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Miss Opportunitease

Don’t come around here as much as I used to…

Pleasantly drunk. On my way home. Getting off the Hanzomon-sen, making my way to the Tokyu Toyoko-sen.

Up the steps and just past the JR ticket machines when I hear my name.

I’m scanning the crowd for a familiar face, but at Shibuya Station on a Saturday night -with last trains approaching- everyone and everything’s a blur.

It’s better that way, sometimes, getting lost outside the crowd instead of in it.

But I hear my name again and then there she is, standing directly in front of me shaking dry her umbrella, Mitsuko.

A few pleasantries exchanged and how has it been? Not bad, and you? Same as always. Hey, why don’t you have an umbrella, it’s raining out there! I never use one. Well you should, you’ll catch cold!

Mitsuko asks if I’m drunk. When I tell her I am she laughs. She is too, she says, blows on my face to prove it. She laughs again, I smell shōchū…and laugh back. Then she excitedly takes my hand.

“Let’s go for a drink!” she says.

And I want to. We’ve only ever met once before, but we flirted our way then to now’s exact same proposition.

I want to, but I can’t. Not tonight. And when I say so, Mitsuko sneers, but tells me she understands. And she should, because she should know why.

“Next time, eh?” I offer.

“I could make you promise.”

Without thinking I kiss her forehead. It’s a stupid thing to do but I’m doing it, and then -too late- it’s done.

Mitsuko looks at me a little disappointed. Then she’s digging around in her purse, and before I have a chance to say or do anything, she gives me a slip of paper with her number on it.

“Next time, eh?” she smiles.

“Promise.”
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I could have used another drink on the way back home.

Posted by Invisibleye in: Experiences   Comments Off   13 January, 2008   Tags: Hanzomon-sen, Mitsuko, Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Tokyu Toyoko-sen

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