The realest, most emotionally devastating and uplifting college AU you've ever read.
She'd fucked up. She'd fucked up bad, and long ago. She never should have taken a gap year, certainly not a decade's worth. She would never get to where she wanted to go in life, never achieve any kind of dream, never be who, deep down, she had still hoped she would be.
Then a miracle came.
Hello! It’s been a long time. I wrote this story last year in November and I realized I never posted it here. Though some time has passed, I think it is still worth sharing.
This story is kind to those who have felt the ravages of time without, I think, condescending or patronizing the reader. It is weird and ridiculous. Romantic and dark. It’s also very honest. If you are struck by feelings of arrested development or missed or delayed goals in life, you may find something valuable here.
This is a story about pain and sorrow, about failure and regret, about intimacy and sex, about life and trauma and the desperate, futile struggle against the iron grip of fate.
But most of all, it is a story about love. Pure, passionate love.
Of the 30-odd Mokarun stories I have written, it is far and away my favorite, my most beautiful child. Please enjoy Catching Up.
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: Dandadan (Manga), Dandadan (Anime)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ayase Momo/Takakura "Okarun" Ken, Ayase Momo & Takakura "Okarun" Ken
Characters: Ayase Momo, Takakura "Okarun" Ken, Ayase Seiko, Muuko | Kei (Dandadan), Miiko (Dandadan)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - College/University, Romance, Slow Burn, Angst, Comedy, Humor, Romantic Comedy, Het, Not Suitable/Safe For Work, Porn With Plot, Porn with Feelings, Fluff, Ayase Momo Needs a Hug, Love, Regret, Trauma, Masturbation, Canon Het Relationship, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Existential Crisis, Clit Play, Body Image, Shame, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hurt/Comfort, Protective Takakura "Okarun" Ken, Dominant Takakura "Okarun" Ken, Submissive Ayase Momo, Penis In Vagina Sex, Oral Sex, Rough Oral Sex, Deepthroating, Vaginal Fingering, Vaginal Sex, Blow Jobs, First Time Blow Jobs, Cunnilingus, Dirty Talk, Multiple Orgasms, Simultaneous Orgasm, Orgasm Delay, Cock Warming, Kennilingus
Summary:
Momo Ayase never met a boy she could call Okarun the day she was dumped by her first boyfriend. She didn't attend college after graduation, either. Ten hard years later, she decides to give it a try and enrolls in a university. In a course she only takes because it sounded easy and fulfills a requirement, she encounters Professor Ken Takakura, PhD. From then, fate takes the wheel.