Nightingale arrived home and was greeted by the smell of brownies baking in the oven. Mimi appeared from the kitchen. "How was your date with Shigure?" Mimi asked.
"Wonderful." Nightingale answered. "Are you wanting to butter me up for something?"
"No, why would you aske that?" Mimi asked, her face pure innocence.
"Because you are baking brownies and from what I can tell you are trying your hand at my famous To-Die-For Brownies." Nightingale answered her sister.
"Maybe I just want to be like my big sister." Mimi answered.
"What do you want?"
Mimi sighed. "Momiji, Haru, their cousins Kisa and Kagura, and another Sohma named Hiro, are going on a trip on spring break and they want me to come with them."
"How long will you be gone?" Nightingale asked.
"From that Monday to Sunday."
"And where are you going?"
"We are going to an amusement park. Momiji said it was similar to Disney Land."
"Is there an adult going?"
"Momiji said that his nanny would be going."
Nightingale thought for a couple of moments, "Okay, you can go."
"I guess that means you and Shigure will be spending that time together? Perhaps you'll be spending all of that time at his house?" Mimi said.
Nightingale grinned at her sister. "Actually we will be taking our own trip."
"You two were already planning a trip, weren't you?" Mimi asked, already knowing the truth.
"Yes." Nightingale replied.
"You are such a naughty girl Sis." Mimi teased.
Nightingale glared playfully at her sister. Then she ruffled her hair. "I guess I should call Shigure."
"You do that." Mimi teased. "And I'll call Momiji and let him know you said that I could come."
Nightingale pulled out her cell and headed to her room. She hit the number one and then the send button -Shigure was on her speed dial- and waited for an answer.
"Hello?" came the sweet voice of Tohru over the phone.
"Hello Tohru, Is Shigure there? It's Nightingale."
"Yeah, I'll get him for you. It'll be just a second."
A few moments later Shigure's voice was coming through the phone. "Nightingale, my love."
Nightingale smiled. "Hello Handsome."
"I'm guessing you have talked with your sister?"
"Yes, and she wanted to go on a trip with some of your cousins. After quizzing her the way a big sister should, I told her she could go."
"Wonderful. So I should call and make the arrangements for when?"
"From that Monday to the following Sunday."
"Wonderful." Shigure said and then laughed slightly. "I can't wait to get you all alone."
Nightingale giggled. "You are quite aweful my dear."
"But you love me."
"Truely I do."
Shigure smiled into the phone.
"And?" Nightingale asked.
"And what?" Shigure grinned. "I can tell that you are playfully glaring at me."
"Hmph." She said playfully.
"I love you, too." Shigure said.
"That's better."
They both laughed and they talked for a few more moments. Then they got off the phone. Nightingale finished pulling together her lesson plans for the week and then got ready and went to bed.
After he got off of the phone, Shigure began pulling together plans for his and Nightingale's vacation. It was going to be a very romantic trip and it was going to be a trip that Nightingale would remember for the rest of her life. Shigure wanted to make sure it was extra special. He called the hot springs and booked the entire place for himself and Nightingale. He spent the rest of the night working on his plans, until he finally fell asleep, visions of Nightingale and their vacation filling his head.
