Home sweet Home

So— let's recap shall we?

Two gamer dudes, cool dudes mind you, think it would be fun to attend the reopening of gamestop to hopefully meet our favourite streamers and vtubers, though after the main event my disappointment spiraled when I realized that my streamer is a big fraud! But hey, atleast i can go home to my college dorm and hopefully drool over Astrafae's 2035 vintage model that probably cost thousands right now, right? WHOOPS! Wrong! Oh so wrong!

I get framed for something I didn't do along with a certain someone and now im STUCK WITH HER!

"Today has to be the worst day ever." I muttered to myself, sulking over the Nikujaga my mom made for dinner, meanwhile she's over there stuffing her face- does nothing not bother her?!

"My, it's been ages since I had a full table like this," My mom said with a lax sound to her voice, her hand reached up to cup her cheek with smile bright enough to beam the table. "When I asked when you'd visit you told me 'When i have no choice'. Didn't expect it to be so soon."

"I was planning on that being after I graduate–" I muttered to myself, slowly chewing in annoyance.

"Taida, stop slouching-" My mother snapped at me in a slow monotoned voice to which I promptly fixed. She then turned to Ghost, a smile on her face. "So what's your name, dear?"

She looked up to my mom, wide eyed as she stuffed her face. "Maiya," I looked to her with a look of intruige, she never publicly displayed her name in her streams before— but then again even if she did it probably wouldn't make a difference. 

"Your last name?" My mom pondered looking a bit confused to why she just said her first.

"O-oh! It's Okane-" She muttered, a soft blush crossing her face, I would snicker right now if that didn't mean me catching a stray from my mom like she tends to do.

"Ah! Okane. Didn't expect a cute girl like yourself to wanna date my good-for-nothing son," And a stray I caught anyways, I sunk into my chair when my mom said that both of my palms were against my face! My mom was smiling from ear to ear, Okawa looking at me with a smug look before turning to my mother to deliver the oh so unfortunate news

"no I'm not-" Okane tried to explain but my mom just cut her off as she normally does when she's about to hear something she doesn't like.

"No need to be so modest here have some more food." She dumped more food on Okane's plate. Okane looked up at her with furrowed eyebrows, already full but didn't want to be rude.

"Honestly.. Okane was it? I don't know how you could handle him everyday and not go mad I almost lost my sanity one time with h-"

"Mom!..." I snapped, sitting up from the table, my hands against the desk. Both of them looked at me with a confused look, there was no way i was letting mom finish that sentence! I would rather die of embarassment on my own accord!

"You left the oven on..." I mumbled, 

"oh you're right ... I'll be right back Okane dear." She said as she scrambled to get up from the table.

I let out a sigh of relief. Honestly out of all the women why her? I found myself staring daggers at Okawa. Honestly, how could I end up in such a situation, in the wrong place, the wrong time with the wrong person– 

I try pleading with the officers, who knows maybe she's the real culprit and slipped that thing into my pocket somehow–

nah-

...

They wouldn't believe me...

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The next day rolled around like nothing ever happened, the sun shining, the birds singing, and a walking alarm strapped to my ankle, life is pretty sweet aint it?

"You sure do have alot of stuff huh?" Gabriel murmured as he sorted through the piles of stuff on my floor. I know what you're thinking, no I didn't leave them on the floor, i'm not filthy- those are the things my mother tossed over from the other guest rooms, claiming to have rented it out to someone who'd be here soon.

With that and Maiya using the other guest room, there wasn't much place for these things so my mom decided to keep them and let me choose which goes and which stays, which i'll have to admit im a bit grateful for– especially considering my "magazines" are in this pile–

"Woah!" I flinched at Gabriel's sudden gasp, turning around, my mind already making up excuses for the magazine he probably found.

"I didn't know you had a dinosaur suit!" Gabriel looked at it in awe, slowly pulling iit up from the pile, stars practically beaming in his eyes.

I stared at him from the side of my bed with a concerned look in my eyes.

"If you want it you can take it- it was my cousin's but he left it here and never returned so-" I looked down at my phone scrolling through social media, I wonder if anything that happened made it on social media, this did have a company's star involved after all- fake or no.

"Ha!" I heard Gabriel gasp, I raised my head and before I knew it he already had the suit on, flexing to the camera on his phone with a stupid grin.

"I feel..... powerful!" He declared.

"You scare me sometimes...." I muttered- letting out a sigh and sitting on the side of my bed, the beeping on my phone catching my attention.

"Page could not be found—" I read softly, a twinge of annoyance striking me before hanging my head in dissappointment, "Right-"

"...I forgot how slow the internet at home was." I lay back on the bed, my gaze on the ceiling in a blank stare.

"This was going to be a looooooooong house arrest-"