Gabriel790 - I'm still trying to work out the interactions Lotus will have with the other girl's but I've almost got it.

YaoiLovinKitsune - You are right it is descendant. That needs to be fixed.

This is Lotus

This is Saiki

This is Saiki and Lotus

~This is the thoughts of other people~

Chiyo and Takeru's Relationship Crisis - Crisis?! It's Only Been Three Months!

"What Minako dumped you?!"

"Hey keep it down."

"Ah, just your average day in school."

Lotus was right, this was your average day at school, filled with gossiping about one's love life. She still didn't get it.

"In high school love is always on the rocks. Another reason why I don't get romance. The whole things a mystery to me."

"I think it's nice when it's not forced or rushed, but too many people have such a skewed view on love and romance that it just ruins it. Which reminds me." Lotus dug into her desk and pulled out three letters. "I got more of these. Only one of them is creepy, so I'll let the other two guys down nicely, but this guys letter must be burned. It still eludes me how someone can declare their love for me but we've never ever talked before."

Off to the side, Chiyo was once again staring at Saiki.

She let out a breathy sigh. "~Oh no I'm staring at Saiki again.~"

"Chiyo Yumehara. I don't know why she had a crush on me a few months ago."

"Ah but why wouldn't she Saiki, you're so outgoing and charming." Lotus joked

"Haha," Saiki's words were filled with heavy sarcasm. "She eventually gave up and I thought she was dating some other guy."

"~He's got such kind eyes and cheekbones of a prince. Such fair skin that just glistens. I can't take my eyes off of him.~"

"Get them checked."

"Hahahah!" Lotus buried her face into her arms muffling her laughter.

"Quiet you!"

"Sorry Saiki of the princely cheekbones." Lotus snickered

Saiki was about to comment on that but seeing Lotus's smile caused him to stop for some reason.

The blushing Chiyo, whose sole focus was on Saiki, finally stopped her staring. "~No! Bad Chiyo! You have a boyfriend. But lately the thrill is gone, we've lost our spark.~"

"You've only been together for three months!"

"~Those beautiful words that made my heart skip a beat….Takeru says it so much I wanna scream! And when he finally gives that stupid metaphor a rest and says something else-"

Chiyo imagined her boyfriend talking while they had been at the beach.

"~Baby let me be the little blue kickboard for your swimming heart so it doesn't drown in the great big ocean we call life.~" Takeru had said

"~-He sounds ridiculous,~" Chiyo thought

"She's not wrong about that one."

"So breakup season has come for her too."

"~And that's not even half of it. His feet smell horrible, he chews food as loud as a cow, and he holds his chopsticks totally weird. He's always a jerk to store clerks. He's got the worst fashion sense and every time he laughs he dislocates his jaw which is a total buzz kill. These days all I see are his many many flaws.~" Chiyo groaned

Lotus blanched staring forward before she let out a sigh. "This is why you don't just go and become boyfriend and girlfriend right off the bat. You need to be friends or at least date beforehand to get to know the person. Even Violet and Ethan, who are crazy about one another, got to know each other before they became a couple."

"Ordinarily I couldn't care less about other people's relationships but considering her history she may set her sights on me again if they break up."

"Yeah, I mean how could she resist those kind eyes and skin that glistens." Lotus joked again hiding her laughter.

Saiki cut his eyes at Lotus.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Lotus giggled

"I have no choice I'll be the stand that protects their umbrella."

"Hahahahah!"

Many people in class stopped their conversations as a loud laugh rang throughout the room. After Saiki's last statement Lotus couldn't help herself, and she burst out laughing. Her laughs got the attention of most of her classmates including several guys who blushed staring at the smiling girl.

"Sorry everyone one. Don't mind me I….just thought of a really funny thing I had heard this morning." Lotus chuckled a little embarrassed rubbing the back of her head.

Saiki, who also had been watching Lotus laugh felt something. He didn't know why, but he was kinda glad that he was the one who made Lotus laugh like that.

