Chapter 12: The Strawberries are for Lisa, Captain
Weekends are always over before you know it.
"Good morning Sergeant, Good morning officer Brown, Officer Adams." Lisa's peachy voice echoed through the office. She was always on time on Mondays, and everyone was. Well, except for their Captain, it is 7:50 am and he is not yet here.
He was going to be late on his first official day as Captain of the Ist Patron Division. A smile played on Ravi's lips for no reason.
"Hey! How was your weekend?" She asked as she slid into the counter right next to him.
He harvested some radishes, made some bean curds, soy milk, strawberry milk, added strawberry and sugar into a jar to know whether there would be some kind of syrup and then made strawberry jam. On Sunday, he had drank some wine with hot, spicy noodles that he got from town and listened to some radio drama about a man who was living a double life of an assassin and his wife who was living a double life as his handler, "It was okay."
"You say that every week." She sounded exasperated and stared at him until he asked her about her weekend, she grinned, "It. Was. Amazing. There was an influencer party at Alstria, and I was invited. Just the party was enough to get me like 20,000 new followers and I made friends."
She did not mention that just showing them the pictures of her and Ravi in their car had gotten her some clout, she would make it up to him, besides she might never see any of them again so what damage could it do?
"That is good for you." The more followers, the more money she would get and he knew how much Lisa needed money right now.
"Oh! Did you get the strawberries that I asked you to get?"