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Post by Underworld Witch on Mar 21, 2021 7:44:25 GMT
Shizuo had just open the bar for the day, his left hand still covered in bandages from when he broke a glass at the last happy hour her had at the bar. He definitely needed the extra help for the day. He finishes setting up the tables for the day her hears the door open and see his chief. Harley Quinn, and she looks annoyed with him meaning one thing to Shizuo. 'She knows I broke a glass... damn it...' Shizuo thought to himself and Harley heads over to him.
"I know what your gonna say." Shizuo tells Harley as she places her hands on her hips and glares at him.
"An you know I'm disappointed in you for letting your anger control you... Again!" Harley and she sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. An looks to him with concerning eyes. When Harley was hired by him, she became like his big sister to him. They were both misfits and he treated Harley like one of the family, he didn't care she was in jail, so long as she did her job and not piss him off he was fine with that. "Look, I'm glad you didn't hurt any of the customers but you still got someone hurt, yourself. So I will help you at the bar a bit today, sense you shouldn't be using that hand of yours."
Shizuo nods in understanding Harley's concern and smiles a bit. "Alright. But my hand isn't all bad, I can still use it... I just need to be more careful in the future." Shizuo explains and gently moves his bandaged hand and smiles. Harley nods and stops in the kitchen to warm the stove up to get the kitchen ready for any food needing to be made.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Mar 22, 2021 21:55:13 GMT
"Mirajane, I don't know about this..." Shiro said as he walked with his white-haired coworker to the Black Moon Bar, understandably hesitant on going to get possibly drunk when they had work the very next day. He trusted the woman's judgement, not only as a fellow staff member, but as a mother of a student, but he just wasn't a man for drinking. But he wasn't going to turn down an invitation to spend time with someone who understood what he was going through with taking care of Keith.
"Oh, don't worry, Shiro! The bar has plenty of non-alcoholic drinks, and great food! I'm just going for a little catching-up with a former classmate, that's all. I have no plans on getting drunk or even tipsy." Mirajane reassured him, smiling as she walked up to the front door of the bar and opened it, holding it long enough for Shiro to grab it himself before entering herself.
"Hello, Shizuo!" Mirajane waved in greeting, smiling at the blonde. While she wasn't especially close with the bartender in the beginning, she was indeed a former classmate of his when they were both students at the Academy.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Mar 22, 2021 23:44:00 GMT
Shizuo looks over and sees the first Patreons of the bar and gives a small smile to them, giving them a small wave to Mirajane and her coworker with his bandaged hand. He has seen her a few times since his... expulsion from Arcane... Not his favorite memory of his but he does appreciate seeing a friendly face. "Hey, Mira. Good to see ya." Shizuo smiles at her. And goes to get the glass for drinks that he knows what Mira likes.
"Hey who's there?" Harley peeks her head through the kitchen window and smiles to see the customers. "Hiya everybody." Harley smiles in joy.
"Oh, just some Mira and someone else from the school?" Shizuo looks at her and Harley smiles and waves to the customers, he rolls his eyes a bit and looks to the other guy. "Hey, I haven't met you yet Shizuo, nice to meet ya." Shizuo offers his good hand to Shiro to shake with him.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Mar 23, 2021 3:27:28 GMT
Mirajane frowns worriedly when she spots the bandages on Shizuo's hand, walking up to take a seat at the bar counter with Shiro sitting down next to her.
"It's good to see you, too. But did something happen, Shizuo? It's not often I see you with bandages." The white-haired woman said, waiting patiently for one of her usual drinks. She tended to get either the Blackberry Shrub, or the Iced Honeydew Mint Tea whenever she didn't plan on drinking on any alcohol, and they both tasted amazing, in her opinion.
She nodded politely at Harley, waving back with a smile.
"Ah, I'm Takashi, but everyone calls me Shiro. Nice to meet you." Shiro replied, his prosthetic arm coming up to shake Shizuo's hand. He also nodded in greeting to Harley, with a small smile.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Mar 24, 2021 6:01:10 GMT
Shizuo smiles and lets go of Shiro's hand and grab the bag of frozen blackberries from the mini freezer under the bar on his side of the bar, then he puts on a plastic glove the recipe requires crushed frozen blackberries for the drink. He does it with his bare hands since he's super-strong he always does it over a bowl and squeezes them into juice with very little effort and then pours a cup of sugar in it. Shizuo gives it a few minutes before pouring in the cider vinegar and water and then pouring it into a glass with ice in it and finally sticking a cinnamon stick in it.