Once the class was on break Lotus and Saiki made their way to another classroom going to observe Takeru, Chiyo's on the rocks boyfriend.

He was sitting at a desk surrounded by friends, and they were all laughing.

"So this is Takeru?"

"Hahaha-ah!" Takeru who was just laughing cried out in pain as his jaw made a horrible snapping sound.

All his friends paled nervously staring at their now in pain friend.

"Are you okay?"

Takeru grabbed his jaw snapping it back in place. "Yeah, I'm fine my jaw got dislocated."

"No, we're sorry for making you laugh."

"That really is a buzzkill."

"He should really get that checked out, there is no way that's in any form normal."

"By the way Takeru how's everything going with your girlfriend lately?" One of his friends asked

Takeru gave the group a thumbs up. "Great!"

"Nope wrong answer!"

After school Saiki and Lotus were on a mission, to save Chiyo's relationship, so she wouldn't break up with her boyfriend then start chasing after Saiki again.

Chiyo was out in front of the school waiting for Takeru.

"Sorry to keep you waiting but now-"

"Yeah it's fine I just got here too don't worry," Chiyo uttered with a blank emotionless stare.

"So wanna do something?" Takeru asked

"Whatever," Chiyo intoned

"Alright let's do something!" Takeru said

"He thinks this is going great?"

"Talk about oblivious."

Saiki and Lotus followed a few feet behind the unstable couple.

"Wanna go to the arcade?" Takeru asked Chiyo

"No, not really" Chiyo answered barely looking at Takeru.

She seemed so detached from Takeru Lotus was surprised that Chiyo hasn't broken up with him already.

"This relationship is worse than I thought."

Chiyo's likability meter for Takeru appeared and it was at a 57.

"Her affection for Takeru is already down to 57."

As soon as Saiki said that the meter dropped down to 54.

"And it dropped another three. This is bad."

Chiyo let out a sigh, "~And naturally, he forgot that today is our three month anniversary.~"

"Three-month anniversary huh? At first, I never understood the point of celebrating such short milestones in relationships but after seeing my sister and Ethan, I realized it's about celebrating the time you've shared together because you care for one another."

"Yeah, after all these years my mother wants something special every month."

"Ethan and Violet tend to do something as a couple every month, but they go crazy when it's their yearly anniversary."

"~I'm so relaxed when I'm with you. You're like….a massage chair for my heart.~" Takeru thought about Chiyo.

"You guessed correct he did forget, and that metaphor is even worse. I have no choice so-" Saiki's eyes widen and Lotus saw a small jolt of electricity spike through Takeru. "Three months!"

Takeru's head jerked up and he looked confused. "Huh, three months?"

"Wait, what?" Chiyo stopped walking and looked at Takeru with big surprised eyes before she started smiling happily. "Wow you remembered our three-month anniversary, I'm so touched."

Chiyo's meter for Takeru jumped up to 68.

"Wow who knew something as simple as a three-month anniversary could make a girl so happy. It's kinda nice. That's the magic of a relationship for ya."

"Yeah of course and I gotcha something," Takeru lied

Chiyo smile brighter and the meter jumped up to 71. "Wow really! How sweet."

"His likability shot up, does he have something for her?"

"~Crap I don't have anything.~"

"Of course not."

Takeru was panicking as he dug around in his school bag looking for a gift he didn't have. Chiyo was facing away covering her eyes excitedly awaiting her surprise.

"~Score I still have some of that squid jerky that I was eating in class!~"

"What girl wants squid jerky?"

"I know it's not really about the gift but that's just sad. Squid jerky is good but not as a gift, especially after you've eaten over half of it."

"Can I look now?" Chiyo asked eyes still closed.

"Ready," Takeru said

"No your not, Lotus!"

"On it!"

Getting into a pitchers' stance Lotus winded her hand back and threw something as if she was pitching the fastest fastball trying to strike out a batter. The object knocked the squid jerky out of Takeru's hands just as Chiyo opened her eyes.

Chiyo gasped and blushed as Takeru held a cute stuffed pink bunny.

