Diana tapped her pencil on the library table, something had been weighting on her mind for a while now...
"Hey…" Diana began as she looked at the sleepy brunette. "Go on a date with me…"
Akko's eyes immediately snapped open. "W-what?"
Diana blushed and looked away from her text book. "Well… We haven't really been on a date yet, I was just thinking that maybe it would be nice to spend time with each other outside of school."
"Yes!" Akko leaned closer into Diana's space. "I would love to go on a date with you!"
Diana blushed, she couldn't help but feel the butterflies in her stomach as she looked into her girlfriend's red eyes. "Shall we say tomorrow then?"
"Did you have anything in mind?" Akko asked laying her head on the desk still with a silly grin on her face.
"Of course!" Diana declared. "Why wouldn't I?"
Akko sat back up and grabbed the heiress's hand. "Alright! I'm gonna get my detention over with then, so that I won't have to worry about anything tomorrow!" Akko kissed the back of Diana's hand and ran out of the library.
Diana did not have a plan. Diana didn't even have a clue what to do tomorrow on their date. She wanted more than dinner and a movie, since that was something that Akko and her could do in school. Diana sighed in frustration and threw another away another piece of paper filled with unsuitable plans. It was a good thing the library was empty, otherwise no one within her area would be able to concrete with how many times she's groaned and sighed over fruitless plans.
"We would like to join you in acknowledging the difficulties of your life." Sucy said walking towards the heiress.
"Sucy!" Lotte scolded.
"You are the WORST at this comfort thing." Diana teased seeing her friends walk towards her.
"I only aim to be number one." Sucy smirked. "Anyways, so how's the date night plans coming along?"
Diana smiled, of course her girlfriend would be elated enough to tell her best friends. "It's a process."
"So, you have no idea, huh?" Lotte empathized.
Diana sighed again and laid her head in the palm of her hands. "Absolutely no idea."
"You know Akko wouldn't care, she's just happy she gets to have you all to herself not in a school setting."
"I know… But that doesn't mean I can't make it more memorable. Is there anything she's been talking about lately?"
"Magic… You… Everything under the sun." Sucy deadpanned.
Diana tapped her fingers on the tables and rolled over the thought in her head, how do you make someone happy when almost everything makes them happy.
"I hate to agree with Sucy, but she's right Diana." Lotte chuckled. "But lately she's been non-stop talking about that baseball game…"
"Baseball game?" Diana perked up.
"Oh yeah." Sucy took a moment to think about it. "I guess some American baseball team is coming over to here to play against an English team for a preseason game or something tomorrow night."
"Baseball, huh?" Diana wrote the idea on a piece of paper and smiled. Finally, something she could work with. "Thank you, ladies, for the idea. I'll be sure to get things started for tomorrow immediately."
"Anytime, try to have her home by 10." Lotte joked as the two walked away.
Diana woke the next morning more excited than ever. She quickly threw off her covers and got ready for her day not even caring about the mess in her bed. She was up rather early for the day, but Diana wanted to spend time trying to look her best, especially since she almost never went out or wore such casual clothing. Diana opened her drawers and her closet and stared at the array of clothing.
"Wow Diana, you're really gonna go all out for this." Hannah commented looking around the book case.
"Well it is our first date." Diana replied looking through her closet.
"True enough…" Barbara looked at the various clothes spread out on the heiress's bed. "I think you should wear the dress."
Diana titled her head looking at a short off the shoulder blue summer dress. "You think Akko would like that?"
"You could be wearing cardboard boxes and Akko would still think you're the most beautiful thing in the world Diana." Hannah quipped.
Barbara elbowed her cohort in the ribs. "Yes Diana. It's casual, cute, and it has pockets!"
Diana smiled and nodded her head, it was nice having their friends in on the loop of their relationship. Any sort of rumors about her and Akko were always squashed completely, and efficiently, as well as having their help was just the kind of support Akko and Diana wanted. Diana threw on the dress and looked at herself in the mirror, her friends were right. After a few more hours of fiddling with her hair and making sure everything was in order, Diana tossed on a pair of white flats, and made her way to Akko's room.
She knocked three times on the wooden door before it swung open revealing her favorite person in the world. Diana was pleasantly greeted with bright crimson eyes, and a dazzling smile plastered on the face of Akko Kagari.
"Wow, you looked gorgeous…" Akko said in awe.
"Speak for yourself…" Diana blushed. Akko wore a pair of skinny jeans that clung to the brunette in all the right places, and red and black flannel with its sleeve rolled up half way of Akko's arms and the top button undone showing a white under shirt.
Akko giggled and laced her fingers with Diana's. "I'm ready when you are Beautiful."
Diana shook out of her stupor and focused on the task at hand. "Of course!" Diana smiled and for the first time she was the one pulling Akko to follow her.
