Chapter 8 Date Trick
"Have you ever been on a date before?" Mikan asked as we sat at the dining table, Rika not with us as she said she needed to go lay down.
"Nope." I exclaimed in an uncaring manner before digging into my rice bowl.
"Wow Ringo looks at that someone more hopeless at love than you." Ume commented in a teasing tone while Ringo's face seemed to turn red with embarrassment.
"Huh what's this sudden talk about dating?" Ikki suddenly asked, looking confused.
"I asked Rika this morning to go out on a date." I simply explained like it was nothing.
"Oh… you did what!?"
"Geez pay attention you idiot, this thing has been going on ever since Hamish got here." Thank you Mikan for making it sound like it was nothing but an utter annoyance.
"Wha! Seriously, I had no idea."
"I could believe that."
"So can I."
"Not a surprise."
"Really Ikki as dumb as you are you could do better." I finished while we all gave Ikki a flat look.
With that everyone fell silent as we all ate our meals in silence until Ikki broke it with a surprising question.
"So did Rika say yes or what?"
"Well she didn't say no but for now I'm just going to let her think about it for a bit." I said with the shrug of my shoulders before getting up seeing as I was done with my food and decided to get the dishes done.
"Hamish."
"Hmmm?" looking over my shoulder I saw Ringo there giving me a small smile.
"I think it's brave of you to tell Rika that you like her and that takes a lot of courage." Ringo said with a small giggle as she tried to look cute.
"Coming from the girl who can't even confess her feelings, that means a lot." I said shaking my head at the pigtailed girl who froze at my words. "Ringo your not going to like this but you are going to lose him unless you straight up tell him how you feel but knowing how fucking stupid he is your probably better off making out with him." I said shrugging.
"Wa i-its not-"
"Ringo lying to me is one thing but lying to yourself is just going to hurt you in the end." I turned around to give the girl my full attention. "I'm going to be harsh, so god damn harsh that it will give you whiplash you have one week to tell Ikki how you feel otherwise someone else will scoop him up."
"That's not going to-"
"Ringo stop denying it and accept the facts, now if you will excuse me I got dishes to finish up." I said turning around to continue cleaning the dishes, my ears picking up the loud stomping of feet that made its way out of the kitchen.
"That was a bit harsh don't you think?" Hearing the familiar voice I turned around and I wasn't surprised to see Rika standing there with her arms folded.
"Coming from the Queen of pain herself, pretty sure what I gave her was light." I said with a simple shrug.
"How wise if I didn't know any better I would say you are older than you look."
"Well aren't you nice, I take it you finally came to a decision." I guessed going back to the dishes but stopped as I was forcefully turned around.
"I have come to more than one decision, first being that yes I will take you up on that date but make sure its nothing too fancy I've known you well enough that your not into it and second I want to make this work and in so I need you to promise me that you would take care of Ikki especially if he finds AT's."
"Ok first your right never been one for the romance and second I promise to make sure that Ikki doesn't kill himself." I promised as I found myself getting closer to Rika.
"Good, we'll go on a lunch date how's that sound?" Rika asked her smile large and bright as she had that cute looking blush on her face.
"Like you perfect also I really don't want to cook lunch." I said, our faces closing in.
"Good I'll see you then." blinking in confusion Rika suddenly turned around and walked away leaving me moderately confused for a minute.
"Wow that was smooth, is this point where we call you big brother?" Hearing the teasing voice I couldn't help but shake my head.
Why the hell do I feel like I was cheated out of something?
Come the date time I decided to dress well nicer than what I'm usually used to that being a pair of black jeans, white sneakers and finally a blue short sleeved dress shirt I picked up the other day.
"You ready?" I asked looking over to see Rika come down the stairs wearing her usual jeans but opted to wear something more stylish with her top being a simple yellow tight fitting t shirt and over it was a maroon red leather jacket.
"Wow you look nice...er."
"Nicer? Really that's all you're going to say about me?"
"Depends you willing to allow me to be a pervert for a couple minutes?"
"Not really, we're still home."
"Ah yes that is very true, best we leave now even though the children have left for school."
"Yes, but I feel more comfortable in a place that doesn't have a bunch of curious brats moving around." With our little banter over with the two of us left the house and towards the train station seeing as I was somewhat organizing the date I decided to take Rika out to a more interesting location.
