So many new people...it seemed like Ayumi's purpose for being at the festival was becoming friends with absolutely everyone who was alone. At the end of the festival, every fucking emo in town would be talking to her. It made Saori a bit uncomfortable, even though there was absolutely no hint that she was on the outside. She didn't like being surrounded by, like, 5 different strangers. Maybe one or two at a time, and that's it. It seemed weird, considering the job she wanted to go after, but she didn't want to become a famous musician to make friends with everyone, you know. Actually, most things this evening made Saori feel off for some reason. She didn't know why, and she didn't care why it was happening. She just wanted something to help her cool off, like...a dunk tank! That's pretty much perfect! But were there any at the festival?
She looked around for a bit before seeing one in the distance. Not too many people were around out, so that meant no lines! She paid her money to throw a ball and threw one, hitting the target almost perfectly on her first try.
"That was really easy." She said, and took her small prize. It was an old Kabuki mask. Nothing of value, didn't look too spectacular, so she decided to give it to Ayuumi or Alex or whoever else Ayumi had talked to this evening.
Once she came back from the dunk tank, she saw that Ayumi was talking to yet another person. It was some guy who looked like he was new here, like pretty much everyone else that she had met today. Except this time, he went in for a hug and Ayumi hugged her. Casually hugged a stranger.
"Well, uh, I'm getting kinda bored." She said softly to Alex. Maybe she would leave. Actually, yes, she would definitely leave. It'd be best if nothing stopped her-
"um...I...I'm Hinata, it is nice to meet all of you...I'm starting as a junior at Arctane tomorrow."
FUCK you, Hinata. Dumb piece of human garbage. Saori smiled and said
"Hi," to the shy girl.
"I'm Saori." "If you don't mind me asking...What school will you be attending?"
The school everyone else in this festival was going to, apparently.
"I'm also starting as a junior at Arctane!" C'mon, human garbage, just one more question...
" Um are you all from around here?"
Saori reached for her phone and went to the ringtone screen.
"Yeah! Just turn around and look alllllllllllll the way over to the right!" She said to make Hinata turn around, before pressing one of the ringtones.
"Hey, mom! Oh, what's that? You need me at the house right now? Aww, but I'm with my friends! Okay, I'll be there right...now." And on now, she ran faster than fucking Kirikou to wherever she could go.
She saw a redheaded girl getting off a bike. She had seen those styles of bikes before, but couldn't put her finger on what type it actually was. Didn't matter, though. She escaped from the snuggle pile. She felt kinda bad for leaving then, but eh. She might as well interact with someone else, one on one, without a billion other strangers in the group like she wanted to now. Except...she saw her blow a puff of smoke into the air. Should she say something? No, that'd be weird and end up to her being questioned, and she didn't want to talk about her father right now. Sai didn't want to see the girl basically slowly kill herself, but she stood at about a 4 feet distance away from the smoking girl, and introduced herself.
"Hi, my name is Saori Oka. That's a cool bike you got there. By the way, what's your name?"Hopefully, this will go well.
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