Too many customers had crowded into the convenience store to escape the sudden rain.
People were already sitting in the few chairs available.
But it wouldn't do to have a child sit right on the floor...
The floor was cold and dirty.
The clerk quickly thought of a solution.
She brought the child a few newspapers to spread on the floor.
Then she picked out a book full of scenic illustrations from the magazine rack to keep the little boy entertained.
After watching the little boy sit cross-legged on the floor, absorbed in the book, for a while, the clerk left, reassured.
"Oh."
The girl with the slanted ponytail suddenly understood.
Right.
She'd nearly forgotten.
The convenience store was quiet now.
But that didn't mean it had been quiet earlier.
Thinking of how the child had been left all alone waiting in the store, the girl with the slanted ponytail felt a little apologetic.
She pulled the little girl over to her.
"Look."
"We found the princess."
The girl with the slanted ponytail smiled.
Finding the princess safe and sound was certainly something worth being happy about.
The girl with the slanted ponytail felt even more grateful to that young man.
If it weren't for him, she might still be searching for the child, growing more and more frantic.
And the Prince would have had to wait even longer.
The little boy pursed his lips.
He'd seen her ages ago.
"Who was it that said she wouldn't wander off?"
The little boy didn't hold back.
The little girl had wandered off...
Making him wait alone in the store for so long.
It had been so boring.
The little girl wanted to argue, but couldn't deny that the little boy was telling the truth.
She