Slightly longer chapter today as a sort of reward for not projectile vomiting during my presentation today hope you enjoy too :D

I had been lost in thought (trying to keep my mind on photographs rather than the conversation Mimi and I had had in the break room the other day) as I had been stacking one of the produce shelves. I was completely immersed in my own little world, not paying any attention to the world around me, so to say that the sudden tap on the shoulder surprised me was a bit on an understatement.

I jumped, hitting my head on the edge of the shelf above the one my head had been stuck in. Pain ripped through my skull as I tried to stop myself from swearing loudly in front of a customer, although the agonised grunt was harder to cover. I pulled my head out of the shelf and turned round to see Davis standing behind me looking apologetic.

"I'm so sorry," he gushed. "are you ok? I thought you knew I was there." I rubbed the top of my head and checked my hand to see if I was bleeding. Thankfully I wasn't.

"It's fine, I'm ok." I told him. "Have you always had two heads?" His jaw dropped and he looked horrified until I started laughing.

"Very funny." he grumbled, giving me a punch on the arm. I continued to laugh.

"I thought so." I told him. "So what brings you over here?" I asked once I had calmed down. I looked at my watch; it was only half past three. Obviously Davis had decided to come down here after he finished work (if it was just to give me a potential concussion I was going to kill him).

"I got paid today." Davis said, happily. "And because of all the shit I've had to deal with over the last couple of days I got a little something extra for my troubles so I thoughts I'd come in, see what you wanted for dinner and then have it ready for when you get home with beer and films."

"That sounds great." I said. "I'm so glad you're happy buddy."

"After the week I've had so far me too." Davis replied. "I don't think I could actually get any happier right now… oh hello…" He tailed off and began staring in the direction just behind my shoulder.

"What?" I asked about to turn round and see for myself but he grabbed my shoulder and kept me facing him.

"In coming." he said.

"What?" I asked again. I immediately realised what when a girl's voice spoke up behind me.

"Hi," she said. "I'm sorry to bother you but do you know if the Supervisor is around at all?" I turned to face her and immediately knew why Davis had been cut off mid-sentence. Kari was standing behind me looking incredible in a tight shirt and tiny shorts. (I must admit that if I wasn't crushing hard on her brother – and liked girls – I would have been incredibly tempted to ask her out.) Realisation dawned on her as I turned to face her and she beamed at me.

"Kari Kamyia." I grinned at her. "Haven't seen you in a while."

"TK!" she cried happily as she threw her arms around my neck and hugged me tightly. "Oh my god it's been forever!" I could feel Davis staring, open mouthed, as I hugged her back. Finally she pulled away, her hands still on my shoulders, and looked me up and down. "Wow you're looking good."

"You too." I said. "Although did you forget your shorts today?" She pulled a face and playfully slapped me on the arm.

"Oh shut up," she giggled. "have you seen your uniform?"

"Touché." I replied. "So what brings you over here?"

"I was hoping to find Tai, have you seen him at all?" she asked.

"Not for a while." I told her. "I can go see if he's in the office at all."

"No don't worry about it, it's not massively important." she said. "I can see that you're busy." She gestured her head in Davis' direction.

"I wouldn't worry too much it's just my flatmate." I stated. "Kari this is my friend Davis Motomiya, Davis this is Kari Kamyia an old friend of mine from high school." It seemed a tad redundant introducing Kari to Davis considering the amount of Facebook stalking he had done but I thought I could at least pretend that my flatmate isn't a horrific pervert.

"Pleased to meet you." Davis grinned, holding out his hand for her to shake. Kari beamed at him and I could almost see his heart skipping a beat. She ignored his hand and went straight in for a hug. I had to stop myself from laughing as Davis' entire body froze and he stared at me, wide eyed, before I gestured for him to hug her back and he came to himself.

"Nice to meet you too. So how do you know TK?" she asked when she pulled away.

"We live together." Davis said. Considering as I had introduced him as my flatmate it was safe to say that Kari knew that already. I stopped myself from smacking myself in the forehead with the palm of my hand.

"I got back from University in England and was looking for a place to live." I explained. "Davis was looking for a flatmate so I moved in with him."

"Oh yeah I forgot you went to Uni in England!" Kari exclaimed. "How was it?"

"It was good." I said. "It was a lot of fun, the legal drinking age is a couple of years younger than here so for the first few weeks the guys I lived with kept getting me drunk to build up my tolerance."

"Didn't work though," Davis chipped in, regaining his mental capacity. "he's still a lightweight."

"I'm not that bad." I said as Kari laughed.

"Oh really?" Davis asked grinning at me. "The last time you and I went out drinking together you only had three beers before you started singing the British National Anthem."

"It was a reflex." I grumbled. There had been some nights at University where beer had lead to loud bouts of the British National Anthem that I can never remember why I just remember it happening.

