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They'd been walking for a while and got back to the park where he'd saved her cat.
Today was quiet... and would be getting dark soon. The lights on the path were already light, making shadows from the rose bushes by the path look dark. It was scary but Skylor felt safe with Hiei.
Hiei was trying to find the right way to tell her he wanted to break off the friendship.
Normally he had no problem getting rid of people who annoyed him, it was easy. He would just insult them and say 'hn' and they went away hurt and didn't bother him ever again. He knew because he did it to that woman Botan all the time. The only problem was that Skylor didn't annoy him and the last few times they'd hung out together, he'd been the one looking for her. This was a new thing…He NEEDED to end it soon!
But Skylor was first.
"Look, Hiei…" she said, "I'm going to be blunt here. You seem really nice and I like you and everything but…I don't think we should hang out anymore."
"Wait," he said, he stopped walking, trying to work out what had just happened here, "YOU are saying that you don't want to be friends with ME?"
She nodded. She wasn't even looking at him! That was…That…That hurt, actually. It shouldn't have but it did!
"And WHAT is wrong with being friends with me?" he said
"Nothing, you're…you're fine, you're a nice guy but I…I just don't want to be friends with you. You distract me."
HE distracted HER?!
That was…damn insulting! HE was supposed to be the one telling HER this! NOT the other way around! How DARE she steal his words away and look so damned cute that he just wanted to hug her and tell her it was all right.
Then again, wasn't this what he wanted? Did it matter how this…freindship ended? This way there was no hard feelings and after that no distractions and they could both get on with their lives.
"Alright," he said, "we'll finish this walk, and I'll even make sure you get home safely. And THEN we'll go our separate ways. Agreed?"
"Agreed," she said.
She held out her hand to shake on it.
Neither one of them could've said how they ended up with his hands on her waist and her arms around his neck, staring at each other in complete shock but not letting go.
"Let go of me!"
"YOU let go of ME!"
They stopped and it was silent between them, and neither of them moved.
"We shouldn't be doing this…" Skylor said, "This is completely the opposite of what we were going to do…"
"You're right, we shouldn't…we should let go, finish this walk and go our separate ways, like we planned."
"Count of three?"
He nodded and they counted together "One…Two…Three…"
But they still didn't let go and continued to stare at each other
"Unless…you want to kiss me first?" Skylor said.
"Yes I do, thank you very much" he said
Then they put their lips together and kissed. They both lacked experience, but they were both keen.
This kiss…damn, it was hot, it was sweet…totally wrong but right now he didn't care. If they were going to go their separate ways anyway why the hell not allow himself this one time?
Why did the fact that'd it'd only be one time make him feel bad?
OK…maybe he'd keep this friendship for a little longer…
The hell did she think she was doing? Skylor wondered, kissing Hiei hadn't even been on her mind…at the time. She knew hardly anything about him, and now she was KISSING him?!
Where had he learnt to kiss like this anyway? No, forget it, she didn't want to know, they were going their separate ways after this, right?
Yeah, this was a 'goodbye' kiss. They'd stop in a minute, know that a kiss was just a kiss and THEN they'd finish this walk, he'd take her home and they'd never see each other again except by accident.
Good plan
She LIKED that plan
Or she'd thought she did…right now she liked this plan better…
…Damn, he was a good kisser!
She had no experience to compare it to at all
As first kisses went though…Damn, she felt dizzy but she didn't care as long as he kept kissing her.
Maybe…they could stay friends a little longer?
They parted, both panting for breath.
All was silent between them but there was less tnesion.
"Look," they said together, "Maybe we can…" they stopped, they stared at each other before… "You go first," they both said.
"Look, maybe we can…" Skylor said
"…still be friends." Hiei said
"Just so we can say that…"
"…We gave it a try?"
"Deal," they both said.
They smiled shyly at each other…
Then suddenly somebody called out.
"Is that…Hiei? Hey! It is! Hiei! HEEEEY!"
Hiei turned to look, though he wanted to run away. Just pick up Skylor and run her home...but he stayed where he was.
It was Yusuke grinning and waving stupidly.
Hiei wished there was a hole for him to crawl into and die.
