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“Eishiaaah! You wanna come with me to the fashion district?” Riyo slammed the the door open, happily inviting her friend on ‘a girls day out’.
Eishia finished folding up a small blanket resting it on top of the cabinet. She pondered for a moment thinking about her response, “auh..- I should be free uhm- yea sure! Let me tell Auggie im leaving so he doesn’t get worried.”
She awkwardly laughed, making her way down the hallway to August’s studio room. She gave a small three knocks on the door- August wasn’t one to like interruption he bursted through the door frustrated before being his sister right below him.
“hi auggie, uhm Riyo wants me to go with her to the fashion district.. I wanted to tell you but also ask if you needed anything.” She mumbled under her breath quietly.
“HEY EISHI! THATS OKAY IM GOOD! HAVE FUN ON YOUR DATE THOUGH!” He yelled through his headphones not being able to tell how loud he was being.
Eishia face flushed- trying to deny that it was a date, more of a hang out with friends! But her brother had already shut the door leaving her embarrassed from his teasing.
She turned around to be jumped scared by her friend, “You doin okay? Your face is really red”
She softly giggled, “yea- just auggie teasing me, you know the usual.”
Eishia looked away flustered from the idea of going on a ‘date’ with Riyo. Gnawing on the inside of her mouth- she walked down the hallway to the lobby with her.
They said their goodbyes to Semiu at the front desk, walking outside to find the pathway that led to the Fashion District. “Hey Eishia, you got any cool stories you wanna tell while we walk there?”
“uh-.. oh! uh Rudo came by not so long ago, he was asking about if there was any way to find some flowers here.” She stumbled her words before remembering something that happened around a couple days ago.
“I told him that i’m pretty sure Delmon would have his flowers that he was in search for, I think he was looking for orange flowers, i’m not sure though..” she softly smiled, looking down at her feet as she walked
Riyo try to think of any reason why he would ask for flowers, especially orange ones- it finally clicked in her head.
“You think he was getting them for Amo? Her favorite color is orange, i’m pretty sure he likes her too” Riyo commented her conjectures
“awh, that’s really sweet of him.. I would love to receive flowers like that one day.” She shyly said the last part.
il remember to buy flowers for her later.
Riyo thought to herself looking away, around the barren land that they walked.
Before long, they finally spotted the entrance towards the fashion district. They relief after walking for a couple miles- pretty exhausted from all of it.
Eishia seemed a bit nervous with the crowd, a lot of people from visiting towns and it was a pretty popular tourist area. Riyo notice this she stopped in her tracks of walking and turned around facing her.
“d-don’t worry- just taking a breather.” She awkwardly smile, trying to hide her anxious demeanor.
Riyo gazed, softened- she walked down the steps and grabbed her arm. Leading the way to the district. Eishia heartbeat quickened for a moment, she would thank Riyo later.
“Let’s go to the thrift store!” Riyo happily smiled, pointing at a retro looking thrift store with an illuminating sign that indicated they were having a sale.
Eishia nodded, walking close next to her. It was much cooler inside the building than it was outside. Also so much quieter- they approached a long rack of Tank tops, and other article of clothing that went on your torso.
They began to search through it trying to find anything that would seem fitting for just to wear around the cleaners, HQ or something to wear outside. Riyo grab something out of the rack. It was a light pink top with a lace frill on the outer hems. “I think this is more you’re style”
She chuckled, showing it to her. Eishia hands fumbled with the fabric looking at each intricate detail of the fabric. “I think- im gonna get this..”
Eishia grabbed it off the hanger and placed it inside the small basket that they had grabbed. She thanked her for finding such a beautiful top.
They went back to searching. They had already gone through about four of the racks and yet Riyo couldn’t find anything for herself.
that was until Eishia found a nice sleek black leather top, something like the thing she always wore in her regular cleaners outfit “oh! look how good this looks! I think you should get it”
She spoke up much louder, happy and comfortable with her. Proudly showing off the top she had found in between searching for stuff for herself.
Riyo was dumbfounded she couldn’t find anything but Eishia magically pulled out a top out of nowhere that seemed to fit her style and was her size. “Thanks Eishi!”
Her blonde headed friend handed her the shirt they walked around after finishing the tops racks. They spotted a glass window display that held several different types of items.
Mostly jewelry very expensive collector items. Stuff you really wouldn’t find around here. but something was different. There was a beautiful dress- a small white dress that was probably used for formal events
it was stunning, Eishia thought to herself about the dress, placing our hand up against the glass barrier that separated them. She seems so determined to get the dress.
Her eyes landed on the price tag, it was 20,300¥ it was way too far from her budget. She seems saddened by this. “I should have asked auggie.. for some extra money.”
” i can buy it for you.” Riyo blurted out looking at her friend, a small note of blush on her face.
“no, it’s fine- I don’t want you spending you hard earned money on this.” Eishia denied her offer, knowing how hard her friend worked against the trash beast. basically putting her life on the line just to fight.
Riyo slightly frowned, but insisted on paying “serious let me pay for this, you look really happy when you saw it.”
Before she could deny once again, she had already called over a worker to open up the case.
“The dress will be at the register whenever you’re ready to pay.” The worker happily pointed to which register she was talking about before letting them shop on their own.
Riyo heart warmed watching how happy her friend got seeing that she would be getting the dress. It was worse, spending every penny to see her smile.
“do you wanna wrap things up here? I’m getting a bit hungry.” She said slightly rubbing her stomach, smiling awkwardly as her stomach, slightly rumble indicating her hunger..
“Mhm, that’s sounds fine.” They both walked up to the register making two separate payments of what they were each getting.
Eishia held her shopping bag excitedly in her arm excited to try on all the stuff she had bought and the dress that Riyo got for her.
They both walked outside of the thrift store facing the crowd again. Eishia stood next to Riyo her hand directly next to hers- her pinky slightly rubbed Riyo’s palm. Too embarrassed to ask to hold hands once again.
Riyo didn’t say anything, but reached for her hand firmly interlocking their hands together. Eishia softly blushed as they both walked across the street trying to find a bakery to have a quick snack before shopping again.
Riyo’s heart beat faster as she held Eishia hand, she would hope her friend didn’t notice the sweat pooling on her palm