Ren has weekends off, because she is a schoolteacher, and on request can identify a good weekend for her son and his boyfriend to visit!

Aaaaaaahhh.

They can go whenever, obviously, but aaaaaaaaahhhh.

"You okay?"

"I have never met the parents and I am beginning to understand what the fuss is about."

"She'll love you! You don't have to worry about it."

"Tell that to my itemised list of my thirty-five worst flaws from the perspective of mothers as a class."

"...did you literally itemize -"

"I did not, that sounds like it would be dreadful to all involved. By which I mean me."

"That's what I thought but it might not have been a guarantee, considering. Anyway, she will love you, she would love you even if you were less lovable because she's easygoing but in fact also you're great and I'm lucky to have you and she will acknowledge that."

He looks away and covers his lips. "W-well I hope you're right."

Haru forcibly removes his hand from his face. For a kiss.

He is going to explode. Haru will cause him to blow up. It's insane.

"I love you," he sighs after the kiss.

"I love you too."

Time to teleport to Ren's house, which is just as Jaeha remembers it.

"Hello!!! Come in, come in, oh look at you, you look so happy - it's lovely to meet you, Kang-san -"

"It's lovely to meet you, too, Swan-san," he says, bowing perhaps a little too deeply, nervously. "Do you prefer speaking Japanese or English? I can do either."

She bows back and bounces upright again. "Oh, if my accent in Japanese won't bother you then let's go with that! We're in Japan!" She sounds like she hasn't gotten less excited than a weeb on spring break in Harajuku in the last fourteen years about being in Japan. "Can I get you anything to drink?"

Aaaaahhhh social scripts.

"Anything is fine." You idiot. "Juice if you have any?" Somewhat better.

Aaah.

"I've got... carrot juice, and apple!" she says, trotting over to the fridge.

"Did you finally find a good brand of carrot juice?"

"Well, I like it."

"I'll try the carrot, then."

Ren pours Jaeha a glass of carrot juice and Haru a glass of apple and sits down with a blend of both for herself. "So what's new with you guys, I have been getting markedly fewer texts from my son and I know that's a good sign but it's not an informative sign."

"Well, I'm not sure what's old in order to catch you up on what's new," he says, looking at Haru.

"Well, she saw the selfie of us in the limo."

"Which was the CUTEST thing."