At Spike's place one evening, he was in his room at his laptop playing an RPG online game with his buds, "All right, guys. We're here at Gosallus Stronghold. Now to get past the army of Troll Warriors will require strategic thinking and..."

"LEROY JENKINS!" Pipsqueak shouted, as he moved his character to fight their enemies.

"And Pip just went ahead of us." Spike finished dryly.

"Come on!" Tender called, as they fought their enemies, before advancing.

"So any plans tomorrow night?" Featherweight asked, "It's Friday, you know?"

"Have to visit my grandma, and trust me not the place I wanna be," Pip began, "Her place always smells like onions and garlic and that's enough to make anyone gag!"

"You, Tender?" Featherweight inquired.

"Late night dance lessons. If I'm going to make Dancing with the Stars when I come of age I need to be ready years in advance."

"Good luck with that." Spike joked.

"And what about you, Mr. Popularity?" Tender asked.

Spike rolled his eyes, and answered, "Honestly I got nothing. Probably going to spend it binge watching Intergalactic Space Princesses."

"I'd rather stay at home and do that then go to my grams." Pip replied.

Suddenly, Spike's bedroom door opened, and Twilight stepped in, "Spike, mom wants you to take out the garbage?"

"Can't it wait? I'm in the zone!" Spike complained.

"You're free to tell her that." Twilight replied.

Spike groaned, "Hang on, guys. Don't move onto the main boss without me."

"Well, be quick before Pip goes rushing in again." Tender replied.

Spike got up and left his bedroom before tying up the garbage bag and taking it outside to put in one of the garbage bins. He was about to go back in, until he heard a voice, "Evening, handsome."

Spike jumped in fright before turning around and saw Aria leaning against the house next to Spike's, "Aria, I didn't see you there." he panted.

"Sneaky is something I'm good at." Aria smirked.

"What're you doing here?"

"Just came to see what you were doing."

"Just taking garbage out." he answered like it was obvious.

"I can see that," she noted, "But I really stopped by to ask you if you had any plans tomorrow night?"

"None specific, why is there something you needed?"

"I was hoping you and I could hang out tomorrow after class." she explained.

"Just us?" he inquired.

"Yeah. I mean you got to hang out with Adagio by yourself, didn't you?"

"How do you know that?"

"Adagio's been boasting about it since that day. Got annoying after awhile," Aria began, "So I figured is she could have some alone time with you, I should as well."

"All true, I mean it wouldn't be fair." Spike admitted.

"So you up for it tomorrow?"

"Sure. Count me in." He agreed.

"Awesome. Catch you tomorrow." Aria pecked his cheek before hurrying off.

Spike put a hand to the cheek he got kissed at and used his other hand to wave, "Bye." he said.

The next day, during Phys Ed, Spike and his class were doing sit ups. The boy looked left to right with his three comrades on either side, while talking about what happened last night after he took the garbage out, "You got a date with Aria tonight?" Pip asked.

"Yeah. She just came to me and asked me." Spike confirmed.

"Do Adagio and Sonata even know about it?" Tender inquired.

"I would assume so, since Adagio spared no expense in blabbing my date with her to them."

"Probably a means to get them jealous and all," Featherweight suspected, "You know that's how things work in a harem genre anime."

"Except this is real life, Featherweight." Spike reminded him.

"In real life girls get jealous if the guy they're into goes out with another girl close to them." Featherweight countered.

"He's got you there, Spike." Pip agreed.

Before another word could be said, Coach Iron Will bellowed, "Less talking more working, ladies!" the boys picked up the pace with their sit ups.

Later on as school was letting out, Spike went to his locker before seeing Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash, "Hi, Spike." Twilight greeted him.

"Hi, Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity."

"How're you doing this afternoon, darling?" Rarity inquired.

"Not bad. You girls?"

"Awesome as always." Rainbow boasted.

"You heading home now?" Twilight wondered.

"Actually, I made plans."

"What kind?" Rarity asked curiously.

"He's going out with me." Came Aria's voice as she came over.

"Hey, Aria." Spike greeted.

"Hey, Spike." she said, while leaning against the lockers.

"Aria, what're you doing here?" Rainbow asked.

"Like I said, Spike and I heading out."

"To do what?" Twilight crossed her arms in suspicion.

"Nothing adult rated, I assure you." Spike answered.

"Well you never know," Aria teased, "One thing leads to another, you know?"

Twilight started getting red in the face, until Spike spoke, "She's joking! Aren't you, Aria?" he gave her a glare.

"Of course I am. Lighten up, Twi." Aria replied, as the girl sighed.

"Just make sure you're not out late because I won't cover you for mom and dad. I've already done that twice in the last week." Twilight warned him.

