After a long walk Satoshi and company arrived at the Machida Squirrel Park front gate “Wow” said Satoshi and Kasumi in union upon seeing the beautiful decorations of the party, while Yukio grinned. “I going to find the mayor and have I chat with him, you two go on ahead”, said Yukio and he walked away leaving his grandson and Kasumi at the park entrance. Satoshi and Kasumi looked at each other, both having a slight blush on their face. “Listen, I know this seems weird but…” before Satoshi could continue she quickly spoke, “I understand Satoshi-kun were are just friends and we should enjoy this party and not remind ourselves we are on a date, arranged by your grandfather. So let’s go”. She said and walked off to join the other party guest, Satoshi looked down at the concrete ground with a sad expression on his face, “I wish we can become more than friends” he murmured. “Satoshi are you coming”, he looked up and saw Kasumi calling out for him. He put his feelings aside and went to join Kasumi, when he joined up with her both of them started to take a walk around the park.

As Satoshi and Kasumi walked through the park, the party guests were looking at them as some them whisper to each other. Satoshi saw Shigeru with his date; Shigeru smiled at him and gave him thumbs up. Kasumi saw Shigeru and told Satoshi, “Hey look its Okido-san with his date let’s go meet with them Satoshi” she said. “Oh sure” he replied nodding his head. “Well good evening you, haven’t seen both of you for quite a while”, said Shigeru when both of them approached him and his date. “Hi”, said both of them in unison, Satoshi turned his head to his left. “Satoshi, Kasumi I like to introduce you to my date, her name is Belle, and she moved her from France”, “Bonjour Je suis très heureux de vous rencontrer” she said in French. Satoshi and Kasumi had sweat drops; they did not understand a single thing she said. “Sorry guys, you see the thing is Belle is still learning how to speak Japanese before she stars school”, Shigeru apologized as he rubbed the back of his head with his right hand. “School, you mean she’ll be going to Wako-Tsurukawa Elementary School”? Satoshi questioned. “Yep and she also be in our class”, answered Shigeru. “Well it’s nice to have new classmate”, Satoshi said with a happy smile. “Well you too should get ready”, Shigeru said looking at Satoshi and Kasumi. “Get ready for what”? They questioned in union with question marks appearing over there heads. “Soon everyone will be slow dancing with their dates, ok me and Belle our going get a drink see guys later”, Shigeru and his purple long wavy haired date Belle wearing white dress and a silver tiara on her head went of to get a drink. Shigeru turned his head back to give Satoshi a wink and then instantly looked to where he was going with Belle. Satoshi and Kasumi instantly looked at each other and blushed. “Listen Kasumi…” before Satoshi could continue, Kasumi quickly whispered into his ear, “I know what you are going say, and yes we’re just friends and nothing more than that. Besides it’s not like we have any interest in each other”. As she moved away, Satoshi made a sad face, but before Kasumi could see this, he turned around. “Yeah that’s right Kasumi we’re just friends and I’ll go get us some punch”, he said in a happy tone and then walked off to where the punch bowl is. As he walked he made an unhappy face, “(I wish I had the guts to tell you)”, he thought as he walked to get the punch, sadly.

After awhile, everyone were on the dancing ground with there dates. Satoshi and Kasumi were there too. Satoshi had right hand on Kasumi’s waist and his left forearm around her neck, Kasumi had both of her hand on Satoshi’s shoulders. Both of them were looking straight at each with no emotion. Soon the conductor signaled the orchestra to the play soft music with his wooden conducting baton. As the music started everyone were slowing dancing. Satoshi was feeling quite nervous as he as danced with Kasumi. Soon he and Kasumi both realized that some guest stopped dancing and were looking at them. Satoshi’s face started getting red because all of the guests in this party were residence of Machida City and he knew many of them. After the dance was over, Satoshi and Kasumi along with Shigeru and Belle were sitting at a table for four eating spaghetti. Satoshi noticed some of the guests near his table were looking at him smiling and grinning. As he rolled his eyes he realized the Shigeru was smiling at him. Satoshi looked down at his plate, while trying to hide his embarrassed. “(I feel so embarrassed right now and at the same time happy. Embarrassed because of how people are looking at me because I danced with Kasumi and happy that my date is the one I love even if Grandpa paired us together)”. Satoshi thought as he ate while still trying to hide his embarrassment.