February 13th

Kagami woke up by the sound of her alarm clock. She hit the stop button and just sat in bed. Her calendar was on the wall across her bed. The calendar was on February 12th. She got up, and ripped off the paper. Underneath was another paper, bearing today's date. Oh yeah, Kagami thought. I forgot. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. She let out a small sigh. Tsukasa invited Miyuki and Konata over so they can make chocolates after school today. And, after they are done, they might just finish some homework together, if they had the time. Kagami just hopes that Konata will actually do some work, and at least bring her books. After all, Konata…

Kagami jolted a bit. She suddenly remembered what Konata said her yesterday at school.

"I can hook you up a date. His name is Stephen. He's half American and half Japanese. He went to the same middle school as me. We used to hang out with each other and online. He left Japan after grad, thought. He's coming back to Japan by tomorrow. He told me that he wanted to meet me after so long. Although, we never set up a date to meet up yet. And, of course, he never said anything about bringing a friend… I'll ask him, and tell you tomorrow if you can come, 'kay?"

Kagami didn't exactly said yes to Konata's request (if it's considered a request), but she isn't exactly doing to say no. She may as well go for the fun of it. Heck, it might not be so bad. She went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and took a quick bath.

When she got out, she heard Tsukasa's alarm clock rang. Kagami could hear Tsukasa groaning and turning the alarm off. She didn't hear anything else after that. I swear, she can sleep throughout the entire day if she doesn't wake up. She went into her room and put on her winter uniform. She combed her hair and put it up in her usual two pigtails. She checked her clock. It was almost time to go.

She went downstairs, hoping to find Tsukasa in the kitchen. It was only her mom, dad, and her two eldest sisters (Inori and Matsuri) that were at the table. She went to get herself toast and butter.

"Good morning," Kagami said them. She started putting butter on her toast.

"Hey, Kagami, do you mind waking up Tsukasa for me dear? I tried to wake her up earlier, but she must've fell back asleep," asked her mother, Miki, who was washing some dishes.

"Wait, Tsukasa is not awake yet?" said Kagami.

"Yeah, I heard her alarm clock ring, but she's not up," replied Matsuri, eating away on her cereal.

"Mom, she won't wake up for me," Kagami said.

"Please Kagami? I have to finish these dishes." Said Miki.

"Fine, fine, I'll go wake her up," Kagami said as she got up. She went to wake Tsukasa up. Tsukasa was curled up in her blanket, breathing softly. Kagami gently shook Tsukasa.

"Tsukasa? Hey, Tsukasa, get up! It's time for us to go to school!" Tsukasa moaned and opened her eyes slowly.

"Hmmmm, Onee-chan?" Tsukasa sat up and rubbed her eyes. "What is it?"

"Wake up, we have to go! Or we'll be late for school!"

"What time is it?" Kagami pointed towards Tsukasa's clock. Tsukasa's eyes shot right up, and she grabbed her clock.

"Oh no, is it that late already?! Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" Tsukasa said as she quickly got out of bed. "Oh, no, no, no, no!" She ran out of her room and to the bathroom, leaving Kagami standing there. Kagami smiled a bit and made her way out of Tsukasa's room. Ah well. At least she got up.

"Hey, guys!" yelled a familiar voice. Kagami and Tsukasa turned around to see Konata run up to them.

"Good morning Kona-chan," replied Tsukasa.

"Hey," Kagami said. Then suddenly she started to think about yesterday again. Is Konata serious? No, she must be joking. She was just mocking me. She's expecting me to ask her about it right now. It's not that I care. Although…

"…It would be nice to meet this Stephen guy," said Konata close to Kagami. Again, Kagami jolted. "That's what you're thinking riiiight?"

"Geh! N-no, that's not it, I'm not thinking that! Stop reading my mind, dammit!" Kagami said while blushing uncontrollably. Just like yesterday.

"You are so cute Kagamin, especially when you act like that. And don't worry~" said Konata with her usual cat smile. "I wasn't mocking you yesterday."

