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Lying here on the floor where you left me.
I think I took too much.
I'm crying here,
What have you done?
I thought it would be fun..

I can't stay on your life support..
There's a shortage in the switch.
I can't stay on your morphene,
'Cause it's makin' me itch.
I said I tried to call the nurse again,
But she's being a little bitch.
I think I'll get out of here.

Where I can run,
Just as fast as I can,
To the middle of nowhere.
To the middle of my frustrated fears,
And I swear..
You're just like a pill.
Instead of makin' me better..
You're makin' me ill..
You're makin' me ill..

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"Hey, Ri'!!"
Rika growled to herself, pulled down her short school uniform skirt a bit and turned to see Kazu running up to her.
She tapped her foot angrily on the concrete sidewalk and glared at him with burning lilac eyes.
"What do YOU want?"
"Whoa.. easy there... chill out!" Kazu threw his hands in the air with surrendering manner.
Rika rolled her eyes and put her hand on her hip, waiting for him to start talking again.
"Anyways... I wanted to know if you have a date to the dance yet?"
"Duh!" Rika snapped, just as Henry came around the corner behind Kazu, laughing.
"Nice try, man." he marked with a silver tone in his voice as he walked up beside Rika and draped his arm over her shoulder. "She's all mine."
Rika pushed his arm off slowly. "Not if you're going to speak about me in THAT way!" she snorted.
"Ouch.." Kazu breathed at the look in Henry's eyes. "Well I better get going anyways... nice talking to you Ri'..."
Kazu turned and started to walk back down the sidewalk towards his house.
"Hey, Visor-boy..."
Kazu turned back around to look at Rika. "Yeah?"
An almost evil look crossed her eye. "*Never* call me 'Ri' again.. okay?"
Kazu laughed and returned to his pace.
A friggid breeze brushed past the two teens still standing there just as Henry's eyes sit firmly on Rika. "And what did THAT mean?"
"I'm tired of being treated like some sort of object you can flaunt around!!" Rika shrieked at him, flailing her arms a bit.
"What are you TALKING about?!?" Henry yelled right back at her, stepping away from her a bit to look her over.
"You use me as something you can show off to all the other guys! 'The Infamous Rika Nonaka is my girlfriend!'"
"I never said that!" Henry exclaimed.
"But you've been acting like that!" Rika brushed a frustrated tear off her face as she yelled at him with a passion.
There was a dead silence between the two as Rika planned out her next attack and Henry tried to figure out whatever went wrong.
Rika felt her heart beat heavily as she remembered the conversation she had earlier with Josh when he had approached her before school. His words were so sincere, so truthful... so disturbing. Her mind screamed at her to stop before she got herself into a world of hurt, but her voice ignored, because before she knew it Henry's clear gray eyes were as wide as ping-pong balls and his breath became short, and hard to catch.
"W-what did you say?" he stuttered, hand put on his chest.
Rika closed her eyes, clamping her skirt in her hand. "I think we should see other people." she repeated, voice cracking.
Henry took one step towards her, and put a hand on the back of her head and pulled her into a passionate kiss, just to have a stinging pain take over his cheek.
Henry stumbled back a bit into one of the thin trees that lined the sidewalk as he held a blank look on his face as he put his hand to his cheek where the red outline of Rika's hand was starting to appear.
With that, Rika's heart shattered. She pushed past him, in a flood of tears pouring out her violet eyes, and ran down the sidewalk, all the way to the modeling agency where she knew her mother would be waiting.
The bell on the front door jingled as she ran in, sobbing, flying through the blue carpeted halls at top speed, pushing past people as she ran into a dressing room with her mother's name inscribed on a golden plate on the door.
Her mother looked up quickly at the rush of red hair that was immediatly sobbing into her shoulder.
"Rika... Rika, sweety, what's wrong?"
"Me... and Henry... broke up...." she sobbed heavier into the silk pink dress of her mother, blocking all the light that filled the room with a soft yellow glow from the mirror as she clamped her eyes shut.
Her mother rubbed her back slowly. "My poor baby.... poor Rika...."
A soft knock on the door made Rika's sobs soften to one only now and then as she stood up and sat on the long black leather couch behind her mother's dressing table.
"Come in!" her mother's soft voice echoed as she smiled at her daughter.
Rika smiled a bit back, curling her legs on the couch and pulling her short skirt as far over them as possible.
Her eyes brightened a bit when the door opened to a friendly face looking straight at her.
"And you might be?" her mother asked slowly at the person walking in.
A pair of bright blue male eyes still looked at Rika, and even they seemed to smile at her along with every other feature about him.
"Josh...." he said simply. "Josh... Wong..."
Rika's eyes clouded over again at his new name.
Josh looked over at her once more and walked in her direction. "Broke up with Henry, eh?" he asked kindly as he looked at her tear-stained face and redish eyes.
Rika set her forehead on the black metal lining of the couch and sighed heavily, signaling both a yes and that she didn't want to talk to him about it.
"Ma'am.. I don't want to boot you out of your own dressing room, but--" Josh looked back at Rika's mother as he kneeled on the floor in front of Rika as yet one more tear trickled down her cheek.
The mother stood up and smiled. "No problem at all... I have a photo shoot right now anyways."
"Thank you."
Rika wrapped her arms around her chest, trying to comfort herself as she stared at the wall, trying to ignore Josh as much as possible.
The sound of the door closing behind her mother triggered another tear to run out of her eye and Josh sat down on the other side of her.
"Was it because of what I said? Is that what made you break up with Henry?"
"Not entirely." Rika said softly, voice cracking a bit.
"Well I suceeded.. I'll need to tell Renamon now."
Rika was silent a moment as Josh stood up and started to walk towards the door.
"You're Terriermon... aren't you?"
Josh froze and looked over at her, seeing the girl was still staring at the rack of sparkling dresses that lined the wall.
"Yes... I am."
Rika let her glance drift over to him. "Why are you breaking your own tamer's heart then...?"
Josh sighed a moment. "Ask Renamon..." he said simply, turning the handle on the door and walking out of the room.
Rika sighed at the sound of the door closing behind him. "That's what I planned on doing anyways."
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