Long Lost Love -Chapter 8-

Me: Uh…disclaimer please, anyone? …
Everyone: You don’t own us!
Me: thank you that was exactly what I wanted to hear *grins* well it’s not but I know it’s not mine, so don’t sue
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Chapter 8
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“You have a boyfriend Yue?”
“Yeah…”
“That’s great news”
“uh huh, I’m actually surprised Paru hasn’t already told you…”
“apparently not, so what do we do now?”
“Uh?”
“Well I should really be getting back to the shop, you know, can’t keep customers waiting and all”
“Oh right, well I’ll accompany you”
“You don’t have to”
“Well I want to, and besides my stuff’s at your apartment”
“You three can come to if you like, while we wait, they’ll know where we are”
“It’s okay Nodoka, I should be getting home anyway, K- never mind, I have to go, I’ll be sure to drop in tomorrow, bye all” She stood up and left
“Oh, Okay, are you two coming?”
“Uh we’ll check where it is and then head off de-gozaro” They all stood up and after paying left the restaurant and headed back to Nodoka’s bookstore, she unlocked the door and let them in “Right, who wants tea?”
“It’s okay Miyazaki-san, Fu Fei and I are going to go now, we have to meet up with Mana de-gozaro”
“Oh, okay…”
“We’ll be back tomorrow, just like Yue-dono and the others”
“Okay, eleven ‘o’ clock here I think…the morning train from Mahora get‘s here at about ten doesn‘t it? So Konoka and Setsuna-san will be here I think and hopefully Asuna-san will have calmed down”
“What happened de-gozaro?”
“She got a little angry and worked up and ran off”
“Ah, right well I’ll hope to see her tomorrow, bye Nodoka-dono, Negi-bozu de-gozaro”
“Yeah Bye-aru” The two girls left, Nodoka looked at her watch, “almost two ‘o’ clock” she stated aloud settling herself behind the counter
“Yeah, hey did you want me to make that tea?”
“I-If you want” He smiled
“It’s the least I can do”
“Well you know where things are” He left the room and went upstairs, She stood up and walked into the back room, picking up the books she finally blew the dust off them and started to stack them back on the shelves instead of on the top.
“Nodoka-san?” Came the call from the front room
“In  here” She called back, Negi walked in carrying two cups of tea
“Oh there you are” he handed her one of the cups smiling “What are you doing?”
“Just sorting a few things”
“Oh, okay” They both sipped their tea in silence “Hey are those book s on magic?”
“Yeah they are…Well, sort of, They’re just stories” She shrugged and finished her tea “Feel free to look through them” She took her cup back up into her apartment, she glanced in as she passed back towards the main room, he was reading one of them, she smiled lightly and sat back down at her desk.
She was lost in thought when Negi came back out of the room, he looked her over for a moment and smiled. Creeping up behind her and tickling her sides, she squealed and fell off her chair, He laughed as she got back up. “What was that for?”
“You were so lost in thought”
“So you tickled me?”
“Yeah, what were you thinking about anyway?”
“Never mind”
“Oh come on, I want to know”
“It doesn’t matter, I was just thinking about…well, everything”
“Everything?”
“Yeah just life in general”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah”
“I don’t believe you” He tickled her again, she squealed and kicked her legs around playfully as her pulled her towards him pinning her arms back as he tickled her, she fell to the floor pulling him with her. He sat on her legs to stop her from kicking out at him and carried on tickling her. She squirmed trying to get him to let go.
“Ah, No, stop it!” She squealed giggling. The bell rang as someone walked through the door.