Lying is a Sin, A Sin Hanagaki Takemichi Commits Too Often

Sobriety Brings A Friend - The Tenth Promise (Important Edit at the bottom)

June 3rd, 2017

Takemichi's tired eyes drifted between the two Haitani brothers. Fuck. He had completely forgotten about them. And now they were standing in front of him, expectant looks in their eyes not even a minute after he opened the front door.

"I'm so sorry. I've been so busy I haven't even made you a roster or asked Mitsuya-kun for aprons and-"

"It's all good Boss. We heard you were at a wedding, a Sano getting married isn't a quiet thing," Ran said with a small smile.

Takemichi breathed out a sigh of relief, at least they weren't mad at him. Or was Rindou? He wasn't sure, the younger Haitani was much more blank and less talkative.

"Okay well, I guess today I'll just show you how things work and where everything is. Customers don't usually start rolling in until about 7 so we have an hour."

The brothers nodded and followed behind Takemichi into what they assumed to be his office. It was small with a desk, a chair, a little couch and a filing cabinet.

"I think I have some spare aprons you two can use, they may be a bit small though since they're my size. And I'll put in an order for your name badges." Takemichi murmured, searching through the cabinets of his desk where he knew he kept his spare aprons in case the one he was wearing got dirty.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw Ran go to sit on the couch and he jumped up, way too suddenly for his head to handle, causing him to sway slightly.

"Don't sit on that!" He screeched remembering the time (times) when he and Hanma had...well you know.

Ran looked at him confused but stood up and stepped away, Takemichi flushed in embarrassment.

"S-sorry, I didn't mean to yell. It's just really dirty and-"

"Boss, I think maybe you should take a breather. You seemed really stressed," Rindou advised calmly.

At that, Takemichi's eyes widened as he remembered that he hadn't taken his medications today. Naoto had an early shift patrolling the city so he couldn't remind him. Shit. And he had an appointment around lunchtime which he also had not planned for. He was a mess. There was no way he could leave the Haitani's with his bakery alone. God, no, maybe he can just reschedule for a later appointment or maybe one for Wednesday since that was now another day he had off.

But nevertheless, he shook the thoughts from his mind and smiled at the brothers.

"I'm all good, here are your aprons and let me show you how the registers work!"

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The aprons were most certainly too small. On Takemichi, it was loose and ended half way down his shins. On the Haitani's, they were tight across their chests and ended above their knees. It was a bit of a ridiculous sight, two grown ass men, one 30 and the other almost 30, wearing pale blue basically child sized aprons. And their galaxy-like dyed hair accompanying the look. But it also was rather cute, Takemichi had to admit.

Customers seemed to like the new faces, the elderly ladies making their sweet intentions very clear. Since most of his customers were elderly, Takemichi would usually go to their table and take their order so they didn't have to stand in line. Today, he asked Ran to do it. He didn't know the brothers exceptionally well, but he knew Ran was the more charismatic and sociable one. Takemichi kept Rindou up at the register with him, explaining how the machine worked and things like making edits to an order, split payments and the sorts.

"Alright, I just need to go take something out of the oven and I'll be right back. Please don't dislocate any customers joints while I'm gone," Takemichi told Rindou. He didn't really need to get something out of the oven, he just had to reschedule his appointment.