The First Date
Hiroki finally does the one thing his sister and her friends haven't been able to do yet: ask his big crush out on a date. Oneshot fic.
Disclaimer: Code Lyoko was created by Tania Palumbo and Thomas Romain. It was produced by Antefilms and then by MoonScoop. It is aired in France by France 3 and in America by Cartoon Network. The author is neither employed by nor affiliated with any of the above companies or entities. All characters, locales, and other non-original entities are property of the parties mentioned above. All rights reserved.
Milly Solovieff had it all for a girl her age. She was beautiful young girl that sported dark red hair and had a slender figure. With her apparent beauty came her brains. When most girls still had no idea what they wanted to do with their lives once they got older, Milly knew her heart belong one on line of work: journalism. Her roommate also happened to be her best friend and partner in crime, Tamiya Diop, and together they ran the Kadic Academy newspaper. The paper gave her a sense of focus and respect for both the art of journalism and the sources they get the news from. With her looks and smarts combined, she was a being of perfection.
Hiroki Ishiyama was a boy of average height and weight. He was an average student, neither brilliant nor stupid. He was an average athlete. He wouldn't be the first person to be picked in a game but he certainly wouldn't be the last one. Like any boy his age, his interests were video games, anime, cards and sports. He didn't really stand out in a crowd and he was content being the average one in the room. As he sat down at a cafeteria table, he looked at Milly sitting a few tables away from him. While he knew he was average, he looked at the school journalist and saw nothing but perfection.
Johnny was Hiroki's best friend. They knew each other since Hiroki's family moved to France and became best friends ever since they met each other in class. Johnny looked at his best friend as he stared at Milly with big doe eyes. He knew that Hiroki had a big crush on Milly for quite some time now. At least once a week, Hiroki would spend most of lunch stealing glances at her direction, sighing while wearing a big goofy grin on his face. At first, Johnny tried to ignore it. After all, when someone has a crush on someone else, either one of two things happens. Either the person finally gets the courage to ask the other person out or they forget about the crush and move on. As time passed, Johnny noticed that the fawning lasted longer than expected. He decided to take some action this time around. Cocking his index finger back, he moved his hand towards Hiroki's ear and flicked it with a substantial amount of force.
Hiroki yelped as he felt the finger make contact with the middle of his ear. He turned to his friend as he rubbed his ear to ease the pain. "Dude, what was that for?" he asked.
"You're doing it again."
"Doing what?" he inquired.
"You're staring at Milly again," he replied. "When are you going to finally make your move and ask her out?"
Hiroki finally stopped rubbing his ear. "I can't just ask out a girl as beautiful as her out of the blue. I've got to take my time and wait for the right moment to finally say something."
"And why isn't it the right moment now?"
He looked over at Milly's table, hoping to find an answer. "Because... she's talking with Tamiya right now. Probably about a new story for the paper. I mean, wouldn't it be kinda rude for me to interrupt her work right now?"
Johnny shook his head. "Man, you're just like your sister."
"Why? You think I'm hot?" Hiroki asked jokingly.
"Dude!" he shot back. Johnny already told him before about the crush he had on Hiroki's big sister, Yumi. Despite the fact that it was apparent that Ulrich got to her first, he still held out a bit of hope that things would go bad between them and he would finally get his shot. "I'm talking about the fact that both you and her haven't told your crushes how you feel about them yet," he replied.
Hiroki scowled at his friend. "She's a girl. She doesn't have to ask Ulrich out on a date. He's gotta be the one to do it."
"So..." Johnny fired back.
Hiroki muttered under his breath. He knew Jimmy had him trapped in a corner with that comment. "Look," he said, "the right time will happen. Trust me, when it comes, I'll let her know." Johnny simply shook his head in disbelief as he went back to his lunch while Hiroki went back to looking at the girl he liked.
Tamiya continued her conversation with Milly. "Tell me you notice that boy looking at you all the time."
Milly moved her eyes quickly to catch a quick glimpse of Hiroki sitting a few tables away from her. "I know Hiroki's looking at me. So?"
"So, are you going to do something about it?" she asked.
"Like what?" she asked back.
"Like tell him to quit it or get Yumi or Jim to make him stop it?"
Milly tapped her lips with her index finger for a few moments, her eyes looking up at the ceiling. "Um... no. I kinda like it."
Tamiya's eyes widened in surprise. "You mean you like Hiroki?" she asked.
"No," she said. "I just like the attention. It makes me feel special."
Tamiya nodded slowly, unsure of whether or not this was a good thing. "And what about Hiroki?"
Milly shot another quick glance at her admirer. "He's cute. Looks a little young for his age but he's kinda cute."
"So if he finally got the courage to ask you out on a date, would you go?" she pressed.
"Maybe," she teased.
Tamiya pressed further. "Would you ever ask him out on a date?"
Milly shook her head. "I'm a girl, Tamiya. It's not proper for a girl to ask a boy out on a date."
Tamiya scoffed. "Please! This is the twenty-first century. It's perfectly normal for a girl to ask a guy out on a date. Besides, if that was Ulrich always looking at you, you'd ask him out in a heartbeat."
The red-haired reporter shot a look of shock and anger at her best friend. Despite the fact that it was common knowledge that Ulrich and Yumi would eventually become an item, she, along with most of the girls in Kadic, was hoping that they would give up on each other, making the brown-haired boy eligible once more. Tamiya grinned, knowing that she struck a chord in her best friend.