Posting a few hours earlier than usual as I am hugely tired and want to try to go to bed early for once. Had my first official bar shift, I think it went pretty well. I still have a lot to learn, but mostly it's stuff I can really only gain with just practice being behind the bar, y'know?
Thanks to: MissTeak, Blueberry Absinth, and Beautiful Nightmare07
55. Everything for You
Gin threw away the store-bought daisies he had bought just an hour before. He paced up and down his office a few times. He had never truly apologized to anyone before. Gin cared about very few people, and he had always done his best to keep Rangiku happy with him. But now he truly needed to make the apology.
A moment later, Gin stalked out of his office at such a fast walk he startled several shinigami in squad five. They dodged out of their temperamental lieutenant's way, slapping up salutes as quickly as the could. He barely noticed, nor did he stop to pester any of his subordinates.
Gin made it to a garden near the outskirts of his squad. It was half overgrown, not yet having Aizen's eye descend upon it. It was perfect for Gin's needs, though. As much as Rangiku loved flowers, the wild beauties had always captured her heart. He gathered orange daylilies and queen anne's lace, black-eyed susans and purple asters, coneflowers and even a small sunflower or two.
The bouquet was somewhat chaotic, it had none of the artistry that bought arrangements held. Gin did not know how flowers were supposed to go together, he simply picked the prettiest flowers and tied them together with a ribbon.
He knocked on Rangiku's door minutes later before he lost courage and threw that bouquet away as well. Or rather, before the flowers wilted. Gin lost courage at nothing, even if he had to repeat that to himself several times.
Rangiku opened the door after several minutes. Although it was well into the afternoon, she was still dressed in a purple-pink satin slip. Her hair was tangled and she had circles under her eyes. She had been in bed. Her eyes widened when she saw him and she started to shut the door.
"Hey, wait," Gin said. "Please. Look, I gotcha flowers."
"I look horrible," Rangiku said, continuing to shut the door.
Gin stopped the door with his foot and slid in, making sure the flowers came to no harm. "Yer gorgeous. Let me apologize."
Rangiku crossed her arms and glared, but she was looking at the flowers.
Gin took Rangiku's silence as an okay. "I'm sorry I embarrassed ya in front o' everyone at th' café and got into a fight over stupid stuff wi' yer friend." He paused. "Mostly, I'm sorry yer mad at me. I'd take all them things I said back if I could, ta make ya happy again. Can' stand ya bein' mad at me. I miss ya."
"Those are really mismatched flowers."
"Wildflowers ain't supposed ta match," Gin said. "Picked 'em myself."
Rangiku took them and found a vase. After the vase was filled with water and flowers, she put it on her coffee table, the place of flower honor. "I guess maybe I'll forgive you a little."
"A lil'?"
Rangiku nodded and threw herself at Gin, hugging him tightly. "You're a guy, you can't help being stupid."
Gin kept him mouth shut and wrapped his arms around her. It was too rare an occurrence these days for him to ruin by any snide comment of his.
What'd you think?
