"Ah! Is that you Gustavo?"
*i looked up to see someone familiar figure but.. I quite didnt recognize it.*
*i got up from being slumped onto the table with liquor rolling down my cheek, or was it saliva? I didnt care anyway.*
*i touched around the table to feel my for glasses*
"shit.. where are they now?"
"Looking for these?"
The mysterious person then handed me my glasses. I put them on to see a familiar face standing over me.
Ah.. how many years has it been since I last saw her?
"Do you remember me perchance?…"
said the figure as she gave an awkward smile
"Ayano..?"
"So you do remember!"
Ayano.. she was as enthusiastic as ever.
"Hey, it's been a while"
"tell me about it! 8 years or was it 9? Hmm. Im glad you finally got those glasses, you could barely see in past^^"
weird.. this conversation didn't feel awkward for some reason, anytime I came across someone from my past I could barely look them in the eye.
But with Ayano it felt weirdly comforting, like always, she carrying the conversation.
"Oh these? I got them recently.."
I didnt know how to talk to her though. Well it's been 9 years after all.
"How've you been? You don't look too great.."
"pfft nah I'm just having a bad day."
"What's wrong?"
"Well to start with.."
I started yapping on and on about how badly my day has been.
Now that I think about it, in the past she'd always listen to my issues like there was no tomorrow.
She'd be a great therapist, wonder what she's working as right now?
"enough about me, Ayano what do you do now?"
"Well, I'm an author." An author? That's quite the unexpected answer.
I thought she'd probably become a therapist or maybe an artist.
"Hey how many drinks did you have? You seem very drunk"
"i don't know.. and I don't really care."
I then called out to the bartender for another drink, we kept talking until he brought my drink.
As I was about to reach in for it Ayano got to it first,
"I'll take that." "
Huh..?" I looked at her in confusion.
"You've had more than enough, let's get going now"
she then asked for the bill and I just sat there,
watching her. Now that I took a Better look. Her looks have changed so much, she didn't have that short black hair whom she'd always cut and then come whining to me about it did not turning out good
but instead long hair that reached her hips,
her style has also changed a lot with it.
Unlike those baggy masculine clothes she'd always wear she was wearing a business suit straight out of a kdrama.
Weird.. her face hasn't changed at all.
"What are you staring so intensely at?" She said with a sly smirk on her face,
"ah.. sorry."
"Let's get going then, could you stand up on your own?"
"Yeah.." I then tried getting up,
"hup!" I couldn't balance myself and everything felt fuzzy
"got you! You okay?"
"I'm fine."
"Just hang onto to me until we get to the car"
Ayano then walked me out of the bar and after a bit of struggle we eventually made it to the car.
"Get in, I'll drive you to your place, do you know the location?"
"Yeah it's ******"
"alr, just don't throw up in the car on our way there."
"Pfft."
Based on her car and clothes, why would Ayano come to such a down to earth bar it didn't seem like her new style.
Was this really 'just a coincidence'?.