Chapter Five: Ride Home

*Beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep*

"Oh no!" cried out Hitomi.

"What's wrong Hitomi?" asked the very handsome boy beside her.

"I'm sorry Allen, I got to go, my mom is expecting me home any minute and it's a 10 minute jog home," she answered. "It was great finally getting to meet you," she waved goodbye as she jogged away.

"Hold up pretty-girl!" Allen yelled out, then run towards her, "you not getting away from me this easily."

"What?" asked Hitomi confused.

"Well I'm the reason why your late right?" he said with a smile, "at least let me drive you home."

"I don't know…" said Hitomi, "I…"

"Hitomi!"

She stopped hearing someone yell out her name.

"What are you still doing here?" asked her friend Merle who was walking up with Gadeth. "You're supposed to be home! Hurry up, Gadeth will give you a ride home since he's dropping me off."

"Merle, Allen offered to drive me home already," she said blushing.

"Well, if you prefer to got with Merle, then I guess I'll just catch up with you another time," said Allen.

Merle said suddenly, "No! I just remembered… Gadeth and I are going … somewhere so we can't give you a lift."

"We are? I though you said that you didn't want to go out with me?" asked Gadeth scratching his head.

"I said that?" laughing nervously, Merle said, "no, silly, you must have heard me wrong…"

"Okay, so it's settled, come on Hitomi, my car is over there," pointing over to the school parking lot, Allen started to walk away.

"Thank you so much," Hitomi mouthed to Merle knowing that she didn't have any plans with Gadeth.

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"Just turn left here," pointed Hitomi. "Okay here we are," she said as they arrived at her house, "thanks a lot for the ride, I really appreciate it. I'll see you around school."

"Wait!" said Allen as he grabbed onto her wrist, "I didn't do all that work for nothing."

"What do you mean?" she asked confused.

'Man, she is really that clueless?' Allen thought to himself, 'I guess I'll just have to make my move.' "This," he said out loud as he leaned forward towards Hitomi.

Before she could resist, Allen had his lips on hers and was kissing her hard. Slowly, he began to part her lips with his tongue. Hitomi backed up all of a sudden.

"I think that's enough for one day," she said blushing, "thanks again for the ride and I'll see you around."

'Great all that work and this is what I get," Allen thought as he watched her enter her house. 'She's probably just shy, I'll just have to be patient for once,' he comforted himself, 'but the question is, is she worth the time?'

***

At that moment, Hitomi was completely unaware of what Allen was thinking because she was on cloud nine. 'I can't believe he kissed me! Wait till the girls here about this!!! It wasn't what I pictured a first kiss would be but still, he kissed me!!!'

"Hi mom!" she waved happily as she entered the kitchen. "Can I help with anything?"

"Wow, some one is happy today, did you set a new track record again?" asked her mom smiling. The good mood her daughter was in made her completely forget that Hitomi was late.

"It's just been a great day," Hitomi smiled, "so is there anything I can do?"

"No thanks darling, dinner is almost ready," replied Mrs. Kanzaki.

"Okay, well I'll be in my room if you need anything!" Hitomi raced up the stairs.

Entering her room, the first thing she did was drop all her books and dash towards the phone. 'Okay, lets see. Yukari is out with Amano, Merle is probably somewhere with Gadeth. So that leaves Millerna, she probably won't be to happy to hear about this though…" Hitomi thought to herself as she dialed Millerna's private number.

*Ring…ring…*

"Hey, it's Millerna here! You caught me in a bad time so leave a message and I'll call you back when I feel like it! Chiao! Beep!"

"Hey Mel! You would not believe what happened to me today. *Giggles* Well, Merle dragged me along to this interview with the school Basketball team and guess who ended up getting a ride home from the team captain? *More giggles* and that's not the only thing she got, well call me back and I'll give you the full details." 'I wonder how the other are going to react to this," she thought to herself as she hanged up the phone.

"Dinner!" yelled Hitomi's mom from down stairs.

"I'm coming!" cried Hitomi.

*** I'm sorry if my chapters are kinda short, I don't really have the time to write a lot so I'm trying the best I can. I was reading my reviews the other day and some readers wanted me to added Dilandau to the fic. I have him as Serena but if it really means that much to you guys, I'll think of something and maybe make those to into two different people. Please R&R***