"Mother?!" I yelped as turned around and saw it was mother who smacked me upside my head. You know, I think this was the first time she has ever hit me. "Why in God's name did you just hit me?"

"Noll! I thought I taught better than that, apologize to Mai now!" She scolded me with the best she got, it took me all I had to not to break out into a full blown smirk.

"Mother, I was only speaking the truth. I fail to see the reason to apolo-" I was cut off by her glare, 'oh well' I thought, 'better say it before she blows a gasket', "Mai, I apologize for speaking the truth of your stupidity." I couldn't help but smirk at the anger that flashed through Mai's eyes and right when she was going to smack on the head, father came in wondering if we were ready to depart. Save by the thing I despise the most, and I still have to do that aluminum block experiment thing at the lab. Sometimes it is times like these that makes me long for the old days.

-Flashback-

"Naru, Naru come play with us." The one and only Mai, the one person in the world other than Gene that can annoy the hell out of me. 'I don't even know any games' I thought as I slowly looked up from my book to see a girl with the most enchanting smile I have ever seen smiling down at me. "Come on let's race through the rose maze."

"You'll only be the last one out anyways," which is true mothers rose maze gets changed every quarter year and every time we try it out she is the last one out, and one time we even had to go look for her because she got lost "I see no point in going since we already know the outcome of this race." I smirked as I saw anger flashed through her eyes, I just love riling her.

"Well maybe this time I will beat you both!" she pouted so cutely; wait cutely?! I'm going soft.

'Yeah I bet you are' Oh crap He's in my head now 'Damn straight I'm in here, sooo you like Mai don't you?'

'What are you talking about now Gene?' I asked impassively.

'You know I'm talking about, you like Mai.' Why is he always so matter-of-fact when it comes to Mai?

'1, I truly have no idea what you are speaking of and 2 Mai is like friend please don't speak of her in such way.' Geez, he can be such a pain.

'You're not denying it.' He smirked at me.

"Gene, Ollie, stop having you secret conversation and let's go!" Mai can be so impatient sometimes.

"Mai, how about this, if one of us come in first place you give me or Noll a kiss on the cheek, but if you come in first you can order the last one out to anything you want, ok?" Gene suggested with a mischievous smirk, while Mai just looked down blushing redder than mother's roses.

"Ok deal, but don't say anything if I order one of you to do something weird ok?" she just said as she looked at us waiting for an answer, I only nodded while Gene just said "you bet" with his signature care-free grin.

"Oh yeah, hey Mai, since when did you start calling me Ollie?" This was the first time she ever called me Ollie, I mean I don't hate it, it's kind of refreshing, but at the same time, it's weird, she never called me that.

"Since now, silly, now hurry up!" she giggled a little laugh and ran off into the maze.

…some time passed…

"Where is Mai?" Gene asked as he slowly got out the maze. I knew it, I knew she would get lost again, and then we would need to go search for her.

'You know, I have a feeling you rushed this time so you could get that kiss out of her' Gene just looked over with a smirk as we walked back into the maze getting ready to search for Mai.

'I don't know what you are talking about' I thought as I walked ahead of him cutting our connection and headed straight to the middle of the maze, that's where she always goes if she's lost

"Well what do you know, seem like our little princess Mai really did get lost, hey Noll, no need to get so worried plus I promise I won't pretend to be you and steal your kiss from Mai." He gave me a wink as we walked into the middle of the maze and saw Mai sitting in the rose vine gazebo with her in her hands and a rose in front of her. I slowly crept into her mind to see what up and saw an image of a woman covered in blood mouthing something.

"You'll be next, you better watch out." I said out loud as I read the woman's lips and I quickly walked over to Mai and gave her a hug. Yep, I gave someone a hug, alert the media. "Calm down Mai, no one's going to hurt you, I won't let them." All I can do now is calm her down and lead her out of the maze and to mother.

"Mother, Mai had another vision!" Gene seriously has a bigmouth. We walk into the kitchen to find mother with a pink frilly apron and some flour on her face.

"Auntie Luella, I brought you a rose." Mai was trying to hand mother the rose as she slowly got out of my arms. She wiped away her tears while mother took the rose and she pulled up her sleeve to wipe off the flour on mother's face. "So, was Gene or Ollie that came in first place?" She finally asked when she finally calmed down; she looked up from her cup of tea with an impish grin and walked over to the couch where me and were sitting and bent looked down at us.

"Luella, Luella! Get the camera, they're going to do something, we have to get this on camera!" Madoka's whispers need some major work.

"I did." I confessed as mother dashed into the room with a video camera. I pray to god that this won't get caught on camera; this will come back and bite me in the ass later.

"So Noll," my mother started "what's going on, did y'all have another race through the maze?" she asked with an oddly cheerful: this is definitely going to bite me in the ass later on.

"We were having a race, we played a little punishment game and so Mai has to kiss the one who comes in first, but if Mai comes in first we agree that she can order the last one out to do whatever she wanted, and apparently Noll got out first so…" Gene just dragged on waiting for things to click in place in everyone's head.

"MARTIN! Come down here this instant or I will-" she didn't even have to finish that threat and my father came running down the stairs and into the parlor, where we were at.

"Mai, let's just get this over with, ok?" I don't know why they're making such a big fuss over such a thing; don't we always kiss people on the cheeks as a greeting?

"Ollie, remember that show that we always watched when we were little?" What is this girl planning? "Black Butler, was it?" Mai asked as she leaned in. "Remember the opening theme?" she asked, then she leaned in and gave me a kiss on my cheek, and I mean a kiss not those greeting. "Well here's your monochrome kiss and happy 14th birthday Ollie."

Me: hope you like this cause the other half is coming soon and please r&r =)