Tiffany went with her mom Maeva to the royal den to sleep with the other lioness.
Ryan went to the ledge of Pride Rock and sits to gaze at the stars.
Simba walks up to him and ask "what's wrong, Ryan?"
Ryan sighs and ask "did you ever have a friend that would come to you when ever they are being picked on and you told them you would stick by their side no matter what?"
Simba thinks about it and answers "yes, me and Nala was like that. Why?"
Ryan looks at him and says "I said that to Tiffany and I broke that vow. I don't know how to make it up to her."
Simba thinks about it and looks back at the royal den and whispers in his ear "when she's asleep go by her and lay down next to her and Fall asleep but don't put your arm around her."
Simba and Ryan head inside the royal den to sleep.
Ryan goes by Tiffany and lays down next to her and goes to sleep but whispers in her ear "I'm so sorry for leaving you alone to be picked on. Please forgive me" and licks her cheek and closes his eyes to sleep.
In the morning, Simba woke up to start the day and looks around the den to see all them asleep and stops to see Ryan laying next to Tiffany sleeping and walks out of the royal den to see the Pridelands.
Nala woke up to go see him outside.
She ask him "thinking about Maeva and her daughter?"
Simba looks at her and nods his head "yes."
Nala says "it's been two years since we last saw her.
Simba tells her "I felt like part of it was my fault for saying that I couldn't marry her, because her mom threaten me if I didn't. Maybe if I said to stay here she would be fine."
Nala nuzzles him and says "now we can rebuild our friendship with her."
Maeva and the other lioness got up to start a new day.
They look at Ryan sleeping next to Tiffany.
Maeva tells them "let them sleep" and walk out.
Nala leads the hunting party.
Kion took the lion guard out to patrol the pridelands.
Kovu lead the lioness cubs to the watering hole to play while Ryan and Tiffany laid in the royal den sleeping.
Ryan inched his head next to hers causing her to purr.
A little later, Sarabi came into the royal den to check on them to hear Tiffany purr loud due to Ryan cuddling up to her.
Sarabi smiles at them and sighs saying "aw."
Tiffany yawns waking up to see Sarabi looking at her and says "good morning, Sarabi."
Sarabi answers back "good morning, you two."
Tiffany ask "two?" And looks to her side to see Ryan cuddle next to her sleeping.
Sarabi ask "are you gonna wake him up or let him sleep?"
Tiffany sighs and says "I thought I was dreaming when I heard him say that stuff to me and licks my cheek."
Sarabi ask "he licked your cheek last night?"
Tiffany whispers "yes, I guess he does want to make it up to me."
Sarabi ask "what are you gonna do about it then?"
Tiffany looks at him and licks his muzzle repeatedly waking him up.
Ryan yawns to see Tiffany licking his cheek and says "I'm sorry for bailing out on you."
Tiffany ask "what part of taking it slowly did you not get?"
Ryan thinks about it, then looks at her and says "I love you" and kisses her muzzle in a passionate kiss.
Ryan breaks the kiss and says "now we can take it slow rebuilding our friendship."
Tiffany looks at him and smirks "you've got three minutes to start running."
Ryan gets up and runs out of the den with Tiffany chasing after him yelling "your gonna pay for kissing me."
Sarabi laughs at the two cubs run out of the royal den chasing each other.
Sarafina and Ni walk in and ask "what was that all about?"
Sarabi smiles and says "Ryan kissed Tiffany and she told him to run with her chasing after him. So how's things with you two?"
Sarafina looks at Ni and says "we were thinking about having another cub."
Sarabi looks at them surprised and says "I hope it would be a good cub."
Simba and Nala sit down and talk with Maeva about her past.
Kovu was sitting down watching over Kiara and the others.
Ryan came running into Kovu knocking him over.
Kovu rubs his head and ask "Ryan, what are you running from?"
Tiffany runs up to him smirking "oh, do you think Kovu's gonna protect you?" And pounces on Ryan and says "pinned ya."
Kovu ask "Tiffany, why was he running from you for?"
Tiffany blushes and answers "he kissed me when I wanted to rebuild our friendship slowly."
Kovu smirks "maybe he wants to date you?"
