"It wouldn't be! However, tell that to my dick."

"It would not be very professional," Haru repeats, glancing down.

Jaeha didn't come and while he's not still at full attention he's still at enough attention to twitch a little.

But also, "I should actually go back to making dinner," he says, giving Haru one last lick and a kiss before straightening back up and standing up again. "But I hope I've made you less sceptical."

"Yes, mission accomplished," Haru says, putting his pants back all the way on properly.

Sex and food. The two things he's good at. Lee Tae-gun was right when he said Jaeha is great housewife material.

Right. Food. Back to it.

Haru hums to himself cheerily while tapping away at his laptop.

Yeah. He's happy to be of service.

When the part in which he has to do things is mostly done, he goes back to the bedroom's bathroom to take a shower and then put clothes on, because he's feeling a bit too exposed again and it's not hot anymore. And then it's time to do the dishes and figure out what to do with himself.

"Do you want me to help with those?" Haru asks re: dishes.

"You don't have to."

"Do you mean 'no thanks you'd be in the way' or is that just a social noise?"

"Just a social noise, I guess." He's that easy to read, huh.

So Haru gets up and helps with the dishes.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

He's fine. It's fine. It's just really fucking annoying that he isn't fine and he doesn't know why and it fucking sucks but he's fine.

"...you okay?"

Sigh. "No, I don't think so, but I don't know why, it's probably the horrors somehow, everything else is."

"Fair enough. Fuckin' horrors."

"Yeah, if nothing else it is fair."

"I don't think I'd say that."

"You're familiar with my laundry list of crimes, right. Some emotional turmoil seems like a pretty small price to pay for all that."

"I mean, if that were how anything worked, sure, but it's not."

...he's gonna let Haru elaborate on that if he wants to.

"...what, it's not like you walked into the store and saw a sign saying 'heinous crimes on sale for thirty percent off, buy now pay later, generous emotional turmoil installment plan' -"

"...no, but given that I did in fact do all that shit it is kind of fair for me to suffer consequences for it."