[They've been "seeing each other" for a couple of months now. Frankly, it's been terrible. It feels like his entire life is sliding out of course, and there's nothing he can do to stop it. The false rumors about his general sexual activity may have stopped going out, but there's no way to take back what had already been said, and now the reality of his relationship with Cyrus is there to replace what fades away.
He's tired and stressed and trapped, constantly nervous and unhappy, and it's making it hard to sleep and killing his appetite. This leads to an inability to focus, which leads to a slip in his studies, which leads to more stress, and in the end... Well, Tokiomi just feels like he's scrambling to keep his life and his image together. Of course his parents have noticed something's wrong, but he can't tell them what. The threat of family feud has become second to his personal shame, so he just keeps desperately treading water.
But now it's summer break, which should make things a little easier. Until, that is, his parents tell him that they got a very nice offer from Cyrus' family to go with them on vacation, to a summer house on the beach.
He can spend his birthday there. It'll be fun. It'll be good for his health.
He hopes one of them gets eaten by a shark.
But on the first day of vacation there are no sharks, and Cyrus' parents go into town for a fancy dinner with friends, and the two of them are left to bathe away the salt and sand and entertain themselves for the evening. So Tokiomi, of course, takes the fastest shower he can manage and then scuttles off to his room still dripping wet and wrapped in a bathrobe to hide.]
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He's tired and stressed and trapped, constantly nervous and unhappy, and it's making it hard to sleep and killing his appetite. This leads to an inability to focus, which leads to a slip in his studies, which leads to more stress, and in the end... Well, Tokiomi just feels like he's scrambling to keep his life and his image together. Of course his parents have noticed something's wrong, but he can't tell them what. The threat of family feud has become second to his personal shame, so he just keeps desperately treading water.
But now it's summer break, which should make things a little easier. Until, that is, his parents tell him that they got a very nice offer from Cyrus' family to go with them on vacation, to a summer house on the beach.
He can spend his birthday there. It'll be fun. It'll be good for his health.
He hopes one of them gets eaten by a shark.
But on the first day of vacation there are no sharks, and Cyrus' parents go into town for a fancy dinner with friends, and the two of them are left to bathe away the salt and sand and entertain themselves for the evening. So Tokiomi, of course, takes the fastest shower he can manage and then scuttles off to his room still dripping wet and wrapped in a bathrobe to hide.]