After ditching Nanoha and getting my payback, I went to where Suzuka was to hang out. I mailed her before mailing Nanoha. Aren't I smart? Well, right now Nanoha is here with me in my room, nagging me about what I did yesterday. Well, she was nagging me until now. Right now, she is blushing and fidgeting uncomfortably. What the hell, right? We are waiting for Suzuka and Fate to arrive.

Read Me VIII

Closer

"Nanoha?"

"Yes, Arisa-chan?"

I looked at her from my phone. "Will you please stop fidgeting?"

She fidgeted again.

I snapped my phone shut and glared at her. "Stop it, Nanoha! Stop blushing! Stop twitching! Stop doing those things if you're not going to tell me why!"

Nanoha stared at me. "I'm sorry, Arisa-chan."

I sighed and threw my phone on the other armchair. "Why are you acting like this?"

Nanoha grinned evilly. "I'm not telling you, doggy."

I growled and threw a pillow at her face. She laughed before we start throwing pillows at each other. We laughed until I heard someone knocking. "Come in!" I called out. I walked by the doorway to greet them.

"Arisa!"

I turned around to look at Nanoha when suddenly, a pillow made its way to my face and knocked me down.

"Ow…" I mumbled. I heard Nanoha's laugh before Fate and Suzuka's voice. I tried to get up but fell down when the door hit me on the head.

"Arisa-chan!" I heard Suzuka's worried voice.

My vision started spinning and the last thing coherent to me was Fate apologizing and Suzuka panicking.

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I opened my eyes groggily and saw three figures hovering above me. I blinked and opened my eyes again. Suzuka, Fate, Nanoha.

Nanoha.

I lifted my body quickly to attack Nanoha but was stopped by a gentle bop that brought me back down on something soft. I looked up and saw Suzuka. It dawned to me then that my head was resting on her lap. I blushed and stared at her.

"How are you feeling, Arisa-chan?" asked Suzuka.

I smiled and felt something cold press on the left side of my head. "I'm okay. Though, right now, I would feel perfect if I could strangle Nanoha."

I heard Fate's giggles and Nanoha's nervous chuckle. I tried to get up but was bopped once again. "Mou, Arisa-chan! You can do that later! Rest for now."

"Suzuka!" Nanoha cried out in disbelief.

"Fine, fine. Can I sit?" I asked Suzuka. She nodded and I lifted my body to sit properly.

I glared at Nanoha, and she looked at me nervously.

"I'm sorry, Arisa." Fate said sincerely.

I smiled at her, "It's okay, it's not like it's your fault." I turned to Nanoha and glared again. "It's that little vampire's fault."

"I-I'm sorry, Arisa." She stuttered.

I grinned deviously, "Well, if you really want to be forgiven, you could always do something for me."

Nanoha smiled at that. "What is it?"

"Tell me why you're blushing and twitching a while ago."

Nanoha flushed instantly and I saw Fate-chan look away.

"That is… umm…" Nanoha looked at the floor nervously and at Fate then back to the floor.

I heard Suzuka's soft giggle and looked at her.

"You two are naughty!" said Suzuka who was laughing at the two's flustered faces.

"Y-you read my thoughts?!" asked a Fate whose face was rivaling the color of her eyes.

Suzuka laughed. "A little bit. And I'm a memory seeker, Fate-chan. I can't help it."

"Mou…" pouted Nanoha. "That's not fair."

"Just tell me already, Nanoha." I demanded.

"Don't wanna."

I glared at her but an idea immediately came to me and I smiled sweetly and placed my head on Suzuka's shoulder who quickly blushed and stiffened. "Ne, Suzuka-chan…"

"W-what is it?" the purple haired girl stuttered.

"You would tell Arisa, right?" I asked childishly.

I saw something flicker in her eyes. "Why, of course I would tell Ar-chan!"

I blushed hard at the nickname and heard Fate's soft chuckle.

Then I heard Nanoha laugh along with Fate.

"Mou!" I removed my head from Suzuka's shoulder and pouted at her.

"Ar-chan!" Fate called. I glared at her but she only continued laughing.

