Hey!! Well it is my second chapter already! And I am hoping it gets as positive reviews as the first!
Unfortunately I do not own Tokyo mew mew. If I did Masaya would not exist.
---Chapter 2---
Thorns and eye contact.
"I think here would be a good place to set up camp." Pai stated in his usual manner as if they were on some kind of survival trip.
"Um…Pai san we don't have anything to set up camp."
"We'll manage—"He cut himself off looking like he had something else to say.
"Well one of us can sleep here," she said gesturing to a small log. "Unless you want to that is."
"I think we can both fit actually…if that's ok with you."
"S'ok" she muttered, turning red once more.
So they both slept, resting their heads on the log.
The next morning, Lettuce was first to wake up and, to her utter embarrassment realized that either she or Pai had rolled over in their sleep and they were sleeping right next to each other. He was so close she could hear his breathing, as much as she enjoyed the closeness she knew how mortified she would be when he woke up. Gently she started to roll away from Pai, only to find that it was him that had moved not her. She found this because her head fell off the end of the log and into a thorn bush. She let out a small scream, waking Pai who saw he had rolled over and presumed he had pushed her into the thorns. He sat up and apologized over and over for five minutes.
"Its fine Pai san I'm ok! Really!" She stammered.
"No, let me see" he insisted and lettuce dropped her hand from her face. Pai ran his hand over her cheek. "We really need to get these thorns out." He said calmly. "I'm sorry if this hurts." He took hold of one of the five thorns in her face and sharply pulled it out. Lettuce let out a short gasp of pain and her cheek started to bleed a little.
"I'm so sorry!" Pai said, frantically looking for something to help stop the bleeding, then realizing his ever cool appearance had been completely lost, but he didn't care. But he couldn't help feeling guilty. He didn't know why but he did, looking at her, he could see the pain from the thorns on her face, and it wrenched at his heart to see her like this. Perhaps…perhaps I… love her? He asked ion his head. Then cursed himself for even thinking about it.
When he looked at her again, she was holding a small white handkerchief in her hand.
"I found something." She smiled. He took the cloth from her. He held her face still with one hand and tried to get the other thorns out as painlessly as possible.
"Done" Pai said, "I hope it didn't …um…does it hurt?" he said. He was still holding her face gently and, for the first proper time, looking into her emerald eyes. His heart started to beat faster, not because of the eye contact, but how she was looking back…