Belle had tried not to let the distress show on her face. Of course, he had a girl waiting at home. She was the foolish one, indulging in dreams that weren't made for her kind. 

Plugging herself into her music, she stood listlessly at the station platform as her train pulled in. He hadn't asked for her number so she decided to remember today as a good story and nothing more.  

Yuta sighed as he unlocked his phone screen while waiting on platform 23 and deliberated replying to the last few received messages or not. 

7:02pm +61 56948:  yuuuuuta, i miss you. come meet me, i still owe you a cig
7:16pm ryusei: bro, that groupie girl from uncle ming's is spamming  my phone. she hungry. is she messaging you too?
7:31pm +61 56948: are you playing at the ni hao bar on fri? 
7:33pm +61 56948: i wanna try the okonomiyaki fries wiv you :):):)
7:34pm +61 56948: [pic sent]

Sighing, he replied:
8:01pm ryusei: she tried to send me a thirst trap, might have to block her on my insta and phone. don't need the baggage. 
8:02pm +61 56948: …

Then, after tapping on his instagram feed whilst perched on the train he saw an account suggestion. Weird, they didn't have any mutual contacts or phone number. But it looked like her.

As he scrolled up/down on her profile, he thought to himself how weird he thought she was. Just by listening to her talk the whole afternoon despite being a passive communicator himself, he was absorbing her personality. She was bubbly and talkative but she was she also actively interested in someone else's life. Even if he wasn't as responsive to her questions, she still talked to him as if he had. Girls he had hung out with in the past found his inability to "respond" or become extroverted when they required, a frustrating trait of his. In response to this kind of frustrating trait, they would nag him or get upset and he would have to cajole them with gifts or intimacy. That was so annoying. 

Anyway fate's funny he thought, it led him straight to her. He decided he wouldn't mind talking to her again. Tapping on the message feature he sent her a direct message.

yutaah_98: hey, it's me yuta 

He received a reply almost instantaneously.

missbelled: hi yuta
thank you for spending time with me today, i had so much fun
hope your gf from the call before isn't mad you're just getting home now
yutaah_98: yeah it's cool
that was my mum btw, she micro-manages me a lot
missbelled: she doesn't trust you?
yutaah_98: don't know, probably not
she wants me to hurry up and finish uni so i can become a corporate slave lol
she calls me twice a day, it's annoying 
if i don't pick up her calls, she freaks out and starts screaming
she thinks i never do what she wants me to do
missbelled: is that why she doesn't trust you, because you don't do what she wants?
yutaah_98: yeah maybe
but i'm doing what she wants me to do. just not on her timetable
missbelled: does she see that though? or are her expectations for you skewed?
yutaah_98: skewed
i'm just not like my brother, he's a mummy's boy
missbelled: yuta i'm almost at my stop, i'll ttyl
yutaah_98: okay ttyl

belle
He found her instagram. What the heck. How'd that even happen? She didn't even have time to re-evaluate her photos on the 'gram which was mostly an archive of narcissistic selfies of her face in one angle and food. Well, it wasn't like her instagram was supposed to be deep.  

Her hands started getting jittery on the train, she hoped the person sitting next to her didn't notice her sweaty hands. She kept rubbing her palms on her skirt whilst clutching her phone staring intensely at the screen light up with message after message.

If anything, she noticed that Yuta did texting easier than he spoke. The outcome of mobile phones for Gen Y? She almost giggled aloud, seriously he was a keyboard kid more than he was vocal it seemed. Maybe they should've just sat down somewhere and started typing to one another behind their mobile phone screens. 

And she had found more about him, even if it was just about his mum. 

yuta
yuutah_98: hang on, you free this friday night? we're playing at the ni hao bar.
could use some extra fan service

(and what felt like forever, he saw her message ping) 

missbelled: sure

8:34pm
ryusei: are you unfollowing the groupie girl? don't make it messy though
don't hang out with weird girls next time haha
yuta: think i might want to hang out with a weird girl this fri though
only if she wants to though