Rime's Pov

Three weeks had passed since the incident at the bakery. Since then, I hadn't seen Ichigo very much. Until today that is.

it was Saturday evening when he walked café. My shift had just ended and I was about to head up to my room. "Hey, Rime."

"...Hi. What are you doing here?"

He looked uncertain for moment before saying, "Let's go see a movie."

I simply blinked at him."A movie?"

"Yeah, it's Saturday. We don't have school. You use some fun," he explained.

"...No thanks." I would expect this from Rihito or Haruki, but I had thought for sure Ichigo would give me some space. I guess not.

He signed from frustration. "You haven't done anything other than go to school, work at the café and hole up in your room since you moved in to town. You could use an outing."

"I'm fine."

A moment of silence passed "Do you want me to drag you down to the cinema? Because I can. And I will," he threatened. I couldn't tell it he was serious or not.

Now it was my turn to sigh. Better to spend a few hours watching a movie than have him keep bugging me. "Fine. Let's go." I waked over toward the door he stood in front of.

"Shouldn't you put coat on? It's under 50 degrees outside," he said with a small frown.

Nah. The cold never bothered me anyway."

And that's how I ended up standing in front the cinema with Ichigo. I was surprised I actually agreed to go. But what was even more surprising was that...I didn't really mind.

"So which movie do you want to see?" He asked. "They have a few good ones; the people at school have been taking about them."

"I don't care."

"Well then...There's a new romance movie," he began, though I could already see a sour look forming on his face.

"No thanks. What about that one?" I asked, pointing to a horror movie.

He looked surprised. "You...you like horror movie?" There was obvious doubt in his voice.

I rolled my eyes. "Not every girl is into sappy crap, you know." I couldn't be sure, but I thought I saw his lip twitch.

"Okay then." To the employee, "Two tickets to Annabelle."

After the movie, Ichigo walked me back to the café. Though I would never admit it, I had fun. Once we reached the door, I said, "I'll be fine from here. Thanks." For some reason he was looking down at me funny."What?"

He just shook his head. "It's nothing. You were just smiling." I realized he was right. Without even noticing, my face had broken into a grin. It felt...natural. I quickly changed my expression back to my blank one.

This time it was him who was grinning. "I'll see ya later, Rime."

"Yeah. See you." I would continue to ponder what happened until I finally dozed off to sleep.

The next two weeks passed quickly. Something had changed that night we went to the movie, though I wasn't really sure what. We started hanging out more, almost everyday after school to after I finished work at the café. We went to the movie again, listened to music, he even taught me how to decorate cakes.

I found that we had a lot in common, more than anyone else I knew. He understood me; I didn't have to say what I was thinking, he just knew. And before I knew what was happening, I found myself missing him on days we didn't each other.

One day, Ichigo took me to an arcade in town. He was trying to win a stuffed animal out of a claw machine, but like most men, was stubborn an wouldn't give up. $12 worth of quarters later, he finally managed to grab the penguin with the claw. He took his prize out of the machine, a proud look displayed across his face.

When he pressed it to me, I couldn't help but smile. "Penguins are still your favourite, right?" He inquired.

"Yeah, thanks." Then, before I could stop myself, I stood up on my tiptoes, and kissed his cheeks. His whole face reddened like a tomato, and I started laughing at him.

"Hey...knock it off. Just shush and play with your stupid penguin." This, of course, only made me laugh harder.

Suddenly I stopped. I don't know how I changed so much in only a little over mouth, or why. I just that he was some how responsible. I shook my head. "Come on, let's go."