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When Mika woke up, Yuu wasn’t sleeping with his tanned arms cuddling his paler ones. He sat up, then looked in the mirror. There was a tiny card sitting on his dresser.
“Happy birthday, Mika. I love you.”
The corners of Mika’s mouth turned up at the words as he began getting dressed. Then he remembered. “Oh yeah, Yuu had to go train with the squad today.” On the outside Mika was smiling at the card, but on the inside he was sad; he was expecting Yuu to be there and to celebrate his birthday with him.
However, his phone was now ringing, and for now he would have to push those thoughts to the back of his brain. The contact name read ‘Ferid Bathory (The Cunt)’.
“Hello?”
“Hello, Mika-chan. What’s your precious princess doing alone with Shinoa?”
“What do you mean?” Mikaela tensed up, then quickly realized he was overreacting.He calmed himself down.
“They’re at the jewelry store downtown. I thought you knew.”
Mika froze.
“Ferid, stop joking with me-“
“I’m not kidding, Mika-chan.”
Mika’s mind immediately jumped to the worst conclusion, and he felt tears well up in his eyes.
“Ferid, please, tell me you’re kidding, please…”
“I’m dead serious. Do you need picture proof?”
His sassy voice was not treating Mika well, and he nearly had the urge to hang up. Then, he realized what he could do.
“Please send me a picture, Ferid.”
“Whatever you say.”
Mika’s voice cracked as a tear fell from his eye. He was going to confront Yuu about the situation, but not without some evidence to back himself. He felt his phone vibrate as Ferid’s picture came through. He was telling the truth.
“I need to go, Ferid. I’ll talk to you later.”
Mika was crying mercilessly as he brought the phone away from his ear and hung up.
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“Shinoa, which one should I get?”
Yuu pointed at each and every ring, trying to decide which one to buy.
“I don’t know, Yuu-san. Which one do you think? This is your proposal, after all.”
“It’s hard to decide which one he’d like the most. He’d appreciate anything, I think.”
Yuu then noticed a small silver ring with five sapphire gems in the middle. His face brightened like the sun after a storm.
“I think this one’s perfect! Don’t you think so, Shinoa?”
“It looks beautiful. I can’t wait to see it on his finger!”
Yuu beckoned for the person behind the counter to assist him as he pointed at the ring he liked. Before long, the ring was in a teensy box, ready to go. Next stop: the beach. They had to get everything ready.
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After laying around all day and wasting valuable time, Mika decided he should be figuring out what to say to Yuu. The anger was all still settling in, so there wasn’t much he could say or do at this point.
As Mika prepared for his unawaited encounter with Yuu and dressed himself, he felt himself grow sadder and sadder. He rehearsed his “lines” over and over again.
“‘Yuu-chan, I need to talk to you-‘ no, that’s too nervewracking. ‘Yuuichirou Hyakuya-‘ no, what am I thinking?! I don’t want to scare the shit out of him!”
Mika plucked through his brain searching for what to say to his boyfriend, but he couldn’t decide. He’d just have to go with the flow. He buttoned his shirt and grabbed for his phone. It rang again, with Ferid’s contact showing up on the screen.
“What do you want now?”
“I need you to come to the beach now, Mika.”
“What? Why-“
“Don’t worry about it! Just show up soon.”
Mika sighed and pressed the red ‘end call’ button. While wiping the excess tears from his eyes, he grabbed his belongings and stepped out the door.
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Beautiful lights decorated the salty shoreline. The sand was soft, and the flowers sprinkled across it were dazzling blue: the same color as Mika’s eyes, as a matter of fact.
The sunset in the background had a brilliant effect on the scene. Its yellow rays reflecting off of the ocean cast a dim light across the beach as all of the important people to Mika and Yuu stood around, waiting patiently.
“Hey, is that him? You need to put the ring away, Yuu, quick! He’s rushing over here!!” Mitsuba whisper shouted as Yuu panicked and nearly dropped the ring he was showing off to the people surrounding him. Kimizuki and Yoichi stood behind Yuu, Shinoa, and Mitsuba, while Ferid, Lacus, and Rene were having a calm and collected chat to the side.
Mika had the image Ferid sent him pulled up on his phone, ready to present to Yuu. He jogged over to the group, nearly slipping in the thick, soft sand.
“Mika-“
“Yuu-chan, I need to talk to you. Now.” Mika glared at him aggressively, not knowing what to say or how to make him listen. He grasped Yuu’s arm and showed him the picture on his phone.
“Can you explain what you were doing at the jewelry store with Shinoa?!”
