Alright guys, finally Chapter two!! Disclaimer: Like hell I own digimon. (But I do own Ryo in my dreams XD)

Stupid Nicknames

A loud resounding sigh filled the club with an unpleasant feel, as well as wiping the grin away from the boys face. Watching from afar, Jeri just smiled, intrigued to see what would happen. Faster than Rika had gotten up, the boy recovered his lost smiled, blocking her way.

"What brings you here?" Rika looked up at the man who had matured from the last time she saw him, still just a kid. His facial features were more defined, and he had grown his hair out to accompany his older look. Rika took a quick glance at his clothes, noticing a smile creep onto his face. The man's casual attire only seemed to fit to hers. Black jeans and a band tee, a few ornaments here and there; to her it screamed annoying.

"A lost and soon to be dead little girl…" Rika's unpleasantness stung her words bitterly as if she were really a serial killer. Keeping a never changing frown on her face Rika tried to push past the man, only to be blocked.

"You sure you didn't come here for me?" His grin, something about his grin annoyed every little nerve in the girl's body, yet it suited him. Rika stopped herself from analyzing everything about him, and grabbed his shirt, corrupting the logo of the band as she pulled him to her level by the shirt.

"Don't think for one second you can be so friendly with me. In fact, if I knew you were here, I wouldn't have come. Your stupid and I hate you, so get out of my life." It only seemed to agitate her more when his smile only widened. And it only got worse with one word. One simple word from his annoying mouth, attached to his annoying face, and his oh so annoying sing-song voice as he said it; only made things worse.

"Denial" Rika gave Ryo no time to breath before she had shoved him down, walking past. Worse than that, she got the feeling he was only amused by her sudden actions.

Once the fiery red-head was out of the building, the small plotting girl walked over to Ryo.

"What happened? Are you okay?" Jeri didn't seem as concerned about Ryo, but more for Rika. She knew the girl needed something more than a friend.

His voice seemed to pierce the loud obnoxious crowd, answering Jeri's question, "I think it went well." Ryo's smile never faded as he glanced at the door, before nodding to Jeri, running out after Rika.

Back at the safety net of her own, lonesome, empty house; Rika had changed into a pair of pajamas, griping the whole time. She had shut and covered all of her windows, and sat in darkness. Her studio apartment did not have much privacy from the outside world. She missed having her own room to run back to at times, just to think. Luckily Renamon was still out, taking a night off. The girl let out a frustrated sigh, flopping down into the couch. Light from the curtains danced on the ceiling, igniting imagination, if she had one that is. The soft sound of a song drifting down from the city streets 

interrupted her thoughts momentarily. Rika sighed, covering her ears with a pillow. The girl wanted to scream, to scream and scare away everything.

Inside her head, thoughts swirled and turned over; she didn't know what to think, nor could she understand her own actions of the night. She hadn't seen Ryo in forever, but all she could do was be rude to him, even after everything he did for them in the past. Then a voice, one of hers would interrupt her thoughts, 'Yeah well he's the one that didn't keep in touch after he promised.' Her thoughts would turn once more, thinking about how busy he must have been. He probably had a valid reason for not talking to them, to her. 'He promised…' The battle raged on in her mind, angering her; not to mention the headache that was slowly resulting. Before long Rika's head had stopped spinning to notice the music from outside was getting louder.

"Will you turn it DOWN?!" Rika had swiftly made her way to the window, throwing back the curtains, glaring down at the street. To her blatant surprise, Rika happened to place her glare upon an all familiar Ryo, who happened to be holding up a stereo, blasting music. Frustrated once more, Rika hit her head against the wall pretty hard, hearing a worried gasp escape from Ryo's mouth. 'Wait...Worried..?'

"Go home Ryo, you're not welcome here." The small girl turned to walk back into her apartment when Ryo had cried up to her, something in his voice grabbing her attention.

"Wait, Rika." His voice sounded urgent, and almost caring. Though no matter what she didn't want to deal with him.

"Ryo…I have been waiting. For six years." She resumed her actions of walking back into the apartment, closing the door on him, listening to his pleads to her. "Rika wait! I have no place to stay! I am vi-" His sentence had been cut off by the slamming of her balconies door.

She turned away from the window slowly, noticing Renamon standing in the middle of the room. "Renamon…You heard all of that..?" The kistune-like digimon just gave a small nod, something in her eyes almost scolding Rika for doing something wrong. "…He called me by my name…not just some stupid nickname…" The girls' small voice waivered slightly as she tried to regain her calm composure, but she only ended up failing.

Alright Guys, Chapter two! I've been so busy…I'm sorry I haven't updated in months! I've been job searching and college stuff. 'Cept my last job ended in miserable failure! T.T Tell me what you think, I'm still developing the story, so if you have any suggestions, or anything you'd like to see (wink-wink) please tell me! So there you have it, hopefully I can begin to update more often…And thanks a lot for all of the reviews, they keep me going, really. So look out for chapter three soon!

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