Chapter 31 31After the Rain

Author: The dancer I recommend

Chapter 31 31.After the rain

On April 5th, the weather was not as good as yesterday.

When I woke up in the morning, the skylight filtering in through the gaps between the curtains and the wall was still a bit dim.

Makimura Taku glanced at the time, but it was only around six o'clock, and the alarm clock was still ringing.

He turned off the alarm clock and opened the curtains. The cables lay across his field of vision, with two sparrows parked on them.

He opened the window, and the bird was frightened by the sound of the aluminum plate rubbing together, and flew away with a chirp.

The clouds in the sky are like cotton that has been pulled by someone, and their outlines are about to melt into the air.

The weather the past few days has been so comfortable. Both the temperature and the scenery give people a sense of transparency and joy between spring and summer.

That shouldn't happen very often. It should be like today in early April, when the sun rises very slowly.

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Taku Makimura sat at the dining table and finished breakfast.

The news was playing on the TV, beautiful cherry blossoms bloomed in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden and Ueno Park, and a flock of pigeons flew near the Imperial Palace of Chidorigafufu;

A new railway was being built somewhere, a fire broke out somewhere, and many fish were stranded on Yuigahama Beach overnight;

There seems to be endless news about Asakusa, Ginza, Akihabara, Meiji Shrine, and Tokyo.

He turned off the TV and checked whether everything in the refrigerator was within the shelf life.

The large box of milk on special offer was opened last night, and there was a little left, so he took it all out and drank it all.

In the morning when he had no work arrangements, Makimura Taku originally planned to go to the library to read, but the weather forecast said it would rain soon, and he remembered that he lost his umbrella when it rained last time.

So he went to the nearby Lawson convenience store and bought a transparent umbrella. The mechanical pencils on the shelf were buy one and get one free, so he bought one.

When he got home, the hands of the alarm clock were less than eight, so he sat on the sofa and read "Pumping Heart" from the beginning.

There is a line in it that he always remembers:

Sometimes the setting sun casts a purple-red afterglow, and sometimes it emits orange-red firelight, igniting the sunset on the horizon. In that unparalleled sunset scene, I gradually understood the truth that my father said, the whole is better than the part.

sum.

After the movie ended, he stopped writing. The picture outside the floor-to-ceiling window was fixed at eight o'clock. It was not very dark, but it was not bright at all.

At eleven o'clock, he made a lunch with the remaining ingredients in the refrigerator, including carrots, corn, green beans, green vegetables, curry, plus some seasonings, and stewed the soup in a pot.

After finishing his meal ten minutes later, he took an umbrella and went out, took the tram for twenty minutes, got off the train, and arrived at Starbucks.

It started to rain at 1:03 in the afternoon, and it rained heavily all of a sudden.

Dark clouds were forming, as if they were trying to shake out all the water vapor accumulated in the past few days.

The ground, roofs, and telephone poles were all black in an instant.

Cars rolled over the water, and traffic lights flashed in the rain.

The sound of splashing water, footsteps, complaints, rain, and other random sounds all mixed together, and it felt like it was raining in my head.

In the isolated Starbucks store, Taku Makimura turned on the lights.

Some people ran into the store to take shelter from the rain. Koizumi Hanahai specially sent them tissues to wipe their bodies. The customer thanked her profusely and she said you're welcome.

Hideki Nishida at the front desk was in charge of entertaining guests. Maki Teramoto came out of the small room at the back and asked where Taku Makimura had gone.

"Huh? You were here just now." Hideki Nishida glanced at him and took the time to reply.

"What's wrong?" Taku Makimura, who had just turned on the lights outside the store, came back from a short distance away.

Teramoto Maki saw him and gestured to him to come over, which Makimura Taku did.

"Look, these are coffee beans from Kagoshima," Maki Teramoto took out the packaged coffee beans and showed them to him. She opened them and said, "The coffee beans here are pretty good. I have always felt that whether they are from Hokkaido or not,

Even the coffee beans produced in Tokyo are completely inferior to this one. Either the aroma is not enough, or the taste is not as good. It has to be from Kagoshima."

She poured the coffee beans into a special container:

"Next, I'll teach you how to make the most classic cappuccino. It doesn't matter whether you have learned the others or not. This is the only one you must learn. Listen carefully to me."

"Okay." Makimura Taku nodded.

He originally wanted to say that he had mastered everything he had learned before, and it would be no problem to do it now.

But Maki Teramoto had already started the next step of making cappuccino, so he quietly followed her over to observe carefully.

Just like before, this time I learned it once and got it right.

It wasn't until about four o'clock in the afternoon that the rain stopped outside.

The weak sunlight slanted down from the stacked gray clouds, and the blackened earth reflected golden light.

