New thing will always happen to everyone, sometimes it's happy, sometimes it's sad, sometimes it's pain. Simply put, everything will always change.
But in the end everyone will have their own path and problems in life.
"Well that excludes me!! Aaa!!"
A cry burst from a girl who sat in front of a counter top, cd in convenience store uniform.
She gripped her hair, swaying it like a pnt blown by wind.
"All I want is something so beautiful! So cool! So heart throbbing! Not waiting in this pce, endlessly smiling on random strangers with their groceries!"
With that, she colpsed on the counter, the name tag that says "Kamachi Ai" got smooshed on the counter table.
"I hope something good will happen soon"
Like real soon
So that was what Kamachi Ai's routine looked like, woke up, went to school, then worked a part-time job at convenience store.
...
*Beep*, a sound of scanner as it scanned bunch of products one by one. Ai's hand moved very quick as if she wanted to finish it as soon as possible.
"Everything is 500 yen, would you like to use cash, card, or digital wallet?"
"Cash is fine"
As one of the customer, a middle aged man, pulled out a wallet from his pocket, then dropped a 1000 yen bill on the counter.
Wha—? Couldn't he just, you know, give 500 yen coin or something? Guhh...it's annoying!! Ai hid her frustration in front of the customer.
"So the change is 500 yen, wait here... alright here is 500 yen! Thank you for shopping here!"
The man left the store as Ai dropped back, leaned her back towards the wall. From a quick gnce, the store is practically empty, it was 9 PM so it should have fewer customer than before.
"Ahh I'm so bored, maybe I should py some games"
Quickly, her hand lunged deep into her pocket and grabbed her smartphone as she unched her favorite video game, it was a gacha rhythm game that sucked her hours of her time trying to build her team and perfecting the py.
"Alright, let's see if I can finish this chart with full combo! Come on Ai! You can do it!"
Two minutes went by, the gring sounds music can be heard across the store. Including the LIVE FAILED sound she wished to selectively hide it.
"Ahh! I lost again!!"
It's no use! Pying games even frustrate me even more!! Ai screamed inside her mind and gripped her head and swayed it in all directions, ignoring her surrounding.
Her outburst gets cut off with sudden voice that rang on her ears...that soft "Anō" snapped Ai back to working mode.
"AH—! What can I do for you?"
"Anō, do you know where the magazine section is?"
"Magazine section? Just head straight from this counter all the way to the front near the gss"
"Thank you so much! Nee, are you working here perchance? You look like same age as me!"
"Well, yeah, I'm having a part-time job here"
"Waah! You're working here? You're so hardworking! By the way, I'm Mizu, Konoda Mizu, your name?"
"Ka...Kamachi...Ai....desu"
"Kamachi-san is it? What a lovely name!"
"You too, beside...that hair pin, isn't that too much pin stuck to your hair?"
As if this girl is a walking confetti!
"Ah this? Yahh, I don't know what to pick so I just used them all!"
"Ah, I know that feeling!!"
"Right?"
Actually, I don't get that! Ai didn't want to say that out loud.
"Then, I'm gonna look for some magazine... excuse me..."
"Haa..."
Once again, Ai sit back and stretched her body for a little bit. She used to the fluorescent mps humming, drilling her ears every second. But now in front of her eyes, she watched as a girl with long hair flipped pages of magazine on her hand.
Looking from afar, she's kinda trendy...
*Brack* a pile of magazines dropped in front of Ai which startled her. Behind the mountain of it, Mizu showed her face while smiling.
"O-oi! What is this? How many magazines do you want?!"
"All of it! Tee-hee!"
"Don't just tee-hee me! Anyway, for your information, it's all a thousand yen...well today is sales day after all..."
Upon saying that, Mizu kept smiling then reached her wallet to hand Ai a bill.
Woah, finally, I don't give a cha....nge?
"The hell?! Ten thousand yen bill?! Oi! Are you serious? The magazine is just thousand yen!"
"I mean...I only brought hundred thousands yen with me..."
Crap, I didn't expect to deal with a rich kid!
Without much choice, Ai pulled up the register and handed nine thousands change to Mizu.
"Thank you for shopping here, Konoda-san"
"Me too! And by the way, my school is very close to this pce! So...let's meet again! Ai-Chan..."
Eh? She used my first name?!
Without realizing it, Ai jolted out from a smile very close to her face.
"AHh! Too close!"
"Ah! So sorry! Then, I'm leaving..."
With that, Mizu left the carrying pile of magazines in her hands.
Ai rubbed her chin as she watched the girl left. "What a peculiar girl..." She murmured with a slight frustrated face.
We'll meet again, huh...
...
*Ding* Another bell sound.
Huh? This te at night? Who else?
Ai turned her head to the left and saw the same girl who once bought a pile of magazines and used a ten thousand yen bill for thousand yen magazines.
"Eh?! You again!!? What is it now?"
"Nee, Ai-Chan..."
"I told you, we're not even friends yet and now you kept using my first name!"
"Oh? Is that how it works? Then...Kamachi-san...let's be friend from now on?"
Mizu offered Ai her hand, expecting a handshake from Ai. Ai on the other hand, still unsure whether or not to accept her as friends, reluctantly shake back Mizu's hand.
"Yeah yeah..."
What is this? Her hand is so soft...is this the power of money?
"We're now friends, surely I can call you Ai-Chan, right? Or you don't want it?"
"Do whatever you want"
"No!"
"What no?"
"We're friends, right? Why don't you say my name?"
This girl is meddlesome!!
"Mizu....chan..."
Upon hearing a word that came out of Ai's mouth, mizu couldn't help but smiled.
"So, what do you want this te at night?"
"I want some cup noodles! Can you get it for me?"
"Cooked or not?"
"Cooked! Mama never let me eat noodles...so...I don't want her to find out!"
"Fine...fine...99 ye—"
Before Ai could finish her sentence, Mizu dropped a thousand yen bill on the counter.
"Come on!! It's just 99 yen!!"
"Then just take the change!"
Eh?
"Tee-hee!"
This girl is crazy....!!
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