SECRETLY IN LOVE WITH YOU; RYO X RIKA
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or any other character in this story (except for this one guy xD).
Me: I wrote this fic quite a while ago. I hope there aren't too many grammar mistakes and that you'll like it. Rika is out of character in some scenes but I needed that to make it more romantic. Hope it's not too corny. :D Enjoy and review!
Oh, that's my first fic on so again I hope I did everything by the rules! =)
...
It was a lovely Monday, all sunny and hot. Rika was sitting on a bench, going through some school literature while checking her watch every three seconds. She wanted to get there sooner as usually to prepare herself calmly and not in a hury like she always did. She was really annoyed when she finally saw him in the distance. She knew she would be late again.
It's been six years since she last saw Renamon. She's 19 now, a university student in Tokyo. She's working in an american fast food restaurant, making hamburgers and french fries. She hates her job but she needs money, that's why she goes to work four times a week and doesn't spend a penny of what she gets. She's always almost late for work because she goes there after school. But today she got a ride there ... Unfortunately he was late, which didn't make any difference for her. She'll have to change her clothes and get ready for work in a few seconds like always. No wonder she was already totally annoyed when Ryo approached her.
'Hey my queen!' he said and giggled. He knew she hated that.
'Don't call me like that, you fool ... You're late. I could have gone there by myself instead of waiting for you here like a piece of dirt ...'
'Don't be mad at me! You didn't want me to pick you up in front of the school!'
'Of course I didn't! You'd embarrase me with that stupid car!'
Ryo rolled his eyes and giggled again. 'You're just jealous ...'
But she wasn't jealous. She really was embarrased if he gave her a drive in his fancy new sports car. She could see all the jealous faces of girls that had a crush on him. He was paparazzi's new favourite face afterall.
A year ago Ryo participated in a reality show ... and won. After that you could find a (stupid) article about him in almost any tabloid every day. 'Ryo ate pizza at Sergio's', 'Ryo went shopping', 'Ryo's new car', 'Ryo took a taxi', 'Will Ryo write an auto-biography?' etc. It was all fun at the beginning but paparazzi didn't only follow 'the great Ryo', they also wrote articles about Ryo's friends and family. Ryo gave Jeri a drive once, when she was late for a job interview ... The next day there was an article in a random tabloid ... 'Ryo and his new girl'. Jeri was really shocked and didn't want to go anywhere with him alone anymore.
Rika and Ryo walked to his new yellow Hyundai Coupe, Rika was still quite annoyed by him, even though she knew it was her fault, he didn't pick her up directly where she was waiting for him. But she'd rather be late for work than to listen to her classmates again. 'Are you two dating? No? And why are you always together? Of course you are! Don't lie to us!' Everything was actually really stupid, Ryo would never be that popular if he hadn't won that reality show. She was friends with him even before that and no one cared about it then.
'I think I might come to visit you today. With Satoshi.' Ryo said while driving the car.
'Uuughh ... why do you have to be there? And why does he have to be there with you ...?' Rika asked him. Satoshi was Ryo's classmate, she didn't like him. He thought he was a god for women and he also acted that way.
'We're going out today and we'll probably be really hungry ...!'
'Go to another restaurant, our sucks anyway ...'
'Yours is the cheapest ...' he giggled. 'And your cheese burgers aren't that bad ...'
'Gee, thanks!'
'You're welcome ...!'
'Fool ...'
Ryo stopped the car and Rika left him. He promised to come sometime in the evening.
She walked into a full restaurant and the girl that worked before her was really happy to see her.
'Finally, it's been really crazy today ... I need a shower!' she said and left her work space. Her working dress was full of ketchup stains and she even had a piece of salad on it. Rika's motivation for work was gone in a second but she took her working clothes anyway and changed herself behind a wall that separated the kitchen from customers. She took a big breath and was ready for work. She could smell meat everywhere but she got used to it after a few really long seconds. Now she was ready to make some burgers!
