If Shimamura had Hung Out on the Stairs

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#Wss366 Grasp

“I think you fail to #grasp how your attitude affects your sales…” Shimamura’s sales manager droned on and on. The office was stuffy and institutional, with nondescript paintings on the walls. The room’s only distinguishing feature was a large window overlooking a parking lot.

As usual, Shimamura wasn’t paying attention to the room or the lecture. If she didn’t mind the minuscule commissions she received, why did it matter? She earned enough to cover her rent and convenience store meals.

Normally, she just spaced out or watched the clock to see how soon she could go home to bed. Today, however, she watched a small figure in a spacesuit drift past the window. Sparkles followed it like a comet’s tail.

“Balloon?” she wondered. Not that she had ever seen a balloon like that before.

It stopped outside and bobbed up and down. Yeah, it must be a balloon, she thought, until it opened its helmet, exposing a girl’s face. The girl mouthed the word “soon” and then drifted off again.

“‘Soon’ for what?” Shimamura puzzled.

“Okay, get back to work, and I want to see some sparkle!” the manager said, interrupting her thoughts.

Shimamura bowed and left, thinking, “Maybe I’ll call in sick tomorrow.”

She sighed. “Better not. I’ll get fired. Why can’t it be like school, where I used to hang out alone on the stairs to the roof and spaced out?” Not that she had any great memories of high school.

“Excuse me. Where do these go?” she heard someone ask behind her.

Turning around, she saw the new sales clerk holding up a bathing suit.

“Wow, she’s pretty,” Shimamura thought. Long black hair framed the woman’s lovely, though vacant, face.

The woman fidgeted and looked down, apparently embarrassed.

Shimamura didn’t know the names of any of the sales staff. It was too much bother to learn them, but for once she read the other woman’s name badge: “Adachi Sakura.”

Somewhere, she thought she heard a voice say, “Fate.”

“I’ll show you,” Shimamura said.

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