Mako's Message: I'm gonna say flat out that this is shorter than I intended it to be. Where this ends just felt like the right place to end it. The subject change just felt weird. I'll have another chapter up soon though. More after the story.


Dave didn't say anything to me about the kiss. Which is good, because I didn't want to make anything big out of it. It was just… the best way I could think of to express how I felt about everything he'd done for me. I haven't received any texts about it from Katie, so he must not have told her. I hope he doesn't mention it to anyone, but especially not to Katie. Things are weird enough between us, I don't want make it more complicated by having her know I kissed her boyfriend.

I would so do it again though.

Dave did give me some strange looks when we went out this week though. They were just these little sideways glances and then he'd laugh to himself. I called him on it once and he said it was just because of me being me.

Don't know what that's supposed to mean but I'll take it.

We actually had a great time out that night. We got dinner as usual, but we decided to sit in and eat this time instead of taking it with us. I have to admit that I thought things might be weird between us after I kissed him, even though he did kiss me first(yeah it was on the cheek but still), but it hasn't really been any different at all. I mean, we ended up sitting in Taco Bell, just talking about stuff, for like, an hour.

When we got to the safe house we started right in talking about what we wanted to work on with our sparring. We started right in on it as soon as the door was closed, didn't change out of anything even. Though Dave did end up pulling his shirt off in the middle of it and went the rest of the night topless. That was nice.

The funny thing about all this is we totally forgot about why we originally started doing this. It wasn't until we were leaving that I suddenly realized, "We didn't touch the guns."

Dave looked back, and laughed once, "Well, we'll be sure to get them next week." And he tapped me on the shoulder, smiled, and turned to leave. I smiled at that. After all, he was right, we have plenty of time to take care of them, no need to worry about them every week.

When I got home that night I found Kiara asleep in a chair in the living room. For the third time since Christmas.

I was in a good mood so I went over and woke her up, "If I wanted to kill you in your sleep you'd have to get further away than the living room. Your air mattress is still set up in my room. Sleep there."

She's still been avoiding me though, but I'm not gonna try and talk her out of that.


Return of Mako's Message: After writing the last chapter, I had an interesting idea. I didn't really think it was something I wanted to put in Precocious Crush though. I also thought about how I keep getting suggestions, or mentions of what people would like to see… so I decided on something.

I'm starting a contest.

The Rules are simple:

-It must be a one shot
-It must state that it was written for this contest.
-It must be submitted by e-mail by 12am May 29th

-Submissions are to be e-mailed to me at the address provided in my profile. The e-mail is to contain the story, or a link to where the story is posted (The story may be posted on Fanfiction dot net, Live Journal, etc.).

The Subject:

Mindy Vs. The Bike: Mindy learns to ride a bike. (The story may be based in my ficverse or be completely original)

The Prize:

A Kick-Ass fanfic written by me. Subject matter chosen by the winner.

The Winner will be chosen by me.

Happy Writing.