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Chapter 2

"HASEO!" cried a loud voice, causing curious onlookers to pause and smirk, as a black-haired girl, wearing a school-sailor uniform, launched onto Ryou and hugged him, he pulled her off saying loudly, "My name is Ryou, loser, and Haseo is my character's name, Atoli…oh.. This is Shino" Ryou added, introducing Shino to the slightly-crazed girl. "Oh. You're Shino! It's so nice to meet you… finally…" Atoli's eyes travelled from Shino's hair to the ends of her boots "so, you and Shino going out?" she grinned, as Shino laughed, a pink blush creeping onto her cheeks, Ryou answered her, glaring "No, and what if we were? You going to throw one of your tantrums?" he scowled at her, and she glared back at him. "Well, SO-RIE, oh great one!" she said, tossing her head back.

Shino smiled a weak smile at the pair, as they hissed and teased the other, walking down the busy street. "you know, you two can the ones going out, you two argue so much, you guys sound like a old married couple" Shino laughed at the expressions on their faces. "Aww! Shino! Don't say that about me! Haseo here is the bully!" Atoli whimpered, pretending to cry. "I told you, my name is Ryou. Get a life!" Ryou growled through clenched teeth.

The trio spent the whole afternoon going around the city, either Atoli or Ryou finding a reason to bicker about the food, clothes, actions, personality about each other. When Atoli had finally waved at Shino, and punched Ryou, and left, Ryou let out a sigh. He had a smile on his face, shino noticed, and fell silent. The sun began to disappear behind the high-rise buildings that Ryou had been staring at few hours ago, its dying light casting a dull red around them, reminding Shino something terrible she had witnessed when she was a child; inevitably, she had always hated the colours made by the sunset.

Ryou noticed her quietness as they rode on the train, the passing shadows caused by the poles made her face seem only more upsetting, and sad. He touched her arm; making her jump in surprise "Are you alright?" he frowned slightly at her "Did you eat something this afternoon? Do you have a headache? Stomach ache?" he questioned her. She shook her head, and patted his hand, "It's alright, and I'm just feeling a bit tired, and yes, I did take my medicine. I took out a subscription yesterday morning" She said, showing him the pills she had in her ebony jacket pocket. "Oh, do you want to stay over again?" Ryou suddenly said "it's kinda boring, so stay at my house! We can both log into "The World" together, I have an extra controller and Lenses. I don't have school tomorrow and you don't have Uni tomorrow either right?"

"Sure, I see why not, good choice of days too, Ryou, cause the block of flats I live in are having their lightning source cut off today, there's supposed to be something wrong with the system" she said wisely, nodding her head as she talked.

"Oh!" Ryou had thought of someone that they didn't meet for a long time "What happened to Tabby?" He asked, facing Shino as she frowned to remember. "Tabby quit because she was training to be a nurse while I was still in a coma, she was on the other days when I got out of the coma." Shino replied, pushing a stray lock of silver hair from her face.

The train stopped at their station, where they got off and began to walk the five-minute walk towards Ryou's house. Their shoes made loud clacks as they walked up the empty, lighted street, in silence, their shadows appearing and disappearing. "Say, what kind of relationship did you and Ovan share?" he asked finally, his curiosity getting the better of him. Shino smirked, and thought for a few minutes. "Well, he's the complete opposite of you. He's a sensible adult while you're a teenage punk." Ryou glared into a street pole, suddenly slouching and kicking small pebbles that lay on the street. "Answer my original question." He muttered, Shino looked at him out of the corner of her eye, "Ovan… is just a friend of mine." She whispered, looking up. She noticed a person standing in front of Ryou's house. A person with long hair, ("is that a man or a woman?" muttered Ryou "or is that a wannabe woman?") as they walked closer and closer, the person turned to them. Shino looked at him closely, it was a guy! The man took a few steps towards them, and broke into a run; Ryou grabbed Shino's hand and ran away from the man "Argghhh! A murderer! Help!" but the man ran like the wind, ran up behind Ryou and hugged him tightly.

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woah, chapter two is up X( i'm so confused for the next few chapters! Chapter three will be up... soon? LOL.

But you should be able to realise who this man hugging Ryou/Haseo is...

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