Chapter 25-Part 4

We drive up to the outside of the restaurant-the agreed meeting place, to see Tsundere-kun with his dad, and of course, the red blur from earlier himself.

"I thought you couldn't make it.", my father says to him.

"That's what SHE thought. I proved her wrong.", Tomboy-kun says, folding his arms and grinning.

"I know it's important to live a little while you're still young, but what will your mother think?", my father says.

"Honey...", my mother says to my father.

"I know.", my father says, as if he knew that this was not his affair, but they were both concerned for Tomboy-kun, as they saw him as a surrogate son ever since that day he ate with us.

"Both of you, get in.", my father says.

"Take care of my kid, and that little rat there, too, okay?", the biker dad says to mine.

"Of course. Safest driver on the west side of the city four years straight, right here.", my dad says to him with pride, and my mother nods in agreement.

"Heh. Never doubted ya.", the former delinquent says, sure that Miri-chan was safer with them than with himself behind the wheel.

"Uh, dad? There's a problem.", I call out behind him.

He looks back.

Both me and Tomboy-kun are squished on each side, with Tsundere-kun in the middle fidgeting his fingers in embarrassment, face red as a tomato.

"Sumimasen...", he says.

Tomboy-kun, unable to take being crushed, opens the door, and gets out. "It's fine. I can run to the party. You two have fun, ok?"

Tsundere-kun calls out to him, "I'm really sorry, Keichan!"

Tomboy-kun hollers out "No worries. See y'all there!", before taking off.

My father says "So that's what sped past us earlier..."

My mother goes "Like mother, like son."

"By the way, didn't you say one other was going to join us?", my father said.

"Yes. My fellow committee member Motonoya-kun. I'll have to let him know there's no space, however.", I tell him.

"Sumimasen.", Tsundere-kun apologizes again.

"No, don't be sorry, sweetie. It's perfectly fine.", my mother says to him consolingly.

"Poor thing...", my father mutters.

As I was about to text Cringe-kun, my phone buzzes, saying "You have received (1) message from Taiyagi Motonoya."

That was fast.

I open it up, and it says, "I have been here for HOURS, and he's really getting on my nerves. Where are you, man?"

Who knew he would be there first? I guess tonight is full of surprises.

I put the phone in my pocket where my joke cards were, and I said "Hey father? We can head to the party.". We start to drive off.