As soon as she hit the bed, Rikki fell asleep. She woke up the next morning with the wonderful feeling of having a good night of sleep. After getting dressed and freshening herself up for the day, Rikki walked into the kitchen. She had remembered that Zane had told her that he'd see her the next day the night before, and when she didn't see him in the kitchen, she felt almost disappointed. Nevertheless, she sat down and poured herself some cereal. She she poured milk on top of it, but as soon as it was all prepared, she suddenly didn't feel like eating it. Rikki stirred the mil slowly, looking into the bowl with a bored expression. Suddenly, her phone started ringing. She quickly picked it up, happy to have something to focus on.

"Hello?" Rikki asked into the phone.

"Hi, Rikki; it's Cleo," her friend answered from the other side.

"What's up, Cleo?" Rikki asked, spooning food into her mouth.

"Oh! Erm, I was just wondering, is Zane there?"

Rikki stopped eating. "No," she answered, a bit bewildered.

"Well, erm, if you see him, tell him that I said, 'hi!'"

With that, Cleo hung up, leaving a confused Rikki. Once again, Rikki didn't feel like eating, and promptly dumped her half eaten bowl of food into the trash. As she placed the dirty bowl into the sink, she heard a knock on the door. She walked to open it. She pulled the door open, and there stood Zane with a smirk on his face. Rikki panicked when she felt a happy little pit in her stomach open up. She quickly put her guard back up.

"What are you doing here, Zane?"

"What do you mean?" he asked her, unfazed.

"You know exactly what I mean, Zane. I didn't invite you to my place."

To this he simply smiled again, and asked her, calmly, "Can I come in, Rikki?"

Although she had just told him off for appearing with no warning other than things he had said the night before, she let him in.

"So, what do you want to do today?" Zane asked as if nothing had happened outside once they were sitting in Rikki's kitchen.

"I'm packing."

"Do you think you'll be able to get out at any time."

"Nope," she answered popping the 'p'.

"I'll just have to help you, then."

For once, Rikki couldn't think of anything to say, so Zane followed her to her bedroom.

"Heard from Cleo?" he asked her as she opened her bedrooms door.

"Yeah," she said. Why did Cleo want to hear about him, and then him about her? She shook off her confusion, and sat down at the bottom of her bed, and started folding clothing and throwing them into suitcases.

"So." She said, rolling up a blue t-shirt.

"So," he answered.

She grabbed a black dress, and began folding it up. Before she could toss it in her bag with all of her other things, she heard Zane ask, "Remember when you wore that dress to that awful lecture at the hotel?"

"Except that I didn't even get to hear 'that awful lecture' because I was... oh," she ended remembering the incident on the hotel with Zane so many years before.

"Yeah, 'oh'," Zane said with a small mocking smile on his face.

Like he had so many times the day before, he leaned his head towards hers. This time, Rikki didn't move away at the last minute, and her lips ended up on his. For a single second, Rikki felt almost perfect. She had forgotten how special Zane made her feel, and the way her whole body soared when he kissed her. With the kiss she felt a sudden bout of regret. Why had she abandoned this feeling? Had she been so prideful? She quickly shook off them, and threw herself into kissing him. This moment was for her and Zane, and it would NOT be ruined by any regrets. He gently leaned her beck onto the bed, and they slowly kissed each other, lying down. Rikki felt like she could kiss him forever, but before long they were interupted by Rikki's phone.

"Hello?" she asked, exasperated into the phone.

"Hi, Rikki. This is Cleo," Cleo answered, innocent to what she had just interupted.

"What," Rikki asked. Zane was still on top of her, looking very amused.

"Sorry, you're probably busy right now..." That's right, Rikki thought. "But there's something important that I have to ask you. Is Zane there?"

"Yes, Zane is here."

"Okay, that's all."

"Can I hang up now?!"

Rikki hung up.

"Now," Zane said, starring down into her eyes. "Where were we?"

The couple continued snog, until they decided to go out for lunch. When they came back from that, they continued with what they had been doing before. By the end of the day, Rikki had barely packed a thing.

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