"So here's your usually Mira. Anything you want, Shiro?" Shizuo placing the glass of Blackberry Shrub in front of Mira and looks to Shiro. Harley smiles and goes back to preparing her kitchen.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Mar 24, 2021 6:54:55 GMT
"Thank you, Shizuo." Mirajane smiled as she took her drink and took a small sip. Delicious, as always. She'll never get tired of Shizuo's tasty drinks.
"I'll, uh, taking anything non-alcoholic, really." Shiro said in response to Shizuo's question, rubbing the back of his head. He was never really much of a drinker, and he wasn't really familiar with things in the bar, so he supposed he'll just take whatever Shizuo was good.
Mirajane, sitting beside him and taking another sip of her drink, directed a concerned frown at the bartender. "You didn't answer my question, though. What happened to your hand?" She asked. The shapeshifter was well-aware of Shizuo's temper, considering how much trouble it tended to get him into, but Mirajane knew that he was doing his best to avoid fights and such nowadays, so it was a bit worrying to see him injured enough to need bandages.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Mar 24, 2021 16:09:04 GMT
Shizuo gets out the stuff to make the bar’s Lemon Fruit Cooler for Shiro. He decides to make it for Shiro because he figure he might like it. And if not he couldnt blame the guy for not liking a drink he didnt really order. As Shizuo mixes the lemon juice, white grape juice and club soda together with the sugar, he was about to tell Mira a very simplified version but Harley beat him too it.
“Some teacher from your school named Syndrome pissed him off. So instead my boss broke a glass instead of Syn-dumb.” Harley explained to the customer and gives a playful smile. Shizuo rolls his eyes but chuckles a bit at Harley’s nick name for him.
“Here ya go Shiro.” Shizuo placing the non alcoholic Lemon Fruit Cooler drink in front of him.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Mar 24, 2021 16:36:48 GMT
Mirajane sighed at the explanation. Syndrome did tend to be rather...well, obnoxious for lack of better word, but she meant he generally meant well. It's possible he came into the bar in a bad mood, and ended up taking it out on Shizuo, who usually has a hard enough time controlling his temper. She knows that Alastor does tend to get him that way with his radio waves disrupting Syndrome's inventions.
"I'm really sorry about that. He's not all that horrible...usually." Mirajane said, a small sheepish smile on her face.
"Thanks." Shiro said, taking ahold of the glass and taking a sip, smiling a bit when the taste registered. It was pretty good, and something he wouldn't drinking again. Shiro took another sip, before adding, "I can get how he can get on people's bad side, though."
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Post by Underworld Witch on Apr 9, 2021 23:25:43 GMT
Shizuo rubs the back of his neck awkwardly and chuckles. "Yeah, it honestly wasn't my best moment. But I am getting better... For once I didn't put a customer in the hospital." Shizuo tells Mirajane and Shiro as he whips the bar countertop and Harley looks over from the kitchen window. An he looks to Shiro to see if he enjoys the drink to know if he should make it for him in the future. That how his process of remembering people's favorite drinks here, see if they enjoy the drink.
"Hey Shizzy, have you been reading that self-help book I gave ya last week?" Harley questions him to make sure he's actually reading the book that'll help him better control his anger, she wants him to overcome his anger issues. Though Shizuo cringed at the nickname Harley sometimes uses, she mainly uses it to get his attention or if she really felt like messing with him. Harley had a mischievous grin while he sighs heavily.
"I told you not to use that nickname... Ever... And yes I have been reading it. It is in my office in the back." Shizuo giving Harley a serious glance and tone, but he honestly couldn't remember where he put it. Though he figured he can keep that information to himself.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Apr 10, 2021 3:34:39 GMT
"That's good!" Mirajane said, smiling at Shizuo. Hearing that her former classmate was beginning to get a hold on his temper was a good thing, especially since she knew how much he disliked his temper getting the better of him. Mirajane knew that Harley was helping him help, but maybe she could get Shiro to help out, too? It'd probably be a good way for him to make friends, or at the very least, get out of the school more.
The two school staff members shared a wry smile at each other at Shizuo and Harley's conversation, taking sips of their drinks. Some of the rest of the staff interacted like that with each other, and it tended to make things rather...interesting.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Apr 11, 2021 2:13:44 GMT
Harley looks at the teachers and was curious she hasn't really talked to many of them but seeing how Shizuo was cummy with one of them, they are probably arent bad. Harley peeks her head up and hands Shizuo a plate of fresh warm french fries on the house, courtesy of her of course. "So Mira I forget how do you know Shizuo again?" Harley asked raising an eyebrow at the woman curiously, she honestly couldn't remember their connection.
