Mei Terumi sat on a low table in a tea cafe in the Land of the Rice Fields. She was bored out of her mind. She had been waiting for an hour. She wished she had brought reports to read. She wished she had something to do, or some one to do.
She opened her ninja flip-phone, and against her better judgement, she opened the app called Tinderp. She swiped through the images. All men had set their availability to tomorrow. She wanted today. She wanted right now.
She saw a blonde guy's muscled back, obviously a thirst trap. She skimmed the rest of his profile, saw it was filled with gaudy tourist pictures (quite similar to the ones she had on her profile). He's not my age, she thought. She swiped MEET.
Hi, want to meet at the Kaching Tea Restaurant? My te stood me up, she typed, but erased the letters of the second sentence. Instead she wrote: Restaurant? I'm not really a talker though~ Can you keep me company?
And she thought, Why would any man ever talk to a hot woman if there's no chance of sex? She had to keep it real. At least in the Country of the Rice Fields I can swipe without getting recognized.
She lay her forehead on the table. "Uuugh~"