⇾𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬 ∙⋄♡⋄∙ A poor girl that sees no point in living meets a young boy who helps her discover her reason to keep...
We awkwardly walked next to each other as I stayed completely quiet as I was overthinking everything. I would casually glance at him from time to time and always notice him looking at me first and smiling. I would just whip my head away from his in embarrassment.
He then stopped walking for a moment and it made me stop as well. We stood in front of a cute cafe that looked quite normal, but the insides looked really comfy. Basically, all the seats were sofas and they looked much more comfortable than chairs. The waitresses inside were smiling and looked like they were actually enjoying their job. Haven't seen that much before.
Kazuha took my hand and walked inside while dragging me with him. Once we were inside, one of the waitresses noticed Kazuha and smiled brightly.
"Kazuha! Why you here? I thought I told you you didn't have work today?" The blonde haired lady walked over to Kazuha as it seemed that she hadn't noticed me yet. Not surprised though.
She then shifted her gaze beside the boy who was still holding my hand and stared into my soul with the same smile she had on when she noticed Kazuha.
"Who's this pretty lady?" She asked the boy curiously as she point at me and look at Kazuha with question marks reflecting in her eyes.
I stood dumbfounded at her words as I couldn't process them. Did she really just call me pretty, or has the lack of eating and not sleeping at night finally hit me?
"Her name is Y/n. Y/n, this is Lumine." I brushed those words to the side to think of them later on in the day, most likely at night right before I'm supposed to be sleeping, and looked at Lumine with a decent expression.
"Nice to meet a friend of Kazuha's." She smiled at me so friendly. I couldn't help but smile back at her, her smile was so contagious and she was extremely beautiful. She was literally as bright as the sun.
"Uh, nice...to meet you too..." I couldn't help but feel nervous speaking to her, I would hate for her to think of me as a loser the moment I spoke to her, and if that was my goal, I would have honestly succeeded, cause why the fuck was I speaking like that, why'd I take pauses and why the fuck did my voice get quieter and quieter the more I spoke. I hate myself.
Despite me acting like a total loser, she continued to smile and waved to Kazuha as she walked away to continue her job as waitress. At that moment, I then remembered her mentioning the fact that the boy was off duty of work today.
Kazuha works?
I wanted to ask him, but I was still a bit nervous to speak, plus, I felt, everyone in the cafe's, gazes on me and I felt like if I said or did something wrong, they'd all laugh at me or start whispering and talking about me.
Kazuha was still holding my hand and he noticed me looking around the cafe nervously, so he pulled me towards an empty table that was far from anyone's gaze. Why is he being so nice T^T
I sat down on the sofa and felt myself relax once it was just him in my view. He sat down on the other side of the table, facing the people eating or drinking in peace.
I felt awkward cause I felt like I caused a scene and I thought that maybe I annoyed him with how I acted.
He passed me a little menu as he smiled at me and averted his gaze to his own one. His smile was even brighter than the blonde haired girls. No wonder they were such close friends. Oh right! His job!
I mustered up all the courage I still had in me and opened my mouth to speak.
"Uh, Kazuha, that lady, uh, Lumine? She mentioned you having a job?" I wanted to punch myself so bad from how nerdy and awkward I sounded right now, but that would just be weird and embarrassing.
He chuckled. "Lumine, huh? You know, she's quite a special girl." He started to which I tilted my head cause he wasn't really answering my question yet. "She's really good at her job, always smiling and working hard to please others and offer them her services, but you know, at the end of the day, she gets really tired from all that work. Most of the time, she stays overtime and offers to help out with everything here. She works herself to the bone and I get really worried for her condition."
I couldn't help but stare at him in pure confusion. Why was he telling me about Lumine even though that wasn't even my question? But it does seem like Kazuha and Lumine are really close if he notices that much from her. Maybe they're a couple? For some reason, I really hope not.
"Oh, my bad, I strayed off topic. To answer your question, Lumine and I both work here, but today, she asked me to take a break and she'd fill in for me, so I'm just worried about her." He finally finishes as I notice him fixating on something, or someone, behind me. I decide to scoot over to the edge of the sofa/bench or whatever and check what he was looking at, only to notice Lumine.
Maybe they really were a couple.
I looked down at my thighs as I started to overthink about Kazuha's relationship with Lumine. I felt like someone was watching me right now, but I didn't feel like taking my eyes off my thighs. Why does that sound so weird.
"Y/n, do you know why I invited you to this cafe?" A soft voice spoke to me in a casual tune. I looked up at Kazuha and noticed him smiling warmly.
"It's because I want to treat you to some nice food, even if we're in a cafe. I noticed that at lunch, well, you don't have much to eat, so I just wanted to make sure you eat as much as you like while with me." He smiled wider as he spoke which made me get butterflies in my stomach. He really notices anything from anyone, huh?
I nod my head as to tell him that I understand and I accept. I felt bad for having to spend his money for myself, but he was being really friendly and well, I was a bit hungry since my stupid parents don't give me shit to eat and this is like a once in a lifetime experience for me.
I told him what I wanted off the menu and I looked a bit more upbeat now. He saw that and he just smiled widely at my every word and action. It kind of felt like I was being a kid that was getting served a bowl of ice cream by her parents because she did something to deserve it.
I was happy. I was actually happy with him. He was being really nice and I couldn't help but wonder why. Yes, he's an extremely nice person, but I don't see him going out with any other girls like this. Hold on...going out....date...DATE??? ARE WE ON A DATE RIGHT NOW, NO WAY. WHAT IF HE'S DATING THAT GIRL FROM BEFORE AND I'M JUST BEING DELUSIONAL, OR WHAT IF WE ARE ACTUALLY ON A FUCKING DATE. NO WAY, CAN'T BE. WE'RE PROBABLY JUST ON A LITTLE FRIEND TO FRIEND HANGOUT.....yeah....right. Okay, I'm settling on that.
"You know, I'm glad I got to go out on a date with you here. I'm really glad you agreed to come."
