(GS3) Home Field: Kizoku Town Penthouse

[Jello]

Haruka showed up at the penthouse maybe a bit too early. He showed up in his work outfit like he joked about, but it actually looked rather suiting for him today. He ended up grooming a little before showing up, making sure he looked as best as he could. That was something he had never done before, at least, not for Hana. He normally just put on whatever and met with her but tonight felt different to him.

Special, maybe.

He was allowed in advance by the nurse's. Apparently they were expecting him ahead of time, and that made him really nervous about Miyuki but then again, if Hana said it was okay then...

He decided to get seated at the couch in the center of the living room, just off by the kitchen area and all. It was really well decorated, kind of like the manor but with a lot more flare to it. No beige walls, but beautiful mahogany and things of the like.

With a sigh, he pulled out his phone, reminding Hana about the meet-up... Okay that sounds sketchy, but it was all Haruka could believe it to be. It wasn't a date per se, but it was something close to it.

"at your house, getting comfy. mind if i make something to drink while i wait? cant wait to see u~! -haru"

[Hope]

"I don't mind! Yeah I'm on my way sorry! ISA Hope :3c"

She bolted through the door, wearing her snapback and baggy sports clothes, looking like she had just rented clothes from a professional basketball player. Isabella quickly put her purse down and removed her hat, placing it beside the bag. The house cleaning today also completely completely ran past her mind. "Ohhh how embarassing!" she said to herself as she panicked.

She noticed Haruka-kun, and decided to straighten herself up regardless of what she was wearing. Isabella stayed in character with what her current costume was to make it seem like this was all part ofthe plan even thought it totally wasn't.

"Yo bro!!" she walked up to him, offering a high five. He was wearing his suit. Isabella had to get to something nice after this just to be fair. Or rap for him.. whichever he wants.

[Jello]

Haruka stood there dumbfounded. His jaw was literally dropping, already laughing pretty hard.

"H-Hana... hi-hahaha.." He high-fived her, leaning back in his seat. He ended up just clapping a bit, still holding in his laughter. He was about to go make coffee for himself, but now that she was here he would get to make both of their drinks. But first he had to ask...

"So, are you gonna rap for me? I mean, that get-up is pretty 10/10 Hana, but uh, not what I expected for the evening?"

He stood, petting Hana a little. It was more of a playful gesture, but he meant it in a couple-sort-of-way. It made his stomach turn to think he unconsciously did it, just because it was Hana and he grew so used to it.

Then his phone rang. It was buzzing actually, so it must have been a text.

"Eh, let me get that darl-" He cut himself off by biting his lip and reaching back for his phone, resting on the sofa again.

Y-Y-Yukino?! Now?!?!

Haruka's poker face was over 9000 right now in how hard he was trying to hide the shock written across his face.  His hands trembled very slightly but he mostly masked over his reaction.

He started tapping a small message, forced chuckling again to lighten the mood that was just present.

"sorry, doing something right nao sweetheart. at uncle toshis house, helping me out with homework. we should meet up tomorrow tho! c: -haru"

You scum. You scum of the Earth.

"I might be..." Haruka muttered under his breath.

[Hope]

The way Haruka-kun was acting set the tone of the night, playful. The pet on the head felt nice, and it looks like he hasn't made his coffee yet so perhaps that should be the first thing that they did together. The laugh was just about as she expected, but it actually made her feel better rather than be more of a letdown or embarassment.

"I can rap if you want! I'm going to change though, duh. I have lots of costumes remember!" She laughed.

With the ring of his phone, he suddenly became really stuttery and flustered. She already had a guess why, but she used her power with one eye to take a peek of what he was texting anyways. They were sitting in the living, right next to the window so it was perfect.

"Yukino huh?... Yeah same thing happened as I had to leave the amusement park- uh... yo." She tried to lighten the mood and calm him down. She may as well have as much fun in this before she changed into something more fitting.

