"Here's your voucher. Thanks for shopping Hinboi" Zahra says as she waits for the next customer in the massive line to step up.

After pushing through the crowd Five manages to get to the register where he sees Haneesh, Miko and Zahra. "Hey, guys it's-"

"Get back in line creeper!" Zahra cuts him off shooting multiple price tags at him.

Pulling a tag off his mouth Five puts his hands up in defense "Zahra its me!"

She blushes at him and gives him an apologetic smile.

"Folks, we've got a special today on tall kids. Buy now and we'll throw in a free hairnet." Miko jokes over the speaker system and Five gives her an unimpressed look as she beams at him. He starts to pull off some of the sticker tags Zahra had shot at him.

"Sorry, Five. Since the sneakers went on sale this crowd had us all on edge. Here let me get that" Zahra reaches over to help pull a tag off him.

Five blushes and laughs nervously "thanks Zahra." She smiles at him which causes his blush to deepen. Behind her Miko has a very familiar smirk on her face that Five can't quite place as she raises an eyebrow at him.

"Hey! Hey! Limit one per customer!" Their boss yells causing all of them to look at where he's struggling to get the box away from the customer.

"Why do people waste time lining up here when they can just preorder online like I did?" Five asks while looking at his tablet "wait. Didn't I? The horror courses through Five as he remembers not confirming his order. "I didn't preorder! Uh, Phil, hold one pair for me." He tries to yell at his boss, but his hopes are shattered at seeing the last boxes be tossed into the crowd as Haneesh puts up sold out on the screens.

"Mitch set aside four pair." Haneesh tells Five and he immediately perks up.

"He did?"

"That's right." The Brit says as if on cue walking in while wearing a pair of the sneakers. He drops the four boxes "two for me, two to sell, one to stock and one to rock." He leans against the counter tilting his head back and he gives Miko a quick wink. She rolls her eyes at him and goes back to talking with Zahra hoping the other girl didn't notice the interaction. "Wanna buy a pair? I'll give you a nice friend discount."

"Wow. Thanks Mitch!"

"That'll be $600."

"That's like three times more!" Fives loudly exclaims, drawing Miko and Zahra's attention again.

"Meh. we're not great friends." Mitch glances at Miko, Now if she asked for a pair I'd have to change the price.

Five stomps away from Mitch towards Miko and Zahra. Zahra pats Five on the back as they walk back to the lockers. Miko hangs back waiting until they're outta sight. "You don't have to be such a pain in the neck ya know." she punches him in the arm.

Mitch rolls his eyes while rubbing the sore spot "Oh, but it's right fun. Besides he should've preordered like everyone else who works here. Speaking of which I didn't see your name on the list."

Miko just shrugs, playing with a loose strand of hair "Not my style."

"Right. Well if you change your mind I'd be willing to give you a pair with an actual discount." He takes a moment to admire the ways she always wears her hair up while working.

"A friend discount?"

"A something discount." As Mitch says this, Miko's face heats up turning stoplight red. He smirks as he walks past her "see ya later princess."

Miko takes a few minutes to calm down before heading down to HQ. Stupid Mitch. She heads down to HQ. One minutes she's trying to comfort Five over the sneakers the next she's planning a quest to smash gems with him and Bergy. Only for her plans to be put on pause by her mom adding a new rule to her fake bonding with Nica. Surprisingly she manages to not only complete the quest, but actually bond with Nica while sticking to the selfie rule. They head back to Hinobi and Miko can't wait to wipe the smug grin off Mitch's face when they show up with all the xp they earned.

"Well if it isn't the blueberry brigade back from patrol." Mitch says to Miko, Bergy, and Five as he walks out of the Hinobi store

"Read it and weep Williams." Five smirks as he holds his gauntlet up.

Mitch frowns not liking hearing his last name out of Fives mouth. He preferred when Miko said it. "What? How'd you lowbies earn all that xp?" He asks in disbelief.

"Oh you know, we just defeated your ordinary average hidden boss… like a boss." Bergy leans on Mitch's shoulder smirking at his use of Mitch's own words from earlier.

"Huh I guess you can bust out a pair of limited edition trainers after all newbie." Mitch gets cut off by Phil mentioning the newest sneakers. He spares a quick glance at Miko before glancing at the Groovy smoothie. She winks at him and a small smile threatens to creep onto his face. Realizing there's too many people around he heads back through the doors "I better go preorder." He uses it as an excuse to wait for the others to leave.

The trio head down to HQ to offload there xp. Five and Bergy settle in the lounge area and it looks like they're about to play Castlestein 6. Miko declines the chance to play and heads to the lockers and quickly jumps through the portal. She sees that Mitch is waiting for her by the register, but to anyone else he's just pointlessly scrolling through his phone. Miko walks past him making sure to hit him with her hair. She could just walk by normally, but where's the fun in that. Mitch nearly dropped his phone as he was assaulted by purple locs. He grumbles under his breath and waits a few beats after Miko goes through the doors to follow her. Mitch doesn't even get two steps outside before she's in his face.

"So Williams I was thinking since you talked such trash about questing earlier. I should get a reward since we totally whooped your butt in xp today." She's practically bouncing around him.

Mitch just raises an eyebrow at her "Aren't the smoothies enough reward already?" He reaches out to stop her by placing his hands on her shoulders.

