"What is this Samantha? Is this any way to make me feel better?" Karin said impatiently as she sat uncomfortably in a fast food restaurant; a location too unsophisticated for a princess like her.

"Relax, I'm sure things will work out just fine!" Samantha persuaded.

"This is a waste of my valuable time! I have better activities that I can to attend to!"

"C'mon Karin! Give it a chance, you may not know what is in stored for you!"

"I don't believe anything favourable will come out of this!"

"Well... then you have to prove me wrong!"

"…Alright… I will do this… just to show you what a ridiculous idea this is!"

"Alright, at any moment that person will come in! Be patient, I wish I could stay and watch but I have to attend a class meeting. Karin, promise me you will give this a chance!"

Reluctant to promise, Karin looked away crossing her arms. Her body language obviously indicates: 'No'

"Please…" Samantha begged while shaking Karin's arm.

Karin continues to reply 'no' with her body language.

"Please…!" Samantha begged harder, this time rattling Karin's entire body.

"Alright! Alright! Cease this immediately!" Karin said in defeat.

"Hehe! You promised Karin!" Samantha said cheerfully.

The rushed towards the exit and waved to Karin before she left saying: "Enjoy your date!"

"I hate blind dates… but I hate the fact that I'm in such a barbaric facility even more!" Karin mutters to herself.

Samantha got outside the fast food restaurant to greet Sakura who was waiting for about 10 minutes.

"So how is it?" Sakura asked excitedly.

"She agreed to the blind date! It's up to you now!"

"Thank you Samantha… actually come to think of it I'm kind of… nervous…"

"Don't sweat it! Karin still likes you! … I guess…"

"What you mean you guess?"

"I don't know if she could forget about you so quickly… but since that day she never spoke a word about you…"

"… I see… thanks for the heads up."

"I'm sure it's nothing! She is probably trying very hard to forget you but I doubt she can do so in a matter of days. Don't forget she had been crushing on you for months!"

Sakura just nods and smiled. Samantha patted her on the shoulder and told her:

"I gotta go now, good luck!"

With that said Samantha left in haste to attend her duties. Sakura peeked at Karin from the transparent entrance door and saw the blonde schoolgirl waiting tensely in her unnatural habitat. Sakura slowly entered trying to keep cool, she was as nervous as a cat. Karin did not notice because she was too entwined with the fact that she was in such a 'filthy' place. Sakura quickly sat at the table smiling idiotically.

"Hi Karin!"

Karin sat there looking unfazed by Sakura but inside she was having a mix of emotions.

"Oh what a coincidence Sakura…"

Sakura was shocked at the remark, apparently Karin did not know that she was the blind date. In confusion she responded:

"Oh… yes a coincidence…"

It seems like a constant Déjà vu, they always seem to get caught in such awkward silences.

"So what are you doing here?" Sakura asked, breaking the silence.

"Waiting… for someone… Samantha arranged a blind date for me…" Karin said without eye contact.

"Well that is nice of her isn't it?"

"I suppose…"

Karin was staring into nothing, another long silence occurred between them.

"…Karin-san… Is anything wrong?"

Karin just kept silent.

"I have been trying to contact you for days... If I did anything to upset you… I'm sorry…" Sakura said.

"Please do not apologize for what is not your fault Sakura-san… It should be me to be the one to express my apologies… I was being very selfish, trying to force you to do something beyond your will… I'm sorry for avoiding you recently… I'm just very confused…"

"I don't blame you for anything Karin, can we forget it and just… hang out like normal friends?"

Karin thought about it for a while before saying:

"Yeah, I guess that will work."


"C'mon Karin! Nobody died eating this before!" Sakura teased.

Karin looks at the patty of ground meat accompanied by various greens, smashed together by two buns. It looked rather intimidating to her.

"How do you eat this? Where are the cutleries?" Karin asked.

"Ok look, hold it like this and bite!" Sakura said as she bites huge portion of the hamburger.

Karin did not like it but she held it reluctantly, carefully trying not to touch the insides of the buns but nonetheless failed to do so.

'Ew! It's touching me!' She thought

"Okay, now simply take a bite how you eat normal bread." Sakura encouraged.

Karin bites the burger slowly, she thought by doing so she would make less of a mess but instead accomplishes the opposite. Sakura giggles at the sight, never before she had seen Karin eating so messily. It was Karin's first time eating this dish, despite the fact it was quite messy to eat the burger did taste really good.

"Am I… doing it right?" Karin asked sheepishly.

"You are doing just fine Karin! So how is it? Not as bad right?" Sakura replied with a sweet smile.

Karin was happy to hear that, she nods in delight. Gradually she eases up, enjoying the burger ignoring the fact she was eating like a commoner. Eventually they both finish their meal. Karin wipes her mouth with a napkin but misses a spot beside her mouth.

"You still have something right there..." Sakura said while pointing at the spot.

Karin blindly attempts to wipe the stain off but fails.

"No, no, here let me help you." Sakura insisted as she reach forward to do it herself.

Karin blushed as Sakura was cleaning her face.


"Such abhorrent punctuality! I am already not looking forward to this!" Karin complained.

"Hey… do you want to watch a movie with me instead?"

"Sorry Sakura… I promised Samantha…"

"C'mon you can just put the blame on me!"

"Sakura! As you well know I am a person of high integrity! I would never break a promise!"

"Please… I booked the tickets but Kei has some last minute plans."

"I… don't know…" Karin said with deep doubts.

"Karin-san don't make me go alone…" Sakura said a pair of puppy eyes.

Who could resist that look? Karin can't at least.

"Alright…" She said with a smile.