Riku stood there a minute, completely dumbfounded. 'What was THAT about?!' He thought. It was like she had turned into a whole different person... He wasn't mad though, just surprised and confused. The silver haired teen mentally kicked himself when he realized that he hadn't gotten her name. Cursing under his breath, the boy went home and allowed himself to collapse on his bed back first, so he was immediately staring at the ceiling. His thoughts filled with the mysterious girl. Rolling over to his side, he decided to talk to her tomorrow... Back at the tree house the girl had found a small blanket laying about and wrapped it around herself, thoughts of the silver haired boy filling her mind. Maybe it was love at first sight...?
When the girl finally drifted to sleep, nightmares engulfed her mind almost instantly... This one regarded her older brother's death. He died protecting her from one of many dragons attacking their world. She screamed her brother's name and woke up with tears streaming down her flushed cheeks from fear, and tightly hugged her knees. The poor girl was shaking in her skin from the terror of re-living the events that occurred before she ended up on Destiny Islands. She cried in her knees for thirty minutes before the tears stopped and she left the tree house to climb down and wander over to the cliff were the Paoupu tree, that she knew absolutely nothing about, stretched out over the side a little. When she got there, she sat down on the trunk of the tree for a minute before laying down on it and staring up at the night sky. She began thinking about her home world and how it could be in danger once again, and she could do nothing to protect her family. The mysterious girl sat up and leaned forward, falling off of the horizontal tree, when she saw a disturbingly adorable little black fidgety creature with big round golden eyes, shows up out of nowhere. She quickly recovered from the fall and chases after it when it speeds off, curiousity taking over. The creature leads her to the entrance of a secret little cove at the base of a huge tree, then faded back into darkness.
She stood there, slightly confused, then slowly walks down the dark tunnel that opened into a cave with chalk drawings covering the walls and boulders. 'Must've been here since they were kids...' She thought as she looked around the area. She blinks when she sees a drawing of two heads facing each other, one was a boy and the other was a girl. The girl smiled, then slowly lifted her gaze to the strange door.
"Huh?" She asked aloud, tilting her head and slowly walking towards it.
"I thought it was weird too..." Riku says as he entered the cave. Turns out, he couldn't sleep without knowing her name, so he came back a few hours later. When he didn't find her in the tree house, he wandered the small island, then something told him to check the cave- so he did so. The girl jumps and tuns to face him, as if ready to hit him. She relaxed when she saw that it was the silver haired teen.
"Riku? Wh-what're you doing here? I thought you went home." She says in a jumble of confusion. He smirks.
"Never caught your name." He replied simply. She giggled. 'He came all the back...just for my name...?' Her thoughts whispered, causing her heart to flutter. She held out a hand to him.
"Angel." She answered softly. He shakes her hand, but doesn't let go.
"What are you doing in here?" Riku asked, now raising an eyebrow. She blinks and pulls her hand from his grip.
"Just exploring... I-I didn't to..." Her sentence was cut off by the light pressure of warm thin lips gently pressing against her slim cold ones. Her dark jade green eyes went wide, and cheeks quickly heated as she blushed. When Riku pulled away, she just kind of stared at him with big innocent eyes. Had the previous question been a ploy to get her flustered? She lightly touched her lower lip.
"You... My first..." Angel whispered softly, her cheeks still tinted by a dark red. Riku smirked.
"What? I'd thought you'd have a boyfriend or something back home." He chuckled lightly. She shakes her head swiftly.
"You're wrong Riku... This pretty face stays hidden." She says softly. Angel moved her gaze to the ground beneath her.
"You don't know anything about me... Most of the time I want to keep it like that.. but you... You're different." She continued in a soft voice, tears brimming her eyes. Riku's eyes widen slightly.'That face again...' He quickly grabbed wrapped his arms around the girl and held her tightly, gritting his teeth. He didn't know why.. but ever time he saw her with tears in her eyes, his blood boiled. He didn't want to see her in pain... At first she was surprised, but after a moment of him holding her, she had fallen asleep. The warmth and comfort of his embrace got the better of her and she drifted off to sleep. And Riku knew it. He sighed and carefully picked her up bridal style and carried her to the raft he had used to get to the Island, then took her home where she would bunk with him.
XOXOXOX
The next morning Angel awoke to the sweet scent of pancakes, eggs, and bacon. Her dark green eyes slowly fluttered open and drowsily searched the back of her mind as to what had happened the previous night. She blinked at the sound of a faint chuckle and looked in the direction of the laughter. A smirk tugged at the corner of her lips when she saw the boy who stole her first kiss.
"Morning." Riku greeted once he realized that Angel was awake.
"Morning." Angel replied lazily as she slowly sat up. Her curious green eyes glanced around the large room. 'Where...am I...?' Riku gently nudged the plate of food that he had prepared for her.
"You're in my bedroom." He told her. Angel blinked a few times and took a bite out of the pancake. Her eyes widening with awe. She hadn't had pancakes this well since having her mothers pancakes! She blinked again when what Riku had said registered in her brain.
"Come again?" She asked, taking another bite out of her pancakes. Riku chuckled and lightly shook his head. 'Looks like she doesn't remember... Heh..' He thought to himself, deciding to tease her a little.
"Last night in the cave, you looked seriously depressed..so I had to fight back the urge to hold you, which didn't work and you fell asleep in my arms. So I brought you back here." He explained casually. Her dark green eyes went wide and her cheeks turned bright red.
"Oh God..." She murmured quietly under her breath. Riku chuckled to himself and shook his head.
"Don't sweat it." He said to her. Angel glared at him, mostly for not understanding what she was going through.
"It's not that!" She shouted, then moved her gaze back to the plate of food. Riku starred at her with a dumbfounded expression.
"What then?" He asked, kind of annoyed. Angel nibbled on a piece of bacon, still blushing. 'It means that last night actually happened...' She thought to herself, remembering the kiss that Riku had planted upon her. And she kissed him back! Riku blinked a few times, then smirked, as knowing exactly what was going through her head.
