"How unladylike," Tadase murmured, before Utau slammed her stiletto heel down on his foot causing Tadase to release a broken screech.

"Be nice about it! It's called 'childish immaturity'." she replied affectionately, gesturing to what everyone was commenting about.

"I find it distracting." Kairi bluntly stated in a monotone while turning a page in a book titled 'Gargantuan Discoveries in Scientific History'. He had been reading it all week after he had seen an advertisement in the newspaper. Everyone had their suspicions that he had only bought it because it had a samurai on the front cover holding a beaker in one hand and a book in the other.

Nagihiko took a bite out of a cupcake, and chewed thoughtfully before replying. "I think it's adorable." Almost everyone stared at him. "What? I'm sure Nadeshiko would also agree with me- It's basically the definition of happiness." he played off smoothly. Rima snorted in a way that somehow passed off as elegant.

"Go put a skirt on, I prefer to have people tell me their own opinions. Don't you agree Nadeshiko?" she said coldly while staring pointedly at Nagihiko. He choked on his cupcake and was automatically thankful that everyone was still distracted.

"Hey Rima, what do you think about it?" Utau asked, while still staring. "It's weird but shamelessly adorable- don't you think?"

Rima smiled softly at it, but realised her actions and hurriedly took a sip of her tea to cover it up. "I find it amusing. It should be illegal to be that happy."

"So CUTE!" Yaya screamed, and began to take a video on her phone with a lollipop stick hanging out of her mouth. "I'm going to become famous all throughout the school from this...if can share it. It's too cute to share!" she squealed, while jumping up and accidentally stomping on Tadase's foot. Utau laughed; it looked like he was too in pain to scream, so he just twisted up his facial expression.

"Serves you right for being mean." she stated, feeling proud to have the last word. At that moment Kukai walked in holding a soccer ball under his arm and just stared at what everyone else was looking at and just laughed.

Amu was leaning back in her chair was and swinging her legs forward and back holding a chocolate cupcake. She was slowly dipping her finger in the creamy icing and taking the finger to her mouth to lick it while humming the cutest tune known to the world with her eyes closed.

Utau giggled along with Kukai and turned to Ikuto to ask for his opinion, but held herself and stared at his shocked and slightly flushed face. If she hadn't been his sister, she would have never noticed.

Ikuto couldn't stop staring at her, even though everyone had gone from staring at her to asking Kukai how his game of soccer had gone. He didn't even care if they noticed his stare- he wouldn't hear them over his rapidly increasing heartbeat.

He had never noticed-or did she just suddenly change since the last time he looked at her? He had never noticed how adorable she was when she was happy. He had never paid attention to the way her face lit up whenever she was overjoyed or was just looking at something that made her happy. He had never actually looked long enough in the time that they had become best friends to see how stunningly beautiful her whole being was, that constantly flowed with joy. He never realised how happy a damn cupcake could make her- how come he couldn't do that?

He felt a foreign feeling and was shocked. He was envious of the stupid chocolate icing. If chocolate icing was a person, he wanted to beat the memory of being savoured on Amu's perfect lips out of their mind forever.

But the song she was humming- it took his breath away and he swore his heart skipped a beat in its thundering beats. He could bet that even Yaya could hear it over her high-pitched squealing. The thing that made the most impact on his heart was the song that she was humming.

It was their song. The song that he had made for her. The song that he had played religiously every night, just because the song alone made him smile to the moonlight. The exact song that she was humming while she was currently eating her cupcake in ecstasy.

"Kairi, what's the date?" he asked casually, without breaking his gaze from the shockingly beautiful sight.

"Fifth of July," he murmured in a monotone while being immersed in his novel.

Ikuto smiled. The Fifth of July. It sounded perfect. He stared at her and raked his eyes over every single contour of her body. He would commit the moment to his memory forever.

The fifth of July. The day he fell in love with his best friend.

(A/N

Instead of stressing about Chapter 9 of Saving the Joker, I wrote this. It actually helped my writers block, and I strongly advise writing a one-shot to people that have writers block.

Have no fear; I am working my way through Chapter Nine, so if i have my way that will hopefully be out soon. I will, however, be also writing the other 99 one-shots that will go with this theme.

-Ezra)