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Iwaizumi woke up with the worst hangover he had ever had. The ringing coming from somewhere in his apartment didn't help either. He groaned and rolled on his bed, finding Oikawa was laying next to him. That's right, they had just finished (and passed) all their exams, they both had the weekend off as well and decided to celebrate by getting wasted.
"What is that?" Oikawa groaned.
"My phone,"
"Go answer it,"
"I don't wanna," Iwaizumi said, grabbing his pillow and putting it over his head. The ringing stopped and they both sighed with relief, but it started to ring again.
Iwaizumi groaned and threw the sheets off himself, he grabbed some sweatpants and put them on as he made his way to find his phone. It wasn't too hard to find, he just followed the sound of the default ringtone to the kitchen counter. It was his mother.
"Hey mom," he said groggily.
His mom shrieked into the phone and he had to pull it away, not able to handle it so close to his ear, his head pounding.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Tell you what?" Iwaizumi asked.
"About you and Tooru!"
"What do you mean?" was she talking about them passing their classes? "I guess I should have told you, but I guess we were too happy to really bother telling anyone,"
"Aww Hajime that's so sweet, I do wish I had known though, honestly I had seen it coming ever since you two were kids,"
Oikawa walked into the kitchen then, his face asking who it was, Iwaizumi mouthing to him that it as his mom on the other line, Oikawa nodded and poured himself a glass of water.
"I am so happy for you boys," Iwaizumi's mom continued.
"Yeah, thanks mom,"
"Tell Tooru I say congratulations!"
Iwaizumi turned to Oikawa, "my mom says congrats,"
"Tell her I say thanks," he said, finding the bottle of aspirin and taking a couple for himself, then leaving another pair on the counter for Iwaizumi.
"Tooru is with you right now?"
"Well yeah, I didn't think he should go home, we drank a lot,"
"Well you two were celebrating," he heard his mom giggle, "I can tell you're still tired, and you two probably want to continue celebrating so I'll call soon for details!"
"Details?"
"I'll call tomorrow!" his mom said and hung up.
"What was all that about?" Oikawa asked.
"I don’t know, I guess she's just happy we passed all out classes,"
Oikawa shrugged and gave Iwaizumi the pills and a glass of water, he downed them as he looked at his phone, he had a lot of messages and a lot of notifications from his social media.
He opened up a text from Hanamaki, it was a screenshot of Oikawa's Instagram. I was a picture of his hand with a ring pop on his ring finger with the caption 'Iwa-chan finally proposed! We're picking out rings next month' and then followed by a dozen emojis. It had over a hundred likes and fifteen comments.
"What the fuck," Iwaizumi opened up his instagram and went to Oikawa's page, the picture now had more than four hundred likes and a hundred comments all saying congratulations, and ranging from "I always knew you two would get together," and "it's about time."
"What is it?" Oikawa asked, he had taken things from the fridge and was at the stove heating up a pan for breakfast, "are you cool with bacon pancakes?"
"What the fuck is this?" Iwaizumi yelled, all traces of a hangover gone, "people think we're getting married!"
"What?" Oikawa turned to face him, and grabbed Iwaizumi phone, "what the fuck," he muttered, "how drunk were we last night?"
"Oh my god, my mom called to congratulate us and I said thanks, she thinks we're engaged. She's going to call me tomorrow to ask for details?!"
"Iwa-chan, calm down, just call her back and tell her we're not, I'll post that it was a joke," Oikawa grabbed his phone that was also on the counter, "we might have also posted it on facebook, and twitter, and put it in our group chat with Makki and Mattsun, oh and posted a snap too," he opened up snapchat and the two stood next to each other to watch his story.
It started off with regular pictures Oikawa would usually post. Saying they were having a night in watching a movie and ordering pizza. The next picture was of their empty plates and a couple beers. Then there was a line of shots. Then it was the picture of the ringpop on his hand saying pretty much the same thing as the instagram post. Then it was a video of them on the couch, "We're getting married!" Iwaizumi yelled, "We're in love!" Oikawa said, then he leaned over and kissed his cheek and the video ended. The last picture was one of Iwaizumi, asleep on his bed, the sheets covering his lower half and his shirt off, Oikawa had captioned it with a soul and flame emojis, it looks suggestive, especially if people didn't know he tended to just sleep in his boxers anyway.
"Can't people tell we were obviously drunk?" Iwaizumi asked.
"Well we didn't seem that drunk in the video, we looked the appropriate amount of drunk," Oikawa said, "at least I would assume, I've never gotten drunk after getting engaged before,"
"I don't think you see the problem here," Iwaizumi said.
