A/N:
Sporky: SQUEE!! I love Syra. XD
Riku: But...isn't she going on a date with me?
Axel: Why am I in none of these?
Sporky: Gack, so many questions, so little time...

A week passed. The girls I forced myself with continually imagined me with Riku. It was like they were arranging a marriage, they raved about how wonderful we'd be together.

"Do you really think I'd be good with him?" I asked modestly. "I mean, he seems so much cooler than me."

"You're both amazing," Nia said. "You'd be wonderful together."

"I don't know..." I said, squeezing the life out of the modest, timid-girl act.

"Ooooh," a girl said. "Just ask him out already!!"

"He's not that daunting, is he?" Kairi asked. I shrugged. "I just don't think I'm read--"

Nia grabbed my arm and jerked me out of my seat. She pushed me in the direction of the table Riku sat at. I sighed. "Alright, here goes..."

I walked over to the table, quickly thinking of what I was to say. I hadn't ever expirenced a relationship with someone I planned to kill. Oh well. A date would probably make this trip quick.

"Riku?" I asked, tapping him on the shoulder. He turned around, his guy friends silencing. They stared at me with wide eyes.

"Oh, hey, Syra." Riku said. I hadn't noticed before, but the boy was paler than the other kids.

A boy lightly hit another's arm, said something I couldn't make out, and then the other boys left. I took a seat next to Riku.

"Would you like to..."

Riku laughed. "That's pretty bold, I've never had any girl actually ask me out before."

"Well, the other girls..." I looked over at them. My act seemed to be working. In reality, I just wanted to kill that awful man's son right here and now.

"No, it's cool," Riku said. "And you seem pretty nice."

Yeah, that's what you think. I thought.

"So...?" I asked.

"There's a place my friend's dad runs off West-Main," Riku said. "You sit in a booth and they bring you food, but they play a movie on a huge screen. He can get us in for free, if that sounds good."

"That sounds great, Riku, thanks!" I beamed at him, my thoughts commenting on how great of an actress I was.

Riku nodded. "Alright. So, seven good?"

"Yeah," I said. I took a piece of paper out of a notebook I had for next class and scribbled my address in it. "I live near West-Main, if you just want to walk." I said. Riku shrugged. "Whatever's good for you."

"Okay." I stood up. "See you at seven!" I walked off back to the table with Kairi, Nia, and all those other girls whose name's I can't remember.

"Well?" Nia asked, getting all up-in-my-face. Again.

"He..." I blushed for effect. Years of practice leads you to learn such things. "He said yes!!" I grinned. The girls cheered.

"That's good, Riku's finally got a girlfriend," Kairi said, and giggled to herself. Nia slapped me as a congratulations. I wanted to wring her neck.

My doorbell rang around 6:55. I was ready anyways. And, lo and behold, he was on my doorstep when I opened the door. He gave a one-shot wave.

"Hey, Syra. You ready?"

"Yeah," I said, stepping out. We both hadn't changed from our school clothes.

"I think the movie playing tonight is a comedy." Riku said as we walked along a not-to-busy street. I nodded. "Cool."

There was a silence; awkward on Riku's behalf, fine on mine.

"So, where'd you move here from?" he asked as a car drove past. I hadn't thought of that, but I didn't let on. "Oh, uh...the city." I replied.

"Really? Anything I'd know?"

I shook my head. "I don't think so, whenever I told the girls they'd just give me these blank looks. No one's heard of it."

Riku laughed. "Well, if they haven't heard of it, then I probably haven't." He chuckled, and added to himself, "Though I have been to an awful lot of...distant places."

I smiled as a reply, and we walked into the restaraunt.

Our table was ready when we got there. Neither of us took long to order, and the movie was uninteresting. Besides, I wasn't focused on it anyways.

When we'd both finished eating, I moved in. First, I inched my hand closer to his. I let this sit for a few moments, and he didn't seem to mind. His hand felt odd, though. Not as warm as normal people.

After a few minutes, I leaned my head against his shoulder. Again, he didn't mind. That passed for another few moments.

"Riku?" I said, looking up at him.

"Mm?" He smiled, looking down at me with the same beauty I posessed. And something clicked in my head. Pale, cold, beautiful, son of a vampire...

Riku was a vampire.

I looked away. "Oh, nothing." I said, and bit my lip. That wouldn't work. If a vampire bit another vampire, then they both died.

How do I kill him now?? I thought. My shoulders sagged a bit when I realized that this was going to take more planning than I intended. I was not just about to kill myself here and now.

But I was also not about to let Daiki's son live.

That night ended about as soon as it began. I kept up a good faux-cheery act, until he shut the door and left me at my home. I crossed my arms, obviously angered. I liked to get in, kill, and get out, without people really getting to know me too well.

"Agh, I'm so stupid," I muttered at myself. I mean, the son of a vampire, you could have gotten that a little sooner!!

I sighed angrily, and ran up the stairs to my room. I slept in my clothes that night.