Picking Up Yui…

“Out!… Get in the Back…! He is my fiancée not yours.” The tone in Yui’s command was exceptionally different from the smile she was sporting while she skipped from the doors of St. Magdalene to my car.

Piya rolled her eyes, “Why on earth would you think I was trying to steal him?” she said as she climbed into the now empty backseat.

Yui climbed into the bucket seat and turned to look at Piya with a cold hard stare. “My mother called me and she told me. About your boyfriend.”

“Steven is the one to say that.”

Yui hopped into the passenger’s bucket seat, and glared at me with pain. Yet, I had anticipated this reaction when Piya said I was also her boyfriend. “You literally told me to say that Yui, ‘to keep them off your back’ was the phrase used, I believe.”

“Yes, & that was before you agreed to move us to her house! And Lawan & Dawn already told me Piya was sucking your dick in the parking lot.”

“And Lawan knows about us, so she would never try to start trouble… specially if she thought her older sister might want that.”

That got Piya’s attention, and she looked at me with a vexed expression. “I never wanted that from Tom, & the same thing is true for Steven… though, he is an actually good person, unlike the human feces that is Tom.”

I was surprised that was enough to convince Yui. Piya giggled clearly not concerned with Yui’s anger. “Besides, you answered a call from your mom?”

“Plus, I know you fucked him repeatedly during the family emergency.” Yui seems **** to give up her anger.

Piya rolled her eyes at Yui, “I will say to you what I did to A. F.

“Who saw him first? Whom kissed him first? Whom did he go looking for in the Loft based on a couple words & a memory? Whom fucked him first? Whom intentionally told you to date him? So, who are you saying stole him from whom?” Piya was evidently tired of the argument.

Yui glared at Steven, until he offered a small box and her family credit card. It was like a light switch for her to switch to an expression of absolute love. She quickly slipped the ring with a large diamond on it. Then she thrust it into Piya’s face, “Whom did he give a ring to first?”

Piya laughed, “You expected him to majikally select the right ring? Besides who do you think paid for it?” Then she held up her own hand with an engagement ring on it. “You forgot your parents ultimately control the credit card, all they would have to do is flag the transaction as credit fraud.”

Now Yui looked confused at first, then at me with another pained expression. “I told her she had to convince you, before I accepted her ideas.”

Yui gives a long sigh of relief, and snuggled into my chest, “Thank you.” Then she sat up and looked at Piya with confusion again.

“Thank you then for helping him, Yet then what do you want Piya?”

At that moment there was a knocking on my driver side window. When I turned to look out, I saw Lawan & Dawn staring back at me. I rolled the window down. Lawan was the first to speak before I said anything.

“Will you give Dawn & I, a ride home? We missed the bus.” Lawan said while she laid the demure look down hard. I just blink unsure how to respond since she was Piya’s sister.

“Bullshit, you just want what Yui & I already have. Besides, we are going to my home. Aren’t you going to college?”

Lawan looked taken back by the question. “Yes, why does that matter?”

“You know how dad will respond when he finds out you spent a night at my house. Why would you fuck with your free ride through college? You do realize that getting pregnant from Steven would be a great way to get disowned like me.”

Dawn looked stricken by the idea, “We already accepted athletic scholarships, & you are using birth control aren’t you?”

Yui giggled mirthlessly at the girls, she decided to help her sister dissuade the two cross country runners. “Why would I do that? He is my fiancée and I already have a well-paying job & a degree. Piya is a senior in college & independently wealthy enough to support us all for the rest of our lives, if that is what she wanted. She could have thirty-nine kids and it still wouldn’t affect her standard of living.”

Lawan appeared to have recovered from the challenge to whatever she had planned. “But you two are sharing him.

“Why can’t he fuck us at the same time? I don’t care what dad thinks, the only reason he wants me to go to college is to impress future Thai boys he imagines throwing at the other preacher's daughter. Why do you think I like running cross country? It’s practice.”

Piya hissed at her younger sister. I had never heard the sound made by her before. Lawan seemed to be taken back because she backed away from the car.

“Lawan, you are a horrible best friend to Dawn, for talking her into this plan of yours. You are mistaken if you think your teenage eighteen-year-old vaginas would be able to steal Steven from Yui & I.”

