The current & the ex

Part 8

Few notifications come from HSJ group chat. Daiki immediately check his phone, smiling from ear to ear seeing Keito's name at the notification.

"Who is it?" Takaki asks.

"Keito," Daiki replies.

"That's odd. He usually sends messages at night."

"Maybe he's up late rehearsing. He got a play coming up soon."

Daiki's expression suddenly turns sour as he scrolls down the content.

"What's wrong?"

Daiki shut his phone. "Nothing," he turns and stares out of the window.

Takaki, not at all satisfied with Daiki's answer, immediately pull the car over.

"Are you nuts?!" Daiki yells. "You can't park here! This is dangerous!"

Takaki ignores Daiki's words. He takes out his own cell phone and opens the group chat. He himself is pretty disturbed with the photos Keito sent.

What is the need to share his intimate picture with Kei? What are you up to Keito?

"Don't tell me you are jealous about them," Takaki put his phone back in his pocket.

"I'm not."

"But your action says otherwise."

Daiki tsk. "Can't you at least be a bit more understanding?!"

"Suddenly I'm not understanding enough for you huh?"

"Stop it Yuya."

"Listening to you whining about Kei leaving you, every single day- yeah... I am not understanding at all."

"I said stop it!"

"I won't!" the change in Takaki's intonation startles Daiki a bit. This is the first time Takaki raises his voice like this.

"We need this. I'm tired of hearing you mentioning his name!" Takaki continues.

"You won me from Kei. Isn't that enough?"

"WON?! What kind of relationship are we having here? You think this is a game?!"

"I wasn't the one flirting around night clubs and sleep with strangers!"

"Oh for God's sake! It's time to stop using that lame excuse!"

"You are this jealous about me and Kei. Imagine how I felt going through all your scandals!"

The tension due to the argument they had has not really settled. They have been avoiding any sort of conversation with each other, even during Itajan recording. It was so awkward that Yabu scolded them for being unprofessional. Takaki waited in the car after the recording session, hoping to bring his boyfriend to a nice restaurant to apologize, only to be informed that Daiki has left the studio an hour earlier.

Honestly, it hurts. No matter how big their argument in the past was, Daiki will not purposely choose another ride like today.

Takaki sighs. It looks like Daiki is not into this relationship as he used to.

Yes, I'm jealous Dai-chan. What should I do to make you look at me again?

As much as he could, Takaki wants to make this relationship works. He knows he needs to suppress his ego. He walks out of his room, approaching Daiki who is sleeping soundly on the sofa with a script on his chest. Most probably the chubby boy dozed off while preparing for his TV appearance tomorrow.