4 CHAPTER 4: Lunchtime

A few hours go by and it's lunchtime. Roy is about to leave until Yua stops him by walking in front of him.

"Hey, Roy. Wanna eat together with me and Sara?", Yua asked in a polite tone.

Roy is surprised by this. Not because a girl asks him to eat with her. It's because this is the first time Roy heard Yua speak in a more quiet volume. He hears Sara groan behind Yua. Roy's about to decline when he remembers earlier. When her classmates ignore her. This also reminds him of...."his father". Roy also remembers that he's trying to change who he is. So he takes a deep breath, looks outside of the window.

"Yeah, sure. Why not?...", Roy felt himself dying a little bit.

"Yay!", Yua said as she raises her hands to the air like she just doesn't care.

"Can I join as well?", Alvin asked Yua from behind.

"Oh! Yeah sure. The more the merrier!", Yua answered.

Roy hears Sara groan. Roy sighs as well.

"Alright! Lezzz goo!!", Yua shouted as she leads the way.

Along the way, they start talking.

"Hey, Roy?", Yua asked.

"Did you know that China is in lockdown?", Yua added.

"Yes, I heard it in the news as well. Apparently, a virus appeared there.", Roy replied.

"Heh! Luckily, China prevented it from spreading. Can you imagine the world being in a pandemic state?", Alvin jokingly said.

"I know right! You would only be at home and you can't even see your friends.

It would be a nightmare!", Yua responded.

"Damn right it is!", Alvin responded.

Both Yua and Alvin chuckle wholeheartedly, and both Roy and Sara breathe out. They go through stairs and stairs and get on top of the school. Surprisingly, it's empty. Yua then rushes over to a certain spot and sat there.

"Over here!", Yua yelled.

All of them go over there and sit down. Everyone begins opening their lunches.

"Finally, I can try out Dr. Donald in Japan to see what's the differences between here and the US. But it was embarrassing when they interrupted class earlier.", Alvin said as he unwraps a burger.

"Is there gonna be a difference in taste?", Yua asked.

"There's got to be.", Alvin said with fire in his eyes.

Alvin then takes a big bite out of the burger. Chewing it, and savoring its taste.

"Hmmm... It tastes somewhat the same. I don't know...", Alvin said again as he took another bite of the burger.

Roy opens his lunch box, revealing a bunch of shrimp tempuras with some vegetables on the side.

"Wow! You have 1234....7! You have 7 shrimp tempuras!!", Yua exclaimed while salivating a bit.

"Hey! Check out mine.", Yua said as she shows her lunch.

It is an omelet with some fried rice. Roy finds this delicious.

"It looks...delicious.", Roy complimented Yua's lunch.

"Hehehe! Wanna taste it?", Yua asked smugly.

Roy hesitates but succumbs to temptation. Roy nods. Yua takes her chopsticks and gets a piece of the omelet along with some rice.

"Say ah.", Yua said gently as she brings it closer to his mouth.

Roy eats the food that is in front of him. Chewing it, and enjoying its taste.

"It tastes great.", Roy said under his breath.

But Yua hears it, making her smile a bit.

"Thanks! I made it myself.", Yua replied.

Roy doesn't say anything more and just continues eating his shrimps. Even though Yua's annoying to him, she has Roy's respect for cooking such a yummy meal. Yua sees that Roy's embarrassed about something but she doesn't care. Yua doesn't say anything else but just smiles at him. Roy looks away almost immediately upon seeing this. Roy then sees Sara's lunch. It's steak, and it looks expensive. Even her lunchbox looks expensive. Both Sara and Yua take notice of this.

"What? You wanna taste Sara's steak, Roy?", Yua asked with a smug look on her face.

Roy doesn't say anything nor moves his body to affirm or negate her question, but Yua gets a gut feeling that Roy does want to taste the steak, and she's right.

"Alright! How about this. You both give a piece of your meal!", Yua suggested.

Both Roy and Sara are surprised by this. Alvin too, as he eats his fries.

"I guess... I want to taste one of your shrimp tempura.", Sara spoke awkwardly.

Sara exhales a bit and takes a piece of her steak and leans a bit to get it near Roy's mouth. Not wanting to make this even weirder, Roy takes the steak and eats it.

'Not only it looks high quality, but it also tastes like it is.', Roy thought to himself.

Roy swallows it and begins picking up 1 whole shrimp tempura with no bites whatsoever. Roy scoots near Sara and puts the tasty-looking shrimp in front of her mouth. Sara takes a bite from it and makes a cute noise while doing it.

"It tastes as it looks. It's fantastic.", Sara said as she smiled signaling that she liked it.

"I cooked it myself. So, thank you.", Roy appreciated the compliment Sara made.

Roy then notices that they're some crumbs of the fried shrimp that she eats earlier on her clothes. Specifically saying, on her chest area. Roy also notices a necklace there as well.

"Wait! What are you looking at?", said defensive Sara as she covers her chest.

"Oh, it's because they wer-"

"You must have been thinking something dirty, huh?!", Sara interrupted Roy.

"No. It's not what you thi-"

"How dare you! You! You! Pervert!", Sara shouted as she throws a punch at Roy.

However, Sara's punch is stopped. Roy catches Sara's punch and his expression scared Sara and even startles both Alvin and Yua. Roy lets go of her hand and took a long sigh.

"I didn't mean to look at your breast.", Roy said in a serious tone.

"But you-"

"It's because they were crumbs on your uniform.", Roy interrupted.

Sara looks down, and they're some food debris on there. She wipes it off.

"I-I'm sorry.", Sara apologized.

"It's ok. Just hear me out first, next time.", Roy replied.

"Ok...", Sara responded.

Silence happens after that incident but is soon broken by Alvin.

"OW! I bit my tongue.", Alvin exclaimed.

"Maybe slow down a bit, Alvin!", Yua said as she laughs.

Suddenly Alvin is looking around like he's finding something. He looks left and right.

"Where's my gravy?", Alvin asked to himself.

Not noticing that the gravy that Alvin's looking for was in his hand. Yua's laughing hard, Sara chuckles at this, and Roy smiles at the absurdity of Alvin's situation.

"What's so funny?", Alvin asked the three of them.

Alvin then notices the gravy that's in his hand the whole time. Everyone laughs at his realization. Especially himself.

"I swear, I'm not this stupid all of the time!", Alvin exclaimed.

"All of the time?", Sara questioned.

"Fine! Most of the time.", Alvin said as he started laughing again.

'Maybe having some noise in my life wouldn't be that bad. Especially when everyone is happy like this.', Roy thought to himself.

Roy then takes another bite of his shrimp and smiles to himself, and for some reason, the shrimp tastes amazing.