Right Person, Wrong Time || Keisuke Baji & Manjiro Sano

Page 18 Jacket

Walking back inside my head hung low. All I could do was stare at his jacket, in complete disbelief at who dropped it off and what I was told. "He left it at my house," was all that kept repeating in my head.

Holding it up to my nose; I take a deep breath in. Yup... this was in fact Keisuke's...

Sorrow filled me up.

Emma and Hinata had begun to make their way towards Hiroko both laughing from an earlier joke that they wished to share with their friend. However, when they saw her not responding to her name they stop laughing.

"Hiroko... are you okay?" Hinata asks,
"And where'd you get the jacket from?" Emma asks confused as she reached out for it.

"It's... Keisuke's..." Hiroko's voice shakes as she hands it off to Emma.

"I didn't know he was wearing one tonight?" Hinata states,

"Neither did I..." Hiroko replies.

They both stare at her lost but attentively.

"One of the girls from the plaza dropped it off just a few minutes ago... she said... he left it at her house..."

"A GIRL!? HER HOUSE!?" They shout together fumes escaping their ears with anger tainted across their face.

"How have you not gone up to him and dragged him by the hair!?" Emma shouts.

"Shh!! Lower your voice!" Hiroko pleads, "your almost louder than the music"

"Oh! I'm sorry am I just supposed to be okay with him cheating on you?!"

"There is no proof of that!!!"

"Both of you knock it off!!" Hinata sternly whispers like an angry mother trying to calm down her two toddlers. Then drags them by the hair out of direct sight from the guys and guests.

Hiroko and Emma wince in pain, and stop yelling over one another. Then Hinata whips them both in front of her still scolding them.

"Now. You." Points to Emma, "Quit trying to pressure her into something she's not comfortable doing. Even if there is a reasonable matter."

"Hmph!" Emma sticks her tongue out at her while massaging the back of her scalp.

"You." Points to Hiroko, "Earlier you wished to be able to stand up to Baji for the horrible way he has been treating you. That time is now."

Before Hiroko could ask how to even bring up such a matter, Emma gasps loud enough to call for their attention.

While Hinata scolded Hiroko, Emma took it upon herself to search Baji's jacket pockets. Within them, she found a single condom packet and now held it up in front of the others.

My heart sank. Their jaws dropped.

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"Boom mother fucker that's game!" Baji shouts with his arms in the air celebrating until Hiroko is heard.

"CUT THE MUSIC!" Clearing a path through what was left of the dance floor crowd.

Everyone's attention is on her and both girls treading behind trying to keep up with Hiroko's pace. The music volume drops by a lot.

"BAJI KEISUKE!!! What the fuck is this!!" She holds up the condom before throwing it at his face but misses and it falls short at his feet.

Surprised gasps are heard from those front-row guests while everyone else rushed to surround them immediately to get a better look at the show.

As for Mikey, Draken, Takemichi, Kazutora, and Chifuyu, their shock is in a silent wide eye look behind Baji. Not just from the condom before them, but because they'd never seen or heard of Hiroko behaving how she was at that moment; Baji included.

"Whoa whoa babe, just... calm down-" he slowly brought his arms down. Afraid any hasty move would have her pounce at any second and slice his artery.

Hiroko cuts him off holding up her hand out at him angrily looking away, "Cut the bullshit."
It takes a few seconds of silence before she opens her eyes to look back over to him. Her face glowing red, "what. Is. It."

"Ah, a condom..." His eyes nervously go back and forth between the condom, Hiroko, the jacket, and the crowd.

"Quit searching for her. She dropped it off. Said you left it at her house. SOUND FAMILIAR?!"

"Look I don't know what you know... but- argh!!"

Draken cuts him off. Grabbing him from the nape of his neck, twisting his arm painfully behind his back, and tossing him onto the ground.

"NO DRAKEN. Stay out of it!!" Hiroko shouts.

Before Draken could yell a word back, Mikey holds him back. Motioning him not to intervene.

Baji gets up pissed, but Hiroko jumped in the way of him and Draken.

"You have become the most terrible, self-absorbed, egotistical, lying, cheating, manipulative piece of a shit boyfriend in the last two years and I am through with defending you!"

Baji was beyond stunned to speak.

"I am through with the long days of radio silence from you! I am through with crying myself to sleep wondering why my boyfriend is no longer in love with me!! I am through with YOU BAJI KEISUKE."