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"The shadow that haunts my dreams…"

When Musa had stopped running she realized that she had no idea where she was going. More like where she could go there was no way she could go back to Alfea not after what she had said and done.

"Great! Now I'm stuck here!" she whined

"Whatever I guess I could go to magix…"

But just as she was about to leave a voice stopped her

"So I guess that's it huh? You think that you can just run away?"

When Musa turned to look she was startled

"Well?"

It was none other than Riven it seemed like he had gone after her

"What do you want" she hissed

"I want to know what going on with you!"

"What do you mean?" she replied uncaring

"I mean what where you talking about! Like waking up and then… all the other things"

When she didn't reply he knew that he should just stop and turn around. Maybe even head back and just give up on her but something inside him wouldn't give him that luxury maybe it was because seeing her like this… closed off and all alone hurt him… or maybe it was because he had feeling for her. But being the stubborn guy he is he took the first guess. After all she was … well she was her, he would think of his reason for helping her later for now he would act on instinct.

"Listen I know you probably don't want to talk but-" he was cut of by Musa who said

"Glad to know you're not as stupid as you look now… BYE!" with that she stormed off rubbing her now acing head.

It was bad enough that Riven had followed her but now having to deal with this seething pain in her skull she just couldn't take it.

Riven unfortunately wanted to know what was going on with her so he followed her.

And after 30mins of this she stopped only for Riven to bump into her.

Riven had been following her very closely incase she had tired to run off again but when Musa had stopped to turn around they realized how close they really were. And in Musa's opinion too close!

"What do you think you're doing?" replied Musa coldly trying to keep her cool even though inside her heart was thumping madly.

"What do you think? Following you till I get some answers!" Riven replied back his face cold but his eyes showed concern.

Her voice was low and she replied

"Well I suggest you look some where else cause you're wasting your time here"

And with that she turned to walk away her head was hanging low when a hand had grabbed her arm and stopped her.

She refused to face him she couldn't not after what she had said and done, she didn't want anyone's pity, anyone's concern. She hated that! People who acted like they cared or even worse people who felt pity for the helpless princess… she hated feeling weak.

She tugged harder at her hand yet Riven would not let go.

When Musa finally let herself look up at the man she had feelings for the man who had both took and crushed her heart she let out a small gasp.

Their eyes had caught each other and that's when Musa finally realized just how close they actually were.

His body towered over her small frame and because of how close they were and the fact that Riven still held Musa's arm this moment in time had come to look like a lover stance.

Musa had taken a step or two back when Riven's hold on her tightened.

He had no idea what had taken possession of him to act this way since he usually ignored her and acted very rude towards her after the whole Darcy incident. But here he was in font of this girl who made him want to do things to act all stupid in front of her. A strong desire had taken hold of him he wanted to hold her in his arms, to kiss her, to run his hands through her silky smooth hair to…

That's when he noticed how pale she really was and how thin she had gotten since the fight with Lord Darkar about 2 months ago, like she wasn't eating right, and her eyes… her eyes which usually looked alive and so full of life where now dull, dark and colder.

With his left hand that was free he reached up to touch her cheek and when his fingers touched her skin he realized just how cold her body was.

Then he whispered "what's wrong with you Musa?"

His eyes held concern as his hand cupped her face.

Musa's eyes had widened out at the remark and the way he was acting. Her heart was pounding and her head was throbbing she started to feel tears in her eyes

'What's wrong with me!' she mentally thought

'Riven just ask me what's wrong and I freak out! I'm supposed to hate him!'

Then a quite voice in the back of her head yelled

'But you can't hate him… for what purpose simply because he chose the witch over you? You can't control the emotions of another person Musa…'

She knew the voice was right but yet… she couldn't act like everything was OK… could she?

"What do you care?" she whispered

"I care lots… just tell me what's wrong why don't you talk to the girls?"

He was really thinking why not talk to him but he knew better than to ask that.

After all it was him who made her lose the trust she had in him… he was the one who allowed the witches to hurt her while she was alone and defenseless.

"I can't … they wouldn't understand… they wouldn't care… I hate them"

"Hate them? How can you hate your friends?"

"They're not my friends… they're fakes they only care about themselves"

"Well... you do need frie-" he was cut short by Musa

"I don't need anyone" and with that she roughly took Riven's hand from her face and released herself from his grip.

"They would all be just a distraction anyway"

"A distraction? From what?" Riven was really confused now Musa was usually the one to stick up for her friends and here she was calling them a bunch of pest a distraction… but from what?

"Its none of your concern…you wouldn't really care"

"Try me" replied Riven his cool mask his face and his eyes were determined

Together they walked towards Magix and soon enough found themselves in a nice quiet park.

"Well…" asked Riven who had followed Musa the entire way

Musa couldn't believe that she was actually going to trust or at least put some of her confidence in this guy who had done nothing but hurt her. Was she crazy or something? But right now she really didn't care… she needed someone to talk to and he seemed like the only one who wouldn't judge her, or think she was weird or something… he was the only one the only person who had actually tried to see what was wrong with her.

Sure the other girls tried but they had quickly gave up

Bloom was too busy 'discovering' who she really was or something,

Stella had gotten annoyed and quickly went on to talking about herself,

Flora was discovering the wonders of having a boyfriend,

Tecna was off telling every one that Musa would in time sooner or later open up and there was no need to put so much worry into it,

And Layla was always there but… she never really had time for her always busy dancing or hanging out with the pixies and she was a bit of a loner herself.

"Ok well I guess you can say this stared about a month ago…"

"What started?"

"These… dreams"

Riven was now really confused how could dreams explain what's been going on with her?

"Dreams?"

"Yeah…" she said sadly

"You see it's the same thing every night… in my dreams, I'm surrounded by the girls… we're in the beach… I think well anyway everyone is talking and they seems to be having a great time but I can't hear them…I mean I see their lips moving but no word come out"

She said calmly

"Are you scared?" he asked

"No I'm not scared or worried I'm calm in my dreams…well what happens is that everyone slowly starts to disappear and I'm left all alone… but that's when I see him…"

"Him" he asked?

"Yeah it's this boy… when the girls disappear so does everything else. And I'm surrounded by darkness…but that boy I see him standing there by a cherry blossom tree…waiting for me his arm is out stretch towards me…but I'm always consumed by the darkness so I can never go to him…but just as I'm disappearing he says 'I will find you Musa and we will be together again…even if you forget me or don't know its me… we will meet again…soon!' but then I always wake up"

Riven was very stunned at what he heard he didn't know why but something about that story about that dream…scared him it sent shivers up his spine. Who was this boy? And what does it mean? Is Musa going to fall into the hand of darkness like what happened to Bloom?

Riven took one good look at Musa and then reached up to grab her hand 'he wont take her' he told himself.

"Musa I promise I won't let him… I won't let anything happen to you…"

Musa's eyes widen and she felt tears in her eyes she tried to stop them but couldn't so she cried. She didn't know why but she felt like she could trust Riven even if he was a jerk… he was a sweet jerk.

"Tell anyone I cried and I'll hurt you"

And with that Riven wrapped his arms around her and let her cry with a smile tugging at his lips. "I promise..."

Yay! Riven and Musa hugged! Lol well anyway thanks for the reviews ppl and keep them coming! In the next chapter we're gonna find out what's been up with Musa like why has she been acting weird so don't fret!

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