Last night was a complete flop. There were no leads on the missing tech. No security footage, no prints, and no one saw anything. The ninja hunt didn't go well either. Wasabi, Baymax, and Hiro searched the entire city but all they found were a few small time dealers. It didn't help that the youngest of the group had his mind on other things. Hiro couldn't stop thinking back to his kiss with Maddie and what it meant. Did she like him? Or was she going through some weird stage of withdrawal and had no idea what she was doing. He never had a chance to ask thanks to Gogo. As soon as the teens pulled away from their kiss she called, furious that Hiro was gone so long. Maddie agreed to see him today at the book store, so Hiro figured she must like him... At least a little.

"I'll be at the book store." Hiro called out to his friends as he was leaving the nerd lab.

"You going to see Maddie?" Fred asked in a teasing tone. The rest of the groups ears perked up at the mention of an unknown girl.

"Who's Maddie?" Honey inquired. "Is she your girlfriend?"

"She's a friend, just a friend." Hiro told them while he pushed open the door.

"Use protection!" Gogo called out, earning a laugh from Fred and a shocked look from Honey and Wasabi. "What? Tadashi isn't here to tell him, so someone has to."

Maddie was fidgeting with the strap on her backpack when Hiro entered the book store. She didn't notice him until he was standing right in front of her.

"Earth to Maddie?" He tapped her shoulder causing the blond to jump. Once she saw it was Hiro, she relaxed and slouched back in her seat.

"H-hey, I didn't see you..." She continued to play with her bag. Hiro pulled up a chair next to his friend. Maddie was quiet for a while, not saying a word or looking up from her hands. After a few minutes of awkward silence Hiro grabbed her hand.

"Is everything alright?" Her eyes finally met his. Hiro could see that they were red, as if she'd been crying. "What happened?"

Her mouth formed a smile, but her eyes still looked sad. "Nothing." She took her hand back and brushed her hair out of her face. "It's just... Do you wanna go some where?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like just hop on a bus and leave." Maddie stood up and began pacing. "We could go anywhere. New Orleans, Chicago, Denver... Colorado is supposed to be beautiful." She stopped to face Hiro. "We could... Just... leave."

"Maddie..." Hiro got to his feet and closed the gap between them. He didn't realize how fragile the blond looked until now. His hands reached out to her slowly, fearing she might shatter. "Why do you want to run away?"

"Run away? No, I just want to see the world, you know?" Maddie shrugged off Hiro's hands and picked up her bag. "There's nothing keeping me here, so I figure why not now. We could go anywhere we want and do anything we want." She tried to fight back her tears and stop herself from trembling. "Let's just... disappear..."

Honestly, the idea was rather appealing to Hiro. Take a break from hero work, see the world, just doing what ever he wanted. But he would be leaving behind his friends and aunt Cass. She already lost Tadashi, Hiro couldn't put her through something like that again.

"That sounds great, but we can't just run off. Your parents would lose their minds worrying about you." He sighed. "I'm all my aunt has left, I can't just run out on her. We can go see the world when the times right, but until then... Just stay here."

Maddie sat back down, defeated. She wasn't brave enough to leave on her own, and Hiro was the only person she wanted to be with. "Okay." She whispered.

Hiro bit his lip. It was painfully obvious that Maddie was upset, but Hiro was never good at cheering people up... But he did know someone with enough pep to make anyone smile. "Come on, I want to take you somewhere."

"Where?" She looked up at him.

"A café."

I know it's super short, but I haven't posted in a while so I figured it's better than nothing. I will try to get the next chapter up soon, but no promises. anyways I hope you liked it.