Let me in! Tell me what you're thinking!

…Right, because they were friends, and friends teased each other. “Geez.” He pouted a bit, looking down at the ground while pondering an answer the last question she had asked.

"Pshaw, it's just a friendly peck, of course you're not my boyfriend!" this was probably just some really extreme teasing right here. "Do you want me to go kiss some other guy on the cheek?"

"I decided I want you around."

She grinned cheekily again, implying she was ready to tease him full throttle once again.

I’m not… a wuss…

“Don’t worry.” He said that figuring that he’d spend most of his free time with her anyway. But he did genuinely want to spend more time with her considering that she was practically one of his only friends, he just… didn’t know… how to have fun usually.

Wow melo much.

Shiki was having a bit of a hard time the last week, that was for sure, a lot of things had happened even though she wasn't even dead or in the UG. "It made me a little happy, to think we were fated to always be connected.. because you're a really different part of my life, yet a really important one."

The red thread finally came off, though he didn’t really pay attention to it either. It was then that he was about to raise his pinkie and show it to her, but when he had looked, they weren’t there anymore. He looked further down to see the the string had fallen down between them.

"But don't worry I won't drag you, but just don't forget about me and hang out by yourself too much instead, kay?" even if hanging out by yourself was nice sometimes she wanted to feel like she wasn't the only one who wanted them to spend time together like this, even if it was nothing really special..

A skeptical expression crossed his face as she stereotyped him, and so he’d do the same. “…What about you, Miss ‘genki girl’?” He laughed as his head was grabbed, tapping at her arm to release him after a bit. Then the atmosphere grew a little more serious as the question was brought up. He thought about laughing and saying ‘Do you have to put it that way?’ but decided against it. Instead, he just looked her straight in the eye. Maybe he could push a few of her buttons like this.

"You're still calling him a pig?!" she pinched his ear again, this time a little harder, maybe she could scold him until he learnt that Mr. Mew was a cat! "And I don't drag him along carelessly, I drag him along lovingly. Would you like that, Neku?"

Still, the emo's warm smile warmed her heart a little, she didn't particularly mean for things to go really cheesy but it was still nice to see that he was always in a good mood around her - at least it felt that way. "Oh yeah, these red strings made sure of that."

At her hunch he raised a slight eyebrow. “I’m not an anime character.” Insert irony here. Contrary to what Shiki thought, sweet things weren’t really his thing. They tasted good every now and then, but he never had something he liked besides coffee which didn’t count as a “sweet” at all. “I don’t really like too many sweet things though.

And without either of them noticing, the string was almost fully loosened.

"You sure you're not an anime character mister 'i work alone'?" she giggled and hugged his head in a bit of a playful headlock. "Being too anime will make you emo again and we can't have that!" If there was a cure in Shiki's mind for things like this, it was ice cream! And maybe chocolate. She could hardly believe that Neku would eat so much as to 'get diabetes' so she thought he was probably just being melo again.

In all honestly, he didn’t really have any idea what he liked to do with other people since he’s never hung out much with them. He knew what he liked for himself, but he figured Shiki probably wouldn’t agree to it and didn’t want to waste his time talking about it. But since she was asking, he kind of had to, right? He took a bit of a deep breath before responding. “I guess I like… going to record stores and buying CDs, looking at art displays around the city and watching people paint and stuff like that.” Those were the things he could think of at the top of his head anyway. He’d probably find more things he’d like to do in the future.

Though I guess music itself is quite a broad interest.." and not one she indulged herself in too much, she listened to some ~mainstream~ stuff while it was on and it sometimes put a bit of rhythm into her sewing, but nothing much special. And so she shrugged and accepted that Neku was Neku, she'd just come up with some ideas of things they could try together and maybe he'd see what sort of fun things could be done with friends. I'll teach him how to... make clothes.... evil giggles.

At his question she tilted her head the other way, letting out a slight "hmmmmm...", she wasn't really sure why she thought that; "Just a hunch, I guess? You seem like the kind of guy who secretly likes sweet things!"

