First attempt at anything like this, sorry if you get confused by British spelling or grammar...comes with the territory y'see! Cheers!

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Emma sat on a bench outside the science labs at school waiting for Cleo to arrive, they had arranged to meet by text an hour or so earlier. The bench was oddly damp and Emma felt uncomfortable, shifting herself along grimacing, paranoid at the slight moisture seeping through her shorts. Not only was the water a worry, but how it had got there too...

"Hi!" Emma smiled as Cleo trotted over and stood eyeing the discoloured bench and deciding not to sit.

"Hey Emma, what was with the urgency?"
"Well...it's not so much urgency it's just well..."
"Rikki?" Cleo replied, finishing the sentence.
Emma shrugged pulling a face which was a cross between a grimace and a smirk.
"Yeh, she's being a real pain at the moment." Cleo replied, surprisingly blunt, and quickly changed her tone noticing Emma's raised eyebrows.
"She's just been off with us, and difficult hasn't she!" Cleo rearranged her words in an attempt to soften Emma's daggers.
"Yeh well..." Emma agreed, "You know what Rikki's like, once her minds made up on anything, there isn't much we can really do to shift it."
"It's pretty tiring. We can't be anywhere anymore without her being at someone's throat, do you think something's going on and we just don't know?" Cleo concluded after a few moments of silence.
Emma got to her feet, "Swim?" She suggested, reading Cleo's mood perfectly. Cleo's face lit up suddenly as she nodded and turned heading towards the beach, her body tensing with excitement at the prospect of getting into the water.

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"Fags, wallet, phone, keys..." Rikki mumbled feeling around various pockets for all of the listed.
"Keys...keys..." She repeated rummaging around the various piles of clothes in her bedroom. After ten minutes and even less floor visible, Rikki pulled a chain attached to a pair of camo shorts by the belt clasp, her keys rattling on the end.
"Are you coming or what?" Zane walked in impatiently, Rikki turned exasperated but smiled as she saw Zane struggling to keep a serious expression.
"I'm coming! I just couldn't find my keys, got 'em"
"Which number set is that? Fifth...sixth?"
"Oi! Shh, you're just as bad as me!" Rikki smiled walking towards her boyfriend, he swung an arm around her shoulder and she wrapped herself around his waist as they moved out towards Zane's car.
As Rikki perched herself in the passenger seat her phone rang, and as she manoeuvred it from her pocket she saw Cleo's name flashing on the screen.
"Hey Cleo!" Rikki answered cheerfully inhaling a drag of her cigarette.
"Are you around today?"
"Yeh, we're just heading to the beach actually."
"We?"
"Me and Zane..."
"Oh right yeh, of course! Sorry! Fancy a swim? We all need to chat."
Rikki sighed at the last sentence, she did want to swim but not if it meant another interrogation session.
"Well, I'm not sure exactly when we'll be done cause it's our two year anniversary today." She replied.
"Oh! Alright, well if you're up for it; give me or Em a call."
Rikki hung up the phone and looked at Zane as they drove. She hadn't lost the butterflies which filled her stomach whenever she looked at him, but something had been plaguing him recently but he kept tight lipped as usual and it had given her a growing feeling of resentment.
Zane glanced at Rikki quickly, trying to keep focus on the road.
"What you staring at me for? You're going to put me off!" He grinned staring into her eyes, and then turning back to concentrate on the road ahead.
"Nothing." Rikki shrugged, "Just looking I guess."
"Who was on the phone."
"Cleo."
"Oh?"
"What do you mean, oh?"
"Nothing."
"Right."
Zane glanced at her again slightly confused, and he knew from then on he'd never understand how Rikki could go from looking at him with affection to hatred in a matter of seconds but he smiled remembering how he loved her anyway.