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8. Rain

Author's notes: I typed this out at 3 am in last night on my phone, and I hoped you guys enjoy it as I haven't had much time or writing inspiration to update frequently. Merry Christmas to my dear readers too, and Happy New Year!

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8.

GoGo Tomago hates the rain.

She doesn't mind it that much when she's in a building, staring at it from the other side of the window. She doesn't mind it that much when she's tearing down the street on her motorbike, and the raindrops fall harmlessly on her (she can't feel it much anyway, with her helmet and leather jacket on). She doesn't mind it that much even when she's running down the street while it's raining, without an umbrella (even though the occasional cold and flu that follow aren't that welcome.)

She minds it very much, though, when it's raining heavily- the sky thick with a sea of grey, and she's stranded at an empty bus stop with a set of very important blueprints in her hands (1). GoGo's spent two weeks on it, stayed up to 3 am noting down and finalising everything, and it's deemed too valuable to leave behind in the lab.

She regrets that move now, because she has neither an umbrella nor a bag and she's not risking running through the rain to get home, even if it's only a ten minute walk from here. It's too far to go back to the lab, and GoGo decides she's well and truly stuck. She sighs and shivers, deciding she really needs to get a leather jacket that defended her from the cold (2).

"GoGo?" GoGo looks up in surprise when her name is called. The bus stops' been empty for the whole time she's stayed there, and the last bus had left long ago. Yet someone's calling her name, and while her first instinct is to punch whoever's doing so, closer inspection of the tall figure holding an umbrella above her tells GoGo it's Tadashi Hamada.

"Tadashi?" She echoes back incredulously. Today's been one of her latest nights at the lab, and everyone had went home hours ago- Tadashi being the second latest. Again. She certainly doesn't expect to see him in front of her now (It's almost 4 in the morning).

"What are you doing here?!"

"You gave your bag to Honey Lemon and it was raining, so I thought you might have been stranded or something."

"I could have stayed at the institute," GoGo points out.

"You'd be too tempted by your bed-" She glares at him. "Besides, you know you'd get into trouble if Honey Lemon comes in early and finds out you didn't get home."

It's true (her earlier experiences of tricking Honey into believing she went home earlier than she actually did hadn't boded well for GoGo. She knows Honey cares for her health, but there was just some work she simply couldn't leave lying around undone), GoGo has to give Tadashi that, and it makes her think that sometimes, her best friend knows her better than she knows herself

"I remembered you told Honey Lemon to bring back your bag for you because you were leaving the lab in an hour, disregarding the fact that your phone and umbrella were in there." He raises his eyebrows. "And that it was troublesome to carry it back while you were lugging all your equipment home."

GoGo rolls her eyes, knowing that he's aware she never intended to leave in merely an hour, and that depositing her bag in Honey Lemon's hands (along with the lie that she would be bringing her equipment back home) was to convince the latter to leave earlier so that she could avoid her chiding for staying up so late (She definitely hadn't expected such a heavy rain, and she decides maybe it's karma).

"Was the only way to get her to leave earlier, (3)" GoGo grunts. "Never knew I was going to stay so late anyway. Should have just slept in the lab or something, but the idea of a warm bed was too tempting-" She yawns.