The night air was crisp from the cool ocean air. The salty scent of the water wasn't too strong by the movie theater, as Raven stood in line with Vanitas. Her heart hammering a thousand miles an hour as she tried to remind herself that it wasn't a big deal.

"It's just a movie." Vanitas commented setting his hand on her shoulder.

This gesture made her realize that she was bouncing on her heels, she also let out a yelp of surprise when his skin touched hers.

Vanitas wasn't sure why Raven was freaking out so much, they were originally supposed to see a horror movie, but after that slumber party with the girls; Raven has been hooked on romance movies.

He had been thrown through a loop when she texted him about seeing a movie in theater that the girls drew her attention to. He agreed since he wanted to see how she would react to a romance movie. It would be a new side of Raven, one he wanted to see.

"I'm sorry, the preview looked so sweet." She answered squeezing her hands together.

Raven wasn't regretting letting Kairi text Vanitas for her. She was so nervous she was about to shed her skin to keep some form of distance between them. Watching horror with a subtle romance plot to it was one thing, but this movie was solo romance.

"Romance movies are sweet and tacky." He replied seeing his breath in the air.

Those words made Raven sink emotionally, he didn't like romance movies. He's not going to enjoy the night at all then. Now she felt bad for coming up with the idea.

"We can still catch a different movie, if you don't want to see this one." Hoping she could fix things before it was too late.

He shrugged simply.

She tried not to pout about it but it happened anyway. She let her bangs cover her eyes, hiding her eyes from his sight. Her hands fell back to her side as she tried to close herself off before tears tried to build up but it was hard to fight that knot forming in her throat.

Vanitas took notice to her quick mood change, the air around her went from tense to a sad type of dark. He should have told her yes, but she seemed to have her heart set on this movie he didn't want to force her into a different movie she didn't want to see.

He had to come up with a way to change her mood again, but he wasn't sure what would do it.

Glancing down at her hand, he didn't give a second thought when he took her hand in his. Feeling that it was cold from the chill in the air.

Raven's head shoot up and her cheeks turned bright red, but she didn't pull her hand away. She glanced to the side, but adjusted her hand so their fingers were laced together. It felt right for it to be there incased in his rough hands, like Xiro's hands had felt around hers.

"You look cold." Vanitas stated suddenly pulling her gaze to him.

Shaking her head was the only way she could answer. Feeling the warmth of his hand caused all function of talk to shut down in her brain. Her brain had been against her since the big slumber party, since she dreamed of that little girl. She wanted to know who the father was.

Though she tried hard, nothing brought that dream back. Instead her mind gave her different kinds of ideas shared between Vanitas and Xiro. Though with Xiro it was hard to tell if it was past or something made up.

"You must be falling for Vanitas if you're day dreaming about that kind of stuff!" Were Kairi's words while she was texting away on Raven's phone.

"You're pretty quiet, something wrong?" He asked trying to get Raven to act normal.

She jerked some as the line moved around them. "No, I'm fine just lost in thought it all."

"Kairi told everyone that you were going to play with her on stage in a couple weeks." He looked up at the starry sky.

Her chest became warm at the thought of playing on stage with her friend. "Yes, it's going to be so much fun." She replied looking at him. "You and the others will be there to see us?"

A smirk formed on his lips, "Kairi would kill us if we missed you play." He looked at his phone in his free hand. "She could care less if it was just her, but you seem to be a different story for the whole group."

Blush crept across her cheeks when he said that. "I'm not that special, yet you all make me out to be."

Vanitas chuckled at her some. "I think you're plenty special; being part genie for starters, being the first female guardian to almost have a child and you play the piano like no one else's business. You're not a very average person, Raven – you just have to learn to accept that."

Her cheeks felt like someone had set them on fire. "I don't know what to say."

A sly look formed in his eyes.

A group of guys walked oddly close to them and Raven let out a yelp when one's hand meet her rear with a hard slap. Something Vanitas didn't miss, he's eyes turned dark as he let go of Raven's hand and grabbed one of the group members and pulled them back.

"Which one of you asses did it?" He growled as Raven looked at him confused.

The group in front of them were a bunch of hoodlums, it was apparent from the fact their pants sagged to their knees.

"Vanitas, it's fine." Raven hissed putting a hand on his arm to hold him back.

His gold eyes burned with fury when he looked into her red ones. "No one should disrespect a woman like that. A woman should only be touched when she allows someone to." He shot making her flinch.

"Easy there man, Rin was just joking around." One guy tried to laugh it off.

Vanitas's eyes only filled with more anger as he pushed the guy into his friends. "Get out of my sight before I do something you'll regret."