"It's not a problem, Iwa-chan," Oikawa assured him, going back to the stove, "we just won't say anything else and people will forget it, I doubt most of those people actually believe it anyway,"
Iwaizumi nodded, that was true, to think of him and Oikawa getting married when they hadn't even been dating was absurd. He was sure people who hung out with them knew it was a joke. He'd call his mom later when he'd gotten some food in his body, he would explain to her that it was a joke and everything would go back to normal, "yeah you're right,"
"Of course I am Iwa-chan,"
They finished breakfast, not really mentioning it anymore, besides, it would blow over, it was no big deal. When they finished eating, Oikawa's phone rang, he picked up and then left the living room where Iwaizumi was cleaning up the remnants of their night.
Oikawa wasn't gone for very long, but Iwaizumi managed to clean up most of their mess, he had thrown all the garbage away and wiped down the table by the time Oikawa came back.
He sat on the couch and didn't say anything.
"Helloooo," Iwaizumi said, "the floor is a mess, I'd appreciate it if you'd sweep or something,"
"Umm," Oikawa took a deep breath, "I need to tell you something,"
"What?" Iwaizumi said.
"My mom thinks we're engaged,"
"What?!"
"Well she called to congratulated us-," Oikawa was looking around the room, avoiding eye contact with Iwaizumi.
"I thought we were going to tell them we weren't really?"
"Well I was, but then she started saying how you were perfect for me and stuff and that she was afraid I was never going to settle down because I'm always focused on other things and that she was just happy that I found someone and that she was even more happy that it was you, and then she started crying and I couldn't tell her Hajime," his voice trailing off at the end.
Iwaizumi sighed and sat down next to him. He knew what it was like, his mom had sounded so happy for him over the phone, her enthusiasm making more sense now that he knew the real cause for it. Had he known, he doesn't think he would have been able to tell her either.
He sighed, "we can pretend for a little bit," he said.
"What?" Oikawa said, "really?"
"Yeah, we just won't post anything about it, but if our moms ask or anyone close to them, we'll just nod and play along. It's not like we see them all that often,"
"And then we could just say we broke it off because we think we were moving too fast,"
"Yeah," Iwaizumi said, "it shouldn’t be too bad, right?'
Oikawa threw his arms around Iwaizumi, "thank you Iwa-chan, I don't know if I'd be able to tell her right now when she was so happy, so thank you so much,"
"Hey, it's for my mom too, you know?"
"I know, I know," Oikawa said.
They decided to ignore their phones for the rest of the day and just continued where they left off last night, minus the drinking. They silently agreed they didn't need to do something stupid again, Iwaizumi didn't want to wake up tomorrow to find they had p that they eloped or something.
They decided that four months would be enough time for their mom's excitement to wear down and then they would have lunch with the two of them and tell them that they decided to break up, but would still remain friends. That gave them four months to think about how they would tell their moms in the nicest way.
Fortunately, not much changed for the first two months. They were busy with work, Oikawa had two jobs, Iwaizumi had a job and an internship that took up most of their time. They hung out with Hanamaki and Matsukawa a few times, they were the only ones they really felt the need to tell that it was just a drunken joke. They still made fun on them though, but that was expected from the pair.
It seemed to die down on social media as well, with their busy schedules they didn’t have much time to post anything anyway.
Every now and then one of their moms would call to check up on them, they would play along and say everything was going fine and then quickly try to change the subject when the moms tried to ask for a date, "we don't know yet, since we've been so busy lately," and then start talking about something that happened at work, hanging up and saying they had something to do before they tried to talk about the wedding again.
But the hardest part was when Iwaizumi's mom called a month after that night and asked him if they had gone ring shopping yet, "no, not yet, we've just been so busy," he said, "I had to work a ten hour shift last night, and-,"
"Hajime!" his mother cut him off, "this is important, you need to start looking at rings for Tooru, that way you know it's official, and wedding plans can start moving,"
Iwaizumi sighed, "I know mom, and I want to but we've talked about it and we decided that we should probably save up money. Wedding stuff can be expensive and we're still in school," he said, biting his lip hoping that would convince his mom.
She didn't say anything for a while and he was afraid he had pissed her off or something, "mom?''
"Hajime, dear. I know these things can be expensive, but it's worth it, I promise. I just want you to be happy, and if you feel like you need to save up money before you go and buy rings, then I understand. But if you want to speed things along, your father and I are willing to lend you some money,"
Iwaizumi tried to keep his groan to himself, "thanks mom," he said, "I really gotta go. Oikawa's car broke down the other day and I need to go pick him up,"
"Okay sweetie, I'll call you soon. Love you,"
"Love you too, mom,"
This is ridiculous, he thought, he closed his eyes for a second before he got up and grabbed his keys because he really did need to go pick up Oikawa.
Three months in, they already knew how they would break it to their mothers. They were going to tell them they had little arguments about the wedding, and then things escalated and they realized if they couldn't decide on these things, then maybe they shouldn’t be getting married. They had different views for what they wanted to do with their lives after their next and final semester. Oikawa wanted to go visit Europe and Iwaizumi was hoping to get hired where he was working his internship. They wanted plenty of movies in their spare time just to come up with a reasonable story as to why they were going to break up but still remain friends.
Besides, the act was only for their moms, right?