Shizuo sees the plate of french fries and shrugs and brings it to Shiro and Mira. "Here on the house." Shizuo gives a small smile and continues to clean the counter, and tries to remember where he last saw that self-help book. It did irritate him when he couldn't remember things but it's not like he would hurt himself or break something that not replaceable. He still needed to run to the mall to buy replacement glass for the one he broke he shrugged deciding to do that next time. Then hearing Harley's question he rolls his eyes a little and just keeps focusing on his cleaning. "We met when we were at the academy together... I think we had a class together?" Shizuo trying to remember if he and Mirajane had a class together or not.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Apr 11, 2021 4:57:45 GMT
"Oh, thank you, Harley!" Mirajane said, smiling at the cook. She hadn't really talked with Harley much, but the blonde seemed rather nice, and she was helping Shizuo out, so Mirajane believed she was, at the very least, a decent person. The white-haired woman happily took a fry, and ate it, letting out a delighted hum at the taste.
Shiro chuckled as he also took a fry. "Yeah, thanks." So far, the entire experience at this bar was honestly pretty nice, especially since they had non-alcoholic drinks. He might have to come here more often.
Mirajane hummed in thought at Harley's question, thinking back on what she remembered from her days as a student. "Hmmm...I'm fairly sure we had gym together? I might have also seen you in combat class, too."
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Post by Underworld Witch on Apr 11, 2021 17:36:57 GMT
Shizuo pauses for a moment and nods looking at her. "Oh yeah, I think your right. I think we did had a gym together." Shizuo nods at the thought and still cleaning the same glass, he felt the urge to smoke and he refuses to smoke due to some customers not liking the smell. The other reason he doesn't smoke in his bar is the obvious fire and alcohol are a terrible idea. Shizuo can't afford to rebuild the bar, it's too much money for him. Though it might be obvious to the others that he's been cleaning the same glass for a while.
Harley raises a brow at him and rolls her eyes and comes to the bar, and takes the glass he's cleaned 4 times now. "If ya want to smoke that badly don't over clean the glasses..." Harley smirks.
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Post by Darkdarling98 on Apr 11, 2021 21:49:46 GMT
"You were rather good at it, if I remember right." Mirajane said, smiling. Shizuo often got best grades in that class, and it was rather helpful to help him work out some energy. She remembered that he often had problems with his temper, even back then. Of course, she wasn't one to talk about it too much, considering her own rebellious personality.
Shiro took another sip of his drink, smiling as he recalled a photo he had stumbled upon some time ago. It had been of a rather punk-looking Mirajane during her days as a student, and frankly, looking at it put some things into perspective real fast. It was rather funny how a rather scary young woman turned into the sweet and caring mother sitting beside him.
"Oh, if you need to smoke, go ahead. We wouldn't mind, right?" Mirajane said, turning to look at Shiro, who shook his head in response. If Shizuo wanted to smoke, the scarred man was fine with it.
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Post by Underworld Witch on Apr 11, 2021 22:42:05 GMT
Shizuo chuckles a bit remembering being in gym and combat at the school. "Yeah, those were the best classes to help me burn off some steam," Shizuo says fondly over the memories of his time in the academy. He nods and gives them a polite smile and gets out of the bartender's side of the bar and heads to the entrance of the bar. "I'll be outside taking a smoke if you guys need anything. Enjoy yourselves alright." Shizuo heads outside the bar and leans against the side taking a cigarette and lighting it and taking a long drag. Thinking to himself, 'Why for once can't I not smoke... I'm already trying to control my anger and also cutting back on smoking. An both are just terrible for me.' Shizuo thought to himself and he looks outside sense the weather is still nice maybe he should consider opening the windows later to let the nice weather in the bar. It would also bring the attention of Harley's cooking to more people too.
As Shizuo was outside smoking and thinking Harley had a mischievous grin on her face and pulls out a old year book from the academy from when Shizuo was in his finale year there. Harley found it in his office a while ago and moved it under the bar. She found it interesting to see how different Shizuo and some people that still live here look so differently. Though she flips through it and sees a page of the students photos and spots Mirajane's picture. "Wow! You look different back when you were a student. What happened, I like the look for ya." Harley turning the old yearbook to her and Shiro and points to Mirajane's picture.
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