#and my grandpa in the other room didn't even flinch cause he didn't even hear any of that bless his heart :')

[thatssonanii]

House Party

Bloodline Family Series

Parties were pretty much an every weekend thing for Eli, Koda and Milo. Sometimes during the week too. But they never had their own. For almost a month, the cousins planned their party. Trinity and Jimmy were going to be out of town about an hour away, all their siblings were going to be with Grandpa King and Nana. Koda and Milo weren't sure where their parents would be but they knew they'd take the alone time.

"You're really gonna use Auntie Trin's glass punch bowl? Didn't we buy one from the store?" Milo asked walking into the kitchen.

Eli shrugged. "It was cracked. This is good, she never uses it anyway."

Milo shrugged emptying the snacks into the other party bowls they'd brought. Koda was lining sodas up on the counter.

"I found the beer your dad hid in the garage," Koda laughed.

"Cool, he won't even realize they're gone. Is ya friend still gonna dj, Lo?"

Milo nodded going to throw his trash away.

"Yeah, he should be here in a few. Did you remember to lock the doors upstairs?"

"Ummm, yeah, I think I did. I'll check in a few."

The furniture was moved out of the way, the dj was set up, snacks and drinks were out and the boys were dressed. Fortunately for them, their parents had actually called them to check on them so they didn't have to worry about that being a problem.

A couple hours later, Eli's house and backyard was full of people, classmates, friends from other schools and a lot of people they didn't know. They were enjoying themselves much more since it was their party.

While his cousins danced Koda was by the dj area, taking pictures and videos of them. The more Milo danced the harder he laughed. Going over to them he joined in on their vibe, it was contagious.

Eli continued to dance and looked around the party feeling eyes on him. When he caught the eyes of the girl watching him, he smiled then tapped his cousins.

"I'll be back, I think i spotted my situation for tonight," Eli said staring at the girl.

Koda laughed, "Handle your business, cuz."

"Hoe ass boy," Milo joked.

After slapping hands with his cousins, Eli crossed the party to get to his girl. He snuck up behind her putting his hands on her hips.

"What's up, beautiful? I don't think we've met." He whispered in her ear.

The girl turned around and smiled at him. "We haven't but I know who you are."

"Is that right?" Eli smirked.

"That's right, Eli. I'm Suzy. Now that we're acquainted I wanna see if what I heard is true."

Licking his lips, Eli looked around the room for a moment them back down at Suzy. "Damn you don't waste time but if that's what you want. Follow me."

Milo hit Koda's arm and pointed to Eli, who was climbing the stairs with Suzy behind him. Koda watched them, he couldn't help but laugh.

"That's your hoe ass cousin, Lo." Koda joked.

While the cousins enjoyed their party, Trinity was waiting on the hotel bed for Jimmy to get out of his shower after their date. They decided to take a two day trip to Tampa just because. Trinity checked her texts, her emails then the vivint app. It kept sending her notifications from the doorbell camera. She had been ignoring it figuring Eli and his cousins were going somewhere but it was over 50 plus notifications.

As she looked through the stills from the camera her anger boiled over. She knew these boys were into doing some bad shit but to have a party was something new.

Jimmy came from the bathroom immediately noticing his wife's frown.

"Damn, did I take too long?" He asked jokingly.

"I think," she paused taking a deep breath, "No. Your son and his cousins are having a party."

Jimmy sat on the bed beside her laughing, "They always go to parties. No big deal."

Dropping her phone in her lap, Trinity turned to look at her husband. "No, fool. Your son and his cousins are having a party in our house."

"The hell you mean he having a party? In my house? I known you playin."

Trinity tossed her phone to him, "Look at the pictures. All those kids going in our house with bottles and shit. What does that look like to you?"

Taking the phone, Jimmy looked through the stills his jaw clenching after every picture. He gave her the phone back then went to put his clothes and shoes on.

"Get dressed and packed, we goin back. Ima kill his ass and his damn cousins too," he huffed loudly.

