Lesson 3: Deciding to Go to McDonald's
Tom looks dully out the window of the moving bus. Er, squints. It's difficult to see—the glass is fogged over from the inside, and outside the world is grey and wet. Precisely six minutes after he and Jiro decided to spend the afternoon at the beach, it had begun to rain. Heavily.
Tom frowns, wrinkling his nose as he turns to Jiro in the seat at his side. Jiro seems to feel it- he looks back, raising a brow.
Tom mirrors the motion, eyes flickering to the window.
Jiro winces and, after a moment of moving his hands—restlessly, not knowing what to do with them—he says, tentatively, "おひるは?" (1)
Tom scowls. Of course not he thinks, but still he says,"まだです." (2)
"じゃあ マクドナルドで たべませんか?" (3)
Swallowing his wish to sigh, deeply, Tom glances once more out the window. The rain has gotten harder.
He turns back to Jiro.
"いいですね. たべましょう." (4)
Translations
(1) Have you eaten lunch?
(2) Not yet.
(3) Well, won't you eat at McDonald's?
(4) That sounds good. Let's go eat.