Ria and Jake had been secretly dating for a while now. There was only one minor setback for Jake.

They still hadn't had sex.

This bummed him out slighlty but his feelings for her were growing even more because of it. The fact that she wasn't willing to give it to him right away like every other girl he had been with really pysched him out.

He was watching her talking to Jake Anderson across the table. He smiled as she laughed, flashing that beautiful smile, a strange feeling fluttering throught his stomach.

Butterflies

He thought disgusted with himself

What guy gets the fucking butterflies?

Sig smiled as he watched Ria smile broadly at Edgar. He could remember when she was tiny, only four or five on the docks for the first time.

Ria's father had been part of the managment team for offloading crab after a back injury had sidelined him from working on a boat.

*Flashback*

Sig laughed as Ria hid behind her fathers, and Phil's legs and looked timidly up at him.

She was tiny, her kinky curly long white blonde hair trailing down her back, Blue grey eyes wide as she took in everything around her.

"Aw come on Ria, don't be a baby." Jake said pulling a face at her.

She glared, and stomped her tiny foot on the dock

"i am NOT a baby Jaocb!" she puffed her bottom lip out. Josh gave Jake alight shove

"Leave her alone Jake."

Jake sighed exasperatedly

"Their only crabs Josh!They ain't scary! Theyre dead!" he threw his hands up in the air, and turned away muttering.

Ria took a tentative step toward a dead crab lying on the deck, and poked it with the toe of her flat jumping backwards as if it were going to spring up and pich her. Sig watched her and smiled slightly. She nudged it a few more times, before bending down and picking it up. THe crab was as big as she was!

An evil grin slowly spread across her face, and she turned to the salty fishermen and put a finger to her lips, her wide grey eyes dancing with excitement.

They watched as the tiny girl tiptoed over to Jake who was arguing with Josh about something, and jumped in front of him yelling "BOO!" and shoving the crab in his face.

Jake and Josh each let out a scream and scurried behind Phil's legs. RIa giggled and howled with laughter, dropping the crab and doubling over all too pleased with herself.

The men roared with laughter as jake and josh peeked out from behind Phil's legs scowling at her

"That was NOT funny Ria!" jake said

Ria quirked a eyebrow at him "Really? Cuz I thought it was hilarious."

Sig smiled. It seemed as if it were yesterday that she was a tiny 5 year old with wildy curly blonde hair, and missing teeth dressed in a puffy white coat on the docks.

Now she had grown into a beautiful young woman, her long hair now fell in bouncy curls hanging elegantly around her face. her large grey eyes sparkled mischeviously in the light of the bar. She wasn't a little girl anymore. Johnathan voiced Sigs thoughts

"Ya know." he said slowly "It's amazin to watch how these kids grow up. Just amazin."

Phil nodded. "So much has changed. You don't realize how quickly it all happens till it's right in front of your face."

Edgar smiled "They have grown up haven't they? Especially Ria."

They all agreed, and Phil smiled fondly "She looks just like her mother."

Ria glanced over and saw them looking at her, she pulled her signature move and quirked an eyebrow at them

"Ya'll gotta problem."

They chuckled at her and Phil said "Act's just like her too
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Ria was lying asleep in Jake's bunk, while he lay awake.

He was thinking about everything that Ria had delt with because of him, and yet she still wanted him. He smiled in spite of himself. That was how Ria always was. She wanted everything she couldnt have, or everything that she should avoid.

When they were little Jake had always been the troublemaker, Josh had been the level headed one, and Ria had just been along for the ride.

But when they hit Highschool, they were split up from Josh and left to deal by themselves.

When they were 16 they took turns getting eachother in trouble. Ria and Jake grew closer and closer and were never seen apart. They partied every weekend, and spent everyday in class together.

And now Jake felt like kicking himself for not noticing how RIa felt before. There were so many signs. The way she would get quiet when he talked about girls. Or how she would avoid him in the bar. Even back then it was obvious. She would hang on every word, and always be the first person there when he needed something. She didn't get along with any of the girls he 'Dated', and always avoided asking about it.

How could he not have known?

But that wasn't important now was it?

Right now what was important to him was the beautiful girl lying next to him. He moved closer to her, and pretty soon the sound of her light breath lulled him to sleep sending all his worries out of his mind.