Riku woke up with the sun blazing in his face. Riku mooved the hand off his chest. He stood up and shook Ashley up. "No, I don't want to wake up" Ashley groaned "Too late, your already up" Riku said and walked down the stairs. Riku's mom was standing by the stove. Riku took a seat at the table. Ashley sat down next to him. "Here is breakfast, I have to go out" Riku's mom left them alone. "When are you going to tell your friend Sora about me?" Ashley asked "I don't know.... Never" Riku said "You know he is going to find out" Ashley said "Yeah, will I don't want him taking you from me" Riku said "No, that depends on if I let him" Ashley replyed "Come on let's go take a walk on the beach." Riku said with a smile. "Okay" Ashley said with a clatter of her spoon. Riku and Ashley walked out of his house with Riku's hand resting on her mid- back. They walked along the beach then Riku turned to Ashley. Rikupressed his lips agence her's. Then a voce came behind Riku "Riku" Sora said Riku pushed Ashley into the water. Ashley fell off the little island where you had to cross the bridge to get there. "Sora!" Riku said "What are you doing?" Sora asked "Nothing just looking out into the ocean." Riku replyed looking to see where Ashley went 'Hope she didn't drowned' Riku thought to him self. "FUN" Sora said sarcasticly "Bye" Riku said and started to leave. "Why do you keep running away, what are you hiding?" Sora asked "Im not hiding nothing" Riku said and left Sora. Riku walked into his house and in the kitchen Ashley stood her clothes still wet. "Why haven't you changed" "Because I have a presant for you." Ashley said with a miscivous smile on her face. "Really What is it?" Riku asked Ashley jumped up and gave Riku a big wet hug. "AHHHH, Ashley" Ashley smiled bigger. "I guess I deserved that." Riku said running his fingers through his hair. "Man, I want your hair, it's so....silky and shiny and moves in the wind." Ashley said "Sora said that when Tidus put honey and syrup in my hair that it helped it" Riku said. Riku leaned closer and wispered "Don't tell him said this but I think he was right." Ashley giggled. Riku made him and her some lunch. They were eating, then Ashley broke the silence. "Riku....There something that your hidding from....I can tell" Ashley said "What makes you say that?" Riku asked "Sora's your best friend but now you don't want him to see me and you have been avoiding him, Whats wrong?" "I don't I don't want him to take you away from me!" Riku said "But I don't want Sora I want you!" Ashley said Riku looked up in anger "That's what Kairi said and then Sora takes her away because I was Evil I was on the bad side and still now Kairi can barley look me in the eyes because she still think's Im a heartless, Im not. Riku stood and looked at Ashley. "I don't want to know what happened" Ashley said gentley "But you have to know so than you can save me from it" Riku said "What do you mean?" "They want me back, they knew the only reason Sora beat me was because I still had part of my heart and so I let him beat me. He would go destry the heartless and It would be all over... It's not there in my dreams calling me back, I don't want to go" Riku looked down "Why not?" Ashley asked "Because they want me to bring you but they won't say why." Riku said, He felt a tear slip down his face. "Why me?" Riku didn't anwser her qustion, "Something to do with me, Sora, you, Tidus and this girl named Shuku" Riku said "Are they coming back?" Ashley asked worried knowing that the heartless would be big trouble. "Yes, but I have been holding them back from comming, But I dont know how..." Riku left off. Riku felt wheezy about thinking of the heartless, he fainted.

Riku awoke in his with Ashley looking at him. "Are you okay?" Ashley asked letting him sit up "Yeah,.....Their coming" Riku wispered. "Riku, that's all in your dreams, you've been saying that all week. You say tomarrow, They come. Every night you wake up sweating and you say that." Ashley said "Maybe,...Im just afraid that they will come back." Riku said "Now do you want dinner because you been out of it for a while, Your mom already made it." Riku walked down stairs and there was a pot of soup. He ate the soup and headed back up the stairs to his room. Ashley was already asleep.