PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Wow I can't believe that I'm back here after all these years. Maybe it's because I was so inspired by my own personal happenings that I decided to bring it to this site. Basically a couple of weeks I sat down and compiled a playlist of songs for my friend's wedding celebration party, and I liked the idea so much that I decided to put it down in words here. Jack-Adam is back, ladies and gents!!! A series of drabbles of the upcoming wedding of Yoh and Anna. Hope you all enjoy, and let me know in your reviews if you enjoyed the songs I chose!!!

CHAPTER 1

On the week before Yoh and Anna's wedding, Manta came up with the idea of compiling a bunch of songs together to make a mixtape to be played at the wedding reception. Each song on the CD was chosen by an individual in the group, ranging all the way from Tamao to Hao Asakura. Thereafter each of them would write a note for the married couple, which would eventually be turned into a scrapbook to be given to the young couple on their wedding night. The mixtape ended up, whether they realized it or not, perfectly recounting the rocky road love story between the two people nobody thought would fall in love; the free-spirit Yoh Asakura and the Ice Queen Anna Kyoyuma.

Song 1: The Night Starts Here – Stars (Tamao)

I'm really terrible when it comes to saying mushy things, because I'll eventually stammer my way into oblivion in mid-sentence and my words will sound more like a remix of a really bad song instead of sweet nothings. It'd be more like nothing nothings actually, if you want to get all technical.

I'm really bad at social interactions in general, which was why I was absolutely delighted when Manta came up with the idea of putting our thoughts down on paper.

So here I am.

I suppose it's of no surprise to anyone that I've harbored secret feelings for Yoh ever since we were just children. He had such a friendly, cheerful disposition that I fell in love with him the moment I met him; and secretly in my heart I desired to be the one chosen as his wife, and there was a point where it seemed extremely likely that I would be. . .that is, until Anna showed up, of course.

I remember meeting her for the first time; she was truly something else, and I'm not just saying that. There's something absolutely incredible about her and you're unwittingly drawn like a moth to a flame, clinging onto her every word as though your life depended on it that you catch yourself by surprise.

I almost hated her for it. I was so jealous of her beauty, brilliance, confidence and absolute lack of feelings for anybody. . .especially Yoh. I used to wake up in the middle of the night to find Yoh doing the most appalling things as a result of angering Anna; such as doing the 100m dash across the garden on his knuckles, squatting over the drain with bricks on his knees or even being tied up to the tree outside the house, gently swaying in the wind until Anna decided it was time to take him down.

I never saw anything besides a dog-master relationship.

Until one particular incident.

It was another midnight-punishment for Yoh; he was doing push-ups with bricks on his back as Anna watched him from the front porch, watching him ruefully. All of a sudden his arms give way and he gasps, crumbling to the floor in a heap, the bricks toppling off his back.

In one solid impassive motion, Anna wordlessly walks over to him. There is an almost purposeful hesitation in the way she moves, as though trying not to appear too concerned for her injured husband. She then slowly starts to remove the bricks from his back. There was something about the way she did it that made me feel like crying; I really can't explain why. By the time she removed the last brick off him I was already welling up.

She kneels down before him, her lips directly next to her ear. She says something to him that I can't quite make out, but his eyes widen in surprise before his face breaks out into that signature smile of his. She takes the palm of her hand and wipes the sweat off his forehead gingerly. There's an expression on her face that I've never seen before. I don't think she's showed it to any of us, actually.

She saves it for his eyes only.

It's so subtle of an action that goes unnoticed by most people. But I knew that I had witnessed something extraordinary that night.

Yoh-kun had melted the Ice Queen.

Song 2: Sweet and Low – Augustana (Lyserg)

I've got a good Yoh and Anna story.

It was at a Halloween party at Jeanne's house and I just so happened to walk in on a confrontation between Yoh and a female acquaintance in the kitchen. I didn't realize it was Yoh until I heard his voice; he was dressed up in a ridiculous apple outfit, and was trying to find a way to sit down without toppling over as she ranted at him. I hid behind the wall, listening in to every word.

"Why won't you go out on a date with me?" the girl cried. She looked rather appealing in her low-cut cat suit.

In case any of you were wondering, I dressed up as Sherlock Holmes (which just so happened to be my regular get-up anyway).

Yoh scratched his head sheepishly. He tried to, anyway. His hands flapped by his sides uselessly as they stuck out on both sides of his apple costume. "I'm already engaged to Anna, Liz." He said apologetically. "We've already been over this many times."

"But you haven't given me a good enough answer!" she said, impatiently stamping her feet. "I'm prettier than she is. I'm smarter than she is. I'm richer than she is. I'm more popular than she is. I – "

"But you're not her." Yoh said quietly, causing her to stop in her tracks. Yoh looked up at her calmly, yet there was a strange fire dancing in his eyes. "What's the use of being better than Anna if you're not her in the first place?"

Liz looked like she wanted to either vomit or cause serious damage to any part of his body she could find (which wasn't much because most of it was protected by his elaborate costume). She decided to simply raise a finger upward at him unattractively before stomping out the room.

I watched Yoh stand there, a small smile on his face. It was not the usual dopey one he makes that gets him out of so many tricky situations. It was a smile proud of who he was, who he was with, and what he had with her.

It was a peculiar smile.

Just then Anna stepped into the room, her hands on her hips. "What are you doing in here all by yourself?" she said primly. "All your friends are outside."

She looked amazing, dressed in a doctor's outfit with a stereoscope draped around her neck.

He smiled happily, waddling over to her direction. "Coming, coming."

She gave him a withering smile. "No wonder you asked me to dress up as a doctor. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Did you get the idea from Chocolove?"

He grinned. "This apple isn't going to get away from you."

She smiled softly, a smile so rare from the Ice Queen. "That's good to know."

I just stood there watching them, and I couldn't resist but smile to myself.

I'll never forget that day.

The way the two of them posed together as Jeanne snapped a photo excitedly, the way Yoh stood up for Anna before the prettiest girl in the school. . .the way Anna had been hiding behind the door the entire time, listening in on the conversation, a shy smile slowly lifting across her usually cold features.

It was a peculiar smile.

END CHAPTER 1

There will be two songs for every chapter. Please read and review, and let me know what you thought of the song choice. Thanks!