WHOA THERE! I check my email and suddenly it's full of emails saying that people are following and favoriting this! Thank you all so much for reading this. Just a heads up, don't get used to the constant updates. I'm actually a very lazy person... I'll try to update it regularly and start aiming for a certain day once I get this all figured out. There's not going to be a lot of chapters, but as it goes on they'll be longer.

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"You need a life," Nagisa said while laughing. I know he was probably kidding, but it still hurt a little. "I mean, it's been a month now and you've been here everyday!"

"I have a life!" If you consider reading, reviewing studies, and running sometimes a life, then yes. However, my life now consisted of me coming to a coffee shop for half of my day and gawking over someone.

"Right..." He eyed me while slowly eating a cookie. "Why do you keep coming here?"

"I like the coffee."

"LIES!" Suddenly, his face was in mine. "Even I can tell that me, Haru-chan, and Mako-chan make horrible coffee! Well..." He sat back down in his seat and put his finger to his cheek. "Mako-chan's drinks taste better, so I guess his can be called decent. BUT! I ALWAYS MAKE YOUR DRINK!"

"It's just nice to talk to people sometimes!"

"You don't have any other friends besides me? Interesting..."

I frantically waved my hands. "That's not what I was saying!"

I had friends! Just not a lot... Although, Nagisa did have a point about the terrible coffee. I have only had one item on the menu, but based off people's reactions to their first sip, the coffee must be horrible. Constantly, they were mixing up orders and more costumers than should left the shop in rage. Nagisa was no good with dealing with angry costumers and Haruka would only reply with, "It's too much effort to make another one." So, Makoto took charge of dealing with costumers being he wouldn't become overly emotional but would show at least some emotion.

Another thing Nagisa had a point about was the fact that I kept coming here. Most days I didn't even want coffee, I just wanted to see him. It worried me that he was here everyday, though. How much work did he have to do just to go to a water park? At least he was dedicated. Pitiful at his work, but dedicated.

Later that day, I was lying on my bed, rethinking my feelings. Half of my feelings were just confusion, trying to figure out what my mind wanted. The other half, well, I didn't know how to describe it. I was 100% positive it wasn't love. Maybe 99.9% sure, but that's besides the point. Something inside me just kept calling out for Nagisa, which led me back to that cursed shop.

I couldn't possibly love anyone, right?! It would just distract me from school and sports and everything! It would mess up my schedule and I didn't want my beauty sleep to be interrupted by the fact that I couldn't sleep over my feelings. But, it was already too late for that because my sleeping schedule had already been messed up. One time, I spent a whole night starring at the ceiling trying to figure out what was going on.

After about an hour, I called a quits and decided that I wouldn't go tomorrow.

"DAMN IT!" I screamed as I stood outside the shop. Before going in, I took a deep breath and shook off all my negative feelings.

The smell was the same, but the atmosphere changed. Instead of the usual mess and poor service, everything was clean and all the costumers happy. Did I step into another universe? Then it hit me.

"Haruka-san!" I ran to the counter. "Where's Nagisa-kun?!"

"He's sick," A grumpy voice answered me.

To my left was a guy with red hair and shark-like teeth. He was taller than me and seemed to hate the idea of being here. His name tag read "Rin".

"Me and senpai are filling in his shift!" Another boy said, his voice almost as cheery as Nagisa's. Almost. His hair was gray and his name tag read "Aiichiro".

"What?" My stomach turned at the thought of him being sick. "What's wrong with him?"

Makoto saw my worry and replied softly, "It's just a little cold, he'll be back soon, Rei. He'll be okay."

"I want to see him!" Quickly, I covered my mouth. "Please, excuse my harsh tone."

"Are you his boyfriend or something?" Rin crossed his arms.

"No!" I blushed.

"Here," Haruka held out a piece of paper. "This is his address. He likes sweet foods. Get him some strawberry shortcake or something."

"Thank you!" I took it, smiling, and bowed.

"Hum..." Nagisa opened the door, half asleep. "Yeah?"

I blushed at his pink pajamas with a penguin sleeping on a moon, but who was I to judge? I had purple butterfly ones. "Uh!" Stupidly, I held out the strawberry shortcake and bowed. "I'm sorry you're sick, Nagisa-kun! And I'm sorry for coming unannounced!"

"Rei-chan!" The sleepy fog shook off instantly and he hugged me. "Thank you for coming!"

My hands were up in the air and my face red. "You shouldn't be hugging me if you're sick!"

"Ah!" He jumped back. "Sorry, Rei-chan!" Nagisa laughed and I noticed the bit of dried drool on the corner of his mouth. Gross. "How did you know where I lived?"

"Haruka-san gave me your address," I rubbed the back of my head. "I hope you don't-"

"YUM!" He snatched the cake from my hands. "My favorite! Rei-chan! You have to come inside!" There he goes again, changing the subject. It was okay, I was used to it by then.

Surprisingly, Nagisa's house was clean. Also, it had a nice scent to it. Ribbon candy. All of it just seemed so, Nagisa. Minus the clean part, but whatever. His room however was what shocked me the most. That was clean, too! Plus, I was expecting more pink being that he mentioned it was his favorite color. The lack of penguins was disheartening as well, since he was practically obsessed with that bird. But, the same sweet smell of him flew through it.

I didn't know he lived so close to me. If I had known, I would have visited him before at a better time. That's not what mattered, though. What mattered was that I was sitting on his bed listening to him describe this wild dream about a huge penguin that tried to eat me. The dream mattered, too, because it was about me. Me and a huge evil penguin, but who cares? Nagisa must have been thinking about me on some level.

He gasped. "Do you think it means something?!"

"I doubt it does," I smiled. "It just means you must have been thinking about me." No. No. NO. "MEAN EVIL PENGUINS!" Smooth Rei, smooth. "I meant mean evil penguins! Why would you be thinking about me!? That makes no sense whatsoever!" Laugh it out, Rei.

"No."

"Huh?!" I stopped laughing.

"It makes sense," Nagisa sat down next to me. "I was thinking about you yesterday. Well, I mean more than about the fact that you just keep coming back and ordering the same bad drink every time."

"Nagisa-kun..." I'm not going to lie, my heart was beating fast and I'm pretty sure it was noticeable.

"I was thinking that you, me, Mako-chan, and Haru-chan could do something together sometime!"

Of course. "Oh! Yeah! Sure!" I laughed hoping I didn't look like a cherry. "It would be fun to hang-"

"No!" He grabbed my shoulders. "Like a date, Rei-chan!"

DATE?! DATE?! DATE. Did he mean that?! Well, apparently he did! I felt my stomach flutter and my face almost seemed numb. Date could mean different things. For all I knew, he could have been using it to describe a function in which friends do things together. Yeah, he was using it like that. I would have been fine thinking that, but oh no! He just had to do this!

Nagisa, just make sure I knew what he meant, pecked me on the check. "When I get better, we'll have to go on a date! Promise?"

If he wasn't so sick I probably would have kissed him. That and the fact that I could barely move. "P-promise..."

"Pinky promise?!" He held up his pinky.

"Pinky," I shook my head and twisted my pinky around his.

"Yay!" Before I knew it, Nagisa was hugging me and laughing like always.