Author's note: Yey!I got a couple more reviews lol.Big glomps to those who have left reviews,you're keepin me writing.I should hopefully be updating this story quite alot now coz I have no idea how much I have left to write and I wanna finish it before my net access becomes nul. In this chapter there is a very slight NamineXHayner, maybe OletteXHayner in the next chapter.If the story does seem complicated an the whole 'omg it was all a dream',don't worry it'll all get explained soon...I think.So I'm gunna shut up now and just write lol.
Namine was frantically searching under her bed, pushing boxes out of the way in the hope of finding what she was looking for.
"Namine, are you alright honey?"
Namine glanced back out from under the bed to see her mum stood in the doorway, clutching a basket full of washing.
"Mom have you seen my sketch pad?" she asked while crawling out
"No, haven't seen you with it for a while. Sure it's just lying around somewhere."
Namine sighed and began to brush the dust off her little white t-shirt.
"Dinner will be ready soon," added her mum before walking off.
Namine still sat in the center of her room, clucking her tounge against her cheek. Where had that sketch pad gone? She crawled over to her draws and began to search through them.
After clearing out each one of the five draws, Namine still hadn't found her sketch book and the only result was that her room was a complete mess.
"Namine, dinner's ready!"
Namine got to her feet and went downstairs, leaving the mess and finding her sketch pad till later.
The mashed potato drowned in gravy suddenly didn't look so appetising to Namine as she sat poking it with her fork. She glanced up at her parents who were stood in the kitchen washing the dishes. They wouldn't have her sketch book, so where could it be. How hard was it to lose a pad of paper? Well, in Namine's case that wasn't very hard. Sighing again for what seemed like the hundredth time she pushed her plate of brown mess away and slipped off her chair.
"I'm not very hungry," explained Namine as she scraped the food into the bin.
Bit of a waste really. Namine's parents looked at her.
"Are you alright?" asked her dad as he placed down a plate on the rack
Namine nodded "Jus' not hungry...I'm, gunna go tidy my room now, and look for that sketch pad."
Wandering out of the kitchen she began her way upstairs, stopping though when there was a knock on the door.
"I got it," called Namine as she climbed back down the stairs and skipped over to the door. Opening it she was greeted with Hayner's cheery face.
"Oh, hi Hayner."
Namine sounded more suprised than welcoming.
"Heya Namine, umm, can I come in?"
Namine stood aside for the boy to walk in. Hayner never paid her a visit, unless of course it was to help him with homework. Why didn't he go to Olette for that though, she was smarter than Namine, even though the blonde girl wasn't at all dumb.
"We haven't got any homework," said Namine guessing that's probably what he was here for
"I know..." he answered "I just came to ask you summit..."
Hayner scratched the back of his head nervously. Namine waited for him to go on, unable to think at all of what he might want to ask, and why it couldn't wait until tomorow.
"Are you...are you busy, on friday evening?" he managed to ask
Namine placed her finger against her chin and thought for a minute "No, why?"
Hayner now looked even more nervous, and this boy never felt nerves for anything.
"Would you, like to come on a date with me?"
Woah...Namine looked shocked though she didn't mean to show it. Never saw that one coming. Olette had always been the one who liked Hayner, not her. Would Olette be jealous if Namine accepted? Even though it was a date, it didn't really mean Namine had to fancy Hayner at the end of the night, she could still treat him just as her friend.
"Um, ok," replied Namine whos answer positively lit up Hayner's face
"Great!" he beamed, now the nerves seemed to have gone "I'll come get you at 7 on friday, oh and dress up smart."
He waved then left. Dress up smart? Where on earth could he be taking her?
The day's till friday seemed to speed by. Every day though Hayner had always reminded Namine about their date. By thursday it had become a little wearing. Namine chose not to tell Olette about her and Hayner's 'date', just in case the girl got the wrong impression. Olette was completly oblivious to the going's on around her.
Friday evening...Namine was stood in her towel searching through her wardrobe for smart clothes. Yeah she had pleanty of clothes, some smart, but she couldn't seem to find anything she wanted to wear. With only half an hour left till Hayner was going to turn up Namine was in slight despair. She couldn't find her sketch book and now she couldn't find anything to wear, how great. In the end through not wanting to be late for Hayner, she pulled out her little midnight blue coloured dress. Namine didn't wear it much to the fact it was extremly figure hugging to her small curves and was pretty revealing through it been short. Namine was pretty sure if she ever twirled quick enough people would get an obvious view of her knickers. Oh well, Namine just wouldn't do any twirling tonight. Teaming it with a pair of heeled black sandles, she then began to work on her hair. For once Namine decided to put her hair up into a small ponytail. Leaving a couple of strands of hair to fall down against her cheeks on either side of her forehead. Looking at herself in the mirror she was suprised at how different she looked. This was like, the dark version of Namine, compared to what she wore usually anyway. The girl giggled to herself. Dark version of her? How ridiculous. These were just clothes, and they were just a darker colour to her whites and bright colours she wore usually. Namine left to go downstairs, timing it well as there was a knock on the door.
