The woman looks middle aged, she have black hair, and squinting green eyes she's leveling at me right now. She's dressed pretty normally, clothes that look worse than my cloak.
I don't know what Hatomo did but my cloak is crazy good, can't really compare her clothes to mine.
Well, I guess I can? My clothes, under the cloak, looks worse than her. It's a pretty cool...shirt and pants.
Black and sober, nothing much to say about this. The rest of her have more to say though, she have glasses, just under her squinting green eyes.
Hanging from her nose, there's no rim. The glasses are pretty small too, but big enough to make her squinting death glare bigger.
Well, okay, maybe I'm exageratting somewhat.
She's not really giving me a death glare. She looks more annoyed and tired than anything, the big dark rings under her eyes prove that even more.
The whole agressivity in her posture looks more like annoyance if you think about it for a second, yes she have one arm crossed under her chest and the other tilted up to hold some kind of umbrella above her head.
But maybe, her reason for looking like shit is because it's raining like hell, she doesn't have any jacket, and she's now busy dealing with a weird kid.
....wait who even is she?
"Did you heard me kid?"
"I did"
She blinks. Slowly, taking her sweet time to close her eyes, take a deep breath from her nose, and open her eyes again.
"So, why are you snoop&$#& around kid?"
I can guess what the word is with context. But I'm currently boxed in against a library, by an adult, who looks annoyed/pissed, and I feel like every seconds to think about how to go forward is valuable.
That's why, without any hesitation. I say this "I don't know that word."
She freezes for a second. I can see her right eye twitching. Then, just like before, she closes her eyes, take a deep breath, from her nose, and then. AGAIN, open her eyes.
"Why are you sneaking around?"
"I don't know that word"
Her eye looks ready to explode.
"I'm joking"
"That wasn't funny"
"i have a two years old sense of humor"
She frowns and take a step back, to all my pleasure as I take a step to the right, I don't like the whole back against the wall bullshit.
"You're two years old?"
"Been today mam, that's my birthday"
"Huh" She tilts her hip in thought, the movement makes her umbrella move too much and she hisses and look at her shoulder as some water lands on her.
A second later her umbrella is above her fully again, and she talks.
"You talk #&#& well for a two years old"
"Thanks you mam"
I give her the most polite and cutest smile I can muster, removing any possible snark from my voice to make me look as cute as possible.
NOBODY HURT CUTE KIDS RIGHT!?
She squints at me harder. Fuck.
"Huhuh, don't try to make me forget what you were doing there" she points behind me, at the window "Why were you sneaking around?"
I look behind me. At the window. At the inside, with all the books in there.
Who is this girl? Is she the boss of the library or just a random girl?
Uhhhhh, what do I even say?
Giving her a look, I decide to do something I had a lot of practice this last year.
I lie.
"Oh, I was searching for something"
She levels me a look. "And that's why you were laughing like a little #_@&#"
"I don't know that word"
Twitchy the twitchy eye "Doesn't matter, why were you laughing?"
"It's because I found my house key, and my parents-" I nod at a random house close to the library, on my right "-usually don't let me go out, and if I lost the key from home they would never let me go outside play in front of the house ever again. So now I'm happy because I found it"
She looks at me for a two long second. Probably wondering what kind of kid fucking talks that well, and then, she turns her head around to look at the house I nodded at.
"The Kokubo's children's are in the &#-##-"
Then, she turns her head, slowly, extremely slowly to give me a look.
I give her the cutest smile I can muster.
"That's not my house"
"I know. Why did you said it was your house?"
"Never said it was, I just nodded at the general direction of my house, it's on the right turn. Same street as the playground"
"Then why didn't you go to the playground?"
"There's no kid anymore it's boring"
For three long seconds, we stare at each other. Her in whatever shock she must feel to fight a talking battle and LOSE against a child, and me in pure nervousness.
At least my sweat is hidden by the cloak
"Right...right, there's no kids around." She nods multiple times, as if tasting my words, she even looks around at the empty street.
"So why are you here?"
Wait what? "What?"
"Why are you here, every kids are in the &#&#&"
"I don't know this word"
She sighs again and lift her hand, her left hand. Switching the umbrella of hands to wave at a place far away, she waves at the house I nodded at, but clearly indicate somewhere farther. "The...the place where the Matsuoka pa&#&#_ has been taking the kids, for the &#& bulls&#&"
Matsuoka is my last name.
I am Neribe Matsuoka.
I don't really react much to whatever she said, I just say my usual, and my most trusty card.
"I don't know those words"
She slams her hand on her thighs and turn around in frustration, she looks around the street before sighing again.
"You know what? It's none of my business" She turns around. And starts walking away, but then, she stops.
Turn around.
And give me a look again.
"Last question"
I perk up. And she gives my body a look, an up and down look. Maybe she's a weird fucking pedophile, but more likely, she's wondering what's wrong with my body.
I grew up after all, and my uncontrollable movements are even more noticeable, especially if I stand still to talk to someone.
The way she frowns for a second before ignoring whatever is happening with me tells me she was probably curious about this.
Her question isn't about this.
Compared to Kiko the little devil, an adult is sensitive and doesn't ask questions about weird stuff, that's what people call, living in society.
"Why were you standing in the middle of the street for two minutes while staring at the library"
My steps, who were carrying me away from the library and the weird woman freezes again.
Ah....
I turn my head to look at the tired looking woman, she have an annoying fucking smile on her face, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!? HAPPY OF WINNING A BATTLE OF WITS AGAINST A KID!? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?
I don't show any internal panic. Instead, I push my hands against the inside of my cloak pockets to spread it around me and show it off.
"I have a shiny new cloak and I wanted to try it"
"By standing still. For two minutes?"
"Yes, I was comparing it's usefulness, I knew it worked while walking, but maybe the water would get in if I stood still, so I stood still"
"You're not two years old" she shakes her head around, a weird smile on her face.
"I am"
She shakes her head again "No fuc-!" She stops her insult, remembering a kid's there, and then she tries again "No way, I wasn't talking like that when I was two, what kind of baby talk like that?"
"A smart one?"
Her smile gets straight up devious. "A smart kid that maybe want to...I don't know" She wave at the library "Get in a library to read some books?"
...ah.
Shit.
We stay in the middle of the raining street for a while. One of her hand showing the library.
I'm the one to break the silence.
"So, can I get in?"