NAKAMURA RIKAKO<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Asano Sasame. Find what? I just arrived, there has been nothing for me to get used to yet."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I watched him, curious yet somehow drawn in.<em>So shy and defensive, so... different to the others.</em><br/><br/><em>I like you.</em><br/><br/><strong>"Asano..."</strong>I said, letting the sound of it roll off my tongue,<strong>"Asano-san. It's nice. A nice name. I expect you are proud of your family name, it is a strong traditional one."</strong><br/><br/>I smiled at the rest of his words and the way he fidgeted, like he had something to hide. I put my head on one side and giggled, for a reason I couldn't fathom. I just felt like giggling. Some boys were rude, some were outrageous, some funny, some nice, some were<em>afflicted</em>. And some were cute. Cute was good. I could handle cute. Handling cute made me feel nice inside.<br/><br/><strong>"I did not ask if you had got used to it yet, I asked how you were finding it. I was enquiring about your experiences so far on this first day. Because..."</strong>I thought a bit,<strong>"Because I'm curious."</strong>I turned round and clasped my hands behind me and began to take big exaggerated steps backwards through the snow in front of him,<strong>"Because... ummm... I want to know. I want to know about Asano-san. Will Asano-san tell me?"</strong><br/><br/>All the time I was grinning. For some crazy reason I couldn't stop.