Once the couple got on the road, they called the other two couples to let them know what their kids were up to. They were going to wait for Trinity and Jimmy to get back in town before going to confront their kids.

Meeting up two houses down, the parents stood together fussing about their children. They could hear the loud ass music from where they were standing and it only pissed them off more. Meanwhile inside the house, Eli was still upstairs, Koda was dancing with Parker and Milo in the backyard with Aunni and their other friends.

"Okay, I'm over waiting. Can we go snatch these lil bad asses up or what?" Apryl complained.

"I'm sayin," Kandice agreed, "That lil slow ass boy is gon wish he took his ass to that farm when I'm done."

The men followed their wives to the house and inside, Apryl was in front pushing the teenagers out of her way, Trinity and Jandoce glaring at any of them who looked like they wanted to say something back.

One of the girls stopped dancing and smiled at the parents. "Mrs, Reigns," she screamed over the music. "I didnt know you guys were coming!"

"Girl, get out my way," Kandice demanded pushing the girl out the way.

Jey saw where the DJ was and headed over to him. Roman spotted Koda while Jimmy looked around for Eli and found him leaving against the banister on the second floor talking to a girl. Apryl eyed the party goers, Kandice and Trinity went to the kitchen.

Roman grabbed Koda by the back of his shirt, yanking him away from Parker. Koda snatched away prepared to fight whoever it was, his face softened realizing it was his father.

"Fuck," Koda mumbled not taking his eyes off Roman.

Jey slammed the laptop the DJ was using closed and glared at the young boy daring him to say something. When the music stopped everyone looked to set what the problem was except Koda, he didn't move. Noticing the issue, Eli started to descend the stairs stopping in the middle when he saw Jimmy staring at him.

The teenagers started to complain about their being no music which angered the parents especially Apryl, who still hadn't found her son.

"Shut up! Where is Adrian?" Apryl yelled. They. stood dumbfounded staring at her making her suck her teeth. "Where the hell is Milo?"

Again, nothing.

Apryl nodded, "Oh so nobody knows where his light bright ass is? That's fine, so since no one knows I guess I'll start beating ass till someone talks."

About ten of the kids blurted out that he was outside prompting Jey to head that way. Jimmy and Roman continued to stare at their sons.

"Get yall asses out now and off anything is missin out of this house, I'll visit each of you personally until I find it." Apryl threatened loudly.

Kandice came out of the kitchen to stand beside her cousin. "Leave, now!"

The teens rushed out of the house as quickly as they could, trying to avoid getting too close to the parents. Eli tried to scoot pass his dad but Jimmy stepped on front of him. The ones in the backyard were long gone when they saw Jey. A few minutes later after the house was clear, Jey came walking back in the house with Milo behind him.

Trinity rushed out of the kitchen towards her son and snapped the back of his head making him flinch. "Not only did you have a damn party but you used my good dish! And one of your lil friend broke it!"

Eli moved back from her with his hands up. "My bad, I ain't think it would get broken."

Sliding her sandal off, Trinity started to hit her son with it, gushing with each hit. "These bad ass kids in my house tearing my damn house up."

Koda took a step back, Roman took a step forward. Koda did it again and Roman followed.

"Boy, if you take one more step away from your daddy it better be to run," Kandice spat.

"Why the hell would you participate in this, Adrian? You know my elevator don't go all the way up and neither does your daddy's." Apryl said moving closer to her frightened son. "Look at this mess, Adrian. Trash everywhere, shit is broken and is that beer and weed I smell on you?"

"No!" All three boys answered.

"We had a beer or two but we wasn't smoking, Auntie," Eli spoke up.

"Shut. Up." Trinity said through gritted teeth. "She wasn't talking to you."

Jimmy folded his arms across his chest, "How the he would you know what they did? You had your ass upstairs laid up with somebody daughter."

"Whose idea was this party?" Kandice asked.

"Who was it?" Roman barked.

The boys jumped and all three started to talk away the same time.

"Okay, okay, okay," Kandice yelled. "One at a time."

