The humor in this section is pretty dry. The two characters (Ume & Shiomi) are struggling to get along. Things are a bit lighter in sections where Ume-san and Tomo-kun banter.
(This is very much first draft.)
“Could you light me a smoke? One of the flavored ones.” Sharing a smoke had become kind of a ritual with us, bonding over nicotine.
She lit two cigarettes at once and passed me mine. I was moving up in the world. This time, she had given me a secondary kiss instead of my taking it. #WIP