"As I said, I'll tell Ar-chan." Suzuka said again making the brunette and the other blonde quiet.

I listened as Suzuka whispered to me what happened. After finishing I stared at the two and asked Nanoha, "Can you handle it?"

"I'll try my best." Nanoha said.

I smiled. "Then that's fine. What do you guys want to eat?"

Fate stared at Nanoha questioningly, "Arisa can cook?"

Nanoha answered her brightly, "Of course! She's a good cook! Pasta!"

Suzuka stood up from the couch. "I'll help you, Arisa-chan."

I nodded and went to the kitchen with Suzuka.

Once we were alone I asked Suzuka, "So, what's with them?"

"Fate-chan did say that she's attracted to Nanoha but they didn't commit to anything. Can Nanoha-chan do this?" Suzuka stated.

"She did say she would try her best, right?" I grinned.

Suzuka smiled. "Okay."

I thew an apron to her. "Patsa?"

Suzuka grinned at me and wore the apron. "Go."

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Fate

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"Ne, Nanoha…" I started.

"What is it, Fate-chan?"

I stared at her from the end of the couch to the other end where she is. "Why are you sitting so far?"

Nanoha smiled at me. "You know why."

I held out my hand to her. "Come here."

Nanoha took my hand but didn't come. I frowned. "Fate-chan—"

"You said you'll try." I gave her hand a light pull.

"Fine." She submitted and let me pull her closer.

Once we were sitting close together, I smiled at her. "May I ask something?"

Nanoha shrugged. "Sure, I guess."

"When you thirst…" I started, still looking at her. "Do you drink from anyone you like?"

Nanoha made a disgusted face. "Pfft. No, never. I'm not like some freakin' vampire who doesn't care about the one they feed from. I rarely drink from others. I only drink from Arisa before and now, you. I hate the blood of men; it's filthy with all the drugs and alcohol they consume. I also have blood packs in my refrigerator so I don't need to drink from others too much. "

I nodded and asked again, "Why do you care about those you drink from?"

"Do you know about the bride system of Dhampirs?"

I shook my head.

"Dhampirs eventually needs to find a bride. A bride is the person that we can only drink from. Now, I am not in need to find a bride yet but I know I need to soon. That's why we care about who we bite. Eventually we will have our bride who we will be drinking from and loving at the same time. People for us are not food. Vampires may think like that but we don't." She explained seriously.

I smiled at what Nanoha said, see, she isn't a monster. "That's nice."

"You know, I never thought that you're living in this dorm too." Nanoha said excitedly.

I giggled. "You brought me there before, Nanoha-san, I mean."

"Really?"

I nodded. "But you live in the next room. It must be convenient to be able to live next to Arisa."

"It is. I'm always spending time here when I have nothing to do." Nanoha said.

"How long have you two known each other?" I asked.

Nanoha thought for a while before answering my question. "Six or seven years I guess…"

"Wow…. That's long." I said in amazement.

Nanoha nodded. "We've known each other since we were kids so we basically know almost everything about each other."

"That's cool. You two are really close to each other." I commented.

We talked for a few more minutes until we heard Arisa call out to us,

"Nanoha! Fate! Lunch is ready!"

Nanoha and I both stood up and went to the kitchen. We sat down and waited for Arsia and Suzuka to settle down as well.

"Let's eat?" Suzuka asked.

"Let's eat!" Nanoha exclaimed excitedly.

We all began eating and Arisa's cooking is good. "This tastes good, Arisa!"

Nanoha nodded in agreement. "Yep. This is good."

Arisa blushed lightly at our praise. "Suzuka helped. Now eat first."

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After we finished eating, Nanoha and I volunteered to wash the dished as thanks for Suzuka and Arisa's cooking. Arisa and Suzuka both are good cooks.

"There, all done!" Nanoha said as she leaned at the bar.

I walked over to her and saw her flinch. I looked at her in the eye and saw the slight change of color that flashed briefly. "You're thirsty, Nanoha." I pointed out.

Nanoha looked away from me. Is she still thinking that she might hurt me? I sighed. "Come here, Nanoha."

