A/N= the end is near! So we have the water guns, the dance and kiss, the bite and then my take on the after math, the end (because it will end in Marlene's time) and my decided epilogue. See you guys later and please let me know how you feel about this FanFic in the review section!

Disclaimer= go back and read the last disclaimer and find out yourself.

She Was All I Had:

Chapter nine:

"What the fuck are you lookin' at?!" I yelled at the mannequin, pushing it over and kicking it. It was immature, but I didn't give a shit. I was confused, frustrated, and angry and in love, and it all concerned the same person, "Riley!" I shouted again, still walking towards the stupid music.

When I eventually found her, she seemed very interested in our surroundings, "Have you ever seen anything like this?" she said, gazing around the music store.

"Are we just done talking?" I asked in exasperation.

"I don't know are we?" she shot back in a hostile tone.

"Hey!" I said, suddenly furious, "you don't get to be pissed off at me! I'm pissed off at you!"

"For what, asking you what you think?"

"When have you ever cared about what I think?" I asked, genuinely not being able to remember a single time she had. "We were good!" I continued sadly, "We were better than good, and then you told me to fuck off, and then you just up and vanish!" i hadn't meant for that to slip out, but it had needed to be said.

"This whole day…" I continued when she didn't react, "You feel guilty? You're looking for an out? I-I-I'm giving it to you." I stuttered. I seriously didn't want her to go-last time she did, I didn't get over it until she came back, and I was still sad about it then!

"I'm supposed to be holed up on the other side of town. I get caught as a Firefly I'm dead. Guilt didn't make me cross a city full of soldiers Ellie!" she said as though it was obvious. "And yeah, I did some shit that I don't know how to take back but… I'm trying."

"Oh," she took off her back pack and threw it to the floor, our water guns visible through the partially open zip, "those water guns you've been dreaming of? I nearly got shot for these. Surprise!" she said with enough sarcasm dripping from her tone for me to drown in it.

I took the water guns out of Riley's back pack and gave one to her, "Ok first, I'm gonna destroy you, and then we'll talk."

"You're about to get drenched!" she replied, her voice back to its playful, teasing self.

"Let's see what you've got Firefly girl!" I said. We chased and hunted each-other for around fifteen minutes, but I knew it couldn't last forever, that I had to go back to that stupid school.

"I got you again! Boosh!" she yelled, "You wanna go again? She asked.

"I do, I do I just," I sighed, not finishing.

"You gotta go back," Riley said sadly.

"Uh huh." I said nodding.

"Can I at least walk you home?" she asked nudging me.

"I guess!" I said smiling. Riley always made me smile, one of her many amazing qualities.

"Hey, so…" I began, "I said it like an asshole, but I totally meant it. You should go. I mean you've wanted this since- well you know, forever so," I sighed sadly, "who am I to stop you?"

"The only one who can," she sighed, as though she wanted me to tell her to stay. I wanted to share my opinion, so I pretended to be sarcastic.

"No please don't go I'll be so miserable without you!" at least she smiled at that.

"I'll be fine," Huge lie. I'd be depressed for months.

"And you'll be fine," I don't even know where she would be!

"And we'll see each other again."