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Illusions of Compromise
by Pout
Tezuka and Oishi had been together since they entered high school. They had been the perfect couple now for nearly fifteen years. They were beautifully domestic and almost queasily sweet to one another. They went to the movies once a month, took long walks in the park every weekend, ate dinner together every evening, and had quiet sex at night – and they never got bored. Oishi wondered if that was true anymore.
One day, Oishi got mad. He threw a temper tantrum and stormed out of the house. The next day, he returned and they had make-up sex very loudly and for many hours. Oishi secretly thought of the incident as a thorough success. Two weeks later, Oishi stormed out once again and didn’t return for two full days. The sex was rowdy and bruising and lasted even longer than the first time.
A week later, Oishi slammed the door and didn’t open it again for an entire week. This time, there was no rowdiness, there was no sex, and there was no Tezuka.
Three months later, when Oishi had reached his lowest point, lying around in bed dressed in baggy sweats and still wearing Monday’s 5 o’clock shadow, the door opened and Tezuka came home.
This time, it started wild but settled into quiet, ending with Oishi brushing his stubble on Tezuka’s shoulder and murmuring solemn apologies into his skin.
The next day, everything went back to normal and, if anything had changed, Oishi was even more devoted and even more in love.
Tezuka secretly thought the lost three months were a terrible waste of time, but on the whole, he regarded the episode as a thorough success. With a loving kiss from his partner the next morning, Tezuka happily went to work knowing that there would be no more temper tantrums ever again.
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