A/N: The fourth Y-Extra! :O Two more to go! Man. This is tiring. ~SEi

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- - - - - - - - - - - Y-Extra. Part 4. The Number

"Oh. You're back. What did your mom- Ohmygod, are those crêpes?!"

Yousuke placed the tray down beside Jun who had begun reading a manga book on the floor when he had gotten bored of waiting around and doing nothing.

"My mom got them when she went shopping. She said they were having a sale."

"I could see that," said Jun, drooling.

There were two plates on the tray with four dessert crêpes on each of them. Each crêpe had a different filling in it. Jun took a strawberry cream one from a plate and bit into it. When he swallowed, he said, "Mmm-mm-mm! I haven't had a crêpe since... like, forever!" And bit into it again, this time savoring the taste.

Yousuke seated himself across from his friend and smiled at his remark.

"Okay, I take back what I said about her being weird. She's the best. She must have thought that since it's a rainy day, we wouldn-" He cut himself off when he looked at Yousuke's face. "What's wrong? You look down."

Yousuke forced a smile. "Nothing really."

Jun eyed his friend, the crêpe still in his hands. "Are you still thinking about that prank call from before?"

"..." Yousuke pulled his knees towards his chest. "Maybe..."

"You should give up on it. It was just a joke." He bit into his crêpe and then stuffed the whole thing in his mouth. When he chewed, swallowed and reached for another one, he said: "But if you're so giddy about it, then call him back."

"That's exactly the problem!"

"Mm?" Jun was halfway into his second crêpe.

"When we prank-called him, you dialed random numbers and the call reached him. I said, random numbers! RANDOM NUMBERS!" Yousuke threw up his hands in exasperation.

Jun shrunk back. "Geez, man, what's gotten into you? Did he say something to you that makes you want to call him back?"

The green-eyed one froze.

Jun nodded to himself. "I see, I see." He gobbled up the rest of his crêpe and stood up. Swallowing, he dramatically pointed a finger at Yousuke and said, "Don't worry, man! They weren't just random numbers."

Yousuke eyed his friend. "What do you mean?"

"Actually, I put in my birthday, favorite number and stuff like that..."

Yousuke's mouth dropped open. "Are you serious?! And i-it just... miraculously ended up as a real phone number?"

"Well, man, I am a lucky guy." Jun scratched the back of his head shyly.

"Then punch those numbers in right now!" Yousuke grabbed the phone and handed it to Jun.

"Whoa, whoa," said Jun, pushing the phone away. "You mixes are so impatient."

Yousuke frowned.

"And first of all, I don't remember the order in which I put them in."

"..."

"Geez, man. You have a baby face but your face right now is really scary. I need to go take a piss." He started to leave.

"Wait!" Yousuke grabbed his arm. "Give me the numbers that you used." He handed him a piece of paper and a pen.

"Alright, alright. Relax." Jun quickly wrote down his birthday's month and day, his favorite number, the price of his favorite game and the date. He handed it back to his friend and rushed out the door.

x x x

"I'm back. Did I miss anything?" Jun looked at his friend who was sitting on his bed with KK snoozing on his lap.

"Oh. Welcome back. I just finished." Yousuke looked at the tray that Jun was holding.

Jun noticed his gaze and said, "When I came out of the bathroom, your mom told me to bring some tea up here." He sighed. "It took quite a long time..."

"Yeah, I know. She never was good at making or pouring tea." He took a cup and sipped it slowly because it had a weird pinch of something in it.

Jun did the same and then asked, "So? What did I miss?"

"He's going to pick me up."

Jun choked on his tea. "WHAT?!"

"Well, actually, someone else is."

"Y-Y-You! You gave a stranger your address?!"

Yousuke looked down into his cup of tea. "I did..."

"Are you serious?!" Jun smacked his forehead. "Damn it. I shouldn't have given you those numbers..."

Yousuke grabbed his friend's arm and tugged on it. "Juuun! I'm desperate here! KK's sick and if I don't do something, she's going to die! And I don't want that..."

"Okay, okay. Calm down." He wiped his friend's tears with his sleeve. "Geez. I always wonder if you're really seventeen."

Yousuke frowned but loosened his grip on his friend's arm.

"So? When is he coming?"

"...Tomorrow..."

Jun's eyebrow twitched. "Seriously?"

"Seriously."

"...Do you think I'll be able to come?"

"Ah. You can't."

"What do you mean? Is he like a pervert or something? Wants you to go alone and all." He began mumbling to himself.

"What are you? My father?" Yousuke waited until his friend's mouth stopped. "Anyway... While I was in the middle of calling him, your mom called and said that you need to go home tomorrow."

"WHAT?! Why now?!"

"She said it's important."

"Everything's important to her. Even garbage."

"No, no. I think she's serious about this, Jun. She sounded like she was going to cry while she was talking to me."

Jun sighed. "Fine. Fine. But she's always been like that."

"That's true. But that's more of a reason why you need to be there for her like you've been before she remarried."

"..." Jun stared at his friend. "Now you sound like a seventeen-year-old."

Yousuke smacked him.

Is it done yet? No it's not. Just one more to go. And then it's DouWata time!

Oh, and Happy Halloween! :D