Fair moments,fair feelings,fair holds a special meaning at the annual fair.

Feet are like little propellers going from place to place so fast.

The smells are intoxicating and welcoming like an embrace from relatives that I actually like,the rides are around me going at speeds that just watching them is making my stomach turn over and over.
Speaking of stomach turning.

"Kenshin?"

I turn left and right finding him not beside me and a little caught off guard by that to be honest only to find him walking behind me with a large slice,two now that I see them better.
Slices of funnel cake that have strawberry icing and powdered sugar and candy apples that are multi colored,so cute!

Did I just say..
CUTE!?

"Needed to get your attention some way Lovely,You said cake and apples were required tools for that so...tada."

The humor is so unexpectedly dry from him that I giggle.
I actually giggle so girly and find myself almost cringing at my own attitude.

When did I become so goofy and girly?
Is this the real me or just the hormones kicking in really late?

Kenshin is beside me in seconds while I fight the arguing side of myself,I do not know how he seems to know what is going through my head but he does and that smirk returns because if one thing I know with little doubt about him:

He LOVES attention.
That smirk is intoxicating like all the smells around me and my heart beats faster than the rides above and around us.

That by itself I am trying to use to deter my attention from all the soft,mushy feelings I am feeling.

I try to listen to the sounds of kids laughing with such glee as their parents hold them while a spinning ride makes them dizzy.
Or a couple that are slowly rising in a ride I do not know and sneaking a,what they thought,private kiss.

I take my hand and quickly grab for my candy apple,and a small slice of cake.
Surprising myself with my boldness that I kiss Kenshin on the cheek then flee.I don't linger long enough to let him try and talk to me or allow my feelings to grow too quickly.

"I am taller than you Lovely,what takes you four to six steps takes me half.If you are going to kiss me fleeing is rather offensive,I would much rather be treated like how you are treating the cake.In fact let us remedy this now.Shall we?"

That bold,maddening Kendo boy....

"You wouldn't...You are in public,I have a already seen a number of people snapping pictures of us."

Us?
Us.

I smirk at the sound of that in my mind and even more so at the sight I see.

That unabashedly bold kendo prodigy actually stands by a toy stand,takes the plated cake(He must have already devoured that apple I see)puts a bit of the powdered sugar on to the edges of his lips and his cheek with a cheeky smile to end all cheeky smiles in history.

He walks up to me closely and leans in.
I note that mixed into the spicy smell of the cologne he wears I smell that I hate to admit is a familiar scent.

Disinfectant and some kind of ointment scent to.

"Lovely,this is a two for one kind of sweet.I love sugar a great deal.Yours especially but very much exclusively."
He turns his cheek,playfully showing it off to me but I shove him away lightly all while walking off  my pounding heart hopefully into submission.

"You are maddening!Do you really think I will kiss that sugar off?"

That boy.

See's through my mean tone like a glass bowl that he knows something is hiding beneath he wants and I am trying to brave through the storm of hearts,thumping beating of those hearts and butterflies that are teasing me so wonderfully unmerciful.

"Most definitely.The owner of the cake and the face it is on is yours rather bluntly anyway so.Yes."

That bold cheeky boy.
I am moving fast,weaving in and around the crowd feeling so rejuvenated.

Even the people around watching us(Mostly Kenshin)are laughing away and others are snapping picture after picture but I-I do not at present feel the pressure of it.

Like I am just a girl.
He is just a wonderfully unorthodox but ordinary boy.
On another wonderful date.

Rides are passing by me like brilliant colors.
Smells are starting to bleed into just pure sensory heaven while I am happily failing to keep out of Kenshins grasp who could have caught me any number of times this whole run but I am not the only one in need of some rejuvenation I think.

He finally catches me.
Kenshin has me by my waist and my face is close enough to where I can clearly see the sugar he refrains from wiping off.

"Will you relent?"

My eyes are on his dimples,if I look any higher I doubt I will last very long but that fails almost as certainly as the sun falling and the moon rising then repeating on and on and on.

"Why do you insist that even so early on being so headfirst?"

My words are said playfully but I do mean them.

Kenshin does not release me but he holds me with my feet back on the ground,arms around me gently now that we are in a semi private spot that even the camera people hidden and visible see that it is not 'Too secluded'so as to prevent inappropriate comments being said(Or less of them I guess.)

His head is gently on my shoulder now,still fully accessible for me to kiss him I did not miss that he shifts  to a slightly heavier attitude.

"Why?Because..I just believe.My grandfather,my grandmother,even my stoic mother who has only really ever had me to talk to since my father changed so much.All just.Believed.That is all I need."

The words.
Hit like a punch that fills me with butterflies and not like the ones from a person I would rather forget about.
The very one that dragged me around,pulled my hair,hit me mercilessly and only stopped by police thank GOD.
Not even a student tried to help me that day.

Oh what is that in my head for now?

I look at him,Kenshin has his eyes closed softly and holding only tighter when I pretend to pull out of his barely there grasp.

"I am not falling for your pretend sleepy act."
"I know.Don't care."

That smirk reappears and I suppose I am rather done.

I do it.
That edge of his lip and the right side no longer has sugar on it and the cheeky nerve of the boy switches to my other shoulder laughing so heartily like a mischievous little boy rather than a almost adult young man.

I,idiot that I am.
Humor him

I didn't think someone could be so cheeky but respectful enough to keep hands above the safe lines and it makes me feel so go-

My phone is going off and I pause the..moment in case it is an emergency about my Uncle,Kenshin only slightly pulls back enough but still dangerously close to my lips for my brain to handle properly.

"Please,come okay.I really need your help."
"What are you doing ?what are you talking about Arata?"
"Just meet me at your house okay,Please this is bigger than what happened before okay?"

I am stunned,the look on Kenshin is a mix of aggravation and a small inkling of bewilderment.

"It seems bad Kenshin,this hasn't happened since his dad died,that  he acted like that."
"Are you sure?You know that he was the one who did that shoe incident to you,he stole your phone,Arata is only in for what Arata wants until-"
"I know him.I thought it was him and I still tried to hope.He is my oldest friend and he knows that is over but I saw him earlier.It is deeper than what he thought I felt for him whatever this is,it is  bad.Please Kenshin,I will make it up to you.Okay."

His expression is at first very reserved unlike he usually is but it switches when he looks at whatever my face says long enough.

"My interest rates are high Lovely,Four kisses don't begin to cover it.Maybe a few hugs,an ear nibble...."

I am going back to the car as he speaks making him laugh so hard he actually chokes on the last bit of cake he had.
I raspberry my affection to him and am in the car almost tempted to flip him off but he knows I can't.

Not to him.