Blytonbury was unsurprisingly lively, people seemed to be getting fired up for the baseball game relatively early, Diana had hoped that the town would be quiet as to have a more intimate experience with Akko, but the brunette didn't seem to mind. Akko eyes glowed with the sports decorations lining the stores, and streets.
"Wow! I'm surprised baseball is such a big thing here! I can understand soccer or something like cricket, but baseball is more of an American thing!"
Diana felt her confidence soar, she couldn't wait to tell Akko that she managed to get tickets for the ball game later. Diana smiled and pulled on Akko's hand. "We should get some lunch, I know the perfect spot."
Akko smiled and let Diana lead the way to a small sandwich joint. Much to Diana's enjoyment the little restaurant wasn't too busy, and they were seated rather quickly. Akko looked around the restaurant, it was small and quaint, and had a very mom and pop type of feel. Akko was a little apprehensive that maybe the heiress would over think their first date and they would have a formal type of day. It's not that Akko didn't like the idea, it was would just seem really unnecessary for a first date.
Diana leaned her head in the palm of her hand and watched her girlfriend's happiness explode. She couldn't count how many times she's seen such genuine happiness and excitement from the brunette, and to be honest, she never needed to, as long as Akko would always have that look it never mattered. After ordering their food, Diana reached across the table and grabbed the brunette's hands.
"Are you enjoying yourself Darling?" Diana asked stroking the back of Akko's hands with her thumbs.
"Let me see…" Akko looked down lovingly Diana's hands. "I have my gorgeous girlfriend spoiling me to a day out on the town. Probably the best day of my life."
Diana smiled, the brunette had no idea what she was doing to her heart. "I'm glad. But this isn't the best part yet."
Akko tilted her head quizzically. "Oh? What else did you have in mind?"
Diana released Akko's hand and reached into her dress pocket. "How about tickets to the baseball game?"
Akko's eyes grew wide with excitement. "You're kidding!?"
Diana shook her head and pulled out two tickets for seats right behind the dugout of the English team.
"Diana! These are great seats! This must've been expensive; how did you get them?!"
Diana shrugged her shoulders. "Turns out one of my cousins had relations with a player on the English team, and seeing how they owed us one…"
"Your connections never fail to amazing me." Akko kissed the back of Diana's hand smiled. When their food arrive Akko happily munched on her cheesesteak sandwich, as Diana enjoyed her own club sandwich.
After their lunch, the two continued to walk around the small town trying to kill time before the game. It was at this part Diana had struggled on when planning their date, but with the hustle and bustle before the game, there was a multitude of things for the two to do.
Akko stopped in front of a street performer playing a guitar.
"Diana look! It's the old man from the music store in Glastonbury!" Akko said pointing to the old guitarist. The brunette pulled the heiress towards the circle of onlookers and watched as the man plucked and strum his guitar strings.
"Fancy meeting ya'll here." The old man said looking up. "Day off?"
Akko nodded her head. "Haven't seen you in a while, I was actually planning on visiting you sometimes soon to play!"
"Well I did bring an extra guitar." The man ushered towards a spare guitar next to the man. "Care to play a quick tune now?"
Akko looked towards Diana for approval, after all the heiress was the one with the plans for the day. Diana smiled. "You know you don't need my approval." She teased. "I love hearing you play anyways."
Akko ran over to the other guitar and held it against her, even though Diana was trying to spoil her, that didn't mean Akko couldn't give back to the heiress a little.
"Whatcha' planning on playing kiddo?" The old man asked.
"Something classic. Do you know this one?" Akko plucked a quick tune on the guitar. The old man chuckled knowingly.
"Yep, I guess I could play that."
Akko turned around and faced Diana with toothy grin and began to play. "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day/ When it's cold outside I've got the month of May/ Well I guess you'd say/ What can make me feel this way? / My girl / Talkin' 'bout my girl"
It was another song Diana wasn't familiar with, but she was more than happy listening to Akko play and sing and not just to her, but about her. Akko set down the guitar and grabbed Diana's hand and began dancing around.
"Akko, w-wait…" Diana protested to no avail. Diana couldn't help but give in to her girlfriend's charm. A small crowd formed around the scene, as the old man continued to play. But it didn't matter, as far as either teenager was concerned, they were the only two in the whole town.
"Oh! I got sunshine on a cloudy day with my girl!" Akko belted out as she dipped Diana and pulled her back up to her embrace as the song ended. "Ohhh I'm talking 'bout my girl."
Diana giggled and kissed Akko's nose, the crowd clapped and threw money into the old man's guitar, much to his delight as well. "What brought that on?" Diana asked still smiling.
"Do I need a reason?" Akko smirked and pulled away from the heiress. She turned to the old man and bowed. "Thank you, sir, I'll be sure to drop by the shop and play with you again."
"No problem kiddo, now go on with your lady."
Akko grabbed Diana's hand and began walking towards the stadium.
"You seem awfully excited about this Akko, I didn't know you were such an avid baseball fan." Diana teased.
