*Note -

This is Lotus

This is Saiki

This is Saiki and Lotus

How Did This Happen?! - An Interesting Shopping Trip

"This was not how I saw my day going."

Lotus here right now I'm standing on top of a tall building my legs shaking as I tried not to look down. How did I end up here you ask? Well, it all started this morning when I woke up.

Lotus let out a yawn as she woke up. After the day she had yesterday a nice good night's sleep was something she really needed. She sat up in her bed stretching and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"Today's gonna be…." Lotus's voice trailed off as a lamp floated by her. "Eh."

A notebook then hoovered next to her. "Eh."

Lotus's tired eyes slowly grew big as she saw various objects floating around her room.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Lotus screamed as everything in her room that was floating dropped out of the air. Lotus's chest heaved as she tried to process what just happened.

*BAM*

"AH!"

Lotus screams again as her bedroom door was kicked open.

"I'm coming to rescue you Lotus-!" Ethan came running into her room swinging a baseball bat that had "Pervert Pulverizer" painted on the side. "Don't worry I'll-Gah!"

Lotus sweat dropped as she saw Ethan slip on a cup and land face first on her bedroom floor.

Then Violet came running into the room waving around her weapon. "Lotus we heard you scream! Is a pervert trying to taint your innocence!"

"Is that a machete?!" Lotus yelled

Violet simply looked down at her weapon. "Of course it is." She confirmed with a cheerful smile. "It's to teach perverts a lesson. The subject today is math and the lesson is if 1 pervert touches 1 Lotus how many limbs will he have left if you add in the variable of 1 Violet."

Ethan peeled his face off the floor then was quickly on his knees kneeling before Violet. "Violet my lovely goddess. Seeing you like this, willing to protect Lotus makes my heart explode."

"Get out my room!"

"Let's see." Lotus looked down at her shopping list. "Next for the care package is coffee pudding. Oh yeah, Ethan's brothers love this stuff."

Lotus walked down the aisles locating the coffee based snack. There were only a few containers left, so she decided to just grab all of them. When she was reaching for the last one another hand came in contact with hers.

"I'm sorry I-Saiki!?"

The pink haired boy kept a blank face staring at Lotus.

"Her hand…."

Lotus looked down at her hand to see it was still on top of Saiki's.

"My bad!" She yelped pulling her hand away. "Hehehe…."

"Is she taking all the coffee pudding?"

"Huh?" Hearing Saiki's thoughts Lotus jumped. Suddenly her head was filled with visions of Saiki and coffee pudding. He seemed to really enjoy the stuff. It was strange seeing such a stoic boy so content with just a dessert.

"Oh, so you love coffee pudding, Saiki?" Lotus asked

Saiki stared at the girl trying to keep his mind blank as to not project his thoughts to Lotus. He nonchalantly nodded his head.

"I love it."

"I heard that. He's trying to act like it's not a big deal, but he loves this stuff, I can feel it. I can give it all to him but I also need to talk to him about some things."

"Ya know my brother-in-law sent me out to the store to get some things and coffee pudding was on the list. I was just gonna buy them all since there was so few left…" Lotus had to hold in her smirk sensing Saiki was not happy about that. "Buuuuuut I could always tell him the store was out and allow someone else to buy said coffee pudding."

"Is she…?"

Lotus smiled as she held up her basket of coffee pudding to Saiki. "But I need something to replace the coffee pudding. How about you join on my shopping trip, so I can find some ingredients for a new dessert? After that, I'll give you all the coffee pudding. How about it Saiki?"

Saiki stared at the girl, her smile still as bright as ever. "She is smarter than I thought." He nodded his head to Lotus. "You win."

"Great! Let's get shopping!"

Saiki was reluctant to go on this shopping journey with Lotus, but he was getting coffee pudding out of it.

Lotus was currently looking at some food, "Soooo Saiki, I've got a little problem, that I think that only you can help with."

"I'm not helping you." Saiki said thinking Lotus wanted some help that involved him using his psychic powers.

"Mean!" Lotus responded. "Your the only one who can help me. Listen…" Lotus looked left and right before sliding in close to Saiki to whisper in his ear.

"What are you doing?"

"This morning I when I woke up and nearly everything in my bedroom was floating around," Lotus whispered

"It was what?"

Lotus pulled away from Saiki. "Yeah, it really startled me! I have no idea what's going on, but I was thinking that since you can handle what's going with your "thing" you could possibly help me. You know like a tutor."

Lotus didn't need to hear Saiki's thoughts to know he did not want to do so. She let out a sigh.

Saiki was really expecting Lotus to do more to get him to agree. Beg, plead, threaten to tell his secret, even bribe him, but he really didn't expect the next words out of her mouth.

"Okay, Saiki. I understand if you don't want to help me, I'm not gonna make you. But if I never asked I wouldn't have known. This is my problem, so I can figure it out on my own. You didn't have anyone teach you so that means I can teach myself how to control "it" too." She gave Saiki a smile to let him know it was okay.

Saiki looked at Lotus's smile, and he really couldn't believe this girl. How could someone be so….

Saiki's likeability meter for Lotus has shot up but since his psychic powers don't seem to work on Lotus he himself didn't even realize it.

"Well then, I've got everything on my list to let's go check out. I still owe you some coffee pudding." Lotus smiled as she walked to the front of the store followed by Saiki who, for some reason, no longer minded being a part of this shopping excursion.

"Okay, Saiki here's your pudding just like I promised." Lotus smiled as she held out a plastic bag to Saiki.

Saiki stared at the bag and Lotus can feel the confusion rolling off the boy.

"What?" Lotus questioned when Saiki didn't take the bag.

"You paid for it."

"Yeah I did, but I promised you could have it. Think of it as a gift." Lotus smiled

Saiki stared at the pinkettes smile, and he got that weird feeling again.

