Unexpected parallels

"Doesn't seem fair to hold him here. With how his caseworker called and then dropped him off mere hours later it seemed more like an emergency placing than anything else and it's okay if those don't work out, but he needs to know that we can totally look into finding a different family for him if he wants that.""You don't like the idea," Hizashi says after a moment and Shouta presses his lips together."I—would have liked if it worked out with him," he then admits and he knows that Hizashi can read between the lines.They had never seriously considered long-term fostering or even adoption; they were fine with being the emergency placement for all of the kids they took in and they have always been more than happy to see them off to more permanent families after a while but with Hitoshi—it just feels different with Hitoshi.It's probably because Shouta knew him before, already came to like the kid, but with him, Shouta would have considered adoption. Had planned to bring it up to Hizashi soon, even, but it seems that's not something that's wanted here and Shouta will just have to learn to live with that.