Thankies to all who reviewed! And I'm glad you're all enjoying my fanfic so far! I'm glad 'cause I sure have fun writing it! Well here's chapter 13, I hope you all like it!

Sorry it took so long for me to update! ''

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Chapter 13: A little bit of Regret.

"Love?" questioned Pai confused. "What the fuck is that?"

Kish laughed. "Don't tell me you don't know what love is!" Pai narrowed his eyes at Kish, who although couldn't see it in the dark, he could definitely feel the weight of his 'almighty glares of anger'.

"Love is when you have feelings for someone else. It's when you feel like you always want to be with that person, and be their special someone. That someone you may hope to spend the rest of your life with."

"Why would you want to spend the rest of your life with someone?" snorted Pai, clearly not paying attention to what Kish said.

"Maybe because you like them so much…But that's only in the extreme cases that humans go through called 'Marriage' but I won't go into details of that knowing you…"

"This is for research!" shouted Pai, who slowly started to heat up in the face.

"Yyyeaahh… Well, love is an emotion. The feeling that you like someone so much as to the fact that you want to spend all your time with them." Kish ended his explanation with a smile, and Pai was silent for a moment.

"Thankyou. That is all. You are dismissed." Pai turned round to his closed window and opened it as Kish left the room. 'I wonder who he has a crush on,' thought Kish as he wandered the corridors to his room.

Pai jumped out the window, deciding to take a long run to bring air to his heated brain. "How can I have such a pitiful feeling for a human? It's absurd!" He stopped right at a large chestnut tree, that had a view to the café. He looked down to the tree he sat within last time. 'She was the only one who cared that I had left…Nobody had ever cared for me before…Do I want this?'....

Another day had come, and another work day was present. Things went as usual within the mew mew café. The only people that worked were Lettuce, Ichigo and Kish, with poor Tart trying hard, but getting disrupted by Pudding.

Pai, who normally spent his time calculating many things, now had himself focused on the green haired one. This 'love' was it something that he wanted? He had never had feelings go out towards him so… Pai tapped his nose and gave a dangerous look to nothing in particular. 'It'll be a good experiment to find out about this 'love' and what it can do to people. Find out what it really is, though for this to work, she'll have to have the same thinking…" Pai looked back down to the green haired one, who wasn't watching where she was going.

Before she knew it, Lettuce was upon the floor, and there were dishes that were about to fly into her. Lettuce hadn't gotten over the shock from the fall, and with the speed of everything happening, she didn't know what was happening, or what will result. She just closed her eyes.

….

Nothing… No contact of hard glass to her face or any part of her body… She slowly opened her eyes to gaze into dark softened eyes, and gasped.

"Pai!" His eyes seemed to have softened for a minute; before it hardened. He growled, and dropped Lettuce.

Lettuce yelped as she watched him storm out of the café. A small heat crept upon her face, and it deepened as she thought of the small blush that was spread across Pai's face as he dropped her. 'What could I have done to make him go like that? Is it my fault he's leaving?' Lettuce looked at the broken glass by her side sadly, then rose.

"Minto, could you please cover for me while I'm gone?" Lettuce rushed out the café, not hearing Mint's complains as she left. "HEY! I'M WORKING TOO YOU KNOW!! DON'T DUMP YOUR LOAD ON ME!"

Lettuce ran down the street, searching up and down each alley as she went about her search for Pai. She came to the park, and stumbled by a bench. Lettuce sat there, trying to catch her breath. "Pai," she whispered.

From his branch above, Pai looked down to the gasping Lettuce and shook his head. Couldn't she let go of things? Why did she come to find him? Pai thought back to what Kish had said to him last night, and evaluated his symptoms. He had already diagnosed himself to have caught the disease called 'love' just as she rushed into the picture, and having that happen brought about his dubiousness to his previous questioning.

"I'll be damned the day I fall in 'love' for a human… Though… The support of someone else is longing… But what are the chances of a human having such feelings for myself? Kish is a fool, he had always been a fool that was constantly hurt by his unrequited feelings. Why should I place myself in the same trap? This feeling seems to great to override, though how can I not be sure that such rash decisions that I may make may not destroy me in the end?" Pai looked down to Lettuce, who was now sitting on the bench. She was looking up and seemed to be murmuring something. "Why are you running?"

