So, sorry for not posting and giving you a short chapter...midterms is all I can say. m(_ _)m please forgive me! I will post another chapter soon! Please review if you have time. Thank you and enjoy!

Chapter 2

It was 6am on a Saturday morning, as Atsushi tumbled out of bed, his hair sticking out in every direction, his eyes sleepily half open, and limbs tingling from sleeping in one position for too long. He disliked morning practices but, he really had no say on the matter. So, yawning he forced himself to move towards the bathroom, got dressed, and one lazy stride after another staggered out the door. But, before he reached the school grounds, Atsushi's stomach rumbled. Like a startled child, he put his hand to his belly. 'I guess I'll buy some snacks' he thought stopping at the nearby convenient store. Not paying any attention to where he was, Atsushi casually walked into the store and was greeted by a familiar voice.

"Good Morning, how was the Pocky?" turning around he was met with a pair of honey brown eyes. Atsushi looked at girl curiously as she was balancing on a stool, trying to dust the tops of shelves.

"Good Morning, they were pretty good." He replied as he grabbed a basket and set off to his usual section of the store. He then began to fill up his basket with a variety of potato chips and assorted cookies; Atsushi was very keen to pick out the seasonal and new flavors. Since it was a little early and no one was really there, Miki took this chance to try and talk to him.

"So...come to buy more snacks?" Miki mentally slapped herself as she continued to dust. 'Of course he was going to buy snacks, this IS a store, you idiot' she thought. Sighing she looked over her shoulder at him crouching once again in front of the sweets.

"Mmmhmm…" Was all he said to her, as he continued to pick out his daily dose of sweets and chips. Miki again mentally slapped herself; she had just successfully killed the conversation, before it even started. Normally, Miki could strike up a conversation with just about anyone but, this time it was different. To her he seemed like an interesting person but, somehow hard to approach. The night before Miki thought long and hard about this. She came up with a bunch of reasons but, none of them made any sense. It could have been the fact that he was physically intimidating due to his height but, that was not the case. It could have been his weird over obsession with sweets but, then she rationalized it was just an obsession and that she found it oddly cute.

After some awkward time passed, Atsushi seemed happy with the contents of his basket, so he then started to walked toward the cashier. Startled, Miki jumped down, made her way to the cash register and began to ring up his items. As he waited, Atsushi picked out a bag of mini-lollipops that Miki already rung up for him, and popped a strawberry flavored lollipop in his mouth. He rolled the lollipop around from one side of his mouth to the other, playing with it as an idea began to grow in his mind. The suddenly, Atsushi began rummage through the many flavors in his bag of lollipops, and pulled out a root-beer flavored lollipop.

"Here." Atsushi shoved the lollipop in Miki's face. "A thank you present for you." A playful grin, danced across his as she timidly took it from him. Miki just starred quizzically at the purple haired boy, his personality took a complete 180 degree turn from eccentric and mysterious to a cute man-child. She managed to squeak out a "Thank you." and tried to hide her slowly growing rosy red cheeks. It was at that moment that Miki finally figured out why she had such a hard time talking to him, she was utterly attracted to him.