Many customers dispersed in the store. Maki Teramoto and Hideki Nishida relaxed at the front desk, while Koizumi Hanahai was still busy.

After wiping the table here, she would run over to mop the floor again. When the floor was spotless, she would go back and wipe the machine, table corners, and all kinds of small things with a rag that had been rinsed several times.

Once again, wipe the tableware with a special tablecloth.

Teramoto Maki saw that she was working so hard and asked her to rest for a while. She said she was not tired yet and was fine. Makimura Taku helped her at first, but later he became free.

At around five o'clock, a girl dressed freshly and wearing a blue baseball cap slipped in from the door. Taku Makimura was cleaning the table.

The girl walked next to him and waited for him without moving.

Feeling that the light was blocked by someone, Makimura Taku straightened his body.

In the field of vision, Hoshino Ai stood upright, with his hands in front of him, looking at Makimura Taku with a gentle smile.

She smiled very sweetly, and her smile seemed to say I was back, and also seemed to say welcome back.

Makimura Taku turned back and entrusted the work to Nishida Hideki. Amid the questioning gazes of the three, he walked up to Hoshino Ai and the two of them found a seat to sit down.

"Is work okay?" Hoshino Ai gestured in the direction of the front desk with her eyes.

Makimura Taku nodded: "It shouldn't matter."

"I thought the store would be very busy." Ai Hoshino looked around, then faced Taku Makimura and said, "It turned out to be surprisingly busy."

"It's probably because of the rain," Taku Makimura guessed.

"That's right." She looked out the window and recalled, "It rained heavily in the afternoon, and I thought it wouldn't stop today."

"The sun is still on now."

"Logically speaking, there should be a rainbow, right?" Ai Hoshino said, "After the rain, the sky clears, and then a rainbow appears."

"It's not 100 percent."

"That's it." She looked away.

Makimura Taku changed the subject: "Are you going to train today too?"

"Well, I still trained at Ochanomizu in the morning, but it rained in the afternoon and I stopped going. The president said that we should be able to rent an indoor training room for the next two days, and we will train there then. I will ask Miss Kyoko to give us some training today.

Half a day off."

"It's good. It can't be too hard."

"No," she shook her head. "After all, time is very tight, and our group has not yet gotten along well enough. We are all just starting out. If we don't work harder than others, I'm afraid we will fail in the audition." As she said this, she took off her hat.

, "I'm fine, but I don't want other people to be sad because of this failure."

“The important thing is participation,” Taku Makimura said.

"It's nothing." Hoshino Ai smiled, "I decided to become an idol because of you. Although I don't care that much, I still hope for a good result."

Lie, Taku Makimura wanted to say, but there was no need to say it.

He put his chin on his head and thought for a while, then asked: "In this way, I get half of the credit for the success?"

"Of course~" Hoshino Ai smiled even more.

The two chatted for a while, and Maki Teramoto brought them two cups of cappuccino. By the way, she leaned into Taku Makimura's ear and asked him who this girl was.

Taku Makimura said they were friends, but she said she wasn't her girlfriend? Taku Makimura said how could it be possible?

She patted Makimura Taku on the shoulder and joked that Yuki was getting jealous. Makimura Taku smiled and didn't take it seriously.

After Teramoto Maki left, Hoshino Ai, who was directly opposite, took a sip of cappuccino, stuck out his tongue and said it was too bitter.

Makimura Taku also tasted it, and it was indeed a little bitter. He felt it was because of the coffee beans, or that there was not enough milk added.

Around 5:30, Makimura Taku got up and went back to work. Hoshino Ai said to sit here and wait for him to get off work. Makimura Taku nodded.

He returned to the front desk, and Teramoto Maki asked him to go on a date directly without waiting until six o'clock. Nishida Hideki also agreed, and Koizumi Hanahai stayed in the room and did not come out.

Makimura Taku thought, is this how the word date is used? Then he said thank you, took off his apron and walked to Hoshino Ai, and the two walked out of Starbucks together.

"Would you like to eat first?" Taku Makimura asked her.

"I want to eat tuna sushi!"

"No problem."

The two walked along the street, and finally Hoshino Ai stopped in front of a noodle shop.

Makimura asked if she wanted to eat sushi. She smiled and said that she had changed her mind and suddenly wanted to eat noodles. Makimura didn't care.

The decoration of the store is very simple and looks very cheap. When I went in and picked up the menu, I saw that they were all cheap noodles.

The two of them ordered soba noodles and udon noodles respectively, and both of them were quite happy.

Before checking out, Hoshino Ai's phone rang. She took out her phone and took a look at it. She signaled to Makimura Taku and walked to the side to answer the phone.
Chapter completed!