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*Ding Dong*

Ryou could hear excited feet thumping down stairs as the sound of the doorbell echoed through the house. He chuckled to himself at the mental image of an excited and bubbly Rose running down the stairs with that huge grin on her face, and her curls bouncing wildly up and down.

The door opened wide very quickly.

"Good morning!" Ryou said cheerfully to the bundle of energy that was Rose Manning.

"Morninggg!" she sang back cheerfully.

She stepped to the side, indicating for Ryou to come in, which he did.

"You ready?"

"Yeah, hang on, I've just got to put some mascara on. Come in."

She disappeared off into the room down the corridor and to the left, and Ryou began to follow. He noticed the neat rows of shoes arranged under the staircase opposite the room Rose went into, as well as Rose's feet which were only covered by socks, and decided that he would have to take his shoes off before he went in. Once he'd done this he followed Rose into what was the living room of the house where he found her leaning into a huge, gold-framed mirror which stood on the wall facing him, with her eyes opened wide and her mouth in that 'o' shape that girls do whenever applying mascara to their eyes. He smiled at the classic image and walked over to stand beside her.

"What're you grinning at?" She asked his reflection with a smile of her own

"You."

"Wha...why?"

"Nothing, it's just the whole 'girls can't keep their mouths closed when doing their mascara' thing, I..." he trailed off and shook his head, peeking down at the floor before looking back up at her reflection.

"Hey! I can do my mascara without opening my mouth" she explained "it's just that it's easier and more comfortable to do it with your mouth open."

"How is it more comfortable?"

She paused for a moment of thought

"Well... I suppose it's... because you open your eyes wide, and that naturally opens the muscles surrounding your mouth. It's like when you're frightened. Your eyes open and, naturally, so does your mouth. Like this... open your eyes wide - as wide as possible - and keep them open. Raise your eyebrows too. Create as much room between your eyelashes and your eyebrows as possible while still keeping your eyes open wide."

Ryou did as instructed.

"AHA! See, your mouth is open."

"What? No it isn't!" He looked at his reflection in the mirror and was surprised to find that his bottom lip had indeed separated itself from his top one, and that (annoyingly) they had also created that shame 'o' shape.

"Dammit."

He tried again, this time determined to keep his mouth closed. He was doing well too, until eventually, he noticed his bottom lip quivering away from its partner ever so slightly and slowly.

"Your mouth's open."

"Shut up!" He scolded her playfully

She began laughing at his failure until he could no longer hold back his own chuckles and joined her, having given up on the ridiculous exercise.

"Well, alright then! You do it! You said you could, but I can't see how that would be possible."

She leaned her head back and looked up at him through narrowed eyes.

"Elementary my dear, Watson." she said and turned to the mirror, with Ryou closely following suit.

She then proceeded to successfully finish applying mascara to both of her big, brown, deep-set, eyes with only two 'mouth' comments from Ryou who was watching her lips intensely so as to try to catch her out. As soon as she finished she put the wand back in its body and gave Ryou a smug smile as she twisted the lid shut.

"Don't look so smug, you didn't do it perfectly."

"I did better than you, AND I was actually sticking something in my eye! Unlike you, who only had to open his eyes and keep his mouth closed."

He shot her evils.

"Shut up." He scolded, again, playfully. She stuck her tongue out in response. She walked towards the couch, upon which rested her small, colourful, patterned, over-shoulder bag*. She slipped in the mascara and slung it over her shoulder. They walked into the corridor and to the stairs where they retrieved their shoes.

"What's the weather like?"

"It's warm. It's warm for September. The chill still hasn't set in, but it's not exactly T-Shirt and shorts weather." She nodded.

"Okay, I'll get my light jacket then."

She got dressed and they headed for the door, with Rose grabbing her keys off the window by the stairs first. Ryou and Rose stepped outside. As Rose locked the house behind her, Ryou took a deep breath of the fresh autumn air. When Rose had finished she stood next to him and sighed with excitement.

"You ready for an adventure?" She asked

"With you..." he extended to her his arm "...always."

They smiled at each other as she took his arm, and off they went. To the bus stop!

* If you want to have a visual of the bag that I'm talking about, then go to the Accessorize store website, look under bags, and search for the 'Mexican Duffel' bag. It's such a cute little bag. Yes, I do have one. Shh :P No, I am not being sponsored or pressured by Accessorize to mention this.

A/N: Hey, guys, I hope you enjoyed that! Sorry it's a bit late, but it is exam season. So I've been focussing on revising for those. This story is very much a 'free time', relaxy thing for me to be doing. But I really enjoy writing these, so I will be updating fairly regularly (or trying to, at least ;D).