Bonus Short Story

I was born and raised in Ocean Harbor. My father owns a fruit shop that has been operating for four generations. We mostly just sell fruit to the nearby restaurants, but there are enough of them to make our business do relatively well.

Right now I’m a busy student. One day, I want to make our fruit shop much bigger.

By the way, I love sweets. With my father owning a fruit shop, we’ve always had fruit for dessert. I never had any sweets when I was little. I remember the first time I ate one. It was so delicious... I fell in love with that taste. Some people can bake them themselves, but I’m too clumsy for that. I just wait for my allowance to buy them. Going through stores eating all kinds of sweet delicacies is kind of my hobby.

Recently, I found a place that has the most delicious desserts: the Harbor Restaurant. It’s very close to my home, but I never went there before because it was known for just serving meals made by other shops. However, a few days ago, they hired a new cook, and the food they started serving is amazing.

After hearing about it I immediately tried to go there, but it was too late for desserts. Dad brought some home though, and that was the start of it all.

It was so good that I’ve started going there whenever I have the chance. I can’t go every day, since I can’t afford it, but I go as soon as I have my allowance.

The waitress, a girl named Katarina, is very beautiful and kind. She even lets me try desserts that they aren’t selling yet. Everyone who goes to the Harbor Restaurant for lunch loves her, but Dad told me that she’s even more popular at dinner time. He even said that some people go there just to meet her, including the son of the greengrocer in front of our house, who’s so in love that he goes there every day.

But a girl that pretty and kind can’t be single, right? One day, coming back from school, I happened to run into Katarina. She was walking together with a handsome young man with blue hair. She was smiling, and he was looking at her with so much love in his eyes. I was pretty sure they were dating. Too bad for the greengrocer’s son. They looked so good together too. Those two beautiful people could be in an illustration of a romance novel. I decided I’d ask her about it next time I was at the restaurant.

But then, when I asked her about it...her reply really surprised me. I realized that she was completely oblivious when it came to romance and, what’s worse, she didn’t even realize that the blue-haired man likes her. Poor guy.