"Oh how cute a bunny!" Chiyo smiled

"She was eyeing it in the window earlier good thing I bought it just in case."

Lotus smiled, "Saiki you may say that you have no understanding of romance but something tells me you know more than you let on." She gave a cute giggle lightly knocking her shoulder against Saiki's.

Saiki doesn't say anything but just looks away from Lotus adjusting his glasses.

Takeru had been surprised by the sudden appearance of the bunny but played it off.

"Don't worry I'll take the money out of your wallet to reimburse myself."

Lotus snickered knowing Saiki was totally serious.

"I smelled squid jerky and for a second I thought that was gonna be my gift." Chiyo smiled hugging the bunny.

Takeru nervously smiled his back going stiff. "What? Who would do that?"

So throughout the day Lotus and Saiki followed the couple helping Takeru to repair the damage he had done within his and Chiyo's short relationship.

Saiki used his psychokinesis to help Takeru win Chiyo a stuffed bear in an arcade game. When the couple came to a puddle Lotus was able to get Takeru's jacket off covering the puddle so Chiyo could walk over it without getting wet. They continued to do various task like that until Chiyo's meter for Takeru hit 90.

"I had such a great time today!" Chiyo said

"Right. Hey let's grab dinner," Takeru suggested

Chiyo nodded her head. "Sounds good."

"The burgers-"

"Okonomiyaki!" Saiki mentally implanted in Takeru's mind.

"Okonomiyaki?" Takeru said

"No way you must have read my mind. I was just thinking about Okonomiyaki!" Chiyo said

Takeru's meter went up to 95 as the two walked over to the Okonomiyaki restaurant.

"His score is so high I wouldn't be surprised if she married him. There's no way they're gonna break up now."

"Welcome. Party of two?" The wait staff greeted Chiyo and Takeru.

"Oh wow, you can count! Now take us to our table dumbass!" Takeru yelled

The happy light that was in Chiyo's eyes died and the likability meter dropped to 67. As the two sat down Takeru took off his shoes and the horrible smell from them wafted through the restaurant. Takeru's meter then dropped down to 49.

Once the two got their food Takeru picked up the chopsticks holding them oddly. "This is great!" And as he ate he chewed obnoxiously loud and also talked with his mouth full.

Chiyo had turned to stone as all of her affection for Takeru flew out the window, the likability meter dropping to 0.

"I can't take it anymore! Goodbye!" Chiyo cried running out of the restaurant.

"Huh? Hey, wait!" Takeru stood outside confused food still in his mouth.

"Oh, right likability can plummet in an instant too." Saiki gave an exasperated sigh.

"Honestly….I don't blame her." Lotus thought as she sighed too.

As Saiki and Lotus made their way home Saiki noticed Lotus seemed to be thinking intently about something and since he couldn't read her mind he knew the only way to find out what she was thinking was to ask.

"Something wrong?"

"I was just thinking maybe it was for the best that Chiyo broke up Takeru."

"Why?"

"Well, it was clear that they weren't gonna work out. I mean if Takeru really cared about Chiyo he wouldn't have been acting the way he was. Its like he was off in his own world not concerned at all about his girlfriend feelings. I mean come on how hard is it to ask your girlfriend where she wants to eat for dinner. Or who in their right mind thinks it'd be a good idea to give someone they care about half-eaten squid jerky as a gift. Plus who wants to date let alone hang out around a guy who's so rude to workers and can't even have the decency to learn proper table manners. I may not know Chiyo but I know she deserved better than that, any girl would in fact." Lotus explained

Saiki thought about her words. "I see…I understand what you mean. But now there's a high chance that Chiyo will start coming after me again."

"Aw don't worry Saiki. Your ever faithful goalie Lotus is here to help." Lotus gave Saiki a large smile and a thumbs up. "You can count on me!"

Once again Saiki looked away from Lotus adjusting his glasses but this time his lips quirked into a small smile. "I'll hold you to that."

Lotus's smile got bigger hearing Saiki and the two walked home together with a rather happy aura surrounding the two.