You Make Me Melt
By Team GEMINI
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Nanoha's Point Of View
I'm Too Cute to Ignore Part 2 of 6
I made it to the meeting destination, the Uminari City Public Park, but I saw no sign of the blonde I was to meet. I walked around for a minute or two, my heart sinking as time passed me by. I walked around the park for a bit more, but still no sign of Fate... she stood me up didn't she?
Minutes passed by and I was going to cry. Fate didn't show up today, she promised she would, but she didn't. Maybe, just maybe... she got caught up at work?
"Mou..." I sighed, my lower lip trembling as I pouted.
Sighing wasn't going to help with my situation, so I decided to stand by the big clock in the center of the park. With each step I took towards the clock, I felt my mood sour. I was really looking forward to spending the day with the business woman I adored. I spent hours on my preparations for this day, and for what? I get stood up.
"Nanoha!" a voice called out to me.
I quickly spun around to face the owner of the and…
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Melt
Melting, I was melting under the gaze of those red hot burgundy eyes. The way she tilted her head slightly to the left, the hand she coolly tucked into the pocket of her loose fitting blue jeans, and that mischievous glint her glasses gave off. Fate looked as handsome as usual, no... she was simply divine. Well shaped eyebrows furrowed together in a way that gave her a serious but playful look.
I felt my knees go weak as we continued to look at each other. Fate gave me a lopsided grin, her facial expression pricelessly calm... if she keeps looking at me like this, I'm going to really melt and hopefully slide into the deep, dark, murky street gutters so I could avert her gaze from my unworthy being.
"I thought you stood me up." Fate confessed with a shy blush on her face, her free hand scratching her cheek bashfully. "I was seriously looking for you everywhere!" Fate added with a wry laugh.
"I would never!" I exclaimed in my defence. I averted my gaze and looked away shyly to the right. "I thought you stood me up." I mumbled in a hoarse whisper.
"Nanoha, you know I wouldn't ever do that. At least not to you of all people." Fate proclaimed truthfully.
"I know that, so I thought that you just got stuck at work." I answered her, my blush growing hotter as Fate stood before me with such determination.
"Pfft! My company runs itself nowadays. I'm only there for symbolism, that and the free doughnuts they have every Thursday." Fate cheekily chuckled. "Honestly now, I would never miss a chance to see you. Not on my life."
We stood before each other for a bit longer, just taking each other's presence nostalgically. People were looking at us oddly as they passed us by, but Fate and I didn't budge. It's been so long since violet blue met with heart rendering falun red.
"Hey, um, wa-wanna start wandering around now?" I Fate asked me with a small stutter.
"Un!" I guess even famous celebrities don't like being out in the open for too long.
I ran up to Fate's side and wrapped my arms around her, hugging her tightly. I had missed her so much it hurt to live, let alone breath or do anything else involving life. I felt a part of me was missing when she left for France for about a week due to business reasons. I was there to see her off alongside our other friends. I remember her hugging each and every one of us tightly, but I knew that my hug was the longest... mostly because I didn't let go. Fate laughed at me and grinned, but she didn't try to remove herself from my embrace.
"You've done something different with your hair." Fate commented. She patted my head softly when she commented me.
I blushed and said, "Oh, you noticed?" I played with a lock of hair and smiled to myself quietly, my blush deepening.
"Of course! Why wouldn't I notice?" Fate brushed a stray strand of hair off of my face. "You trimmed your bangs and moved where your hair parted; also you're wearing that hair thing I gave you."
"Nyahaha, wow."
"You look really cute today, Nanoha."
Someone, bring me to Antarctica right now before I melt into a nyahaha-ing Nanoha puddle. Fate is just too hot to stay in a solidified state. How else can I describe her? She's perfect! From her perfect teeth to her charming laugh, drop dead gorgeous looks, smart, funny, reliable, trustworthy, and she's a great father as well. Who wouldn't be willing to do anything for a chance with such an amazing woman? Not that I'm saying I'm in love with her... I just can't.
"Uh-nyahaha!" I began to laugh nervously; I must be so red right now.
"By the way, I really like your outfit. Very cute, suits you really well and… very pink." Fate quirked and eyebrow and smiled her trade mark lopsided grin.
I must look so weird compared to her. Fate wore a stylish grey jacket, white button up collar-shirt, loose black jeans, and a silver skull ring. She was pretty fashionable today, but when doesn't Fate look cool? Never.
