worst birthday ever?
Who: Heiwajima Shizuo, Orihara Izaya, and anyone who works at Siren's Flowers (feel free to jump in if you want!)
When: January 28th (Shizuo's birthday!)
Where: Siren's Flowers flower shop
Summary: While it's Shizuo's birthday today, he's not the sort to celebrate or even let the people around him know that that's the case. Nope, he's just decided to go into work. But someone remembers his birthday and is intent on making it a bad one for him.
Warnings: This is going to end badly, with lots of anger and Shizuo throwing things and trying to wring Izaya's neck or... something like that.
Working at a flower store wasn't the sort of job Shizuo had envisioned when he'd started looking for one, but he didn't mind it. The girl who'd hired him, Minako, had been kind to allow him to come work for her without even requiring much in the way of an interview. She'd even offered a room in her apartment to him, which had left Shizuo feeling like he owed her more than she'd allow him to give.
Either way, the man wasn't terribly picky when it came to jobs. He knew he'd had something really good going with Tom back home, but seeing how that couldn't continue here, he was back to taking on menial work where he could find it.
Shizuo didn't mind, though. He got to stay in the back of the store most of the time, which meant that he didn't have to interact much with customers. He'd been fired from enough jobs to know that it was the involvement of customers that usually got him into trouble, so something more solitary like this was better. His main risk now was if one of the people working with him pissed him off, but it looked like they knew that he was better off left alone.
That was always the case, though; even if he wanted to talk to people and get to know them, he usually had to hold back for his own good -- and for theirs.
Seeing what day it was, though, it was to be expected that he was feeling somewhat lonely. He wasn't moping, of course; he was working just as hard as he did every day he came in, moving bags of soil around and doing whatever else Minako assigned to him that day. In all honesty, Shizuo wasn't sure if it truly counted as his birthday. It hadn't been December in Ikebukuro before he'd left, but then when he'd showed up here suddenly it was. So with that question of time, did it really count?
It probably didn't matter either way, as he wasn't celebrating. Maybe he'd go eat out for the night, but other than that he had no plans.
When: January 28th (Shizuo's birthday!)
Where: Siren's Flowers flower shop
Summary: While it's Shizuo's birthday today, he's not the sort to celebrate or even let the people around him know that that's the case. Nope, he's just decided to go into work. But someone remembers his birthday and is intent on making it a bad one for him.
Warnings: This is going to end badly, with lots of anger and Shizuo throwing things and trying to wring Izaya's neck or... something like that.
Working at a flower store wasn't the sort of job Shizuo had envisioned when he'd started looking for one, but he didn't mind it. The girl who'd hired him, Minako, had been kind to allow him to come work for her without even requiring much in the way of an interview. She'd even offered a room in her apartment to him, which had left Shizuo feeling like he owed her more than she'd allow him to give.
Either way, the man wasn't terribly picky when it came to jobs. He knew he'd had something really good going with Tom back home, but seeing how that couldn't continue here, he was back to taking on menial work where he could find it.
Shizuo didn't mind, though. He got to stay in the back of the store most of the time, which meant that he didn't have to interact much with customers. He'd been fired from enough jobs to know that it was the involvement of customers that usually got him into trouble, so something more solitary like this was better. His main risk now was if one of the people working with him pissed him off, but it looked like they knew that he was better off left alone.
That was always the case, though; even if he wanted to talk to people and get to know them, he usually had to hold back for his own good -- and for theirs.
Seeing what day it was, though, it was to be expected that he was feeling somewhat lonely. He wasn't moping, of course; he was working just as hard as he did every day he came in, moving bags of soil around and doing whatever else Minako assigned to him that day. In all honesty, Shizuo wasn't sure if it truly counted as his birthday. It hadn't been December in Ikebukuro before he'd left, but then when he'd showed up here suddenly it was. So with that question of time, did it really count?
It probably didn't matter either way, as he wasn't celebrating. Maybe he'd go eat out for the night, but other than that he had no plans.