"Me and Koda," Eli said looking down.

"No," Apryl said shaking her head, "No, it wasn't. Try that again. Who?"

Koda nodded scratching his arm. "It was us, Auntie. It was me and Eli."

"Stop that lyin, Makai," Kandice warned in a low voice.

"I'm not lying," Koda stressed.

Roman eyed his son, "Do you really wanna piss me off more than I already am, Koda? Is that what you really wanna do?"

"N-no, sir. But I," Koda stuttered.

"It wasn't your idea or Eli's," Jey added. "It was Milo. Wasn't it, Milo?"

"Yes, sir." He mumbled quietly.

Apryl laughed to herself. "Its almost 3 in the morning and we're tired. We're gonna go upstairs and go to bed. You three stay down here, we'll finish this in the morning."

Eli raised his hand a bit, "But my room is up there."

"Not tonight it isn't," Trinity said smartly.

"Why are we stayin down here," Koda asked quickly.

"Cause you're gonna clean this house up before we get up. Don't even think about napping or going to sleep before this house is spotless," Kandice warned looked at all three boys.

Koda sucked his teeth and quickly regretted it, feeling his father chop his chest.

"Don't try me, Koda. You know better," Roman told him.

The parents went upstairs leaving their kids without a second glance. The boys didn't move right away until they heard the bedroom doors slam. They knew they going to have a long night and day.

[ifwegettherebysunset]

For a prompt: Kaiba makes yugi cry, like full out sobbing, and kaiba has no idea how to handle it cuz he didn't MEAN to make him cry he thought it was just their normal banter?? But yugis been having a rough week and it was just the straw that broke the camels back. Everyone reacts to this situation in different ways. Cute fluffy ending maybe? ( could be platonic or shippy) LOVE your writing, it's breathtaking!

Awww honey omg thank you so much! :D

I’m gonna go with the puzzleship ending, ifin y’don’t mind? My queer ass is feeling the Gay™

This turned out to be so Sappy like omfg

Here’s the link!

Seto realizes he may look a little undignified.

He’s dried Mokuba’s tears plenty of times. He knows how to handle those. Additionally, he crushes employees’ futures on a daily basis; he’s dealt with loud tears of rage, quiet tears of misery. He’s even experienced the occasional pained smile that can’t quite keep the tears from falling, and he’s never broken a sweat.

Somehow though, when Yugi Mutou’s the one with the painful smile, it’s completely different.

Seto blinks at him. His demand of “What are you doing?” comes out a tad sharper than he intended, but can you blame him? This isn’t part of the plan. Seto likes his plans, especially when they involve this little runt.

That’d been what set Yugi off: Seto made a ‘runt’ comment. Definitely nothing he hasn’t said before.

So…?

“S-sorry,” Yugi says, trying to laugh it off and failing miserably. It’s like a trainwreck―and Seto can’t stop looking on in horror. “I-I don’t know what’s wrong with me today. Just―just a bad week I guess.”

The dam breaks.

And can Seto just say? He knew Yugi wore eyeliner. His eyes were too bold not to be coated with the stuff.

But, anyway. Crying.

Um.

If this were the Other Yugi, Seto could snap at him all he wanted. But this Yugi…well. Seto’s not stupid. He can tell the difference.

The Puzzle’s eye glows.

Suddenly, Other Yugi is rearing his head, glaring through the tears.

Thank God.

“Kaiba! What did you do to him?” he thunders.

Seto crosses his arms. “I didn’t do anything.”

Other Yugi crosses his arms too, only the stance is a little off. It takes Seto a second to realize that he’s actually hugging himself.

He needs coffee.

“Get out of my sight,” Other Yugi snarls, “before I―”

“What, send me into eternal damnation?” Seto drawls. “I’m sure.”

“Now is not the time for skepticism, Kaiba! I will―”

Seto turns on his heel. “Whatever, Yugi. The next time we meet, I hope your composure’s up for it.”

Aibou.

Yugi hangs his head.

Aibou! Where are you?

Damn it. He’s so embarrassed.

