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Saturday afternoon.

It was here. Nejire repeatedly apologized to Ryuko, who was waiting for her at the table already. She was sitting in the car as her mom drove into the parking lot to the meeting place.

Right now, she was wearing a pink dress with a halter neckline. It fell to her mid thigh, and she wore white flats to match. Her mom Parked and she texted her friend quickly.

Nejire: bestie, where are you?

Ryuko: we're sitting outside, I can come grab you real quick

Nejire: please-

Nejire stood outside her mom's car for a minute as Ryuko walked down to grab her. She looked really pretty, wearing a white and royal blue floral dress with a fake diamond belt around her waist. She wore silver heels and walked down the white stairs a bit awkwardly.

She held her arms out, ready to give her a hug.

"You look so pretty!" Nejire gasped, thinking her hair looked gorgeous with her dress. "I've been nervous all week."

"Yeah, that's probably my fault! I didn't introduce you two yet and now you want to work for him, so it's reasonable. Sorry!" She said, scratching the back of her head.

"It's fine, let's go! Im nervous but really excited!" Nejire squealed. Ryuko grabbed her hand and dragged her out of the parking lot and up the stairs.

The place was clearly packed, and really pretty too. It looked very New Orleans style, and that was fair, it had a lot of French Culture. It was styled like a houseboat, but was completely on land.

"Woah..." Nejire gasped, looking around, noticing the pretty lights, the pretty music, large orchids growing up pillars. "I see why you like this place so much." She giggled as Ryuko let her look around. Looking around the restaurant, Nejire tried to figure out who may be Shinya, but she didn't really know at this point.

Ryuko dragged her all the way to the end, where a very attractive man was waiting for them.

Goddamn it, it was the guy from the assembly... Nejire turned bright red as Ryuko sat down next to him and she sat in front of both of them.

"Hi!" Nejire said, waving towards Kamihara. She was very embarrassed by her previous thoughts of the man.

"You're Nejire?" He had a very smooth voice. He could totally be a voice actor! "Ryuko tells me so much about you!" He smiled at her. She was extremely happy that he already had a good impression of her. "I like your hair, how did you get it so long?" He asked, pointing to her little bun buns with his pinky finger.

"Oh, I trim it regularly, massage my scalp, and eat a lot of fish. Eating things with Vitamin A I think works too. I don't remember which vitamin." She laughed. Ryuko looked confused, probably because she had short hair.

Shinya has his hair tied back in a ponytail. It was kinda thin, making it look a lot like a rat tail. It was pretty attractive though.

"How'd you two meet?" Nejire asked.

"Well, I met him at a wedding for our mutual friends. We kept running into each other because of our friends and stuff and started going out after a year or two." Ryuko let out a tiny chuckle.

"Ohhh. That's it? How did you two fall in love." Nejire asked, looking at both of them. She didn't know if she was being too invasive, so she was really just looking for clues of it. Both of them looked off to the side and looked kinda uncomfortable.

"It wasn't anything interesting, honestly." Shinya said. "You just asked me out one day, remember?" Shinya said, looking at his girlfriend.

"Mhm! That's it!" Ryuko said, not really knowing what to say. She was clearly lying but Nejire knew not to pry.

"That's, nice!" Nejire giggled. A waitress walked up in the middle of their conversation.

"Are you three ready to order?" She asked nicely. The three nodded with a cute smile. "Alright. We can start with drinks?"

"What's that tea I like? Ughhh... Iced tea is fine." Ryuko laughed, shaking off whatever she wanted.

"I'll just have a water." Nejire said, not wanting to spend any money, as they were paying for the food.

"Hey, get whatever you want, it's fine. Unless you actually want water." Shinya said. "It's really not an issue." He laughed, and god he had a really cute laugh. Ryuko was lucky.

"Oh, then a lemonade." She said, not knowing what she wanted that much. She always got water when someone else was paying.

"May I have a coffee?" He asked, very polite. He seemed way too symmetric. Too perfect. Everything just seemed too perfect about him. Nice, hot, supposedly rich? She was never told to not order water, that's a rich people thing.

"I'll be back in a few minutes." The waitress said, and the couple began looking through their menus. Well, it was really just Shinya and Ryuko helping him.