Yuu furrowed his eyebrows, nervous of how this was about to turn out. “Mika, it’s seriously not what it looks like, dear-“
Mika’s pupils dilated furiously, anger seeping through his veins like wildfire. “Don’t ‘dear’ me, Yuu! You shouldn’t have made me fall so in love with you if you were going to be with her! You don’t love me! You love her!” The blonde shouted to no avail. The group standing behind the couple stifled a giggle, but it went unnoticed. Shinoa’s face flushed red as Mitsuba gripped her hand confidently.
“How could you do this to me on my birthday…” Mika began to cry, placing his hands over his face and weeping silently. He dropped to his knees and sobbed, his heart wrenching painfully. Yuu knelt down and pulled Mika into a tight embrace.
“Mika, I do love you, but…”
‘Oh boy, here it comes,’ Mika thought to himself.
“...seriously, Mika, you really are ridiculous sometimes, not to mention dramatic.”
Mika lifted his head cautiously to see a smiling Yuu, the rest of the group staring intently behind the two (most of which were trying hard not to laugh). Shinoa couldn’t help it. She bursted out into hysterical cackling.
“Mika, silly, you are oblivious! I am a lesbian!” She laughed and laughed, making Mika more and more confused.
“Then why-“
“Let me explain.”
Yuu stood up and pulled Mika with him, hands on his shoulders protectively.
“We’ve been together for three years, now, and I think it’s time to make this decision.” Yuu used his thumb to rub the salty tears from Mika’s eyes, kissing away the one near the center of his cheek.
“What-“
“Shh, Mika, honey,” Yuu rubbed Mika’s shoulder with his thumb in an attempt to comfort him. “I remember back when we were kids and we would read together at Hyakuya Orphanage, completely blind to their experiments. I would look at you and think ‘Wow. I want to spend my life with this guy.’”
It then hit Mika as to why they were in the jewelry store. By this point, he’d completely stopped crying, but his tears unconsciously made their way back to his cheeks again.
“I didn’t know what that meant as an eight-year-old boy, but I did know I liked it. Hah. Anyway, four years later, I was distraught when that bastard over there stabbed you in the chest. I was furious, and I really regret leaving you on the floor of his mansion like I did. Fucking cunt!” Yuu shouted and motioned to Ferid, who was sitting back enjoying the show. “After you ‘died’ supposedly, I would lay in bed and wonder ‘Why does this hurt so bad? I hated him anyway. It shouldn’t matter this much.’” Mika wrapped his arms around Yuu’s neck and his forehead fell onto Yuu’s shoulder.
Yuu leaned into his ear and whispered. “That’s the moment I fell in love with you.”
Mika’s tears soaked through Yuu’s gray t-shirt. Yuu pulled Mika off of him, holding him tightly around the waist.
“Four years after that, we met on the battlefield again, and my passion went wild once more. You carried me away from the fight bridal-style, but I was not having that, not when my teammates needed me. I was really flustered, though!” Yuu giggled, then teared up. “And when you sucked my blood in the abandoned building, I remember thinking to myself “Man, I think I might have a chance with Mika. He’s relying on me; this could actually work out in some twisted way or another.”
Yuu brushed Mika’s hair behind his ear and kissed his forehead, completely ignoring the rest of the crew behind him.
“Then, the day we got together. I was laying in bed when you suddenly bust through my door and yelled frantically, “YuuuuUU-CHAN I HAVE TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!”, with Shinoa on your tail. I’m assuming she was about to spill it to me, but you got there just in time. How precious.”
Mika averted his eyes and felt his cheeks heat up.
“We did some pretty taboo things that night, as you laid on your bed with my dick up your-“
Kimizuki quickly interrupted. “That’s enough!”
Yuu chuckled to himself, then became serious again and looked Mika dead in the eyes.
“Anyway, my point. I can’t imagine my life without you, Mika. You’re amazing and I hope you feel the same. So, my question is…” Yuu’s voice cracked as he reached into his back pocket and revealed the miniature navy box. He fell, nearly frantically, to one knee, opening the box and exposing the alluring sapphire ring.
“Will you marry me, dear?”
The tears, now streaming, dripped from both of their faces (as well as Ferid’s, but we don’t talk about that). Mika trembled, then quickly nodded his head. “Y-Yes! I will! Yes…” Mika practically leaped into Yuu’s arms, which were swiftly around his waist in no time. Their lips met in a welcome embrace as the surrounding others applauded them.
Yuu was the first to pull away, the tips of their noses still touching.
“Happy birthday, Mika.”