"Hanae! I'm back! I bought you pudding as an apology!" I yelled into the apartment once I walked in. Suddenly, a pillow was thrown at my face causing me to fall back a few steps.
"You took too long, I was worried. What would Mom say if I lost you? She would never forgive me. " Hanae said as she ripped the plastic bag out of my hand.
"Stop worrying so much, I'm only a year younger than you and I already know my way around Tokyo. If you ever call Mom about this then she is going to make me move back home and you'll be alone again."
"Arisa-"
Suddenly, I heard a ringtone that could only be for Hanae's phone. She ran over to it quickly for some reason.
"Hello?...uh huh…really?...okay…but it's so late already!...fine, since it's that important…bye."
It's a high chance that Hanae's boyfriend called for her to come over for the night. She's so lucky to have one but only creepy guys who like maids ever ask me out.
"Arisa, I have to go to, uh, work. The person with the night-shift is sick so they needed my help, yeah."
"You are the worst liar ever. I suggest you bring you pudding with you or I'm going to end up eating it out of boredom."
She sighed. "I'll do my best not to stay too late, okay?"
Then she left, without her car keys, again. She'll be right back in 5, 4, 3, 2…
The doorbell rang; I swear she's getting more forgetful by the minute. "You forgot your-" It wasn't my sister at the door; it was that guy who used me as a distraction. What was his name again? Izaya or something?
"It looks like you have a nice apartment, mind if I come in?" He said as he pushed me to the side and walked in.
"Hey! Who said you could just waltz right into my apartment? How do you even know where I live?"
He laughed. "I'm an information broker, what did you expect?"
This day isn't getting any better at all. "What is your point for being here anyways?"
"Well, we have something in common." He said, smirking. "Shizu-chan doesn't like either of us."
"So? I think he doesn't like you a lot more than me."
"I just thought it would be fun for someone else to be there to piss off Shizu-chan while I'm busy doing other things. His chases may be fun but it wastes so much time."
Okay, this conversation has just gotten pointless and is revolving around Izaya now. "Who said I want to even talk to him again?"
Izaya shrugged. "Well, once you find out that he stole one of your new high heels, you might change your mind."
"Huh?" I remembered that I took off my heels while I was hiding during that chase, leaving them in some dark alley. I clenched my fists, did he seriously steal it?
Izaya started walking toward the door, wearing that same smirk. "Besides, aren't you both lonely?"
Then he left, leaving me confused and angry. I calmed down after eating my sister's pudding, she was the one who forgot it. While doing that, I saw a slip of paper on the floor where Izaya was standing.
"Shizuo Heiwajima…is that his phone number? Why would Izaya give me that?"
It's very unlikely that Shizu-chan gave his number to Izaya himself but then again, Izaya did say he was an information broker, whatever that is.
I might as well put it in my phone and then rip it up so Hanae doesn't think anything suspicious when she comes back. She gets so worried over the tiniest things. I jumped onto the couch and put my headphones on, trying to distract myself from this situation. Since I turned it up to high, I didn't hear Hanae slam the door open or hear her yelling at me for some random reason.
"Arisa!" She yelled, ripping my headphones off. "You're going to go deaf! Did you hear a word I said?"
I laughed nervously. "Maybe?"
She sighed and slid my feet off the couch so she could sit down. "Why was Izaya Orihara walking out of our apartment? You're not doing any black market-type things, right?"
"Huh? W-what do you mean? No such thing happened!" I said, worriedly.
"Arisa, you're getting to be a worse liar than I am. Why was he here?" Hanae said with her arms crossed.
What should I say? He just wanted me to annoy Shizu-chan and also gave me the phone number. "He, uh, gave me some information that I didn't really need."
Hanae looked at me like I said absolute gibberish. "He did what? I know he's an information broker or something but I wouldn't think that he would just randomly do that."
I shrugged. "I guess we kind of made a deal, it isn't a big thing though."
"Arisa." Hanae stared at me. "What did you do?"
"I just said that I would do him a 'favor' so he wouldn't be distracted by...things and such."
That just caused Hanae to be even more confused; I guess I have to tell her everything.
"And he gave me someone's phone number in return" I said, bluntly. "Hanae, why are you smiling?"
She laughed, "No reason, so what happened to my pudding?"
"Oh, about that…I'll buy you dinner tomorrow."
That stupid flea, just giving me more problems. What the hell am I supposed to do with this girl's shoe? I've been looking around for a day and half already, she's not some kind of Cinderella. Where the hell does that girl live? She's a complete idiot for not having any sort of ID in her wallet, unless you count the picture of her and a bunch of other girls looking like maids. No, don't tell me that she works at that one maid cafe in the middle of Akihabara.
I sighed when I arrived at the maid cafe. "Out of any place she could ever work..."
"Hello, Master! How may we-" The girl's eyes widened in shock. "YOU! Why are you here?!"
I finally found her and she's dressed as a maid, how can this get any worse? "I just needed to give you this back, and stop glaring at me." I said, holding out her shoe.
She ripped it out of my hands. "Izaya said you stole it, why are you giving it back?!"
"He was the one who stole it, that flea just threw it at me and expected me to return it."
"I don't believe you, I would've been able to tell if he was lying and he wasn't."
This girl is such a pain, how can she not realize what happened. "Then you must be horrible at doing that, he's always lying."
"Shut up, Shizu-chan! I bet you've fallen for his tricks before."
(Slightly awkward silence)
"You have, haven't you! Hah, no reason to laugh at me now, Shizu-chan!"
Wow, this girl was really testing my patience. "Arisa, I don't need another person to call me that." I said, angrily.
She smirked. "Too bad, I like that nickname. And no one said you could call me by my first name!"
"If you continue to call me 'Shizu-chan', then I can call you whatever I want to."
She pointed behind me. "You are banned from ever coming here, Shizu-chan. Leave."
"I never planned on it, I'm not into this kind of stuff." I said, turning around and walking away. "But you don't look half-bad dressed up like that."
"Shut up!" She yelled behind me.
I only said that to embarrass her, it wasn't a compliment. There's no way I'd compliment someone who's starting to get as annoying as Izaya.
I'm not very good at Shizuo's POV so it was a bit short, at least they are getting somewhere.
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Setton-san
