

I smile and sit down in my usual seat. "I'm doing good dad. Good to see you again, by the way." Should I keep asking questions to put off coming out for another few minutes? Yes, yes I should. "How's the company doing? You were out there for a long time, it must've been serious."

"Yeah, I guess it was pretty damn serious." He chuckles sheepishly and rubs the back of his neck; I guess that's where I get it from. "But not serious as in I'm going to loose my job. They're considering closing the Canada branch because of financial troubles within and the scandal that happened within the branch last month."

"Well, it all sounds like business talk to me so let's save it for later, hm love?" Mum walks in and puts the plates down before sitting down in her seat. "Besides, we don't want to hear about the company, I want to hear about my husband and I'm pretty sure the kids want to hear about their dad." She kisses his cheek.

Natsu's face lights up. "Yeah! I wanna hear about daddy's time in America! Is it really like the kids from school say it is? Like all sunny and that big orange man runs it and-"

"Natsu!" Mum cuts her off. "Please stop bombarding your dad with questions, I'm sure he'll have plenty of time to answer them later." Why is she shutting her down like that? She's normally grateful for Natsu's repeated questioning, in her own words it drives the conversation so she doesn't have to come up with it. She looks at me. Oh god why is she looking at me? Does she know? "Shoyo, you've been surprisingly quiet tonight. Is there something bothering you?"

Well, she already knows something's wrong so I might as well just say it. "Yeah, there is something bothering me..but it's not easy to say.." My voice trails off to a whisper as I finish my sentence. What if this goes wrong? No, don't think like that Sho, it'll be ok. Your parents are very accepting people, you'll be fine. I take a deep breath. "You see, I'm about as straight as a rainbow, to put it bluntly. I have a boyfriend and his name is Kei, you know the tall one with the glasses on the team? So yeah.." That was the most pathetic coming out speech in the history of coming out speeches.

"Oh Sho.." Mum gets up and immediately pulls me into a hug from the side, nearly pulling me off my chair. "I can't believe I called it.."

"Huh?! You called it?!"

She chuckles. "Well you're not exactly great at hiding things, another thing that must run in the family, and if I'm being honest I started to suspect you weren't exactly straight back when you were in middle school." Wait she's known for that long? Are you kidding me? "Though I didn't think it'd be the blonde one... if anything I thought it would be that friend of yours, what's his name? Kageyama?"

"Mum! Ew! Believe it or not I do have standards!" If Kageyama heard that he would definitely punch me but hey, it it even a friendship if they don't threaten to hit you on a regular basis? I think not. I look at dad, who hasn't even spoken yet and is just staring at me. "Dad..."

Wait, now he's smiling. "Well done Shoyo, you're very brave." He's beckoning me over now, is he going to hit me? Wait no, that's stupid to even think about, dad would never hit me, he's not like that, why would I even think that? I break the hug with mum and walk over. He gets up and pulls me into a hug. "I'm very proud of you and I hope you and your boyfriend have a happy life."

I tentatively hug him back "...You're not mad?"

"Why would I be mad?" He chuckles and pats my shoulder, breaking the hug. "You're my son, Shoyo, I'll always love you and the same goes for your mother and sister." I smile and sit back down. "Now, how about we put this to rest and eat." We start eating. I'm surprised that went so well but, oh boy, I'm glad it did.