❤ Semi-Literate People Reading (CA Closed)
Well, that’s a little bit strange.
Sayaka had known her whole life that understanding the emotions of others was something which she failed at, often. It wasn’t that she was a complete failure in the discipline of people-reading, but she definitely didn’t fit into the standard of the skill. Most normal humans could tell when another person was feeling sad, or happy, or flirtatious... Not Sayaka. All she ever learned about others was when somebody was telling a lie, or bluffing, or other such things which were relevant to her occupation.
That was why it stood out to her so much when she could tell by looking at that boy that he was a gloomy person; this wasn’t something she was capable of on a normal basis, so to be able to tell that somebody who wasn’t absolutely bawling wasn’t smiles and sunshine meant that chances were it was a very dramatic opposite to smiles and sunshine.
Were anyone skilled in this art of people reading to look at her right now, they wouldn’t even need to use it to ascertain that she was strange, and somewhat creepy to be watching a guy in the grocery store, partially concealed behind the refrigeration case at the endcap of the aisle. Another thing this person would then notice was that there was something equally creepy, though inexplicably so, about the person who she was so creepily watching.
Nobody, however, seemed to care. Nobody at all, until the one she was watching happened to meet her eyes.