Missed Calls
Looking at his phone, Ren's eyes widened. He had missed numerous calls from Yashiro. They weren't due to meet until later since Yashiro was still scheduled with Kyoko for the day. Did I mess up the schedule? He thought to himself. In any case Yashiro had left a voicemail.
"Ren, due to certain circumstances involving Kyoko-chan I will be late to meet you today. Please go ahead without me and I will meet you as soon as Kyoko is OK. Sayoonara."
"As soon as she is ok? Is he being purposely vague? Whats with that..." Ren muttered, rolling his eyes.
Redialing Yashiro provided no result. He tried again, same result. For the professional Yashiro-san this was unusual. Had he broken his phone again? "Baka, don't damage your phone after leaving such a message..."
He dialed Kyoko next who successfully answered.
"Moshi Moshi, Tsuruga San" came Kyoko's voice from the other end.
"Moshi Moshi," he replied. "Is everything okay? Yashiro left me a strange voicemail."
"OH!" She exclaimed, "various things happened... but it appears to be sorted now..."
Her trailing manner of speaking was a sign that she was hiding something, "what various things?"
"Well..." Kyoko was hesitant to share because of who it involved but also felt he deserved better than Kimiko. If his impression of her was ruined by this information, it wouldn't necessarily be a by-product of her... jealousy... right? No, sharing would be for his sake she convinced herself.
Ren grew annoyed by the silence, knowing she was debating something but not knowing what it was. "My manager is unable to meet me on time because of these 'various things,' typically one would explain would they not?" Ren guilted himself for playing the Senpai card but it was always the fastest way with Kyoko.
"Absolutely! Well, I was successfully cast as Momiji..." she paused. "And when I went to get a drink suddenly everything went dark..."
"You fainted?"
"Not exactly... More like Kimiko playing a trick on me..."
Ren did not understand but he found trying to get the details from her over the phone exhaustive. At least the important thing was that she is okay. He could get a better report from Yashiro. "Okay well if things seem to be resolved... Congratulations on the part."