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Shun was… something to say the least. He had chunibyo for sure with all the dark reunion stuff. To Aren it just drew him closer, he had never been this happy, except when taking out a rival gang maybe. In his few months of transferring he had picked up on a few things, especially after meeting his mom. The louder and more persistent he was about Dark Reunion, the harsher his mom had been the night before.
It took alot of observing, but his theory was proven when he had accidentally fallen asleep when over at shuns. He woke up to screaming. Panicked, he nearly rushed out of the room to see what was wrong but made himself sit back down, this wasn't his family, he had no right to get involved. His mothers words sounded like gibberish when screamed but it wasn't the words that were important, it was the fact she was screaming at all.
The next day shun couldn't shut up about Dark Reunion. And it looked as though he had more bandages on than usual. It pained Aren to know what shun had to go through everyday. His gangster instincts wanted to sock his mom in the face.
Soon enough he found a way to protect shun, not entirely but it helped ease his guilt. He invited shun to study at his house and that excuse went over easily with shun's mom. They studied, he made sure of that but he also found ways to make it fun and relaxing. Like playing music or a movie in the background.
He tried his best to have Shun over as much as possible, even convinced his mom to let him sleep over on occasion. Today was one of those occasions, Shun had just hung up the phone with his mom and was now smiling over at Aren.
“She said yes?” he asked and Shun nodded his head vigorously.
“Let's get back to studying.”
Aren shook his head and closed his notebook, “no way im beat lets do something else.”
“Like what?”
“We could watch a movie,” he suggested and Shun agreed.
He left Shun to decide on the movie while he went to get snacks and drinks. Arms full he stepped back into the room and Shun looked embarrassed. By now the sight was semi-normal but he had nothing to be embarrassed about, Aren thought. But when he looked at the screen he understood. Doukyusei was what he had chosen.
The movie was sad. He cried a little harder than he should have considering the happy ending. He could see a bit of them in the couple which was a strange but not unwelcome realization.
They both fell asleep after that and they didn't mention it.
A week later was another sleepover, and Aren convinced Shun they didn't need to study which took well over an hour and ended with Shun on the verge of a panic attack.
“Shh it's okay Shun it's okay,” he whispered, rubbing the other man's back in what he hoped was comforting.
“It's not!” he yelled, tears running down his cheeks. “If my mom finds out I'm dead! My grades will slip and I won't be allowed to come over anymore! I can't let that happen, Aren!” he was wracked with sobs and shuddering breaths, hardly able to speak.
“One missed studying session wont bring your grades down i promise Shun,” he clutched the smaller boy closer and whispered reassuring words.
They fell asleep early that night.