Yo-ho, Rin here! Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out, but I wanted to make sure this reached my sastisfactory level. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter and there's definitely fluff in here. There will probably be only like one or two more chapters. There might be more, but I probably won't go over ten since I'm too lazy. XP so yeah I tried my best on this chapter and it's longer than my other ones, so let's hope it goes over well!

(A/N): Author's Note


Odd Afternoon

"Mikuo kissed my hand!" I shouted before slumping down in front of the door.

"Really? Well, he's coming over later, so don't feel too awkward." Len's voice sounded completely unsurprised and almost like he was relieved. "He's coming over so that we can work on that part of the song where the trumpet and oboe play together."

I stood up and dusting my skirt off scoffed, "You could at least care more about the fact that something like that happened to your sister." Slipping my shoes off I made my way up the stairs to my room so that I could change. No way was I going to stay in my school uniform when there was no need. I threw on a pair of jean shorts and a gray t-shirt with a random Japanese word on it. That shirt was just for lazing around the house. "Len, it's your turn to make dinner, so I'm going to do my homework!" Too lazy to go down the stairs, I just opened my door and hollered this out.

"I'm quite aware that it's my night to cook dinner; I've already got all the ingredients! It's going to be a little late tonight since Mikuo and I are working on music!" Len called back up to me.

It didn't really matter that dinner would be a tad late. I just needed to figure out what I was going to do when Mikuo got here. And how I was going to do my homework if my left hand was out of commission.

I've tried to write with my right hand, but its look like a foreign language, so there's no chance of that. "I probably have something here that doesn't require writing." I started digging around in my school bag to see if there anything. Lucky for me I had a reading assignment. Thank goodness for that. I enjoyed reading, so this wouldn't be too hard for me to sit down and read. Right as I was about to start though, the door bell rang.

"Hai!" Len called out loud and clear. The sounds of a pair of feet walking across the floor was heard and then the door opened. I couldn't hear what he said next, but I knew who it was.

Taking a deep breath I slowly started to make my way down the stairs, trying desperately to think of what on earth I was going to do when I faced Mikuo. Wait a minute what am I thinking? Just act normal; if I act all weird he'd just be weirded out, so just act normal. I wasn't half bad at acting if I do say so myself, so acting completely normal shouldn't be too hard. Once at the bottom of the stairs I put a light smile on my face and greeted the two teenage boys.

"Hello again Rin. Is your hand doing any better?" Mikuo seemed to be perfectly normal.

"It doesn't hurt as much," I answered. "Well, I was just coming down to see who it was. See you later." I turned around and headed back up the stairs. It was true; I had really only gone down there just to say hi.

"Onee-chan, dinner is ready!" Len called out.

I jumped since his voice had scared me banging my knee against my desk in the process. "Ow! Coming!" Rubbing my now slightly sore knee, I made my way down the stairs. I had been trying to read, but the book we had to read was so boring and well I guess I kinda started to doze off. Heh, my bad.

"What was that banging noise?" Len asked as he got a pop out of the fridge.

"I hit my knee against the desk," I grumbled the answered. When I first wake up from even a nap I am pretty much like the devil. I'm not a morning person at all and people are lucky if they get a grunt or something from me when I first wake up.

The table was all set with the dishes and the food. Mikuo was pouring himself a soda. That was about the only drink we had left in the house since we drank all the tea, juice, and milk. Once we all had our drinks we sat down at the table. Mikuo was sitting across from me and Len was sitting next to him so as to be polite.

"You didn't burn it this time, did you?" I looked up at Len with a sly smile on my face.

He had a tendency to burn things and I would never let him forget that. Len's face turned slightly red (making him look all the more girly) and he retorted, "I don't always burn it and I didn't burn it this time!"

I laughed at his embarrassment. "You've burnt it plenty of times before so don't act like I'm accusing you of something that doesn't occur very often." I reached for my chopsticks, but stopped short when I realized I wasn't able to use my left hand. That was the hand I ate with and I've tried to use chopsticks with my right hand and it fails miserably.

"Oh ho ho, Onee-chan how exactly are you going to eat?" Len was obviously getting enjoyment out of the fact that I couldn't eat.

"I'll figure it out!" I replied hotly. Staring down at the eating utensils I started contemplating. My food was getting colder by the second, but I had no idea how I was supposed to go about eating it before it became ice. Okay let's see here. I could just eat like a dog, but that's really bad table manners and Mikuo would definitely think I'm a freak. What else is there? A sweat drop appeared at the back of my head. I was having a major lack in ideas of how to consume my dinner. My throat was rather dry, so I picked up my glass and started drinking, my plate no longer in my line of sight.

Once I set the drink down, Mikuo spoke. "Rin, say 'ah'."

I raised an eyebrow at him and started to ask, "Why would I say 'ah'?" But I was cut off before I could finish my question.

