Yamada was sitting just across from me in a booth staring at me, inside the pizza shop where I had only planned to pick up an order, and now we were both talking, of course it was Yamada who had begged to talk with me as it was nearly the end of her shift, so I stayed around for another 20 minutes until her shift was over.
Yamada took off her cap and laid it on the table to her right, and took a sip of cola from her cup before speaking.
"I'm surprised to see you here Sato, on my first day of all times too. What brought you here, besides the pizza of course?"
I shuffled in my seat uncomfortably, nervously tapping my index finger on the table. All I wanted to do was just get this conversation over with and leave, it wasn't like we were friends, I was just staying because I felt obligated to.
Suddenly Yamada waved her hand in front of my face, unpleased with my silence.
"Hey, hello, earth to Sato, are you there?"
"Eh?- Y-Yeah sorry, uh I came here because the reviews were decent enough, and this place was super close to my house so I thought I might as well come here."
"I see how practical."
"You said you started work today, right?"
Yamada put her hand to her cheek and supported her head on it as she spoke, rubbing her eye with her other hand as she spoke.
"Mhm, my mother decided it would be good for me to get out of the house and get a job, so I did that, this place is about a 10 minute walk from my house so It's actually quite convenient."
Yamada took out her phone her hand still supporting her head, and took a picture of the pizza in front of her, it was just a plain cheese pizza with nothing else on it, of course because she worked here she got the pizza for a discount, she picked up a slice from her box, gooey cheese stretched and snapped off from the pizza as she took a bite.
"So, you're not wearing your glasses."
"Yep, I'm wearing contacts, thought I would look more presentable without glasses for my first day, honestly the work I'm doing is not too strenuous, I just have to work in the afternoons from Tuesday to Thursday a little more than an hour after I get done with school."
I stopped to check the time on my phone, it was 6:46, we had been talking for quite a while
"When I get back home I think I'm going to pick back up a book that I used to read, or maybe I'll just play video games, I really don't know what I should do."
'Huh, she can be a real blabber mouth by the looks of it' I thought to myself
"I love video games too, I usually play them whenever I have free time. I have a computer and a somewhat old video game console, a Nin 63."
Yamada's eyes shot open as soon as I uttered the words "nin 63" she immediately sat up out of her seat, leaned over the table and grabbed my shoulders with an extremely excited grin on her face.
"CAN I SEE IT?"
Everyone inside the store stopped what they were doing and stared at us, I flinched as soon as she touched me and tried to escape her grasp to no avail, an embarrassed blush started to creep up into my face as is probably a normal reaction to a girl gorilla gripping your shoulders and causing a scene. Yamada, realizing what she just did, immediately let go of me covering her face with both her hands whilst making noises that would be assumed to be that of a koala's voice.
After everyone stopped staring we promptly scarfed down our pizza's and went outside. It was much cooler than it had been moments ago, so the walk home wouldn't be too bad, plus i wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, the people inside were still giving us strange looks after what happened.
Yamada put her phone in her pocket, it looked like she just texted her mother saying she was heading home, she turned towards me and put her hand out palm facing up.
"What…?"
"Well I mean, I need your phone if I want your contact information, right?"
I looked at her, dumbfounded, did she actually want to visit my house just to see an outdated game console?
"I didn't even agree with you coming to see it, calm down."
She took off her hat, set it down on a bench nearby, and turned in my direction once more.
"Can I please come to your house?"
"Phrasing."
"May I please come to your house, to look at your game console, and perhaps even play a couple of games with you on it?"
I crossed my arms, and looked down at the sidewalk, closing my eyes and sighing before I reluctantly took out my phone and unlocked it.
"Just be quick."
Yamada put her hands to her mouth, clearly trying to cover up the signs of a child like glee trying to escape her. She quickly took out her own phone and took a picture of my contact information, and put it back.
"Thank you Sato, I'll see you Saturday, yeah?"
"Uh, yeah sure."
She turned around, and walked down the street as I stared at the back of her head, for someone who looked quite nerdy she has a shit ton of extroverted energy, surprisingly despite that the talk we had was quite fun, we talked about school, what we liked to do during the weekends, I even made fun of how plain her pizza was, much to her dismay.
When she got around the corner and disappeared behind it, that's when I realised something, something was off about her attire.
"Crap, her hat."
I grabbed it off the bench she left it on with haste, and sprinted as fast as my legs could carry me down the street she went down, but she was gone, and she had my information, but I didn't have hers so I couldn't tell her to come back.
Noticing how exhausted I was, I took a deep breath and sat on the pavement. I really needed to get more exercise.
And I also really needed to get this hat back to her.
*****
I was sitting on my couch back home, watching TV while drinking a bottle of soda that I had left in the fridge. When my phone vibrated, I checked my phone and saw that I had gotten a text message.
Yamada Hana : [Hey hotshot, what's up.]
Huh, so she couldn't even wait till tomorrow to begin talking to me? I was already socially drained so I doubt I would be a good person to have a conversation right now, but whatever.
Sato Masaichi : [Nothing much, right now im just relaxing because today has been exhausting.]
Yamada Hana : [Cool.]
Yamada Hana : [Have you seen my hat? im pretty sure I left it on the bench outside]
I took a picture of her hat, I had left it on my coffee table right in front of the tv, and clipped it to my message.
Sato Masaichi : [Yeah I have it, wanna come pick it up in the morning at my house?]
Yamada Hana : [Are you inviting me, a girl, to come over to your house after we just met not even a day ago?]
Yamada Hana : [Pervert.]
…?!?!
I put my phone down and facepalmed myself out of pure embarrassment, whatever antics she was pulling, I was not a fan of it.
Sato Masaichi [Why?]
Yamada Hana : [Chilax I'm just teasing you, I can imagine the look on your face right now, It's halarious.]
Sato Masaichi : [Do you want your hat or not?]
Yamada Hana : [Yes I do want it, I need it to go to work.]
Sato Masaichi : [You are required to wear that hat?]
Yamada Hana : [Yes.]
Yamada Hana : [Im going to go now, I got some things I need to do, I'll see you tomorrow, by the way where do you live?]
I gave her the location of where I lived, and we left our conversation at that
I stood up from the couch, and threw my empty soda bottle into the garbage, and walked to my room, and sat down on my computer, Yammy was online, I put my fingers on my keyboard and began typing.
Gracious_13 : {Yo whats up, how was work?}
Yammy09 : {It was as boring as watching paint dry.}