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Toy Store
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Lunch Date
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"So what'd you think of Tom?" her sister asked, popping a crouton into her mouth.
"I liked him well enough," Kaoru replied, which was true. She had liked him, but he didn't compare to some of her sister's other boyfriends and they both knew it. Her sister wouldn't have bothered to ask what Kaoru thought of Tom if she'd been crazy about him. She usually assumed Kaoru liked her boyfriends as much as she did. Tom probably wasn't going to last very long.
"How much time have we got before you have to go back to work?"
Kaoru checked her watch. "Twenty minutes."
Her sister nodded. "Good. That's plenty of time to have a real talk. Lunch is so ritualistic. It shouldn't be like that with us. We're sisters for heaven's sake!"
Kaoru laughed. She hadn't been out to lunch with her sister in a long time. "What do you want to have a real talk about?"
"Men," her sister said, leaning forward over her salad, eyes shining. "We can start with Kenshin Himura."
"Him?" Kaoru asked skeptically. "Why do you want to talk about him?"
Her sister made a show of sighing. "He's been to see me."
"Why?" Kaoru struggled to maintain control over her rising anger. If he was trying to play her sister again… "Don't tell me he wants you back," she managed to finish on a light note.
"Nope," her sister shook her head with a grin. "He wants you back."
"Back?" Kaoru snorted, relieved he wasn't after her sister. "He never had me in the first place."
"Oh come on, you were good friends when I was going out with him. At the time I was even a little jealous that you two got along so well." Her sister smiled coyly. "But now that I have Tom, you're free to go fishing through my leftovers, Kaoru."
"Thanks for your permission," Kaoru said wryly. As if that was going to happen.
"Kaoru! You're not still mad at him for pretending he cheated on me with that woman, are you? Hell, if I'd really cared I would have gone out there and kicked her ass for going along with his dumb plan. You know I don't take that. But Kenshin's a sweetie and I believe him. He told me everything, even about him meeting up with you the night you were both at that party. I have to admit, I am kind of pissed you didn't invite me."
Kaoru laughed. "You had a boyfriend. You weren't supposed to go to parties to pick up men."
Her sister's eyes grew wide. "Gasp! You went to that party to pick up men? Oh no you didn't! Not my little sister!"
"It didn't work," Kaoru pouted. "I almost had one when Megumi bumped into me and ruined the whole night."
Her sister kicked her under the table. "Little sister! Don't say such things. Mom would not be pleased. And Daddy would kill you!"
"If he'd kill me for that one time, then you ought to be on your nineteenth life by now."
Her sister rolled her eyes and they both burst out laughing.