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🍡 New Year’s Eve with Fat Gum

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“Happy New Year, Fat Gum!”

“Hey, Toyomitsu, Happy New Year!”

You smile at hearing all the good wishes among coworkers outside your small office while finishing up for the evening as the agency located in Esuha City was closing for the night. Your smile broadens in anticipation of your New Year’s Eve date with Taishiro that you’ve been thinking about all day.

A few months ago any potential New Year’s Eve plans would have looked like a hot and spicy date hugging a warm bowl of curry ramen while curled up on the couch watching a romance movie. The summer day you walked into the Fat Gum Agency to apply for the administrative assistant position that had been posted shortly after finishing your administration courses would change everything when you ultimately met a certain BMI Pro Hero. Your professional relationship with Toyomitsu has remained as such while in the workplace…but friendship quickly turned into something more when he said to call him Taishiro just before asking if he could take you out for a coffee, or a matcha tea, sometime. Then there was a dinner followed by a kiss on the cheek…then a movie where he slowly took your hand in his in a darkened theatre…until one rainy fall afternoon you both got caught in a downpour on the way back to his place with the intention of baking cookies but he helped you out of your wet clothes and warmed you up instead…

“You ready to go, sugar?”

You quickly glance up to see Taishiro’s handsome face smiling at you from around your open doorway, feeling your heated face blushing.

“I, um, think I am,” you say while closing your laptop. “Has everyone left already?”

“Yeah, other than Amajiki, everyone was excited about starting celebrations.”

Pro Hero Suneater was staying behind at the agency to be on call in case of any emergencies. You and Taishiro exchange sympathetic smiles as it’s known that although Tamaki Amajiki would have been politely invited by various colleagues to join in on that night’s festivities, his crippling social anxiety has probably been the reason for him to decline any such invitations. However, you and Taishiro also know that Amajiki is more than happy breaking out some snacks to spend hours on the computer online gaming with his other shy friends until falling asleep on their keyboards.

“Well then my big and handsome Pro Hero, let’s get going!” You take Taishiro’s offered arm as you come around your desk and meet him at the doorway.

***

“Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven!”

Everyone counted down to midnight while Taishiro held you by the waist, your hands on his broad shoulders, while slow dancing to the saxophone notes of ‘Auld Lang Syne’.

“Six! Five! Four!”

Taishiro smiled while counting down, his face ever so slowly drawing closer to yours. You smiled back, giddy with excitement while thinking back on your evening.

After an hour’s drive both of you had finally reached the Park Hyatt Kyoto where Taishiro had booked a room for the night. Dinner reservations wouldn’t have been made on time if you had allowed Taishiro to continue kissing your neck while helping to zip up your dress. Your long day at work had started catching up to you so Taishiro took you out dancing and afterwards plying you with various sweetened treats from food vendors like custard filled taiyaki, strawberry mochi, and brown sugar dango. A short but brisk walk led you both back to the bar and lounge at the hotel to sip some sweetened sake only to be whisked back onto the dance floor where you now found yourself swaying to the music in Taishiro’s arms.

Indeed, your current giddiness could probably be attributed in equal parts to excitement, over tiredness and a sugar high.

“Three! Two! One!”

“Happy New Year, sugar,” he says gently as his lips descend on yours.

“Happy New Year, Taishiro,” you reply as you kiss him back passionately.

“Back to our room?”

“Okay,” you say while stifling a yawn.

On the elevator ride up you lean heavily on your big Pro Hero while he murmurs in your ear how he can’t wait to help you out of your dress, making you shiver. Reaching your room he suggests both of you taking a bubble bath to further celebrate the night. You agree and he goes in to start running the water while you change into a fluffy robe. When Taishiro emerges from the bathroom in his robe to let you know everything is ready he finds you…curled up fast asleep in the middle of the king sized bed. He smiles at you adorably, dims all the lights, gently picks you up and places you on him where you cuddle into his big body.

“Happy New Year, sweetheart,” he whispers as he kisses your forehead.