Lita sighed as she closed her eyes and breathed in the steam that was emanating from her hot mug of coffee. Taking a sip she picked up the morning paper that was lying before her on the table. The first article she saw was an article relating to a scandal with a local politician. She put the paper back down, not wishing to read it, and walked into the living room and seated herself on the couch. Her dog jumped up to accompany her and she gently stroked its fur as she finished the rest of her coffee. The phone rang and she reached over and picked it up. Amy's voice came over the receiver.
"Lita, it's Amy, me and the girls wanted to know of you would like to go see a movie today."
Lita could see nothing to stop her and she did love to be with her friends so she consented and they set the time for three o'clock. They would all meet at the theater to catch one of the movies playing which are made soley for women. After hanging up the phone Lita stretched and stood up gazing out the window. It was around ten in the morning and she was admiring how clear the sunlight looked as it came pouring into through her third floor apartment window.
About three months had passed since the accident, and Kento and Lita were as friendly as ever, still on speaking terms of course. Both had mutually (without discussing it) forgotten about the kiss in the car and were getting back into the swing of things. Lita was only too glad when Kento's father and sister were released from the hospital two months ago, fully healed with no long lasting injuries.
Lita walked around in circles for a while and decided to go for a morning jog before running a few errands before the movies. She dressed herself in sweats since it was slowly approaching winter and the weather was beginning to become relentlessly cold, and headed out the door. She had run about three blocks and was rounding a corner when she bumped into a fellow runner. She was happy to see it was someone she knew.
"Hey Cye!" She said cheerfully.
Cye looked equally surprised and glad to see her. "Hello, Lita, out for a morning stroll?"
The two struck up a conversation and ran along side each other for a while. The two shared a love for cooking and used that as the basis of talk throughout the run. Lita asked how things were going with Amy and him and he had only the best things to say about her. Lita held out hope that she would find someone who saw her like Cye saw Amy, but she did not bring any of that up for the present. They had been going on for about half an hour when the stopped in front of Cye's place. After Sage got married all of the guys pretty much split up their living arrangements, each had their own places except for Rowen and Ryo who shared an apartment because neither of their jobs paid enough.
"Well, thanks for keeping me company, Cye." Lita remarked.
"My pleasure." He said with a grin.
At that moment Rowen pulled up in the driveway and leaned out of the car window to speak.
"Hey Lita!" He chimed, then turning to Cye he said, "Hey Cye I know it's not necessarily your cup of tea but Ryo bailed out on the Monster Truck rally and I got an extra ticket, you wanna come?"
"Yeah, sure! I'll see you later Lita tell the girls I said hi." Cye was evidently aware of her plans for later that afternoon. He got into the car with Rowen and they waved goodbye to Lita as they pulled away from the house.
Lita thought to herself, "Man, does Amy tell that boy everything." She paused for a moment and said aloud, "Heck why not."
Lita ran the rest of her way home and when she arrived back at her apartment it was about eleven thirty, she decided to give Mina a ring and see what she was up to until they had to meet later.
Mina answered the phone gleefully with a chipper, "Hello?"
"Mina, hi this is Lita."
"Hey Lita what's up?"
"I wanted to know if you wanted to go out for lunch or something before the movie."
"Sounds great you have any place in mind?"
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it I'll pick you up in a few."
"Alright."
"See you soon. Bye"
Lita hung up and went to change. As she was walking into her room the phone rang again she backtracked and picked it up.
"Hello?" she said.
She paused for a response. None came, she heard someone exhale and then hang up. She placed the phone back on the receiver with a puzzled look and shrugged it off supposing it was a tele-marketer with a wrong number. She quickly proceeded to get changed, grab some money and jump in the car the head over to Mina's. She decided to stop by her restaurant along the way to check up on things. She was still getting used to the idea of having employees, all three of them, an extra cook and two servers. It was a small place but it was a start, at least that was her philosophy. She pulled up to the place and looked in through the windows and saw Kento talking to the waitress behind the counter. Lita mind flashed back to the day's before her and Kento had become involved when she was a waitress at his parent's Chinese restaurant. He cheeks became flush and she quickly shook it off and entered the diner. She caught Kento on his way out and brushed him as she passed.
"Hey, Kento!" She said, she was genuinely happy to see him, they were after all good friends.
"Hi Lita." Was all he said and kept walking.
She could not help but feel a bit disappointed that there was no more to say than that, but she just figured he was in a hurry somewhere. After checking in with her workers she left for Mina's house. When she arrived she honked and Mina came out of her house, waved and got into the car.
"You thought of a place yet?" Were the first words out of Mina's mouth as she got into the car.
"Think I have an idea." Lita replied as she drove.
Not at all to Mina's surprise they pulled up to the Rei Faun's restaurant. Mina was fine with it she just shrugged and figured it was still good food, but she still gave Lita a sly look.
"What?!" Lita said to Mina raising her eyebrows.
"Oh let's just go inside." Mina said she pushed Lita through the door.
Mina smiled as she saw Lita light up as she greeted Kento's mother and father with warm hugs. After which they sat down and ordered.
"Lita it's time we had a talk." Mina said plainly.
"About what?" Lita said between bites.
"This! This whole thing with you and Kento!"
"Yeah, so, we're good friends." Lita had stopped eating.
"Lita you really believe that?"
"Yes, why not. We get along well as far as I know.....why?"
"It's just you two always seemed to get along so well. I don't understand why you two ever-"
Lita cut her off and slumped into her seat.
"Not this again." She sulked.
Mina was serious. "Lita, c'mon I just asking because I see the way you look at him."
"What, what way, I look at him like I look at anybody else, as a friend."
"I think just you need to keep telling yourself me that then one day maybe I'll believe it." Mina glanced at her watch and her eyes widened.
"Oh geeze Lita we need to get outta here, Amy wanted to get the movies at least an hour before hand. We'll finish this later." With that hey started up.
Lita was a little relieved to be out from under the questioning, though she was not sure why, after all she was telling the truth. She waved goodbye once more to Mr. and Mrs. Rei Fuan and they exited the building.