I find my friends in the back. Surrounded by Black Butler keychains, Fairytale blankets, and Sword Art Online models of various characters and their weapons.

Completely oblivious that I walked in.

"Hey, Iris? What do you think about getting her a vial necklace?" Zuri is asking, her back to me.

"Well, I imagine the Young Lord would enjoy that very much. So, no blankets then?" Iris answers, she has a blanket held up in her arms between us. I catch a glimpse of Zuri nodding,

"I don't think for her. If you want one though, feel free." She switches into her Grell voice, "I think I'm getting myself a photo of Bassy!" Iris shivers and scoots away, therefore seeing me. She drops the blanket,

"Minette! Uh, how long have you been standing there?" I try not to smile as Zuri hides the Ciel-themed necklace,

"Not long. Just got here in fact, why? Do I need to go somewhere else?" Iris is folding the blanket and quickly shakes her head,

"No. You just surprised me, and maybe Zuri." She holds the blanket and smiles at me. Zuri clears her throat,

"Yeah, we weren't expecting you to finish your ice cream so soon." I laugh a little and look around,

"Well, sorry I guess." I purposely pause my looking around to allow my gaze to land on a copy of the necklace Zuri is holding behind her back. And I make it as obvious as I can by walking over and observing it closer. Iris hands her blanket to Zuri,

"You wanna go check this out and I stay here with Em?" Zuri smiles and takes the blanket,

"Sure!" She quickly leaves us to the various otaku merchandise. Iris turns and kneels down beside me to 'help' me study this piece of jewelry,

"You already know, don't you?" The way she says it doesn't sound like a question, more like a statement. With a sly grin I look at her,

"Hm? About waht?" My friend laughs a little,

"That's the spirit. Keep that up and act surprised when she hands it to you once we get pretzels." I raise an eyebrow,

"Don't you think our parents will be worried about us?" This time, she is the one who grins.

It sends shivers down my spine.

"No. Me and Zuri... spoke to them. They don't care." I nervously nod as I stand,

"Right. Okay then." At this moment, Zuri returns. She hands a bag out to Iris and holds another in her hands,

"Here you go, anyone hungry for pretzels?" I blink my surprise,

"We just had ice cream, and you're going after pretzels?" She fixes me with a look,

"I'll pay."

"I'm in." Me and Iris say in unison, even if we both will try everything we can to pay her back for these gifts.

We walk out of the anime store and start chatting about the latest episodes of random things that come to our minds. Then onto Supernatural. Right as we are debating who fits which characters from the show, Iris gasps. We both look at her. She points.

And there is somebody cosplaying as an Avatar character. But not just any Avatar character.

No, that would've been too nice for him to chose some other form. Instead, Lust lands on one of the male characters.

Prince Zuko. (For those sad souls who don't know what he looks like, there's a photo at the top.)

Instantly I turn on my heel to go in the opposite direction,

"No. No no no no no." But despite me knowing who it is, I can still feel the heat on my cheeks. I can feel his gaze fall on me, landing on the back of my head.

Dang it!!

I grab the seed in my pocket hastily and grit my teeth, knowing my friends, they are about to pay him to talk to me.

They'll waste their money when he will do it for free.

A hand grabs my arm and I turn to see Zuri grinning from ear to ear,

"I will make a deal with you." He is simply standing there, staring at me. I look at her,

"What?" She laughs some and Iris answers for her,

"You have to speak to him before we leave or..." Zuri finishes for her,

"Or we tell your brother about your hidden candy stash." I take a deep breath,

"You wouldn't." They nod and speak in unison,

"Oh yeah we will." With a growl I twist my hand free and continue in my wanting direction,

"We passed the pretzels." Both of them laugh and whisper to each the entire time to the pretzel place. The entire time we were waiting for the pretzels. The entire time we were eating the said pretzels.

Until Zuri suddenly points to me and makes all of us wait in suspense until she swallows,

"I almost forgot!" She hands the bag to me and they watch me pull out the vial necklace. I grin despite my circumstances,

"The necklace that I was looking at in the shop!" I exclaim 'surprised', "Thank you, Zuri!" She smiles as I put it on and slide the Mustard Seed into the vial. It seems to float down gently and land at the bottom. I close the vial again.

"I noticed you looking at it and thought that I should get it for you!" I nod,

"Thanks!" Both Iris and Zuri suddenly go very still and stare at me. I look around me to make sure there isn't a specific perverted creep behind me. No one. Confused, I question, "What are you guys looking at?"

"The seed... it's not touching the bottom any more." Iris points. I look down at my new necklace and the hold it up in front of my face.

The seed is floating inside the vial. Plainly obvious too. Well shit.

"Nah, it's just stuck and the curve of the vial makes it look as if it's floating. Nothing to worry about."

Except for if you look closely enough, you can see tiny little orbs of light circling it along with strings of the same thing.

They both laugh and nod.

"Of course! Sorry, I guess we just had a moment there. Must be tired!" Zuri exclaims. I nod and eat some of my pretzel when a hand places itself on my shoulder and pulls me back. The pretzel 'arm' breaks off leaving half in my mouth and half out. Then I see what's going on.

A shadow falls over me and someone whispers,

"Mind if I have some pretzel?"

And then I'm kissing Zuko.