At the same time Aikka had his conversation with Satis the earth team (minus Mr. Hovius, Eva and Maera) decided to go into a bar to drink something. They had just walked around a bit and, lazy as they were, were tired already.

"You know, normally I'm not into these alien drinks but I have to admit; this squid stuff isn't that bad." George said. He had just drunk his fourth blue coulored drink and to his suprise, it tasted rather good. It also had a strange site taste to it, you could compare it with alcohol.

"Let's drink to that!" Steven said holding up his fith drink. He had also noticed that this drink kinda was the same as alcohol and he really, really, wanted to get drunk. Let's see his reasons for that; 1. He was stuck on an alien planet lightyears from earth. 2. He had just quit his job and had been replaced by a 20-year old. 3. He had absolutely no money left due to a lot of wild parties, houses, cars and stuff he had bought on earth and 4. He just liked this drink.

"Bottom's up!" Bil said and drunk his drink up in one breath.

Due to the fact that everyone was now slightly or competely drunk nobody noticed Max, who had also had a drink or two, walking outside very pissed of. For he had just seen someone who made his blood boil.

Aikka had been walking threw the town pretty fast since he was trying to find Eva. After he had been at their pit he had only found a strange older looking man who had told him with a big smile on his face Eva had gone to town. That man's face had been really weird he just couldn't describe it.

After he had passed the bars he was walking to the shops. During his last stay on this planet he had found out a few short-cuts and luckily he knew one to the stores. Although it took him threw one of the more deserted parts of town it saved him at least ten (earth) minutes.

Suddenly he heard footsteps behind him who were coming closer at a high pace.

"I've been looking for you, Prince." A voice behind him said. It was not hard to hear that whoever was the owner of the voice was very pissed of and also a bit drunk.

"O. And how have I owned this honor?" Aikka said. He hoped that be being polite this man might calm down.

"Stay away from Eva! She's mine!" Max growled. He truly truly hated this prince.

"You know, I think she has the right to choose herself." Aikka growled back. He didn't know how, but these earth boys always seemed to really piss him of.

"Why don't we dicide this the old way?" The guy said and he suddenly pulled out a pocket-knife. Aikka reached for his nifes but suddenly descovered that they weren't there. Idiot! Why of all times do you forget to bring your nifes now!

Suddenly the guy(Max) jumped forward and cut Aikka in the arm. Taken off gard it took Aikka a few seconds to counter react. He leeped back a little and prepared for an attack.

I have to watch out for that nife. he thought

But now was his turn to attack. He sped forward avoided a slice from Max's nife and hit the guy so hard in the stumach that he litaraly flew away a couple of meters.

"This match is over." Aikka stated and turned around. He didn't want to fight, he hated fighting. The fact that he was bleeding also contributed to his walking away.

"Lucklily the stores here are open almost 24/7." Eva stated. She had just bought some souvenirs for her neighbours and was now on her way back to her pit.

But suddenly she got the shock of her life, on the end of the street she saw Aikka. And eventhough she was pretty far away and the only light came from the houses in that street it wasn't hard to see that he was bleeding on his arm.

"AIKKA!" She screamed and ran towards him.

Aikka looked up when he heard his name and saw Eva running pretty fast towards him. Within two seconds she was besides him.

"Aikka! What happened to you? Why are you bleeding?" Eva asked, her voice filled with concern.

"It's nothing really. Someone just cut me with a knife." Aikka said, he didn't want Eva to worry about him.

"This does not look like nothing to me." Eva said, inspecting the wound. It was a nasty cut, but it would probably heel in a few days.

"Here." She said and she got a handkerchief out of her pocket and wrapped it around the princes arm. "That should stop the bleeding."

"Th-thank you." Aikka managed to say. He liked having Eva so close to him. Their faces were at most three inches apart and he could hardly suppres the feeling to kiss her right there. But he knew that it wouldn't be a true love kiss, since Eva didn't knew yet that she loved him. So he did the next best thing.

"Would you like me to walk you home? It's kinda late." He said nodding with his head to the starry sky above.

"Well okay." Eva said. Normally she would have never exepted but she liked being with Aikka.

During their walk back to the pit Eva told Aikka about Maera, the fact that she was now the new pilot and just things about her life. In return Aikka told her about his life as future heir to the throne of Nourasia. They both walked very slow in order to spend as much time together as they could but in the end they finaly came to the pit.

"Thank you, for walking me back." Eva said, a bit blushing.

"The pleasure was all mine." Aikka said with a bow. "I'm looking forward in seeing you again, and good luck on your next race."

"You too." Eva awsered. As he turned away she suddenly got a pretty wiled idea.

"Aikka?" Aikka heard her say and suddenly there were two lips pressed against his. Eventhough he was supprised at first he quiqly started to kiss her back. After a few minutes they parted. Both blushing madly.

"Well, see you tomorrow!" Eva said and quiqly ran inside leeving a confused Aikka.

Although he was very happy about his kiss with Eva he also was pretty sad. Why hasn't she got her memory back? Satis said that that would happen if we were soul-mates. And I'm pretty sure that was a true-love kiss. Perhaps we never were ment to be together. Perhaps we are not soulmates. He thought deeply saddened

From inside the pit mr. Hovius had watched the whole kiss. "Just friends, eh?" He mumbled with a shile on hsi face.

A.N. Finally I made them kiss, personally I thought it was about ime too. Well I hope you all like.