(fan fiction) the only mistake
the only mistake
HSJ, Takaki
angst, gen
pg
takaki gets caught.
takaki wakes to his phone ringing with a tone he recognizes as the rest of best singing him a happy birthday song. he clutches his head in pain and he rolls out of bed.
he opens his door and sees a man in a suit waiting for him and he is taken away without reservation.
he finds that he has made a lot of trouble the previous night. a pre-celebration gone wrong and years and years of hiding spill out and suddenly, takaki doesn't understand where everything is headed anymore.
he sits in the manager's office, dazed and confused. most days, takaki's brain barely functioned at such a time, but on this day, there was even less brain activity, takaki being hungover and lethargic from the night before.
the manager tries to, but is unable to talk to him. once the man has had his fill of takaki, he slams his palm on the table and takaki jumps up, wincing in the aftershock of pain. takaki glares only to see dozens upon dozens of tabloids and newspapers scattered all over the table.
he finds out on the day of his birthday that his photos from the night before (and many, many others) are splattered everywhere, on the front page, inside the folds.
his muddled thoughts straighten because of shock. his eyes move quickly as he processes what he sees before him.
there are images of him smoking and drinking and hanging out with girls he shouldn't be hanging out with. the manager sighs at him and asks him why he had to do that, one day shy from being legal. takaki doesn't answer, can not answer.
takaki is given instant remedies and is taken to have a long, rigorous session with the stylists. he is whisked off to a briefing.
he watches television for a while and sees the efforts that the jimusho is making for him. and he tries to remember what he should and should not say.
at this point, they know that there is no sense in denying the fact that he did all these, but the jimusho is determined to keep him in the spotlight, the money invested in him too much to ignore. they plough through with the press conference where he is told to keep his head low and and be polite to an extreme.
they announce that he will be suspended temporarily after everything is over and takaki bows out of the press conference, apologetic and confused.
the staff bring him straight home where he is told that he will be contacted soon enough for his next steps. takaki thanks them and enters his home to meet with his parents.
he heads for their couch with his head still bowed down in shame and he waits to be scolded. he is surprised when he feels a kind hand on his shoulder. his head snaps up and his eyes begin to brim with tears.
his mother falls onto him and they cry together while his father looks at them both.
through the sobs, he tells his parents that he was merely doing what everyone else was doing. he tells them that, even though it wasn't peer pressure, the point was, his companions were just as underaged as he was but he was the only one who was caught. he asks his father where the justice in that was and he sobs harder when he sees that his father has no answers.
his mother comforts him by saying that this was all a mistake and that he only had to pay for his mistake because he is an idol, someone people watch and take notice of; that everyone makes mistakes and that he just needed to weather through this one, learn from this one, after which, he will be a stronger person.
takaki then understands that his only real mistake is that, as an idol, he's not allowed to make any.
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this drabble is part of my 100 hsj drabbles challenge.
HSJ, Takaki
angst, gen
pg
takaki gets caught.
takaki wakes to his phone ringing with a tone he recognizes as the rest of best singing him a happy birthday song. he clutches his head in pain and he rolls out of bed.
he opens his door and sees a man in a suit waiting for him and he is taken away without reservation.
he finds that he has made a lot of trouble the previous night. a pre-celebration gone wrong and years and years of hiding spill out and suddenly, takaki doesn't understand where everything is headed anymore.
he sits in the manager's office, dazed and confused. most days, takaki's brain barely functioned at such a time, but on this day, there was even less brain activity, takaki being hungover and lethargic from the night before.
the manager tries to, but is unable to talk to him. once the man has had his fill of takaki, he slams his palm on the table and takaki jumps up, wincing in the aftershock of pain. takaki glares only to see dozens upon dozens of tabloids and newspapers scattered all over the table.
he finds out on the day of his birthday that his photos from the night before (and many, many others) are splattered everywhere, on the front page, inside the folds.
his muddled thoughts straighten because of shock. his eyes move quickly as he processes what he sees before him.
there are images of him smoking and drinking and hanging out with girls he shouldn't be hanging out with. the manager sighs at him and asks him why he had to do that, one day shy from being legal. takaki doesn't answer, can not answer.
takaki is given instant remedies and is taken to have a long, rigorous session with the stylists. he is whisked off to a briefing.
he watches television for a while and sees the efforts that the jimusho is making for him. and he tries to remember what he should and should not say.
at this point, they know that there is no sense in denying the fact that he did all these, but the jimusho is determined to keep him in the spotlight, the money invested in him too much to ignore. they plough through with the press conference where he is told to keep his head low and and be polite to an extreme.
they announce that he will be suspended temporarily after everything is over and takaki bows out of the press conference, apologetic and confused.
the staff bring him straight home where he is told that he will be contacted soon enough for his next steps. takaki thanks them and enters his home to meet with his parents.
he heads for their couch with his head still bowed down in shame and he waits to be scolded. he is surprised when he feels a kind hand on his shoulder. his head snaps up and his eyes begin to brim with tears.
his mother falls onto him and they cry together while his father looks at them both.
through the sobs, he tells his parents that he was merely doing what everyone else was doing. he tells them that, even though it wasn't peer pressure, the point was, his companions were just as underaged as he was but he was the only one who was caught. he asks his father where the justice in that was and he sobs harder when he sees that his father has no answers.
his mother comforts him by saying that this was all a mistake and that he only had to pay for his mistake because he is an idol, someone people watch and take notice of; that everyone makes mistakes and that he just needed to weather through this one, learn from this one, after which, he will be a stronger person.
takaki then understands that his only real mistake is that, as an idol, he's not allowed to make any.
_
this drabble is part of my 100 hsj drabbles challenge.