She walked over to the kitchen and began taking out coffee ingredients as well as a blender.
"You're going to teach me how to make that frappe right?"

[Jello]

Haruka clicked his phone shut, sliding it across the living room table and standing up, stretching his back. He definitely was ready for a cup of coffee if he could get it. But something seemed off about the night... oh right, the clothes.

"Eh, Hana... Not to seem pushy, but, you aren't going to wear those all night are you?" Haruka was scratching the back of his head as he went into the kitchen yawning. He was already a bit sleepy but that sort of thing happens when you end up staying at the park for nearly eight hours with no response.

Making a frappe was easy. Just needed milk, coffee, vanilla and some other small things depending on what you wanted for it. He walked over to the counter behind Hana, leaning over her from behind a bit to get a better look at the ingredients. Everything he needed seemed to be there, just had to actually make everything...

Except standing behind Hana was making him want to do things besides make coffee...

Like, well, not make coffee and hang out with Hana.

Get your head out of the gutter, jeez.

"Hmm... Yeah, I can teach you. It isn't really that hard. Just takes a bit to figure out how much you want and then learn the proportions. We have a standard measure at work so it always tastes the same really..." He ended up trailing off, sort of spacing out.

[Hope]

At first it was easy to follow, but then the coffee talk started to turn into a seminar, like something employees would be told at the first day of work. She understood the first few words, standards of measurement, something that was a given. Next up she tried to listen for what they were. Somehow she ended up thinking about vegetables. Tomatoes were red and it was kind interesting how they were made into ketchup. Wait, is tomato even a vegetable? Broccoli looks like a small tree, and celery tastes terrible and is gross.

In the end she just decided that Haruka-kun may as well just show her how. How he was standing behind her made her wish that she was wearing something that he could enjoy some more. Plus, she probably smelled like the amusement park. Gross like celery, she decide to change her clothes before continuing on.

"So... you don't want me to wear these all night right?" She put her hand on his chest, slowly moving it around, "Do you want to remove these yourself or do you want me to change into something nice?.. I have a swimsuit, a maid outfit, and a lot of other costumes. Or just make it easy with a simple dress?" A grin formed across he face.

[Jello]

Haruka opened his mouth, blood rushing all over. He wasn't sure whether or not to take her up on that offer about removing clothes-

S C U M.

Haruka mentally knocked himself on the head for that one. He honestly felt a bit crappy about that, considering he really wanted to actually go ahead with that. But then he instantly felt guilty about even considering that because he sort of wanted to share that kind of experience with Yukino. Then again Haruka should probably just stop thinking about all of this completely before his mind blanks out again.

"A-A dress is fine, Hana, really. But I wouldn't mind the maid costume on a different occasion.."

A filthy, rotten...honest human being, Haruka is. He cupped Hana's face in his hand, pulling her in for a long kiss, covering her hand that was tracing his chest with his own hand. He was a small guy comparably to the rest of his friends like Seifer, Tsubasa or Satoshi. But he was still somewhat taller than Hana and built up a decent amount.

Superiority complex? Just a little bit.

"I'll see you when you get back, yeah?" Haruka smiled, somewhat turning his attention to the ingredients on the table. He had to figure out what she had and didn't have fast before going into actual detail work. Despite Haruka's messed up desires, he was actually sort of excited to test his barista workmanship too. Even if Hana found it kind of boring, he was excited to get to work.

[Hope]

The way that he reacted was golden. She should've taken a picture. The kiss was largely unexpected, leaving her blushing and looking around the house. It felt as good as always, she wanted more. The night was still young, and they plus, a frappe! Frappes are worth getting excited over as well. Eventually her eyes were set on the stairs since she had to change after all. "I-I... Yeah, okay! A dress is fine"

Well first off, a quick bath.

