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ARIGATO ARIGATO ARIGATO ARIGATO ARIGATO ARIGATO!

I hope that's right… hehe! I'm trying to say thank you! That's what my geography fair packet said it is… Anyway…

This was a fun chapter. I actually like it! It was fun to write, and now I actually want to finish this story!

I drew Eri yesterday. The link is: http/www.deviantart.c om/deviation/32668092/ (Without the space between .c and om) If that doesn't work, you can always go through my homepage profile link and find it there. Check it out, man! lol!

Secret Number Five:

Secret Number Five: I've never had a first kiss before.

Ha.

DUH!

Hiding my face behind my hair, I snuck a look at who was sitting behind me.

Yep.

I could spot those matching pink hair ribbons a mile away.

"Shit," I whispered, wiping my tears away and meeting eyes with Yuki. "What the hell do we do now?"

"Crud… uh… I don't know…"

His eyes widened.

Makato had spotted him.

Quickly, I slid under the table as I saw two pairs of designer shoes stand next to our table. I would've liked to hear what they were saying, but I was kind of distracted. I was sitting in somebody's old spilled tea, it smelled like the Water Treatment Facility under that stupid table, and there was a spider dangling above my head.

I'm not normally one to get all arachnophobic, but this thing was huge, dangling in front of my face and staring at me with its five gazillion eyes like 'Haha! I can scare you!' Desperately, I looked around for something to smack it down with.

Nothing but a soggy old noodle.

"Yuki!" I hissed through my teeth. "Yuki!"

Holding my breath, I reached for the hand next to him on the seat.

It wasn't one of those clichéd 'jolt' feelings or a happy butterfly feelings or what ev. I touched his hand and it felt like someone had poured a vat of hot syrup on me. The feeling dripped slowly from my head down, and once it was done boiling my insides, it froze them.

I couldn't let go. I didn't want to.

"Um… I seemed to have dropped my… napkin," I heard Yuki tell The Puke as a napkin came fluttering down next to my feet. "So… yeah. I have to go anyway. Erm… I'll see you at school on Monday…?"

Thankfully, finally, the four shoes clicked away and Yuki slid under the table also.

"Ah… can you kill this… or move it or something?" I pointed to the spider, which had now almost landed on my chest.

With that annoyingly perfect smile, Yuki picked up the napkin he had purposely dropped just moments prior to and swept the stupid arachnid away quickly.

"Kinda nice down here, huh?" Yuki said. I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic. It was so stupid and dark and cramped with both of us shoved in the space between the wall and the middle table leg. Oh, and I was kind of distracted with his stupid perfect face so freaking close to my stupid ugly one.

"Yeah," I replied, "if you like spiders, gum, and the smell of the Poo Plant."

He laughed his stupid perfect laugh and I laughed my stupid ugly one.

"So what did The Pu—I mean, Makato and Sari say to you?" I wondered.

"Oh, they just asked me what I was doing here."

"To which you responded…?"

"I simply told them I was drinking tea."

"And then?"

"They said I should come to Makato's house tomorrow to practice the dance."

I choked on air.

"I told them I was busy."

"Are you?"

"Well… I thought so. We're going to your house tomorrow, right?"

"Oh God," I sighed. I tried to be quiet, but it was kind of hard with him so close to me. "Yeah… about that… That might not work out. But I'm still trying…"

"We could always go to my house?"

"No," I told him. "It'll be fine. My brother says he's sorting it out."

"Are you… close with your brother?"

"I suppose. I mean, he's got my back. And he's really the only one I have left."

Silence.

"Do you want to… talk about it? I mean, I don't want to be prying, but…"

"I don't want to talk about it. Just family stuff, you know?"

"Yes. I understand."

And before I knew it, I was bawling like a freaking baby.

"Please don't cry, Miss Eri," Yuki whispered, trying to be all comforting. "Please don't cry."

He tilted my chin up. "I'm sorry," I coughed. "I don't know why I'm crying…"

"You know… what you asked me before? Why did I ask you out?"

I nodded.

"I guess it's because… you seemed so different from everybody else. You never tried to force yourself on me like all of the other girls. You never really said anything at all. You seemed so mysterious, yet so helpless. I wanted to get to know you better, even if it meant being trapped under a table at Ramen Co. You looked like… You want a friend, don't you?

"Am I strange for saying that?"

"No," I whispered firmly, wiping my eyes and sitting up.

God, his eyes were so perfect…

"I admire you, Eri," he whispered, his hand still gently placed under my chin.

Aww crap.

He put his lips against mine.

He kissed me.

The freaking Prince kissed me.

Ack!

Banzai…?

I don't know…

"Was that… your first kiss?" he asked slowly as he pulled away.

"Erm… yeah…" I replied, still dazed.

"Mine too."

At first I was shocked, but then I asked myself "Why should I be? I don't know anything about him."

And here I had been thinking he was a man whore.

With a smile that wouldn't fade, we bolted our of the store unseen, giggling the whole way. And the whole time I'm thinking: My first kiss was under a table at Ramen Co. With the Prince. Not many people… Well, I guess nobody else but me can say that. It had been his first kiss too.

And maybe he kissed me again.

You never know.

I think that would've been a really cute ending!

But it's not. There are still many more chapters to go!

As a side note, I'm visiting my town's Water Treatment Center on my sister's birthday (May 12th) as a science field trip. If you didn't know, that's where they clean all of the sewage to make it suitable for putting back in the waters. I haven't been there yet, but my siblings have told me it smells like a mother of POO. My dad attended the same school I did around 30 years ago, and kids have been calling the Water Treatment Center 'The Poo Plant' for over 40 years! I just thought that was REALLY funny, so I HAD to put it in at least ONE of my stories!

So thank you for reading!

I'll write up chapter six soon, but I'm currently working on another story that's taking up most of my time, and I have a MILLION tests this week. I'll try to update all of my stories soon, though!

See ya!

Brenna

+The Girly Man+