Mmm… recess.

Sorry this is such a short note… have to leave for school. (Not that I want to leave to go to school, but you get my idea .)

Anyway, hope you enjoy!!! (Go my touch-typing! Yehaw!)

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"Quit it. Give that back, arsehole!"

"Share, Ayane. Stop being so incredibly greedy,"

They were sitting down, having lunch. Which was more difficult then one might think. He was nibbling half-heartedly at a salad roll, while Ayane and Hayate were arguing stereotypical of brother and sister.

"My chocolate cake. Get your dirty hands off!" Ayane snatched the cake in question away from her half-brother's reaching hands. "Go find your own,"

"Why did you get chocolate cake when we didn't?" Hayate asked indignantly.

"One of life's unsolved mysteries…" Ayane trailed off. "Who gives a shit. I have it, and that's all that matters. No, you can't have any. Yes, I'm a stingy bitch. Any other questions?"

"…Are you still a stingy bitch?"

The chairs around here are quite uncomfortable. He sat on the grass, underneath the tree. Still ants here, he mused mentally, glancing across at his friend and his sister. They're so… stereotypically siblings. Hayate and Kasumi, it's hard to tell, they seem more like close friends. But Hayate and Ayane… that's more how siblings usually are. I think…

"Umm… Hayabusa?" a soft voice broke his thoughts as he looked up to see a shy-looking Kasumi, followed by Tina, and Hitomi. "Mind if we sit with you?"

"No, it's no problem," he responded automatically.

"Plenty of room under the tree," Hayate said happily, moving over to let the girls sit down. Now Ayane was sandwiched between Hayate and the tree, with Tina sitting next to Hayate and Hitomi next to Tina. Kasumi, however, opted to sit down beside him.

"So, how's the formal planning going?" Hitomi asked Ayane, who laughed.

"There is no way anybody is getting me to a formal. Over my dead body,"

Kasumi sounded shocked.

"You're not going? But it'll be fun!"

The look that Ayane shot Kasumi was enough to send most people running, but Kasumi didn't constitute as most people. Brave girl. "You should, Ayane. We were thinking of having a sleepover or something afterwards," Tina added.

He could almost see the cogs ticking in the young girls' head. "I don't have a dress or anything yet. And it's on Friday, yeah?"

"Don't worry, that can easily be remedied," Hitomi smiled. "And we can find you a date and everything too. It'll be great! Hey, Kasumi, do you have a date yet?"

He felt the orange-haired girl tense beside him. "Yes," she said softly, almost inaudibly.

"Why didn't you say? Who is it?" Tina asked immediately.

"Umm…" Kasumi sounded hesitant.

What's going on? Perhaps she doesn't want Ayane to know? Girls… I'll never understand them. Not that I mind, but… it's unusual.

"Hayabusa," she said finally. Hearing a soft sound of exclamation, he turned quickly to look at Ayane, who looked surprised.

"Why so hesitant? That's great!" Tina exclaimed. "I bet most of year eleven and twelve are going to be jealous of you, Miss Kasumi!"

"I doubt it," he inputted swiftly before they could say anything else.

Hitomi shook her head. "I don't. Haven't you heard? There have been fights about who should get to date you and Hayate. It's been crazy. Friendship groups have broken up simply because they got into arguments over you two,"

"You're kidding," Hayate exclaimed over the top of his sandwich.

Kasumi shook her head, a small smile on her lips. "Fancy that. My brother and his best friend, having fan-clubs after them,"

"What?!" they exclaimed in unison.

"You want membership?" Tina asked sweetly.

He couldn't help look across at Ayane, noticing that she had been rather quiet. She was watching the ants go up and down the tree with some sort of intensity that he had never seen on her before.

"Are you alright?" he asked her softly. She started, staring at him blankly for a moment before she nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about me,"

Over a minute passed, in which he stared at her, until she gave in.

"Fine. Meet me here at afternoon recess,"