ikigai • cellphone novel [on hold]

viii. intriguing

"Uemura-san, mind if
I sit with you?"

He looks at her

He shakes his head,
moving aside to give
her some space

She smiles,
sits next to him,
eats quietly with him

"You're really
quiet, huh?"

She giggles.

He nods.

"I hope you
can open up
to me, Uemura-san."

She smiles at him
for a brief moment

"Why me?"
he asks her

His life wasn't
at all interesting

He couldn't think
of anything that would
be of her interest.

They were
different

It would be easy to say that
from first glance at this
unlikely pair

However, she thinks otherwise.

She ponders for
a while.

"You intrigue me,
and I feel like we have
a lot in common."