"Uran, can I-"
"No."
"How about if…"
"No."
"Do you even…?"
"No."
This was how the rest of the lunch period was spent between them. Astro sat next to the bushes that he had hid behind earlier and sat facing the school. Uran, meanwhile, ate her lunch in –mostly- silence as she sat on the school bench. Sure, she wasn't aware on whether or not Astro had been spying on her for a good reason, but he had invaded her privacy, and she wasn't going to let him get away with it either. So she made him sit in the dirt, facing away from her, getting the feeling of her wanting to kick him from behind.
"Hey Uran?" Astro started to say.
"No."
"What if I-"
"No."
"Come over to your house..."
"No."
"And I'll take you-"
"No."
"Somewhere no one else can get to."
His answer was greeted with silence. Astro waited patiently for her to answer, attempting to ignore the itching feeling of turning around to see what she was doing. Optimizing his hearing sensors, Astro attempted to detect what the human was doing without having to turn around to look at her. In a moment of near fear, he found that he couldn't hear her at all- not even the sound of her heartbeat.
"Where are you going to take me?" Uran then suddenly said next to his ear. With a yelp, Astro jumped in the air, accidentally engaging his rocket boots in the process, making him go a bit further in the air. Not for a moment did he even consider that Uran could have seen it happen, but if she did, she certainly didn't say anything about it.
"Well?" Uran asked again once Astro regained his composure. He looked up at her as he rubbed the back of his head as if he had hurt it after being surprised.
"The clouds." the android told her.
"What about the clouds?" she asked, giving him a wary side glance.
"I'll take you up to the clouds." he replied. "I'll take you high up to the clouds and it will make you feel small compared to the universe but it would make you excited too because you're doing something no one has the opportunity to do. You'd be flying without a plane. It could be really cool. You just… you just have to do one thing for me first."
"And what would that be?" Uran interrogated, her suspicions not being confirmed nor denied by how cryptic he was being.
Astro looked at Uran and felt slightly intimidated by her presence. There was just something about her -or maybe he was imagining it- that made you know that she demanded a certain level of respect, and if that respect wasn't met then your world was going to get ugly quickly.
"Do you trust me?" Astro asked her.
"Well, let's see..." Uran started, a tone in her voice indicating the need for Astro to flinch, "You were spying on me behind those bushes several minutes ago, I've been hearing stories that you've been asking some pretty weird questions about me, no one knows where you came from or why you get dropped off by Professor O'Shay who doesn't have any children or nephews, some times you act as if you've never experienced certain mundane activities before, and now you're asking me to put complete trust in you because of some… spark you felt when we brushed against each other in the hallway on your first day? I have more evidence to NOT put my trust in you."
Understanding, Astro hung his head like a little puppy. "However..." Uran then added with a slow sigh, "I think I understand what you want to know, but I don't have all the answers. I can… I can tell you what I do know though, if it would make you stop following me and asking weird questions. Got it?"
Astro looked back up at Uran, almost directly acting like a little puppy in his confusion and excitement.
"I'll pick you up at sundown!" Astro declared as he sprang to his feet with a renewed vigor. Uran didn't say a thing, but it didn't break Astro's spirit as the school bell rang to end lunch period.
. . .
In some ways, Uran just simply hated her reflection. Not enough people compared her to her mother- compare her to the good things about the late Ambassador, that is.
Uran's mother was slender -the same kind of slender that made you wonder when the last time they ate a cookie was- and she had chocolate brown hair that brought attention to her near black eyes. Her eyes always seemed to shine, especially when something interested her or when she was extremely focused on a certain subject. Those eyes didn't shine as much during her last few years though. Or… at least not when Uran was looking at her, which wasn't that often to begin with.
She had once always remembered her mother's hair being held up with a loose bun. You could always tell what kind of day she was having by how much hair ended up clinging to her neck or down the side of her face. The last time Uran had saw her mother alive, her hair had been down- it had thinned out quite a bit and sat against her shoulders without much life to them. Unfortunately, the only version of her mother Uran could easily remember at any point of time was the sick version- not the Glamour model, ready-for-the-runway version that the rest of the world remembered. So, yes, it would be nice if someone could compare her to her mother for once in good reverence, because it meant that she carried on being drop dead gorgeous while ruling the world with a gentle, yet boastful certainty.
A soft tap on her window made Uran snap out of her thoughts. Actually a bit annoyed, Uran walked over to her window to see if a bird had ran into it again- instead, she was greeted face to face with Astro. For a moment, Uran warily looked at him before opening the window.
"Hi!" Astro greeted happily as if nothing were wrong. Uran's look did not waver. Slowly, Astro's bright face faded. "What's wrong?" he then asked.
"This house has two stories to it." Uran told him.
"Yeah, and it's really pretty too!" Astro agreed happily. Uran looked at him, then looked over the window to the ground.
"My bedroom is on the second floor." she then told him, pointing out the window and to the grass below them. "If you're trying to pass as a human kid, you're doing a pretty sucky job at it."
Confused for a moment, Astro looked down as well and was reminded that he had used his rocket boosters to hover at her window.
"Can I come in then?" the little android then asked.
"If only to save you from being seen by the neighbors." Uran agreed with a grim tone. Without being told twice, Astro carefully flew into Uran's room to place his feet on the ground. After checking to make sure his boosters were safely shut off, Astro took a look around her room.
"I really like how you decorated." Astro said, attempting to be nice. "It's very… simplistic."
Simplistic had been an understatement, Uran's room looked more like she was moving out than an actual cozy room that she had spent her whole life in.
"Get a good long look at it then, because in another month it's all going to be gone." Uran told him darkly. Astro turned to look at her with a frown. Then he noticed how much darker it had gotten outside before the corner of his lips formed into a smile.
"Hey Uran..." Astro then said, sounding a bit teasing in tone.
"What?" the girl asked.
"Think fast!" Astro declared as he suddenly activated his rocket boosters again and flew toward her as fast as he could, scooping her up in one motion and sending them both out the window and into the night air. Astro flew high into the air before he let Uran adjust so she could get a view of the world now miles below them.
"Oh... my... god..." Uran whimpered when she realized how up they were. Astro let out a smile as he leaned backward, letting go of Uran in the process. Suffice to say, the human girl screamed.