This is a story that randomly shot through my mind. Please read and review me.

CHAPTER 1

Anna looked at her watch.

It was twelve-thirty.

She chewed on her bottom lip impatiently, leaning against the wall behind her. He was late again. He always was, anyway, and there were times where she wondered why she even bothered to come to their meetings on time. It was just her darn bad luck that she was so concious on being punctual, even if it was merely something small and minor, like meeting her collegues at the coffee shop for a drink.

She guessed that Hao merely assumed that he was the leading character in their company, thus giving him the authortiy to boss her around, or to show up late for their meetings. Meetings was what Anna liked to call it; while Hao called it dates. She hated every atom in his body, but she knew she had no right to say that. Not if she wanted to get fired from her job, anyway.

She shut her eyes and clicked her tongue, peeking out of her carefully shut eyes for the hopeful appearance of Hao. First of all, it was his idea to meet outside of the bus station. It was his idea to meet at twelve. So where the Hell was he?

She glared at three schoolboys who were trying to check her out, and they scuttled away rather nervously.

She sighed. " I'm a ripe age of twenty-one," she muttered, almost to herself. " I've reached the age where I can get a driver's permit. I can do whatever I want without a curfew. . .and I'm being ditched away by some guy who's merely two years older than me like a piece of trash? God damn. . ."

" Excuse me, miss?" came a voice behind her.

She turned to glare at whoever called her, and her eyes widened with shock at who she saw. The person had a striking resemblance to Hao, just that he had a light blue apron across his body, and there was an ice-cream stall before him. He must have been one of those roadside ice-cream sellers, she thought. But the very fact that the cool and calm collegue at her work was selling ice-cream appaled her, and her mind only focused on one direct fact.

" Hao?" she blurted out.

He laughed. " Yes, many people call me that. You must be a friend of my brother."

" Brother?" she said incredilously. " He never told me he had one."

" Yes, well. . ." he started rather sheepishly. " We don't get along well."

She nodded for a moment before folding her arms across her chest. " So what did you call me for?" she asked. " I hope you weren't wishing to ask me to buy ice-cream."

" Well, yes and no." he admitted, and held outan ice-cream up to her; like a peace offering. " You looked like you were sad and tired, so I wanted to give one to you free of charge."

She looked surprised for a moment before smirking at him. " I hope this isn't one of your tactics to pick up women, because trust me, it's really corny."

The boy smiled. " It isn't, actually. I just felt like I met you somewhere before."

" Yet again, another corny comment." she said. " Can I count a third?"

He laughed. " You're really amusing."

" So are you." she said. " Yet, anyone could be wiuth a laughable attire like that."

" I hear that a lot." Yoh said, grinning.

Somehow she didn't find it irksome to talk to him. In fact, it was quite the opposite; she found it quite peaceful. His laughter was so similar to Hao's, yet so different at the same time. " What's your name?" she asked him, and he looked rather surprised at her sudden question. " It's Yoh. Is that your way of hooking up with men?" he said smugly.

" Don't try to be cute." she said warningly. " Or I'll send you to kingdom come."

" I wouldn't mind that place." he said. " It would be a pleasant change from my lifestyle now, anyway."

She raised an eyebrows. " Don't you like your job?"

" It has its downfalls." he said, leaning against the wall beside him, the ice-cream still in his hand, slowly melting away. " I mean, the pays' nothing close to my brother's."

" That goes without saying." she said.

Silence.

" Are you his girl-friend?" he asked.

" He wishes." she snorted.

Silence again.

" What's your name, then?" he asked her.

She bit her lip, finding it strange to just simply tell her name to a stranger like that. But somehow, she felt like she had met him before too. " It's Anna." she said. " Anna Kyoyuma."

" Nice to meet you." he said, raising out his free hand.

She hesitated for a minute, before taking it. His grip was firm and warm, and he had a welcoming smile plastered on his face, so much unlike his brother's.

He let go, and pointed the ice-cream at her, and she looked at him incredolously.

" Just take it." he said reassuringly. " You won't get fatter by it."

" Idiot." she said, but took it.

" Thanks." she added, as an afterthought.

" Anna? Sorry I'm late." Came a cool, crisp voice from behind her. She turned around, and came face-to-face with Hao's jaunty smirk, his hands in his pockets. " Something came up."

" Something always came up." she said coldly.

He grinned smugly at her for a moment before his line of sight was brought to the ice-cream in her hand. " You were eating ice-cream?" he said. " You hate cold foods."

" What do YOU know about me?" she said.

She glared at him, while there was a small flicker of anger in his eyes before he smiled once again. " Let's go." he said, and wiuthout looking back, he walked off. She looked sulkily at his back, and turned around to wave goodbye at Yoh when she noticed that he had left.

" Yeah, me and my brother don't get along well." she remembered him saying. She blinked before turning around and walked off, following Hao's footsteps. " Yoh, is it?" she muttered to herself.

" Nice to meet you." she heard him say again in her mind.

" It's nice to meet you too." she said, almost to herself again, and walked on, without even looking back once more.

END CHAPTER 1

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