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"What do you mean?" she was curious by his words and his smile. Wasn't he supposed to be famous for been cold and indifferent with everyone? Seriously, it seems the gossip and news were completely wrong about him. Looking up at him while slowly standing back up since when she bumped into him she stumbled. She didn't realize that he was leaning down.

They're lips brushed against one another. Her eyes widening in shock, she stepped back. Her hand covering her lips. "Y-you..kissed...me..." she stuttered, her face a flaming red.

"Riku is going to hate me if he finds out..." she muttered, but loud enough for him to hear as a tear started to fall. Dammit, she wanted to kiss Riku. She wanted him to be the one to kiss her gently like this and make her feel like she's flying. But Dante wasn't him and now that's all she was going to think of. She couldn't be able to look at Riku in the eyes if she saw him, she'll be reminded for what will never happen now.

"I'm such an idiot.." she continued softly as the tears fall, she looks up at Dante. "What am I going to do now?"

It was almost like she didn't hear him as she continued while the tears keep falling down her cheeks. "I'm sorry i'm crying like this. Its just because I think that because this happened that if Riku found out that I kissed someone, he might not like me anymore." she finally told him as she wiped back her tears.

Hearing his apology, she looked up at him in surprise. What happened to the cold, composed Dante? Who was this stuttering man who looked like he was hurting over what he did? It was like he was having an inner fight with himself. "Wait, I should have partly to blame for this to, I should have looked what I was doing. I'm sorry I accused you of kissing me and I had nothing to do with it. I'm really, really sorry Dante."

She tried to turn it into a light joke. "Guess I ruined your day huh? You getting kissed by a newbie model like me."

Seen him shuffle, reminded her of the way Riku would act whenever he was upset. Slipping off her shoes, since she wouldn't be able to reach him, she grasped his wrist to make him turn towards her.

"L-look, don't get me wrong! The kiss felt good! Ah---I mean--I don't know what to say." she looked confused but she still held onto his wrist. "I don't even know why I'm doing this, but its like my body has a mind of its own and I just have this great need to comfort you in some way."

s**t, he's probably going to think she was some sort of freak.

"And about me saying about the kissing with a newbie..well I just thought you wouldn't find that so pleasing, especially when its from me. So I wanted to apologize about it."

She wasn't even sure why she was telling him all this. But this entire day was proving to be unusual. "Riku's been a childhood friend of mine. I don't think he'll see me any further then a friend. My friends always tell me that guys see me as a buddy and nothing else." she laughed lightly.

"Besides, girls are going to be noticing Riku, so I can't keep my friend all to myself. It makes me sound possessive with him. I don't want to think that's what will happen if I continue to keep him to myself. Heck, I make him wear his glasses so girls won't notice him. How terrible is that? I should let him be himself and get those blasted contacts and let nature take its course."

This was getting to weird with how this conversation went from her crying, to him apologizing. Then with her confessing to a guy she just met today, and him asking her out.

"Okay, you know how weird that just sounded? You just met me, so why do you want to go out with a girl like me??" she was confused, but curious at what he said. Maybe he was right, at least one part and let nature take its course. Because if she just went up to Riku and told him, she would just be cornering him and he probably would feel uncomfortable since they've been friends for so long.

She pondered over his words carefully before looking up at him with determination in her eyes. "Do you think, I only like Riku because I never met any other guy who made me the same way? So could you? When I just met you not to long ago. I feel the same weakness, the loss of strength.."

This was probably a bad idea...but Riku was slipping further and further away from him as it became that much harder to hide his looks from the other women.

"If you were me, what would you do? Knowing this conflict going on? Would you test to see if what your feeling for your friend is really liking them more then just a friend? Or that its just all in your head and you had to test that theory to see what would happen?"