He pouted slightly as his hair was ruffled, though listened to her explanation about banana ice cream. When she asked him the same question, he had to think about it for a bit. Did he even have a favorite flavor? Ice cream wasn’t much of his thing either. “Uh… I think I like chocolate. Or coffee and cream.” He enjoyed coffee, so the taste of the ice cream flavor appealed to him as well.

MAYBE I SHOULD GIVE YOU HOT COFFEE AND SAY IT'S COLD HM? WE'LL SEE WHO'S BITTER THEN.

Shiki sighed a little, she thought about what sort of fun things she could do with Neku - it had gone through her mind a lot but hanging out casually and carefreely was different to trying to live through a week of the Reaper's Game. "Uh.. what sort of stuff do you like to do Neku? I can do tons of stuff with you so maybe you'll have more fun with me there too!"

…What exactly is a Chao?

She ruffled his hair, there were other ways of asking favourite ice cream but she found the awkwardness a little cute by now..

"Neku.. do you really not even remember the name of the film you bought tickets to see? Honestly.." she sighed and patted his back. "It was Chao in Space 3." probably not the best film ever either, but Shiki found it enjoyable and that was all that mattered to her. She was the kind of person who found Avatar exhilarating and didn't much care for all the criticism for it.. ironically she was the opposite with clothing.

The narrator digresses - Shiki heard Neku's question and began laughing quietly to herself, turning and giving him a stern look.

He felt her hand touch his and couldn’t help but flush just a little; he briefly looked away and returned his gaze back to her when he felt the slight pink color in his cheeks fade. Soon they sat down, their fingers still interlaced with each other but he didn’t really bother breaking away. “I only caught bits of it near the end so I can’t really form a solid opinion on it.” He obviously didn’t really care that he missed most of the movie, they weren’t his thing anyway.

She sat down calmly and took a deep breath in, watching the park and the sky a little. It was kind of weird.. spending whole days with Neku like this with no impending things like death or erasure pending over them.

"Huuh? That's a shame.. I thought the movie was great and you spent the whole time nuzzling me! You must be one dedicated teaser." Though neither of them honestly believed he was 'teasing' her so comfortably and intimately.

He did pay for it, and considering the fact that it was movie food; it was pretty expensive, but… “…It was worth it though.” The ginger chuckled slightly and stretched his arms out. He did get a slight thrill from seeing her in an embarrassing situation like that after she messed with him.

"I guess you got upset when I didn't take your hand, hm." she giggled to herself, taking his hand for real this time and wandering out of the theatre in lead of him.

He felt a little guilty for making her fall over like that, though for the most part, Neku couldn’t help but hold in his laughter. Her fall was so dramatic; everything came crashing down on her all at once, and her facial expression. It was perfect payback. He made sure to quickly wipe that cheeky grin off his face before making his way to Shiki.

“Hey, are you alright?” From everyone’s point of view he looked concerned, though he managed to flash a quick smirk at the pinkette before she helped herself up. When she left, he felt a little terrible, but just the way everything played out-

Pfft.

Neku looked like he'd enjoyed that, there was probably a lot of slightly pent up "grr" between the two of them right now, their teasing had begun in the morning and lasted the majority of the day? Just where would it end.. the readers and fellow RPers could probably make a pretty good guess.

"You paid for it, soooo..~"

…she stole his popcorn. Jesus what an ass. Neku simply sighed with an irritated expression that would most likely be wiped off his face after he left the premise.

tug

her pinky was tugged, her hand flinched, her grip on everything, on her litter, on her water, on the huge box of unfinished popcorn, it all came crashing down to the ground quite spectacularly, popcorn went everywhere, the little water that remained splashed over it-

"..Damn Neku." Luckily the thread was quite light, it had almost come off but then it tightened itself a little. As Neku slowly made his way over to her, many people stared at her. At first she was a little embarrassed, but then..

Feh, this isn't even my body, who cares? She spun around, clicked her fingers in a z formation, and strutted out of the theatre fabulously.