Satzu - reliable

#6

"Momo are you being serious? I am working right now. Do you want me to leave the girl alone here?" Sana reached out to Sally to escort her safely across the street. As the girl just ignored her hand and walked silently next to her over the street, Sana sighed audibly.

"Sana, this is past your worktime. She should have been picked up more than an hour ago. I want you to be here. I want you to meet someone." Momo's voice didn't sound angry in any way. Just as always, it was quite calm. Calm and with a certain indifference about that Sana actually needed to be somewhere to look after a child since it was past her worktime.

"Momo, I can't just leave her." Sana looked at the little girl beside her who scanned the past walking pedestrians with a bored facial expression and sighed again. "Okay, wait. Maybe I am able to be there soon. I still have to meet up with the person who is supposed to help me with this and then-" Sana cut her own sentence because she thought it was rude to talk about the little girl over the phone while the said little girl was walking right beside her through the city.

Momo mumbled some unintelligible words but was interrupted by Sana who rashly said good bye as she and the little girl reached the building in which she had been supposed to look after the children and where she was about to meet the person who should help her with that.

If someone had asked her to be honest, Sana would have said that she had expected someone different to be there.

Someone less good looking maybe.

Someone less intimidating and maybe someone who would have greeted her with a hi and a smile.

The woman was tall, had dark hair and eyes and she was leaning against the cold building-wall as if she was lowkey posing for the cover of a fashion magazine.

Additionally, Sana had to admit that the stranger had pretty hands. Her middle and index finger held a lighted cigarette and seemed to cradle it a little while looking at Sana in a way which made the said one feel as if she needed to hide somewhere.

"So you are going to work here?" Sana's voice sounded a little hoarse for literally no reason so she cleared her throat and made effort to look at the woman's eyes again.

The addressed only replied with a humming while tapping her smoldering cigarette lightly against the wall. The bricks of the building had clearly experienced their best state years before and their surface was already quite dirty but Sana still felt a certain feeling of anger boiling up inside of her.

She had only taken a drag of a cigarette once at a party. Even only that experience intensified her impression that the stranger and herself would not share many opinions.

The unknown woman happened to be the person who was supposed to help her with the project for a month though so Sana decided that she had to act professionally. Her own fingernails already cut nearly painfully into the palm of her left hand as she reached out with her right hand towards the young woman to shake it.

She pressed the air out of her lungs with a nearly inaudibly sigh "Hey, I am Sana. We are probably going to work with each other for the following weeks." A feeling of relief came up inside of her as the woman nodded.

"Tzuyu."

Then, Sana nodded as well and started feeling really weird as she slowly moved her hand towards her own body again since it had been ignored by the stranger. Or Tzuyu, how Sana was informed.

The situation was suddenly so awkward that Sana was disappointed in herself. She was naturally such a social person normally and was able to hold conversations easily as well as appearing always interesting.

At that moment, all of her social skills seemed to be either not helpful or nonexistent. She simply tried to read the woman in any way who was facing her at the moment. Tzuyu's gaze seemed to pin her at the spot and in all honesty, it made Sana uncomfortable and nearly angry at the same time. So she had to concentrate not to sigh in relief when the woman's gaze left her and turned to the little girl instead.

Sana cleared her throat. "Nearly all children have already been picked up. And I am supposed to wait with Sally here to be as well." When the girl's name came up, Tzuyu winced for a millisecond. Short enough for Sana to convince herself that it didn't actually happened but she still commented the younger's action with a raise of her eyebrow.

"so, as I was saying I am supposed to wait here but my friend called me to meet her. It sounded important so-" Sana cut her sentence intentionally to look back at the other woman who looked at her blankly at first but nodded then.

"So you want me to stay with her to wait for her parents to pick her up?" Just in that moment, Sana realized the slight Chinese accent.

"Yes. Or for someone else. I highly doubt her parents have time to-" Sana cut her sentence again because she felt as if it was unfair to talk about Sally easily like that while the girl still stood beside her.

Tzuyu nodded again. She was indeed pretty how Sana determined. She could not help admiring Tzuyu's symmetrical features that made even her unbothered facial expression appear nearly angel like. Sana was shocked about herself after finishing that thought. How could she just exaggerate so much about someone's looks? Whereas she wasn't even sure if her thought had been an exaggeration. Instead, it had just been a description of reality.

To prevent doing something stupid based on how weird she felt suddenly, Sana turned around to say good bye to Sally. Which was, as a side note, ignored again. So she just smiled apologizing at Tzuyu before leaving the place to get to her car.

As soon as she sat down at the passenger seat Sana sighed deeply. She was still not sure about how the situation had ended up being that stressful to her but she clearly knew that she needed to talk to Momo since the latter had already put her in that situation.

"Okay, but like.. people are for real rude these days." Sana opened the phone call with her friend without any greeting while starting the engine.

While tucking her phone between her ear and her shoulder to be able to hold the steering wheel with both of her hands, she remembered again that it might not be the safest way like that and that she should definitely invest in a hands-free headset.

Momo answered something that Sana couldn't understand since she was suddenly distracted by the sight of the scenario that presented itself to her while driving past the old house with the four stair steps, leading towards the entry in front of which she had met Tzuyu for the first time only a few minutes ago.

In that moment, Sana noticed with astonishment that Tzuyu had sat down on the stairs. Next to her the little girl Sally whose lively eyes didn't express boredom in any way anymore. To Sana it seemed more as if the little girl was watching the woman next to her curiously while meaningfully explaining something.

Not only that the little girl hadn't even said a word to Sana before but also the fact that Tzuyu looked so much more nice, nearly affectionate while sitting with the child like that made Sana feel more than confused.

"Hello? Sana? Are you still there?" Momo's voice seemed to reach her ear from a far off place.

"Oh, ehm sure. I'll be there in a minute." Then, she hung up, shaking her head about herself for complaining about rude people in the first place and behaving like one of them immediately after.