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Chapter 3

2 months later

"Riley? Are you up yet?" Yu asked, knocking on the door to his old room. When she had moved in, him and Kiro began to share rooms, not wanting her to sleep on the couch. He heard a groan from inside, and knew that, that was his cue to come in.

They had perfected this system over the past two months that she had been with them. He remembered the first time he had walked into her room.

I need a shower, but first, clothes would be nice.

He walked up to his old room, wondering how Riley's first night had been in their time zone.

Shit. She's in there, asleep. Maybe she's still asleep and won't notice…

He quietly crept into the room, moving over to his dresser. He then remembered that his boxers were in the drawers by the bed. Sighing, he crept over to the drawers, but froze when he heard a sharp intake of breath. He turned around to see Riley sitting up against the headboard knees up to her chest, with her arms wrapped around them. He walked over to her, and sat down on the side of the bed, in front of her.

"Nein, Riley, es ist o.k.. Shhh, es ist o.k.," he told her before remembering that she didn't know German.

"Sorry, Riley? It's okay. What's wrong?"

She just shook her head, still looking at her knees.

"Come on, you can speak. I heard you yesterday, when you whispered your name to me. You have a wonderful voice," he told her, hoping that the corny complement at the end would urge her to talk him, and to all of the guys.

She looked up at him, and stared into his eyes trying to find a hint of any type of lie in them. She found none, and it scared her. She was used to lying and being lied to.

She shook her head in reply to him. She had caved to him too easily yesterday.

"Riley? Please, I want you to be able to tell us stuff, even if it's just one of us. It's better than no one. It'll help you."

Again, Riley shook her head. She wasn't going to cave as easily this time. He was going to have to work to get her trust, something that, so far, no one had accomplished. They wanted her to cave to them since they knew her past from a file. That didn't count; they hadn't gained her trust, so all she told them was what wasn't in the stupid file. This was nothing, so she never talked. No, her past was too sick and twisted for that. She needed to know that the person she actually told would still be there for her after.

Yu shook his head before saying,

"I'll be here for you if you ever wish to talk. Also, I'm not going to give up on talking to you and you actually replying. I promise I'm not going to stop, you have my word."

Riley whipped her head up to look him in the eyes. She had a questionable look adorned on her facial features. Yu picked up on it immediately.

"How does my word mean anything you ask? Well all a man has is his word. It speaks above all, and you have mine Riley. I'm not going to give up like the counselors did. You deserve more than that, hell any human deserves more than that. I'm also positive that you have the other guy's as well."

Riley looked down, as a light blush swept across her cheeks.

Yu smiled before turning to leave the room.

"I'll see you at breakfast when Shin ever gets his ass up and over here to cook it?" Yu asked smiling at her.

Riley just nodded, still looking down at the blanket, however, a ghost of a smile appeared on her lips. Her stomach did a flip at the mention of his name.

Why do they have this effect on me?

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