Chapter 1
Larry Butz finally had it.
He decided that he needed to corner Phoenix and figure out, once and for all, who exactly he was seeing, because it was just driving him nuts. Every time he asked Phoenix who it was, Phoenix would change the subject or just flat out ignore the question. He decided the best way to do this was to show up at his office unannounced and then just ask him so he would have no way of avoiding the question there.
With these thoughts in mind, Larry burst into Phoenix's office yelling, "THIS TIME YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME WHO IT IS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT NICK--"
Larry suddenly cut off when he only found a bewildered Maya Fey looking at him, and Phoenix was no where in sight.
Pearl, who was visiting for a few weeks, had hid behind Phoenix's desk when Larry had burst in. The whole thing had scared the poor girl.
"M-Mystic Maya who is that?!" The small girl asked quietly as she peeked from behind the desk. Maya looked at Larry completely confused.
"Don't worry Pearly! It's just one of Nick's friends." She looked at Larry for a second. "Didn't you know? Nick is on a date!"
"With who!?" Larry asked with his sparkly teary eyes, "Nick doesn't seem to want to tell me who he's dating! His best friend!"
"He didn't tell you?! He's out with Mr. Edgeworth." She smiled happily as Pearl went to stand next to her.
"Whoa! Edgey? Nick is dating Edgey?! No way!" Larry said in absolute disbelief.
"Yes, way! He's dating Mr. Edgeworth! Those two were meant for each other." Maya pouted angrily that Larry didn't believe her. Pearl looked mad.
"Mystic Maya doesn't lie! She's telling the truth!" Pearl said defensively with a scary look in her eyes.
Larry shrunk away from the scary little girl and said apologetically, "I...I just find it hard to believe...I always thought Nick was into chicks!"
Then Larry was thoughtful for a moment, scratching his head in confusion and said, "I know he had a girlfriend in college..."
Larry then laughed and added, "And Edgey...is, well...Edgey! Why would Nick want to date him?"
"I know! Let's go find Nick! If Nick is with Mr. Edgeworth there's no way that you can't believe it." Maya thought for a second at the question. "And how should I know, you should ask him."
Maya and Larry's conversation was suddenly interrupted by yet another person coming into the office.
"Hello..." she said, looking at Maya and Larry curiously, "I'm looking for Mr. Wright. My name's Ema Skye."
Maya pointed at Ema as though she caught her in some type of act and yelled, "AH!! It's you! Nick told me about you! You're the science girl! He also told me all about the case! Of course I had to bother him enough to actually tell the whole story in full detail..."
Ema looked extremely confused at this sudden burst in, as Maya ran up to her happily smiling.
"I'm a scientific investigator." Ema corrected, but she smiled, feeling flattered that Phoenix had mentioned her to other people, "Is Mr. Wright here? I had to talk to him about something..."
"Nope! Nick is on a date!" Maya smiled happily. "We were about to go find him because Larry doesn't believe us." Pearl nodded eagerly.
"Mr. Wright...on a date? This is something that deserves scientific investigation!" Ema said excitedly, wanting to go on this 'mission' as much as Larry, Maya, and Pearl.
Maya was really excited now. "Let's go find Nick!" She grabbed Pearl by the hand and ran out happily. "I think I heard him say where he was going on the phone before..." It seemed the word privacy wasn't in any of their vocabularies.
"Oh yeah. What did you need to ask him anyway?" Maya looked at Ema curiously.
"Well, I was down visiting my sister, so I thought I'd drop by to see Mr. Edgeworth too, since I really do think he's a great prosecutor. When I went to his office, he told me that he was just about to leave for an important appointment and he would be glad to see me tomorrow if I could stop by then instead. But something about the conversation seemed off, like he was strangely nervous, scientifically speaking. And...now that I think about it, he was dressed rather strangely too..." Ema said as she mused about the meeting she had with Miles earlier that day, "I decided I could come to ask Mr. Wright for help in solving the mystery, since he seemed to be so good at this in my sister's case."
Ema flipped open the little journal she takes always takes notes in to look up what she noted down about Miles's appearance
"Yes...a casual button up shirt, and what appeared to be black jeans." Ema read.
"EH?! Mr. Edgeworth not wearing his cravat thing or magenta?" Maya looked like she was in total shock before she smiled happily. "Oh but we know why he was in a hurry and why he was nervous."
"They're on a date right now," Pearl said smiling happily. It seemed her thought that Maya and Phoenix were together was finally gone.
"And they look perfect together," Maya added in, beginning to lead the way to the restaurant on food.
"Hold on here! I still don't believe it!" Larry cut in as they walked, "Have you all forgotten this is Edgey we're talking about here? He's always seemed too dull to me...you'd think Nick would want to be with someone he could have a little fun with, you know?"