"I'm not, to be honest." Akko scratched the back of her head, Diana tilted her head, confused over the statement. "Don't get me wrong, I like baseball, and I do have my favorite teams, and players… But it's more of who I'm going to the game with, other than the game itself. Seeing everyone get all hyped up for this game, and being able to watch it with you are the best things I can hope for when watching any sports game. It's like the excitement just pours into your own body. Ya' know?"
Diana smiled. "Yes, I do know actually." The brunette was good at that.
After getting into the stadium and finding their seats, Akko looked around the field, it was much bigger than the stadiums that she had gone to before in Japan.
"Look, look Diana." Akko pointed at the players warming up on the field. "Think we'll get a ball hit to us today?"
"Is that supposed to be good luck?" Diana wondered.
"I guess you could say that. But it's more of having a game ball with you." Akko grinned not taking her eyes off the players. It was at the moment, Diana realized she knew absolutely nothing about baseball. "Man, this place is crowded, I can't wait!"
This might be a long game… Diana thought.
And it was.
Baseball was looooong, it's been only two hours, and they were only in the 5th inning. Diana didn't plan on this, if she had, she would have brought a jacket to help her from the cold night. She failed to pay attention to the game, she spent too much time trying to figure out the rules. Although she could guess what some things were, like a line drive, or homerun, or strikes. She didn't understand what an RBI was, or what constituted as a balk. As far as she was concerned baseball involved running, hitting, catching, and throwing. She now understood why Akko was so good at thinking on her feet, and having such creative schemes, because that was the essence of most sports.
"You ok Diana?" Akko asked as she munched on her fourth bag of popcorn.
"I'm just having a hard time following. Why did they switch that runner with another player?" Diana asked as a player walked off first base and back into the dugout.
Akko swallowed back some food and grinned. "The player walking on now is just a courtesy runner, that's his main job on the team. There's a lot of reason why a coach would do it, but from what I've seen, the guy who just walked off, isn't a very good runner, but the guy they replaced him with is."
"I see…"
Akko kissed Diana's cheek. "Don't think too much on it Beautiful, it's just so that they can score a run." The crowd started roaring in cheers. "Look Diana!"
Diana looked in the direction Akko was pointing in and saw the big screen that read 'Kiss Cam' In pink cursive letters. "What?"
"Just watch" Akko grinned and leaned back in her chair.
The two watched as the camera switched to random people kissing on camera. Some were young couples who looked like they were on a date much like Akko and Diana, some were older couples, who looked like they had been together for years. Diana smiled seeing those couples, she could only imagine what kind of hardships their love persevered through. All of a sudden Akko appeared on the screen with a man next to her. Diana snapped her head over to her girlfriend and watched as she frantically waved her arms.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! You got it all wrong." The brunette grinned nervously and scratch the back of her head.
The crowd groaned a little, and the camera switched over to a new couple. The man next to Akko shrugged his shoulders and laughed. Diana gripped the hem of her dress and looked away. Of course, the camera man would think that Akko would be here with a man other than her.
Akko peeked over to Diana and could see the heiress's distress, causing her to frown. She didn't want their first date to be blemished from a misunderstanding. While Diana was looking away, Akko threw a piece of popcorn at the camera man to get his attention. When he looked in her direction, she pointed to herself and back to the big screen. The man grinned and pointed his camera to Akko and the man next to her, and the two appeared on the screen again.
Diana saw the image of her girlfriend and the man again on the screen and bit down on her bottom lip. She just wanted this to end already.
"Diaaanaaaaa…." Akko sang.
Diana looked up at the brunette, but before she could say anything, she was silenced by Akko's sweet lips. Diana's eyes widened by the sudden surprise, but quickly relaxed as Akko's feeling poured into her. The camera man moved his camera a little to catch Diana in the new image on the screen as Diana wrapped her arms around Akko, and as Akko placed a hand on Diana's knee and the other around the heiress's head.
The crowd roared and cheered for the young couple. Finally, the new inning was about to begin, and the 'Kiss Cam' fiasco ended. Diana pulled away her lips and leaned her forehead against Akko's.
"Looks like all of Blytonbury knows about us now." Akko smirked.
"So, it would seem." Diana giggled. "Well done you." She would have to thank Sucy and Lott later for telling her about the baseball game.
After the game Diana and Akko walked around Blytonbury, the town still bustling with excitement now more than before. Akko took off her flannel and draped it around Diana's shoulders.
"That was the best first date any girl could ask for." Akko said nuzzling her face into Diana's hair.
Diana blushed and sank into the warmth of Akko's flannel. "Akko, if it's the same for you, I don't really want this date to end yet…"
Akko smirked and pulled the heiress closer. "We could go back to your room, have a little movie night. I've been dying to spoil you."
Diana leaned into Akko's hold. "I think I like the sound of that…" She whispered into Akko's ear.
Damn, wish I could go on a date like this...