"I understand and I'll be fine. Later, girls." he walked off with Aria.

"Once again you're too easy to get your buttons pressed." Rainbow told Twilight.

"Oh, shut it." Twilight denied.

Outside the school Spike and Aria began walking down the block, "So did you, Adagio, and Sonata get into some big fight when Adagio told you about our date?"

"What do you ask?" Aria raised a brow.

"After watching you three up close and how you can got into petty squabbles, I tend to pick up these kind of hints."

"That noticeable?" she asked humorously, "Relax, we didn't throw any punches or kicks. Just a bit of a scuffle but nothing serious. I mean we're sisters it's what we do."

"Understandable. Twilight and I have our sibling scuffles but I still love her."

"Same with me, Adagio and Sonata." The two smiled, and pressed on.

The two teens had decided to go to the mall, and were shopping in the music store. As Spike was looking at some CDs, Aria walked up to him and held up three individual CDs with a different pop star on the covers, "Spike, who do you prefer? Sapphire Shores? Countess Coloratura? Or Songbird Serenade?"

Spike answered, "Aria, that is a near impossible question to answer."

"I know, but still out of all of them who would you pick?" she insisted.

Spike looked at the three pop stars, before answering, "I'd go with Coloratura."

Aria looked down at the picture before asking suspiciously, "You're not just choosing her because she has a hot body, right?"

Spike blushed, while shaking his head, "I like her for her music too, and not just because she's hot."

"So you admit she's hot." Aria accused.

"Who can deny she isn't?"

Aria shrugged, "Touche. Even I'm jealous of her beauty. In fact I envy all three of these stars for their beauty."

"Hey I think you look good." Spike said.

"Do I?" Aria asked, as she got closer.

"Of course."

Aria smirked, "Glad you admitted that. I feel better now."

Spike rolled his eyes, and muttered to himself, "Women always needing to beat your inner thoughts out of you."

Aria patted his shoulder, "Come on, Spike. I'm just busting your chops a little."

"So that's what it was?" Spike asked dryly.

"Hey, a girl can have some fun, can't she?"

"Of course."

"Come on, let's go pay for these and grab a bite." Aria said, as Spike smiled, and did just that.

After exiting the shop, they went to the food court and were sitting at a table having a burger and fries each, "Mm, nothing beats a good old Belch Burger." Spike said, before taking a bite.

"I hear ya. We'd never have this kind of stuff back where we're from." Aria agreed.

"And, Aria, do I have to remind you about how you say things around my sister?"

"What do you mean?" Aria asked curiously.

"The way you spoke about us to my sister once again puts you on bad terms." Spike warned her.

"Maybe your sister needs to learn to have a sense of humor." Aria retorted.

"Yes I know, but that's a certain kind of humor she doesn't find so amusing. So I say again try and behave."

Aria smiled, "All right. For you. But how do you deal with he eggheaded nature?"

"It's not easy, but I manage. What about you?"

"Between Adagio's bossiness and Sonata's clueless nature sometimes I feel I'm the only normal one in the family."

"And yet you still love them." Spike smirked.

"Yeah. I can't imagine my life without them even if they have those flaws."

"I feel the same with Twilight and Shining Armor. Siblings, am I right?" Spike joked.

"Yeah." Aria agreed, as they continued eating their burgers.

As it was getting late the two walked back to Spike's place before stopping out front, "Well, I guess I'll see you around, Aria."

"Yeah. You too," Aria answered, as she pecked his cheek, "And once I tell this to my sisters, you can bet Sonata's going to be asking you for a date as well."

"I'll be ready." Spike replied.

Aria started walking away, before turning back, "And I thought our date was fun." she hurried along. Spike smiled, before going inside.

As he walked down the hall toward his room, he passed Twilight's. The door was open, and she noticed him and spoke, "You're back. How was it?"

"It was good, Twilight."

"Well, I'm glad you had fun." she admitted.

Spike raised a brow, "You're not going to try and make accusations or assume the worse?"

"Har-har." she replied sarcastically.

Spike chuckled, before heading to his room. He plopped onto his bed, and pulled out the three CDs he bought at the music shop, "Sapphire, Countess, or Songbird... Decisions-decisions," he said to himself. He finally held up the Sapphire Shores CD, before placing the other two down on his bed. He looked at the two covers and spoke, "Sorry, Countess. Songbird. But I'm in a Sapphire mood tonight." he popped the CD into his player and began listening to the music while nodding his head to the rhythm.

Author's Note

I know it's been months, but I've been occupied with other stuff. Just as I'm sure a lot of others are. Well, relax because I still remember this and my other fics.