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When Taichi plops on the couch in the break room, he checks phone to see multiple messages sent to him from people he hasn’t talked to in years. The ones he hasn’t blocked from trying to interact with him when he was trying to leave 5 years ago. When he checks the messages, they’re all about the same thing, an invitation for Shirabu Kenjirou and Semi Eita’s wedding.
Taichi doesn’t know how to feel really, he’s getting an invitation... for his ex’s wedding. Kenjirou was the whole reason he left and now he’s all of a sudden wants to get in contact. This whole thing is confusing to him.
He was so in his head that he didn’t notice someone coming into the break room and them plopping on the couch breaks his concentration. “Emi-san, you're on break too?”
“Yeah, but that’s not important, what was making you think so hard you didn’t notice me?” Emi had her head in her hand, resting on her knee. Emi has always been a nosy curious person, but they’d always been there for Taichi when he moved. They took care of him when he was pregnant with his daughter and sometimes helped him take care of her. Since she’s always been there for him, he felt that he could trust her and she might have some good advice. It also helped that she was older and had more experience.
“So...you know my ex?” With a nod he continued, “Well, I got an invitation from old friends to his wedding.” There was a moment of silence when Emi burst out;
“WHAT!! REALLY?!?!”
“Yeah! It’s weird isn’t it?”
Emi grabs onto the blonde’s shoulder and asks seriously, “Are you going?”
“I don’t know,” he says with a shrug, “I am thinking about it though, the person Kenjirou’s marrying is a pretty cynical guy and last time I checked, they didn’t like each other much.” Emi giggles a little then clears her throat.
“Well, it’s good to think about it but, it’s not just your choice, it’s Mio’s too.” Taichi hums in understanding and leans back, relaxing into the couch. He can think about this later, it’s supposed to be his break time.
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As Taichi comes home, he quietly takes off his coat and shoes before checking the first door to the right. He leans into the room to see Mio in her bed. She shifts before she opens her eyes and looks at him, slowly sitting up in her bed.
“Papa?” She mumbles, tilting her head.
“Sorry, did I wake you up?”
“No, I can’t sleep without seeing you.”
The blonde leans against the side of the door with a hum. “Would it help if I read you a story?” He gets an eager nod in response and he goes to Mio’s bookshelf to the book they left off of. He settles on the bed and continues the book while thinking how’d he bring up the wedding.
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Taichi checks the messages while he and Mio are getting ready for the morning. He looks at the information on the wedding, but an extra message from Yamagata catches his attention.
‘I think that it’s important for you to know that Kenjirou wants you to be his best man’ reading this gave him a bitter happiness. Happiness for Kenjirou finding someone to love and wanting to reconnect, but a slight bitterness that he couldn’t get him to love him like that. He huffs but then looks at Mio tilting her head at him and decides that he’ll just ask and get this out of the way.
“Mio, do you want to know something about your other father?’ She nods and Taichi takes a deep breath as he leans on the bathroom counter. “He’s getting married and I got an invitation; so, wanna go?” The blond girl nods and jumps eagerly, her hands flapping happily. Taichi smiles fondly and goes to text Yamagata, ‘I’ll go, and I’m bringing a plus one’.
“Well, when do you want to go shopping for outfits?”