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Chapter 10 Friends

It's been weeks since that little incident and today was a Saturday and I didn't work. Neither did Syoaron worked today. Here I was on a Saturday morning with nothing to do but watch T.V. I didn't know where Syoaron was, but usually he was either out running or in his room.

"Hey." Syoaron came through the door. Another thing happened since Syoaron's first cooking also, he was a lot nicer to me now. I couldn't believe it! He was actually nice and I guess you could say he had a kind heart, but we barely had any conversations. That was okay with me though, as long as the conversations we had didn't bored me. Everyday I was actually looking forward to talking to him. One thing still lingers on in my mind though, why did he want to learn how to cook? Every since that day when I asked him and he told me I talked too much I hadn't brought it up again.

"Hi. Did you go out jogging?"

"Uh-huh." Syoaron went upstairs. I continued watching T.V. and flipped through the channel. I stopped at an anime show, Tokyo Underground. I forgot which character names were which, but the guy who wore glasses looked really hot without his glasses on. I wished I was animated. (Duh! You are! Hehehe!) The guys were so hot.

I don't know how long I was watching T.V. when Syoaron's voice interrupted me.

"Do you want to go out and eat breakfast?"

"Huh?" I turned to look at him. Did he just ask if I wanted to go out and eat breakfast?

"What?" I wasn't sure so I asked a second time to make sure I wasn't imagining things.

"Do you want to go out and eat breakfast at um…Tropical Café?" (Made up name…)

"S…Sure." I got up and grabbed my shoes. Then I remembered something. "Syoaron, are you going to pay or am I going to pay?" I'm so stupid.

"What? HAHAHA!" He laughed while walking out the door. "I have to pay because I did offer right!" He got into his car and waited for me. I looked dumbfounded and quickly ran to his car and got in the passenger seat.

"Put on your seat belt." I was going to put on my seat belt, but it was just that I was too slow. He didn't need to remind me.

Soon we pulled up to the parking lot of Tropical Café and entered.

We sat a table and looked through our menus.

"Are you both ready to make your orders?" A pretty waitress came to our table and as soon as I looked at her, her eyes were on Syoaron while asking me the same question too.

"I'll take what you guys have for special today." Syoaron smiled up at the waitress and winked.

Oh my god did I just saw Syoaron winked at the pretty waitress? Syoaron flirted? I couldn't believe my eyes. I've never seen that side of him before. My eyes were about to fall off of my sockets!

"And you?" She was directing the same question to me, but her eyes were still set on Syoaron's face.

'Hello! I'm over here!' Instead of saying that I answered, "I'll have what he's having." I smiled at no one in particular and made a fool out of myself. Syoaron actually saw me smiled and grinned. But was he grinning at me or at the pretty waitress? She finally left to get our order and I sat still deep in my own thoughts.

"So many questions and no answer!" I mumbled to myself.

"Did you say something?" Syoaron interrupted my thoughts.

"I didn't say anything." I lied.

"Sure. I saw that look." Syoaron smiled. He's been smiling at me a lot now too.

"What? What look?" I asked touching my face confused.

"The look that you gave to the waitress while she was talking to me." He smiled again.

"What?"

"You know the dirty look." I just wanted to whip that smile off his face! What was he applying?

"I did not give any dirty looks!"

"Yes you did. But the funny one was when you smiled at no one." He giggled. (You know the guy kind.)

I began to feel my face burn up and looked out the window. The outside was very interesting now. "You didn't see anything." I answered still looking out the window now looking around the café so he wouldn't see my face.

"Let's eat!" Our breakfast came pretty fast. Usually when I ate in a café or restaurant it always took forever! My food always came at the time where I was about to get up and leave.

"Yeah, dig in." The special was three pancakes, three sausage, scrambled eggs that actually looks good, bacon, and hash brown. "Mmmmm…" I gave out as I took in the good food. Their pancakes were even better than the ones I cooked at home for me and Syoaron. No wonder he picked this place.

"The pancakes are good huh?" I complimented

"Yeah. You cook okay pancakes."

"What? Then why did you want to learn how to make pancakes from me?"

"Because you are the only friend that I have that's a girl." Friend? We were friends then too? I mean I could say we were friends now, but before I taught him how to cook he considered me as a friend?

"You consider me as a friend then too? If I recall you ignored me." I let the words slip right out of my mouth. "Damn." I swore under my breath.

Syoaron put his fork and knife on the plate and looked at me. "Will now I consider you as a friend. Let's just leave it at that." He smiled one more time before starting on his breakfast again. "So friends?"

I smiled too. "Friends."