That was definitely when the empty trees (uzu) finally started blooming.
The cold has soothed, and the day the outfit has changed from winter to spring. Not even ten yet. The nuts were playing around the city that day with Elsa.
The city's specialties are flowers and plants, and highly fertile flowers can be sprouted and grown or blossomed at will at the edge of the road by seeds that fall on the way to be transported. For kids like Nuts and Elsa, that was an interesting toy for spring only. Try stabbing the beautiful ones in your hair, throwing them rather than sticking them together, then.
"Look, Elsa. I've got a crown of flowers!
"Cute, but nuts. How did you get the flowers stuck together?
"I brought some paste from home!
"You don't have to use adhesive for a floral crown."
"Really!?
Even though I was taught to make it this way, I couldn't make it well for a nut that wasn't very clever at hand from the time.
Still, I had a great time that day.
- Until the nuts say, "You want some cold juice".
In the first place it was too warm that morning, and the snack had decided something cold between us. When I was talking about where to go to the store while I put my play tools in each bag.
Huh, Elsa's expression clouded.
After a moment of stillness, she begins to probe the bag on her lap like she panicked. That, uh, that, and a rushed voice - when a worried nut calls out, "What's wrong?"
Elsa stood up from the bench and said this.
"I, I knew I didn't need it"
Elsa's voice was trembling, but more than that, the nuts were surprised by the sudden change of heart. I look up to her with a slightly higher perspective than I do.
"Huh?"
"I don't need a drink. Me, go home."
The look on Elsa's face is hard. Was there something in the bag, or...
Elsa, biting her lips and fading cheeks, is also shaking her breath. Was there something to be afraid of - I can't even guess. Peeing into his face with teeth, he asks, "What's wrong," but Elsa just waves.
"... nothing, I don't like it anyway, nut fool!
"Why, what happened? Tell me."
"Shut up."
overlapping inquiries, Elsa's voice became even rougher, and -
"- It's not about the nuts!
And the nuts...
Returning to the coffee shop (café) Fine, there were no guests in the store because of the time slot.
On the ringing doorbell, Elsa, wiping the table, looks back and looks here. When I found out that the person who came in was a nut, the words "Welcome" ended on the way, followed by "Welcome back, nut".
"It would have been cold out there. Tea now…"
"Mmm."
Words of agility, but the nuts.
I blocked Elsa's words and offered her a water bottle.
Elsa's laughing eyes, pressed against her chest by a water bottle, open properly. Turning to find out that the hand had received the water bottle, Nuts turned his back on her. It's a borrowed water bottle, so I guess I should thank you if it's true, but I couldn't afford that in my nut right now.
Grab a grip on the edge of the counter, to your usual seat, and place it in the next seat, making sure to throw half the coat off and the old lead. Then he pulled his chair roughly and sat down, slamming to the counter.
From between his pillow arms, the wood peeks.
"What? What, are you mad?"
Out of sight, I heard a voice. He had a laugh-inclusive, frightened voice.
I'm not mad at you.
"So what are you obstinate about?"
I'm not stubborn.
Even so, there is no obstinacy. Because I am not such a young child.... I'm just a little embarrassed, remembering the 'dazzles' of the past.
I don't see it, but Elsa must be leaning her neck now, as usual. The trick she always does when she's not comfortable with someone else's words.
"And that string, what? Garbage?"
"The dog shop gave it to me."
"What do you mean?
Ever since she was a little girl, that's how she calls me about the dog shop.
And yes, by being given the name of childhood taming - Elsa said, haha, like a translation.
"Maybe you remembered?
to that word.
The nut only slightly, raised its head. Stealing Elsa on the side, she's smiling, with the exact look on her face that she thought was right. Nat takes his gaze off her, he said.
"... it was a warm day."
"It was about time you finally ran out of coats."
That's right.
On that day, she...
"Elsa, you dropped your wallet. That day."
"That's right. I should have put it in my bag as usual, but it's gone. I panicked."
The nuts, fu, remembered how Anna was earlier. The way you lose your precious ring and scream with your blue face, the way your precious ring comes back and laughs like a relief from the bottom of your heart.
A kid's wallet, a penny, isn't a big deal now that I think about it. That's about all you have to do to laugh and tell him to go find it. But it was a lot of money for us at the time, and it was very important.
Nuts can tell. I can't believe I lost that, I'm sure.
Worried about them, and then, it would be a huge nuisance.
"But I can't tell my nuts... I'm trying to hide it."
"With half a cry, 'It's none of my business with nuts!'"
"I told you. Embarrassing."
But with her hands on her cheeks and frowning and laughing, she doesn't seem as shy as she says. Looking back at my childhood in the past, but he said it was also a good memory - that's right, Nuts thinks. That's not a big problem, no, it was a big problem for me at the time, but it's not a big problem now.
Why did Elsa say 'When I look at the nuts talking about Mr. Sputnik, I remember that'?
It is.
"At that time, I..."
I was then. He shouted 'A Word' back to her, stretching and trembling.
Before Elsa, trembling in tears, the nuts did scream, crying. Pushed by the momentum, Elsa stopped crying, but then the nuts cried out loud, crying too much, worried about "what's wrong, nuts" by people all over the city, and the next day it was hard to hear (or not).
Elsa says nothing. Looks like they're waiting for this word. If you at least say something, Elsa wouldn't have done that, although I'd fade this one's embarrassment.
"I..."
Stay down, squeal. Elsa originally remembered that, and she didn't have to say it, but somehow, she wanted to. Because that leads to the answer to all my thoughts.
I want to say, but on the other hand, my embarrassment at what I cried so badly gets in the way. So I'm stuck, and I'm blurring out Elsa's giggling voice -
- and.
"Hey, honey!
There was a shadow that ripped through such calm air and jumped into the store.
He kicks the chair reflexively, lifts his body that was lying down, and looks at you. He jumped in out of breath, either of Elsa's twin brothers...... The twins. They are very similar and the nuts don't know which one, but they know it's either. of them in charge of the delivery (delivery) of this store, either.
"Oh, my God, sister..." said Natsu, sister (hey), she was here. Just fine, listen to me, sister nuts. "
"Is something wrong?
With a serious look on his face, he asks him to speak quickly in a hurry. He said this while placing his delivery bag on a nearby table, keeping only his gaze out of his nuts.
"It's tough. A strange man peeks into the Sputnik jewelry store..."
"Weird man?
Elsa's voice, repeating her brother's words, was stiff.
At the same time, the nut thought circuit that was immersed in the memory of the past returns to the present. And mingled with his words, instantly reviving the words of a junior at work I had just heard about a topic that was haunting this city yesterday in my nut's head -
"'Empty Nest'......!
"Hey, nuts."
A low, suppressed voice calls the nuts.
When I saw Elsa, her expression was very tense. I'm not screaming like I did then, but like her in my memories, my blood is drawing.
"Earlier, Mr. Sputnik, I came to shop at our place." I'm going to visit someone "..."
"Then now, maybe the store has...!
I only have one employee in that store. If the shopkeeper is out, the only one who's there right now is that 'employee'. Empty nests aim, as its name suggests, usually a home away from home. But what if you realize it's just one little girl in a jewelry store right now?
- Faster than the worst answer, the nut heel is kicking the floor.
The moment he popped out of the coffee shop Fine, in a cold breeze bathed all over his body, Nuts realized he had forgotten his coat, but spared him while he returned.
I should aim now because it was neither a place with cold gear nor in my past memories.