Producer.

She was thinking about complicated stuff again. he could see it in the way her brow furrowed under her fringe. He knew that expression good enough. And he didn’t cared. He was glad he had happened to cross paths with her here. She was always so prompt to fall sick, always pushing herself too much.

“Sorry won’t do” he replied in a harsh tone, blue eyes fiercely staring at her “I can’t believe you haven’t learnt how to take care of yourself even after all this years! You are coming to my place so you can rest and get some decent food. No excuses.”

She had no choice but to agree to his offers. Although she still doesn’t like it because it just means that she is going to be a burden to him. And she always dislikes the thought of  making other people to worry about her. 

It’s not worth it, she thought. 

Ah, just always ; she is being scolded again. This time by her senior. 

izumi might ought to be more surprised about having the one producer of his last year of high-school here in Bellevue, and in such a place as this one. But in all honesty, he had already ran into a lot of Yumenosaki graduates to even care about it now. You just become unphased after the fifth encounter.

Now, that way of talking and of trying to rest importance to herself just made it more obvious that it was her. And that two years had made as little to help her mature as they have done to change his bitter personality.

“Yeah, so should i suppose you’re also staggering and squinting because its a new fashion of sorts?” he said, sarcasm evident in his voice. Her forehead was burning. Did she had a fever?

Quickly checking his side-bag, he produced a water bottle from it. His water bottle. But that wasn’t important now. She needed some hydratation.

“Here, drink some of this.”

" ah .. no i.. " now she regretted that she came here. if she didn't, and stay at home she wouldn't have met him. Though , deep in her heart she is really happy that she met him today.

It has been too long, and she does miss them dearly. Although she has been holding herself for not contacting them for two years.

It's not a short time.

"Sorry." She looks down. The last thing she needs to do that to make him worry more. No, she doesn't want that.

Anzu takes the water bottle from him . Pausing a little bit before she drinks the water.

The sun was not a friend of his. Wearing a black cap, long sleeves and a white mask, izumi tried to avoid both gathering attention and the merciless attack of the sun. He had a day off from work and his classes were done with, early in the morning, so he was ready to return home.

He walked down the street, phone in his hand as he checked for the latest on his social media, when he felt eyes looking at him. Looking up for a moment, he saw a very familiar face. A very familiar everything, standing not so far away from him. Wasn’t that… Anzu? What was she even doing here?

After the first moment of surprise -and even some joy he wouldn’t admit- Izumi noticed the less than healthy look in Anzu’s face.

Tucking his phone back in his jacket, izumi rushed forward towards her, as if worried she might fall to the floor any second now.

“Anzu-chan? You look awful, have you been forfeiting sleep and food again?” he asked, a concerned frown as he raised a hand to her forehead in order to check her temperature. The question as casual as if they had been apart just a couple of days and not several months.

She would never expected Izumi to come and greet her. No, to tell you the truth she isn't even sure that he is Izumi.

As surprise as she is , she would never expected to meet Izumi in here. To make it worse, in this kind of state.

She is okay if some stranger find her in this state, but to meet somebody from her high school to see her in this kind of state is just.... embarrassing.

"Of course not , I'm fine, Sena-senpai." She tries to avoid his gaze. It has been two years, but he is still the same.

He might not admit it , but Izumi often worries about people.

As she felt a hand on her forehead, she turns her head to face him.

"Don't worry about it."

She isn’t feeling well, of course that much is obvious. Again, she spends to much time planning about a costume. That she hasn’t even start yet. It was a big project for some of her clients. 

She is stupid enough to accept her classmates’ invitation to go to a cinema in Soleil. They have told her that the city is really pretty. And she couldn’t say no to them since she would feel bad for rejecting it. 

she thought that she is getting better if she just ignore her condition. But turns out that she is getting worse . Anzu couldn’t even walk straight as her vision got blurred. 

She called the meeting off last minute. And as she suspected, her classmates are disappointed with her. But it’s better if she is not with them too , right? She doesn’t speak much, and being with them is just suffocating. 

As she walks down the streets, she began to look at the people around her. Although her vision is blurred, she still can walk. Her eyes widened as she looked at a very familiar silverette. 

