Lovelyanime: Hey everyone! I finally chose a name for the bookstore. You'll see it in the chapter. I decided to call the chapter 'Who's He?' because there's someone who came in the store after Zoe and been there for hours. He just won't leave! Sora and Kari have no idea who he is and knows he can't be with Zoe. Right? Okay, enough listening to my babbling, time to start!

Chapter 7- Who's He: Part 1

Zoe looked around the store. She looked over at Sora. She was staring at her and had tears her eyes. "Sora, are you okay?" She asked as she aproached the counter.

Sora snapped out of her daze and wiped her eyes. "I-it's nothing really. Just thinking of the movie we saw last night. It was so sad, you should've been there." Sora smiled.

"I didn't want to go." She told her as she walked behind the counter, next to Sora. 'And I'm kind of glad I didn't or else I wouldn't have seen Takuya…Wait a minute…' She looked at the entrance and around. 'Where the hell is he?'

"You okay, Izumi?" Zoe looked back at Sora while nodded slowly.

"Go in the back and get Kari, I'll help the customers out here." Sora walked to the back door.

After a minute Takuya walked in the bookstore. He was amazed at the place. It wasn't really big and it seemed kind of nice. It had a few chairs and couches with people reading, isles of books and was quiet execpt for a couple of whispers.(He should of been there earlier.) He then spotted Zoe at the cash register and was glaring at him.

"Where were you? You were right behind me and then you disappeared." She continued to glare at him when he finally made it to the counter.

"I was down the street at the donut shop." He grinned. "The donuts really were delicious."

"So, the breakfast I made wasn't good enough?"

"No, uhh…it was actually better than the donuts. I was just still hungry."

"I see…" She sighed. "I'll believe you this time…But next time I'll "

Takuya leaned against the counter. "I have a question…What's up with the name of the store?"

"What? What's wrong with the name?"

"Frontier Of Books? Didn't you name the creek something like that when we first found it?"

"Yeah, I called it Frontier Creek. Frontier means new land, right? New land of books and finding the creek was like new land to me."

"I know, you told me what Frontier means. Sometimes you can be a human dictionary, you know that?"

"Wow, you're so funny. I'm laughing my head off." Zoe looked and saw Sora and Kari coming back. "Just read something until we leave, okay?"

"Sure, why not? Where's the mangas?" Zoe pointed over to a isle. "Thanks."

Sora stared at Takuya talking to Zoe. She had another feeling in her stomach, but not like when she first saw Zoe's ex-boyfriend. 'something's up, but what?' she shrugged it off.

Takuya walked off to read and Zoe, Kari and Sora began to solve the situation. It was a half-hour before the delivery guy came back. It wasn't to long before they came to an agreement. She would take half the books and he will take the rest back.

"Now that wasn't so hard was it?" Zoe sighed, "maybe I should stay a little longer, just in case."

"I think I agree, at least until lunch." Kari walked to the back room leaving Zoe and Sora.

"So what did you do yesterday?" Soar asked while helping a customer.

"Nothing much, read a book, watched TV, went to the park, went home, ate dinner and went to bed." Zoe said simply.

"Wow, sure sounds like you had fun yesterday."

"Well, I guess I did." She did actually had fun when Takuya was tickling her, at least until she remembered him.

"It's called sarcasm, you should know, you do it everyday."

"Is everyone a comedian today?" She mummbled.

"What? I didn't hear you."

"Nothing, nothing at all." She smiled a little.

Sora gasped. She placed her hand on Zoe's forehead for a temperture. "You feeling okay?"

"Yeah, Why wouldn't I?"

"Well…" She withdrew her hand. "I just haven't seen you smiled in a long time."

"Really? I didn't think you'd notice and I feel kind of good right now."

"Okay…I'll get some books to put on the shelves from the back." Sora went to the back and left Zoe alone.

Zoe sighed and relized something. She looked over at Takuya who was sitting on a coach, reading a manga. 'I totally forgot all about him." She thought, 'I thought he would be bothering me from boredom by now. Even if it only been a half an hour.' She remembered one time he was waiting for her at the creek for 2 minutes for her to get some ice-cream. When she got there, he was whining like a baby that he was so bored on waiting for her.

She walked up to him and stood in front of him until he noticed. But he was to busy in the book, he didn't see her. She sat next to him, but still nothing. She then started to get an idea…

Takuya looked at the pictures and read the bubbles. He was reading an horror and was about to get to a part when someone was about to be choked from behind when…Someone wrapped their arms around his neck. He jumped up in the air and threw the book at the coach. He clenched his chest and heard a light giggle. He looked at Zoe, who tried to keep her giggling in a low tone.

"What was that for?" He sat back down next to her.

She finally stopped giggling and responded, "I just had to." She giggled one more time. "I needed your attention." She had thought if she put her arms around him, he would blush madly. Not him almost having an heart attack.

"You know it really wasn't that funny."

"Oh yeah? Why don't you ask them." She pointed at everyone who saw what she did. They were laughing.

Takuya's face was red "Is it time to go yet?"

"Actually, I'm staying here for the rest of the day. You can go and come back when the store closes."

"No, I think I stay and wait."

"Fine, if that's what you want." She sighed.

'Actually, the thing I want is you.' He blushed at the thought. (I just had to put that there. lol)

"I have to go help some customers." She got up and went to the counter.

Takuya went back to the manga, but looked up to see people looking over to him. He was embarressed and had red on his cheeks. A couple hours passed by and it was about lunch time. He looked over where Zoe was and walked up to her. She was at the counter helping someone. After she was done, he laid his head on the counter.

"I'm huuuunnngy." He whined.

"Go get some food. There's a deli down the street" She sighed. "You do have money, right?"

"Yeah, I'll get you something too. What do want on your sandwich?" She grabbed a pencil and paper and wrote everything down. "Be right back."

Zoe watched him leave as Sora was standing across the room wondering what just happened. She couldn't hear what they were saying, but was suspicious. Something was up with that guy and didn't really trust him. She continued putting books on the shelf and wandered what Zoe wrote on that paper. It didn't matter now, she'll just ask Zoe later.

End of chapter 7

Zoe: Question. What took you long this time to update?

Lovelyanime: I did finish this chapter awhile back but…I got lazy and didn't update.

Zoe: You know the readers will hate you, right?

Lovelyanime: They'll hate me even more when…I'm not going to spoil anything. They're just going have to read until it happens.

Zoe: You're evil. Please review everyone!