Joshua was dragging Neku across town.

Neku was uncomfortable.

Like, seriously.

'This is just weird. What the hell is this kid up to?' Neku was imagining ruthless plots to take over the world, but no. Instead, Joshua drags him to the amusement park. A freaking amusement park.

'As much as this pains me to admit, I don't think this is part of a plot for world domination.'

Some paranoid part of him still whispered, 'That's just what he wants you to think.'

Neku decided that part had gone crazy from being around Josh for too long. Hey, it was bound to happen sometime.

"What are we doing here?" He questioned Josh.

Josh gave him a look. "Well, dear, I do believe it's called an amusement park for a reason. So, what do you say? Shall we go amuse ourselves? Hm~?"

Neku tried to convince himself that the way Josh worded that did not sound misleading at all.

/

Despite his initial thoughts on Josh's strange actions (I mean really, the freaking Composer dragged him out of his house on a Saturday to go to an amusement park. No warnings beforehand. That would be too convenient.), Neku found that he was actually beginning to enjoy himself. Without the added stress from the Reapers' Game, he was beginning to realize that Josh's teasing was just that- teasing.

So the prissy kid didn't actually look down on him. He just acted that way.

Despite that, Josh was a very accommodating escort, letting Neku pick and choose which rides he wanted to go on, with minimum mocking.

(Well, if he'd stopped completely, Neku would've really been paranoid.)

Neku's suspicions began to die off, and he finally allowed himself to just have fun.

/

At the end of the day, Neku finally asked.

"Why'd you drag me out here, Josh?"

"Hm?" For once, Josh looked genuinely surprised at the question. It was quickly replaced by a smirk, though. "You mean you haven't figured it out yet? And here I thought you were bright. Then again, you're not the most social person..." Neku's frown deepened. "Relax. I just wanted to go on a date with my dear proxy."

"Oh, well then- Wait, a date?!"

Joshua giggled. "Really, you're so surprised." And then he did something that completely shut down what was left functioning of Neku's brain.

Josh kissed him.

It was just a short, sweet peck on the lips, but it was his first kiss.

"Well, Neku, I'll see you next week, hm?" And with that, Josh disappeared, presumably to go do Composer-y things.

It took Neku a good five minutes to get his mind to process this.

"Wait, did he just ask me out?"