Four hours later Rika was working so fast that she didn't even have the time to think how much she hated that job and how tired she was. She had to make four cheese burgers, one without salad and two without tomatos, seven portions of fries, three hamburgers and two toasts, one with ketchup. The waitress was already waiting for her burgers, which made Rika even more nervous. She yelled at meat and potatoes to get rid of her anger but it didn't really help her. She stopped doing that after she saw that a customer near her could hear her. Instead of yelling she rolled her eyes and bit her lips and had a fight with the dishwasher every five minutes. She was nervous and angry when she had too much to do. And she was all alone, nobody helped her.
A few minutes later Ryo and Satoshi entered the restaurant and sat at the least popular table - the nearest to the kitchen. The kitchen and the customers were separated by a wall but this wall had a big round hole, so that everyone could see Rika and her work space and so could Rika see everyone. She wasn't really happy to see the two of them when she had so much to do. And she knew Satoshi would want her to make something really annoying and time-taking. She hated him!
'Yo Rika!' Ryo smiled at her and she noded.
'Oh, hi, Rika ... I have a feeling that we'll have to wait for our burgers even longer than last week!' Satoshi said and rolled his eyes.
'Then go somewhere else!' Rika yelled at him and the waitress turned her shocked face to her.
'It's ok, we'll wait ...' Ryo said and Satoshi rolled his eyes again.
They got their burgers twenty minutes later. Satoshi bit into his burger with eggs (they took Rika some extra time, because they still had their peel on them and she had to remove it first).
'So, Rika, are you coming to Ryo's birthday party next week?' Satoshi asked her after a while.
'No,' she said. She totally forgot about his party. He asked her to come once or twice but she didn't want to. Almost hundred people were invited, including all of her Tamer buddies, but Tamers always celebrated separately.
'Oh come ooon, it'll be fun!'
Rika didn't mind Satoshi's stupid begging voice and made another hamburger.
'Rikaaaaa ...'
'Oh please, stop it ... She'll come. You'll see,' Ryo said and smiled at her. They were looking at each other for a moment or two, when Rika turned herself away. She blushed a little.
'What's wrong with you?' asked the waitress. 'You're so red in your face.'
'It's so freaking hot in here!' she yelled at her.
'I'm sorry for asking!' the other one rolled her eyes.
'No ... no, I'm sorry for yelling.'
'It's ok ... Umm, so, Rika ... Do you think, um, Ryo would invite me to his party?'
Rika stabbed a piece of meat with anger. It was always about Ryo! Ryo! Ryo! Ryooo!
'Ask him.'
She finally got a permission to clean her work space. The waitress was jumping all over the place in happinnes, since she asked Ryo if she could come to his party and he agreed. She even voluentered to clean the floor - something nobody ever wanted to do. It started to rain outside.
Rika cleaned her work space in a half an hour. She left the dancing waitress and went to the nearest bus station. She had to run because she didn't have an umbrella.
The bus station had no roof.
'That's just great!' she screamed into the rain and kicked an emty bottle that was lying on the wet floor. She was the only one on the station. She put her hands in her pockets and stood there in the rain already wet as a puppy. There was no building with a roof anywhere near her. She could have gone back to the restaurant and wait for a better weather but she didn't want to watch the happy waitress.
'Maybe ...' she said to herself and took her cellphone from her right pocket. She chose Jeri's number and called her.
She changed her mind a second later and put her phone back to her pocket.
'It's already 11pm, I shouldn't be calling anyone ... The bus will come soon ...' she tried to convince herself.
Ten minutes passed but no bus came to save her from drowning in her own shoes. She wasn't annoyed or angry anymore, she was already past that phase, she was now becoming depressed and felt sorry for herself.
'Rika!' a familiar voice called her. She turned around.
She saw her college, the happy waitress, with a man under umbrella. No, it wasn't just a man under that umbrella, when she looked closer ...
'Here you are you foolish thing!' Ryo said and jumped to her leaving Rika's colleague on the rain. The waitress screamed.
He rised his orange umbrella under their heads.
'I went to pick you up on the way home,' he said to her. 'Satoshi met some old classmates and went for a drink with them. I didn't want to go.'
'You should have come like a half an hour earlier, if you wanted to look like a savior.'
'I had to wait for your friend, she didn't have an umrella ...'
They both remembered the waitress and turned her heads to her. She was standing a few steps away from them. Her purple umbrella was saving her from the rain.
