"It's just me and Ren and Cricket, and Ren's out a lot unless I specifically ask her to cancel on all her friends to take care of me, which I try not to do more than a couple times a year."

"Are you home right now, then?"

"No, but I can be in five minutes, when I bought Ren a house I put it near Yamanaka's silo."

"Way to get a guy's hopes up and then keep him waiting." His tone of voice is teasing, though, and Haru can hear the noise of teleportation in the background of a call just then.

"Oh, is that not fun? I need to know these things." He sends Yamanaka an emoji and gets up to put his shoes on.

"Oh it's fun. It's very fun."

"I'm terribly impatient, personally, maybe I'll jog instead of walking."

"As you said, it would be a dull world if we were all alike. There are so very many things I bet you would like to do but not to have done to you."

"Do you have some in mind?" Jog jog.

"I seem to recall you enjoying taking charge of this and that. Would you like telling me what to do? When to come or not to come? Tying me up, not letting me move until and unless you feel like it? Using me however you want to use me?"

"Well, I'll never know until I try, now, will I." Haru can jog pretty fast. Here he is on Ren's doorstep glomping Jaeha and reaching past him to get the door open.

Jaeha laughs and kisses him and is happy to be led inside.

The bedroom is as it was before. Cricket was at Yamanaka's with Haru but flew away before the phone call got too steamy.

It is of no lesser import to the cause of fighting dungeons that all the espers who do it be put right again after they return from missions. Haru sets about kissing it better.

And since they were already on the topic, Jaeha is so very curious about whether Haru wants to try any of his suggestions, or has ideas of his own.

Also? Jaeha has test results, now.

That's very good because Haru did not stop to buy more condoms.

Jaeha's less acutely backlashed than last time, but with the amount of chronic backlash he's always carrying on his back, there's still a lot of guiding he can do and get done. He'll go as long as Haru wants to; he doesn't have a partner to go back to, anymore, so they can just keep doing this.

Yamanaka hasn't sent him any emojis so she'll keep! They can snuggle all afternoon long.

This is nice.

Haru is nice.

Jaeha wants to keep him. This is kind of nuts.

Eventually Haru grabs a book - not one on his shelf, there's one on the nightstand he's halfway through - and little-spoonifies himself to read it.

Oh okay.

He doesn't have anywhere to be. And Haru isn't kicking him out. Even though Haru said he's an introvert and prefers alone time.

Jaeha isn't going to question it.

It feels nice.

Oh good he didn't take breaking out a book as a dismissal even though Haru didn't say anything about it.

Unfortunately Jaeha has no idea what Haru is feeling because Haru is impossible to read aughhhhhhh—

—wait hang on time out.

Haru is impossible to read. 

And Jaeha has been making all of these plans about getting him as a partner, but. 

...maybe it's not a problem? If this is all they'll do as partners? He doesn't have to figure out what Haru is feeling when all they're doing is fucking.

Yeah. 

This is fine.

He can keep doing this. 

He just has to make sure to never do or say anything fraught.

"If you wanna stay for dinner I need to tell Ren."