Amethyst eyes slowly open as Himawari hears the little birds chirping outside the window, she rises herself off the bed and looks around.

'It's morning already?'

Eyeing her own appearance, she sweatdrops at her outfit, she has slept through the night without even taking a shower…How lovely…

Climb off the bed, the raven head gets herself ready for a new day then goes downstairs and prepares breakfast. To her surprise, Cecile is standing at the stove with a frying pan in her hand. This is weird, she usually wakes up very early in the morning to make breakfast but seeing her aunt in the kitchen makes her realize that she might have slept in a little bit too much.

"Good morning, my dear! Have you slept well?"

"Auntie, I'm sorry…" she looks at Cecile with an apologetic face.

"No worries, it's only 8 in the morning." her aunt smiles "Come now, get yourself a seat. I'm making pancakes today."

Himawari smiles and sits at the table. Her aunt bought a set of kotatsu tables but they rarely use it, it's more convenient to eat at the table and the other dining area is only used for special occasions, such as having a hotpot.

While eating breakfast with her aunt, Himawari asks her aunt about what happened last night when she was asleep, only to be embarrassed by Cecile as she teases how the raven head cried in front of the whole Couffaine family. Her memory of last night is a bit fuzzy, she knows that she had cried in her aunt's embrace and nothing after that. It will be a disaster if she did something to embarrass herself in front of Luka without remembering it.

"You cried and you fell asleep. That's all!"

"Really, auntie? I didn't do anything crazy, did I?"

"Nope, you were fine, my dear."

Well, at least she didn't do anything stupid. But then again, who put her to bed last night? She fell asleep on the sofa, right? Was it her aunt?

"My dear, you're worrying too much!"

"Sorry, auntie… I just want to make sure that I didn't do anything weird in front of your guests…"

"In front of my guests or in front of him?"

Himawari freezes as she stares at her aunt, what did she just say? 'Him'? Who's him?

Cecile gives her a smug smile, knowing too well that this morning is going to be amusing. She then starts to talk about many other things but still keeps her eyes on the young girl, who hasn't gotten out of the shocking state.

"Himawari, I didn't know that you form a small crush on one of our guests…"

"H-huh?"

"You two looked so cute together last night." she smirks "If only I'd grabbed my phone and snatched some pictures."

"Au-auntie….what are you talking about?"

She blushes madly at Cecile's words, her aunt even put an emphasis on the word 'guest' which causes Himawari to stop herself and tries to remember all the event that happened last night. By her aunt's words, she must have done something because the young woman's voice is full of teasing.

"Auntie, what did I do?"

"Nothing. I just found out you and the Couffaine siblings were very cute last night."

Cute? What does she mean by 'cute'?

"Anyway, do you have any plans today, my dear?"

"Ah?" Himawari pouts, her aunt is trying to change the subject "Nothing really, I have to finish the final sketch before posting the new chapter on my website."

"Ah, the story that you're currently writing? How nice." Cecile smiles "Are you going to the Couffaine's house today? Mrs. Couffaine said that her children's band is going to have a practice and would love to have you there."

"I don't know, I mean I still have to finish my drawings."

Cecile frows at her niece, telling her that this is a great opportunity for her to get along with the Couffaine siblings, as well as make new friends and gather more inspiration for her next work. Himawari doesn't think so...

Her aunt sure is being pushy about her going to the Kitty Section's practice but she really can't go, the deadline is getting nearer and she needs to send her final draft for her friends to check before uploading it on her blog page. But the older woman doesn't seem to support the idea of her staying home all day.

"Where are you going, auntie?"

"Ah, I need to make a phone call."

With that, Cecile leaves the dining table while Himawari begins to clean up the dirty dishes. What is this irritation inside her? Like she can sense that her aunt is going to play a huge prank on her or something…

Should she be worried?

"Hima-chan! I have a small meeting with my friends so I won't be home till evening, are you fine with that?"

"S-sure, auntie. Uhm, should I prepare dinner for you?"

"It's fine, dear. I will eat out with them."

Himawari raises a brow at her aunt, something smells fishy about this. At least she has the whole house for herself till evening, which means she can do whatever she wants without her aunt's constant interruption about 'you should get some fresh air' and forces her to go out.

Glancing at the clock, Himawari smiles to herself. She has time to spare and is very craving something sweet, something like a cookie. The raven head prepares the ingredients and all the tools she needs to bake some cookies while her aunt is getting ready for her meeting. While mixing the matcha cookie dough, she suddenly remembers the apple pie.

They didn't eat the whole pie after she fell asleep, did they?

Checking the fridge, Himawari sweatdrops were no trace of the apple pie inside it, which means they either ate the whole thing or her aunt gave some of it to the Couffaine family while finishing everything herself. Cecile does have an extra stomach when it comes to sweet things like cake and dessert after all…

"Are you baking cookies, my dear?"

"I'm making matcha cookies."

"Save some for me, please?"

Himawari smiles and nods her head, not really wanting to ask about the whereabouts of the pie. As the house entrance shuts, the raven head turns her focus on the cookie dough, and can't stop herself from stealing a few bites of the raw dough. The guilty pleasure of eating from the pot, or in this case, the mixing bowl is thrilling, although it's best to not eat raw cookie dough because it can cause stomachache.

