TRIGGER WARNING: From here on out, the story is going to have a lot of angst and dark themes.
+ Steamy Ayato stuff in this chapter gagU kinilig aq while writing LMAO
  
   

Kamisato Ayaka clutches her stomach, after sitting on the cold bathroom floor for half an hour, she vomits once again making that the fifth time today. Three months had passed, multiple arguments with her older brother and friends, she has dropped out of college. The residual feeling of disgust and sourness she'd taste in her throat after struggling to breathe was the same as she felt about how her life gone off road.

She flushes the vomit down the toilet, gets up to wash her face, staring at the unhealthy pale complexion before her. Her hands unconsciously brushed her arms and began to scratch viciously. They were already red from her constant scratching, cuts that bled because her nails were long. It began to scar.

Thoma had since noticed her mental state beginning to decline. During the days where Ayato was at college he'd be at the Kamisato residences watching after her.

"Ayaka? Are you okay?" He slowly opens the door. Concern was written all over his face, he held a small box in his hands.

"I told you not to buy that! I'm not pregnant— I'm sure of it!" She yells, slapping the box out of his hand. It falls to the ground with the unused pregnancy test tumbling out.

"You've been feeling like this for a week already. Just give it a shot alright?"

Thoma bends down and picks the pregnancy test up, holding it out for Ayaka to grab. She reluctantly takes it, her hand visibly trembling.

"Thoma, I'm scared."

"I'm here for you no matter what." He pulls her into an embrace.

"What if I'm pregnant?! I'm not ready to be a mother! And... What's everyone going to think of me?! Daughter of the Kamisato Legacy not only drops out of college but also gets pregnant unprepared! I'm stupid... So, so stupid."

"Shh no. You're my beautiful girlfriend, just take a moment to breathe. So are you going to take the test now?"

Ayaka nods her head grievously. Thoma leaves the room to allow her to take the test.

"Ayaka, we're home!" (Y/n)'s voice could be heard from outside the door.

"They're back already?!" Thoma gasps.

"Yeahh, we got to leave early today since the faculty had a meeting of some sort. And since final exams are coming up I must study extra hard. Wait, Ayaka isn't a blonde." They frown upon seeing the blonde that isn't Ayaka.

Inside the comfort room, right after Ayaka took the test she frantically hides it in the cabinet above the sink and leaves. "H-heyy, (y/n)! Good to see you. And welcome home Ayato."

Ayato simply narrows his eyes at Thoma, then glances at his sister who stood beside him looking anxious.

"Ayaka you have cuts all over your arms again, I told you to stop scratching them."

"Sorry... It's just a bit of a habit now."

He sighs. "We'll talk later."

Though (Y/n) wanted to stay and talk for a bit with Ayaka, their boyfriend grabs their hand and takes them to his room. They couldn't shake a grave feeling of urgency and concern towards their friend. She was getting worst every visit.

"We'll study here."

"In your room? That's a first. You sure we won't end up going any further than just studying?"

"No promises." He grins. For a moment he just stared at his lover. Their presence seemed to wash away all his irritation he felt from seeing Thoma.

"Is something wrong?"

"I want to kiss you."

"Just... One then."

Ayato leans in eagerly to kiss them, his hands wrapping around their waist, trying so hard not to slide those slender fingers under their top to undress them. Still his fingers pressed against their back so lasciviously and made them shiver.

He steps forward, pushing them back until they can only succumb to his presence as they're backed up against the wall. Ayato places a finger beneath their chin and his thumb on their lip. "Really, just one? Do you really want to stop here?"

"Not really." They answer softly, out of breath. "More..."

"More what? What do you want to do sweetheart?" He inches closer to them, one leg pressing against the wall between their legs.

"I want to kiss you more."

"And that's all?"

"I want to throw you off a damn cliff!" (Y/n) grabs both sides of Ayato's collar with their hands. "Stop teasing me or I'll do all the work and be the one to turn you into a moaning mess."

Ayato pauses in shock for a moment. "Why not?"

"Bet."

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While the two are in Ayato's room 'studying,' Thoma leaves the Kamisato residence. The results of the test had yet to show up so Ayaka intends to just message him what the results are.

The worry she feels is much larger than herself. While waiting, she locks herself in the comfort room, sitting on the floor with the test in her hand.

"Please be negative, please be negative..."

It felt like hours to her but only seven minutes had passed.

The anxiety she felt made her nauseous, her hands almost paralyzed and she didn't want to take a look at the test.

After a good ten more minutes of mustering up the courage she takes a look at the result.

Positive.

She could feel her heart swell up with fear, shakily bringing out her phone to text Thoma while convincing herself the test might be wrong.