Internet Friends
A/N: This is a work of fanfiction. Businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. The author do not own any of the characters from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.
Chapter 6
Nanoha POV
By the time I got to Hayate-chan's house, it is 10 past 0200.
Ohh, you can tell just how pissed off she is by the look she wears on her face. I don't think that sorry is going to cover it, but that should be the first thing to say to her. It was so sweet of her to wait outside her front door for me as she could have waited inside.
Once I paid for the cab, with Fate-chan's money, only because she insisted when I got in the cab, I quickly walked over to Hayate-chan. "Hayate-chan, go…"
*Slap* Hayate-chan slapped me in the face. She must have slapped me with all her force! It bloody hurts!
As I was holding my red pained left cheek, I saw Hayate-chan holding her right hand. The slap must have hurt her too. And tears started to fall from her eyes.
"Baka!" Hayate said as she tackled me with a hug. "I was so worried about you when I couldn't reach you. Why didn't you check your phone?" Hayate said in between her sniffles.
"Gomen ne, Hayate-chan. really… Gomenasai…"
"I was so worried. I don't know if something had happened to you or what. What if she had kidnapped you or worse, what if she had hurt you… never! And I really mean never ever! Never ever go meet a stranger without any back up…"
-0-
By the time we settled into bed, it was almost 0300. It took quite a while for her to calm down. I won't blame her as it was totally my fault. I would have done the same if I was in her shoes.
We both decided to skip the morning class as we were going to be too tired. Hayate-chan had left a note for Signum-sensei so that we can sleep in a little more before heading to college.
Later that morning, by the time we got to school, it was near lunch time. We went straight to the usual table out by the field and waited for Arisa-chan and Suzuka-chan.
Even since this morning, Hayate-chan had not spoken a single word to me… What should I do to break this tension?!
"So, would you like to explain yourself? You do know that this Fate of yours is so going get it from me when I see her, right." Hayate said with a monotone voice.
And so, I told her everything, not leaving out any single detail… I owe her that much. And once I got to the point when Fate-chan asked if she could give me a goodnight kiss, I remembered the kisses we shared, my fingers went up to my lips, remembering the sensation of being kissed… I immediately started to blush… so badly that I thought I felt steam coming out of my ears.
Of course, Hayate-chan being Hayate-chan. She never misses anything…
"So… you guys kissed right? How was the kiss? Was it good?" Hayate-chan asked cheekily.
All I could do was to sit there, head down, and blushed intensively. I didn't even realise that Arisa-chan and Suzuka-chan had just arrived.
Arisa-chan asked, "What's wrong with her? Why is she behaving like that?"
"I think it's pretty obvious, Arisa-chan…" Suzuka said while slapping lightly on Arisa's arm.
Hayate-chan then sang, "Someone gave her first kiss away~!"
"Really?! When? Who? How? Was it with that Fate from the forum?" Arisa asked.
"Unless Nanoha-chan had other plans for yesterday that we not know of, it has to be Fate." Suzuka stating her conclusion.
"Right, Hayate-chan?" Suzuka asked as she look over to Hayate and got a confirmation nod.
"So, when will we get to meet this Fate of yours? Do you have any arrangement with her to meet up today? You better not repeat what happened yesterday. I will not cover for you like that again unless you let me know in advance." Hayate said.
"Did we miss something?" Arisa asked.
Hayate explained what happened yesterday to both Arisa-chan and Suzuka-chan.
"Wow… Going MIA during the first meeting… That's no joke, Nanoha-chan!" Arisa-chan said.
The trio then took turns to have a go at me. By the time they finished, lunch time was over.
-0-
Classes went by fairly quickly today. Arisa-chan, Suzuka-chan, Hayate-chan and I had the same class at the end of the day. Both Monday and Wednesday are the two days that we will definitely walk home together as we finish classes together.
Technically, Arisa-chan and Suzuka-chan will walk home with me and Hayate-chan, then get pick up from my place. We usually will stop somewhere for a drink before we head home.
As I was about to rush off, Arisa-chan asked, "Where are you going? Aren't we walking home together today? It's Monday."
'Oh yea. It's Monday… How did I forget?'
"She's just dying to go meet up with Fate." Suzuka said.
"Even if you can keep my body here, you all can never keep her heart and soul…~" Hayate dramatically said.
"Nope, it's fine. We can have our drinks first. It's not like we had a set time to meet up today. I did have to kind of have to rush off yesterday…"
"You mean today, right." Hayate said, stressing to remind me of how late it was.
-0-
We met up with Yuuno-kun on the way to the gates. He usually goes for drinks with us before heading home too.
As we got closer to the gates, I saw a familiar figure standing by the gates waiting patiently.
Even just by seeing her from afar, my heart skipped a beat.
Fate-chan saw us approaching, she turned and waved in our direction. I instantly ran up to her.
"Why are you here? How did you know where I am? How did you know what time my classes finishes?"
"Haha… You told me about your school yesterday, remember?" Fate-chan replied while using her finger to tap on my nose.
By this time, the rest had caught up. Everybody was staring at her.
"Fate-chan, these are my best friends. Starting from the right, Suzuka-chan, Arisa-chan, Hayate-chan and Yuuno-kun."
"Hi all, nice to meet you!"Fate greeted.
"So… this is the infamous Fate!" Hayate said.
"Ahh, Hayate-san, I owe you an apology. I am so sorry about what happened. I promise that it will not happen again! This is my cell phone number, I just picked it up today. Nanoha, here you go, this is my number." Fate-chan said as she hands out slips of paper with her cell phone number written on it.
"Don't think you can get away with it just like that. You and I need to have a chat later at some stage." Hayate said firmly while looking at Fate.
"So, how did you know what time we finish?"
Fate-chan raises her hand behind her head and replied, "I didn't. I went to the office to check the schedules, but because I wasn't too sure which extra modules you are taking, so it is either 1500 or 1700. I've been waiting at the gates since 1430 just in case."
"Wow" was replied from all of us.
"We are about to go somewhere for a drink before we head home. Would you like to join us, Fate-chan?"
"Only if it is okay with everyone. I would hate to get in the way of your gathering…" Fate-chan replied as she looked at the rest for approval.
Everyone agreed and we went on our merry way. Fate-chan came up to walk beside me. We just looked at each other and smiled.