Mikuo had apparently picked up one of the shrimp off my plate with his chopsticks. Once my mouth was open, he popped the shrimp into my mouth. A light smirk was on his face, but at the same time his cheeks look like they were ever so slightly tinted pink.

My face on the other hand was a bright red. I wanted to ask what the hell he was doing, but my mouth was full of shrimp. Once Mikuo removed the chopsticks from my mouth I chewed as fast as I could and stuttered out in a high pitched voice, "W-what was t-that!"

"You were saying you weren't sure how to eat, so I came up with a solution for you," Mikuo replied simply. He picked up his own food with his chopsticks and placed the food in his mouth…with the same pair that had just been used to feed me. Awkward.

"I-I'll just get a fork. I can use a fork with my right hand." Okay as gross and creepy as it sounds I most certainly wouldn't have minded having Mikuo feed me my dinner like that, but that was something couples did and we weren't a couple and I didn't want to get my hopes up only to have them smushed. I got up and headed into the kitchen to grab a fork. Before I re-entered the dining room I took a deep, calming breath. I needed to calm down and not be some flabbergasted idiot.

The rest of the meal passed by in a completely awkward silence. I refused to look Mikuo in the eyes and made sure he never saw me looking at him. Once the meal was finished I picked up the dishes and started washing them.

That's how Len and I traded; who ever cooked dinner didn't have to do dishes. It was a fair trade we had come up with that worked perfectly, so we stuck with it. When I was halfway done the phone started ringing.

"Moshi moshi?" Len asked when he answered the phone. "Yeah I don't see why not. We had testing last week so why not? All right, see you guys in a few. Bye." He pressed the red button and set the wireless phone back onto the receiver.

"Who was that?" I called out form the kitchen. It was kinda hard washing the dishes since I had to be careful and not get the gauze on my hand super soaked.

"That was Teto and she and Miku are on their way over here," Len replied.

"And why are you the one deciding if my friends can come over?" I asked skeptically. I flinched slightly when I bumped my hand against one of the plates. The dishes didn't take surprisingly all that long to finish up.

Mikuo and Len were sitting on the couch watching some random anime on TV. When Mikuo saw me coming, he scooted a little closer to Len so that I could have somewhere to sit.

"Thanks; what are you watching?" My eyebrow raised in disbelief when I heard the opening song. They were watching the second season of K-On (A/N I adore K-On and I'm watching it for the second time while writing this, so that's what they're watching it XP) and it was the second opening of that season. It was from my small collection of anime DVDs. "Isn't this more of a girl anime?"

"This is not a gender specific anime. Just because all the characters are girls doesn't mean anything," Len argued. He was definitely showing his shota side.

My only wonder was why Mikuo was watching this. He definitely was not a shota. Someone is a very good friend. "Wait, did Miku-chan and Teto-chan both ask to come over?"

"Apparently Teto was at Miku's house, so yeah they're both coming," Len said in a rather bored voice staring at the TV.

Just then the doorbell rang. "Coming!" I called out. Grunting with the effort of getting off the couch I made my way over to the door. Upon opening said front door I was instantly attacked by two hugs. "I-I ca-c-can't breathe!" I choked out my face turning slightly purple from lack of oxygen.

Both of them let go of me and started laughing slightly at my color changing face. Teto-chan caught a glance at my hand and her look of amusement instantly turned to one of worry. "Rinny-chan, what happened to your hand!" She grabbed it gently and tried to see if she could look through the gauze.

"I accidently cut it on the window in the classroom. It's nothing to really worry about. I got it taken care of by the nurse, so no worries," I assured my friends they didn't need to continue freaking out.

"I hope otouto-kun was a gentlemen and made sure you were okay?" Miku-chan raised her eyebrow at her twin brother in questioning.

"Of course I made sure she was okay; jeez I'm not some heartless jerk," Mikuo defended himself instantly.

Len stretched his arms high above his head and got up off the couch. Turning the DVD player and TV off he said, "I think we should go see a movie. There's nothing to do here."

"What are you talking about? There's tons of stuff to do here." It was true. My house was entertainment central. We had a huge backyard with a trampoline, an apple tree and a pear tree, and a swimming pool. There was also a lot of stuff in our house and we had a good sized house.

"Well, uh, there's a movie out that I really want to see!" Miku-chan struggled around in a worried fashion for an excuse.

"Me too! I wanted to see the same movie! And I thought I heard Len say he wanted to see that movie!" Teto-chan jumped right in.

"All right it's settled, let's go!" Len practically pushed me and Mikuo out the door while Miku-chan and Teto-chan led the way.

The three of them were acting very suspicious and it made me wonder what they were up to. As far as I knew none of them had mentioned any movie that they wanted to see lately. I wanted to ask them what they had up their sleeves, but I figured I would probably just either be ignored or just be given another lame excuse.

