Ciaren awoke slowly. The first thing that she notices was the warmth surrounding her. Second she could feel someone lightly stroking her hair. She groaned and tried to move, but there was a weight against her, holding her still. Ciaren opened her eyes, only to have the brightness shine right into them, burning her eyes. Instinctively she closed her eyes and put her hands over them, trying to block out as much light as possible. Slowly she moved her hands away from her eyes and looked around her. Everything was blurry at first but eventually it cleared.

"Good morning." Riku said the moment he noticed she was awake. Ciaren jumped slightly at his voice, forgetting that he was here with her. All the memories suddenly crashed around her from last night, making her want to cry.

"Hey, are you okay?" Riku asked.

"Ya, ya I'm fine."

Riku didn't respond back, instead he just reached up and brushed his finger against her cheek. When she saw what he was going to do she flinched away, but when he tried again she let him. When he pulled his hand away there was a single tear on his finger. Ciaren stared at it for a second then touched her cheek. Her cheek was wet.

"I feel okay." She said. Though this time she wasn't sure if she was trying to convince herself or Riku.

"Really?" Riku asked. He had a skeptical look on his face. Seeing that look on his face Ciaren smiled at him. He seemed to relax, though he still looked at her warily, like he expected her to burst out crying any second.

"Are you hungry?" He asked. Ciaren nodded eagerly, stomach rumbling at the thought. Riku was still lying on the bad with her, and stayed like that for a second longer before he got up. When she got to the door she realized that she didn't know where the kitchen was.

"Riku, where's the kitchen?"

"This way" Riku took her hand and led her down the stairs, toward where the kitchen was. He let go of her hand after they entered the kitchen, and he began making breakfast.

"What do you want to eat?" he asked

"Pancakes" she answered without thinking, it had always been her favorite, and right now it seemed like the best thing in the world. Riku smiled and started making it, but it wasn't in she to let him, she felt like he had done enough already. So she went over, took the food out of his hands and bumped him out of the way.

"Hey," Riku protested, "I was making something"

"Exactly 'was'," she said grinning slightly at the banter, "you've done enough for me Riku. The least that I can do is cook breakfast" Ciaren turned and looked at Riku, so that he would know that she were serious. Riku looked at her for a long second, then sighed and sat down. She turned back around and started cooking, picking up right where he left off. Soon Ciaren were done and she set the food right in front of Riku, and then started making some for herself. Soon she was done with that to. She and Riku sat down at the table, eating her breakfast, sitting in comfortable silence.

"These are really good" said Riku

"Thanks," she blushed at the compliment; it was so different from what she normally heard. Normally everyone at home told her that her cooking was bad.

"So what do she want to do today?" Riku asked when he was done with his food

"I don't know what can we do?"

"Well," he thought for a second, "we can go to the islands, go hang out with Kairi and Sora, or go on the gummi ship and visit another world."

At the thought of visiting another world, her entire face lit up. It sounded so wonderful, going to visit another world. The only problem was figuring out what world to visit.

"Riku, what's your favorite world?" she had so many, that she wanted Riku's opinion. He looked a little bit startled that she asked but he got over it quickly.

"I guess that I have two, Hallow Bastion and Twilight Town," Riku answered after thinking it over. Those had always been Ciaren's favorite worlds to, but she had always wanted to go to Twilight Town more.

"Can we go to Twilight Town?" she asked excitedly. Where this energy had come from she had no idea, but it was there.

"It's about a two day trip from here, and we gotta go get Roxas and Axel, if we go there without them they'll kill us. If we work fast enough today, we can leave first thing tomorrow morning" Riku said. She smiled even more, already looking forward to it.

"Well what are we waiting for?" she said, jumping out of her seat. She headed upstairs to take a shower, pack a bag, and look for new clothes. Riku left to go tell Axel and Roxas what was going on. While she was getting ready, she could already tell that this trip was going to be great.