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Last time-

"Clare sent me to see if you were happy with the cleaning." She felt a small smile tug at the pail lips in form of a greeting and she wished she didn't smile.

"Oh, I was kinda hoping to see Clare. She is such a nice lady and my sister really loves her.

Riven mentally smacked her head against the wall as she stepped into the house. She couldn't really say no knowing that he knew Clare and he had taken a step back into the place to let her through.

"Oi Jess, there is someone here." He yelled through the chalet. Then turned to face her again. "I'm Tala by the way." He stuck out his hand offering a greeting.

Riven looked at he hand for a moment as if expecting it to mock her before she decided to take it.

"The names Riven. It's nice to meet you."

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Chapter 24

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A/N this is my Riven profile that I promised one of my reviewers.

Name: Riven Anna Lee Lord

Age: 18

Birthday: 11 of April 1987

Height: 5 foot 6 inches

Eye Colour: Bright Blue

Hair Colour: Black

Hair Length: Dead straight and comes down to her waist.

Over all appearance: Riven is not what you would call a plain girl. She is very attractive and has curves in all the right places. If she bothered to use her body she could get anything she wanted from any man in the world but Riven hides herself under loose clothing that leaves just about everything to the imagination.

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Riven looked at Jess as she bounced into the room holding a kitten. Gee, perky much? Riven thought but the scolded herself for judging so quickly.

"Hi. I'm Jessica." Jess walked across to Riven after putting down the kitten and extended her hand.

Riven looked at Jess with a puzzled look as though she didn't know what to do with the proffered hand but in reality she was trying to read Jess. No one was as happy as this girl portrayed herself to be. After a few moments Riven decided that Jess was a cheerleader and a total bitch before she shock the offered hand.

"Riven." The two let go of each others hand then looked around the room as if needing to find an escape route.

Jess's eyes landed on the kitten and grabbed the kitten of the floor and gestured to it. "Do you know who the kitten belonged to? I found her in the yard this morning." Riven shock her head with her mouth slightly open. She didn't know why but this Jess girl had her at a complete loss.

Before Jess had the change to talk again Riven turned back to Tala who was watching the scene with a small smile on his face. "Ah….. is there anything you want done or is everything fine? Would you like me to come by while you are here and clean?" Riven looked into Tala's bright blue eyes and felt a shudder run through her.

"Ah, not at the moment but there might be something later." Tala told her looking her up and down.

"Okay, well you know where to find me." Riven said before she turned towards the door.

"Tala. There is no way you are going to get her back up here!" Jess glared at him.

"What, why not?" Riven turned to watch the argument that was about to happen.

"Because there is no way in hell you are going to get Riven up here to clean while there are three able bodied people staying in this house so you can was a few bloody dishes!" Tala's mouth opened and closed like a gold fish and for some reason Riven felt the need to defend the red head that she didn't know from a bar of soap.

"Really, I don't mind." Riven told Jess trying to ease the tension.

"No. you shouldn't have to do work for us if we can do it ourselves. We don't have a maid at home and we will not have one now! Come on I'll walk you back down to Clare's."

Riven looked around, slightly lost as Jess lead her out the front door of the chalet and down the hill towards the road.

"So," Jess stopped once they reached the road. "Just ignore Tala he can be a bit of a prat sometimes." Jess smiled.

"Jessica, it's my job to clean peoples houses for Clare. Besides I need the money." Riven realised the only reason Jess went off at Tala was because she thought Tala wasn't showing her respect and she was grateful for that. It also occurred to her that Jess wasn't the bimbo she had firth thought.

"Oh no, I'm so sorry. I should have realised." Jess was doing some quick thinking. "Um, how about when you have some time to spare you and I can go into town. I only really know where the supermarket is but I would like to know the town better so instead of cleaning for us you could be my tour guide?" Jess looked hopeful.

"I don't know, I have a lot to do." Riven tried to get out of it.

"Please? Besides it will be fun and I will need a girl to talk to after spending time with Tala and Kai."

Riven let her curiosity creep up on her. "Kai?" She had only seen one other person at the house but that didn't mean there wasn't another.

"Oh right, Kai is Tala's best friend and my boyfriend." Jess told her as she continued to walk down the hill towards Clare's house.

"Oh okay." The two girls continued down the hill in silence, both enjoying the fell of the warm sun on their skin. Spring truly was the most beautiful time of the year.

Tala looked around the now empty room. What the hell had just happened in here? He didn't understand or have an answer so decided to move on to another thought. As his mind always seemed to do over the past few days it returned to Mai and what she was doing and then to what Kai had asked Ray to do. There was still no word form them so he decided to go and check the mail as there was no other way they could get in contact.

When Tala got to the mail box it was empty apart from a notice for a local dance to be held in one week at the old hall on top of the hill. Just what he need, a dance. And he had no one to go with. But then that Riven wasn't had looking at all even though he couldn't really tell under all the baggy cloths the woman wore. Then Tala caught his thoughts and shock his head. There was no way in hell he was going to get involved with another female for quite a while. After all what was the point of inviting trouble straight into your home.

As Tala walked back up the path through the wild flowers thoughts of becoming celibate played through his mind but he shock it away. 'Nah!' that would just be stupid to deprive the female race of this fine specimen of man so maybe just waiting a while before getting back in the game was the way to tackle the matter.

A/N okay everyone I hope you all enjoyed that even though it was complete crap. I'm going to wind this fic up in the next few chapters so if there is anything you want to happen just let me know and I will do my best to put it in for you.

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