We continued to walk side by side, my arms looped around hers, with my cheek pressed against her shoulder, I bet we looked just like a couple standing together like this. Talking to each other with bright smiles, interesting topics, and the soft fluffy feelings we gave off when we laughed together. Yes, we must have looked like a couple to anyone who walked by us… but we weren't.
After a good thirty minutes of walking around the city streets, Fate and I stopped by the local mall and entered a really expensive clothes shop. I refused to even set foot in such a pricey store, but Fate insisted with a puppy dog pout and I lost all resolve.
"Go pick something out!" Fate suggested with a grin. I shook my head vigorously. "Aw, why?" Fate asked me, a cute pout on her beautiful face.
"Because, stuff like this isn't my style..." I tried to explain. "I'd feel guilty putting something on that I can't afford."
"Hm, then how about this." Fate looked around the store and pointed out something. "Help me pick something out for my girlfriend." I felt my heart sink when she mentioned her super model girlfriend -- my proportions aren't even as close as her bodacious babe's. "So let's say, if I see what I like I'll just happen to purchase it and leave it in your care, forgetting I completely bought it in all."
"What?" I dead panned. Was Fate even thinking about anyone else but me this whole time?
"Ya, I mean, you'd y'know… you'd look cute in anything. I'd be tempted to buy whatever you try on and ask, if not plead, for you to wear it the next time we go out together." There was a cute blush on Fate's cheeks, but the blush on my face was probably darker.
"I-I-I-... I'm really not that cute..."
"You are!"
Fate and I looked at each other with wide eyes. My mouth was slightly open from the shock of Fate's outburst. The sheer weight of her words had finally sunk and we both looked away shyly. I looked over to the left and Fate looked over to the fight. We stood before each other stiffly, trembling in our shoes as time passed by. People were looking at us strangely again...
"Okay, you win. Let's just get this over with okay? But please, please don't buy me anything!" I pleaded with an earnest look. Fate chuckled and ushered me into the store playfully. "Mou..."
I stood in the middle of the store with a blank stare. Everything here cost more than my electricity bill, cable bill and water bill all put together. I was going to have a heart attack looking at these prices. Why was I even in such an extravagant store anyways? I'm dirt poor and yet here I stand in the dead center.
"Nanoha, Nanoha! Here try these on!" Fate shoved an outfit in front of my face. I froze at the adorable outfit and nearly fainted when I saw the price tag on each piece of clothing. Fate noticed my stare and grinned, "Come on, changing rooms are over there!"
"I don't wanna! I don't wanna!" I protested, but Fate was stronger than me and my own will was on her side, so I found myself in the changing rooms rather quickly.
"Let me see!"
"No!"
"Please?"
"No! Absolutely not!"
"Come on?"
"Never!" I shouted angrily, walking out of the changing room with my fist raised. Crap.
"Wow, you look-..." Fate gulped. "Amazing."
"N-No I don't-... stop lying."
"Think you can turn around really quick?" I spun around and crossed my arms. Fate seemed so amused seeing me dressing up, it was adorable and it made my heart beat faster. "That outfit really suits you," she looked around and reached for another pre-made outfit. "Here try this one on."
"Okay." I replied, accepting the outfit much to my own displeasure. Why was I allowing myself to do something like this? And while I'm on that note, why is Fate doing this with me? She has a beautiful girlfriend that would make a much better model than I would.
I walked into the change room and removed the old outfit and tried on the new one. The outfit itself felt great, it was just my... size? I glared at my reflection and walked out of the changing room once again, my glare still on my face. Fate jumped up and looked at me with a startled look, but that smile on her face didn't waver.
"Why is it that everything you've chose seem to be just my size?"
"Um... Google?"
"Wrong!"
Fate flinched and grinned at me innocently. My heart jumped when I saw that innocent look on her face. She looked like an innocent little puppy gazing up at me on the street. I wanted to take her home and keep her with me forever, but I could never do that. I would deprive our city and Japan of its most treasured person. Yes, being selfish as to want Fate all to me would mean disastrous things to our small island country and why not throw in the rest of the world while I'm at it.
"So spill." I shot Fate a glare causing the beautiful woman to tense up.
"Susuzka, told me..." Fate looked away to the side and laughed nervously, her eyes half lidded with her bangs cascading down with the tilt of her head.