Ryo blinked twice confused: 'I thought you didn't have ...'
'I just found one!' the waitress said and blushed a bit. She forgot what she told him.
'Oh ... great ... Then you'll be alright on your own ...!'
'Bu-...' she tried to resist.
'It was nice meeting you!' he said and turned towards Rika. 'Shall we go? My car is parked just a few meters from here.'
They walked in silence, Rika was shaking but she tried to hide it. They came to Ryo's car in a minute.
'I'll destroy your precious car seets, if you don't have a towel I can put under myself,' Rika said after she jumped into the warm car.
'Errr, I don't think I have one ... It's ok, it doesn't matter.' He threw his wet umbrella on the back seets of his new car. 'Now you won't have a bad conscience.' He giggled and she rolled her eyes.
Ryo took car keys from his pocket, when Rika's bus drew by them.
They were driving towards Rika's house.
'Why wouldn't we go for a drink?' Ryo suddenly asked Rika.
'Huuuh? Are you crazy? Look at me!' she said and looked at herself. She hated the feeling of wet clothing on the skin.
'Yeah I know ... You can go change yourself and I'll wait for you in the car ...'
'I don't know, Ryo ... It's a bit late ...'
'C'mooon, the night is still young!' he smiled and parked the car. They were in front of Rika's house. It stopped raining a few minutes ago.
'I hate it when someone says that!' she said and opened the car door. 'I'll be back in a few minutes.'
Ryo giggled and she left.
She slowly opened the front door and closed it quietly. She didn't want to wake up her mother or grandmother. She took a quick shower and changed her clothes. She was ready to go in ten minutes. But she didn't go to Ryo's car immediately. She thought for a few moments.
'I wonder why he wanted to go for a drink so late ... That can only mean one thing! He wants something from me ...' Rika said to her reflection in the mirror. 'Oh, of course, Ryo ... You're so predictable ... You want to convince me to come to your birthday party, don't you ...?' She looked through the window somewhere in Ryo's direction.
'Well, you won't make it!' she said loudly.
Ryo was happy to see Rika when she came back. He was getting sleepy in the warm car.
'We have one hour, nothing more,' Rika said when she sat next to him.
'One hour is more than enough!' Ryo smiled.
That's what you think ...
They went to the first bar they could find. It was a little suspicious, there were many older men in it, drinking beer and talking quietly. Some of them turned their heads to the new-comers but no one said a word to them.
'Eeeerr, let's sit here,' Ryo suggested a table that wasn't too near to other freaky people.
They got used to the bar after a few minutes. Nobody watched them and nobody cared about them. Ryo was silently relieved that no one recognised him as a reality show winner and asked for his autograph.
'Do you think Takato and the others will come to my party? I mean our Tamers party?' Ryo suddenly asked Rika.
'Huh? Of course they will, they always have. Why would it be any different this time?'
'I don't know ... I was never sure if they'd come.'
'Really?' Rika was surprised to hear that. 'But we're friends ... We're a team!'
'You are a team. I never felt as a part of it. I came later and I'm the oldest of you all.'
'That doesn't matter. We like you as much as we like Takato or Henry.'
'I'm not whining or anything. Just asking!' Ryo smiled at her.
'Oh ... ok ...'
Rika was waiting the whole hour for Ryo to try to convince her to come to his party. But he didn't say anything. They left the strange bar at 00.30 am and took a short walk to the car. Rika was still waiting for the bomb to blow up but nothing happened. She was starting to get suspicious.
They were back in the car and they were already driving. Ryo didn't say a word. When he finally stopped the car in front of her house, Rika had enough.
'I thought you wanted to go for a drink because you wanted to make me come to your birthday party,' she said.
'To make you come?' he giggled. 'No, I just wanted to hang out, that's all!'
'Oooh really?' she said. She didn't believe him.
'Well, I would be really happy if you came but I won't try to change your mind anymore. I think I'll survive in that ... jungle.'
She noded and wished him good night. She went out of his car but she looked back at him when he wished her good night. He smiled at her again and then he went away. That was the moment when all her doubts about his party disappeared. She could still see his sad blue eyes and she knew she will go to that stupid party.