"How about these?"

Ryuzaki held up a pair of black aviators. I put them on and looked in mirror.

"Nah, not big enough." I replied and raided another rack.

"What about these?"

This time it was a slightly bigger pair, except red. I tried them on and I looked pretty awesome.

"I like these." I replied and looked at the price.

"Can you believe it's fifteen dollars for this?" I sighed.

I was about to put it back on the rack when Ryuzaki stopped me.

"If you like them I'll buy them." He said, gently taking the glasses out of my hand.

I smiled as we checked out and walked into the blazing sunshine. Summer was coming up soon, so I ripped off the tags and slipped the glasses on, absent-mindedly grabbing Ryuzaki's hand. I gasped and attempted to let go but he held my hand, giving me a don't-deny-your-feelings look. I looked at my cell phone for the time and realized I had four missed calls from Light.

"Shit." I mumbled.

"Something wrong?" Ryuzaki asked as we got into the car.

"Yeah, Light's called four times, he's probably suspicious by now."

I pressed the send key and Light picked up after two rings.

"Where are you?" He asked.

"Well hello to you too baby." I dryly replied, trying to hide my feelings.

"I was so worried about you. I'm in lunch right now, are you coming back?"

"I'm not entirely sure." I replied, dodging Light's original question.

"You've been gone for hours, is everything alright?"

He seemed genuinely worried, but he's probably more jealous than worried.

"Yeah I'm fine. I lost my glasses at the doctor's so I had Ryuzaki--"

"Tsukiko! I could have bought you a pair!" Light snapped in jealousy.

Thank God for being quick on my feet.

"If you'd let me finish, I said I bought them myself."

His jealousy was starting to irritate me. I was starting to think maybe he was better off as my childhood friend rather than my boyfriend. Come to think of it, I technically wasn't dating him considering he forced me into the relationship.

"You still there?" Light snapped.

"Nope, I fell off a cliff and died." I replied sarcastically and hung up.

"Is everything..okay?" Ryuzaki asked, starting the car.

"No, Light is being a jealous bastard and I'm going to just..ugh!"

Malak tightly gripped my shoulders, making me jump. I always forgot he was there, considering he rarely spoke and was incredibly mysterious.

"You humans." He said.

I loved his voice. It was so deep, and masculine, but slighty rusty from age. His voice could kill a thousand men, or save them, depending on his mood. I've never seen him smile before, and seemed content with my mood for now.

As we drove away, I quietly changed the CD.

"Can I pick a CD?" Ryuzaki asked politely.

"You don't have to ask, it's your car." I replied.

"Dig around towards the back, there should be a CD for Hidden In Plain View."

I dug around, and sure enough, there was a CD by Hidden In Plain View. I popped it in and Ryuzaki switched the track to Bleed For You, and I lost my breath as the second verse began.

"She drowns herself until the images erase
But the skin is bruised all along her thighs
Nightmares repeat, refrain the memories remain
In mental photographs haunting all the time
So she shuts her eyes to you
She tries to hide from you
And she falls asleep into dreams where she is safe."

Ryuzaki was too busy drumming his fingers on the steering wheel to notice I passed out.