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Always Have and Always Will

"Well okay then let's get going before we loose the others!" Jeri said as clueless as possible.

"Alrighty then" Rika said actually kinda looking forward to doing something other than sit at home playing video games. All three of them started running to catch up to the others, and as they were Running Rika's hand brushed against Ryo's. Whether she did it on purpose or not he didn't know.

After they got to the fairgrounds they all decided to split up and meet the others later in the day. So as Rika and Ryo expected they got stuck together.

"Well if I have to spend the day with you I might as well try and make the best of it" Rika said in a less angry tone than normal.

"If you want we can split up too and just meet up when the others do" Ryo said not wanting to ruin her day.

"No it's okay" Replied Rika to his surprise. "So what do you want to do first?"

"Well we can see if they have a tunnel of love" Ryo smiled

"Hey I said I didn't mind hanging out with you I didn't say you could hit on me, Akiyama"

"Okay I'll try to stop myself" He smiled.

"So what were you going to tell me earlier, Ryo?"

"Oh right….you'll find out later"

"……………okay then..."

"In the meantime lets try and find something fun to do" Ryo said as he started to walk away looking for something to do.

Rika paused for a second then started to follow him. "So where do you want to go?"

They hung out for the whole time and had forgotten to meet up with the others because they were actually having a lot of fun together.

By the time they realized what time it was the fair was closing and they had to leave anyway.

They both started on their way home and since Rika's house was on his way home he decided he should walk with her to her house.

"So did you have fun today, Rika" Ryo smiled

"Actually yes I did but don't think I'm gonna continue spending this much time with you so don't get used to it, Ryo"

"Okay but as long as you had fun I'm happy"

They walked in silence all the way to Rika's house when she stopped and looked over at him.

"So now what was that thing you were trying to tell me before Jeri came over?"

Ryo looked up at her and stopped walking "Oh yeah that…well I just wanted to tell you that..." Ryo hesitated

"…………..tell me…..what?" Rika said waiting for him to finish.

As Ryo kinda looked away "I just wanted to say that…that…" He looked back over at her and kinda smiled nervously "I love you…I always have and always will….."

Rika just stood there looking at him with a kinda surprised look on her face.

"Well see ya, wildcat" Ryo quickly started to walk away but Rika grabbed his hand and stopped him.

"Wait a second Ryo…"

Ryo looked back at her wondering what she was going to say to something like that because he knew that she couldn't possibly like him like he did her.

Rika let go of his hand and kinda smiled before giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Goodnight, Pretty Boy" After she said that she turned and walked through the gate that went to her yard.

Ryo stood there for a second and smiled. started once again on his way home wondering if Rika would continue to act like she did at the fair and if he might be able to steal a kiss from her without getting kicked in the balls.

The next morning Rika was woke up the irritating clatter of the phone ringing.

Why does mom always have to have the most irritating ring for the phone…?

Rika Reached over and grabbed the phone off of the stand next to her bed and answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey…..Rika?" Replied an oddly familiar sounding voice.

"…who is this?" Rika said a bit confused on who was calling her.

"This is Ryo."

"Oh….hi" was Rika's response as she rolled over onto her back to get more comfortable.

"Hey uh…I was wondering…there's a dance tonight and…well most of the others are going and they didn't really think you'd want to go but I figured I'd ask you and see….but…do you want to go to the dance…if you don't want to dance then…we can just…hang out…..if you want to…"

"Sure I'll go. It might be fun and besides anything's better than listening to my mom ramble on about her modeling." Rika smiled.

"Okay well it starts at 7:00 and ends at 11:00 so I'll see you around seven then? You still have four hours to get ready."

"Alright….wait…..it's already 3:00?"

"Yeah…I think you have a problem with sleeping in, Ruki" Ryo smiled remembering how she hated being called that.

"Once again don't call me Ruki" Rika said before hanging up on him and dialing Jeri's phone number.

"Hello? Kato residence"

"Hey Jeri it's me…are you going to the dance with goggle-head?" Rika asked had knowing right away that Jeri had answered the phone.

"Sure am. Why? Are you coming?"

"I was thinking about it…Ryo just called and asked me if I wanted to go with him since Henry's obviously going with Alice and you're going with Takato."

"Well you have four hours to decide what you're gonna wear and get ready. If you want I can help you decide"

"Alright do you want to come over or should I drag my dresser and closet over to your house?"

"Hmm…well I don't feel like going anywhere so can you drag them over here?" Jeri laughed.

"Alright I'll get right on that...seriously get your butt over here and help decide what to wear" Rika said being serious again because she only had four hours to figure out what she was gonna wear and what she was gonna do with her hair and to get ready and make sure it didn't look like crap.

"Alright I'll be there in a couple of minutes"

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As Rika was arranging her clothes on her bed trying to decide what would look best there was a knock on her front door.

Rika ran out to answer the door and found Jeri standing there with a huge tub of make-up that she was going to completely torture Rika with.

"Alright Rika lets get started" Jeri smiled.

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It was 6:57 and Rika was waiting for Jeri to finish cutting her hair when there was yet another knock on the door.

"All done!" Jeri said proud of herself. "I'll go get the door and see who it is."

Jeri rushed over to the door and opened it to see Ryo standing there.

"Oh…hi…Jeri. What are you doing here?" He asked

"I was just helping Rika with her make-up" she smiled

"Oh well is she ready?" He asked wondering why Rika would want to put on make-up since he thought she was so pretty without it.

"Hey Ryo" Rika smiled as she walked over to the door in her tight leather pants and short black spaghetti-strap shirt.

Ryo just stood there staring at her for a minute before finally coming back to reality and saying kinda quietly. "Well…..we……we really should get going…."

"Yeah we should. Jeri are you meeting up with Takato at his house or are you two meeting at the dance?" Rika asked looking over at her.

"I'm meeting him down at his house so I'll leave my things here until after the dance. I'll see you two later" Jeri waved as she walked out of the house and started for Takato's.

"Alright Ryo lets get going we don't want to be late now do we?" Rika smiled beautifully as they both started to head for the dance.

If either had put much thought into it they might have realized this was the first of many dates they would go on with each other. Maybe they didn't want to know that was gonna happen. Maybe they didn't want to believe it could change. Or maybe...just maybe they would soon realize how much the other really means to them.

Until then they were content pretending they only wanted to be friends, but maybe the dance would change their attitude.

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Short chapter again I know I'm sorry I wanted to write more for this but I figured this would be as good a time to stop as ever. I'm not sure what I want to do with the next chapter so I'm open to ideas for the dance. Once again flames are welcome but only if you add some helpful criticism with it to help the story to improve.

Flamekitty84: Thanks for the review sis I'll try and work on Ryo's 'obsession'. smiles

Shadowking160: Hey did I update soon enough for you? Well like I said in my profile I'll update as soon as possible and turns out I got bored again so here you go! Chapter two! Thanks for the review!

TheFoxGirlKitsune: Thanks for reading and reviewing! It's greatly appreciated. Without reviewers I wouldn't continue this story so thanks in helping me write this!