Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach nor the song My Girl by the Temptations which this fic makes a reference.

A/N: This is my first try at Ishida/Orihime, I hope I portrayed them well enough.

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My Girl

"Good afternoon Ishida-kun!" Orihime said sweetly to him. She was clutching her school bag loosely with her right hand, the other held loosely held on the other elbow.

"Good afternoon, Inoue." Ishida replied in his usual detached manner. "Where's Tatsuki?"

"She promised her mother that she would pick up something after school." She bit her lip. "Do you want to get ice cream with me then?"

"But it's not the season for ice cream." He started walking away from the school grounds.

"Ishida-kun, you go straight home from school," she said, well, she stated.

"And? What's wrong with that?" he asked.

"Nothing, nothing is wrong with that but I've always felt that if you walk too quickly in life you never get a chance to really smell the roses." Orihime said with her hands on her hips. Ishida sighed in defeat.

"If I go eat ice cream with you, will you stop lecturing me?" Ishida asked.

"Ok!" She started in the direction of 31. Ishida followed but didn't want to walk right next to her and he stayed behind slightly. They walked together, Ishida was surprised that Orihime, who pushed strongly to go get ice cream, didn't speak much on the walk.

"Here it is!" She threw open the door and looked down at the tubs of colorful ice cream. "I tried rocky road last time, it was really good!" She exclaimed. Ishida nodded. "But I can't decide what to get!"

"I'll have vanilla." Ishida told the girl behind the counter.

"Vanilla!" Orihime looked at Ishida in horror. "But with all these flavors, why just vanilla? You should try something new!"

"Something new?" he asked irritated slightly, but he found it hard to be irritated at such a sweet girl. "But I like vanilla."

"You can have vanilla any other time, this is special Ishida-kun, you must try something different." Orihime said finally. Ishida sighed again.

"Fine, I'll have peach."

"I'll have strawberry." They took the cones of ice cream and sat on a bench. Orihime was silent again.

"Inoue, are you ok?" Ishida asked. "You're awfully quiet, did something happen?"

"No." He looked over at her, she barely ate any of her ice cream. "It wasn't as good as I expected."

"What? Your ice cream?" She nodded. He couldn't overlook the tears forming in her eyes. The strawberry was melting, making small rivers down the cone, and on her hands. He frowned and adjusted his glasses, too awkward to say or do anything. "I'm sorry Ishida-kun. I wanted Kurosaki-kun to have ice cream with me but he already left. I didn't mean to drag you along if you didn't want to." Sensitive, sweet Orihime, he should have known there was something wrong.

"If the ice cream isn't good, we can trade." He held out his cone and offered it to her. "It's alright Inoue." She took his cone and handed him the melting strawberry cone. They finished eating in silence. When they finished, they started walking toward their homes. They stopped when they reached a split in their paths.

"Inoue, I-" Ishida began but Orihime turned around.

"It's alright, Ishida, I really liked peach." Orihime smiled. "Tomorrow Tatsuki has wrestling practice, we can try new flavors again, ok?"

"Yeah." Ishida said, smiling back. Orihime turned back around and walked off. Ishida watched her walk away, a song floated into his head, an old motown song. He started in his own direction, his stride was lighter than normal as if was walking to the pace of the song.

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A/N: What did you think? I know, it's just cheesefest with me lately. I can't help it! I love this song and was listening to it, it makes me think of Orihime. I just imagine a scene where Orihime walks away (and that ascending guitar line and snaps start from the beginning of the song) as Ishida watches, which pretty much gave me the inspiration for this fic.