Surprise! Extra Chapter! I had lots of momentum left over from the last one. I have some still after this one, so there may be another chapter by the weekend! :)

~Belle

I noticed Aido's eyes go wide with shock when Ichijo asked the question.

"You're dating, right?" He repeated himself, quizzically regarding my blank reaction. "Why else would you be sleeping over on weekends?"

I blinked, words failing me completely. How would I even begin to explain the complicated relationship between myself and Aido?

Don't overcomplicate things. My mind chided me. It's his fault you found out about vampires. It's nobody's fault the memory spell didn't work. It's Aido's fault he has to watch you because he didn't want Kaname to kill you, and now you let him take your blood on the weekends so he'll stop coming to school during the week to harass you. All wrapped up with the bow that is your crush on him.

Well when you put it that way...

Ichijo was looking at me strangely, and I was sure I was frowning. I fought to erase it from my face as I noticed his hair was almost the same honey blond that Aido's was, albeit a bit shorter and less styled. I could see Aido frown momentarily where he was, but then he was at Ichijo's side in an instant, his Day Class Girl Heartbreaker grin on his face.

"Of course!" Aido said, patting Ichijo on the arm that was holding my hand until Ichijo let go of it. He then promptly grasped it and laced his fingers through my own. Unable to control my reaction, I blushed profusely. "I've been looking for you, Kisa-chan."

"Aido-kun!" Ichijo crowed happily, slinging the arm that had been previously attached to my hand around Aido. "I was just going to escort Kisa-chan to the kitchen to get some food! But maybe she'd rather have you do it." He winked at me, and I felt my cheeks heat up again. Aido was looking at me, his smile false and his eyes warm, but I could read it in his glance. Respond.

"I don't want to offend you, Ichijo-senpai."

Ichijo gasped and grabbed his heart. "Well you can start not offending me by not calling me senpai! Though I do love that title..."

Aido rolled his eyes jokingly and tugged me to his side. "I actually have some food being sent to my room soon, so we should go and wait for it, Kisa-chan."

Ichijo pulled us both into his arms, squeezing almost painfully. My face was against Aido's chest, and both mine and Aido's shoulders were pressed to Ichijo's chest. My free hand gripped Aido's jacket tightly, fear being the default reaction whenever a vampire touched me. "Of course!" Ichijo practically bellowed. "I'm going to go find Rima-chan. See you both later!" He released us and traipsed away, leaving me dazed and Aido clearly disgruntled, fixing some of the wrinkles Ichijo had created in his uniform.

"Ichijo is way too friendly." Aido grumbled, turning toward me. "How did he get a hold of you? And did I see you come out of his and Shiki's room?"

"Well if you saw me come out of Shiki's room you would have seen me run into Ichijo." I didn't feel like being polite. "I was starving and Kain and Ruka were in your room. Shiki offered to let me wait in his room so I went in-"

"to his room-"

"and sat at the end of the bed and he gave me some pocky." I overrode him like he hadn't even spoken. I looked down and realized I was still holding his hand so I dropped it quickly. "Why did you tell Ichijo we were dating-?"

Aido put his hand on my mouth and shh'd me quietly. "We shouldn't talk about this in the hall. Come on." He grabbed my hand again and pulled me down the hall to his room. He opened the door and when we got to the bedroom Aido quickly went into each of the adjoining rooms, making sure they were empty.

"Care to elaborate now?" You said, quickly growing tired of how strange Aido was acting.

"We should do it."

"What?!" I jumped almost a foot, leaping away from Aido. He sighed.

"I meant say that we're dating." He gauged my face for a reaction. "I've been thinking about it, and it would be the easiest solution to explain why you come here on the weekends, or why people see us together so much.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Aido was okay with people thinking he was dating me? "You want people to think we're dating?"

"Is that a problem?" His eyes flashed with an emotion I couldn't identify.

I shook my head quickly. "No. Not a problem at all."

"Besides, everyone already thinks we're dating."

I sighed, tucking some of my shorter brown hair that had fallen out of the elastic back in. "Yeah. Akane definitely thinks so."

"And your other 'friend'?"

I raised an eyebrow, surprised that Aido was bringing up Rei. "He's... suspicious."

"Well, let him know then, when you get back." Aido's teal eyes met mine and I saw they were intense, deep, and vast like the sea. "Tell him you're taken." Aido smirked.

I couldn't even fathom a reply to that. My heart was racing. My inner sanity was silent, probably in shock.

I'm not in shock, I'm just being skeptical.

You're always being skeptical.

"So," I said, fidgeting with the drawstring on my sweatpants. "Now what?"

"We start doing coupley things, I suppose."

"Well it's not like we have to go out of our way to be seen together more." I sighed.

"We need to do more than be seen together. We have to be together."

I was still staring at the floor, and my eyes widened. "What should we do?" Your could practically hear your heart beating as the seconds of silence entered the double digits.

"I think now's a perfect time for our first kiss."