"So where are we going?" Rika asked with a large smile on her face as we neared our destination.
"Well I thought about it and well I just have to ask how are you with ice skating?" I asked, stopping in front of an ice rink I had found online when I was thinking up random places to go for a date, deciding why the hell not go to an ice rink?
"Well aren't you an exciting one, let me guess instead of AT's the alternative to testing me is with ice skating?" Rika teased while I just rolled my eyes.
"Yes this is an entire ploy to test your AT abilities not an idea that I thought you would feel more comfortable with the idea that ice skating with me over riding AT's." I sarcastically expressed myself before feeling her punch my shoulder. "Ow what it's the truth, rather ride with you for no reason than supposedly test you."
Rika seemed to shake her head with an amused smirk plastered on her face before she grabbed my hand.
"Well what are we waiting for let's go." Rika said before she dragged me into the ice rink.
"Ahahahahaha I can't believe I covered you in ice shavings I thought you would be able to dodge it turns out I was wrong." Rika laughed as we walked out of the ice rink.
"Oh shut up at least I didn't do the splits as soon as I hit the ice." I bit back in a good natured way as I felt Rika punch me, this time it didn't hurt as much as it usually did.
"Not like you were complaining about it, you know that was a lot of fun I think I had more fun than I've ever had with everyone else." Rika exclaimed her cheeks turning red.
"Well I'm glad you enjoyed it, I hope to do more fun things like this in the future that is if you allow me to do them with you of course." I said before I felt my arm being pulled down and I felt a pair of lips latch onto mine.
Blinking surprise Rika leaned back with a large grin plastered on her face.
"I don't mind as long as you don't mind me doing things like that." She exclaimed as my face completely went red.
"U-uh s-sure." Fucking hell I feel like my heart is about to explode up in here. "Geez you are seriously not good for my heart." I said with a good natured grin on my face while Rika wrapped herself around my arm.
"Don't care, you are too good for me so it's only fair that you have something like that." Rika said surprising me with how open she was being with me, it felt relaxing in fact it felt so nice that i didn't bother to hesitate to latch my own lips onto hers.
"Well let's take this home I still got to make dinner and then I got my shift coming up." I said as I gestured for us to leave, Rika the entire time over never letting go of my hand.
Today has been good, very good.
"Hey maybe we should take the scenic route back home?" Rika suggested slightly surprising me.
"Oh scenic? You want this to be a tad more romantic now?" I teased while somewhat expecting another jab to the arm only to have Rika pull herself closer to me.
"Maybe that or I'm thinking that we get some ice cream instead of ending this date so early and we haven't exactly had any lunch now have we?"
"Now that you mention it no we have not, oof that's on me too busy having fun that I forgot the food." I said feeling like a dumbass for forgetting that this was a lunch date.
"Well let's go get ourselves something to eat then." I said with a large smile on my face.
"Oh your home and here I thought you two would have ended up in a hotel room, I mean the fact you two took so long to get home was pretty eye opening." Mikan said from the end of the hallway as she had a large knowing smirk on her face.
"Sorry we kind of took the scenic route and well we took our time getting home." I apologized/explained before making ourway to the living room where everyone sat and watched TV.
"Oh Rika, Hamish you home how was the date?" Ringo asked curious as well as happy to us, or well happy to see me… didn't I make her cry though?
"It was… interesting to say the least, what's got you in such a good mood?" Rika questioned while I nodded in agreement.
"Well to keep things short… I took Hamish's advice and I told Ikki how I felt." Ringo exclaimed happily, Rika seemed to be delighted with the news but with the lack of the idiot being around I already have a bad feeling about this. "I told him how I felt and then kicked him in the head when he was apparently not listening to me."
"Annnnd there it is, well good on ya for telling him but uh where is Ikki?" I asked, confused about his current location.
"He and his friends decided to go out and mess around at the arcade, but in other news I feel surprisingly better and not at the same time." Ringo admitted in a creepy happy tone that somewhat freaked me out.
"I now regret ever telling you to do this but at the same time I'm glad you at least you feel better… I think." I mumbled to myself feeling slightly uncomfortable with how Ringo appeared to be handling this.
"You know I'm just gonna get ready for work." I said making my way to my room.
"I'll see you guys later." Called out before making my way upstairs.
What's the likeliness that I may have changed Ringo for the worst?
Chapter 8 end