"Do you have more stories like this?" Kari asked. Davis grinned evilly at me.

"Tons." he replied. I raised my eyebrows at him. Was that rat bastard really going to sell me out to get in favour with a pretty girl? "I can tell you about the time we went out drinking and I found him the next morning sleeping in the bath." Apparently he was.

"Hey Davis," I cut in. "remember that conversation I had with your sister?" I smirked at him as his face fell. "Now we're even."

"Sneaky bastard." he muttered under his breath.

"I'm intrigued now." Kari said grinning at the both of us. She was about to start pressing us both for information but, luckily for the two of us, was cut off before she had the chance.

"Kari are you bothering my staff again?" Tai asked. Thank god, saved in the nick of time. She turned to him, placing her hands on her hips.

"Do you consider a friendly conversation bothering?" she asked, sweetly.

"I consider everything you do bothering." he replied. Kari laughed.

"Love you too big brother." she said. Tai just rolled his eyes. "Besides Davis here isn't staff, so in actual fact I'm having a friendly conversation with another member of the public." Tai raised an eyebrow at her before turning to me.

"Do you know either of these two?"

"Yeah." I admitted.

"TK and I used to go to school together." Kari told him. Tai sighed.

"I keep forgetting you're the same age as my baby sister." he muttered. I'm not quite sure what he meant by that. "And Kari," he continued grumpily. "next time you come in can you actually put some clothes on."

"I am wearing clothes." she said, a dangerous note to her voice.

"It looks like you forgot to put pants on." he said.

"No complaints here." Davis murmured, his eyes practically glued to Kari's backside. I gave him a swift, sharp elbow to the ribs and he doubled over in pain. Luckily Tai hadn't heard his previous comment or I imagine there would be all hell to pay. Kari, on the other hand, had and she turned to smile at Davis, who was now clutching his stomach, and wink at him. He grinned back like a lovesick idiot.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Tai asked, regaining Kari's attention.

"Mum asked me to come in and find out if you're still going to theirs for dinner tonight seeing as you're not replying to any of her messages." she replied.

"Firstly," Tai said sounding a little irritated. "I'm at work. Secondly you've eaten our mother's cooking; after five years of doing my own cooking I don't know if I can stomach it anymore."

"You're coming and that's the end of it." Kari told him.

"You haven't even asked me if I'm busy tonight!"

"Are you?"

"No…"

"Well then."

"Fine!" he grumbled. "I finish here at six so I should be at Mum and Dad's by seven."

"Good." Kari smiled. "Hey if you're lucky you might even be able to help with the cooking."

"Sure." he replied. "Was that everything?"

"No, are you still coming to my house party Saturday night?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"No."

"Then yes." he replied.

"Great!" she beamed before turning to me and Davis. "Do you guys want to come as well?" Davis and I looked at each other and I could tell what he was thinking almost immediately. His eyes were begging that I say yes so that he could try and get off with Kari. I couldn't really fault him for that – my heart was doing summersaults at the prospect of seeing Tai outside of work.

"Sure." we said in unison turning back to Kari.

"Fantastic!" she exclaimed, beaming at us. She pulled a pen out of the tiny bag she was carrying and took Davis by the wrist. He stared, bewildered, as she began to write something on his arm. When she was done she let go and I saw that she had written her phone number up his forearm. "Text me and I'll let you know the details." she told him.

"Ok." he replied grinning like a loon.

"Cool," she smiled. "I'll see you two on Saturday and I'll see you at Mum and Dad's later Tai."

"Ok now go away so I can get some work done." he said.

"See you later Grumpy." she laughed. "Bye TK, bye Davis." She waved to the both of us and was gone. Davis still staring after her like a puppy. I grinned and clicked my fingers in front of his face. This seemed to bring him back to reality.

"So dinner," he said still sounding a little bit out of it. "I'm thinking steak."

"Steak sounds good." I replied.

"Cool," he said. "I'll go pick that up now, go home and get cooking."

"I finish in about an hour or so." I told him suspecting that he was going to do more than just cooking.

"Cool, see you then." he said and went to leave. He still wasn't completely paying attention to what he was doing or where he was going and he ended up walking into one of the shelves.

"You ok buddy?" I asked.

"All good." he replied giving me a thumbs up before heading off in the other direction.

"Is he always like that?" Tai asked once Davis had disappeared.

"More often than not." I replied. Tai chuckled softly. "What?"

"Nothing," he replied shaking his head. "I was just thinking this party might actually be fun now."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well I can actually have an intelligent conversation with you," he grinned. "and it will be nice to see you outside of work."

"Yeah…" I replied not entirely sure what he meant by that but he seemed to have perked up a lot more now that he knew that I was going to be at the party. Really shouldn't read too much into that though…