Ok, for all the people that reviewed 'Journey of a Lifetime' I'm happy to say it's on its way.
But for now, I just had a good one-shot in mind! XD So, here it is!
Table for two?
It was late Sunday morning, around ten or eleven. There was a new restaurant opening today and Kimiko wanted to check it out. She woke up around eight, eight thirty, and got ready.
She took her shower, and then curled her hair in loose curls, and kept it in its natural raven black color. It was in the midst of winter and it was at least negative two degrees out. So the Japanese girl put on her winter jacket, boots, gloves, her scarf, and her hat. She then took a sip of her hot coca and was off by ten thirty.
The streets of Rhode Island were busier than usual, the main reason because of frozen roads and there was a chain car crash ahead.
Kimiko walked by the scene, and asked a police officer if everyone was ok. She got good news. Everybody was fine except for some people having a few major, but not life threatening, injuries. At least no one was dead. She smiled and thanked him, letting out a sigh of relief and continued on her way to the restaurant.
She still had a few blocks to go, and the icy side walk wasn't helping anybody. She spotted an elderly man trying to get up the steps to the front door of his apartment building, clinging to the railing for his dear life.
Kimiko sighed and carefully walked over to him. "Need some help?" she asked, holding the railing and lending a hand.
The old man smile gratefully and took her hand in his as she helped him to the door. "Thank you Miss." He said sincerely.
"You're very welcome." Smile smiled and then carefully walked down the steps.
She continued walking down the side walk and saw a small third grader trying to cross the busy street. Although, he had the right of way, none of the jerks in their cars cared, and didn't even slow down.
He was still at the edge of the side walk, trying to cross, but not getting anywhere.
Kimiko sighed and walked over to him. "I know it's not a good idea to talk to strangers, but do you need help little guy?"
The boy looked slightly frightened by having a stranger offer help to him, but he saw the purity and honesty of her expression so he smiled and nodded.
Kimiko gave him a smile back, and then looked at the road, thinking. Then she started to walk out. "Stay there." She told the boy, who had nodded and stayed put.
Kimiko stood on the cross walk and yelled 'STOP!!' and held both her hands out signaling both ways to halt.
The people stopped their cars with a grunt and Kimiko called the little boy through. "Come on, they won't hit you."
The boy carefully crossed to the other side of the side walk. Kimiko held up one finger, telling the drivers to wait a second for her to get out of the way. She walked to the sidewalk where the boy beamed at her. "Thanks a bunch lady!" he smiled and then ran off to a house up a ways.
'At least I had to cross anyway…' Kimiko thought and then started walking once more.
It was eleven thirty now, with all the distractions she spent an hour trying to get there, rather than a half hour, and she still had one more block to go. Plus, who knew how long the wait is going to be.
She turned the block and caught sight of the restaurant, and then she smiled and walked in a faster pace.
She took notice to the wait. And the line formed outside of it, was long. At least a half hour wait, but she didn't just go home. She walked up to the end of the line, sighed, and waited.
"It's gonna be a long wait…" somebody said.
"Huh?" She said, and then looked at the person who was talking to her.
The guy in front of her, about her age, maybe a year older, turned around and faced her.
"I said it is going to be a long wait. Man, I hope its good." he kicked the snow.
"Me too." Kimiko said. "It took me about an hour and fifteen minutes to get here." She sighed and leaned on the wall.
"Really? Wow, why'd you walk then?" he asked.
"Because it's better for my health. And I knew the roads were icy, so I didn't want to have any type of vehicle transportation, especially from my dad…"
The guy chuckled. "Yeah… I hear you there." He paused and then held out his hand. "I'm Raimundo by the way."
Kimiko smiled and shook his hand. "My name is Kimiko."
"So, Kimiko, what brought you out to this restaurant?" Raimundo asked.
"Well, I heard it was opening today so I wanted to check it out, figuring today was too cold for people to want to go out and to a restaurant. I guess I was wrong though." She laughed.
"Yeah, same here, I'm always up to try something new." He said.
"Me too. If you have the same thing over and over again it just gets boring right?" Kimiko said, and then pulled her hat over her ears more and crossed her arms, trying to get warmer.
"Exactly." He agreed, and then cupped his hands together and breathed into them, also trying to warm up.
They moved up quite a bit.
"Must have been a big family." Raimundo mentioned.
"Must have." Kimiko corresponded.
About twenty minutes went by of random conversations between the two. Then Raimundo finally got to the front.
"Well, see you again maybe."
"Yeah."
"Hello. Table for one?" a waitress asked.
Raimundo nodded. "Yes please."
"Well then, you've just got the last table, after you there's no more tables and the snow is going to get too bad." She looked at the others in line. "Please, come back tomorrow!"
Kimiko sighed and started to walk away, mumbling to herself "Why do I have to be such a goody goody?"
Raimundo looked at her. "Hey Kimiko!" he called.
Kimiko looked back.
"Want to join me?"
Kimiko let out a big grin, nodded, and ran back over.
"So…" the waitress started. "Table for two?"
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