Lawan looked alarmed as if Piya was correct in her assessment of the teenager’s ideas. “Yes, guess what, I used to be a teenager not to long ago. I know what stupid ideas that I had, and so I know what stupid ideas are in your head. There is more to an ideal husband than his dick.

“Yes, father may be deplorable and selfish with his decisions.”

Piya kicked the back of my seat using some kind of mysterious sign language. I interpreted it as meaning she wanted me to save her with technical jargon. With a sigh you recite what your father told you. “… figure out a hobby you love, where would where you get paid for doing it. If college degree would help you do that? Then get one, but make sure the net debt to getting the degree, is less than your future annual earnings.

“If you two still have little idea what you want; Then join the peace corps, military, the coast guard, or get an apprenticeship with a tradesmen. All of them, are good options to get paid while figuring out what you want. All of those options are infinitely better than wasting time at college when you fail to know what you want from it... even with an athletic scholarship. Teenagers doing that is how the job market got flooded with so many minimum wage workers with degrees in liberal arts. The need for them is vastly dwarfed by the supply.”

The two teenagers now just starred at me. My quota of giving advice to lost teenagers was used up for the day, so I shrugged.

Piya grumbled but finished the conversation, “Now go home, if you truly need a ride, then call dad, Father Arkhom should be the one scheduled for today.”

That said, I pulled out and headed back to Piya’s house. “We still have an hour & a half before we have to be back for the dinner.”

Piya looked forlorn, “I thought you both were coming to the pool party.”

Yui seemed to have forgiven & maybe even accepted what Piya wanted. “We are… specially if we are now living with you… I’ll… I don’t know about the other stuff Piya, you are my best friend and I adore you. It’s just that Steven is…”

“Perfect, I know… why do you think I find the idea of sharing him with you acceptable? I would never try to hurt you by taking him back. I already proved it with Tom… and I just… you say you adore me, but you are the one with a stable job helping teach young girls.” Piya said.

I respond compulsively before Yui could react, “Entertainment is also important, Piya. Without it many people might find themselves driven to early graves. I don’t know your specific apps, but the only reason people give you money is because each user sees equivalent value in the app they purchase.”

“As you said, Tom never really allowed himself to see me; yet, Steven is insatiable."

“I’m what? Hey now…” As was becoming normal when they were talking, I was ignored.

“And how does being a science teacher help me have many children with Steven? You could have as many as you want.”

I pull us out onto the freeway & head to Piya… our home. Living in a new place will take a bit of time. She lived farther away than my house or the home of Yui’s parents but the increased speed limit from driving on the freeway, made up for the distance.

“So Yui, are we moving in with Piya or are we getting some clothes & heading back to my apartment?”

For once one of them didn't ignore me, Yui looked at me with surprise. But talking over me was Piya as she smirched a smile, “Is that what you are worrying about? That he’ll drop you for me because I can afford more babies? Do you have so little faith in him? So little faith in me? You think I would accept anyone after they did that to you? As I said, I have already proved otherwise.

“Plus, haven’t you been begging me to let you move in with me for the last year?” Piya must have realized we were dangerously closer to the end of our trip than starting from my apartment or the home of Yui’s Home.

Yui looked irritated but didn’t have a real response for a few minutes. “I guess we can live with Piya, but once the babies come, we can’t be having parties every week.”

“The need for a party every week, would already be filled with you there Yui.”

With a crimson colored blush Yui continued. “Then why haven’t you allowed me to move in with you?”

Piya stared meaningful at chosen sister. “We both need a ‘good’ man in our lives Yui.”

“Yes, well Yafeu failed to even be close, so why stick with him for so long?”

“If you took the time to notice, you would have seen that he never really moved in with me. That fails to be because he didn’t want to fully own me & act like he owned my property…

…

“… Maybe… I don’t know Yui… maybe like you, my subconscious was just waiting for Steven to come back in my life. It’s by the Divine’s grace that I was never depressed and hopeless enough to accept Yafeu’s marriage proposal. That could have made things more complicated.”

Yui giggles as she yelps for joy, ironically given the subject matter. “He asked you to marry him? That is so romantic, why didn’t you tell me?” I did notice Yui seemed to accept & understand why Piya would never accept it.

Piya stared at Yui, and then at me pointedly. Yui blushes crimson, “Oh I am sorry darling. Piya was right, you are the perfect man for me… and maybe Piya but I still haven’t decided yet.”