She's able to bake 50 cookies because she doubles the recipe, after all, no one says that matcha cookie is bad for health. She once said that to one of her brothers, who outright told her that either she stopped doubling the recipe or just accept the fact that she would get diabetes one day. Himawari pouts, remembering her brother's words, it can't be helped when she also has a soft spot when it comes to sweets.

Talking about food and dessert, the raven head still wonders if Luka enjoyed the food last night. He didn't talk much and always kept a calm expression while eating, which really disappointed her. Himawari hopes that he keeps the same composure when Marinette offers her dessert, according to Alya, the bluenette receives a lot of compliments when it comes to her macarons.

"I want to know his opinion about my food…"

Pouting, Himawari takes off the apron and hangs it on the hanger before storing the cookies in a glass container. Glancing at the clock, it's already 10:30 AM, almost noon. The Kitty Section is having their band practice around the afternoon, should she come over and check it out? She doesn't want to be a distraction, after all, it's not like she's a good friend of the bandmates.

Sighing out loud, Himawari walks upstairs and sits at the computer desk. Well, she still has to do all the drawings so it'll be a reasonable excuse to not come to the Couffaine houseboat. Maybe they don't even care if she's there or not…

Holding the pen in her hand, she begins to do the final touch-up for a 20-page chapter of her manga. Like all the other phases, touch-up is very important because it's those little details that bring life to the manga, as well as the dialogue that suits the character's personality. There's a reason why she purchases many books about creating dialogues between characters, one boring sentence can send the whole chapter in a downward spiral if she's not careful.

Drawing alone like this makes Himawari a bit sad, before she came to Paris, she had friends who helped her a lot in the race to finish each chapter of her story. They were willing to stay overnight to help her then sent it to the monthly event for young mangaka in the magazine that she followed. After getting into middle school, Himawari invested more in drawing materials and technologies, saving money to buy a tablet PC and many more to aid her drawing.

"I really need to listen to something loud, like Kaito's loud singing voice…"

But before turning on the music, the doorbell rings.

She raises a brow, who is it?

The delivery guy? It can't be, her aunt didn't mention anything about delivery before she left.

The billing guy? No way, they just moved here.

Then who is it?

Walk to the front door, she frows as there's no peephole for her to see who's standing in front of the house's entrance. No camera is installed outside for her to have a good view of the visitor. She can't yell out because that's bad manners…

Himawari sighs and opens the door, surprise to see the person standing at the front. Aqua eyes meet amethyst orbs.

"Good day to you, Himawari."

"Luka? W-what are you doing here?"

"Your aunt called my mom, saying that you don't know the way to my house so she asked me to come and pick you up."

She stares at him, unable to process his words. The raven head knows it, her aunt is too playful to not pull a prank on her like this. The worst part is that Luka is standing in front of her house, waiting for her to come to the band practice.

Auntie, how can you do this to me?

"You're ready?"

"Ah, uhm, you know, uhm…" she shutters, doesn't know how to respond "I, I'm currently behind the deadline for my stuff so I, uh, I don't think I can go."

"Ah, your aunt told me that you can bring your stuff over and finish them at my place." he looks at her "Unless you don't want to go…"

"No, no. I-I want to go, it just…"

Her aunt has finally cornered her, not only putting her in the position of being unable to say no but also bringing the person that can persuade her to go to the band practice. Luka lets out a soft laugh as Himawari sighs in defeat and begins to gather her stuff and change her clothes to go to the Couffaine household.

Put everything in a bag, she goes to the kitchen to get the freshly baked cookies then leaves the house, not forgetting to lock the door carefully. The older boy glances at her bag, it looks quite heavy for a petite girl like her. Himawari notices his stares and turns to him with a smile on her face.

"Is something wrong?"

"No, it's nothing…"

She raises a brow, and her hands on the bag begin to loosen up a bit. Luke takes this as a chance and slightly grabs onto her bag and slides it off her arm, holding it for her instead. Himawari blushes, telling him that it's fine and she can carry it herself but the older boy says nothing. She sighs in defeat and continues to follow his lead to the Couffaine's houseboat that floats on the Seine river.

Right now she's walking alongside Luka, there's no one around to interfere with their conversation, and Himawari realizes that this is a great opportunity for her to ask about whatever had happened last night.

Should I?

The thought of hearing her crazy story from Luka is not a good feeling, that is, if she really did something stupid. He won't mind telling her everything that happened, right?

"Say Luka…"

"Hm?"

"Uhm, I…last night…uhm…" this is harder than she has imagined "You see, uhm, I kinda don't remember what happened last night. I was wondering if I had done something crazy…"

"Last night?"

He stops in his track and turns to her, eyes looking at her with an intense gaze. Himawari freezes a bit, wondering if she had embarrassed herself in front of the Couffaine family last night. Frowning as she touches her chin with her fingers, she tries to remember the scenario but nothing comes to her mind.

A hand pats her shoulder as she looks up to face his charming smile, the older boy doesn't say anything and motions her to keep following his lead. Himawari pouts, annoyed as everyone is trying to keep her from thinking about it, causing her to believe that she did something very bad that no one wants to mention it.

"Don't think about it too much…"

"Huh?"

"Today is a new day, so you should enjoy this rather than think about what happened last night." he turns his attention to her "Come now, we're almost there."

"I really did something silly, right?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

His reply causes her to blush as amethyst eyes open widely, witnessing the smug smile he has on his face. Her heart is beating very, very fast.

Oh no…How can he be this hot? Be still, my heart!