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Post by Underworld Witch on Sept 21, 2019 22:41:23 GMT
The last Saturday before the business went slow started and Shizuo was already not in the mood, he knew this month was the start of Arcane's new school year meaning he'll have to deal with annoying students trying to sneak into his bar or pass of fake IDs to him so they can get drinks.
God that's annoying it really ticks me off some students think I'm that stupid just because I have super strength doesn't make me a meat head those little brats.Shizuo thought to himself as he was walking to the stairs of his apartment building to head out to his bar and get things ready for tonight because normal before school starts some of the faculty from the school would just show up and throw one last celebration for themselves before the year started. But he stops himself at the stairs entrance realizing he left the keys to his bar back at his back.
"Darn it!" Shizuo about to punch the door to the stairway but stops himself knowing the last time he did that, he had to pay that door and it wasn't cheap.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Sept 21, 2019 22:50:35 GMT
Rom yawned as he headed out of his apartment, the warm weather for the season tempting his feline side to take a nap, but nope, he's got a store to run, and frankly, he's probably been sleeping too much if he managed to forget the display case keys in his own apartment, and having to come back on his lunch break to grab them.
New month, new semester, new little idols and stars to be checking out his store. Hopefully, there wouldn't be any crazy fans, this year. He had enough to deal with last year. Most of his fans from his former career were well-mannered and polite, if just a bit eager, so he usually didn't mind giving them autographs or photos, but sometimes, there were just the crazy ones.
Rom blinked at hearing the shouted curse, recognizing the voice as the owner of the Black Moon Bar. Now that he thought about it, it'd been a while since he last went there. Maybe later, he could go grab a drink.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Sept 21, 2019 23:27:30 GMT
Shizuo takes a calming breath to help with his hair-trigger temper and head back to his apartment, he spots Rom his neighbor outside in the hallway as he starts to walk back to his apartment to grab his bar keys and head out. Hated his temper and hoped his neighbor didn't see him nearly throw a punch at the stairway door.
Shizuo grabbed his keys and start to head back out only to bump into Rom. "Sorry about that... "Shizuo mutters but loud enough for Rom to hear him.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Sept 22, 2019 0:41:13 GMT
Rom waved the other's man apology, showing he didn't mind. "Nah, it's fine. Sounds like today's starting out to be a bad day for you, though."
He could only imagine the headaches the man gets from students, new and old, trying to sneak into his bar. Rom's sure glad he doesn't have to deal with that kind of thing.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Sept 22, 2019 4:36:21 GMT
"Eh... I'm just not excited that the students are coming back to the town. Some are just a pain for my business is that's all." Shizuo grumbles and opens the door for his neighbor for the stairs. Deciding to let the cat guy go first to be polite to his neighbor to show he wasn't such an angry guy all the time he can be nice at times.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Sept 22, 2019 4:39:16 GMT
"Yeah, it does sound like a pain. Best of luck with that, man." Rom said, his ears twitching. Nodding politely in thanks at the bartender for holding the door for him, he goes through first.
Despite his temper, Rom was pretty sure the other man was a good guy. After all, you can't judge books by their covers.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Sept 22, 2019 6:58:21 GMT
"Thanks... And same to you hope those kids don't give you much trouble either." Shizuo starts to head down the stairs with his neighbor and as he stops to receive his mail. He glares seeing some bills for both his rent and for the bar but relaxes seeing he got a letter from his brother. However before he leaves the apartment building he pauses seeing it's pouring rain outside, of course, it is why wouldn't it be pouring rain down. At least for once he actually remembered to check the weather for cast today and brought with him his unbrella with him.
"For once I'm not an idiot..." Shizuo mumbles to himself in relief.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Sept 22, 2019 16:07:32 GMT
Rom waits patiently for his neighbor to get his mail. Wouldn't hurt for them to talk a bit as they walked, they were neighbors after all.