"Did anybody even bring any money?" I asked knowing that I didn't have my wallet on me. I had been rushed out of the house and therefore did not have time to grab my wallet.

"I'll pay for you since I got a little extra money this month," Teto-chan assured that I didn't need to worry about my ticket. The five of us talked about a bunch of random crap the rest of the way to the theatre.

Once we reached our destination, I knew my chance had come to prove that they were planning something. No way did they actually know what movie they wanted to see since there wasn't any movie they wanted to see. "So what was that movie the three of you wanted to see?" I knew I had them. I would get them to say what's going on no matter what it took.

"We wanted to see Alice in Wonderland. Don't you remember that new version came out?" Miku-chan spout out a movie in no time.

"Oh right." I then remembered that I had been talking about it since the first preview I saw. Shoot; I totally just gave them a movie. "Well let's go then before the tickets sell out. It is a school night, so sadly we can't stay out too late." Of course I went to bed super late, but I did like to be home by a certain time.

The line for tickets was surprisingly short and we only had two groups of people in front of us. "So, how did you eat without you're dominant hand?" Miku-chan was apparently rather bored considering she asked something like that.

Then I remembered the first piece of food I had eaten and my face started to heat up. "I just used a fork since I can use a fork with my right hand!" I answered probably a little too quickly.

Teto-chan was about to ask something, but before she could even say one syllable we were called up to buy our tickets. Tickets purchased, we headed into the warm movie theatre. It smelt of butter and soda which was a little nauseating, but I got used to it pretty quickly. We had all just eaten dinner, so none of us were hungry enough for popcorn or anything like that (it was all super expansive anyway). The theatre where our movie was playing was fairly packed, but thankfully there were still plenty of seats available. There was a row where half the seats were available so we decided to take those seats. Teto-chan sat down first, Miku-chan sat next to her, I sat next to her, Mikuo sat next to me (God is on my side!), and then Len sat on the end.

My heart started beating faster and I was started worrying that they might hear it. That would be mega embarrassing if they heard my heart beating. "I heard that this movie was actually based on 'Through the Looking Glass', but they called it 'Alice in Wonderland' anyway." The best thing to do at a time like this is strike up some good old conversation.

"I can't remember why, but there was something that was preventing them from calling it that. I think it was some kind of copyright law or something," Teto-chan tried desperately to think of what the reason was.

"That's what I heard," Miku-chan put in her own word. Right after she finished her sentence, the lights slowly went off and the previews started.

I didn't really pay any attention to the previews since I was much more focused on the fact that Mikuo was sitting next to me at a movie and in an odd way it felt like a date. I knew it wasn't since there were five of us and this was definitely a friend thing, but my teenage girl mind wouldn't let go of the idea of a date. Once the movie started I was actually able to pay attention to what was going on, on the screen. I loved the guy who directed this film (A/N Tim Burton is freaking amazing) and this movie most certainly disappoint. But for some reason I felt my eyelids grow heavy and it was getting harder and harder to hold my head up. Before I knew it, my eyelids closed for the last time and I drifted off to sleep a little before the movie was half way over.

Mikuo's POV

A light pressure landed on my shoulder and I tried to turn my head to see what it was, but something was preventing me from doing so. Out of the corner of my eye I saw blonde hair and knew exactly what was on my shoulder.

Rin must've fallen asleep cause there was no other way she would put her head on my shoulder. Not that I minded of course. For a little over a year now I've had…feelings for her if you catch my drift.

Onee-chan glanced over, but when she saw Rin asleep she started giggling hysterically. "Aw, you two look so cute!" She whispered loud enough for our group of friends to hear.

That got everyone's attention and Len-kun and Teto both looked over to see what Onee-chan was talking about.

"It worked! Our plan is working!" Teto started cheering in a kind of loud whisper.

"Len-kun, did you have anything to do with this?" I asked a sweat drop on my forehead.

The blonder haired shota replied, "And if I did? Oh come on, you know it's about time you confessed to her."

I sighed and opened my mouth to argue, but stopped when my arm started shaking a little. I looked down at Rin to see that she was shivering slightly. It was rather cold in the theatre and she didn't have a jacket. My face turned even redder than it already was. There was only one thing I could think of to get her warmer. Since it was the only way I could think of, I slipped my arm around her tiny shoulders and held her closer.

At that, Onee-chan and Teto 'awed' in unison while Len-kun gave me a thumbs up.


Okay so I abslotely ADORE this chapter. I personally think it's pretty cute and it will only get better from here on out. And I actually switched point of view for once *GASP*! it's a miracle! okay so again sorry this took so long to write, but I was perfecting this and making sure it came out just the way I wanted it to. Rate and Review and I will hopefully update soon! =^-^=