She picked a black and white dress to compliment Haruka-kun's colors. It had white laces around the chest area which she tied up. Laces were kind of her favorite thing. Anything that was a ribbon and looked near gothic lolita style, Isabella actually found really cool looking. The dress she chose was actually pretty old, from almost a year ago. It still fit her, though not in the way it was originally supposed to. She had to loosen the laces that she had tied from the last time that she wore it and since she had grown taller, the ends of the dress were now a good amount of inches above knee length.

"Well... at least I hope Haruka-kun likes it." She combed her hair and put on a white rose clip to complete the whole look.

Heading down the stairs, she noticed Haruka-kun looking at the ingredients, ready to make the coffee. She laughed at him, "Haha.. what a nerd! Anyways, here I am! What do you think? We can make that coffee now?"

[Jello]

Stunned. Haruka was actually so bewitched by the beauty Hana had right now. The dress seemed uncannily coordinated with Haruka's outfit for the evening, despite it being what he wears all the time anyways. She was very cute, for sure.

"You look.. great, Hana. Really, beautiful." Haruka smiled, nodding.

"Oh right, the coffee. Sorry, you took a bit longer than I thought so I made my own Royal Brew, like normal. It's on the counter over there, I haven't drank it yet though." Turning his attention back to the stuff at hand, he was deciding if he wanted to do extra chocolate this time for the mocha frappe, or if he just wanted to do a richer brew than normal. Maybe a higher quantity of condensed milk?

He was having a pretty intense mental debate on how he wanted to make it.

"Hana, how do you like your coffee by the way? I'm not sure how you wanted to make it this time. It's not work standard stuff so..." He placed his hands on the counter, somewhat leaning on it, getting a bit lost in thought.

While this whole coffee bit was on his mind, something else was taking control of his thoughts. His phone hadn't buzzed even once since he sent that text to Yukino... She must have honestly believed his dumb excuse, but she didn't even respond? I mean, technically Haruka didn't deserve a response. But he still felt kind of crappy about it.

[Hope]

"I'm not really that picky actually." She continued walk down the stairs and stoppe when she was beside him, "more like I'm actually not that well educated when it comes to coffee stuff. I just throw in creamer... do things butler-san and other people have suggested and yup."

It was also due to her espeially terrible memory when it came to titles and names. She would have to actually come up with a nickname for coffee in order to remember all this. It was also the fact that all coffee tasted the same to her, and if it didnt, add sugar or creamer.  "Just as long as it's sweet, I'm usually content."

[Jello]

Haruka was... well he was slightly offended. Coffee making was an art and for her it was "as long as it was sweet, she was content?" He almost got a bit upset with her, then remembered she wasn't crazy and it was Haruka who was just completely overreacting in his head. He sighed and grinned a bit. At least making coffee for this cute little Princess wouldn't be super difficult.

"Extra chocolate it is then."

Haruka went ahead and started putting it all together. It went surprisingly quickly, even mixing the coffee and milk together was done with near tactical precision, using a metal stirrer he had in in his server's apron. He took a good amount of time with the blender though, considering it took a bit longer to figure out whether or not the top bit was in place so it didn't explode everywhere.

After a moment or two of going through all the motions at a decent speed, he presented a fresh mocha frappe for Hana. Whipped cream and chocolate syrup to top it all off.

"Well, that was quicker than I thought it would be..." Haruka had done this so many times recently that it just sort of felt like a moment had passed is all.

"I hope it tastes good to you... actually..." Thoughtlessly, Haruka started rummaging through Hana's fridge looking for milk.

Milk and coffee, quite literally Haruka's favorite mix. He liked Irish Creme as well, but the milk make it thicker and didn't get rid of the strong coffee taste. With a tad bit of sugar, he sipped his own coffee.

"Mmm.... just as good as Butler-san. Looks like the apprentice has surpassed the master." Haruka chuckled, taking another long gulp of the coffee.

