You expect me to let a ship week with two of my favorite V3 characters go by? You should know me better by now XD

"So? Still think ice cream is better?" Kaede took a massive bite of her cup of frozen yogurt, enjoying the sweetness of the cake batter flavor with the strawberry pearls.

Maki shrugged, swallowing a bite of her own coconut yogurt with pineapple. "It's good, and all of the flavors are imaginative, I guess." She looked at the childish, colorful decorations around the shop. "This place is awfully bright, though. Definitely a hotspot for children, right?"

Kaede grinned sheepishly, a light blush dusting her cheeks. "I may or may not have been coming here for froyo my entire life."

"Somehow, I knew it." Maki took another look around before glancing into her cup. "I'll have to bring the other kids here sometime, though. I think that would be a nice treat for them." They were both silent for a few minutes, eating more of their frozen yogurt. This was one of their better date ideas; some of the ones they'd thought of before had flopped, yet this one was (so far) very enjoyable. Maki glanced up to see Kaede staring out the window, the frozen yogurt on her spoon dangerously close to slipping off. "Careful you don't get that on your shirt."

Kaede glanced down and yelped, shoving the spoon into her cup before it could go anywhere near her mauve tank top. "Thanks," she said with a laugh, stirring her spoon a bit before taking another bite. "I was pretty lost in thought there, wasn't I?"

Maki shrugged, putting her spoon back into her cup. "What about?" Usually it was the other way around, where Maki would be the one thinking about something and Kaede would have to pull her out of it.

"Nothing much, just how adorable you look today." Kaede smiled as Maki's mouth dropped open from the obvious compliment. She'd only worn a scoop-neck red T-shirt and cropped jeans to their date, and even then she didn't deem it "adorable"; it was just the first outfit she saw in her closet that morning.

"U-um…" Maki trailed off, combing her fingers through one of her pigtails. "You, too."

"Thank you!" Kaede took a celebratory bite of her yogurt, completely oblivious to how flustered Maki was from her compliment. She knew for a fact that, given Maki doesn't socialize much with the rest of their class apart from Shuichi and Kaito, she didn't garner many compliments from their peers or anyone at the orphanage. That was when she decided that Maki deserved more compliments. "Okay, but frozen yogurt is so much better than ice cream."

Maki just gave her a tiny smile. "Fine, how about this. Our next date, I'm taking you to my favorite ice cream place. Then we can decide which is better."

Kaede beamed at her, eyes glistening. "It's a date!"