"I see..." I muttered angrily. "Memo to self, thank Suzuka-chan."
Fate made me try on many outfits after that and each outfit she made me put on brought a new expression on her beautiful face. I was having so much fun just watching Fate make that adorable thinking face, then her 'it looks good on you' face, then the 'I think I'm going to nose bleed' look, and lastly her smiling face. That last one was what made my heart flutter about.
Being with Fate like this made me wonder what it felt like to be loved back. As of now, I am more than certain that I am falling in love with her, but I know she doesn't feel that way about me. We look like a couple on the outside, but between us it's nothing but a really close friendship. Really now, how can I, Takamachi Nanoha, hope to ever compete with the stunningly beautiful Carim Gracia, with her beautiful voice, long silky blonde hair, warm tender blue eyes, and her sekkushi body.
"Nanoha, you're sighing. Is anything wrong?" Fate asked me, snapping me out of my musings. I looked at her with a slight jump, she looked worried. "Look, if I'm sorry if I'm forcing you to do something you don't want... I really am sorry if my selfishness is causing you any disdain."
"Eh?"
"I mean-" Fate looked to the side and scratched her cheek, "I'm forcing you to dress up for me, and it's wrong for me to make you do something like this against your wi-"
"Mou, if I was doing this against my will I would have stormed out of this shop a long time ago." I said interrupting her train of thought. Fate sat in her seat rigidly pondering if she should continue the conversation. "Anyways, what do you think of this one?"
Fate paused for a moment and stood up. I watched as she walked over to me, falun eyes tracing down my body. "You look, stunning."
I wore a simple but elegant black dress that revealed my back. It really wasn't all that decorative, just a really, really simple black formal dress. How could Fate think that a dress this plain be stunning? She's rich, popular and famous; she's seen thousands of dresses way better than the one I was wearing.
"It isn't nice to tease, Fate-chan." I said quietly. Fate was so close to me, it hurt to breath.
"I'm not teasing," Fate brought her hand up and brushed her knuckles against my cheek gently. "If I buy you this dress, will you wear it to dinner with me one of these days?"
"Uh-uhh... wouldn't Carim-chan be a better candidate to take out to dinner?" I half heartedly replied. "I mean, she's really pretty unlike me, she's graceful, and-and she's everything I'm not."
"No."
"Huh?"
"Yes, Carim is beautiful, but dinner with her just gets to quiet. I like talking to the person I'm having dinner with." Fate chuckled with a deep blush on her face. "Plus, I would rather stare into your blue eyes over a candle lit dinner tonight."
"F-Fate-..."
"So, back to my question." Fate faked a cough and looked away bashfully; she's been doing that quiet often. "Will it be alright if I take you out to dinner?"
"Y-Yes..."
"Great! I'll pick you up at around 8ish?"
"Y-Yes..."
"I guess we don't have to hang around in this over priced coat hanger." Fate pointed towards the change room and ushered me to get changed back into my regular clothes. The time it took me to take the dress off and into my 'date' clothes, Fate had already placed all the clothes she made me try on back to their proper racks. When I took a step out, Fate smiled again. "I think that outfit fits you the best. It just says, "Nanoha" you know?"
"Mou..."
Fate bought me the dress and carried it in a little baggy that had the shop's name on it. I walked beside Fate looking up at her curiously. This was my dream date in a nut shell, this was the feeling I wanted to feel -- she belongs to Carim.
I looked down and sighed.
"What's wrong Nanoha?"
"Oh, it's nothing!"
I shouldn't be feeling this way for my best friend's lover...
"Did I do something wrong?"
I shook my head and moved in closer to her, resting my head on her shoulder. "It's just... should you be doing this with Carim-chan?"
"Y-Yea, and you're point?"
"I'm not Carim..."
"But I like you, we're friends."
"Thanks, but I kind of like you in a different way." was what I wanted to say, but instead I said,
"Un, we're friends."
End of... part 2 of 6.
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MELT
メルト 溶けてしまいそう
Melt, I really think I'm going to melt
好きだなんて 絶対にいえない… だけど
I won't ever say that I love you... however
メルト 目も合わせられない
Melt, I can't even look you in the eye
恋に恋なんてしないわ わたし
I won't be in love with love
だって 君のことが …好きなの
Because there's just something about you that I… really love