First Date

Chapter 2: Is it a date or not

"YOU'RE DOING WHAT!?" Kei exclaimed, a piece chocolate popping out of his mouth.

"You heard me." Narumi answered, irritated.

"You're going on a date with Kiri-chan later today?!" Narumi was was bouncing off the walls. Narumi almost had a heart attack.

"WHAT! NO! Are you deaf?! I said I'm going to see a moviewith her, not have a date!" He said.

"Same thing!" Kei pouted.

"No it's not! I'm only going with her because I didn't want to waste these tickets, and there was no one else." Narumi answered quickly, trying to do damage control. He could just imagine the rumours that would start. Oh why had he let it slip to Kei?

"Yeah, but does Kiri-chan know that?" Kei asked, excited.

"Know what?" Narumi answered dumbly.

"That you only invited her because no one else could go with you!" Kei said, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Well, no, but I'm sure-"

"So she thinks this is a date." Kei interrupted. It took Narumi a couple of seconds to think about it, but the more he thought about what had happened from Kiri's point of view, the more it seemed like he, Narumi, was asking her on a date. Which meant that Kiri must like him that way since she'd said yes. A look of horror made it's way onto his face. Kei saw it and snickered. "Well, have a nice date Naru-Naru!" he said while backing out of the room. "Make sure to wear something nice!"

"Wait!" Narumi yelled desperately, hoping to salvage the situation by inviting Kei along too (even though he still was a bit angry at him), but Kei had already left. So Narumi was left on his own to pace around his room and think. There was no way Kiri could think this was a date with him, could she? It's true that any other girl would've seen it as a date, but this was Kiri. She was so absentminded she could get yelled at the principal for an hour before realising she was the one he was yelling at! Accepting to go on a date with him without really accepting it was actually the case. She hadn't even looked excited at all when she'd agreed to go with him. But as much as Narumi tried to make himself feel relieved that this wasn't a real date, he couldn't quite make the strange fluttery feeling in his stomach leave

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Back at her house Kiri was getting ready to go. It was now already 3:55pm, but if Narumi had been expecting her to arrive on time, he really didn' t know her that well. She lazily put on her running shoes and was about to leave when Seiji walked into the room.

" Just where do you think you're going?" He asked, eyebrows raised.

"Out" Kiri answered.

"You have chores to do on Saturday, remember?" he asked.

"Sorry, promised a friend I'd see a movie with them."

"Which friend?" he asked.

"No one you know." Kiri answered dryly. Seiji's perked up a bit at that.

"Oh, is it your boyfriend? Don't tell me I'm gonna have to give you 'the talk'," he said while playfully wiggling his eyebrows. Kiri sent him a glare that clearly stated take that back or you're dead. "J-just kidding" Seiji chuckled nervously. "Jeez, it's like this every Saturday. You always manage to find some kind of excuse to get out of your chores! Last week it was SP stuff, and the week before you were helping Kanako do her homework...I"

"Whatever" Kiri answered, before walking out. It's true that Narumi had never had better timing. She'd been having trouble finding a good excuse to get out of chores. Besides, watching a movie goes hand-in-hand with eating lots of candy. She might actually enjoy this.