ICHIGO'S POV

I woke up feeling like I had spent the night in a dumpster. I looked over at the alarm clock; whoa it was four in the afternoon. My head was pounding, I reeked with a strong smell of alcohol, and my stomach felt all uneasy and I really felt like I was about to- uh oh.

I covered my mouth with my hands as I ran as fast as a half awake, hung over girl with airsickness could, to the bathroom. I dropped to my knees as I leaned over the toilet and puked my guts out.

A half hour later, (after I had brushed my teeth about 50 times and took a shower and three aspirins.) I walked into the bedroom to talk to Ryou when I looked around. Where was he? I suddenly realized that he hadn't been around when I'd first woken up either.

"Ryou?" I asked. Then mentally laughed at myself. Yeah, you're right, just cause you don't see him doesn't mean he's not here. I thought sarcastically. Yup, he was just gunna magically walk out of one of these walls any minute.

I walked over to a chair and sat down in it when realization washed over me about last night. Uh oh… What had I done? I ran a hand through my hair nervously. I have a tendency to sleep with some one when I'm really drunk. And last night, I was pretty darn sure that I had been. Oh god. Had I… With Ryou?

I tried to remember, but my mind drew a blank. Oh god this was bad. Just then I heard the door click unlocked and make a small little beep noise. I looked over to see who it was when Ryou walked in. He was holding two tall starbucks cups and a small white box.

"Morning Ichigo." He greeted before taking a long sip of his coffee. He threw the box at me and I caught it. I looked at the label. Aspirin. Thank god. My head was pounding so hard I thought it might explode.

"I got you some more aspirin, I figured you'd need it after last night." He smirked. My eyes went wide at that last part.

"Uh, Ryou… Did we- Ouch!" My hands ran to my forehead when a splitting pain raced across it inside my head. It was probably from the bad mix of hang over and air sickness.

RYOU'S POV

"Uh, Ryou… Did we- Ouch!" Ichigo's hands rushed to her face, I immediately set down the two cups of coffee I had gotten us on an end table and ran over to her and crouched down at her side.

"Ichigo! Are you okay?" I lifted her hands from her face to see what happened.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She said like she was trying to bite back on a yell. She shook her head.

"It's probably just, from… The…" We were both staring at each other, noticing the lack of space that was between us. Man, Ichigo had no idea what being this close to her did to me. My thoughts drifted back to last night when she had said that she loved me…

"Ryou, about last night." She tried to break the gaze but couldn't quite take her eyes off of me. I tried hard not to smirk. But then my heart sunk. Right, like I had been saying all along. She had been drunk and she hadn't ment any of it.

"Did we…?" My eyebrows crinkled up in confusion did we… What? Realization hit me as to what she ment.

"No, Ichigo, we didn't have sex… But you really wanted to." I smirked. Then stopped. Wait so, she didn't remember anything from last night?... At all? She shook her head no. So she didn't even remember saying she loved me… Well now it wouldn't matter if she ment it or not. I stood back up. My mind racing with the question she had asked me…

"Remember when I left all those years ago? When I got into the cab, and you were trying to tell me something?" My heart ached. Of course I remember.

ICHIGO'S POV

"Uh, well. I had just gotten out of the shower, when you came in carrying a pretty much empty bottle of Jack Daniels. You tried to kiss me, and uh. Do other stuff." He paused as my cheeks turned crimson. "But I told you that you were really drunk and didn't know what you were doing then... You fell asleep." He finished. But he wasn't looking at me. He had this hard look on his face like he was trying to act emotionless or something. He looked like he was pretending to be infatuated with the floors rug patters. But it just made him even more so look like he was biting back tears.

"That's all?" I asked, clear doubt in my voice. He nodded, still not looking at me. He blinked hard; reminding me of another time he had done that…

"Remember when I left all those years ago? When I got into the cab, and you were trying to tell me something? I think about that day a lot..."Ryou didn't answer. I waited a little bit, but still; nothing…

"Yeah, me too." He almost whispered. I couldn't help but notice how detached he had sounded. He was quiet for a long while; then he blinked hard, like he was trying to hold back tears.

That, and everything else rushed back to me. I almost gasped and through my had over my mouth; but I didn't cause Ryou was right there… I had told him I loved him; and he hadn't said it back. Because the next thing I remember after that is waking up and feeling like hell…

I looked back up at him. He was looking down at me with his eyebrows crinkled together in concern, but the rest of his face was still hard and blank.

"You okay?" He asked. Well wasn't this awkward.

"Yeah I'm fine." I said while getting up.

"You sure? You look a little pail." He said as I walked past him.

"I'm sure I'll be fine, it's probably just from the air sickness and what not." I lied, then closed the bathroom door behind me. Why? Because the bathroom was my only safe place away from Ryou. Okay now I could freak. OH MY GOD! I CAN'T BELIEVE I TOLD HIM I LOVED HIM! I'M NEVER GETTING DRUNK AROUND HIM AGAIN!

I opened the box I was still holding and popped an aspirin in my mouth. Right now I wasn't just taking them because my head hurt.

But… Why hadn't he told me that part? Or about the part where I asked him about the day I had left? I sat down on the toilet seat as I thought. Boy things were gunna get pretty awkward over the next couple of days. But it's not just that, I-… I felt like I had cheated on Masaya… And Jake. Heck, I felt like I was cheating on both of them with each other! I was starting to feel very whore-ish.

I stood up. I couldn't hide in the bathroom forever. I had to face Ryou ad act like I didn't remember a thing… Yeah, like that was gunna happen. I thought to myself as I opened up the bathroom door and walked back into the bedroom. I figure was directly in front of me as I opened the door.

"AAAH!" I screamed and then almost fell over. I put my hand on my pounding heart as I realized it was just Ryou. He laughed.

"I was just about to knock on the door; sorry I scared you." Pff, he wasn't sorry at all. I glared at the little smile on his face.

"Kay so, what were you gunna tell me?" I asked while walking around him. Hay, I wasn't half bad at this acting stuff. I thought to myself as I sat down on the edge of the bed. Then I tried not to think of the whole awkward situation.

"That Pudding's hair salon is only a block away and we're gunna go see her." He said, and then took another sip of his coffee. I smiled. I couldn't wait to see Pudding; I've missed her so much. She was almost like the annoying little happy go lucky sister I never had!... Almost. She was way nicer than I imagined a bratty little sister would be.

I got up off my but ad headed towards the door.

"Yay! I can't wait to see Pudding."