Nanoha took a step closer. "Fate-chan…"

I offered my hand to Nanoha and she took it. She took another step closer. I tugged on her hand lightly to make her take another step until we were really close.

"Nanoha…"

Nanoha moved my hair and leaned in. I felt my cheeks burn as I feel her hot breath caress my neck. "Fate-chan. I only need a bit so… bear with me?"

I nodded and I felt her fangs sink into my skin. I felt her suck a few times and her arms wrapped around my waist for support. "Hey, Nanoha?"

"Yeah?"

I stood up properly and leaned a little to the wall for support. "Why don't I get scars?"

Nanoha smiled warmly at me. "Dhampir thingy."

"Oh…" I stood up straight this time, having recovered from being a little tipsy. "Let's go?"

Nanoha nodded and we went to the living room where Arisa and Suzuka were watching TV. Nanoha and I flopped down on the couch to watch whatever Arisa and Suzuka were watching… Well, they weren't really watching anything since Arisa is changing channel to channel non-stop. Oh god, can't she just stay at one channel?

"I wish she would." Suzuka said to me.

I laughed and she laughed too. Nanoha leaned over so Suzuka can whisper what that was about and she began laughing too. Arisa stared at us weirdly. "What's your problem?"

We didn't answer instead we just continued laughing. Arisa-chan frowned and smacked Nanoha with a pillow.

"Ow! Hey!" Nanoha grabbed a pillow as Arisa jumped from her seat and Walked across the room. Nanoha threw the pillow but Arisa was suddenly enveloped by light and the pillow missed its target, revealing a puppy form of Arisa.

"Hahahahaha." What? I'm hearing Arisa's laugh.

Suzuka's eyes widened.

"What's wrong, Suzuka?" Nanoha asked.

Suzuka looked at Arisa and smiled after a few minutes. "Nothing, Nanoha-chan."

"Nanoha's a loseeeeeerrr!!!" Oh my gosh, what the hell's happening to me?!

"I just heard your voice, Arisa-chan! What was that?!" Nanoha exclaimed.

Arisa phased back into human form and grinned at us. "Just a little something-something,"

Nanoha stared at Arisa excitedly, "You mean you developed something new?!"

Arisa nodded. "Yeah. I've been practicing on getting more focused when I'm on my wolf or puppy form, one of the results was this. I can talk to others telepathically."

Suzuka smiled warmly at Arisa. "That's so cool!"

I nodded. "Yeah!"

Arisa laughed. "Now, I won't be having a hard time communicating when I'm not in my human form!"

Nanoha jumped from the couch and looked at all of us. "Let's go out and celebrate!"

We all nodded and decided to go to the amusement park. I'm glad that we're becoming closer friends.

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Arisa

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"Thank you." I said kindly to the cashier lady as she handed me four stubs for ride all you can. I made my way to the girls and handed them each one.

"Thank you, Ar-chan." Suzuka said teasingly and I blushed from the pet name.

Fate and Nanoha laughed but quickly silenced when I glared at them.

"Mou, Suzuka." I whined but was ignored by the older girl.

"Let's go to the roller coaster!" announced Fate with much energy.

Nanoha smiled and nodded. "Fate-chan, that's a good idea!"

Fate and Nanoha dragged Suzuka and I to the roller coaster. After minutes of riding the hell-made thing, we were finally let out.

"Ugh." I groaned and glared at Fate and Nanoha. "I hate you two."

Suzuka laughed as she helped me stand straight. "I never thought that Arisa-chan was not good with roller coasters."

"Well, now you know." I said.

The three laughed and I can't help but giggle seeing my friends have fun. We continued to wander around the park riding various rides until we were hungry and tired. We stumbled upon a Japanese restaurant and decided to eat there.

"Hello there, Table for four?" The waiter by the door asked.

Just as I was about to confirm, I heard a familiar voice call out to us.

"Arisa-chan!" I looked at where the voice came from and saw our class representative.

"Carim!" I told the waiter that we'll just join Carim's table and made our way there.

"Hi Nanoha-chan, Suzuka-chan, Fate-chan." Carim greeted as we sat down on the free chairs.

