Something Unexpected

Chapter Six

Five tried to not getready for his coffee meeting(he was NOT calling it a date) too early.He did check his clock every five minutes though. When 5:30 finallyrolled around, he dressed in his new clothes, which was the blackbutton-down shirt and the jeans. He pairs the clothes with one of thepairs of sneakers.

After tying the shoelaceson the sneakers, Five grabs a wrist watch that he had taken from hisfather's bedroom when he had raided while finding appropriate clothesfor Klaus, places it on his arm and then goes to the bathroom to makesure that his hair didn't look like he had just woken up.

Five looked in the mirrorafter fussing with his hair and saw that he looked quite presentable.He nodded to his reflection and took in a deep breath. "Okay." Heshakes his arms to get some of the sudden nervousness out of hisbody. "You can do this."

Five blinks to the frontsteps of the Academy so that he won't run into any of his siblings.But his nervousness interrupts his jump and Five finds himself in themiddle of the stairs in the entryway. He stumbles the rest of the waydown the stairs, alerting Allison, Klaus, and Diego, who were in theliving room. Klaus and Allison quickly help Five up off the floor.

"Are you okay?" Klausasks as Five stands up.

Five dusts himself off,completely humiliated. "Yes."

"What happened?"Allison asks with confusion on her face.

"Nothing." Fivereplies shortly, not wanting to talk about it. He then moves quicklyto the front doors. He gets all the way to his hand on the doorknobbefore he is stopped by Diego.

"Where you going?" Heasks.

Five sighs and turns backto his siblings. He glares at Diego. "It's none of your business."

Diego opens his mouth toask more questions but is interrupted by Allison, who turns to Five."Wait. What time is it?"

Five glances at his watchand see that he only has fifteen minutes left before he will be latefor his meeting. "It's 5:45. The time that I need to get out ofhere."

"Oh, my God!" Allisonexclaim, happiness brightening up her face. "Your date with Julia!"

"It's not a date."Five tells her while biting his lip to keep from shouting the words.

"Well, anyways..."Allison softly smiles. "you look very nice."

Five clears his throat,his nerves shooting up again. "Thanks." He then gestures towardsthe doors. "Can I go now?"

"Yeah." Allisonquickly responds, her smile widening a little. She opens the door forFive. "Have fun."

Five stares at her for asecond. "Yeah." He then heads out the door.

Five dashes to the curb ofthe street and hails a cab. He tells the driver to get him toGriddy's doughnut shop as quickly as possible. Which the driver doesdue to the New York traffic being light, thankfully. Five steps outin front of the doughnut shop, with five minutes to spare.