[Hope]

"I was actually going to say extra chocolate for the frappe, but I usually actually always go for caramel.... mm I usually go by the packs they give, two sugar, and two cream... or one depending on the day. When it comes to sweeter things, I am never really picky outside of toppings, since everything is always measured for me to be some sort of health benefit before I over-consume sugar and gain weight. Manager-san makes sure my diet is checked on regularly. Also memory is kind of bad." She shrugged, noticing that he wasn't content with her answer from before. It was a pet peeve of hers that she wasn't well versed in specific things that people seemingly had a passion for like this. She feel the same about haircuts also, despite being all about fashion, the numbers translate to gibberish for her, so she would often blather on about what she does know to kind of hide it, even maybe as a self-apology. She leaned over the counter as he did his work, feeling kind of bad noticing that she rushed a reply to something he was passionate about.

But then again.

She took her frappe and sat down on the living room couch, offering Haruka-kun to sit next to her and do the same. "You're such a coffee drinking-making nerd." Isabella teased him. "... but I'm glad, this tastes good."

The lights outside were twinkle twinkle sparkle. Well, that's how she explained them in her mind. Nice as always.

"So you want to hear the song I wrote right?" The song book was directly under the living room table, where she left it this morning on her rush to get to the amusement park.

[Jello]

As Hana presented it to him, Haruka took the opportunity to sit next to her. Hana spoke up about a song it seems. Oh right! She wrote lyrics to a song, and Haruka had decided to hear about them. He scratched his chin, apparently realizing the area he shaved when he get home was still kind of itchy.

"Yes! Yes yes yes I'd love to!" Haruka crossed his legs leaning back, sort of trying to relax a bit. He was interested in what Hana had cooked up for him. If Haruka was to coffee-making, Hana was to song-writing. It was kind of like, the big thing Haruka knew her for. Also her super-duper stalking powers. Haruka was still amazed about it, and kind of scared at the same time. If she saw him in the shower... hoh boy. Not what he wanted someone like her peaking at, no sirree.

"Whenever you're ready, princess." He called her that unconsciously, not because she was the Princess of Cray, but more as a pet name. Weird. Haruka only really did that with...-

Haruka smiled despite the conflict in his mind.

[Hope]

She placed the song book on the table and reached for her acoustic guitar which was right across the living room, next to the fireplace. Sitting down, she became comfortable next to Haruka-kun. A smile formed on her face as she leaned a little closer, poking him a little with her curved elbow, as she slowly began to strum her guitar.

"A private concert right?... Well I hope you like it."

This was the song she sang.
Milk and Coffee

After it was over, she took a deep breath. Singing was always good at letting out emotions as well. While carefully placing her guitar on the floor, she realized a bit of sheet music was sticking out of her song book. Impossible, it couldn't be...

That song.

She quickly reached for the song book and closed it before Haruka-kun would ever get to see any lyrics or even a single note written on the paper. Isabella actually wrote a whole song about her experiences with him at night and it was quite shameful. No one should ever see it. Moving closer to him in an attempt to distract, she timidly laughed and began to ask, "What did you think?... haha... ha."

[Jello]

Haruka gave a mini-applause, still trying to keep somewhat quiet with Miss Miyuki in the other room. But after listening to that song, Haruka found himself entranced in the warmth of the fire and Hana's voice. It was truly beautiful for sure. All he could do was let the resonance of her voice take him away to a faraway place. He even wrapped his arms around her as the song finished, very pleased with the way it ended. It was a cute song about well, Milk and Coffee.... or at least that's the guise it fell under.

The meaning of it was a bit more intense than that.

He did feel the tinge again. Guilt. He would normally be holding Yukino right now. She would be the one who is talking to him and sharing late nights with him and having his attention, not Hana. He saw her quickly shut the music book, kind of confusing him a bit. But he didn't want to press it. Must be something important she would show later or something.

Haruka had questions to ask.

"So... how was your day with Yukino? Have fun?" He awkwardly smiled, trying to kind of keep the atmosphere light.

"She... uh, change at all?"