Pigtailed

      The question definitely surprises him, and he doesn’t try and hide that from his expression. Head tilts to the side, a soft hum in question as his gaze doesn’t break from hers. Finally, his mouth shapes into an ‘o’ when he realized just who she was talking about. Perhaps it was just … different. He hadn’t expected one of his fangirls ( he really didn’t like calling them that… ) to address the others like that … weren’t they friends ? He might feel bad for it later, but amusement flashes in his gaze, a weary chuckle escaping his lips before he can hide it. He felt relieved too, enough to relax further into her company. “ I was able to distract them with something else, for the time being. I’m not too fond of tricking people like that … ” A hand rubs the back of his neck sheepishly. “ I don’t want to hurt their feelings. ”

     “ O-Oh, no, please, not at all. ” His earlier discomfort diminishes and the boy settles back into his seat. “ I’m actually quite glad. I don’t believe we’ve spoken much before. ” Not alone like this, and definitely without the … admiration. It’s something he hasn’t seen from her this day, however, and that is enough to catch his attention. 

 “ Are you into games, Nonaka-san ? I don’t think I’ll be as impressive as you are on mario, unfortunately, ” He chuckles at that.“ But I’m rather knowledgeable with most others myself. W-Well, mostly with table top .. it’s a big hobby of mine. ”

She finds herself snorting. She wonders just what he used to distract them. Then again, he could tell those girls to stare at a lamp post and they’d listen to their favorite Bakura-kun. Anything for him. The girls were a handful and Kaiya often found herself wanting to hit her head against a wall listening to them go on and on about their schemes to get Bakura-san the next time or how they argued over who was going to end up dating him, marrying him even. It was kind of creepy, Kaiya felt bad for him really, having to deal with them. They were good girls but their intentions were not very comforting to him she’d have to bet. 

“Sometimes you just got to trick people or hurt their feelings so they’ll take the hint.” She stares him down and gives him a soft smile. This is why she wanted to be his friend, he was nice and he liked games. He didn’t want to hurt the feelings of girls who had been stalking him nonstop since he had come here. He was seriously a good person. “Y’sure?” She blinks a few times and then nods her head, watching him settle back into his seat. She didn’t mind leaving if he had wanted her to. “We actually haven’t really spoken at all. Maybe a hello in passing. This is our longest conversation.” Hell, it might be her longest conversation with anyone. She never really had a chance to get a word in with him with all the fans of his around.

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It’s a simple room with lots of desks and a few bookshelves lined with activities and plans for the school year. Not a place Ryou often spent time, since he didn’t really want to be in that position– he often hid out in the art room; however, he’d just set everything in their place and straightened himself to stand upright and dust off his hands when Kaiya began to speak. ❝Ah, different classes have different free times. It’s a shame though I think there could be more fun if we could mix more, but it is how it is.❞  

He’d closed the space between them as he headed back towards the door and tilted his head curiously. ❝You’ve not? It’s one of my–❞ That– that caused him to pause. The way she said it set him suddenly on edge. From friendly chit-chat to suddenly someone or a group looking for him. ❝And you’re not going to tell them?❞ He’s wary of her– as he is most of the girls in school. Would it be too much just to tell them he wasn’t interested?   

She uses her time as she waits for him to speak again to check out the room some more. It wasn’t what she expected but then again, she didn’t know what to expect to begin with. Then she finds her eyes trailing back to him as he begins to speak again. She nods her head, hands moving to clasp behind her back as she does so. “Mm. Yeah. We normally have our free periods the first day of the week, having it in the middle is an interesting change really. You’re right though, it’d make things more fun to have some classes have free periods at the same time so everyone could mingle and such.” 

He hands over the money, a grin on his own face at the fact that he remembered her name. Mainly because it was thrown around with the rest of Ryou’s fangirls. But that didn’t mean much to Jou; he’d meet plenty of fangirls in the past and most were pretty cool. 

Jou gave a laugh. A lot of students did that, in fact Anzu had at one point. He was lucky enough to be part of the rare group of students given permission to work. “ Your secret is safe with me. ” He wouldn’t do that to someone - even if he didn’t like them. Everyone had a reason for their secret job and he’d turn a blind eye. 

“ It was good. ” He paused, glancing around to see if his waitresses was around. He usually wouldn’t do this, but he didn’t like being dismissed or being ignored as he felt he was. “ Is my waitress new, by change? ” 

He hoped she was, that might explain a few things.

She takes the money from him and puts it into the register, then waits for a recipt to print out before handing it over to him with a smile staying bright on her lips. She wasn’t used to people remembering her name like that. Most people got it wrong or butchered it. She got called Nobaka once, pissed her off a little bit there. 

She arches a brow at his sudden laugh, but then she finds herself giggling a little bit as well. It was funny that she had a secret job. She was a rule breaker, though she was sure she wasn’t the only one at school that was breaking this rule. “Good. ‘Cause if it wasn’t, you’d be getting some major payback.” She gives him the meanest look she can muster, jokingly of course, and the look isn’t even that mean because she has such a mousy face that it just makes her look silly. “...Kidding.” She giggles again and shakes her head. 

“That’s good to hear. The chefs here work really hard on the food.” They loved their job more than the others that worked here, well, Kaiya liked working here when she wasn’t having to pull the whole load when she wasn’t supposed to do that. “Ah..” She frowns at the question. Did his waitress mess something up? Now she is intrigued. 

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With how natural and calm she’s acting Ryou himself is slowly relaxing. Granted he wasn’t like this around every girl, no, but he did happen to know the faces of the girls who followed after him. Though he is ever glad that the load has been reduced drastically and he cups the remaining ones against his breast before brushing past. The council room was fairly empty but they’d asked for the books to be placed upon a small shelf in the corner. Easy enough. So Ryou would direct Kaiya towards the spot. Setting them down finally does he place his hands upon his hips and stretch a little. ❝I’ve not seen you out at this time. Did you have a free period, too?❞  

“Y’wanna try it?” She holds out her portable gaming console, smile tugging at her lips. She is always eager to get other people hooked on games. It’s just super smash bros and it is super fun. “Who knows? You might end up liking it a whole lot.”