I apologize in advanced for this chapter. It's a little long and there's A LOT of time passing. But I have to say, this is my favorite chapter yet. Things start getting REALLY good. R&R and enjoy:

-Next day. 7:05 p.m.-

I was leaning against the wall by Ember's "room" waiting for her to come out. She was just in there getting ready. It occurred to me that I could actually walk in on her because it was simply a curtain, but decided against it. Things wouldn't go to well if I did that.

She came out after a minute and completely took my breath away. She was wearing a small red dress with thin straps. It came about halfway to her knees in length and was a deep crimson color. She also had on a matching lipstick. She looked really beautiful except for one little thing. Slung over her shoulder was that big black bag.

"Y-you look a-amazing." I stuttered. She just smiled. "So…are you going to take the bag with you?"

"I bring it every where." Ember answered. "Why do you have a problem with that?"

"Well…No…it just looks out of place is all." She gave me look before speaking,

"I'll leave it. Just gimme a minute to put the locks on."

"What's in there anyway?" I asked. I instantly had big fiery eyes glaring at me. So far this wasn't going well…

We made our way outside, grabbing our coats along the way. Neither of us said anything. Okay Rai, time to break the ice.

"So what do you wanna do?"

"How about a movie?" Ember suggested.

"Sounds great."

-At the theater-

"So what do you want to see?" I asked entering the giant movie theater. We had hopped on a train and gone over. It was a pretty long ride but that was actually a good thing. Me and Ember got to talking and the date got much better.

"Anything but 'the Passion of the Moon'" Ember replied and then we burst out laughing. The Passion of the Moon was horrible movie that Kimiko dragged us all to. Ember was the only girl in the theater that didn't like it. Actually she hated it just as much as the guys.

"Agreed." I said, still laughing. "But is there anything in particular you do want to see?" I added after calming down.

"Remember that other movie I wanted to see?" She asked.

"The one about the guy that blows things up?"

"Yeah that one. Let's see it. I LOVE action movies!" She exclaimed.

"Cool! I love action movies to!" I sounded surprised, but I wasn't really. I had learned by now that Ember was pretty much a tomboy. I had picked up on the fact that she was a tomboy, but why didn't I figure the rest out?

-Four hours later-

"I can't believe that movie was four hours long!" I almost yelled coming out of the theater.

"Yeah but it rocked!" Ember exclaimed.

"It did!" I agreed and then we laughed.

"So what do we do now?" She asked.

"I guess go back to the temple."

"Are you kidding?" She asked surprised. "The night is young! Let's do something else!" She added and tried to drag me out of the building. It was pretty childish but I didn't care.

"Ember, it's almost eleven thirty! Fung'll kill us!"

"Did the old guy say we couldn't stay out 'till eleven thirty?" Ember asked slyly.

"Well no but…"

"Well then it's okay! Besides if it's this late already it won't hurt to stay out longer." She explained.

"Okay." I shrugged. Better to agree, besides it sounded like fun. "Well what should we do?"

"How about we go to the park?"

"At eleven!"

"Yeah it's fun! No one else is there and you can do whatever you want." She said and pulled my hand. "Come on!"

"Alright!" I gave in and walked out with her. She stopped pulling, but she was still grabbing my hand, so we were holding hands. (A/N: Awwww. Okay so I just ruined the flow by doing that but…)

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"Look at me! I'm on top of the world!" I yelled from the top of the slide.

"Don't get to cocky wind boy!" Ember yelled from below. She threw off the kitten claws and threw a fireball at me. I jumped and fell down the slide. How very graceful.

I slid down and landed in front of her. She was smiling and trying to hold in a giggle but finally burst out laughing when she saw me. I had to laugh to. For some reason it was just funny.

"Oh yeah well watch this!" I said getting up. I darted for the kitten claws, which had been left on the floor, and started running away with them.

"Hey!" Ember called after me and gave chase. I had a good head start but I already knew Ember was fast. After a few minutes I noticed the air around me was getting hot, and when I turned around I saw I was being followed by a raging ball of fire. Not a bird though. She chose to stay fire.

The fire rushed ahead and somehow swiped the claws right from me. I still can't figure out how fire can steal something, but it did. And naturally it became very hot when she did.

After a minute the fire transformed back into Ember and she was holding the claws smiling.

"Don't even try to beat me in a race, it won't get you anywhere." She bragged. I ran up and tackled her before she could move and we fell onto the soft grass. The grass was wet from dew, but we didn't care, we were laughing too much. Even Ember didn't care that her dress was getting messed up.

"You're mean!" She said sarcastically.

"If I was so mean, would I do this?" I asked and started tickling her. She screamed with delight and shoved me off and ran for it. Exhausted as I was, I followed her. It may have been tiring but this whole night was so fun.

-Back at the temple-

"Well that was fun." Ember said walking to the "door" to her "room." Which meant the curtain to her mat on the floor. She started to lean forward just a little bit. She wanted a kiss. I wanted to kiss her to. But I was…afraid.

Everything about Ember was hot. Just touching her skin burned liked hell. I wanted to kiss her, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. But I brought my face closer until they were almost touching. But still, I couldn't do it.

So we stood there like idiots. Everyone had already gone to bed, and we were just standing there silently. I'd never really been this close to her. As we stood there starring into each others eyes, I guess she didn't know it was polite to close your eyes when you kissed someone, I noticed a lot more detail about her face.

Normally the only thing you would notice is her eyes. They're so bold, while the rest of her face is pretty plain. Being closer I noticed that her cheeks were a light rosy color. It could've been natural, or it could've been blush, I couldn't tell. Not only that, but she has a few very light freckles on her face. They were kinda cute too. I noticed other things too.

We stood there for about another minute. I was scolding myself for each second that went by. Then Ember closed her eyes leaned forward and planted a small peck on my lips before I could react. She opened her eyes just for a second. I can't describe the way they looked. But there was just something about that gaze. It really brought together that magical night.

And before I could say "good night" she quickly walked into her room without a word. I slowly brought two fingers up to my lips and touched where she kissed me. It wasn't hot at all. It was just warm. I guess I had no reason to be scared.

The whole evening was wonderful. Too bad things were about to get ugly.

Aww! I love this chapter so much! This last part at the temple has got to be one of my favorite works. It's just so…Romantic and cute and stuff. Look at me gush! Anyway, I just love the whole Ember kissing Rai thing. It's so in-character for her, you know? Anyway please review! I know the site is being worked on, so I don't know if you will be able to read this immediately, but if you are reading this, REVIEW!