Boys Being... Boys?

Aidan's internal clock was telling him the work day was getting close to an end. A quick check of his supplies of veggies and meat was enough to tell him that was about true, and upon looking through the gaps of the noren he realized it was later than he thought. At any point now should Aidan be closing up shop. The customers were running thin, he was running out of tare and needed to make more, it was about that time of-

The sound of someone slamming into a wall behind him shouting something about refusing followed by a desperate need for food made Aidan jump a little. "Fuck, not again." He huffed, immediately grabbing a bowl and going through the motions once again. Every movement was precise from the way he poured the tare and water to placing the noodles and veggies. Eiji would have to wait literally twenty seconds before there was a fresh bowl of perfectly made tonkotsu ramen placed on his side of the counter, chopsticks neatly placed across and everything.

"You good, bro?" Aidan couldn't help but wonder. He had forgone the usual introductions to check this new guy out and make sure he wasn't on drugs. Even still, he had handled exactly that before. It wouldn't be new for him. But this guy was a little young for that? Well, not any of the drugs Aidan had been expecting at least. "Hope you're alright with pork, my guy."

Aidan couldn't fucking believe what he was seeing. It was almost cartoonish how this guy went from seemingly dying to apologizing like a normal person followed immediately by scarfing down noodles and pork and egg like he was in an anime. Yet if it meant helping someone, Aidan didn't mind obliging in the slightest. He just couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Eiji asking for another bowl snapped Aidan out of his confused trance. "Uh, well you're lucky because there's a deal on it so it's only 500 yen right now." Aidan said, turning back around with a shake of his head, and just like before all it took as 30 seconds before there was another bowl in front of Eiji. It was no skin off his teeth as long as the guy could pay, but Aidan wasn't sure if he should have his hopes up.

"I mean yeah it is closing, but..." Biting his lip as he looked over his shoulder at all his other shit. "There's a ton of stuff I still have to do." But of course his own stomach had something to say about that. Rumbling as if to argue with him that maybe he should just sit the fuck down and eat. So he did, albeit with a sigh. "Alright, alright, give me a second."

The other customers had left and Aidan did some preliminary cleaning up, at least collecting the yen they had stuffed underneath their mostly empty bowls as payment. The next thing Eiji would know, Aidan had already flipped a sign outside to say they were closed, stepped back inside, got himself a bowl of ramen, and was sitting down right next to the total stranger who had barged in his store asking for food just moments ago.

"Jeez man, what happened to you that made you not eat for so damn long?" He couldn't help but wonder as he stuffed his own face full of ramen for probably the first time that day. Yeah actually, now that he thought about it, it was his first time eating that day. Rush hour had been so busy that he hadn't gotten to take a break to eat at all. "Can't imagine it was anything good. Or did you just do what I do and forget?"

Ramen boy simply listened to Eiji's story, giving the usual things you'd give to people that you were listening to, but too busy stuffing your face with food to really keep up a proper conversation. "Really?" "That's messed up, man!" "Bro, I can't believe that." You know, the usual stuff. Aidan was listening and would perk up or laugh at certain parts, like Eiji moving his hands all around as he explains the events of his day with grandeur. It was pretty amusing, he couldn't lie. But of course all good things would eventually come to an end at some point.

Aidan blinked like he was a deer in headlights, only to then lean back and start stammering like a fucking buffoon at being called out for not giving his name. "S-Sorry, name's Aidan. Work stuff get hectic, melts my brain, you know how it is." He tried to laugh it all off while giving a stupid sheepish grin, but even then before he knew it he was stuffing his face with noodles again. He just couldn't help himself, his stomach was trying to murder him!

Once he was at least halfway done with his meal, Aidan simply sighed and leaned back, now a lot more relaxed with all the customers and shit gone for the day. "Yeah. I still got a bunch of shit to do before I go home, but this is usually when I eat anyways, so." He explained, looking over the counter and dreading all the things he still had yet to do for the day. He'd be here for another at least four hours minimum, maybe more depending on how things go.

"I do it every day though, ain't no thing." He said before stuffing a few more bites of ramen into his mouth, followed by, "Can't believe anyone'd get sent on some wild ass goose chase like that though. Couldn't be me."