Pai jumped down angrily. "Why do you follow me?" Lettuce jumped at the sound of his voice, and stammered slightly. "Well, e-every one else s-s-seems to be together, exce-except you. Why won't you join us all? You seem to be lonely."

Pai narrowed his eyes at her in question. "Why do you care for my well being? I have been alone all my life, I shall live alone all my life, and die alone."

"No! There is someone out there. The people- your family are all in there, they all want you to come back, because they care! You are not alone! Because I'm here and I care!"

Pai looked at her astounded by what she had said. She was the first- and only life force ever to express her need for him, and it brought a sense of responsibility to him. Something in Pai set off, and he couldn't seem to think clearly. It was the first time ever. Lettuce looked up at him, and he smiled.

Not one of those evil, plan making smiles, but a genuine friendly one. "Would you please help us at the café? We could all use your help."

Pai, still having no possession of his senses (as he would've liked to think as an excuse) nodded in agreement. 'How can I say no?' Twice had this girl moved him from the solitude of the tree trunk, and twice did he comply with her. But this time seemed different. He agreed to working with her, and his heart seemed to be pushing him.

Before he knew it, he had his arm around her waist, and they were heading towards the café.

When they returned, they were greeted by the 'ooh'ing of Kish, Pudding, and Ichigo, and a laugh from Tart. "Tart! Its cute! Not funny!" Tart turned to Pudding, who was twirling plates upon a baton. He sighed and turned away, to the next customer. "Tar-Tar!" He jumped at her sudden appearance, she was juggling cups, and Tart sighed. "You'll break those, stupid."

Tart was wound up to his last. It was great that the load was lessened since Pai decided to help out, but things were always complicated with Pudding jumping in and disturbing.

"TAR-TAR!" Tart threw up his tray of dishes, and it dropped directly on his head. "Tar-tar?" whispered Pudding, patting at his head, he smacked her hand away. "DON'T DO THAT! DON'T CALL ME TAR-TAR! DON'T TWIRL PLATES! DON'T JUGGLE CUPS! DON'T BE SO STUPID! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! I WISH YOU'D JUST GO AWAY! GO BE SICK OR SOMETHING AND NOT COME TO WORK!"

Pudding shrank back, looking down at the broken dishes. "Sorry, Tar-Ta-"

"Argh!" Tart stormed off, leaving Pudding by herself. He refused to talk to her, and refused to go near her.

As the day had ended, everybody started leaving. Pudding looked over to Tart whom went off with Kish, Ichigo and Pai, and she looked into the rain. Pudding immediately ran out without an umbrella, tears streaming down her face, and disappeared into the night…

It had already been three days, and Tart couldn't have been happier. "Another pudding free day! Yep1 The life for me!" Pudding hadn't shown up to work AGAIN and he was left to a peaceful work day. Though, he couldn't help but feel slightly empty inside.

"Mer, maybe I haven't eaten enough," he took a muffin off a tray and took a bite.

"You have to pay for that you know."

Tart coughed a bit, and took a drink from a nearby glass filled with water before banging his chest. coughcoughburp ":Whaddya think you're doin?" He turned around to see Keiichiro standing there.

"What?"
"You have to pay for those," he pointed to the bitten muffin.

"What? That's stupid!"

"And you know what's ironic?" said Keiihciro. "Pudding has been sick for the last three days. Could you go make sure she's okay?"

"Why me?" answered Tart with dread in his voice.

"Because you, that's why." Keiichiro handed him a bag of supplies and walked off.

"HEY! That makes no sense!" Tart glared at the bag, as if it were its fault, then looked out to the rainy window. He sighed as he thought back to that day… Pudding getting sick was his fault. He took her umbrella that day since he didn't have his own, and just to spite her. Tart looked back at the same umbrella he brought today and looked out with a little bit of regret…

Yesh! I finally updated! And there's another chapter… I hope you all enjoyed it.. Please R&R!