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Just a Little

As Ichigo ran toward the café she wondered at her phone. Hadn't it been broken? She tried to think back to how it was fixed, and in her bag. She thought about it this morning- and then was overcome with a feeling of dread.

'Oh my gosh, that's right… My phone was broken last week, so I borrowed mums. And that's how he had her number! And I got my phone back on Saturday, and I've been so down since then I forgot to give mum her phone back, and just threw mine in my bag… which means-' Ichigo never got to finish that thought, although she wasn't quite sure she wanted to, because at that moment she was so lost in her thoughts she didn't notice when she was approaching the café doors and ran straight into them.

"Ow!" She yelled, rubbing her nose. Everyone was looking at her strange – well, everyone except for Ryou. And he walked straight up to her as she was coming inside and said,

"Strawberry, you should really watch where you're going. You might scare the customers away otherwise."

Ichigo took a deep breath and, in a great feat of self control, started walking away… but, of course, Ichigo never had lots of self control in the first place, and it was really running low lately.

"JERK!" She turned around and yelled as loudly as she could before continuing to walk to the change room.

When Ichigo came back out, she realized that some customers had gone, and Ryou came over, enlightening her that it was due to "rash behaviour of staff", however they would come back on another day, when there was "less tension in the atmosphere". There was a small part of her that felt really bad for scaring customers away, but that part was only very small, considering everything she'd been through lately.

'First I was dumped, and then I broke my alarm clock, my fish tank, my computer monitor, my printer, my phone and my radio. Then I got detention, and then I got detention again for doing nothing wrong, then I got held behind to get a "treat" then I got yelled at over my phone by Shirogane, then I realized it was mums phone I broke this morning, then I walked into the café doors and now I've scared away almost half the customers! Can this get worse!' She wondered before realizing she'd just jinxed herself with those last four words.

Which was just before she slipped over the floor that Lettuce had been cleaning. "Ichigo-san! I'm so sorry!" She bowed and apologized.

"Ah, it's no problem Lettuce-chan." She looked over at Mint who was, obviously, enjoying some tea. Zakuro was at a photo shoot and Pudding was, well, being Pudding.

She apologized to the customers whose food was now all over the floor, and promised to get some more immediately. Lettuce was cleaning up the floor, again, so Ichigo went over to Keiichiro, who already knew of what had happened.

"Strawberry, aren't you supposed to be agile and avoid those things as a cat?" Shirogane asked quietly, seeming to appear out of nowhere.

"Ah! Don't sneak up on me like that Shirogane!"

"Don't avoid the question." He said with piercing eyes.

"I think my 'agility reserves' are running low lately." Ichigo said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Well, you'd better do something to get them up again."

Ichigo turned her full attention to him now, totally forgetting Keiichiro as standing right there and quite possibly able to hear every word she would say.

"What, Ryou, what? What am I supposed to do!" She asked, becoming increasingly distressed. "I broke almost every electrical appliance in my room, along with my mums phone, I was late to work, got yelled at by my boss, was late to school, got two detentions, one for doing nothing and I was dumped. So shoot me, for being a just a little distracted, and a little upset, and a more than a little temper mental."

He looked shocked for a moment before saying, "Just a little? You should take a day off, Strawberry."

Ichigo was taken aback. "You… think I should have a day off? You would give me a day off?" Was it too much to hope for…?

"Yes. Yes I do think you should have a day off-" Ichigo was ecstatic, "-however, I never said I would give you a day off, did I?" Yup. It was way too much to hope for.

"Argh! Ryou, you are so… so!"

"So…?" He prompted.

"UGH!" She stormed off with the food Keiichiro had just given her.

"Maybe you shouldn't have said that. She really does deserve a day off." He told Ryou, as they both observed the mew as she faked a smile and gave the customer their order.

"Yeah, I know…"

Ryou didn't stop observing Ichigo for the rest of the day – he knew she needed the day off, but he couldn't bring himself to give it to her.

They had all left and Ichigo had just finished up and gotten changed.

"Bye Akasaka-san!" She called before glancing rather coldly at Ryou. "Shirogane-san." She nodded.

She was about to leave when, "Strawberry…"

She stopped at the door and glanced over her shoulder at the hesitant voice. "Yes?"

"I, um, I… Good job."

She huffed, but knew it was more than she'd get from him on a good day. "Thanks."

"No, really. I mean it. Good work." He nodded awkwardly as they just stared at each other for a few moments.

Then she smiled, "thank you, Ryou."

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