'These are for thoughts'

~~ Time difference and stuff like that

First Day at Work

(A couple hours before meeting Usami)

"Let's go!" Eden and Ren yelled as they walked out of the house. Hiroki was coming out from his apartment to go to work.

"Hey, Sensei. Let's go together!" Eden called out to her teacher as they were leaving for school. Ren was walking the opposite direction because her school was in the opposite direction.

'Pfft, forgetting about me now that Kamijou-san is here, ay? I see how it is. Well, not like I can help it; he is attractive without the glare and I would also like to hang out with him.' Ren thought as she put her cold hands into her thin jacket. Her hands were always cold for some reason. As she arrived at the entrance of the school, she saw Yukina also going in.

"Yukina!" she called out.

"Oh! It's you. Nice to see you again." He said as they made small talk. They both walked towards their classes and said goodbye to each other. Ren sat at her desk picking up a tablet and pen to begin her animating exercises.

Ren got back home after class at around five PM. She started working on her resume and filled out her application and went to go get interviewed.

The interview wasn't a fancy one were you had to wear a suit, it was just casual and regular questions. It wasn't so hard to get the job; in fact, she started working there after her interview was over. She went to the lockers to get changed into her new work clothes then got out to greet her co-workers. She was scheduled to work in the shounen department first.

Since there were only two females, including Ren, working in the shounen level (and both good-looking) they attracted more male customers. They sneaked glances at them every once in a while but it didn't bother Ren, she was used to it since people always stared when she cross dressed in the US.

Her co-workers helped her with her job as well as give her some advice and give her some tips on how to get on the managers good side. Once she was done with her job in the shounen department, she headed dwon to the Shoujo level to work with her new friend, Yukina.

"Hey, Yukina-san! I got the job, isn't that great?" She said as she was nearing Yukina.

"Good job. As your first task as my little helper, can you help me stock the shelves with these new releases?" he said handing her a box full of new manga.

"Yes, sir!"

Once she finished helping him, she put her arm around him and said, "So, I saw you the other day at the café, with who seemed like your boyfriend. Was he your boyfriend? It looked like he was. Sorry if I'm mistaken." with a wide grin on her face.

"Really? Why didn't you say 'Hi'? I could have introduced you to him."

"I didn't want to interrupt your cute little conversation. Thanks for that by the way. Tee hee~" she giggled into her hands.

"For what?" Yukina asked, a little confused.

"Your little confession. It was awesome! You should have kissed him! I bet he would have blushed as red as a tomato."

"Oh… did you hear that? I have kissed him there once. He left after that, but we are going out now."

"Oh really? That's cool then. Have you done it yet then?" she asked, with a suspicious tone in her voice.

"Eh? Um yeah… I guess." Yukina had a light blush on his face. "Why do you ask?"

"Because… I'm actually a fujoshi, in case you didn't know." She whispered.

"So you're okay with me going out with another guy? You're not going to give me chocolates on Valentine's Day?" he asked, blushing a little more.

"Psshhh, no. That's only for 'Kisa-san' to do. He should make you some homemade cookies. And don't worry, I won't fall in love with you, no matter how princely you are." She said with a reassuring smile. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a previously mentioned black haired man watching the scene of the two schoolmates talking to each other.

"Hey, can you introduce us? I also heard that he was a manga editor." She leaned in and whispered into Yukina's ear.

"Hmm? Oh yeah, sure." He noticed his lover and walked over to him to tell him about the situation. He surprisingly looked surprised that we had caught him watching us. Yukina brought him back to introduce him to his friend.

"Kisa-san, this is the friend that I was talking to you about. And she also said that she won't fall in love with me, so you don't have to worry about a thing." Yukina said.

"Yep. I'm more than okay with your relationship. Oh I'm Ren Raya by the way. I'm from America and I'm studying animation abroad at T University." Ren gave him one of her new business cards and bowed.

"Er, okay? I'm Kisa Shouta. I work at Marukawa Publishing as a shoujo editor. Yoroshiku." He bowed and gave her his business card.

"Awesome!" she took the card and put it in her pocket. At that moment, her phone rang.

"Hold on, let me take this." She said as she picked up her phone. "Hello?"

"OH MY GAHD I JUST MET YAYOI AND HIS REAL NAME IS USAMI AKIHIKO AND HE SAID HE'S GOING TO USE OUR NOTES IN HIS NEXT JUNAI ROMANTICA NOVEL!" her friend tried to say as she was sobbing tears of joy and happiness. A male voice saying "Stop crying and lower your voice!" can be heard on the other end.

"Really? That's awesome! And it's all thanks to me, you're welcome." Ren started praising herself.

"Well, I'm at work right now so I got to hang up. Tell me the story at home, okay? Bye" and they both hung up their phones.

"Sorry, my friend just had something good happen to her so she's feeling a little emotional about it." She explained to the two men standing there.

"It's alright. What happened?" Yukina asked.

Ren explained what might have happened that got Usami to use her notes in the next novel he would be writing.

"That's great! Congratulate her for me." Yukina said sounding happy for them.

"I will thanks." They looked at the clock and saw that it was almost time for Yukina's shift to be over.

"Well, I'm going to go clock out and go home. See ya tomorrow." He said as he left with Kisa, who barely said a word.

"Okay. Bye Kisa-san!" They all waved bye to each other.

End of chapter 5