OK, I know I'm just starting using the disclaimer but here goes:

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Chapter 4

Five months later…

" Hello! What are you doing here?" (A/N: Mint enters Ryou's house, Ichigo's washing the dishes. Mint thinking ' Why in the world is Ichigo at Ryou's house? Where has she been for the last, like, century?')

" What are you doing here?"

" Where have you been? We all have to work extra hard around the café without you. You know Lettuce is helpless and that Pudding spends most of her time being an acrobat and that doesn't help and we also have to buy new plates 'cause Lettuce and Pudding together shatter more that two hundred a month. And Zakkura, not saying anything bad, has to go to stuff and I have to do your job and mine so I now work double hard and you aren't even there, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab, blab…"

" WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE?"

" Oh, puh-leez. You haven't been at the café for five months and you're telling me to shut up. No. I don't think so." Smirk

" Why are you smirking?"

" Because, (takes a dramatic pause) I know why you've not been at the café; you've been stuffing yourself full with candy! No wonder you're so fat! Come back to the café, but first, lose some weight. I don't want to be seen with a fatso like you. You would embarrass me. Well, I must be off." Mint turned around and walked out of the room.

When she was gone, I breathed a sigh of relief. She almost found out. I was there scared for a second.