AN: Thanks for the reviews! They make me smile! :D
Edit 6/16: I moved Ken's scene further down so it flows better. Text and information-wise, it's the same.
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Sora was all smiley in the cafeteria despite the bump on her head.
"Are you ok?" Mia asked as her friend got in the food line behind her.
"I'm fantastic!" Sora chirruped.
May rolled her eyes. "We wanna know how you got that golf ball on your head."
"I bumped it on the car," she stated still with a smile. "Sorry about not making it. I left my phone at home or else I would have called you."
Mia tilted her head. "May, you were waiting for them? Why?"
"We were supposed to have a double date," May said, "but Sora and Leon never showed."
Mia paused in grabbing some sausages. Sora continued to hum as she picked out some bacon.
"Who did you go with, May?"
Without speaking, May pointed her fork to a table. Mia turned and saw a familiar carrot top morosely picking at his food.
"You're dating Ken?!"
"Went on one date," May corrected and then none too gently dropped the lid back over the steaming tin of pancakes.
Mia pursed her lips, catching May sour mood. She let Sora go in front of her so she could talk to May. "Did something go wrong?" Mia asked with a slight frown.
May shrugged. "I guess, but then that would be saying that something was supposed to go a certain way."
"O-k..." Mia started with confusion but then pushed on. "So what's the issue?"
"That," May dryly stated as she jerked her chin to the side, seeing as her hands were busy.
Mia looked again, catching Ken watching Sora wistfully. The oblivious redhead grabbed some milk and then started to walk in Ken's direction, but some screams near the entrance had her pausing. By the big grin on Sora's face and the familiar thuds of bodies, Mia took it that Leon was now in the cafeteria. Sora changed her path, instead going over to Leon which made Ken frown.
"Oh." Mia's seen love triangles, but hadn't seen a love square in real life.
Was it wrong of her to feel giddy about it?
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This morning, Leon woke up from a strange dream.
Sora had been there and in the outfit she wore for their date. He had been on edge in the beginning, just waiting for something not ordinary to occur, however, he started to relax when it seemed like a regular day. He started conversing with her as if it were real life. She smiled and the sight made his stomach fluttery.
Then, she started to fan herself.
'I'm hot,' she said, and then pulled out a pitcher of water from nowhere. He waited for her to pull out a cup when surprise-surprise, she simply poured the water over herself. 'I'm thirsty,' she had murmured in a tone he had never heard her use. The pitcher seemed to be filled with limitless water as she tipped her head back, drank some of the liquid and then proceeded to pour it down the rest of her body.
Slowly, but surely, her white tank top was soaked through, reveling the hot pink bra she had underneath. 'Oops!' She giggled to herself, placing the pitcher on the table that had not previously been there.
To his shock, she peeled her top off.
She stood in her bra and skirt, wringing her top dry and he stood there in front of her, watching as the water fell down from her top. Then, she suddenly stopped, drawing his attention from her hands to her face, making him follow the drops of water that rolled down her neck, over her collarbone and then soaking her bra.
He found his hand along her collarbone and he was appalled to find his hand going down where the drops had gone. But he wasn't screaming at himself like he had the last time his hand had gone where it shouldn't.
'Are you thirsty?' she asked, her face incredibly close to his and his hand stayed where it was.
His cheek tingled with her kiss, and then he felt her place another on the corner of his mouth, followed by a tiny, brief lick.
'Meow' he heard, and he looked at Sora only to find a cat with a bra on.
He had woken up then.
That has to be the strangest dream yet, he thought as he entered the cafeteria. Despite the bizarre 'kiss and lick' on his cheek last night and then the dream, he found himself eager to see her.
"Morning Leon!" Sora chirruped as she approached him.
She wore a white tank top today, but the bright blue flowers on it had him calming down. It was just a dream. There was no need for him to be worked up over it. It was highly unlikely for her to suddenly take off her shirt.
"You have your hair up," he commented, having not seen it that way before.
"I was hot," she said as she stood next to him.
He stiffened slightly when she repeated what Dream Sora had said. That wasn't verbatim. It was pretty warm this morning. Unusually so, he would say. However, even with his reassurance, he still found himself looking out for a pitcher of water.
While he was looking, his eyes strayed over her.
He could not explain why, but he felt like touching her, especially with her skin looking particularly soft and smooth. His hand, of its own accord, lifted up to touch her arm, but he caught himself, instead making it go to her hand. She had grabbed his hand before, so he figured that the hand was safe territory.
Her eyes widened slightly with the contact. He nearly pulled his hand away, but then her brown eyes connected with his. She had a smile on her face and some pink on her cheeks.
The next second she turned away and he felt her hand tighten around his.
He took that as a good sign.
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Ken despondently watched as Sora put her tray down and then followed Leon to the food line.
He stabbed his french toast harder than necessary when the back of their hands brushed, causing Sora to blush and shyly turn her face to the side. When Leon had the gall to loosely grip her hand, Ken viciously bit a large chunk of his toast off, not caring that maple syrup was dripping down his chin and getting onto his shirt.
"He's got different skills," was all May had told him.
Was it because Leon was from Europe that made the girls go ga-ga over him, also allowing him to snag the attention of the sweet, but ignorant star of the Kaleido Stage - something Ken has been trying to do for at least two years now - and letting him grab her hand when he wanted to?
Maybe it was boldness that she liked.
Ken had tried it somewhat when he was insistent in winning her the goldfish at the carnival, but he had asked her if she wanted them instead of just winning them and then presenting them to her. After all, Leon just went out and got her a whole tank full of fish and then just gave it to her without asking.
Yes, Ken nodded to himself. There was a different sort of boldness that he was not aware of.
But now he is.
He will consult his dating book to see if it was there.
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They sat at the table side by side.
Sora didn't want to let go of his hand this time and he made no indication of it bothering him.
In the middle of their talking, Mia came over. "Hey you two! A few of us were thinking of going to the beach today after practice. You wanna join?"
"Sure!" Sora turned to look at Leon. "You interested? It'll be fun!"
He took a look at Sora's hopeful face and then at Mia's eager one. He gave a half shrug. He didn't seem the harm in it.
Sora beamed. "That's a 'yes'!"
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AN: This one's longer than usual. :3
Side note: I'm thinking that this will not be going on for that much longer, but I don't have a feel for how many more chapters yet.