It was Namine's mum who answered it, letting in a dressed up Hayner who was clutching a bunch of roses. Namine had never seen him in a suit, but the outcome was pretty different. He looked more mature than when he did normally, and also alot better looking. Hayner's eyes almost popped out when he saw Namine walk over to him.
"Wow," he stood in awe "You look amazing."
Namine blushed but couldn't help but grin sweetly at his compliment.
"So do you Hayner," she countered "This is the first time I've seen you dressed up."
Hayner only beamed, feeling relieved she approved of his 'look'. The boy then handed her the roses.
"These are for you," he said shyly
This was also a first for Hayner. Usually you'd be lucky if he even gave you a piece of his chocolate at school, now he was presenting Namine with a bunch of bright red roses. The red almost reminded her of something, but Namine didn't dwell on it as she handed the roses to her mum who went to put them in some water.
"Thankyou Hayner," smiled Namine as she pulled on her little jacket.
If Hayner was trying to persuade Namine to like him more than a friend, he was doing a good job.
"So where are we going?" asked Namine as the pair walked up the street, Namine's arm linked through Hayner's.
"I'm goin' to take you to that new restaurant," said Hayner proudly
Namine tried to think of the newest restaurant that had been built around Twilight Town. Only one she could think of was the one called Moonschin, but that was only for really rich people, surely Hayner wasn't taking her there.
"The Moonschin one?" suggested Namine despite expecting him to say no
"Yep," nodded Hayner "Why I told you to dress up smart."
Namine could see him grinning widely in the dark light. But, how could he afford that?
"Are you sure we can afford it?" enquired Namine a little apprehensively
"Me, Namine, you're not paying, I am. Yes I can afford it, my parents gave me a load of munny through their 'lack of time for me', they were buying me off but it's still munny. I didn't know what to spend it on, so I thought I'd spend it on you."
Namine found herself almost in tears at Hayner's generosity towards her. He could have done this for anyone and yet he'd chose Namine.
The Moonschin was considerably full when Hayner and Namine walked in. It was mostly old couples sat at the tables, the ones who probably had too much money to even know what to do with it. Everyone was dressed smartly, and Namine was glad she'd chose this dress and not gone for something else. A man in a suit came and directed them to a booth.
"It's so posh," whispered Namine as the man left them with menus and went off to get drinks for the pair.
Hayner nodded "And they're all old here."
Namine giggled at the fact he had noticed it aswell. Scanning through the menu, half of the stuff Namine hadn't even heard of.
"What is...'Osso Boco'?" she asked hoping Hayner might know.
The boy only raised his eyebrows, looking as bewildered as she did.
"I have no idea," he answered with a snuffed laugh "Shall we just have that? Stupid the way it don't exactly tell you what it is. Says its in a white wine sauce...must be meat I guess."
The man came back with their drinks and took their orders for two Osso Boco, and extra vegetables, in case the Boco wasn't at all nice and vegetables where their meal instead. Namine glanced round the dimly lit room, the atmosphere felt almost, romantic. Looking back to Hayner she rested her chin in her hand and smiled at him. The blonde haired boy smiled back at her, the light from the candle flickered across his face.
"Thanks for taking me here Hayner," she said softly "You didn't have to take me, and yet you did."
Hayner took a sip of his drink "It's ok Namine, I'm just glad you said yes."
Namine twirled a strand of her blonde hair round her little finger, her blue eyes seemed to sparkle mysteriously in the candle's dancing light. She was starting to see Hayner in a whole new way.
The plates of food were brought out, well, they were hardly plates of food. A stingy piece of meat placed on a pile of some sort of vegetable with some sauce over it...
"That's the thing with these posh places, they never give you a proper helping and still charge the earth for it," said Hayner as he eyed up the 'small' helping of food. Even the extra vegetables hardly counted as extra. Namine giggled.
"Well it looks really nice. Least it's not somethin' like lobster."
"You not like seafood?" questioned Hayner before spooning some vegetables onto his plate.