"Er, what happened yesterday, Kona-chan?" Tsukasa asked. Oh yeah, Kagami though. Tsukasa didn't hear Konata yesterday in the hallway.

"Oh, yeah, you weren't there in the hallway," said Konata. "Well, you see…" Konata explained what happened yesterday to Tsukasa.

"Kona-chan, I never knew you had real life male friends!" Tsukasa exclaimed. Konata looked away and had a dark presence around her.

"Geez Tsukasa, do you have to be so mean? I mean, sure I talk about my friends online, that doesn't mean I don't have any male friends that I talk to you in person."

"I-I'm sorry Kona-chan, I didn't mean it that way! I just never knew you talked to guys, that's it!" Tsukasa blurted out.

"Tsukasa, you don't need to apologise," Kagami said. "People who know Konata would be very surprised if she ever said that she has a male friend. I was surprised too."

"Can't you guys be any nicer, I mean seriously. You guys are being a bit rude!" Cried Konata, fake tears forming on her eyes.

"Okay, okay, we're sorry. Now can you stop crying," said Kagami.

"Anyway~" Konata said, her fake tears stopped suddenly.

"You were faking it the whole time!" yelled Kagami. But Konata ignored her and continued.

"I was chatting with Stephen yesterday, and he said that he was fine with me inviting my friends. In fact, he said that I should invite all my friends. He can't wait to meet you guys!"

"So, that means that I can come?" asked Tsukasa.

"Yeah, sure," said Konata. "It'd be great if you could come."

"Wait, I thought it was just the two of us!" Said Kagami. Konata grinned a weird grin.

"What's this? Kagami is jealous that they might have more competition?"

"No that's not it! Geez Konata, this isn't a game where one character is jealous over another character! And this isn't sister rivalry! I just thought that it was just the two of us, that's all!"

"Well, now it's going to be the three of us."

"What about Yuki-chan? Can she come too?" Asked Tsukasa.

"Sure, I'll ask her when we get to school." Said Konata. "And don't worry about not getting his attention Kagami. I told him that you put your hair in pigtails, and he said he was a fan of girls in pigtails. But, he might turn his attention towards Miyuki, because he is also a fan of girls with big-"

"Okay, okay, we get it already. He must be an otaku like you." Kagami said as he clasped her hand over Konata's mouth.

"Yeah, he's an otaku too. How did you know Kagami?"

"You can only attract the friends that are interested in the kind of stuff you are interested in."

"Are you saying that that's a good thing Kagamin?" Konata said with a sense of hope.

"No. I'm saying it's a bad thing."

They were coming close to the school, when the bell rang.

"What? How can we be late? We caught the early train!" yelled Kagami.

"Maybe because we kept pausing in the middle of the street," Tsukasa replied worryingly.

They started to make a run towards the gate. At the gate, it was Konata and Tsukasa's home room teacher, Ms. Kuroi. Ms. Kuroi noticed Konata and the others running towards the gate.

"Well well, it looks like Izumi and the Hiiragi twins are late," Ms. Kuroi said with a smirk. "What a surprise. Although, I'm not surprised with Konata." As a joke, Ms. Kuroi stared to close the gate. Konata, Tsukasa, and Kagami were the only ones not on school property.

"No Ms. Kuroi!" cried Konata, while running. "Don't close the gate!"

"Sorry Konata, rules are rules. It's time to close the gate." Ms. Kuroi continued to close the gate.

"No wait!" Kagami said, running full speed ahead.

"Whoa, Kagami is in full gear!" Konata said.

"Kona-chan, this isn't time to make side-comments!" Tsukasa said, trying her best to keep up with the two others.

They eventually got through the gate, and into the school. I wonder what's going to happen after school, Kagami wonder.

I didn't really get to the dating part yet. Sorry :D Maybe in the next chapter...or the chapter after that... Heh. Anyways, please reviw!