A Night For Building Rapport

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After leaving Ameko's room you find Sarah at the couch. She's sitting there deep in thought not even realizing your approach.

"Sorry for the wait."

"AH!"

You speak suddenly and she jumps before turning to look at you.

"DON'T SCARE M- I....I mean. Ahem- I didn't notice you there, Boss~ haha~...."

You tilt your head at her. "A little jumpy aren't we? Something up?"

You say and come around to sit next to her shoulder to shoulder. Sarah moves away a little to make room.

"No, No! Nothing's wrong. Everything's fine!" Sarah smiles and you see right past her facade.

"Right. Well I'm just glad you're okay." You say to her and lean to one side to put your arm on the armrest.

"Yeah....thanks for today." Sarah turns her body away from you and plays with her fingers awkwardly. "Umm....I thought I was done for, haha~."

"Who were those guys anyways? They were going on about some stuff. They knew you too, it wasn't some random **** on the streets." You speak straight to the point.

"Oh yah!~ Thoooose guys~ don't worry about themmm~. They're nobodies!" Sarah dismisses your questions and waves a hand.

"Well then....." You pause for a second going back and forth on if you should actually do this....then you speak. "I order you to tell me about it, about everything.....and I do mean EVERYTHING about them." You give her a stern look.

She blinks back at you wide eyed in disbelief that you would order her for this.

"W-wait! That was an order yah!? That's 400 dollars!" She shouts out.

"It was." You say with no emotion whatsoever, a deadpan face just staring back at her. "So, are you going to answer?"

She takes a deep breath. Her glossy duck lips blowing out air and she flutters her long lashes at her legs.

"Umm, okay, they're just....a stupid gang of misfits that hangs out around the city." Sarah says as she sighs.

"What's your relationship with them?" You ask trying to scour your mind of anything relating to gangs in the city.

"I'm not with them okay? I'm just....I'm just working a bit. They pay me to move some stuff."

"****?" You quickly guess.

"Well, yeah. But sometimes some stuff like weapons, batteries, information and random stuff here and there." Sarah seems to be quite open about this to you with money on the table.

"I get the general gist of everything...." You say to her and go through what you know in your head.

Sarah lives in the older part of the city, the old downtown. Her family isn't financially stable so she got herself into some bad stuff. If you had to guess from today's events her home life isn't something she would like to return to either.

"Does your family know?" You say and she roll her eyes.

"Yea, my older sister Is my only family, we live together and she is really annoying. Nagging me on and on telling me to stop doing it."

You tap the armrest with a finger as you think. So that was her sister? She had a gun....did she think you and Amelia were with the thugs?

"....you don't plan to stop?" You ask her with a curious tone.

"....well....of course not. How am I going to make money?" She says and huffs a heavy sigh. "Like, who's going to make money around here y'know? We can't afford anything if I don't work."

"Work huh?....Do you have a job? Like a normal job instead of all this stuff?" You ask her and Sarah turns to you.

"....no. I uhh....can't get a normal job." She actually shrinks her posture down a little.

"Why?"

"Well...." Sarah sits there without answering for a few seconds. Her legs rub against each other and her hands dig into the side of her thighs nervously. "I uhhh....I'm a narcoleptic."

You stare at her processing the words coming out of her mouth. "Narcoleptic? Like....you fall asleep randomly sometimes?"

"Yes....i-it was difficult....getting jobs."

"Bizarre...." You say to yourself and lean back on the couch.

"Sorry...." She says almost whispering.

"What for?"

"I just-....I just want to help my sister. But you knowing this....might not want me anymore as an assistant."

She says raising her hands to look at and drops them to the side in defeat afterward. They bounce a little with a silent thud against the seat cushion. Tears are well on their way now surfacing at the edge of her eyes.

"Uh....no actually. I thought your condition was going to be worst. If it's just that then I'm actually glad." You say and give her a bit of a smile.

"....so....You're not going to fire me?"

"Of course not."

Sarah stares at you with scrutinizing eyes trying to find any hints of the truth on your face.

"Okay....t-thank you."

"Oh yeah, you wanted to help your sister. Does she not also work?"

"She does but she's the same as me."

You give her a suspicious look. Is this normal?

"Really?....So you two are in the same boat then?"

"Y-Yeah....She tries her best to support us with that job." Sarah lifts her legs up and hugs them. "But she can't risk working too many hours or her managers might find out."

"...." You nod your head and smushes your lips together thinning them out as you think. This is definitely a rough situation....there's something up with it that's weird. You can feel it in your gut.

"Alright, well....let's get some sleep then? We'll talk tomorrow." You lift a hand halfway to Sarah hesitating before you put it on Sarah's head.

Sarah glances at you for a moment and then nods.

You give her a smile again before getting up and stretching out your arms.

"Aghh~ I'm pretty tired. So I'll be off. I have some more questions but we'll talk later about it."

You begin to walk to the stairs and before you can get up the first step Sarah speaks.

"Jun!....umm....thank you."

You turn to look at her and just smile at her before turning around and making your way up.

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"That's complicated. But- it's not surprising."

A voice says as you climb the stairs and there you see Amelia sitting on the final step. You just shrug.

"You're up?....Anyways- I guess so. But, we'll definitely have to do something about it. Can't exactly just let her be."

"Playing the savior? Hmph! Well, like I care." Amelia stands up as you come up to her.

You just give her a smile too and give her a side hug before pushing her towards your room.

"Are you jealous?"

"Of course not!" She replies quickly and crosses her arms.

"Of course not huh?" You say stepping inside your room and closing the door behind you.

Amelia's muffled voices can be heard for a slight moment through the door as she asks you about the Boss and Assistant thing.

"Oh that...."

There is a click as you lock your door and then a quiet yelp as you throw Amelia on your bed....

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