Love is not Extinct

Chapter 05: The Sawamura Family

Haruhisa sat on the couch in the Sawamura's living room playing a game on his father's phone. They had turned a cartoon movie on the T.V. and Daichi was on the floor playing with little six-month-old Tenshi who was giggling with delight as her father dangled a toy over her with a grin on his face.

"I got you a pillow and blanket." Yui said with a smiled as she put said items down on the couch next to him. "Those boys like to stay out really late so it will be way part your bedtime by the time your father will get home."

"Okay." Haruhisa replied without looking up and then thought better of it, remembering he promised his father her was going to be good and treat the Sawamura's with respect. Looking up at Yui he smiled. "Thank you, Auntie."

Her eyes sparkled when she smiled as she reached over ruffling his hair. "Why don't you go brush your teeth and get ready for bed while we put Tenshi to bed and then you can pick a movie to watch okay?"

"Okay!" Haruhisa nodded quickly scrambling off the couch and heading to the bathroom excited that he was going to be allowed to stay up later than normal.

After changing into his pajamas and brushing his teeth Haruhisa walked out of the bathroom going to head back to the living room to pick what movie he wanted to watch but stopped when he overheard Daichi say his fathers name while speaking quietly from Tenshi's nursery.

"Tsukishima has been that way as long as I've known him. And he doesn't like people getting in his business. Don't meddle Yui okay?"

"I know. I know." She assured her husband. "I just worry about him. I can't imagine what it must be like being a single parent. I couldn't handle having to take care of Tenshi without you."

Haruhisa frowned. He had never known what it was like having two parents. When he was little his mom had raised him on her own. Then when his mom died, he went to live with his dad. For the past two years since he had been living with his had he had never seen his dad with anyone other than friends. He never had a girlfriend. Was his dad alone because he had to work too hard to take care of him?

"The right person will come along eventually." Daichi assured his wife.

"I just hope Tsukishima will be ready to let them in when they do."

Haruhisa rushed down the hall and back into the front room as he heard the couple start to make their way out of their daughters' room. Kneeling in front of the T.V. Haruhisa picked the first movie that looked interesting and pulled it out.

"Did you find something you wanted to watch?" Daichi asked with a smile.

"Yes." Haruhisa said with a nod holding out the D.V.D. case with a group of cartoon dinosaurs on the cover. Daichi chuckled not surprised by the boys choice in movie as he took the D.V.D. from his and went to put it in while Haruhisa went over climbing onto the couch and setting up his pillow and blanket to get comfortable.

Once the movie started and Daichi made sure that Haruhisa was all settled the man left the room to join his wide in the kitchen. Haruhisa ley on his side pulling his dad's phone down next to him when he noticed there was an unread text message that hadn't been their earlier. Curious he opened it up and slowly read the text.

[20:47] Unknown Number: Hey! How are you?

He wondered who this was. His dad had texted him before but didn't save the number. After thinking for a moment, he deiced to text back curious about this unknown person.