Hatsukoi

Romeo was waiting downstairs as Wendy changed clothes. The youngest member of the Madoushi Oujisama was determined as ever to tell sweet little Wendy how he really feels about her. Few minutes passed and Wendy hasn't come down yet. Romeo kept looking at his watch from time to time. Then suddenly, Wendy came down with a cute frilly skirt and white top. Romeo was speechless as he was looking at the blue-haired little girl. He turned his back and reached for a manual in his pocket.

"How to compliment a girl…" mumbled Romeo as he turns the pages.

"What are you looking at?" asked Wendy—closely at the manual.

"It's just…" Romeo stopped as he realized that both their faces are already very close to each other.

Both looked away—beat red and all.

"You look pretty…" Romeo was mumbling again and looking at the ground.

-"Eh? What?"

-"I SAID YOU LOOK PRETTY!"

-"You look pretty handsome too, Romeo-kun" smiled Wendy.

Suddenly Romeo remembered what to do to avoid dead air. He remembered what Loki said.

"Grab a girl's hand and drag her out and KISS HER!"

"WHAT?! No! I can't do the last part but the other two sounds okay…" thought Romeo.

Without any more delay, Romeo grabbed Wendy's wrist and led her to the car. The driver rode away to wherever Romeo wanted to go. The two tweens were still blushing from just what happened. Wendy was avoiding Romeo's gazes and so was he. The young drummer was trying to break the silence when he looked up to Wendy and asked her where she wanted to go.

"Anywhere is good. Anywhere with you" said Wendy.

"Stop right there! I must be the one to sweep you off your feet and not the other way around" said Romeo—embarrassed.

"So uhmm…where do you really wanna go?" added Romeo.

"To the arcade" said Wendy accompanied by a very sweet smile.

"It's not romantic but I guess, if she wants to go…" thought Romeo.

The car stopped at the local Akihabara arcade. Wendy jumped out in excitement. She grabbed Romeo's arm and led him to the claw machine. She dropped a hundred yen coin and tried her luck on getting a pink stuffed toy. Luckily, she got it on the first try. Romeo tried and couldn't even win one when he already spent over 1,000 yen. He banged his fist on the machine and cussed at it. He stopped when he noticed that Wendy was looking at him.

"Here!" said Wendy as she handed him the pink stuffed toy.

"But I wanted to get something for you" stated Romeo.

"You don't have to. Here, it's a keepsake" winked Wendy at the young drummer.

As the two of them are talking, a guy who was the same age as them came from behind Wendy. Aki Masato was one of the troublesome friends of Romeo from before. He always keeps on competing against anything that Romeo can do. He grabbed Wendy on the shoulder.

"So hello there sweet little thing" stated Aki as he was hitting on Wendy.

"Don't touch her Aki" intimidated Romeo.

-"Romeo, ohisashiburi da ne?"

-"What do you want Aki?"

-"I just happen to drop by and here you are. How about a round of Taiko huh?"

-"No"

-"C'mon. If I win, I'll get a date with little missy here"

Because of that, Romeo got irritated more and accepted the challenge. Taiko is Japanese for drums and it's common in arcades. Romeo spun the drumstick on his fingers and so did Aki. Aki gave a smirk as he started to play the Taiko without any mistakes. He scored 98% but when he turned to Romeo, his score was 100%. Aki was wide-eyed when he realized he just lost. Romeo spun a drumstick on his left hand and slammed it on the Taiko. He smirked and glared at Aki as if saying, "Yeah, I'm the boss".

"You won't get to have any date with Wendy. She's mine" said Romeo as he led her out to the car.

Wendy was blushing crazy when she finally absorbed what Romeo just said. The car drove back to Wendy's house. Both tweens went down the car and said their goodbyes.

"Ano saa…Wendy, gomen" apologized Romeo.

"Well…it's okay…" replied Wendy.

-"Aki was a good kid before, I don't know, maybe he—"

-"Romeo-kun, suki desu"

There was dead silence between them. Romeo smiled and blushed as he brushed his hair.

"I didn't think I was gonna spend my last day in Japan with someone special…like you. I thought it was gonna be sad and all but it turned out differently. Arigatou Wendy" stated Romeo with a smile.

"Un…hai. Uhm…Where are you going anyway?" Wendy asked with a hint of sadness.

"United States. But promise me something" there was silence.

"When I get back, marry me" added Romeo.

"Aren't we still too young then?" asked Wendy—bewildered.

"Did I say marry? Yeah, that's what I said" said Romeo with a cheeky smile.

"Sure. I will" said Wendy with a smile.