Kalma

N-n-n-nice to Meet You

In that particular week, they kept messaging to each other through Line. Kentarou apparently already had his best friend in the form of Akira. Akira thought the same way. At least she wants to keep it that way. For now.

"So Akira, about Kokoro-san,"
The conversation now is about Riri, the silent beauty of the class.
"I kept finding her very beautiful and elegant in her own ways. I would really love to get to know her."
"Oh yeah? Ahahahha okay, i will try to hook you guys up, and see what occurs."
"Thanks Akira, i know i can trust you."
"Yeah, Kentarou-kun. Oh yeah also about our shift next week, can you probably have the shift being late again, because the manager..."

Their conversation continue again until midnight appeared. Tomorrow at the library Akira will inform Kentarou to meet her there and try to introduce Riri to him. Riri always liked reading books there before her music club attendance at 4 pm.

Time ran fast, and that particularly annoying bell wakes Akira first rather than the pat of Kentarou hands. He seemed a bit surprised, and immediately go downstairs to enroll in the soccer club, as he promised Jun 2 days ago. At the same time, Akira saw Riri went to the library to continue her readings on science fiction novels.
"Hey Riri-chan! What you doing?"
"Hello Akira-san. I just want to go the library to continue my readings. Do you need help or anything?"
"No its just nothing," she mentioned this while raising both of her arms and apparently Kentarou was there and thought it was the code. Kentarou went to the both of them with Riri facing the other way around. Akira mis called the code and whisperred "nooo" to him, actually hoping him to hear it that slow. "Whats the matter Akira-san?" Asked Riri nicely with a smile.

"Hey, i'm Tojima-kun. Nice to meet you."
Riri turned to face Kentarou and immediately surprised and went to the back of Akira. She feels very shy at this kind of moment. Although Kentarou thought that maybe she felt discomfort and annoyed by his appearance.
"Ah, hi kentarou-kun! Nice to meet you, ahaha, ehehe" Akira said this with a little feeling of uncertainty.

"Okay, Riri-chan. You said to me that you needed help to get closer with boys, here is your training partner." Akira pointed at Kentarou.

"This is Tojima Kentarou-kun, you can call him Kentarou-kun if you want, he doesn't feel dismissed by it."
"Come on, you can do this." Akira encouraging Riri to say something.

"N-n-n-n," with a very little voice Riri replied it.
"Nice to meet you Kentarou-kun" with a cold sadistic voice Riri replied it.
"Y-yeah! The same as always." Kentarou replied with a little uncertainty.

Then, Riri ran away through the library, leaving both of them very confused and with some mixed feelings. "This is going to be one tough cookie to crack Kentarou-kun. Are you sure you up to this?" She asked Kentarou to reaffirm his self motivation.

"Yes, bring me in coach!"

On the way home to their late shift at "Kalma", Akira mentioned some tactics to win Riri heart. The key is to be patient, as she always murmurred.
"She really loves candy and boba milk tea you know Kentarou-kun. Maybe you can apologize to her tomorrow by bringing one of them."
"Are you sure it won't scare her?"
"I'll be there with you."

Their late shifts began and Tomoko-san, as always, welcomed them as boyfriend and girlfriend. They just threw it away and didn't think too much about it. As one of them felt very different every other day compared to before. At least one of them felt the spark.
"Ara ara, Ken-kun, you still kept mentioning about Akira-chan while cooking. Some stuff about her jelaousy of beautiful volleyball players, some stuff about her being single doesn't matter and even her birthday is 29 February 2000," Kentarou was very surprised that Tomoko-san is actually really thought provoking and could catch up with all his stories.
"Are you sure there's something there that wasn't there before, ken-kun?" Teased Tomoko-san.
He looked at Akira when she waited the customers of Cafe "Kalma" and calmly responded, "Nah, i don't know it for sure."
Tomoko-san just smiled and worked her way back to the cashier.
As he prepares for the Fried Rice cuisine, he mentioned by himself, "i just hope that this can't ruin our friendship we got."