You know, on hindsight—leaving a note with the curry she made for you wasn’t exactly a great idea.

This yakiniku barbecue was a battlefield, as it always is, and always will be. Yknow, after that alien invasion, she really is glad its all over now. The food was a great reward for all her hard work, and Reiko’s, I guess. Sure, she was the one who destroyed all those aliens and technically stopped the whole thing from escalating more than it already had, but Momo had done stuff too! In fact, she made curry for you, so that was something, right?

‘Momo! While I was gone, you ate nothing but curry, didnt you?!’

“Eh? Why does that matter now—“

Oh—God. The curry. That note. She knows ‘Love ya!’ was a crazy thing to say, but she wanted to express something, even if she couldn’t bear to say it to your face. She completely forgot about it—! Momo wrote in the spur of the moment, without even thinking about it! Stupid, stupid note!!! WHY did she have to do that!! She only remembered because her grandma pointed out that she ate all the curry! Fuck!!!!!

‘Momo! That curry!’

“Shaddup! Zip it! Shush!”

‘We’re out of curry because of you!’

“Stop talking!”

‘Go buy some! We need curry!’

“For the love of god, stop saying ‘curry’!!!”

‘Curry! For tomorrow! Curry!’

UGHHHH!!!

Fine! She’s going to the store, but she’s going alone!!! She can’t stand her grandma sometimes! Seiko insisted you go with her, and after a couple minutes if complaining from Momo, she’d finally give in and let you come.

So now, here the two of you are—walking side by side in awkward silence. God, she has to say something, the silence is deafening!

“So… Uhm… nice weather, yeah?” Dude. It’s 8:00pm at night. Nice weather? Seriously?

“…You—uhm… saw the note I left, didn’t you…?”

You did. And it made you flush a bit, you thought she liked Jiji, personally. But… You dont know. You can’t tell what she means by ‘Love’ and it’s killing you.