"What was that thing I always get? I don't remember the name." He asked, looking embarrassed. Nejire was confused but didn't say anything.

"It was this one I think." She said pointing to the menu option. Shinya looked at his girlfriend with a confused look on his face.
He let out a small laugh and looked at the option and squinted, trying to read it.

"It says Pork Rillette." Nejire said, listing stuff in it after finding the page they were on and noticing where Ryuko pointed. Shinya nodded.

Nejire really just ordered spaghetti Alfredo. She didn't know what to order.

The waitress left and Shinya thanked Nejire.

"Thank you. That was embarrassing. Being trilingual and dyslexic doesn't mix well, ha." He said with a really sad tone. Nejire felt bad now. Instead of talking about it, she began talking about the new fact.

"I didn't know you were trilingual! That's so cool." Nejire gasped. "So if you two had kids, they'd know four languages?" Nejire was mainly joking about that one.

"We haven't really talked about kids yet." Ryuko said shaking off the kinda invasive question while Shinya looked stunned and embarrassed.

"Oh, Sorry!" Nejire squeaked. She felt like she had already apologized several times and was making a bad impression. She was trembling at the thought, and it was somewhat obvious.

"Excuse me, I need to use the restroom." Ryuko said, politely excusing herself from the table. Shinya waved goodbye to her before turning back to Nejire.

"Are you nervous to meet me?" He asked, chuckling at the thought of someone being nervous because of him. Nejire nodded and showed a toothy smile as she looked down.
"There really is no reason to be nervous. I should be the nervous one!" Shinya said, motioning to himself.

"Why are you nervous? I'm just a high schooler."

"Ryuko never introduced me to her parents, so meeting your mom at the cafe was basically that. She says you two are like sisters, so I'm kinda scared about making a bad impression on you. It doesn't make it better that your mother doesn't really like me." He sighed. Made sense. But Ryuko actually thought of them as sisters? That was so heart warming!

"That makes sense. I was really nervous to meet you because, you know, you're my "sister's" boyfriend and I want to see her happy. And you work for that one place. Sun or something?"

"Correct." He said, intrigued in her story.

"I don't know what it really is... I saw my friend getting abused by a group of people with black coats on, and I was concerned since she said you worked for them." Nejire always became hyper fixated on a topic of it was important to her. Ryuko's happiness and safety was very important and she didn't want her in trouble.

Luckily, Shinya looked concerned and appalled. "Is that so? Do you remember their badges? Or their appearance?"

"Uh... no, sorry."

"That's a shame. I promise, I will have a talk about this. That's disgusting." Shinya sajd, completely serious. "I hope that experience didn't scare you out of wanting to work with me."

"Of course not! That's another reason I'm a bit nervous. Ha." Nejire nervously laughed.

"You'd be working behind a desk as an assistant really, nothing special. There's training to become a black jacket and even then, it's the lowest ranking." Now Nejire was interested more. "Black jackets are just what we call them. Their official name is French for Rose Bush. They're not really authorized to harm anyone unless they're attacked first. Only Grey Jackets and White Jackets are allowed to really fight anyone."

"What are you?" She asked, curious.

"Oh? I'm a White Coat. The official name is French for Angel's Trumpets"

"Like the Toxic plant?"

"You know your plants. But trust me, if Ryuko ever asked me to quit, I would. It's dangerous and she gets worried about me. I don't like making her worry, especially since I want to spend the rest of my life with her."

Nejire was touched at first, then very intrigued, curious, and wondering what the hell he meant.

"Sorry I took so long, this girl was crying cuz her boyfriend dumped her, so you know, I helped her. That took a while, oh and I paid for her meal." Ryuko said sitting back down. Nejire struggled to hold in a laugh. It was funny! "I hope you two had a lovely conversation while I was away." Ryuko grinned, kissing Shinya's cheek, who looked satisfied by the affection.

"We had fun!"

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Nejire met Shinya.

I choose flower names in many of my stories to foreshadow.

Shinya is dyslexic and trilingual, reason why? I thought it'd be cool and realistic to have him struggle to learn French, Japanese, and English and have people pass it off as struggling to learn languages, but in reality, he's got a hard time reading.

Now I don't have dyslexia, so I don't really know how to properly write it, please correct me.