"Blah"- Speech
'Blah'- Thoughts
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The door of the Yukimura Restaurant slid open then closed.
"Mom, Dad! I'm back with the things you told me to get!"
"Well, that took you a while." Her dad responed from behind the counter.
"Keiko, go check to see if the soup is done." Her mom said while chopping some vegetables.
"All right." Keiko gets behind the counter and all thoughts of Kurama is replaced by the texture of the soup.
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"Why do you wanna go to the park? There's nothing to do there." Yusuke grumbled with his hands jammed in his pockets.
Botan turned around to face him so that she's now walking backwards. "Hey, you're the one saying we should spend time together or whatever. You already chose a place to go to, so now its my turn."
Yusuke mumbles something under his breath. Botan frowns at his attitude. She spots an ice cream cart and decides to lighten the mood.
"Want ice cream?"
Yusuke sits on a park bench.
"No, not really."
"Come on, everyone likes ice cream! I'll pay since you payed before."
"Fine, but get me chocolate."
"Okay!" Then she bounces over to the cart.
Yusuke stared at the girl. 'How'd she get so hyper? She wasn't like that just a few minutes ago...'
A few minutes later, she comes prancing back with two ice cream cones, one in each hand.
"I'm ba~ack!" Botan holds out his ice cream cone.
Yusuke blinked several times and snatches the cone.
Botan stands there, looking down at him. "What? No 'thank you' or anything?"
"I never asked for it." Then he took a lick of the ice cream.
Botan pouts and connects her rump with the public seat. Even with the seemingly angry face, both knew she was just toying with him. He draws his attention away from the icy treat and stares at the girl sitting next to him. Botan sees Yusuke staring at her from the corner of her eye.
"Hm!" Then she turns her head another direction so that he was looking at her long blue ponytail.
Yusuke rolls his eyes and sighs. "Thanks for the ice cream Botan..."
She reverts her attention back to him and said in a way too cheerful voice. "Your welcome!"
They continue their consumtion of the frozen cream treat.
'She's so hyper... And so carefree. I never knew anyone like that. She's not like Keiko. Keiko worries about school and getting a scholarship and stuff like that. Botan, unlike Keiko is- Wait, why am I comparing the two?'
"Yusuke?" Botan's voice interrupts his thoughts.
"What?" He sees that she's done with her cone.
She points at his ice cream. "Your ice cream is melting."
Yusuke looks down at the cone. "Gah!" He quickly slurps up the melting dessert.
Botan tries to hide her giggles by covering her mouth.
"What?" He asked once again.
"You have chocolate ice cream on your face."
"Yeah so?" He stuck his tongue out at her. "What if I like having ice cream on my face?"
She giggled some more. "Hold still and let me wipe it off..."
Botan reaches in her pockets to get a tissue. Yusuke immediatly froze when the napkin came in contact with his cheek. Botan noticed how tense he got, even though she didn't really understand why. Then she realize what she was doing and close thier faces were to each other. Her face turned five shades of red.
"Uh... let's get going shall we?" Then she jump off the bench they were sitting on and skipped awkwardly towards the playground.
Yusuke slowly stands up and dumps the melted ice cream. 'Okay, what just happened?' His gaze falls on the ferry girl who is sitting on a swing. He brushes his hand through his hair and let out a fustrated sigh.
Botan slowly swings back and forth. 'What the crud was I doing?' She glances up to see Yusuke walking towards her. 'Oh boy...' She concentrates on the sand beneath her sneakers.
Yusuke takes a seat on the swing next to her. He doesnt say anything yet.
"...Botan?"
She hesitates but slowly answers him. "Yeah?"
"Do you...?" He glances over to where she was swinging. "Um... nevermind."
Silence.
Botan has stopped swing and looked up. The sun was setting, and it was a sight to see. It looked as if someone had accidentally spilled orange paint on the blue canvas called the sky. The great red orange ball of light was slowly disappearing behind the trees of the park. Botan let out a content sigh and smiled, completely forgetting that she had company.
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Keiko slowly trodded up the stairs to her bedroom. She sighed, today was an exhausting day. 'So many customers...' She entered the dark room and lightly closed the door behind her. She shut her eyes for a few moments then opened them again. Her gaze landed on her twin sized bed. There, laying so neatly on her covers, were a bouquet of bright, red roses. Keiko shuffled her feet over to the bed. She picked up the bouquet and examined it. There ware exactly 12 roses, a dozen. The flowers were all in full bloom and there was not a single thorn on any of them. On the wrapping of the bouquet was a card stapled on. It read:
Meet me in the park tomorrow.
Same time and place as today.
I'll be waiting.
-Kurama
Keiko blinked and recalled the scene from earlier that day. She looked at the roses, then tossed them on her desk. She jumped on her bed and landed on her stomach. She stuffed her face in the pillow and silence follows. After 3 hours and 17 minutes, Keiko gets off her bed and walks over to her desk. She twisted the nob to her mini desk light and grabbed a piece of paper and pen. She quickly jotted down:
Meet Kurama in the park.
She stuck the note in a place where she could easily spot it and prepared to go to sleep.
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Wow, third chapter. I actually made it this far. I didn't think I could, cause I just planned this chapter in a day... Keiko was laying on her bed for 3 hours and 17 because she was wondering if she should go see Kurama or not. Well? Anymore questions? Well, besides Botan all of a sudden getting a huge suger rush... Oh yes, review please and flames are accpeted, but flame reasonably!
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