🍸: Does your muse like to consume alcohol? What’s their favourite kind?
“Can I try some of that?”
Shisui’s voice comes quietly over the din of chopsticks and quiet conversation at the dinner table. He points at the small bottle of sake next to his father’s cup. One of his Academy classmates, Seijurou, had told him that his parents had given him some and that it was the nastiest stuff in existence, so he is curious about how his father can stand to drink it every night at mealtime.
“Absolutely not!” Amari interjects before Kagami can. “You’re too young for that.”
Ten minutes later, though, as Amari rises to fetch dessert from the kitchen, Kagami’s hand darts across the table to take Shisui’s cup and fling its contents into the potted plant nearby. Then he pours one finger of sake into it, enough for one sip and no more.
He winks at his son, who proceeds to have his first taste before his mother can rejoin them.
Seijurou had said that sake had been so disgusting that he had not been able to stop coughing for like a half hour afterwards, but Shisui does not understand how that could be. The stuff is delicious!
“More?” he whispers hopefully.
Kagami shakes his head. “When you graduate. Deal?”
The boy is a little disappointed, but he nods his agreement anyway. At least he has something to tell Seijurou.
Amari rejoins them at the dinner table, none the wiser to the events, finding only her husband refilling his rice bowl and Shisui’s cheeks one tiny shade ruddier.