I met up with Mikayla at North Ridgemont Mall, in a bookstore. I saw her looking around the comics section.
"Hey," I said, walking up to her. "What are you doing in the comic section? I never thought of you as the type to like comics?" I say
"Idiot. We've been friends for like, five-to-six years and you never knew?" She said in a kind-of upset manner, "What is wrong with you?"
"Well, we never really went to a bookstore together when we hung out, just chill," I say, smirking.
"Makes sense, now, come with me, I know you like comics as well, so let's look for something to buy while we're talking about our crushes, well, if that's fine with you." She suggested while looking at me, then looking back at the section of Marvel comics.
"That's fine with me." I say, walking to the Manga section of the bookstore.
"So, what's in Sandy that made you like her?" She asks, then moved to the DC Comics section, then added "Why is it called DC Comics, when DC means Detective Comics, so is it Detective Comics Comics?" She said to mess with me.
"Well, first of all, the thing with Sandy, is that she's honest (well, she sometimes hides secrets) and short, and pretty for a shorty." I said, "And for the second question, how will I know that?" I answer her.
"So you like short girls, huh?" She said as she only focused on that part of the answer I gave her."
"Yeah, what about it?" I look at her, confusedly, holding a volume of 20th Century Boys by Urasawa Naoki
"Well, I guess you can say that about the girls I like as well." She says.
"It's pretty obvious since you like Karah," I say, "How about you? I only know that you like short girls, but care to tell me more?" I ask while I look through the bookshelf full of volume 1s of stories I like, specifically the Japanese version of comics.
"Well, I like girls who are extroverted to the core, like, easy and outgoing girls are the cutest beings on the face of the planet." She says
"I like mine introverted," I say, "But do you have a specific preference for girls, like blondes, ginger, auburn, or something?" I asked her.
"I like any hair color, any hairstyle, any height as long as they've got a good personality."
"Oh, you don't mind anything in particular? That's nice."
"Yeah, yeah, I know." She said as she grabbed an issue of Days of Future Past and an issue of Watchmen, She then asked, "Have you got something to pay for? Everything's on me today."
I gave her a surprised expression, "What? Really?" I ask her, making sure she isn't bluffing.
"Yeah! I'm the one who invited you out here in the first place." She assured me, "Now show me what you got."
I gave her an English boxed set of Monster, and she then looked at me with despair and frustration because she was paying for it. I smile at her to piss her off more.
"You know what, we'll split it." She said, then walking to the counter
"What?! You said that you'll pay for it." I ran up to her and turned around to look her in the eyes, But she wasn't looking back, annoyed.
"We're splitting it. While you, you treat me in the restaurant we're going to go to after this." She looked at me menacingly as we both walked to the counter to pay for the comics we picked out. I removed my wallet from my pocket and removed $56 dollars and 5 cents since it was priced at 112.99.
"Alright, we're splitting it right?" I ask her
"Yeah." She answered as she pulled out her wallet and took out the exact amount I got.
As we finished paying for the things we got, I grabbed my plastic bag as she grabbed hers and continued to walk out of the bookstore
"Alright, where do you want to eat and talk about how to confess to both girls?" I ask her.
"Oh, oh! Uh. I can't pick between Wendy's or KFC."
"Let's just go with KFC. I want their Rice Bowl." I suggested.
"Yeah, no, same. I want their chicken tenders," She says as she laughs at what she said,
"What's funny?" I asked as I looked at her, gripping the plastic bag in my right hand
"Oh, nothing, it's just that Tenders makes me laugh." She answered
"Weird." I say
We walked to the nearest escalator, which is a very long walk perhaps since it's a big mall, and the nearest escalator was next to a JC Penney, which is far away from the bookstore itself, KFC is on the fourth floor where most of the restaurants are placed. As we reached the escalator to the second floor, we hopped onto it and started making our way up the mall. We got off and went on the next one, the same thing we did, hop off, then started walking to KFC. The sign was bright and we can see the big window of the restaurant itself, we were close. As we reached KFC, we went inside and sat on an empty table with sofa chairs. The chairs are comfortable and it feels good to rest my tired feet from walking that long.
"God, that feels amazing," Mikayla said as she sat down next to me
"I know right? now, what do you want to order? It's on me today since we split the books that we bought, or I, myself bought. We just had to split it" I say, smirking at the fact that she had to pay for it as well.
"I want some chicken tenders and a rice bowl." She answers me, "And be glad that this is how you will pay me back unless you want to pay me in cash."
"Nah, I'm good, I'll pay you back with food." I said
"Fair."
I look at my watch on my right wrist and it says that the time is currently 3:00 pm, it surprised me that we spent 2 hours in the bookstore itself. But I didn't mind, I look up and I saw the waitress coming up to our table, she looks pretty.
"Hello! May I take your order?" The waitress asks us, looking at Mikayla first.
"Oh!" Mikayla lets out, her face turning red, she looks at me and moves her eyes, telling me to look at the waitress, I gave her a slight nod, then looked back and answered the waitress, "Oh, I'd want some chicken tenders and a rice bowl, and for the drink, give me a diet coke, please. Thank you so much."
"Alrighty," she said while writing down what Mikayla wanted, "How about for the boyfriend?" she said as she looked at me
"What?" We both replied in shock, "No, no! We're not dating, we're just friends." I said
"Oh, my bad, sorry!" She apologized for the mistake,
"It's fine, and for my order, I would just want a sisig rice bowl, please, thank you." I said, then I added, "She thinks that you're beautiful,"
The waitress blushes, looking at Mikayla, who blushed as well and looks at me with an annoyed face, then looks back at the waitress
"Hi."
"Hi," the waitress said back, then walking back to the counter,
"What the fuck was that, Michael!" She shouted in a discreet manner.
"Well, it looked like you are into her," I say, smirking, whilst still looking at her flustered face
"Shut up!"
"You should ask for her name and number, next."
"Again, Shut the fuck up, Michael!"