Valentine's Day is tomorrow and of course, being sad, lonely, depressed little me, I have no date for our school's dance. I really want to go with Hatsuharu, but I don't know if he even likes me.

I was out walking near the pond behind our house, my white dress waving in the breeze. I had a peach colored sweater on over it. I was in the middle of watching a couple of ducklings chase each other. I sat sprawled out on the grass, staring at the clouds, and trying to figure out what each of them looked like. So far, I had found a pig playing a flute, a vacuum, a dragon with a cow on its back and a scale. The wind started blowing, and I got up to go back into the house. Before I opened the door, I noticed a piece of red paper wedged under the door. I picked it up and read it. It said, "Go to the willow tree, and look between branches." in rough handwriting. There was also a small package of chocolate attached. I walked over to the willow tree near the pond, and climbed up a few branches. I found a piece of pink paper tacked to a branch, and ripped it off. This one said, "Rose bush in front of your school." In the same writing and had a little heart shaped button taped to it. The school was only a few blocks away, so I grabbed a sweater, and set off. When I arrived at the school, I went straight to the rose bushes. I pulled my sleeve over my hand, and reached into the bush. I had to dig around a bit, wincing every few seconds or so because of the thorns, but I eventually found the paper. This one was purple, and it told me to go to the empty locker number 382. I opened the doors to the school. I decided if anyone asked, I would say I forgot a book and I came to get it. I walked down the hallway, and came to locker 382. I pulled the door open, and reached into it, and pulled out a piece of white paper. This time it was yellow, and it said, "Meet me at the Sakura tree in the park east of the school." This was starting to get intriguing, so out of curiosity, I made my way to the tree in the park. There was no one there when I arrived, so I decided to wait a couple minutes. Then, I heard rustling in the tree, and when I looked up, I saw a smiling Hatsuharu looking down at me. He jumped down, and landed in front of me, flat on his feet. "So, wanna go to the dance with me?" He asked me. "What? Oh, yeah, of course!" I stuttered. "Great!" He said, "See ya then!" He planted a kiss on my cheek, and turned to walk away. And I stood there in awe of what had just happened. Wow. I just got a date. I started on my home, as quickly as I could so I could call Tohru to tell her.

I arrived home and went straight to my room, where I had a phone. I quickly dialled her number, and sat on my bed while it rang. "Hello?" I heard a man's voice on the other end say. "Hi, Shigure, can I talk to Tohru?" I asked him. "Oh yes, are you two pretty ladies planning on doing anything on Valentine's Day? Because if you aren't, I'd be-" he got cut off by yelling in the background. "SHIGURE!" I heard two boys yelling, most likely Kyo and Yuki. "Hello?" I heard a girl say. "Hi, Tohru!" I said excitedly. "Guess what?" "Um... Oh, I don't know!" She said. "I have a date to the Valentine's dance!" I exclaimed. "Really? Me too!" She squealed. "Who are you going with?" She asked me. "Hatsuharu!" I said, happily. "Who are you going with?' I asked her. "Kyo." She replied sheepishly. "Great!' I said. "Come over and we'll go shopping!"

Tohru came over that afternoon and we went to the shopping center. We walked into a ladies dress store, and looked around. I found a nice tropical blue dress and Tohru found a black pencil skirt and a loose red sweater. We went to a change room to try them on. We came out of our rooms and looked at each other. Tohru looked great in the sweater and skirt but I looked like a blueberry in the dress. We looked at each again, and burst out laughing. I ran back into the change room, and yanked off that monstrosity. Some things look a LOT better on the rack. We walked out again and she had decided to buy her outfit. We walked to the clothing store next door and she helped me look for a better dress. We found a few nice things, but nothing that looked any better on me than the first one. We walked in and out of store after store but nothing popped out. Finally we walked to the last store in the centre, which was a huge department store that sold everything from underwear to chandeliers. We walked past the men's section, trying to avoid many goo-goo eyed stares from the males there. We ducked into the kid's section, when we noticed that tall blonde guy from the Ouran Host Club strutting down aisles, hitting on girls. We hid between racks after he walked past. We had to keep dodging around until he left. Once he was outside, we emerged from a pile of clothes that we had dived into to avoid him. We went back to the dresses and looked through them. It was getting dark and the store would be closing soon, so we didn't have much time. We each took a rack, and dug through them. If I didn't find something today, I wouldn't get anything since the dance was tomorrow. They announced over the loud speaker that the store was closing in half an hour. I frowned, discouraged when out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a little basket of things pushed under a circular rack. I nudged it with my toe, and then yanked it out. I dug through it, amazed at my find. There were at least six or seven dresses packed neatly into it. I found a really nice on that was purple in colour and pulled it out. I had a dress similar to this, and I thought it looked pretty good on me, so without stopping, I pulled Tohru behind me, and went to the checkout. I threw the dress on the counter in front of me, put some money on the counter, grabbed the dress, and walked out. I can't stand department stores. Tohru ran after me, and caught up. We started talking about our new clothes, and agreed that I would go to her house before the dance tomorrow, so we could get ready together. We separated, and each walked home. It was only 7:30 when I got home, but I was tired so I went to bed. Plus, I wanted to have energy for tomorrow. I laid in bed, with the radio playing softly. I held my hands behind my head, and laid there for a bit before drifting off to sleep.