Smile
"What makes you happy?"
"Huh? Why?
"I told you I'm going to make you smile. A real smile"
"You don't have to…"
"But I want to." I stopped and turned around to face her, still not letting go of her hand. I did the same thing as she did and stared right into her eyes. I wanted her to see the determination in my eyes. To show her that I was serious about this and that I was going to see it through. At first she just stared back into my eyes but then she dropped her head, looking at her feet. "Swe-" She mumbled something but I couldn't hear it. I was going to get closer but then she slowly lifted up her head back up and said in a louder voice. "Sweets make me happy." As soon as she said it she turned away from me, there was a faint blush on her cheeks. 'Sweets huh…' I took a quick look around (we were back at the town centre). 'Ah! There it is.' A cake shop. I dragged her inside and lead her to the front counter. People were staring at us, probably because we were here alone without any parents but I didn't care. A bunch of fancy looking cakes were on display for people to choose from. I could see that she was very interested with the sweets that were on display. She wasn't smiling yet but her eyes were defiantly sparkling with enthusiasm. I didn't really get how cakes could make her eyes sparkle so bright but as long as she's happy who am I to judge. After what seemed like an eternity, she had finally picked out the cakes she wanted. We sat down at one of the tables outside of the shop. I watched as she eagerly unpacked the cakes I had bought her (there would be no point if I didn't buy it). Although she did have a smile on her face, I could tell that it was being forced a little. If I were to take on this mission I would finish it completely. She had almost finished unloading her cakes; there were two super sweet looking cakes in front of her already. She was opening the last one, she took it out of the box and set it on the table but this time it wasn't in front of her, it was in front of me.
"It's for you."
"I'm not hungry."
"Come on. Just try it." As I looked from the cake in front of me to her, I saw that she had a small smile on. It wasn't as big as before but it seemed more real. That means I was getting somewhere! But back to the matter at hand, I looked from her back to the cake. I could still feel her eyes on me, waiting for me to take a bite. I used a fork to pick up a piece of the cake. 'I really don't like sweet things.' But I can't disappoint her, my intention is to make her happy not sad and those big, bright, sparkling eyes aimed at me aren't helping! *Sigh* I closed my eyes and shoved the fork into my mouth. To my surprise, she was right. The cake wasn't sweet at all, in fact it was bitter.
"What type of cake is this?"
"Dark chocolate. Bitter isn't it?"
"…"
"I could tell that you're not a sweet type of person."
"How did you know?"
"By the look in your eyes when we came in. When you looked at the cakes on display I could tell you didn't like them."
"Wow. That's amazing."
"I wouldn't say it's amazing, I've had a lot of practice after all..."
Her smile started to fade away and her eyes were losing their brightness. 'Did I do something wrong?' I started to think over everything I did up til this point. I couldn't think of anything but never mind that I've got to change her mood back to a sort of happy one.
"Why don't you finish your cakes?"
"…Ok"
When we had finished eating our cakes and left the shop I took a quick look at her. She didn't look that happy but at least she wasn't completely depressed like when we first got here. That's got to be something.
"Ne, I want to show you something. Will you come with me?"
As she said this, she extended a hand towards me. At this point I didn't know what to do so I just nodded and took her hand. Her grip tightened and this she started running with my hand in hers. She just kept running and running, dragging me along with her. It felt like we had been running for ages, we had already gone out of the town.
"Where are we going?"
"Just wait and see, we're almost there."
'We better be almost there, I feel like I'm going to die from tiredness.' We continued running for a little bit until we reached a hill.
"Is this it?"
"Not yet, I'll race you to the top."
She had started running up. Wait… what?! The hill was pretty steep you couldn't run up it unless you wanted to plummet to the ground. I was going to warn her but she was already halfway up. 'I should start climbing up as well'. I could see that she had already reached the top where I wasn't even halfway up yet. This was so unfair she ran up while I had to climb and she had a head start too. I don't care so much about winning this "race" but that was against the rules. As expected she had reached the top long before I did. I was about to yell at her but then I saw the view. It was breathtaking; you could see the whole town from up here.
"Wow"
"Amazing view isn't it?"
'Geh! She read my mind.' She was sitting down on the grass; she seemed so at ease, looking over the town.
"Is this what you wanted to show me?"
She nodded her head at patted the space next to her. I'm assuming she wanted me to sit there. We just sat there in silence next to each other for a few minutes, taking in the view. I didn't want to break the peaceful silence but I wanted to know why she took me up here. When I opened my mouth to voice the question out loud, she started speaking.
"This is my favourite place in Namimori and I wanted to share this with you."
'She read my mind again! I swear this girl is psychic!'
"Thank you for today, I had a lot of fun." After she had finished her sentence she looked up at me and smiled. It wasn't one of the big smiles she usually makes at school but this one was definitely more genuine. Before I realised it I was smiling too. A blush took over my face; I had never smiled in front of anyone other than my mother in my life and that was pretty rare too.
"It wasn't anything special."
"It was special, today was one of the best days I've had in a long time."
She smiled at me and I found myself smiling back. It was getting really dark; I walked her home and watched her go towards the door. What surprised me though was that she flashed me a quick smile before she fully went inside. It wasn't big and she didn't smile for long but that was the best smile I've seen on her. I smiled to myself 'mission accomplished … I think.'
A/N: Woot! Three at once :) Sorry if the grammar really sucks and if the story doesn't really flow haha I'm kind of sick of writing so i didn't look over these and these are the ones I wrote before I changed a bunch of things so yeah... and I think the next chapter is going to be the last. I have been watching hunter x hunter in the middle of writing this and as you can probably tell by now i'm not confident in my writing at all. I just see all these amazing stories here and I wanted to share my story. I'm one of those people who likes to imagine their OC (in my case it's my made up anime self .) in whatever anime their currently watching so um yeah i want to start writing (failing) a hunter x hunter fanfic! I might be able to finish this one in a couple of days but I seriously just don't have any motivation anymore sooooo wish me luck :)
-.-' Fudge I hope no one reads this note...
