Blind Date
"TAKERU!!!!!!!!!!" Hikari's excitement was… apparent as her good friend made his way downstairs.
"'Kari… you look wonderful!" Takeru said with a smile
"Oh thank you. And so do you." Hikari replied with a smirk as she gave her friend a peck on the cheek.
"Ahem…" coughed a smirking Daisuke. "Who's the boyfriend here?"
"Oh you are of course." Said Takeru seductively, with a smirk.
"Ah, but one day I will change that, and we can run away together" Daisuke said in a mock bravado tone.
"Ugh, are you two still doing this?" Hikari said glaring at the two boys.
She was of course referring to a little game the boys liked to play. Because all three of them were such good friends, when Daisuke and Hikari started going out, Takeru decided that he could not let them get away with it without torturing them a little bit. And so he began flirting with Daisuke unmercifully, with the understanding between them that it was all a joke. Daisuke then took it up a notch when he began flirting back. This unique way of torturing her was never discussed between the boys, it just came about. But it happened so naturally that everyone just assumed it had to be acting. But even so, the boys unmercifully tortured poor Hikari any chance they got. And even though she knew they were just doing it to mess with her, it still got to her on a level.
"Doing what?" said Takeru, putting on a puppy face and making his voice ooze innocence.
"Damnit Takeru, how do you do that?" she said huffily.
"Oh, I'm sorry 'Kari. Come here." Said Daikeru, as he always did when she got too aggravated with him.
"Fine. You two are lucky you guys are so cute, or else I would have killed you both a long time ago." She said as she shuffled over into Daisuke's arms. He leaned over and gave his girlfriend a kiss.
As Daisuke's lips touched Hikari's cheek, a sharp pain shot through Takeru's chest. What the…But before Takeru could figure out why he suddenly felt sick, his best girl friend started to talk to him, and he quickly forgot about it.
"So, Takeru, when is you date getting here."
"Shane? He should be getting here soon." Takeru replied, looking at his watch.
"He's Yoli's cousin, right?"
"Yeah, but I haven't actually seen him since we were both about 10. Remember that Halloween when we went over to Yoli's. He was the ghost. Back then he was sort of goofy, but I guess he wasn't bad looking." He said as he tried to remember what the kid he was about to go on a date looked like.
"Oh yeah, now I remember. The little pudgy kid with a squeaky voice?"
"Yeah that's him."
"Hey wait, how come I don't remember this guy?" interrupted a confused Daisuke.
"Don't you remember? That was the Halloween when you had food poisoning from eating all of that candy." Said Takeru with a grin.
"Oh yeah… hehe, that was good candy. So what did this kid look like again?"
"He looked just like any normal-" A doorbell interrupted Takeru's statement. "That must be him and Yoli now. You'll just have to see what I mean Dai." Said Takeru with a sigh.
All three of them walked to the door. "Well, here goes." Takeru reached for the doorknob…
"Shane...?" Takeru said, dumbstruck. Because the teen before Takeru was not the goofy boy he remembered. Said goofy boy had grown out of said goofiness. He now could only be described as a teenage sex god. He was probably his high school quarterback, and looked even more ripped than Daisuke. He long brown hair, bright blue eyes, and skin with a tan that could only come from hours outside playing sports. Behind him stood Yoli, looking as happy and hyper as ever. At least it looked like she had lain off the sugar for the night. But even with a hyper Yoli, all anyone could focus on was Shane.
"Hey Takeru, long time no see." Shane said with a smile.
"He… Hey Shane, um… wow. You look…um… great." Takeru stuttered out.
As Daisuke watched this conversation take place, he felt his stomach drop. It felt like a hope of his had just been dashed… but he had no idea what hope that could have been. All he knew was that for some reason, he was really jealous of this Shane kid.