Pai never got to play with human technology like he wanted to, though, because of a certain blonde girl. And her name was Pudding.
Lettuce woke up unusually early to the yelling of a certain monkey mew. She groggily rolled off the couch, landing with a heavy thud on the carpet. She briefly wondered how she'd gotten there before groggily stumbling to her feet.
"Let's go the park! The park, na no da! The park!"
A grumpy looking Pai soon joined them, obviously not used to being screamed at so early in the morning.
"It's too early to go to the park, monkey girl," Pai snarled, pouring himself a bowl of cheerios.
Pudding's brown eyes grew large and filled with tears. "B-but, I wanted to go to the p-park with you and Lettuce onee-ch-chan, na no da," she sniffled. She was even already all dressed up, wearing her brown jacket and boots.
And it was on this note that they begrudgingly left for the park.
"It seems even you have a soft spot for girls," Lettuce giggled, swatting him good-naturedly on the shoulder. Blushing, Pai stumbled on a tree root on the way to the playground, immediately sending Lettuce into panic mode.
"Stop hitting him, Lettuce onee-chan-He's obviously very fragile, na no da," Pudding shouted from the monkey bars, rolling her eyes. Pai mumbled something threatening, but continued walking with most of his dignity through the trees. The big yellow playground was free of children due to the early hour, and Pudding got it all to herself. Or maybe it was the ominous shade of the sky that scared the kiddies away. Pai and Lettuce sat down on a blue bench not far away and watched her do flips on the swingset.
"Er, looks like it's gonna rain," Lettuce said, trying to make conversation. She pointed upwards, where dark clouds were indeed rolling in.
'Great, Lettuce. Talk about the weather. That's original,' Lettuce thought.
"I miss earth weather," Pai said, not noticing the fact that she hit herself a couple times. "The trees are very beautiful at this time of year, despite the cold." Lettuce nodded in agreement, looking up at the red-orange leaves.
"Are you cold?" Pai asked suddenly, noticing her shiver. She was wearing a t-shirt and capris, foolishly expecting it to be warmer.
"Oh, me? Don't worry, I'll be fine," Lettuce lied through her teeth, waving her hands no.
Pai took off his black jacket and handed it to the startled girl. "Here, wear this." He gave her a small smile, making it impossible for her to say no out of sheer surprise. She knew even now that she'd never get used to him smiling at her like that, and that it would always catch her off guard.
She put the coat on, and the pair fell into nervous silence.
"Hey, you guys!" Pudding shouted from the top of the swingset after several minutes. "Let's play hide and seek, na no da!"
Lettuce hesitantly agreed to, and Pai was pestered into playing.
"I'll count to thirty, na no da. I have to come find you, and the loser is put through the winner's choice of torture."
"When did that become a rule?" Lettuce asked in exasperation, but Pai almost instantly disappeared, racing off in the opposite direction. For someone who normally floated around, he was incredibly fast. Lettuce, on the other hand, confusedly ran around in circles for ten seconds before she, too, hurried away.
"Twenty-two, na no da, twenty-three, na no da. . ."
Lettuce rushed around in a panicked frenzy, terrified of what humiliation Pudding might put her through. She could still remember the time Pudding had forced a tutu on an upset Shirogane-san when he'd lost a bet. . .
She twisted around a large tree, tripping on something. That something grunted in intense pain as she hit her head against his. Hidden under a pile of leaves, Lettuce landed half on top of the purple-haired alien. She blindly attempted to wiggle away, but she could no longer feel her feet. For one terrifying moment she feared she'd lost them, but she quickly located them sprawled behind her.
"Ready or not, here I come, na no da!" Pudding called from across the park, while Pai swore through his teeth.
Lettuce's arms were wrapped around the older boy's neck, and his own left arm was around her waist. Lettuce began to squirm away, but Pai stopped her.
"Shhhhhh," he hissed, his face a dark shade of red. "She's coming this way."
Apparently he took this game very seriously.
Pais forehead was against hers, and he could smell her hair. It smelled unnaturally nice. For a human. But Lettuce continued to surprise him. Looking down, his amethyst eyes locked with her bright blue ones, and she blushed, hastily casting her gaze downwards. They sat without moving for almost ten minutes before Pudding's approaching footsteps grew louder.
After another three minutes, Lettuce and Pai were almost sure she wasn't going to find them. Lettuce's eyes widened further as she was pressed closer agains his warm chest as he gave a sigh of relief.
Pai shifted slightly, and craned his neck around the trunk to get a better look, when Pudding jumped out of the very same tree. "Gotcha, na no da!" Pudding yelled, landing in the pile of leaves. Lettuce screamed, and Pai grimaced visibly as the young girl landed on his leg.
"Don't worry," Pudding said, while Pai brushed the leaves off himself. "I won't put the two of you through any humiliation, na no da."
Lettuce let out the breath she'd been holding.
"I think it's bad enough I got a picture of you two tangled up underneath that tree," to which Pudding held up a disposable camera.
Even the purple-haired alien chased Pudding home, trying to snatch the yellow camera she was waving around triumphantly.
It began to rain.