Chance Encounters
Chapter 3
Summer again:
Amu hadn't run into the boy named Ikuto again for the rest of the year and she certainly did not expect to run into him when she took her baby sister Ami to the Amusement park, but she met him again and of all things on the teacup ride.
When she and her sister got off the ride she turned around and grabbed Ikuto's hand and asked, "What is a grown man doing on the teacup ride?"
"Cuz," he turned around and grinned down at her, "It's a great way to pick up girls, and I guess I just picked up two, neh, Amu?"
"Don't say that kind of thing in front my kid sister! You Pervert!"
"Big sister who's he?" Ami asked Amu tugging on her hand.
"Oh! Ami, I'm sorry this is Ikuto he's that guy that helped me at school in the beginning of the year."
Ami turned around to face Ikuto with her hands on her twelve year old hips, "What are your intentions toward my big sister?"
"Ami," Amu shrieked as Ikuto laughed he had never heard anything this funny in a long time.
Ikuto regained his composure and squatted down so that he was eye level with Ami, "At the moment I'm contemplating asking her out on a date. What do you think of that?"
"I'll think about it and while I do go get me an ice cream," the twelve year old ordered.
"As you wish munchkin," Ikuto said as he stood up to find Amu twitching, but he went to get the aforementioned ice cream before Amu killed him.
"Amu, what do you think, he's cute," Ami said to her sister.
"How 'bout no, no way in hell," Amu snapped she was super irritated with the boy's assuming nature.
A few minutes later, Ikuto returned with not one, but three ice creams. "Here you go your ladyship," Ikuto said handing the Ami a vanilla cone. "I got one for you too Amu," Ikuto said holding out the strawberry cone to the still glowering Amu.
"Oh! Ummm… thank you," Amu said in surprise her eyes going wide when she tasted her favorite flavor of ice cream. She glanced at Ikuto who was talking animatedly with Ami about anime while licking his chocolate ice cream cone. Amu found herself unconsciously watching his lips and subconsciously wondering what it would be like to be kissed by him.
After they had finished their ice cream Ikuto gave Ami some money to go play a few games in the Arcade. When Ami had left Ikuto turned to Amu who was absently watching the Ferris wheel as she twirled a strand of her pink hair around a finger. "So, Amu will you go out with me?"
Surprised out of her revere Amu stuttered, "W- What?"
"Will you go out with me, Amu," Ikuto repeated.
"I- ummm… sure," Amu answered.