Nanoha, Suzuka and Fate greeted her back. Despite being in a different class, Fate and Carim are friends. This shown how close our classes our. We like each other. People from Fate's class our kind but the people from class 3 are snobs and bad people.

"Are you alone, Carim?" Nanoha asked,

Carim shook her head. "No, I'm here with Hayate-chan."

As if on cue, the brunette made her way to the table. "Oh, Fate-chan! Nanoha-chan, Suzuka-chan and Puppy-chan too!"

I glared at her jokingly as she sat down beside Carim. "Out on a date with Carim, Hayate?"

Hayate flushed instantly and looked away. We laughed at her. The waiter stopped at our table and we gave him our orders.

"So, anything special?" Fate asked.

Hayate shook her head. "No, we just want to go out."

"It must be hard being class rep." Suzuka commented. Our food arrived and we started to eat.

Carim smiled. "A little bit."

"Good thing you still have time to go out, you know, with all the work and all." Nanoha stated.

Hayate grinned. "That's because we help each other. When Carim is finished with her work, she'll help me."

"Carim helping you is not a doubt but you helping Carim? Hell no" I snorted.

Hayate frowned. "That's not true! I help Carim!"

Suzuka joined us, having met Hayate before when we introduced them. "You sure?"

Hayate turned to Carim. "I do, right? Ne, Carim?"

Carim giggled as we all laughed at Hayate. "Of course you do, Hayate."

We continued eating and talking about random stuffs. It's nice to be able to hang out with friends every now and then. Do to Hayate and Carim's work, they rarely spend some time with us. Nanoha rarely have same classes with Suzuka and I and we see each other mostly on breaks or free period. Fate is in a different class too. After dinner we decided to all go home together until Fate, who was blushing all night, spoke up.

"Nanoha and I will go home later, you guys can go ahead." She said.

Nanoha looked as surprise us as but quickly recovered. "Yeah, don't worry, we'll just get something."

Carim smiled. "It's okay. Be careful, okay?"

Fate nodded and pulled Nanoha to the opposite direction. I stared at them for a while before turning to Suzuka to ask what happened.

"I won't tell." Said the purple haired girl even before I asked her.

I pouted and everyone just giggled. We went on our way home together but we split up after a while since Hayate and Carim's dormitories are different from mine our Suzuka's. I offered to take Suzuka home to ensure her safety and she accepted it with a blush.

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Nanoha

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Fate took me to a place near the amusement park. I have no idea what's happening. Or what the blonde girl in front of me is planning.

"Nanoha…"

I stared at her burgundy eyes. "Fate-chan?"

Fate took a step towards me. "Remember what I said before?"

I raised an eyebrow at Fate. "That you trust me?"

"No, something else."

What did she say? "Tell me."

Fate took another step towards me. "That I'm attracted to you…"

My eyes widened a little and I felt my cheeks burn. "Fate-chan…"

Fate-chan took another step and I took a step back.

"I know we only met weeks ago, but Nanoha… I like you." Fate confessed as she took another step, and I took one back.

"This is…" I tried to think of something but I can't. Another step was made and I felt my back hit the tree.

Fate-chan brought her face close to mine and I could feel her breath on my face. "I like you, Nanoha."

Since the first day that we met, something about Fate just invites me in. I find it hard to refuse her… And this is just one of those cases. But this time… I think I want this.

"Can we give this a try?" Asked Fate-chan worriedly.

I drew in a sharp breath and submitted myself to the blonde goddess. "Yes."

Fate-chan wrapped me in her arms and hugged me tight.

"I'm not asking for anything right now, Nanoha." She stated. "I just want to give this a try…and hope it works out."

I smiled gently and hugged her back. "It's okay, Fate-chan."

Fate giggled and hugged me closer. Right now, Fate-chan's blood isn't driving me crazy. The need for her blood is still there but right now, Fate-chan is all that matters. Now, I think I can control myself.

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Sorry for the bad chapter. I had a hard time. :[

Anyway, Carim and Hayate appeared!!! Yay! And yes, they are an item.

Now Nanoha and Fate are too! Well, Fate did confess that she LIKE Nanoha.

See you next chapter guys! Reviews are loved. *hugs*

--Fei~