Father Figurines || Jito || Chapter 4 || Closed @ Hiroyuki
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“A-Ah, I see. Well I guess that saves the sorta embarrassment of not knowing what to say when they do something wrong that’s terribly obvious.”
The most he was used to was laughing and calling them a dumbass. Internally anyway.
“Oh, uh- th-thanks.”
He gets red when Jito tells him good job. In order to combat this he pulls up his scarf over his cheeks and nose and looks away. Usually he’d be proud and let it fuel his ego, but because of his now self reflection phase, well, he didn’t exactly know how to reply aside from be embarrassed.
“Mhm! My mom would do anything for me and I just… I want to make sure she doesn’t work too hard.”
“It’s really… concerning when she starts to work her butt off and doesn’t really know when to stop.”
“I don’t know how he turned out but he probably is more than a deadbeat. I do know one thing about him though, he’s a coward who refuses to take responsibility and would rather hide his tail between his legs and run.”
“We all got our specialties, I think that’s just sort of an inevitability unless you’re a jack of all trades y’know?”
He’s a little surprised that Hiroyuki isn’t being as prideful as he usually is but doesn’t question it. Maybe he’s maturing in the few weeks that he’s known the boy.
“…I’m sure. Mom’s are like that. Hey I… again this is going to be a rough question to ask since I know she’s a sore subject for you but what did your mom say on your video? It was brief but… she’s okay right?”
He starts to wonder if maybe he lucked out that his dad only went missing instead of being the mess that Hiroyuki’s might’ve ended up being.
“Sounds kind of pathetic. I take it that he doesn’t really help you or your mom out at all and was just a burden or something? Tch, that’s the worst… if that’s the kind of guy that you had to deal with for a dad I don’t think I could blame you for thinking that a lot of people were scum when we first met you. After all, you usually tend to get a view of the world from your parents of close friends… actually…”
The more he thought about it he’s never heard much about Hiroyuki’s friend circle outside of their immediate group.
“I don’t think I’ve ever heard about any friendships you had growing up. Surely some of them must’ve been there for ya right?”
Hiroyuki looked to the side and had a darkened expression. Yeah, she was okay, right?
She was, wasn’t she?
She said she was alright and would continue to work hard... that was enough of a confirmation to say that she was alright? Just thinking about it made him want to panic and his voice to crack up.
“W... well m-mom said she was fine and was going to continue to work hard. B... but her expression scared me. I-I wanted to rewatch the video to make sure she was alright but by the time I t-tried to r...recheck it.”
He pauses for it.
“...You know the rest...”
“Well, it’s not that he was a bad dad, because you can argue if he was a dad at all. It that’s I don’t know him, and I know the reason why I don’t know him. He was too afraid to accept the responsibility of a child and ran away when mom said she wanted to have me. I don’t know his face, I don’t know his name, I just know that he exists and why I don’t know him. He’s scum, plain and simple.”
Sneaking peaks at your mother’s journal leads to one thing or another and things you shouldn’t know. Although at some point he was gonna have to ask why he wasn’t there when everyone else had one, still though.
He closed his eyes and sighed.
“Never asked her why she fell in love with THAT fucking man if he was gonna up and do that to her. She MUST have seen just how much of a fucking piece of trash he was at some point right?”
He crossed his arms and huffed.
“I’ll never understand humans sometimes.”
Friends... huh?
That was... a word he heard all over and yet only recently he realized why it was such an important word.
His expression got even darker, more solemn. His more pissed off and more annoyed expression disappeared and it just became... lonely.
“I...”
