After her only guardian passes away, a childish 20 year old woman named Momoko moves to Tokyo city to start learning how to live independently. While Momoko adapts to adult life in the city and struggles with living expenses, she dreams about start...
With quiet and quick feet, I tiptoe down the hallway I had seen Yuji take his phone and walk through a minute ago. Plastering my back against the wall before I can turn to glance for an opening, I release a breath and hum a tune from a spy movie I had seen recently.
"What the hell do you want, Nagisa?!"
I flinch as Yuji's angry voice roars through the halls, shaking the heart in my chest. How could a call from someone make them so angry? If it were me, I wouldn't have picked up regardless of a threat. Harumi said something like this Suzukaze would come visit in person if Yuji refused her call...
His voice becomes muffled as he talks more into the phone, his voice becoming more and more tense.
"This doesn't have anything to do with -- why do you even care?!"
I step down the hallway, flattening my back against the wall again. Slowly, I approach the wide open door that Yuji's noisy voice was coming from. It becomes louder the closer I get, almost making my ears ring!
My goodness he's so upset! Why doesn't he hang up!
"She's just a girl I was helping out! No, she's not my --- so what?! Why am I even explaining this to you?! YOU mean nothing to me! YES ITS THE TRUTH! Don't talk about Momoko like that! You don't even know her--"
The second I hear my name, I turn the corner, unashamed, and start walking in long steps through Yuji's monochrome room. I approach him, catching him off guard once he hears my footsteps. He turns around, the phone in his hand.
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"Momoko.." his eyes are slightly widened, like he hadn't expected me to hear him with all the yelling he was doing.
I smiled at him for a minute before I quickly snatched the phone from his hand and put it to my ear, catching the last few words the Suzukaze woman had been saying to Yuji.
"Of course I'm curious, Yuji...."her voice is like silk. It sounds just like all of the voices a vixen from a movie would use to lure men into her trap...But it has no affect on me whatsoever. In fact, something about it annoys me. "Do you know how hard it is for me to see pictures online of some little pink haired girl running off with my favorite toy? It just about broke my little heart...is she better than I am, Yu--"
"--Damn straight!" I shout into the phone, and the woman shuts up immediately, making a few noises that come out like she's choking on whatever else she had been about to say. Yuji starts waving his arms frantically in front of me and starts reaching for his cellphone, but I dodge him effectively. So continues our game of tag from earlier, just with a LOT less space. I even trip over the bed a few times and knock the both of us over.
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