It's the night before Chuuya's flight back home 'and Dazai will be going back to his father's house in the morning as well, so...

It's a weird day.

Dazai is actually stunned that he made it through his first semester '

and

that he received high marks on all of his exams '(Chuuya

did

ask for that as payment, after all.) Which means, this might be the first Christmas in

years

where his father isn't going to be at his throat. And

Atsushi

is going to be home, along with Oda...He might

actually

enjoy the holidays this year.

He's stopped in the middle of packing when Chuuya steps inside, shrugging out of his coat and unwinding his scarf. But there's something weird about the look on his face, something that Dazai can't quite place.

He seems nervous, but...resigned.

"...Before I make a snarky joke about the hat, did something happen?"

Instead of deigning that with a response, Chuuya pulls the