Catching Up (Open)

Catching Up (Open) May 4, 2021 22:19:18 GMT -4

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Post by Junko Suzume on May 4, 2021 22:19:18 GMT -4

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JUNIER OF GS + ADOX

Today was a bit of an..interesting day, to say the least. For the past few weeks, Junko had been waiting on the results of her application to UA. Today had been the day it had arrived in the mail. And yet..she hadn't been able to bring herself to open it. Not at home, at least. If she was going to open the letter, then it only made sense to do it at the place where the needle had finally picked a direction to swing in. The day that the dead had risen, Junko had been here, in the Shopping District of Musutafu with a few friends.

It was where she had first saved someone. It made sense to her to be opening the letter out here. But if she had come out to the shopping district simply to feel comfortable opening her letter, then why was she sitting at one of the outdoor tables of a bubble tea lounge, idly messing with a little fidget cube? Why not just make an order, open the letter, and leave? It was simple. That wasn't the main reason she had come here. In fact, coming here today hadn't even been her own idea.

Graduation had changed many things. Some of her old friends had gone straight into the work force. Others continued living with their parents for one reason or another. But some things hadn't changed. The massive group chat that she had been in ever since joining the track and field team of her old middle school was still going strong.

The chatter had gone down in the past few months, but it was obvious that the chat wasn't truly dead yet. With the new school year fast approaching, a handful of people had tossed an idea into the group chat. They wanted to meet up here, at the tea lounge, chat about things before they all got swept up by their respective choices in life. It had been an idea that Junko was all for. They had picked the day and the place..but Junko admittedly couldn't remember what time they had specified to meet up, and searching the group chat hadn't really helped. So that was why she was here so early in the day. The lunch rush hadn't even happened yet. So where was everyone? They had to be showing up soon. The cube was about the only thing keeping her sane right now, as it gave her something to focus her boundless energy on, arranging and rearranging it into various shapes. But it was only going to help for so long. She could feel herself getting more and more antsy..and she could only claim to be waiting for her friends for so long before she was told to leave...

tl;dr: Upon request of a group text, Junko arrived at a local tea shop to meet up with some friends and friends of friends from middle school for some casual chatter and catching up, but arrived well before anyone else, and is having trouble sitting still.

Catching Up (Open) May 8, 2021 23:30:12 GMT -4

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Post by Donburi Kyabetsu on May 8, 2021 23:30:12 GMT -4

'"Go explore your new town," Senshi said, "You gotta learn the lay of the land just in case." My ass,'

Donburi, like the early bird he was, had been out and about early this morning. The night before, he'd had a discussion with his longtime friend Senshi about Musutafu. Being born and raised in Tokyo, Don had only recently looked into the city that he had moved to for school. To learn the sights and avoid looking lost, Senshi recommended that Don hop on a bus, ride it to a random stop, then explore the area.

At first, the idea turned out to be a lot of fun. He learned about a whole bunch of shops and places that he didn't realize the city had. After a while, Don was ready to go home. He sat down at the bus stop in the shopping district and waited, only expecting to be sitting around for five minutes. Eventually, those five minutes turned into ten, then twenty, and before long, Don had been sitting and waiting for a bus to arrive for 45 minutes.

A third party may suggest, "Hey Don, why don'tcha check your phone to see if the bus got delayed?" - which Don would've done in a heartbeat - if his phone hadn't died. He forgot to plug it in overnight, which only meant agony and suffering for the normally patient teen. Patience could only last for so long.

Thus, Don had no other choice but to wait, though at this point he probably could have walked back to UA before anybody showed up. With no phone, nobody around to chitchat with, and no sign of a bus in the immediate future, Donburi had literally nothing to do but sit around.

Fortunately, there was some girl across the street who seemed to be in a similar predicament. She arrived at the cafe across the street just a few minutes after Don started his bus camp out, and she sat alone fidgeting with some kind of cube pretty much the whole time. She didn't have anything at the table with her other than the cube and her phone, which she checked every now and then. The whole thing was kind of odd considering where she was at. Isn't that loitering?

Don didn't mean to watch her, but whatever she was doing with the cube was infinitely more interesting than sitting around waiting for a bus that seemed like it was never going to show. As she checked her phone again, Don had an idea. Maybe she could tell him when the next bus was supposed to show up.

He cupped his hands and yelled across the street, "Hey, you at the cafe, could you check and see what's up with this bus?" Don held up his phone and pointed at it as he continued yelling, "My phone's dead and I've been waiting here for like an hour," It was a bit uncharacteristic of Don to draw attention to himself like that, but he didn't care. He just needed something to happen before he lost his mind.