Tiffany looks at Ryan and says "next time you kiss me, I'll pull your tongue out."
She gets up and walks away from them to go see her mom with a smile on her face.
Ryan watches her leave and sighs "she will never forgive me."
Kovu looks at him and says "you know if she didn't want you as her mate, she wouldn't have let you continue to cuddle with her and lick your cheeks to wake you up."
Ryan thinks about and smiles about her returning the favor.
Kovu ask "are you gonna go kiss her or let her walk away?"
Ryan looks at him shocked that he would ask that.
Kovu says "if you don't go get her, I'll drag you to her."
Ryan runs off after Tiffany.
Tiffany ran to her mom and ask "how-" seeing Nala and Simba there talking to her.
Simba notice her and ask "Tiffany how are you doing here with Moto no longer forcing you to marrying him?"
Tiffany answers "good, but now I have a new problem."
Simba smiles thinking about Ryan.
Maeva ask her daughter "what's the new problem?"
Tiffany sighs and says "it's Ryan."
Nala ask "what did he do?"
Tiffany says "he wants to be more than friends with me."
Simba ask "is that good thing?"
Tiffany shakes her head "no."
Maeva ask "why not?"
Tiffany sighs and says "I put my trust in him and he bailed on me because he couldn't handle the pressure of being teased every minute of every day. I don't want to put my trust in him again and face a repeat.
Last night, Ryan cuddle up with me and told me he was sorry. If I put my trust in him and watch him leave because he can't handle the pressure, I will end up broken hearted."
Simba whispers in Tiffany's ear making her eyes go wide until she ask "that's how bad he was upset over me refusing to start back to dating him again?"
Ryan sees Tiffany talk to her mom and Simba and Nala and hides behind a bush to listen in on their conversation.
Tiffany ask "Simba, how did you know what to tell him, to do that to me?"
Simba says "he told me what he did to you and I thought about it and said to take baby steps first."
Tiffany says "well he kissed me on my muzzle after telling me, he loves me."
Nala ask "are you gonna let him or let him feel like your never gonna let him make it up to you?"
Tiffany ask "what do you mean?"
Nala sighs and explains to her how he's feeling about breaking your heart and wants to repair it.
Tiffany sighs "maybe I should give him a chance."
Ryan walks away from the conversation and heads to Pride Rock to go to sleep, But notice a path leading to the top of Pride Rock to see the whole view of Pridelands and lays down.
Tiffany goes back to the watering hole to tell Ryan how she feels about him, but Ryan wasn't there.
She ask "Kovu, where is Ryan?"
Kovu answers "I thought he was gonna talk to you about your feelings for him?"
Tiffany ask "what do you mean?"
Kovu answers "I told him to go talk to you?"
Tiffany realize "oh no, he must of heard me talk about trust. I have to go find him."
Kovu looks at Kiara wondering where did Ryan run off to.
Ryan sighs laying there watching the pridelands, regretting everything he did to Tiffany and starts sniffle.
Tiffany walks back to Pride Rock but stops to see paw prints in running form and follows to a rock then towards Pride Rock.
She looks inside the royal den to see no Ryan and turns around to see her mom come up and ask "have you seen Ryan?"
Maeva answers "no, why?"
Tiffany says "he ranaway after listen to us talk."
Maeva hugs her daughter looking at the ground to see a tear drop leading down a path walk and tells her to walk up that path to the top of Pride Rock and says "it's okay if you sleep up there tonight."
Tiffany walks up the path wondering why her mom told her to walk up- to see Ryan laying there and walks closer to him, to hear sniffle.
Tiffany looks down at him and lays down beside him and says "I know you heard us talking about you."
Ryan looks away from her and sighs, saying "I doubt you'll ever trust me with your heart again."
Tiffany licks his cheek to get his attention.
Ryan looks at her shock.
She nudges him over on to his back and says "I'll trust you after this."
Ryan ask "after wha-"
Tiffany kisses his muzzle wraping her paws around him.
After five minutes of kissing him she breaks the kiss and says "this will be the start of our relationship, and my mom said it was okay for me to sleep up here."
Ryan thinks about Moto coming after both of them but I'll worry about that later. Right now worry about loving Tiffany for the time being.
