Muted chatterbox | Ni-Ki (Nishimura Riki) ff

02 | Hanging out with my ex friend

"Hey!!!" I heard him say as I entered the cafe that was crowded. I furrowed my eyebrows since many people started pushing into me.

Since I can't talk, I decided that I would wave my hand to try to get his attention. Nothing was working. So, I did the most effective thing I could've done in this scenario.

I pushed through every. one. of them.

I finally got to his table and then I realized, I forgot my notepad.

Crap.

Oh wait...

Right, I have my phone.
"Hey!" I heard him say, "what took you so long?"

I took out my phone and started typing:
"Oh, I don't know. You chose to come to a crowded cafe knowing that I'm mute and I can't talk nor shout and get your attention to tell you that I was stuck in a crowd of people."

"Oh I'm sorry... that was really insensitive of me"

"It's fine" I typed, smiling.

"I'm gonna go order the drinks! What do you want?"

I typed out: "Iced hazelnut mocha please!"

"Okay! I'll be back with our drinks!"

I kept my eyes on him as he walked up to the cashier and waited in line. Them out of the blue, he turned around and looked at me, giving a thumbs up and smiling like a child. I laughed again silently as he looked incredibly awkward standing alone.

After a while, he finished ordering our drinks and stood at the pickup counter, waiting for the drinks, and awkwardly stood there playing with his fingers.

Why is he so awkward? He's not like this in school lol

Then he came back to our table with our drinks.

"I'm back~" he sang

"I wonder if we're gonna be getting a partnered project or group project soon. It would be nice to work with you!"

I nodded in agreement as we continued to talk for what seemed like only an hour, but then I realized it was already dark outside.

"Oh my gosh. We should take a photo together!" He said excitedly.

"Okay, on who's phone??"

"On mine!" He replied.

"Okay".

He took out his phone and opened the camera app, stretching his hand forward on the front-facing camera.

"Ready?"

I nodded.

"3"

"2"

"1"

"Oh shit"

I looked at him confused.

"My phone is out of storage" he pouted as he proceeded to delete photos.

I looked at him and nodded understandingly. Then I looked away so I wouldn't invade his privacy.

"Okay done! Let's do it again."