Chapter 2: Reunions

A month had passed since the summer day that brought Okabe and Kurisu together. Okabe had put the whole thing in the back of his mind and kept going on with his daily life. The weather had started to cool down a little but it was still hot out and wouldn't completely cool down for another month or so.

Summer break was nearly over, school would be back in session within the next few weeks and Okabe and Mayuri had already spent a few days together working on homework. Even though they kept taking breaks to eat snacks or watch t.v, the homework managed to get done and checked over by their parents. Outside of that Okabe hadn't been out much, even though he visited the park often the girl he met clearly wasn't going to be around anytime soon, he felt like he had to go there even though he didn't want to because of the promise he made to her.

The only interesting thing that happened was that a family down the street had moved out and someone new was moving in within the next few days. Mayuri was happy about it since it meant more people to meet and hopefully become friends with; Okabe on the other hand didn't care much about it. He barely knew the people who had been in the house before and that would most likely be the case with the family that would move in to replace them as well.

"I wonder what kind of people they'll be? Mayushii hopes they're nice."

Mayuri smiled as she talked to Okabe.

The two of them were in the living room of Okabe's house watching t.v. Okabe didn't care much for what was on but wanted to keep Mayuri in sight in case she went off somewhere without telling him. She was like a ninja in that she could go someplace without anyone noticing until they looked back to talk to her.

"Don't know, but they won't be able to mess with someone like myself."

Okabe laughed after that, he wanted to show off his alter ego but hadn't really figured out any solid persona outside of the laugh bit.

"But why would they mess with you? They might just want to play"

Mayuri changed the channel to something else and then turned off the t.v all together. She was more interested in checking out the new family moving in now.

"Hey hey Okarin, why don't we see if the moving trucks are here now?"

At this point she was getting up from her spot on the floor and holding her hand out to Okabe so he could get up and go with her.

"Fine, but if people are moving things in we will wait until they're done to talk to them ok?"

Okabe took the hand of his dear friend and started heading to where the front door was. They didn't need to grab anything else considering it was just down the street and they could just run back home if they needed to grab anything.

They quickly got their shoes on and went out the front door making sure to yell back in to the hall that they were going out for a bit in case someone wondered where they went off to. The house was right down the street and it only took about three minutes to walk there at a decent pace; if one were to run it would take only a minute or so not even to reach the front yard.

There was one van parked out in front along with a normal car filled with boxes. The movers had started to take out the important things such as beds and other electronics such as a t.v and a few kitchen items. But they wouldn't be done moving all the boxes and other items for another day or so at the rate they were going. This is how Mayuri got the information of "a new family is moving in within a few days", though a few days really meant by late tomorrow at the current rate.

Near the front door were two adults, one man and one female. The man had short black hair and was wearing a nice dress shirt and tie, the women had red almost brown hair that was tied back, and her outfit fit that of a house wife. Beside them was a girl about Okabe's age wearing a dress, she had short red hair. The dress was much like the one the girl Okabe met before had worn only it was in a different color and had a bit more ribbons and flare to it.

"Ahh she looks cute, maybe we can become friends with her?"

Mayuri who was still holding Okabe's hand tried not to point at the girl while she stared. She thought the girl was pretty and instantly wanted to become friends with her no matter what.

Okabe remained quiet, there was no way that girl was the same one he met the other month, she said that she lived in a different area and that her father went to Akihabara for work most of the time. Even though it was only a short train trip it wouldn't be worth moving all the way here. The schools weren't any better than the other cities and travel time was about the same to any part of Tokyo.

He let go of Mayuri's hand and started walking to the front door slowly as if not wanting to be noticed right away.

"Christina?"

Okabe managed to let out a not so loud response since he was afraid it was the wrong person.

The girl turned around after hearing that, she knew that the only person who had tried to call her that was the boy she met before, even if it was just for a brief time.

"There's no –tina!"

Her parents looked around after hearing their child say that and noticed the boy only a few steps away now.

"Kurisu do you know him?"

The women who was clearly her mother asked Kurisu before looking at Okabe again.

"I met him last time I was here Mama, but …"

She turned away after saying that, it wasn't that she was embarrassed in fact she was quite happy to see Okabe again since she thought that being in the area meant that she would get to meet him once again.

"Oh, my my that's a wonderful thing you can see your friend again and since we'll be in the area it means you two can play together a lot more."

Kurisu's mother was overjoyed at the fact Kurisu had managed to make a friend already, it was a problem that Kurisu had before and she had hoped that moving would allow her to make new friends and hopefully get out more instead of always just reading papers her father wrote.

"It's nice to meet you miss, I'm Okabe"

He bowed after saying that, normally he would never be this formal but since Kurisu seemed to be form a family that was well off he didn't want to risk being rude.

"It's rare to see a youngster so polite; Kurisu clearly picked a good boy to be friends with."

Her father at this point had entered in to the conversation and gave Okabe a nod of approval.

"Why don't you go off and play for a little bit? The movers won't be done for a few more hours and it's boring for you to just watch isn't it?"

Kurisu's mother motioned for her to go off and enjoy some time with her friends, which caused Kurisu to blush a little. She hadn't had something like this happen to her before so it was all new to her.

"I'll be back later then"

Kurisu gave a small wave before walking towards Okabe and Mayuri.

"Is this the person you mentioned last time?"

Kurisu assumed it was considering it looked like the two were attached at the hip.

"Tuturu~ I'm Mayushii! Chris-chan was it? I hope we can be friends!"

Mayuri gave a big smile before turning back to Okabe.

"This is Mayuri, she lives near me and…"

Okabe trailed off a little; it was weird talking to someone other than Mayuri even if he hadn't had a problem with Kurisu before when they first met.

"Anyway! We can go to the park; after all I have that promise."

Okabe quickly grabbed Mayuri's hand and motioned for Kurisu to follow.

Of course the promise was the one he made to Kurisu before; it was time to fulfill his end of it.