Rom's leopard ears flatten against his head as he watches the downpour. He's usually good on checking the weather, and his feline side can usually sense it, but today was an off-day, it seems. Now, Rom likes water, he enjoys swimming, he just dislikes rain. At least when you're going to swim, you have a swimsuit and another set of clothes prepared, but with rain, you got zip.
Now, the question was, does he go back to his apartment to grab his umbrella or does he ask his neighbor if he minds sharing his?
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Post by Underworld Witch on Sept 22, 2019 19:16:35 GMT
Shizuo looks to his neighbor and noticed his neighbor didn't have his umbrella with him. so he places his mail in his vest pocket for now and went over to him. "Um... Look our places of work aren't that far from each other. Right? We can share my umbrella if you want too ok?" Shizuo asking the cat man if he wanted to share on the way to their jobs. He was about 90% sure their businesses were pretty close to one another but he doesn't know for sure so but he didn't want to be rude to the guy, either way, it wasn't his thing to be rude.
However, a part of him was praying that there wouldn't be awkward silence if they did decide to share the umbrella. It would just make things uncomfortable for both of them.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Sept 22, 2019 19:34:22 GMT
Rom blinked and looked at his neighbor, stunned by the offer that he was thinking about making to him. Seemed the bartender was a real nice guy, and if Rom remembered right, Lightning Note and the bar weren't too far away from each other, so it wouldn't really be out of the other man's way to help him get there. Really a nice guy.
"If you don't mind, that'd really help me out." Rom replied, scratching the back of his head.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Sept 22, 2019 21:35:08 GMT
"It's fine really. Let's get going." Shizuo opens the umbrella inside, Shizuo doesn't really believe in the whole good luck bad luck thing. If he did he would believe he was bad luck to everyone due to his hot-headedness, though now Shizuo was starting to crave a cigarette and tries to just not do it. He didn't want to smoke in front of his neighbor it could be seen as rude to him and he knew the smell of his cigarette smoke wasn't the most pleasant smell in the world not even to him. But it was just one of the habits he just can't quit.
So as a way to not smoke he just kinda picks at his nails to distract him from the idea of smoking.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Sept 22, 2019 21:40:46 GMT
The two walk out into the rain, protected by the umbrella. Rom's ears keep flicking at the sound of the rain falling on pavement and onto the umbrella, a constant pitter-patter. The wet air kept any scents from going into his nose for the most part, but Rom could sell old cigarette smoke from his neighbor. One of his old bandmates was a smoker, so the smell didn't really bother him all that much.
He could tell the other man was holding back from pulling out a cigarette, whether to be polite or because he didn't want to have the smell in the air, maybe both, picking at his nails to keep distracted. Seriously, he lucked out on a neighbor it seems.
"If you wanna smoke, it's fine. I don't mind." Rom said.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Sept 22, 2019 23:16:00 GMT
He wasn't sure if Rom was being sincere or just polite due to Shizuo's clear holding back of his habit. But he clearly wanted to take it. "Thanks... Here hold this for a moment." Shizuo handing the umbrella to Rom so he can get out his cigarettes and lighter out but in his cigarette wanting haste he dropped both his wallet and bar keys in a mud puddle. At least he hopes it was mud.
Seriously? Well, it better than a stray animal or brat stealing them. Shizuo holds the cigarettes with his lips. A picks up the mud cover wallet and keys.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Sept 22, 2019 23:26:16 GMT
Rom took the umbrella, patiently holding it over their heads as Shizuo pulled out both his cigarettes and lighter, wincing as he saw the man's wallet and keys fall into, what he was sure both of them were hoping, mud. Today was really looking to be not the bartender's day.
"Well, guess it could be a lot worse," Rom thought to himself, they could have been stolen rather then simply dropped.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Sept 23, 2019 3:51:08 GMT
Shizuo picks up the keys and wallet and was relieved to see it was mud. Shizuo sighs in relief “Thank goodness it’s just mud...” Shizuo mutters in relief and he looks to room. “Hey do you happen to have anything I use to clean these?...” he ask his neighbor that because he didn’t want to a wet muddy wallet and keys back in his pocket.
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