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Chapter 8: Such a Crazy Day!

I wike up to the morning sun beating down on my pure and innocent face. I leaned against the backboard of my bed as I stretched out my arms and yawned, rubbing away the sleep from my eyes. I stared out from the exposed window at the edge of my room, silenty watching the birds chrip their happy songs. It's never this quiet when Ami's around. I chuckled to myself. I took a nice long shower and got dressed. (A/N: I'm not going to describe what she wears EVERY single time because I think that sometimes get a tad annoying)

Slumping my way downstairs, I grab a box of random cereal. I think it was "Honey Nut Cheerios" (*I do not own that either) or something of that sort. Some "Kellogg's" breakfast…I'll tell you that much. After breakfast, I tidied around the house a little, sprucing things up for when Mama, Papa, and Ami return home. I had to admit, doing things for them felt sort of nice…kind of…refreshing. It was a change from my usual character. I usually saw myself as a lazy person who only dressed well. It was around 10 AM when I thought I'd start fixing up lunch for when they return at noon.

I took a pan and started making toast, eggs, and other yummy stuff=). While I was at the stove cooking up the delicious meal a cool voice shattered the silence. An no…. it wasn't any of my charas.

"You know… a responsible teenager would not leave her balcony door unlocked." The voice said.

He was the last person I expected to see, but the first person on my list of people I WANTED to see…Ikuto, Ikuto, Ikuto. Tisk, tisk, tisk…. You could have just rang the doorbell. I would have LET you in you know…..

"Gah Ikuto! Why do you scare me like that?!" I shrieked. Good thing nobody's home.

"Can't I visit my strawberry when I want to?" he asked back completely ingoring the question I had previously shot at him.

"No, you can't because that's breaking and entering somone else's home."

"Well…. Technically, but still. Aren't you happy to see me?"

I just grunted and got back to my cooking. Am I happy to see him? Am I happy to see him? Am I happy to see him?! YES OF COURSE I AM BUT I CAAANN'TTTT ADMIT THAT!

"Well, can you at least let me know ahead of time if you're coming over? What if my parents were home?" I grumbled back.

"Well they aren't and plus, I don't have your phone number…" he said, facing my back.

Wait! Does that mean he just asked me for my phone number? Does it!? I hope so…

"Well, even if you did have MY number, I don't have yours so I wouldn't pick the phone up thinking it was a stranger."

"Well then, we should fix that." And with that, he took my phone from my pocket and programmed his name into it. Afterwards, he called his phone from mine to get my number. Smart thinking….

He handed my cell phone back and I set it on the counter top. A stray bit of oil jumped of from my pan on the stove and landed on the back of my hand giving me the tiniest most non-serious (if that's a word) burn. But boy, did it hurt like hell.

"Ow! Ow! Ow!" I yelled as I instantly dropped my pan on the stove.

Ikuto had seen what happened and swiftly turned off the stove and asked me to place a sheet of paper towel over the burn and asked, "where's your first aid kit?"

I replied, trying to hold back the seering pain, "it's in my bathroom."

I had sincerely thought I saw much worry in his eyes, but then I saw his lips curve into a smirk. Oh great….he's going into my bathroom. But still….he's worried, and that's a pro.

He came back fairly quickly grasping the box with a red plus sign on it that stated "FIRST AID". He sat me down on the couch and sat in front of me opening the box and fumbling (maybe not fumbling) through it to get what he was looking for. He first disinfected my hand and then placed a band aid on the burnt area. Wow, he's so gentle. I didn't think of Iktuo as being the gentle type. I'd think of him to be a badass "I-don't-care-about-anything" type of person. Hm….I suppose I was wrong.

"Why are you staring at me?" Ikuto asked staring at me in return.

SO, I fired the same question back at him, "Why are YOU looking at ME?"

"Because you were looking at me…." He said, his raven eyes piercing my golden ones.

He rested his elbows on my knees and rested his head in my lab.

"I'm tired…" he whined.

I blushed, but he couldn't see due to the fact that his head was laying but he was smirking anyway. Does he like have eyes in the back of his head or can he read me like a 2nd grader's chapter book? BUT! He did look really tired. Was he out all night?

"Um Ikuto?" I asked not moving his head from my lap.

"Yes?" he answered back.

"Did you sleep at all last night?"

"Maybe, maybe not…"

"Umm…."

"Don't worry, I wasn't out with any other girl if that's what you're wondering…unless you're jealous…then maybe I was."

"I wasn't even thinking that!" I exclaimed as I got up. But…. He was too fast. He got up quicker than me (I don't know how that's possible, because he should be like lying on the floor) and hugged me.

Ikuto is hugging me!!!!

"Don't tell me you already forgot out date yesterday…" he purred into my hair.

"I didn't…" was all I was able to squeak out, my voice barely above a whisper. He smelled like………. Cherries. He didn't smell like an alley cat. He smelled like cherries.

"Enjoying the hug?" he asked gently stroking my hair.

I just sighed and nuzzled into his chest…. "I'll take that as a yes?"

"Mhmm…" I said, "Ikuto… all of a sudden why are you so?"

"I told you that you intrigue me…" he chuckled.

"What's so funny?"

"Well, the fact that even though I turned the stove off, your food is burning."

"AHH!!! THE LUNCH!!! AHHH MY FOOD IS BURNING!!! IKUTO YOU JERK WHY DIDN"T YOU TELL ME BEFORE!"

He just laughed…. A geniune laugh…

End Chapter 8

My deepest apologies for not updating yesterday! I have a charity concert coming up soon and rehearsals are being called at the strangest times! SOOO SOORRRYYYY But I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I wanted a chapter where it was ONLY Ikuto and Amu and nobody else. But I also wanted it to be somewhat funny. But…I don't know what else, but I hope you enjoyed. Thanks everyone for their feedback and reviews!

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