I had a couple reviews on this story, and in all of them there were complains on how short it was. Well I have a reason, I wasn't sure people would be interested, so I just wrote the beginning to see how everyone would react and if it was worth continuing or not. So please forgive me, I'm writing more.

Emiri sat on the grass, right by the Seisyu High School gate, she was reading her book. Emiri thought about how that was starting to get on her nerves.

Fifteen minutes later, Emiri couldn't breath, there was a strong smell of cologne in the air, and a pair of hands covered her face.

"Guess who?" said a phony woman's voice.

"Hamaya get off me," Emiri said, trying to hold back a laugh.

"Who Hamaya," the voice continued.

Emiri had to practically wrestled Hamaya for him to finally let go. Finally he let her go, "Is Matrix coming with us today?"

Hamaya scratched his head, "Uhh… Matrix is a little sleepy today; you can play with him later, that's if by the end of today you want to come into my dorm room." Hamaya's face was completely red.

"Pervert," Emiri laughed, "I guess you were a little jealous of Matrix."

Hamaya ignored that last comment.

"Okay, well I've heard there is a new movie playing."

Hamaya completely stopped moving in reaction. What would happen in the movie theater? They would be in the dark… alone… maybe kissing. At least he hoped so…

Emiri didn't seem to be thinking what he was thinking. "Hamaya, what's wrong?" she studied him for a moment, and then a look of understanding appeared in her features, "Oh! Don't worry, it won't be a chick flick," Emiri joked.

Okay. So she didn't get it… or maybe she was faking it… maybe she wanted to surprise him!

He knew he better play along or everything would be spoiled.

"Okay, let's see… Want to see this movie?" Hamaya pointed at an advertisement poster. On the poster there was a man with a huge gun displayed he wore a leather jacket and look rather gruffy and tough and a vampire woman looking as if she were about to bite him. Printed on the bottom was the title, "Fangs and Bullets II."

I'm not really into horror," Emiri said.

"It's not that bad."

"Let's go for a compromise, we can watch my movie first, and then sneak into another room once it's done, so we can see your movie. And we'll only have to pay for one, when we'll watch two shows."

"Okay! Sounds good."

The movie had started half an hour ago, and Hamaya couldn't seem to focus. He had no clue what was going on in the story, he could hardly see the screen. The only thing he noticed was Emiri's presence.

Aren't girls supposed to get nervous? Okay, Shinji (author: I check, yes it's his name), just relax; there is nothing to be nervous about.

He tried to figure out how to get his arm around her shoulders, he didn't want to surprise her too much.

He was about to do it, a casual approach, like it was completely natural. His arm was about to land, but suddenly the whole room was laughing. Emiri was too; her shoulders were shaking as she giggles. Hamaya jumped. What just happened? He realized that some joke was made on the screen.

Once everyone was quiet, Hamaya calm down.

He glanced at Emiri, and noticed for the first time there was something different about her.

She developed curved, her hair had grown a lot since the last time he had seen her, and for the first time Emiri's clothes were a little more tomboy-ish. She wasn't wearing a skirt, instead jeans and a yellow shirt with a picture of a cat. Emiri had grown an inch or so. She looked a lot more like an adult.

The biggest change was in her face. Emiri looked tired, her eyes were sharper and more focused, as if she had gone through some hardship, as if she were more experienced. She looked tense, her jaw was closed tightly, and her lips were much redder.

Hamaya thought back to the beginning of the day. She didn't want to go to the zoo; she didn't seem desperate to play with Matrix. She only laughed for real reasons instead of constantly keeping a smile on her face all day, and instead of fighting so she could see a movie, she thought more logically and compromised.

It made her more appealing in a way, but Hamaya felt slightly intimidated by this.

She was more mature… a little less like the Emiri he knew.

Emiri noticed him staring at her, she leaned forward gave him a gentle kiss and said, "Hamaya, watch the movie, silly. It's really good."

Good, Emiri was still in there, with him.

And she was right this movie was good.

"We have fifteen minutes before your movie, and I'm starving."

Hamaya took her to a small restaurant place, they took their orders. Once they were sitting at a table, Hamaya asked, "Hey! By the way, why did your family move back to Japan? You didn't give me much details on that." While he said this, Hamaya accidentally spit some of his food on Emiri.

"Ew!"

"Oh! Sorry, let me help you." He took a napkin and started wiping the stains with the type of the napkins.

"No thanks! I can take care of it," Emiri spun away from Hamaya, "You're really crazy you know that? Don't touch me there," she said jokingly, but sternly.

"Uhh… I'm not that perverted, I didn't realize anything until you pointed it out."

"Yeah, sure." Emiri finished dabbing the ramen noodle stain on her collar.

"Returning to my question: Why did your family move back to Japan?" Hamaya said, trying to break the awkward silence between them.

Emiri's eyes softened and shined for a moment, "We'll talk about that another time, okay?"

"But why?"

Emiri looked at her watch, "Look at that, we should get going. Your movie started three minutes ago."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" A strongly attractive woman had just been jumped by a vampire. He bit her next while she screamed in horror.

"This is not a fun movie," Emiri whispered, "It's so scary, how can you like this? I think our comedy was much better."

"What's wrong?" Hamaya had an evil look on his face, "You're not afraid a vampire will bite you, are you?"

"Don't be ridiculous."

Hamaya slipped his hand behind her head, so she wouldn't see him, and gently poked the shoulder farthest from him.

"Eeeeeekkkk!" she turned and saw Hamaya laughing, "Hey! Don't do that, I was really scared."

"I don't know what you talking about?"

Someone in front of Emiri and Hamaya shushed them.

Emiri nudged him, and then sat and stared at the screen.

Now the hero of the story was walking down the numerous hallways, following the leader vampire's every step. He turned a corner, and there were three vampires, including the girl who had been bitten earlier, who screeched and displayed their fangs.

Emiri yelped and leaned against Hamaya's chest. He blushed as he realized the situation, again he realized, they were both in a dark room, a movie theater were everyone was supposed to kiss.

Hamaya put his arms around her, and it did feel normal, not awkward like the time before when he was nervous about doing that. No, now that he knew Emiri was fine with it, putting his arm around her was completely normal.

He was about to kiss her, but Emiri looked up, "I'm going to wash my hands."

Hamaya paused, "Okay fine. I'll tell you what happens."

Emiri looked at the screen, the lead vampire was now being shot by several bullets, "No thank you. I really don't want to know." Emeri walked out of the room, into the well lit hallway.

Hamaya thought about how he was about to kiss her, and her reaction to that was to walk away. He wondered if this was done purposely, or if it was a coincidence. Maybe it was his breath, he had ramen noodles. Yeah, that must be it. Or maybe she felt they needed to spend more time together, it was only their third date.

He hoped those were the reasons.