JUMP BUDDIES [Tendou Satori x Reader]

Chapter 7 - Christmas Eve

"Argh, I can't take it anymore!!!" I internally screamed my frustration as my workplace was so hectic.

It was like the place was like a can full of tuna. There's too much volume of customers coming inside and the distribution of orders were falling behind. There were a lot of tables to be cleaned and dishes to be washed.

"It's just too damn stressful!!!"

"At last... I'm free!!!!!" I suddenly remembered Satori shouted the other day as he ran around the classroom like a little kid.

As usual, the redhead was full of energy even after spending the whole day of class. He was so happy that the second term was finally over.

"But I have my freaking shift on Christmas Eve!!!" my inner thoughts just revealed how agitated I was with the workload as I tried to keep myself together.

I took a deep breath for a second, trying to calm myself down. I took that chance to remind myself that my hellish struggle will finally end in less than 10 minutes.

"Excuse me, excuse me. Coming through," a customer was stumbling into the counter through the sea of other customers.

"I'm sorry, sir, but there's a line. I can't entertain you," I told him as I was busy doing some orders and filling up drinks.

"In around 5 minutes, you can," he said and I recognized his familiar voice, along with the fact that I don't need to look at him to see that loopside grin of his.

"Satori, you're bothering the other customers," I told him as I put the orders into the tray. "Here's your order, Ma'am! Have a nice meal!" I told the customer in front of me as I gave her the tray.

"After your shift ends, look for me at the leftmost table at the corner," the redhead just told me and left.

"Wait a sec----------"

I was cutted off as the customer started to give me his order. At the moment, I just kicked it off my mind in order to entertain him.

After few more minutes of continuous work, I was finally relieved off duty. Recalling about what Satori said, I looked for him.

"F/n-chan! F/n-chan, over here!" I heard the redhead called me as he stood up and waved his hand.

"Satori!" I called back as I went to him and the rest of his 3rd year teammates.

"L/n," Ushijima-san acknowledged my presence.

"Merry Christmas!" Semi-san greeted.

"You guys..." I actually didn't expect all of them to be here.

"Since we're not going home, we thought of having chicken together," Satori said. He leaned down and whispered, "C/n told me to keep his dear cousin occupied, not letting her spend Christmas Eve alone."

I was surprised. C/n decided to spend his winter break back home as usual, but I never thought he'd actually say those words to the middle blocker.

"We also bought a Christmas cake!" he happily added as I saw the strawberry shortcake on the table.

"C'mon now. Take a seat," Ohira-san warmly said.

"I'm getting hungry. Let's start eating!" Yamagata-san told us.

"Yeah!" the redhead responded.

Before we even knew it, we were enjoying eating chicken and cake at my workplace. Normally, I'd also spend the winter break back at home and spend Chrismas Eve with my family. This year's the first time that I decided to stay in the dorm and it ended up spending my first ever Christmas Eve with friends.