"You should see them in court!" Maya said angrily. "They make court cases interesting and I'm sure they enjoy it themselves. It doesn't matter. Pearly and I will show evidence that they're together."
"So, what you are saying is that Mr. Edgeworth is on a date with Mr. Wright?" Ema said in shock and disbelief.
"Yes!" Both Pearl and Maya had answered.
"Oh! I think we're here," Maya said as she pointed to the restaurant.
"Now this is something that can only be proven with some scientific investigation!" Ema said, whipping out her journal, ready to take notes.
It seemed no one would see the day Miles Edgeworth would walk in jeans. At least in broad daylight. But he was currently in a pair of jeans and even a normal shirt sitting across from Phoenix at a restaurant. Not a frill could be seen on the prosecuting attorney. He had a slightly amused expression watching Phoenix trying to figure out what to order.
"It's no different from ordering from a cheaper restaurant, Phoenix. I assure you that the names are merely there to make it sound better."
"I don't know what to choose...everything seems so unnecessarily expensive..." Phoenix said in shock as he browsed through the menu.
"I told you I was paying." Miles rolled his eyes. "And prices are like that at times. It's something we all have to deal with." He did find his shocked face rather amusing though.
"Alright, alright." Phoenix said, finally acquiescing, "I'll just have this enchilada dish."
Phoenix now looked up from his menu, deciding to take the opportunity to admire how Miles looked. He was now wearing semi casual clothes, with, surprisingly, no magenta, and Phoenix had to say, he really did look good. This caused a little smile to come to his lips as he looked at Miles.
He had just finished telling the orders to the waiter and was handing him their menus. The waiter quickly left with their orders. Miles then turned to Phoenix seeing a small smile was playing on his lips.
"What're you smiling about, Phoenix?" Although I have a pretty good guess what.
"You look nice." Phoenix said plainly, his smile turning shy.
Miles couldn't help but smile. "I can say the same thing to you, Phoenix."
Phoenix gave Miles a big grin in response, and said in amusement, "You're just saying that because you bought me these clothes."
Miles looked a little hurt at this comment.
"No, I'm not just saying that. I really think you look nice."
Phoenix felt bad that Miles seemed to take his joke the wrong way, so he slowly reached for Miles's hand and gave it a little squeeze, softly saying, "I know you do. Thanks."
Miles looked at Phoenix smiling softly. "You're welcome..." He held onto Phoenix's hand tightly. Miles wasn't always sure if Phoenix was joking or not. He could pick up sarcasm quite easily, but Miles had never been the type to joke around much.
Maya and Pearl slowly snuck in as a few people were going in.
"Hurry up you two!" Maya whispered to Ema and Larry. It seemed Maya had gotten much better at spying, although no one would ever be sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
Larry and Ema tried to be inconspicuous when they too walked into the restaurant, but they only succeeded in getting a few stares as they tried to act "normal". But they finally caught up to Maya and waited for her to lead them, since she seemed to know what she was doing and where she was going.
Maya continued on, finding a good spot to hide and spy on Phoenix and Miles.
"See? They're obviously dating," she said triumphantly. Pearl seemed to be more excited about the whole adventure more than actually watching Phoenix and Miles.
Larry looked over to their table and he was first shocked at Miles actually not being in a magenta suit for once.
He shook his head a little to get over that, and then he said, "They're just sitting at a table together. Who knows...maybe they're just talking about their court-y stuff."
Maya pouted angrily. "If it was just court business, why would Mr. Edgeworth wear something so casual?"
"Mr. Nick isn't wearing his suit either. They seem pretty laid back too." Pearl said thoughtfully.
"And if it was court business, they'd probably not talk to each other at all. You don't give information to your enemy or something like that." Maya was annoyed that Larry didn't seem to get it.
"And, scientifically speaking, Mr. Edgeworth and Mr. Wright seem to be smiling too much to be talking about something like court business..." Ema mumbled, partly to herself as she jotted things down into her journal.
Pearl looked over again before quickly ducking again. She was giggling softly and a large smile was on her face. Confused with this reaction Maya also looked over before ducking too.
"Hey Larry, go look over now and try telling me Nick and Mr. Edgeworth aren't together." Maya had a big grin plastered on her face.
Larry first focused on Miles and Phoenix's faces, finding small smiles there, seeing them looking at each other...as if they loved each other.
Oh, no way...Larry thought, unable to believe his eyes.
Then he looked down and saw their hands. One of Miles's hands was clearly tightly clasped in Phoenix's.
Holding...hands...? Maya is right...but...how...? Nick didn't even say anything to me about it! Larry thought, his confusion turning quickly to anger.
With shiny tears in his eyes, Larry said, "But he didn't even tell me...I don't believe this!!"