Chapter 7

**Lucy's POV**

Hiro and I are left in awkward silence when Heather leaves. Damn her! I stare at Hiro and he stares back. I like him but in some ways I'm not ready to like him. I may have slight commitment issues. Ok, maybe a bit more than slight. Just look at me, I cant even commit on deciding how much of an issue I have.

"Hi..." I said quietly.
"Hey..." More silence...
"Are you sure you don't want a sandwich?"
"Yeah, I'm not hungry..."
"Are you thirsty? We could get some coffee. If you want..."
"Sure" I do like coffee...
We walked there in silence. When we got there I realized I had no cash on me.
"Uh, Hiro, I can't pay for this, you just get your coffee..." I said timidly. I never really liked strangers...
"Don't worry about it I'll pay!"
"No, I can't let you do that, it's fine."
"I insist!"
"I'll pay you back..."
"No need"
"But! I can't just! But!" I stumbled over my words.
"It's fine!"
"Fine..." I repeated.
"You look cute when you pout!"
"I wasn't pouting!"
"You're doing it right now, don't sweat it, it makes you look kind of adorable."
"Whatever" he smiled at me. "What?"
"You're still doing it!"
"Shut up!" I said lightly hitting him on the shoulder. He laughed at me. Maybe I can make an exception for this stranger.
"What's that expression?"
"What?"
"Your expression, no one ever looked at me like that before..." I shrug. I still don't know exactly what he's talking about...
We walk in silence. I think about how sweet he is and weather or not to let him see me for me. He's doing a pretty good job of it already. Every few seconds he would glance at me.
"What?" I demanded
He smiled and ran a hand through his hair. "You still have that expression..."
"Oh?"
"Yeah, it's driving me nuts, are you sure you don't know what I'm talking about? I think it makes you look pretty adorable though so I guess it's a good expression."
I shake my head at him. "I'm adorable huh?" I smile at him.
Hiro just looks at me with a half smile, I can tell he's searching me.
We finally make it to the on campus coffee shop and I get a regular coffee with cream and sugar, since its the least expensive, Hiro gets an iced coffee. We sit down at a table in the outdoor area of the campus.

After a while I ask him my burning question.
"Hey Hiro, is this a date?"
"Only if you want it to be..."
I consider that and nod. "What do you want it to be?"
"I don't know yet, I like your smile, personality and of course adorableness. So I guess that's a good sign..."
I blush at the surge of complements.
"Ok..." I say. He smiles at me. "I was wrong, compared to how you look now, your expression's adorableness has got nothing on when you blush."
"I was not blushing!"
"Awww, blushing and pouting!" He teases.
"Shut up..."
"Hey, do you wanna go somewhere cool?"
"Where?"
"Come on!" Hiro rises from his seat and we walk back inside and down a few hallways. He then opens a door to a huge library.
"How did you know? I'm a total book worm!" I whisper.
"Pick out a few books and then I'll show you a good place to read"
I looked at him hesitantly until my love for books trumped my stubbornness. I walk really fast to the nearest bookshelf. I chose a few books that look cool.
A History: Lord Death, Spells and Incantations, and The World's Creatures. Sure they're all reference books but I need to know as much as I can about everything here. Maybe the spell book will tell me how we got here. Just for fun I grab the book on Excalibur, to freak Hiro out.

Know that I think about it we just missed him being a total ass. Well at least Excalibur isn't here. I don't mind Excalibur but Culzean would freak out. I put the Excalibur book in the middle of the stack and headed over to Hiro. He smiled at me and beckons me forward with his hand. I follow him. He walks through rows of shelves until we come across one that's propped to the side a bit, away from the wall. Hiro stepped through the gap.

I hesitated, but only for a moment. I step through and trip over something. I end up knocking Hiro over in the process and landing on top of him.
"You comfy up there" he joked
"Sorry" I said, blushing, I quickly got up and saw that the room was just dark enough that I could only see Hiro. I looked at him accusingly.
"Relax, I got this" he said feeling around. I heard a small click of a lamp and the room lit up. "See" Hiro said.
"Ok... I found this really cool book, you wanna see?"
"Sure"
I pulled out the Excalibur book. "This looks really cool, the sword is said to bring you victory and glory." Hiro made the face. I smile at him until I can't hold it in anymore. I laugh at him.
"Lucy, what are you doing? Please, don't go get Excalibur. Please!"
"I know about your little stunt. I just wanted at freak you out."
"Oh..."
"You should've seen your face."
"Shut up" I laugh at him. He smiles at me.
"You look cute when you pout too"

Hey guys, there's gonna be a Payton chapter soon then I'll skip ahead a day or two... Thank you to my reviewers and I LOVE THE WEEKEND! Also, I don't do disclaimers and you know why? It's called FANfiction. As in your a fan of a work not the creator, that's for fiction press. So obviously I don't own Soul Eater because if I did I wouldn't have to write a fan fiction about this now would I? I would just have to make more episodes of Soul Eater. So I don't do disclaimers. -MGN