"What's with ya man, is she really your lady?" The biggest guy in the group asked getting in the Unversed Guardian's face. "You two looked more like you were holding hands to stay warm."

The two glared while Raven thought of a way to get the fight to stop before it was too late. Someone grabbed her and pulled her into the group.

"HEY!" She shouted elbowing one while kicking another in the upper thigh. "Don't touch me!"

One guy went to grab her wrist to prevent any fighting, only for Raven to grab him. She pulled his arm forward while moving back and ducking, sending him falling over her shoulder. He landed with a loud thud on the pavement, while gasping for breath.

Another went to grab her by the hair, only to get a roundhouse kick to the gut; also leaving him out of breath.

"Hey, we didn't mean any harm!" The remaining two cried backing up.

Vanitas cocked his head to the side, the shadows on his face growing darker though his golden eyes started to glow in a dangerous way. "Get out of here before something worse is done by me." He voice is low and cold.

Raven shivered some at the tone, trying not to let it get to her but it was hard when she could see the crazed look in his eyes. He was like her, the Darkness sometimes took him over the edge when he didn't give into his nature the way he should.

"Vanitas, that's enough." She snapped getting in his face. "They're leaving, so there is no reason to keep egging on the fight."

He cold eyes locked with hers, trying to strike the fear of God into her.

There was no backing down, instead she raised her hand and smacked him across the face. "I said enough!"

The sting of the slap warmed his cheek, while he looked at Raven like she had grown a second head. Her eyes burning with something he had never seen before in her eyes before. It wasn't quiet fear but it wasn't anger either but there was a pain to the red orbs.

He slowly pressed his hand to the stinging cheek before looking away from her. "I needed that." He muttered in a way that she barely heard him.

They stood out of line for a few minutes while Vanitas cooled his temper more. While he tried to calm down he pulled out a pack of cigarettes and lit one. Of course Raven gave him a look of disgust while she plugged her nose. She didn't enjoy the scent but he had been told by a lot of women that they didn't like the scent of the smokes, yet they loved the taste of it.

"I don't do it often." He stated simply still avoiding making eye contact.

Raven didn't say anything as she didn't look at him.

"What? Cat got your tongue?" He snapped turning to her.

She remained silent for a few more moments, "Can we still see the movie?" Her voice was soft like a child who had done something wrong.

He leaned against the brick wall. "Do you still want to?" He threw back at her before taking a drag.

Her head bob a couple of times while she squeezed her hands together.

"I'm not mad that you slapped me - if that's your issue."

Only shaking her head was the answer this time around.

His stomach started to boil in anger as he tried to figure out why she wasn't speaking suddenly. But it wasn't worth yelling at her about it, so he threw his cigarette down and stomped it out before taking her hand and dragging the shy one into the theater.

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The movie wasn't the greatest movie but it wasn't bad either. Though Raven nearly screamed in the middle when the couple's clothes came off. The darkness of the show room covered her blush as she tried not to think about anything related to that dirty stuff.

"What's wrong with what's on the screen?" Vanitas tease. "You've done it."

Raven slapped the top of his thigh quick and hard that it was more like a snap. Vanitas shouted out in pain, only to get the theater to tell him to be quiet.

"Because I've done it in the past doesn't mean I want to see it on a screen." Raven whispered through her teeth.

His gold eyes bore into her from the light of the large movie screen. Through it was hard to make out most of her expression, and she was having trouble with his as well.

The sound of a slight laugh came from his chest as he turned back to the movie, which was at the morning after. "They always cut out the good stuff."

Raven was trying to figure out why he had laugh at her. She grabbed his arm, getting his attention though his eyes never actually left the screen. "What was so funny?!"

He waved her off to watch the movie, only to leave her more puzzled.

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The movie came to an end and they were walking back to Vanitas's apartment. There was a large space between them because Raven refused to let him get close, since he refused to tell her what made him laugh during the movie. He just eyed the back of her head while his hand were tucked into his pockets.

"Are you going to tell me?" She tossed at him every few minutes as they got closer to his apartment building.

"How about I tell you in a less public place?" He called back.

Her eyes narrowed as she shot him a look over her shoulder. "What does that mean?"

He didn't reply.

Walking past the alleyway, something white caught Raven's eye. She turned ever so slightly to get a better look, only for her heart to shatter to pieces.

Xiro was down the alley with some dark haired girl. Their hands all over each other as they tried to pull the others clothes off.

Raven stopped walking for a moment. The pain was so much.

She thought he was in love with her but a mere couple of weeks and he moved onto to some other dark haired girl? They were already trying to take each other's clothes off.

"Vanitas…. I'm sorry." She whispered before opening a corridor.

He didn't get to react quickly enough. He had heard his name but by the time he had gone to answer her, she was gone.