Kuhaku Shiro - Drury Lanes' Arcade
Looking at the 'Continue' screen, Shiro shrugged and decided to leave his campaign run unfinished for now. He had his fun. As he began to pick up the tokens he foolishly tossed up into the air, Shiro looked over at Robert's presented hand and grinned. Pocketing the tokens he recovered, he firmly took Robert's hand and shook it once. "Yeah, good game. You and I should hang out more. Maybe after classes we can come here and play some more? You'll only get better with more experience, y'know." Letting go of his hand, Shiro squatted down to pick up the remaining straggler tokens on the ground. Looking up at Robert as he checked the time on his Scroll, his pointed ears drooped a little. He wasn't expecting for Robert to leave so soon, but he guessed it was getting pretty late. "Nah, I'll hang around here a little bit more and maybe try my hand at bowling. I'll see you tomorrow during classes. Have a good night, boss." Resuming his token recovery, Scoot decided at that moment to come up and see what all the ruckus was about. Sniffing at a token as Shiro was lifting it off of the ground, Shiro smiled at his companion and petted the top of his head. "Aww, you missed it buddy. I totally just whomped Robert's butt in a game. What were you up to anyways?" Scoot tilted his head and exclaimed, "Food!"
Chuckling, Shiro leaned in closer and squinted to see little food particles around Scoot's muzzle. Shaking his head and clicking his tongue, he wagged a finger at his friend. Clearly, the rodent had been scrounging around for scraps that were dropped onto the floor. "Come on, Scoot. You shouldn't eat food you find off the floor like that. You could get sick." The rodent tilted his head in the opposite direction, confused as to why he shouldn't stuff his face with every bit of chow he found. Patting Scoot on the head, Shiro stood and pocketing the final few tokens he had thrown everywhere. Looking up around him, his eyes fell on two girls that were playing one of the cover shooter games. Well, to be frank, only one of them was really playing. The other was just watching with a sour disinterested look to her eye, sipping on some drink with a funky looking straw. He recognized them as two of the new transfer students from a few days back. The very same ones whose lunch he 'dropped in' on.
Frowning, he stuffed his hands in his pockets as he quietly contemplated going up to them and apologize for his prior rude luncheon interruption. To make amends and maybe attempt to repair his terrible first impression. Part of him screamed at him not to, because there was something about the girl with the jacket and headphones that reminded him far too much of his team leader. That resemblance made him terribly uncomfortable, but a louder part of his inner voice told him to have some confidence and buck up. Maybe she was nothing like Sapphire, and actually a kind and nice gal. "That's wrong of me, I shouldn't think of her like that." Shiro thought. Turning back around to face Robert, he slipped his hand out to wave a goodbye. "See you 'round, Robbie." not even thinking about the nickname he just gave him. Whatever, it was probably a common one his teammates even used.
As Shiro slid his bandaged hand back into his jean pockets, Scoot spiraled up his leg to climb up his back ending on his shoulders again. Striding over to the two Haven transfer students, Shiro stopped a distance away as he quickly worked up the courage to speak to the girls. Clearing his throat, he put one of his usual bright smiles as he waved at them. "Ah, excuse me ladies." In hindsight, a terrible way to start off a conversation. Who starts a chat by excusing themselves? At the very least, no one could say Shiro didn't try to be respectful and polite.
