A Late Celebration (Rosey)

Right, just go in. Go in... he told himself for the third time. He was piss-poor broke and he needed money. Get in! Seriously if he was standing here all the time, he wondered how he managed to pass school and how he managed to get all the earlier jobs done. It wasn't like the woman would bite him or so if he did not fit the job. Huh, Akiva ever applying for a bakery job... it was a funny story. He couldn't stay on Lilith her couch forever, nope he really needed to go and get better jobs, better income and this seemed suitable, this seemed nice. It was something fun to try. How to convince one to work there though? He couldn't really cook or bake well. But he was motivated and okay with early mornings. Yea, see that was a great way to start.

Right before he entered the store, someone pushed him aside and pushed the door open in a hurry. Akiva heard a bump and rolled his eyes. Seriously he had to count to ten to not go and yell at this person. "Oi, you blind? Say you are sorry." He grunted at the young man that was before him before offering a helping hand to the girl that fell. Oh shit, oh man her cupcake, eeeeh should he offer to buy a new one? How expensive could a cupcake be? He might make a good impression on the owner of this shop, aye? Riiight? He would see, "Eh you okay?" He said to the girl, moving his hand through his blue hair... wait what would the woman say about blue hair? He wasn't going to dye it back! The man had ignored him and seriously he was itching to pull him back and say sorry to the girl, some people were ridiculous.

"Let me help you up though, it's not a place for a young lady to be on the ground." But he was broke and her cupcake, seriously. Maybe he should grab the man at his collar and tell him to buy her a new cupcake or smack him in the.. no wait not inside. But he would first ask if she was okay and he smirked at her when he helped her up. He followed her example and would help clean but well even if it had fallen and smashed into the window of the door, there wasn't much to clean up from a small cupcake so he just stood there with napkins.

When she introduced herself and made a compliment to his dyed blue hair, his smirk only become bigger and he moved his hand through his hair, showing off his vanity without thinking. "Thanks, dyed it myself." It took a few seconds before he realized that she had introduced herself and he didn't, "Oh I am Akiva." Call me Aki, but he didn't say that because he didn't like it that much. Oh man, the cupcake was for her birthday, "Ah I am looking for a job." He said and told her to wait for a second and he cut the line before the man that had so rudely bumped into her and ordered a cupcake for her. Yes Akiva was absolutely the biggest childish jerk in this facility now but he bought a new cupcake and hurried back to Misa. "Happy belated birthday." He grinned at her. Rip his 350 yen but he would survive without. He still did not have to pay rent and he might Lilith for some feedback on what he should do and maybe this woman here was really nice. Maybe he could try the gym on the opposite side of the plaza. He didn't know, no time to think about it.

Now really, he had always been convinced that he was a gentleman. Outright calling him out in his face was just not something he was prepared for. No, he was tough, he was amazing, but ehm, you know, not eh.. he blushed... albeit it wasn't much visible. His pinks just had a slight shade of pink, "Thanks." He liked compliments for sure so that she had complimented that he did his own hair and it looked good, that saved him from looking like an idiot. But right, he had to do something. It was her belated birthday so he would have an idea. Rip, so much yen that he got in his pocket but it was for a good cause. It was also helping him distract from you-know knocking the other guy senselessly. Because people nowadays did not tolerate that for such an act. So all he did was cut the line in front of the jerk, buy one cupcake. He should have bought two to make it less awkward but he had not realized until he came over and offered it to her.

"Nah I had to, its your birthday cupcake, you have to have one." He brushed his hand again through his hair and well they could go and sit somewhere. He would probably have to wait for the line to be done before he would grab the attention of eh... what was her name again? He had it somewhere, written in his phone. Anyway he should pay attention to Misa as she was talking to him. "None taken." He quickly said to show that he paid attention and that he wasn't offended at all, no one expected it. Not even himself but it was a nice and distracting job to be in the kitchen where no one bothered you with stupid things. He intertwined his own fingers to hide his tallies when she mentioned him as a trainer or boxer and he grinned at her and shook his head. "I want to do something more original and sorta outgoing than that. I hope to get more patience by baking and meet more people than just the person I would train or your boxing manager types."

He blushed a little again and moved his hand to the back of his neck, "I don't really have one. They said to come for an interview so that's why I just showed up." He wasn't even good at talking about himself in the sense of a job or past experience, he could talk about himself alright but probably not properly.

