An eternity with you: A Takamori fanfic

Chapter 3

          You can do this Calli. Just like in your practice run. Just go in, play the phrase, show the picture and wait for the reply. Staring at her target, the store cashier she took deep breathes and entered the store.
           As of this moment Calliope has officially began her search of Kiara.
          Setting down her luggage at her Airbnb (which is an oldish but nice looking house outlooking a beer park) she began preparing her speech. Practicing the moment that she had to start "social contact".
          For you see, Calliope is not a social person. Now this may sound contrary to what happened in the earlier chapter with the taxi but you have to realize the context here. Back in the underworld she had practice already. As a streamer, and a musician at that she has had many a time when she was forced to speak to underworld strangers. Due to this she was able to creat a clear set of scripts that always helps her as a crutch when it came to social circumstances. However this was a different beast. This was Germany. A new place with new culture with a language she barely knows about.
             And although one could argue that Germans are kind in general that wasn't the concern of Calliope. Her concern was that she currently had to create a new script, a new line of text, a new conversation starter. Something that took her months to master in just thirty minutes.
What follows is a scuff translation in English of their conversation.
The automatic sliding door whirs open as Calliope walks in she begins by setting the stage. Walking around the supermarket looking at the different beers (which shocked her of the total amount their are) while grabbing a loaf or two of bread.
That should be a enough she told herself. Time to begin the actual conversation.
Walking up to the cash register she looks to see the man. An older man with a bit of a scruffy beard with a name tag : the manager, written in front. Although Calliope didn't understand that.
"Hello" Calliope spoke dropping her bread on the counter.
The man began scanning the goods she had, two loafs of Trimmi and a bottle of beer. Weird combination, but he isn't one to judge.
As he began scanning the bread to his cash register Calliope fumbled to her phone opening Google translate.
"Excuse me" She mumbled. The man didn't hear as he was scanning the food in a mechanical manner.
"Excuse me sir" she spoke again. Her crude German being able to get the man to listen.
She played the translation"Have you seen a girl with orange hair around here?".
After which she showed the picture. A young girl in an orange vest with what looked like feather earrings attached to her.
The man gave a pause making the register area awkwardly silent for a couple seconds before he broke it. She could be trouble or she could be a friend. The man looked her in the eyes it was a look of death he thought with her pale complexion and a "pissed" face. Well whatever he sighed , if that young girl is in trouble she could deal with it herself.
The man responded. "Yes I have seen her around here."
At that it made Calliope grin. She's here, she's actually here.
However the man, ever the skeptic grabbed her arm and pulled her close.
"Don't cause harm" he said in a whispered tone. A tone that even made her, an apprentice of death have a shiver up her spine.
"Ok" she replied looking back at him with a serious tone.
The man let go of her arm giving her a paper bag of all the goods she bought.
"Cash or credit?"

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" Calliope scream on her pillow. Not only did she make it the conversation awkward for long bits of time but she also made an enemy in a foreign land.
Calliope shot her head up. Lets look at the positives she said her phone with map made by Amelia.
We know that Kiara is around here and are assure of it. All we need to do know is... ask around.
Fuck.