"My sister said she won't talk to until I've made a friend."
The waiter ca back over, balancing both of our orders on one tray. I could see the steam coming off the bento box and especially the ran. I couldn't help but feel my mouth water as I looked at the food. He put our als in front of us and wished us a nice al. I separated the two disposable chopsticks and began eating the pork katsu, I didn't realise that my order also included a miso soup which was a nice surprise.
I took several bites, one bite of rice, a little bit of at and a sip of the miso soup, the flavours combining in my mouth was truly quite enjoyable. I mixed so soy sauce with the wasabi and dipped my sushi into it. I wasn't exactly sure on the etiquette of sushi eating but this seed about right. Tangy flavour of the wasabi combined with the salty yet rich flavour of the sushi really ca together to make a mouth-watering al.
"Are you enjoying your al?" I hoped to continue so casual conversation with Yui, especially after hearing what she just said. "Yeah, it's nice." She didn't stutter as much any more which was good to hear. She was combining little portions of each ingredient of the ran in a wide spoon, making a sort of 'mini ran' in each one.
We were slowly getting into our als and eventually I was pretty full. I had eaten about three quarters of the food and decided that I had had enough. I took a few last bites and slouched back into my chair. Wow that was really filling. I looked towards Yui and noticed that she was almost about finished eating her dinner.
"Do you want to go have a look in the book store nearby?" I asked her. I had wanted to buy so more romance genre books for research purposes anyways. "Yeah... I'd like to." and so it was settled, we were going to the book store. Yui offered to pay for both of our als and after a little conversation, she insisted so I didn't continue arguing. We made our way over to the biggest bookstore in the shopping centre, it was called, 'Book Haven' which was a relatively generic na but it didn't matter too much I guess.
The bookstore was really big, like definitely the biggest in the entire city. There were rows upon rows of books, all separated into genre, age range and a variety of other variables. I had a quick glance at the 'recomnded' section, there were a few vanilla romance novels which looked like just the thing I wanted. Although I liked reading romances with a bit more substance with them unlike these novels which were just trope after trope and cliché after cliché, made only unique by one arbitrary uniqueness factor like, 'falling in love with the cute boy but he's actually a secret pro basketball player' or sothing like that. There were even more shalessly generic novels with convoluted twists like, 'I'm trapped in a ti loop and I keep having to make girls fall in love with ', actually, that one didn't seem half bad.
I had a look at the blurb and flipped through a few of the pages, despite being sowhat 'unique' I suspected there were still many clichés which I could study. $5.99, it was pretty cheap considering the quality of paper it was made from and a pretty appealing cover. I picked it off the shelf and held onto it as I followed Yui. She looked through a few books in the romance section, I was beginning to notice a common denominator in the books she was interested in. They all seed to include a popular boy falling in love with an unpopular girl, this sure did say a lot about her personality.
I noticed her face getting red after reading so of the blurbs and her trying to subtly slide the books into her pile which she was going to purchase. I decided to let her be and walked around, looking at so other books. Suddenly, soone caught my eye, turns out Mackenzie was just around the corner, also looking through so of the romance novels. I decided that I was going to approach her but as I walked towards her, I noticed her pick up the most generic novel I had ever seen in my entire life.
There wasn't even like an interesting concept or anything, it was just a straight self-insert, wish-fulfilnt, cute-boy-ets-cute-girl school based romance novel. It was honestly frank to the point that I had to respect how plain it dared to be. It was the only novel Mackenzie picked up before walking towards the counter. I decided to also grab a copy just to see what it was like and quickly greeted Mackenzie.
"Hey, you're Mackenzie, from school right?" I initiated the conversation.
"Oh, you also go to Aston College?"
"Yeah, I'm Chloe, nice to et you."
"Sa here, I like your outfit."
"Thanks." I felt like that was kind of odd considering my 'outfit' was extrely casual.
She lined up behind a few people and waited for the cashier. She didn't grab any novels aside from the one she picked out before so I wondered what she was doing. "Are you just doing so window shopping?" I asked. She parted her hair in one smooth motion and turned back to face ... yep, she's the Main Character for sure. "Yeah, I was hanging out with so friends but they've just left and I wanted to get this book." As expected from an extrovert like her, "are you here by yourself?" She continued.
"I was actually just with my friend Yui, we ca to look at so books together." I was trying to seem sociable but all this talking was beginning to take a toll on my mind. It felt like I wasn't having a conversation but more like I was doing an English oral where I had to demonstrate my best question and response flow. "That's nice, where is she now?" How can you keep this up all the ti, Ichika? "She's just over there," I pointed to the romance section of the bookstore.
We continued the conversation for a decent amount of ti before she arrived at the front of the line. After her quick transaction, I decided to pay for my two books as well. "I'll get going now, nice to chat with you, Chloe!" She waved goodbye and left the store. I went back over to Yui who seed to be hiding behind so bookshelves. "How are you so good at talking to people?" She asked.
Well in truth I was not good at talking to people, but accentuating circumstances have led into my precarious situation I'm currently facing. After a little while, Yui decided to pay for her books as well and the two of us also exited the book store.
On our way out, I managed to catch a glimpse of one of the boys from our school. When he saw , he gave a brief wave and swiftly continued on with whatever he was doing. I had known him because the two of us sat on the bus together on one of the trips to a soccer match. He was pretty athletic, playing for the state representative team. I looked beside to see Yui, looking as if she had sparkles in her eyes. I was shocked to see her reaction.
"U-um... who's that boy...?"
What a predictable romance developnt...
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