"Nope" she says with a pop. Smiling up at him she boops his nose "I want you to finally try a different smoothie. You always get the same one, it's so laaaame."

Mitch was about to respond but was cut off by a brown haired girl walking up to them calling Miko's name.

"Miko so mom said" Nica stops herself at the scene before her. Raising an eyebrow she looks between Miko and Mitch "who's this?"

Mitch lets go of Miko turning to face Nica with a smile on his face "Mitch Williams. It's a pleasure to meet you. And you are?"

Miko's eyes nearly pop out of her head. She's gotten used to Mitch being nice to her but seeing him be polite to others was still shocking.

Mitch notices Miko's shocked expression and smirks "I've told you before sugar plum I've got manners. I just decide when to use them."

Miko scrunches her face at him sticking her tongue out. Catching Mitch off guard she jumps on his back and runs her hand over his hair.

"Miko quit it. You're ruining my hair!" He yells trying to shake her off. Miko just does her bad imitation of his accent and repeats his words to him.

Nica stands there just watching her sister and her possible boyfriend. Interesting. She clears her throat catching the attention of the duo. Nica can't help but chuckle as her sister blushes and scrambles off the boys back.

"Mitch this is my older sister Nica." Miko says feeling awkward as her sister gives her a look saying they're definitely going to talk later.

"Well not that that wasn't entertaining but mom said she's gonna be late. Sooo we're basically stranded and to make things worse my phone is on 15%".

Miko glances over at Mitch and he just nods his head. She beams and hugs him. The interaction doesn't go unnoticed by Nica.

"Right then let's grab some smoothies and get you two home." Mitch pulls Miko off him and spins her around so she's facing the direction they're headed in. Miko unconsciously grabs his hands intertwining their fingers as they walk.

Nica doesn't say anything, deciding to just observe her little sister. As they enter, Miko drags Mitch to the counter as she orders her smoothies. Miko is vibrating with energy as Mitch just rolls his eyes and calmly watches her. They suit each other. Nica thinks as she orders her mango smoothie. She goes to pay but the cashier shakes his head and points to the now arguing duo.

"He said he'd pay for it. He always pays when they come in."

Always? She glances at the pair. Time to do a little sisterly snooping. Nica gives the boy a weird look "how often do they come in here?"

"Well they work at the Hinobi store so we've figured it's whenever they're on the same shift and finish. Which is pretty often. Usually it's around this time or later. Oh but one of the other guys says they sometimes come in around lunchtime." The guy says as he preps the ingredients for the smoothies.

"Hold on we?" The confusion written on her face.

"Yeah a bunch of us have a bet going on for when those two will finally get together. They've been coming here for a while and kinda just dance around each other."

"How do you know they aren't together already?" Nica frowns wondering why her sister isn't with the guy when he obviously makes her happy. She urges him to continue as he makes the smoothies.

"My buddy Antonio has a crush on her. One night he asked them and they denied it. He's still got hope like an idiot. It's obvious those two like each other."

Nica nods her head in agreement as he places the lids on the smoothies. "Isn't weird for you guys to be betting on customers?"

The guy just shrugs and places the smoothies on the counter "not much happens around here. It's becoming entertaining watching these two." As he finishes his sentence the two in question stroll over.

"I'm totally right!"

"In your dreams, princess." Mitch pays for the smoothies as Miko grabs her usual two and Nica grabs hers. Miko let's out a delighted noise as drinks from both. "Hey hey one of those is supposed to be mine. Unless you want me to order my super lame one" he uses air quotes. Miko drinks a bit more before shoving the smoothie in his face. Mitch takes a sip "it's fine I guess." He grumbles.

"You like it" Miko sings, looping her arm in his as they head for the door.

Nica and the guy behind the counter just watch them and both shake their heads. She waves at the guy as she catches up with her sister.

"Thanks for paying."

"No worries. I already pay for one Kubota so why not the other." He glances down at Miko as she happily drinks her smoothie while tapping a beat on his arm.

"So I was just told" Nica looks at Miko who blushes a bit.

"What?" He smirks as they reach his truck "keeping me ya dirty little secret aye princess?" Mitch teases as he opens the door for Miko and Nica.

"Yeah why is that? Huh Miko?" Nica decides to get in on the teasing.

"You two suck you know that. You can't tag team me like this," as Miko complains Mitch and Nica just laugh.

The ride to the Kubota residence was filled with an awkward silence until Miko started flipping through Mitch's playlist. Usually the two would talk or much to Miko's own surprise, sit in comfortable silence, but with the addition of her sister Miko felt like she was being watched and didn't want to give her sister more to interrogate her on. Before they realized it Mitch was pulling up in their driveway. Miko gives him a customary nose boop and she and Nica get out of the truck.

"It was nice to meet you Mitch." Nica says while waiting on Miko.

"The pleasure was all mine." Miko rolls her eyes and groans at his politeness before pushing her sister up the walkway. "G'night blueberry."

"See ya tomorrow Williams."

As soon as Miko and Nica get inside Nica smirks at her sister. "So that's who's been bringing you home all the time and why you've been so happy." Nica watches Miko blush and starts fidgeting "lets go. You need to tell me everything."

Miko groans knowing she's in for a long night as her sister drags her upstairs.