"I despise seafood," replied Namine also helping herself to green, healthy root vegetables. "You?"
"It makes me barf," said Hayner simply with a slight playful grin at Namine's reaction
"Oh Hayner that's gross!" she exclaimed before laughing "I was just about to eat then, now I'm not so sure."
Through the meal Namine found herself growing to like Hayner alot. She was seeing a different side of him, one that he never reavealed usually. She found out the pair were alot alike in some ways, liking some of the same stuff, having the same reactions towards different things.
After the meal and the pudding of a simple, still not excessive helping of white chocolate ice cream with strawberry compot, Hayner paid for the whole thing. He didn't even flinch when he saw the price like Namine did.
"That's daylight robbery," she cried when they got outside.
The cold air outside brought goosebumps to Namine's arms even though she had her jacket on.
"Calm down Nam, it's fine. It's only munny."
How could he have such a relaxed approach to spending that much munny on food?
"Well...Thankyou for the meal, it was lovely, even if they did charge that much."
Hayner grinned and shook his head "You're quiet tight about munny aren't you."
Namine felt her stomach flip slightly as she felt a warm hand slip into hers. Looking down she saw Hayner's hand linked into her palm. Heyner only smiled at her.
"Come on we'll go back through the park..."
The park at night was a huge contrast to what it was like in the day. The whole place deserted and dropped into a shrouded darkness, the trees seemed to lean over them as the pair walked along the path. The branches reaching out like long, winding fingers. Namine watched the steam form in front of her face from her breath hitting the cold air. Apart from the occasional squeak from the swings up ahead getting moved in the very slight breeze, and their footsteps against concrete, the whole pace was silent. Hayner suddenly stopped them both, looking up at the sky Namine glanced at him questioningly.
"Why are we stopping Hayner?" she asked, her hand still linked in his
Hayner turned to her with a nervous smile. Namine felt herself gasp at how close their faces were to each other, his hot breath tickling across her cold cheek.
"Namine," he started "I really like you..."
Namine was still confused "I like you too Hayner, but why have we stopped?"
Hayner still didn't answer her question "No, I like you ALOT. More than just friends."
Namine cursed silently in her head. This part wasn't sposed to happen. Yeah she had grown to feel something for him tonight, but she hoped Hayner wouldn't take it further. She wanted to tell him that it was Olette who liked him more than a friend, but found herself unable to when Hayner's mouth was pressed against hers. The touch came as a slight shock to Namine, who could only stand blankly wondering on what she should do. She felt Hayner's hands slide round to rest on the small of her back, holding her closer to him. He grazed his lips harder against hers as if trying to get a reaction from Namine. The girl shuddered from the warmth of his body pressed against hers. Slowly Namine took control of her numb stricken mind and let her eyes drop shut, her arms looping gentley round his neck and she began to give Hayner the response he wanted. It felt slightly strange to be kissing her friend, a boy who up until tonight she had never looked at as anything more than 'just' a friend. She had hardly been kissing Hayner that long when a pang of guilt struck Namine and she pulled away suddenly, catching Hayner off guard. He looked at her with a worried expression.
"Namine?" he asked with a quiver in his voice
"I'm sorry," she squeaked "I just...I can't kiss you anymore, I feel like I'm..."
She paused wondering if this next part really was true "...letting someone down...It's like if I'm with you, I'm gunna hurt someone..."
Hayner looked confused and slightly shocked "You don't have a boyfriend though...do you?"
Namine shook her head "But I feel like there's someone else..."
She sighed "I'm sorry Hayner. I really like you and I really enjoyed tonight but...maybe we should just stay friends."
The boy sighed quietly "Ok Nam," said Hayner who was looking crestfallen and slightly reluctant to say those words "I'll take you home now."
The rest of the journey to Namine's house was walked in silence. Arriving at her door, she tried to give the boy a reassuring smile.
"I'm really sorry Hayner," she spoke while tucking a piece of hair behind her ear "We're still friends though right."
Hayner tried to force one of his usual smiles "Yeah of course...Well, I better get home then. Night Namine."
She watched him walk away up the street.Dissapering round the corner and out of sight. Namine stood there for a moment, wondering who on earth there was that made her feel guilty through kissing Hayner. There were no other guys, or at least, not one's that she could remember.
Author's note: Osso Boco or whatever it was is veal shanks in white whine sauce just so you know. I hadn't even heard of it before but I wanted something wierd and maybe unheard of to lots of people. So far that's my longest chapter lol,hope it was ok.