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"He was so upset when he came home." Rin said to me on the phone.
The smile that had been on my face all day was wiped clean off this afternoon.
"I'm sorry about that. I guess I should have expected some sort of uproar…" I said regretfully.
"What? What exactly happened?"
"After we parted ways with you, we decided to stop by the small café just down the road. Unfortunately, some girls from our school were headed in the same direction and caught up with us. This wouldn't have been a problem until they started prying about who I was seeing and if I was really seeing anybody at all. After trying to calm them down a bit, I finally let them know that I was with Len. They were angry. They said I was lying so that nobody would ask me out. Things got a little heated…"
"What do you mean?" Rin questioned.
"They said…'A prince would never date a peasant boy.' Stupid, I know. Girls these days. I defended him until they left but he told me that he wasn't interested in the café anymore and went home. I knew they had gotten to him but he wouldn't talk about it."
"I'll see what I can do. Thanks, Kaito." She said.
I silently cursed myself for being the source of Len's suffering yet again. How did this always happen? I needed to make it up somehow…and I had the perfect idea!
"Where are you going?" Miku asked, sitting on the couch with a lollipop in her mouth. She liked sweets as much as I did.
"Len's house."
Miku made a face. "I at least expected more attention from all this. You're the one with the limelight." She said sourly.
I laughed a bit at her way of seeing things. "You're welcome to it whenever you want. I'm sick of the attention." I gave her a parting hug before wrapping myself up in my scarf. It was getting colder and colder these days. "See you later."
"Bye!"
I knocked on the Kagamine residence's door. I rocked on my heels in anticipation, watching the tiny clouds my breath made.
"Yes? Oh, Kaito. Come in." said Rin, surprised to see me.
I entered, rubbing my hands together to warm them up. "Sorry for dropping by expectantly. Is Len home?" I asked.
On cue, Len appeared at the top of the stairs, wearing sweat pants and a tee shirt. I noted the messiness of his ponytail with a grin. "Hi!" I said cheerfully.
Len's eyes widened at the sight of me before he became quiet. "Hello."
Deciding this melancholy greeting wasn't enough to satiate me, I climbed the stairs to bury him in my arms, snuggling him and thinking about how cute he looked.
"G-get off. You're f-freezing!" he said, having been pressed up against my cold jacket.
"Sorry." I said with an apologetic smile, thinking that he cheeks didn't look too cold at all. "Anyway, we're going out. No excuses either. If you didn't do your homework, I'll let you do it during free period." I said to him.
"Where are we going?" he asked, not too enthusiastically.
"You'll find out when we get there. Now surely you aren't going in just that." I said, though I hated to send the sight away. Len looked cute no matter what he wore.
"I…I guess I'm going out, Rin." He said reluctantly.
"Cool. Have fun!" she said with a sweet smile.
I returned the smile and left with Len.
Len stared at the treasure before him with a mixed exp
ression. I could only decipher that he didn't look surprised at all like I had hoped he would be.
"What? Don't you like it?" I asked expectantly.
"Kaito…Only you would take me to get ice cream in the middle of winter…" he said flatly.
"But they have the best sales at this time of year!" I argued.
"That's because they know no one's buying."
"I don't see how one could go without this for so long. Anyway, it's necessary for movie night."
"Movie night?"
I pulled the DVD I had in my jacket pocket out to show him. It was one of the new comedies that was just released.
"Like at Gakupo's that one time? You can't have a proper movie night without ice cream. And look!" I reached into the freezer of the grocery store we were at. "They have banana! That's your favorite flavor, right?"
For the first time tonight, a saw a smile light up Len's face. "How did you know that?" he asked.
"We were at the park! I was on a date with Miku and we bumped into each other in line. You ordered banana…" I trailed off, feeling heat rise to my face. That was months ago! How embarrassing for me to remember such a small detail like that. I shut my mouth, picking up a few gallons of ice cream while Len stood next to me, still smirking.
Rin's eyes widened when we came back to Len's house. "That's a LOT of ice cream!" she observed incredulously.
I looked at the obscene amount, thinking to myself that this wasn't much more than I normally bought. "I'm sorry for barging in again. We were planning on watching a movie and I offered to watch it at my house but Len said you wanted to see it." I explained.
"It's totally fine." She said, laughing a little. "Anyway, what movie?"
Len fished the DVD from my pocket, showing her the cover.
"No way!" she exclaimed zealously. "Let's pop it in!"
I didn't make it very far into the movie before I noticed the misconception I must have had. Len was also eyeing the television, a bit confused, as we ate our ice cream. Apparently, this comedy was actually a romantic comedy…a chick flick. It really wasn't my style and I now understood why Rin was so into it. Now the commercial made more sense…
Len and I watched through the movie with a bored expression, unhappy at being tricked by misleading advertisements. Well, they weren't that misleading. I guess I just wasn't paying attention that much after all. Len had never heard of the movie aside from Rin's mentioning it. In an interesting turn of events, I felt myself getting caught up in the plot to the point where, when a huge twist occurred, it had me gasping in shock. By the end of the movie, Len and I found ourselves teary-eyed, overjoyed at the happily ever after. Rin laughed at us. I, on the other hand, was amazed by her strong heart and resistance to this happy tearjerker. Maybe she had gone through training to prepare herself for this. I made myself a mental note to study up if Miku ever made me watch another one of her chick movies.
I left that night without feeling the cold. The entire day felt like a rollercoaster ride, having so many ups and downs, twists and turns. In the end, I got to have my own happily-ever after. My plan to cheer up Len had succeeded. I felt like we could take on anything. Nothing more would come in the way of our relationship! Or so I thought…
A/N: DUN DUN DUN!Ahem. I apologized if Kaito seemed a little goofy in this. You have to remember, he is super happy and enthusiastic with his relationship with Len. He doesn't have to hide it anymore! Let me know what you think of this one. I'm not entirely sure how it turned out. o
