Ruki was shocked. "What! You're my…"
"Babysitter? Yeah." He smiled sweetly at her. His eyes were still sparkling.
She buried her head on her pillow. "This can't be happening…don't tell me you have to sleep in my room, too…"
"Um…sad to say…yes. Your mom made me," He partly blushed and partly smiled at the fact he got to sleep in the same room as her.
She punched him again. "No funny stuff. Got it!" she demanded.
"Um…yes, ma'am."
"Good."
"Well, I guess I'll make you dinner?"
"Oh, great, now he's gonna poison me. How nice, yet how pathetic."
"I won't poison you. I promise." He smiled again.
"Would you stop smiling like that?"
"Dunno. You decide."
"Then I say I'll make dinner, and you stay here. Mess anything up, and you'll die!" she threatened.
"Okay, okay, Moumantai."
"I thought I told you no funny stuff!"
"Okay, okay."
She sighed in an annoyed way as she left her room and headed for the kitchen.
Ryo decided to look around her room. He found a photo album on one of her shelves. He picked it up, and looked at its contents. He found lots of pictures of her in Digimon Card Battles, and photos of adventures in the Digital World. But as he skimmed through the pages, He found a part of the book that made him stare- pictures of him and Ruki when they were together. He remembered the time when it was her 11th birthday. Hardly anyone knew about it except him, and he was the only one who came. He then saw a picture where She hugged him as thanks for the birthday present. "She must really remember these." He then felt extremely guilty after seeing the last picture in the whole album: A picture of her crying. He couldn't help it. Tears flowed down his eyes. He then quickly wiped them off and put the album back on the shelf and sat back down on her bed, knowing she was coming to get him to eat dinner.
Ruki went in her room. "Time to eat."
"Now did you poison me?" he asked jokingly.
"No."
Both of them walked to the dining room where two bowls of ramen were set up, along with a tall glass of water, not to mention the pot full of leftover ramen.
She looked at him. He had redness almost all over his face. "Did you cry or something?"
He looked at her, knowing she's onto him. "No. Why do you ask?"
"Your face is kind of red, and I know it's not blush."
He then blushed.
"Now that's a blush!" she said as she picked some noodles up with her chopsticks.
Ryo took out his. "Well, I haven't been crying that's for sure."
"Whatever." The phone rang. "I'll get it." She picked it up. "Hello?"
"Um, hi, this is Jen. Can I speak to Ruki, please?" the voice asked.
"Speaking."
"Oh, hi! Um…I was just calling because-"
"Because we all wanted to know if you've died yet!" Hirokazu and Takato yelled through the phone.
Ruki growled. "No, I'm still alive! He's eating dinner with me right now."
Hirokazu and Kenta howled. "Does the dinner have to do with chocolate syrup or whipped cream and Ryo?"
She blushed. "Idiots!" she slammed the phone down.
"Who's on the phone?" Ryo asked.
"If you really want to know, Jen-Chan, Goggle boy, Hirokazu and Kenta were on the phone. The last sentence you could hear after what I just mentioned about you and me eating dinner was, 'does this dinner involve chocolate syrup or whipped cream and Ryo?'" She blushed again.
Ryo blushed a deeper red. Like it'd ever happen…
Like it'd ever happen…
Silence came upon both of them. C'mon, Ryo, talk! You wanna win her heart back, right? He then looked at her. He sighed inaudibly. She's so… "Wonderful," he said, saying the last word in his thoughts aloud.
"What's wonderful?" Ruki asked.
He blushed again. "Um…the, uh, food! Yeah! The food's wonderful! Thanks!" he said nervously as he ate some more ramen before saying, "I'll go take a shower."
"Okay, don't use up all the hot water."
"Like I would."
"Like I can trust you."
Ryo ignored it, and went to take his shower.
Ruki cleaned up, got her towel, and went to the door and waited for him to finish. After 15 minutes, she yelled, "Save some for me and the fishes!"
"Okay!" He went out of the bathroom with steam coming out of the room.
She kept herself from drooling over him again. He was a little muscular, and it surprised her that he never looked like that when he wore his clothes. A towel was wrapped around his waist. Damn, he's hot…
They shared one last glance while Ryo walked past her and Ruki was going in the shower room. Stop looking at her! You might get her attention.
She quickly got in the room, and shut the door. She lowered her head and sighed, longing for him, but her hurt her a long time ago and she won't let that happen again. The girl can still feel the tears from long ago. "Quit it, he's too good for you," something inside her said. "You can always go to Jen-Chan." She lifted her head. "Yeah." The voice inside spoke again. "You love him, right?" Ruki nodded. "Yeah." Then the voice started yelling like he won something. "Then get in there and get his heart! They don't call me your conscience for nothing!" Ruki looked up with bright eyes. "Yeah!" she yelled.
"Ruki, are you okay in there?" Ryo asked through the door.
"Um…Why would you want to know?" she yelled back.
"Whatever." He shrugged, and walked away.
She hit her head on the door. "I hate it when he does that."
When Ruki came out of the shower, she was in a bathrobe. Ryo was sitting on his sleeping bag when he saw her. He couldn't help but stare. She looks so pretty, especially with her hair down! "Um…hi."
She glared at her. "Tomorrow, I have school. You had better not ruin my day while you're here."
"Okay," he grinned at her.
"Stop grinning like that."
"Why should I?"
"Because it's getting annoying."
"Lemme think about it…no."
"Gr…"
Ryo's face lit up, and with a high pitch voice, he managed a "Hi!"
"Very funny. Gir, get back to work."
"Piggies!"
"Shut up."
"Okay." He stopped.
Ruki shut off the lights. "Good night!" she said grumpily.
"'Night, Ruki," he said soothingly.
Ruki shivered at his sweet voice as she and Ryo drifted off to sleep.