After school on the day September 15th 2007, it's Alex fifteenth birthday and to celebrate this special occasion, Nyx has made a reservation for a sushi restaurant. Mainly due to sushi being one of Alex's favorite foods, so she found the website of a local sushi restaurant, used the living room landline phone to call the restaurant to make a reservation for her, Alex, and four of her other friends.
Thankfully for Nyx, the restaurant's not very far from the Wharf City High School, being three or so blocks away. Throughout the whole walk, Ryan began to start worrying that the restaurant would be the same one he went into back when he had his former job of being a pizza deliverer for Domino's. "Jeez dude, it's just a restaurant, that's all." Paige growled, always annoyed with everything and everyone around her. Ryan wanted to scold and argue with her for being 'insensitive' but decided not to.
After a short while, the gang finally reached the sushi place. "Yay! I love sushi sooo much!" Aimee, a scene girl cheered with joy and excitement. Another friend of hers, Melissa agreed with her. Meanwhile with Ryan, he began to experience traumatic memories staring at the sushi restaurant's sign showing its name, Fujiyama Sushi. He began to shake or feel like he's shaking, and began to vivid flashbacks showing his deceased co-workers. Nyx snapped him back in to reality and reassured him that it's probably not the restaurant.
The teen friends walked into the restaurant with a weird, yellow eel-like person being the host of this restaurant. "Hey punk dude." Paige said to him and the eel replied to her, almost mocking her, "Hey emo chick.", Paige immediately flipped him off, but Nyx immediately scolded her for doing so, but went to the eel and told him that she made a reservation. "Oh, you're the one who made a birthday reservation?" the eel asked, Nyx confirmed that is the case; the eel looked at the teens and asked which of them was the birthday person, Alex raised his hand. "Well happy birthday, dude," the eel said again, "Anyways, take the booth near the calico cat statue. Your server will be with you.".
The teens looked for the calico cat, Paige spotted a white cat with orange and black spots with one of its paws waving forwards and backwards, "Hey, I think I found the statue that eel dude talked about guys." she said, pointing at the statue. Alex looked at what Paige pointed at and told her, "Hey, that's pretty good. Nice job, buddy.", she smiled at him while blushing. The gang sat down; Paige, Nyx, and Aimee on one side of the booth, and Melissa, Alex, and Ryan sat on the opposite side. The wait for their server was a long and awkward one, lasting around ten minutes. While they waited, Paige and Aimee talked about anime-related things, Nyx texted her mom and dad about her whereabouts, Alex and Melissa were chatting and then she gave him a gift for his birthday. While for Ryan, he tried to fight off any negative memories that popped into his mind.
The ten minutes has passed and another odd fellow around ten up to fourteen feet tall and looked like a sumo wrestler comes to the table with a notepad and pen, he said profusely, "Sorry for the wait! Oh, you know how I am with remembering names, heh heh.", Aimee's eyes shined with excitement and she shouted, "Hey Toro! Long time no see!", Toro turned to her direction and he smiled, claiming to recognize her face as she and her family, the Castillos have been the one of the restaurant's most loyal customers since either 2001 or 2002. "What would you all like?" Toro asked the teens, Paige wanted sashimi salad but with extra wasabi because and to quote her, "I crave death." concerning the poor server, Nyx wanted some tempura with three rolls and miso soup, and a cup of green tea, Aimee wanted a unadon, miso soup, and a soda aka "the usual" as Aimee calls this meal, Melissa ordered gyoza, four sushi pieces, and lemonade. Meanwhile for the boys, Alex, the birthday boy wanted a special meal for the occasion including some mochi ice cream as a birthday cake of sort, but Ryan didn't order anything, but gave his gift to Alex for the birthday boy.
As Toro left the table, he looked at Ryan as if he recognized his face from somewhere but couldn't point his finger on where he last saw him… Ryan too, made a look at him, but turned away immediately afterwards. He knew that something wasn't right with the restaurant, he was an eyewitness to the crimes he and his buddies committed after all.
Regardless, the gang ate their food and gave Alex their birthday gifts, mainly PS2 games and a mystery novel. Alex loved all of the gifts his friends gave him to the point of crying and hugging them.
When they were finished and paid via putting money on the table, the gang left the restaurant to return back to their homes.