Please don’t shut me out! Let me help you!

Help him with what? Nothing’s happened. There’s no crisis, no Armageddon. Everything’s been normal. Everything.

He’s such a crybaby. A little runt who can’t handle anything. Yugi’s seen the end of the world, in multiple ways. He knows what it looks like, and this week was definitely not it.

No. His Other Self can’t know. Yugi can’t bear to think what would happen if he found out that Yugi barely qualifies as his tag-along, let alone a partner.

Aibou. Aibou!

There’s an insistent knocking at his soul room’s front door. His Other Self has always been respectful of his privacy, but he’ll do plenty of things when Yugi’s crying. Plenty of things.

Well. He’s not the only one who has a maze. Granted, Yugi’s isn’t millennia in the making, but it’s complex in its own right. The mind of a teenager isn’t as straightforward as a lot of people think, after all, and Yugi isn’t the type of person to have just one chamber in his soul room.

He retreats to the deepest corner and opens the front door for his Other Self.

In the distance, he hears another echo of his nickname. He curls into himself and doesn’t answer.

It’s so stupid.

His Other Self’s entreaties become increasingly desperate. Yugi can feel him running every which way, searching for him. He’s as good with puzzles as Yugi, if not better; he’ll find him eventually.

Finally, Yugi murmurs, “Other Me. Please leave me alone for a while.”

Instead, light floods the chamber.

His Other Self looks terrified. Then he sees Yugi and nearly sinks against the doorway.

“Aibou,” he says, rushing over, “what’s wrong? What did Kaiba do?” the shadows roiled. “I’ll make him regret it―”

“No,” Yugi softly admonishes, “we agreed, remember?”

A pause. Reluctantly, his Other Self sighs and nods.

He tries to catch Yugi’s eye, but Yugi steadfastly avoids him.

“Aibou. How can I help you? Just tell me.”

He looks almost―helpless. Yugi can’t stop himself from squeezing his hand.

“It’s okay, Other Me. Just a bad week, that’s all.”

“Don’t do that.”

The anger makes Yugi start. His Other Self finally catches his eyes. “What?”

“Don’t treat your emotions as such a fickle thing,” his Other Self replies. “What you feel, no matter what it is or what caused it, matters to me. When you are in pain, so am I, and if it holds weight for you, then it does also for me.” He wipes Yugi’s tears with his thumb. “Aibou. You’re entitled to your privacy. All I ask is to support you.”

The walls tremble. The floor starts cracking.

Yugi wraps his arms around his Other Self and the rain falls. His Other Self doesn’t flinch at the cold and holds him just as tightly, gently maneuvering them so his back is against the wall, Yugi half in his lap.

Slowly, Yugi lets his Other Self see: the failed grade on a big exam, the one he’d studied for for weeks. The four papers he has to do by Friday that he can’t focus on. His grandpa’s flu getting worse by the day. His friends’ being unavailable to help, busy with their own assignments and stress.

His Other Self says nothing.

Yugi cowers against him. “It’s stupid―”

“No, Aibou,” his Other Self murmurs, “it isn’t.”

The rain keeps falling, but Yugi finds his clothes drying. An invisible dome encompasses him.

“You are the bravest person I know,” his Other Self says. “You have faced so many dangers with your head held high. Crying is not something to be ashamed of. It doesn’t mean you are broken or weak, but that you are strong enough to admit that you’re hurting. Stresses of a normal life carry their own burdens, and I want nothing more than to share them with you as much as we share the burden of destiny.”

He’s smiling at Yugi. Nonjudgmental, quiet, and sincere. Yugi cries harder for it, and his Other Self continues to wipe his tears.

“It’ll be alright, aibou. I am with you. And I know that if you called them, our friends will be too.”

Yugi gives a shaky nod.

“But you don’t have to face the world just yet,” his Other Self says. “Come. Why don’t we play a game?”

“…okay.”

Slowly, the two stand. Yugi’s Other Self puts an arm around him and kisses his head and leads him back to the light.