Chapter twelve: told by Daisuke

"I think I'm going to take a shower when we get home. I can't believe that creep touched me," I told Sora as he drove down the street.

He laughed and said "It's not that bad. He may be a creep but he's not diseased."

I shook my head and said "Not diseased and I hope also not gifted."

"What do you men you hope not gifted," I asked him.

"I haven't heard him mentions secrets around anybody that didn't have one. What if he can read our minds," I asked?

Sora laughed as he drifted a turn. I grabbed the seat and shouted "Don't do that!"

He smiled and put a hand on my shoulder after he shifted and said "He can't read minds. If he could he would probably be in some secret organization."

"Keep both hands on the wheel please and we don't know if he is or not," I told him.

He sighed and said "You worry a lot about things. You shouldn't all that stress can't be good for you."

"If I didn't worry so much we would be dead. How many times have you looked in to something you said didn't need to be looked in to just because I kept going on about it and it turned out to be something that could of gotten us killed?"

I frowned and said "First things first. We need to look in on Keith Lukas. I haven't seen much from his home and I doubt he keeps anything on his computer there."

"You're going to break in to Destryga legal aren't you," I asked him.

He gave a nod and said "Yeah. I'm going to break in there, take everything from his computer put on an external hard drive, and then I'll go over it at home over a few cans of Mountain Dew."

"What are you going to do with those cigarettes in your pocket," I asked him.

He took a hand off the wheel, reached in the pocket of his blue zip up hood he always wears and handed me the pack. "You can throw them out the window if you want. I would rather throw them away then give them to Kai. Some people you can't tell no all the time but when you get the chance to say it to them when they expect a yes is just....well...the good shit I guess." he told me laughing at the end.

I smiled as I threw the pack of cigarettes out the window. I watched as they fell in to nothingness and then I thought of something. "What are you going to do with that carton you have at home," I asked him?

"Don't know. I think I'll just have Ken take them somewhere and get rid of them. Have him throw them away in some unknown trash can somewhere in the city. I doubt I'll go after then but still it's better not to have some source of temptation," he told me.

"Well tomorrow morning I don't think you'll want to smoke again," I said with a smile.

"What's tomorrow morning," he asked?

I smiled at him and said "I hope enough time for your mouth not to taste like cigarettes."

He smiled and said "My first kiss. I can't wait."

I looked at him in surprise and said "You've honestly never kissed anyone before." He shook his head and I said "I find that hard to believe."

His face turned red and he said "This might be a stupid thing for a guy, but I've been saving everything for the right person."

I looked away from him and said "I wish I could be just as unspoiled for you."

I felt his hand on my shoulder I turned to meet his eyes. He had a serious look on his face that I didn't see there very often. When he spoke, his tone was firm but at the same time comforting. "He looked me in the eyes and said "I don't care what anyone's done to you in the past. The present and the future will be ours and even if you didn't fight them off, you didn't give yourself to any of them because giving yourself to someone isn't something that you do with your body. It's done with your heart."

I smiled at his words and was about to lean in to kiss him right there, but I heard a car horn behind us. Sora laughed and said "Light turned green." I just laughed softly.