III

It seems a person can't have a decent meal without a problem either. Let me explain the situation here, I walked up to the shop ready for a nice small bowl of ramen to hold me through my wait for dad to come home, which will be quite a long time, but unfortunately I bumped into a classmate of mine Kobayashi Haruto, tenth grade trouble magnet, bad luck seems to follow him around basically, who would think he works in a shop like this, actually nobody would have thought so, the Kobayashi family is quite well off meaning he doesn't have a reason to be working. Right now I'm eating my ramen but I can basically taste his anxiety as he hovers around me throughout, bringing water, cleaning my table which is already quite clean. He was quite a good actor, turns out drama classes paid of well for him, but I could tell from his sweaty palms, sweaty face, clumsiness and the way he kept looking at me while I ate that something was wrong, and I knew what was wrong but I'd rather not disturb myself with this, I paid one of the waiters and left the shop not looking back. I walk to a nearby kiosk and bye a whole bunch of noodle snacks, I literarily can't live without them, they're my life basically

"Silver, S- silver wait!" I expected him to come but not while running like life depended on it, actually his social life did but whatever, I turned around and continued not bothering to stop, I had never actually spoke to Haruto and I wasn't planning on it.

"hey" I stopped when I felt his hands on my shoulder, he caught up fast though not to the fact that I didn't want to talk to him right now, or ever

"hey so h- how's everything? Hows the family?" good grief

"get to it" I said finally turning to face him. Brief introduction of Haruto, Haruto is about 6'0 to 6'2 he's a star basket baller, school sweet heart, bot next door, stinking rich and a part time actor, any body should be able to tell that he is really popular, hence his freaking out at being seen in a shop serving food

"you, you know, you aren't gonna you know"

"I don't know"

"you are not telling anybody about this are you? Please, I'm begging you, no one can know that I actually have another job" he begged, I rolled my eyes at his pleads, I wasn't actually planning even pretending I noticed him

"if it reassures you, I wasn't planning on telling anybody as a matter of fact" I said

"really?" he asked

"yes, bye" I nodded before walking back towards my home

I know my attitude could be or is very annoying, I may be seen as a rude person, but I'm not really, I'm just a child who did not experience much emotions apart from my parents obsessing over my abnormality, you don't have to know about that yet but you'll find out later.

I got home having already emptied one of my noodle snacks. The scene I met at home though left me shocked for a while, in my living room sat my mom, dad and Lia, wait no that's Lia's parents, oi why me

"sweetie you're back, your friend and her parents came over" my mom said

'I'm friendless' I said to my mom but not directly. Story time again, every person in the world right now has a chip in their brain which they can use to talk to anyone in the world, we still message but not as much, I use it a lot when I'm not interested in saying anything or when I'm just lazy

'that's not true' she replied all the while smiling

'say what makes you fall asleep at night mom' I dropped my snacks in the cupboards in the kitchen before going upstairs, I was very ready to continue my video games or go to sleep, or listen to music to block out the try hard laughter by both sets of parents.

"hey silver!" suddenly I wish I could've stayed with Haruto

'mom?!'

'just go with it dear, make friends or get closer with her you know' she cut the link before I could say anything else, why does everyone think I know, I don't know.

"why are you still at the door, come on in" Lia said already sitting on my bed, God so help her. I reluctantly walked in closing the door as well

"what do you want to do" she asked

'bury you'

"video games"

"cool let me join you" she said sitting on the floor with me, I sighed handing her one of the controls before starting the game, it was a really nice game though, I was the highest collector, it's a fantasy game and I you have teams but I play alone in the game why? Well that's simple, I wouldn't accept the cockiest, stupidest guy in the game to be in my team so I play alone but now I have this idiot with me so it's a duet.

"so how do you play?" she doesn't know how to play? Good grief

"you'll see as we move along".

We've been playing for about thirty minutes and I'm about to crack, why?, I'm loosing this big time, I'm literarily second place right now because Lia gave most of our collections to the cockiest and stupidest person in the game, right now we were in a fight against the head of another group over the last collection, if I got this one, I win finally.

"wait, I know how to resolve this easily" I looked at her for a while before shrugging and letting her do her thing, she went towards the head and handed him the last collection, I was frozen for a few minutes before I began to crack, I was almost done when the other group exploded, it was a bomb collection with a limited time to get it back to your own kingdom

"that actually? Happened?" I asked looking at the screen

"I didn't think that would happen oh well at least we still won"

'mom come get her or you'll be picking her from North America'