Yay, chapter two! :D It would've been up yesterday, but I barely had enough time to update my LotF fic that I update daily, so, yeah.
/lame apologies
"Ooh! Ice cream!" She grabbed his arm, pulling him across the street. Tesla just closed his eyes and went along with it, not thinking about the cars that they were probably about to get hit by.
Miraculously, they arrived in one piece on the other side. Tesla took a deep breath, relishing in the air-conditionedness of the ice cream shop. Orihime made a beeline for the ice cream. Tesla followed, checking his wallet to make sure he had enough money. Sure, Orihime would try to pay for it, but Tesla always tried to pay for everything they did. He didn't know why; it just seemed right.
A few confusions of what kind of ice cream Orihime wanted later, Tesla paid and they got out of there. He'd ordered a simple vanilla, just to take pity on the guy after Orihime's complicated order.
"The fair's in town," Orihime said, pointing. "Look."
Sure enough, there was a Ferris Wheel turning just a little bit away.
"Wanna go?" Tesla offered, mentally congratulating himself on /not/ buying that new pair of basketball shoes. Orihime looked at him, beaming.
"Yeah!"
As much of a cliche it was, fireworks were blasting from the ground when Orihime and Tesla finally got to the Ferris Wheel. They'd rode all of the roller coasters and such first, and, after Tesla bought Orihime a bag of cotton candy because she was /hungry/ after the biggest, most loopy roller coaster they had, they got in line.
Tesla was still a little sick from the roller coaster, but he was happy to be on a little Ferris Wheel seat with Orihime. They faced each other, Orihime chomping away at her cotton candy and Tesla just watching her, marveling at how the moonlight lit up her hair.
He shook his head clear. That was weird thought. He'd always thought Orihime was beautiful and, yeah, 'extremely fucking hot', as Nnoitra would put it, but he'd never 'marveled at how the moonlight lit up her hair.'
Of course he'd never been on a Ferris Wheel with her at night during a full moon with fireworks blasting in the background before, either.
The Ferris Wheel stopped at the top. And instead of going on after a few moments, it still stayed there.
"Technical difficulties!" someone yelled up to them. Tesla looked at Orihime. Her cotton candy was gone, and she was looking down, a small, almost secretive smile on her face.
"Isn't this the most romantic setting?" she breathed. Tesla swallowed. Ah. Romantic setting.
This was awkward.
Orihime turned to face him. The fireworks kept going off.
And then Tesla's mind went blank. She'd kissed him, /she'd/ kissed /him/, her eyes were closed and his were open, was he supposed to close his eyes, too?
Yeah, yeah, he was. But he didn't want to, he liked watching her, he'd closed his eyes when he kissed Apacci, but Apacci wasn't near as beautiful as Orihime.
He decided to close his eyes, just as the Ferris Wheel began to move again. It started jerkily, throwing her into him. He caught her, ignored the fact that he'd almost fallen out, and grinned. She looked at him, that small, secretive smile on her face again.
"Um..." Tesla said.
"Thank you," Orihime said. "Thank you so much."
She'd thought she'd never get over Ichigo. But walking out of the fair, holding hands with Tesla, she kind of was. She still thought that Ichigo was a really nice guy, but... she could be happy with Tesla.
He dropped her off at midnight and kissed her once more at her door.
He was so /romantic./
That was one of the things she liked most about him. Their first kiss had been in one of the most romantic settings ever, he paid for everything, even when she tried to. He'd kissed her at her door.
She really loved that about him.
:D
Yeah, I'm pretty satisfied with this one. Sometimes I even amaze myself... unless you guys don't like it, in that case, yeah, I thought it sucked, too... . .