My Bothersome Life 15 Going to the Mall

I tried to change out of my elementary school uniform and opened my closet. My closet was almost empty. The only clothes I had inside was from when I was about four years old. I guess I'll go out and buy my clothes today. Too bad there wasn't something like a tablet that would spring up some clothes as long as I had enough points. I guess life was really convenient at school if you had an affluent amount of points. This was where I apologized to Luke again in my heart with my low grades bringing him down.

With my school uniform on, I went downstairs into the dining room where I saw my parents eating breakfast that my mother made. It was a french toast with a cabbage salad as a side dish with fruits. I sat down at a empty seat as my parents both had a hint of shock on their faces for a while. "Is there anything wrong?" I asked.

"Are you Rika?" My father asked.

"If I'm not Rika, who else do you think I am?" (Rika)

"It's just that we didn't think that you'd be coming back today." My mom said.

"Well, I'm back! And I'll be staying for about a week and I'll be returning to school afterwards." (Rika)

"It's just that you grew up so much while you were in school." My dad said sadly.

"Ahh! That reminds me! When I looked through my closet, I couldn't find anything to wear! Is there anywhere I can go to buy some clothes?" I asked.

My mom ran upstairs and quickly came back down with a card in her hands. "While you weren't here, we put all your allowance in this card. You can use it today to buy some clothes at the nearby shopping mall."

"More like you can use it all because we don't know when you're coming back again." My dad said with a sad face.

"Thank you very much," I replied with some tears beginning to swell up in my eyes.

I didn't have that much of a attachment to my current family because I only got to stay with them for a little more than a week after my reincarnation. But when I saw them thinking of me all this time, I felt very bittersweet as my eyes started to get pink.

"But, we won't be going shopping with you though. We have to get to work." My mom said sadly.

"It's ok, I'll call a friend to go together!" (Rika)

After I finished eating breakfast, I went up to my room and pulled out a transparent blue marble from my pocket. I poured my mana into the marble to call Helena and Michelle.

The marble lit up to display a transparent screen with a bunch of options resembling the tablet at the school, but it served as a different purpose. The tablet was used to buy stuff while the marble was tool to use to study (using a server very similar to internet) or to contact other people.

I pressed a button to go to my contacts and called Helena first. I smiled as Helena got the call in her mansion. "Hey Ellen!"

This was her nickname from kindergarten after we started to get really close. "Hey Rika! What happened today?"

"Do you have some free time in the afternoon today to go shopping in the third district together?"

Ellen clapped her hands with her pouting face. "Sorry, my parents are making me study to get ready for middle school. Maybe ten years later when I'm out of school?"

Wow. People from the first district were really strict with their children.

"No, it's ok. I'll ask Shelly instead."

Shelly was a nickname for Michelle that also started in my last year at kindergarten.

"I think it's better not to ask." Ellen frowned.

"Why not?" I tilted my head.

"Shelly's family is even worse than mine. She probably already been assigned loads of things to do to get ready for school. But maybe you should try asking Luke."

"Wouldn't Luke be even busier than you guys?"

"I heard that Luke's parents had nothing to give him because he did all the work that they assigned before our graduation."

"Wow. He did that willingly?" Right, this was Luke we were talking about. Of course he would have done all the work beforehand.

I ended my call with Ellen and called Luke as my last resort. "Hey! Are you free today? I heard from Ellen that you aren't so busy this week. So let's meet at this location one hour from now. Ok?"

I knew that with Luke's personality, if I made a deal with him, he would keep it. So before he had the chance to say anything, I hung up quickly while looking at a glimpse of his flustered expression.

I was originally going to go shopping in the afternoon if Shelly and Ellen agreed, but why wait that long if Luke's the one I'm going with?

I said farewell to my parents as I exited the house to start walking towards the nearly bus station. I got on the bus with the bus card I just got from my parents and sat down on a empty seat nearby.

But I wondered why I was getting weird looks from my surroundings. "Are you here alone?" A teen with long pigtails asked.

"Yes." I replied.

"Are you here to do some errands for your parents?" (Commuter)

So that's why I was getting these weird glances! Maybe because the current age of this body was ten years old. Since the third district was similar to where I lived in my past life, I would get why people would get concerned about a young child riding the bus all alone.

"No, I'm here to get to the nearby shopping mall to meet my friend." I answered.

"Oh! Then you should get off at the next stop!" The teen said while looking flustered.

"I will. Thank you!" I replied.

I got off the bus a few minutes later to see myself dropped off right in front of the mall. I soon arrived at 3rd entrance of the mall to see that Luke was already there.

Of course Luke was already here waiting. He was the type to come earlier than the time that we were supposed to meet.

He was wearing a white collared shirt with formal blue shorts and navy blue dress shoes. Wasn't he dressed way too formal?

"How long were you waiting for?" I asked frankly.

"Ten minutes. I didn't know where the location was as I'm not that familiar with the third district. So I just entered the location inside the teleportation gate near my house and arrived here ten minutes earlier." Luke answered with no expression.

Right. The first district was very futuristic.

I grabbed Luke's hand and dragged him to go inside the mall, "Well then let's go in!"

Chapter end