"Thanks."

"I hope you have a good day Saiki and thank you for joining me on my shopping trip. Even though I kind of held your pudding hostage." Lotus giggled and gave Saiki another smile.

The strange feeling got stronger the more Saiki stared at Lotus. He quickly took the grocery bag form Lotus gave her a goodbye bow then sped off down the street.

"Well, at least this time he didn't vanish completely from my sight. That must mean he's more comfortable around me, which means the path to friendship is being paved." Lotus congratulated herself on a job well done towards her goal of being Saiki's friend.

Lotus shifted the bags in her arms and she notices one of her bags was lighter than it was supposed to be. She opened the bag peering inside.

"Oh, pudding...I must have accidentally given him the wrong bag."

She looked into the crowd of moving heads, and she easily spotted the pink hair quickly weaving through the crowd.

"If I hurry I can catch up to him."

Saiki was doing his best to avoid Teruhashi, but that girl was persistent. What was worse he spotted Nendo in the crowd. So far he was doing good disappearing into the crowd unbeknownst to him a second head of pink hair joined the search for him. He was doing his best to both avoid Nendo and Teruhashi, that is until a hand landed on his shoulder.

Lotus smiled as she put a hand on Saiki's shoulder. "Saiki! Hey-!"

Nendo looked around the crowd confused. "Huh? I could swear I just saw my best friend and new friend."

Teruhashi was confused as she searched the crowd. "Oh no, where did Saiki go? What's going on?"

"Looks like I teleported."

And that's how I ended up on the roof a very tall building clinging to Saiki's arm.

Saiki stared down at the city watching Teruhashi shout for him. It seemed everything thing was working out well, the girl believing that he was a figment of her imagination. That seemed to backfire on him as Teruhashi believed since he was an illusion she developed feelings for him.

"Uh….Saiki…."

Saiki's eyes were wide as he looked next to him seeing a weak-kneed Lotus who was clutching his arm. His bare arm. He hadn't even noticed he had brought her with him. But here she was clutching onto his exposed arm.

Saiki always had a hard time with physical contact because of his psychic powers. Due to his psychometry whenever he touched someone or something he's always instantly filled with visions and information from that person or object. That's why he always wore a pair of thin gloves and never tried to touch anything with his bare skin. But right now here he was, with Lotus, her skin touching his skin, and he wasn't getting any information. Lotus's hands were warm and soft as they held onto Saiki's arm.

This was definitely a sensation Saiki wasn't used to. The person he ever had the most physical contact with was his mother and due to his psychometry, he still kept that limited.

"Were up so high...wait! Saiki is this how you disappeared on me?!" Lotus asked Saiki.

"Yeah."

"Hmm? And here I thought you just turned invisible and slipped away." Lotus mumbled

"I can turn invisible too."

"That's interesting, but uhm…." Lotus looked up a Saiki a nervous smile on her face. "Can we go now? I don't do very well with heights when I don't have the proper safety equipment."

Lotus let out a sigh of relief placing a hand over her heart.

"Thanks for getting us home Saiki."

"Why were you chasing after me?"

"Oh!" Lotus held up her bag. "We accidentally switched bags at the store and I wanted to make sure you got the right one."

"Oh….thank you."

Saiki went to exchange bags with Lotus when the front door to her house slammed open, causing Lotus to scream and jump.

"Little Lotus!" Violet saw that her sister wasn't alone. "And she's with little Ku!"

"Little Ku?"

Violet got a happy look on her face covering her mouth. "Could it be, little Ku rescued my darling little Lotus from the leecher's that lurk in the city. And being the chivalrous young man he is he walked Lotus home to make sure she got here safe."

"She's got a crazy imagination."

"Yup."

Saiki looked a little surprised looking over at Lotus. He actually heard that.

"In order to thank little Ku, he's gotta stay for tea and a snack!" Violet declared

"Violet I think Saiki wants to go home," Lotus said

"Nonsense!" Violet grabbed Saiki and dragged him into the house.

"Oh, this is gonna be long." Lotus shuffled in after her sister, hoping she won't cause Saiki too much trouble.

"I'm so sorry." Lotus apologized to Saiki.

"Your sister's forcible hospitality is unsettling."

"I know," Lotus replied

Lotus and Saiki were now in the family room sitting around a table waiting for Violet to bring in some tea.

"I promise once she gives out the tea I'll make a distraction so you can leave," Lotus promised

"Okay! Tea's ready!" Violet's voice sung out. Violet practically skipped into the room carrying a tray with cups and a pot of fresh hot tea.

As she came into the room she tripped over her own two feet falling forward.

"Gah!" Lotus yelped reaching out for her falling sister.

Violet's body never hit the ground nor did the contents of the tray that she was holding.

"Oh, my."

Lotus gawked at the sight before her. Her sister was floating in the air along with the tea set. Lotus slowly turned her head to the only boy in the room.

"Saiki…."

"I'm not doing that."

"If you're not doing that, then that means."

Lotus looks back at her sister. Violet slowly floated right back up and the tea set flew back in her hands and the tea even went back into the pot.

"Well, that was interesting." Violet just smiled as she set the tea on the table and poured a cup for everyone.

"Violet...aren't you a little...I don't know confused about what just happened?" Lotus asked

Violet looked up from her cup of tea and quirked an eyebrow. "No. Why do you ask?"

"You just floated in the air! That's not a normal thing you see!" Lotus yelled

"What do mean? I just assumed you did it." Violet said

"Why would you assume that?!" Lotus yelled

"You didn't do it?" Violet asked confused

"No! I mean yes I did do it! But why are you acting so calm about it!?" Lotus shouted

"Oh, because of your supernatural copy ability of course." Violet nonchalantly stated

. . . . WHAT!