He blew the piece of hair in front of his eyes away to do something with himself. "Well you better not." He eventually said out loud and grinned at her. "But why didn't you celebrate your birthday... on your birthday?" That was a strange sentence to say. He was wondering about it, he didn't care about his birthday at all but that did not mean that no one else did, which was also why he was surprised, it was belated and she was here alone? Hm, who knows, but god she was teasing him wasn't she? She stuck out her tongue to him and he shook his head, moved his hand through his hair again but grinned. Oh well, who cared. He nodded when she invited him to sit with her and he would remain there. He let out a soft chuckle when she said so, "Alright, I hope you keep a close eye on me then." But he would learn about it. He never got the patience, heck he still felt like hitting this guy at the back of his neck, smacking him after that on the back of his head but he did not. Rather patient, don't you think? But he obviously couldn't say that out loud. He rubbed his hands and simply sat there at the small table in the corner. Looking around him a lot at what people were eating and what he hoped he would accomplish. He explained to Misa why he did not want to be a personal trainer even though he looked the part for that.

Everything seemed to go so weird, so new to him as she split the cupcake and shoved a part over the table towards him. Asking him to share with her, hm... who was the last person who did that? Not counting Lily offering her couch or him taking it but maybe it still was Lilith, back in high school. He did not want to think about it. "You sure?" Was thus the thing he asked before simply taking it. He moved his hand over the back of his neck, hyper aware of the stripes on his knuckles as she said so. He wasn't nice, he wasn't anything but nice. Though his mask was sitting nicely today.

He nodded, "Might be useful. I never really had an interview." The luxury of working in the army... or well going to school before being kicked out and wandering the streets and getting paid for the shady jobs... yea job interviews have not really been his thing. "You have any idea what they normally ask of you?" Was he too old for a job interview for the first time in his life? Would they complain about the lack of experience in literally anything?

Akiva was rather interested how people not celebrate their birthday and now do it on their own. He did not celebrate his own, he had nothing to celebrate and no one to celebrate it with. So he just skipped doing it, he knew his day and age and all but why care. He frowned a little, "And you don't mind?" He was a little surprised, he had always felt so angry with that and with his father had done. "No problem though," he really did not mind being here and help her company wise, more he could not do. But seriously he had to let go the bad part and just focus on the here and now. He was going to take this one step at a time, get that job, payback Lilith and just be better.

He grinned at Misako and nodded, "Very good strategic plan." She then brought up the sharing of the cupcake and he asked if she was sure and he nodded, "Maybe a little." He gave her a smile and decided to take it. He tried to keep the smile on his face when she kept on giving him advice. This wasn't going to be easy, was it? He nodded, "You know interviews like that sound very difficult, cuz they never accept if you say you just want to work and earn something in society." He sighed because that was all he could do at this point. What were his strengths in normal society? His weaknesses were kind of obvious but there was just so much going on in his life that changed that he had no idea what to make of it now and probably forever. "I feel like a lost case, will just saying I like baking be enough?" Again a sigh and he moved his hand through his hair, and frowned, he needed to think of answers. His previous answers now felt stupid.

Was he really worrying too much? Who wanted to hire a criminal, not that they knew it would be him, he had used other names, he had used his real surname but now, for some reason, he couldn't even remember. His passport and all said Xerxes, obviously fake, he didn't have these roots, he was half Chinese, all he knew. He would one day figure it out, when he got a job and his own place to stay instead of bunkering on Lilith's couch, okay well that's a matter of speech, he stayed in her guest room. "Okay, okay well I like that." He muttered and thought about it while trying to focus on what Misa more had to say, okay other features, she suggested a hard worker or always on time. Yea, yea he was punctual but on most days. He moved his hand through his blue hair again when she complimented him. Not used to it, it made him look away and not know what to say.

Right, okay so where to start, "Okay, I can say, I am a hard worker, because I am, I am enthusiastic about baking?" His blue eyes turning to Misa to see if that made sense to say or was a bit too much. But he felt lost and that's what he said and when she answered that, he looked at her, straight into her eyes with an empty expression on his face when she joked, but he couldn't help in the end to laugh about it. "Good, good. I hope your quirk is right then." It was a joke, he knew it, it was obvious by her posture and how she talked she made a joke. But joking about quirks, couldn't that be dangerous? People here must like it, the owner of the place after all was obviously quirked, but in general you never knew. "Most interesting quirk for sure."

He liked Misa's enthusiasm, "Oh yes, if I get the job, you should come here, I will ask the boss if I can show you around and we can bake something together. After all, I would have to find a way to thank you!" He grinned at her, and wanted to support her with the idea of joining the cooking club at her school, so that was something. She was sure it would be allowed on easy days, or well so he hoped. He hoped this place was going to be fun and not too uptight. He hoped this place would be the right place for him and not mind his tattoos on his shoulders, the stripes on his knuckles and everything, he just wanted to be able to hope for it.

"Oh yea, shit good point." He got up and looked a little anxiously at the counter. The people in the line were all gone. "Well happy belated birthday still Misa. I hope you bump into me here more often so you can tell me all about the cooking club, alright?" He said goodbye, and tried to stay nonchalant as he walked to the counter and talked to the lady behind it and told her about the interview he had. He looked over his shoulder as he was lead back behind the counter to give a thumbs up to Misako and would just disappear for his interview. Well, that was something to be considered.