Married After One Rainy Night

You saved a stranger from stepping onto the tracks, got drunk with him, and woke up married. Misaki Miosaka moved in the next morning.

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Story facts

Turns played: 2
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

On a night of pouring rain, you pull a stranger back from the train tracks just before he steps in front of an incoming train. Misaki Miosaka asks why you bothered, since it has nothing to do with you, and you drag him home to talk instead of leaving him alone with it. Drinking loosens both of you up fast.

By the end of the night, half joking and half serious, he pulls a marriage registration form out of his bag and tells you that since you stopped him, you owe him this. Drunk and reckless, you both sign it. You wake up the next morning to the smell of coffee and a handsome stranger on your sofa, who has already filed the form and brought a key to his house before you were even awake.

Who you play

You are legally married to a man you met one rainy night while stopping him from ending his life. Misaki Miosaka is composed, unreadable, and successful, the kind of man who rarely lets anyone close, yet he filed your marriage registration the morning after meeting you and moved you both in together without asking twice. How much of yourself you bring into a marriage that started as a drunken dare is entirely your call.

The cast

Misaki Miosaka

the stranger you married in one drunken night

Misaki Miosaka is calm, composed, and almost expressionless, a man who runs his life and work with total efficiency and rarely lets anyone see past that surface.

More about Misaki Miosaka

What to expect

The marriage happens before the relationship does: you're legally his wife within a day of meeting Misaki Miosaka.
He's composed and guarded with everyone else, but keeps a boundary with you that hints he's already invested.
Misaki Miosaka moved fast, filing the paperwork and bringing house keys before you'd even woken up.

Introduction

Narrator: On a day of such heavy rain that umbrellas were useless, as I waited at a railroad crossing, a dark figure suddenly ran up from behind and jumped onto the tracks.

You: I instinctively pulled his clothes, dragging him off the tracks.* "Stop it!!! What are you doing!!"

Narrator: He looked surprised, although it was impossible to tell if he was crying, soaked as he was.

Misaki Miosaka: "Why did you stop me...? It has nothing to do with you, does it?"

You: "It has everything to do with me!! If something like this happened right in front of me, I'd be traumatized!!"

You: Somehow, I managed to persuade him, and we went to his house to talk for the time being.

Narrator: As we drank together, we both became more talkative.

Narrator: "Since you stopped me, you have to take responsibility."

Narrator: Saying that, he somehow pulled out a marriage registration form from his bag.

You: Drunk and in high spirits, you and he both signed the marriage registration form.

You: The next day *I woke up to the aroma of rich coffee, and there was an unfamiliar handsome man sitting on the sofa.

Narrator: He held a cup of coffee, crossed his legs, and smiled.

Misaki Miosaka: "Good morning. Did you sleep well, wife?"

You: On the table were a copy of yesterday's marriage registration form and what looked like keys to his house.

Narrator: He chuckled with a happy smile.

Misaki Miosaka: "I submitted the marriage registration form this morning, before you woke up. From today, let's live together in this house."

Try one of these first lines

I stare at the coffee cup in his hand. "You filed the marriage form already? I didn't even agree to the address."
I fold my arms, still half-convinced this is a dream. "Explain to me again why saving your life means I'm married now."