Anzu  lacks on sleep. She only sleeps 3-4 hours a...

(Izumi… feels the need… to take care of her…)

“Yep! Chocolate is fine by me!” Oh god, just saying that made Long Hair’s voice echo in his head, the punlord he was. fine, yes, admittedly it was just a little funny, but he didn’t want him invading even his thoughts when he was a sea away!

He shook his head to clear it, and he followed Anzu over to the counter. “Uwaa~ Cake, cake~” Tori had come to appreciate the not so fine things in life, mainly because it was so… Civilian like. It was nothing like the cakes and pastries that he was served all his life, but it was different. He remembered that Eichi liked things like that too, and of course, so did Tori now. He eyed the cake, leaning close to the glass to look even closer.

“Alright.” she smiles. She is just glad that Tori doesn’t mind that she’s buying him a chocolate cake. Though she wonders if Yuzuru allows him to eat such a thing? Usually he would just force him to eat healthy food. 

Now that she remembers Yuzuru, she finds it odd that Tori wonders around by himself.

Tori is still very child like, Anzu couldnt help but smile.

Sometimes she’s grumpy, sometimes she can’t even concentrate of what people are saying. In results getting scolded often by people. 

That clears one situation up though now Hiyori supposed she’d have to lend her the shirt. Undressing in front of everyone in a coffee shop just to give her the shirt didn’t sound too ideal though.

Um…I suppose I should follow you to the laundry right?” Or maybe she had a pair of machines back home? Speaking of which, Hiyori really should introduce herself!

“Oh by the way, my name is Hiyori Iki!”

Of course she isn’t going to the laundry, since she, herself doesn’t have some spare clothes with her.  There’s no way she would ask hiyori to come to the laundry! 

She smiles/.

“Ah, we’ll be going to my dormiory if you don’t mind? “ she smiles . “I’ll wash it for you. “

She nodded. 

“Really? That’s good! I bet it keeps you busy since your costumes were always so well designed!” Kaoru gave her a gentle smile. She was the same as always, but he could appreciate that. And she was still doing that sewing work she did back at Yumenosaki. That was good for her, since she had so many absolutely stunning designs.

“Ah, a little contact is better than none I suppose. Well now that we’ve gotten back in touch again, we should hang out sometime~. I work as a bartender at Milky Way, though I don’t think you particularly care for that sort of scene. I’m at the beach surfing frequently, maybe we can meet up there or maybe the mall. Whatever strikes your fancy, Anzu-chan~.”

Anzu chuckles. “I’m sure Kiryu-senpai and Hibiki senpai’s costumes are better than mine. “ she is happy that people lobves her costumes, but she is still far from good. 

Sewing and drawing are just one of her good points. She tries song writting, but it wasn’t never the same as she did with sewing and drawing. 

“I do go to bars with my friends sometimes.” sometimes she goes alone too, to relief her stress. “I’m not underage anymore.”

And she can do whatever she likes. 

Ahh~ Anzu was just as good as ever! Offering him cake without even a second thought, peeeer~fectly trained!

“If it’s a good cake then it shouldn’t matter too much!” He replied, smiling sweetly. “Ehehe~ Just one from here is fine, or we could go somewhere really fancy and get something! What do you think?”

She had bought the cakes in here so many times, she is certain that the cakes are tasty. Although they are cheap. She is not sure if Tori would like cheap cakes. 

No, if they go to a fancy place Tori would be the one who is paying. That’s not good. 

It was weird for her to share sweets with a stranger. But since she got two of them, so why not? Although she has always been awkward with boys and strangers to begin with. 

“uhm, if you don’t mind, do you want to share some of this cake together?” 

🍴- To invite them over for dinner. 

Anzu is in a pinch. She is not sure if the money she earned is enough for the rest of the month. So when she sees an invitation for dinner by Hiyori , she is delighted, but at the same time she is troubled. 

She fears that she might be troubling Hiyori. Although , she does accept her invitation. Feeling a little bit bad for accepting such an invitation. 

(( yes yes thank youu for this ))