"Why can't you?"

"I just can't!"

"More like you won't!"

"I've tried! Do you know how hard it is? Especially after how much I've been through?"

"Why don't you ever listen to me?"

"Why do you always nag me?"

"You take everything too seriously!"

"At least I can take things seriously!"

"Every little thing I do wrong around you is like the end of the world all over again!"

"Dammit Olette! Don't joke about that!"

"Riku! Stop yelling at me whenever I do something wrong!"

"If I did that, then I would be too out of breath to talk ever again!"

"You're so critical! That's what I hate!"

"I'm sorry that I can't be the nice, quiet, smart girl from Twilight Town who everyone loves! Some of us have to bear the burden of protecting worlds other than our own!"

"Well I'm sorry that I can't be a perfect fan-girl who never messes up and can keep up with my egotistical, over analytical superhero boyfriend! I'm only human!"

"Superhero? No way! I was one of the villans, remember?"

"You just can't put the past behind you!"

"Come on, Olette! While I was fighting for my heart and the hearts of my friends, not to mention people I didn't even KNOW, you were eating sea-salt ice cream and having a normal summer! AND you had other people to nag!"

"Don't you pull that on me, Riku! You know I would have done everything I could have!"

"Shouda, coulda, woulda, DIDN'T."

"That's it! I'm leaving!"

"Fine!"

"FINE!"

*~*~*~*

A door slammed. Olette stormed out of the apartment she shared with Riku, and collapsed outside their front door in tears.

*~*~*~*

Riku felt guilty the moment she left. It was his fault, he knew, but he was too proud, or maybe stubborn, to admit it.

Pig-headed, as Olette would say, He thought to himself with a grim half-smile.

*~*~*~*

Olette cried. And cried. And cried. She tried to sob in silence, but to no avail.

Why couldn't he just say it? She buried her head in her arms and pushed the thought from her head.

*~*~*~*

He could her her crying. Riku opened the door quietly. Olette was curled tightly into a ball, and looking more pathetic than he had ever seen her. She turned to face him, her green eyes large and wet, and her cheeks red and tear-streaked. He knelt down and put his arms around her.

*~*~*~*

Olette heard the door open. She mustered the courage to turn and face him. What she saw was someone who looked just as miserable as she was. He silently put his arms around her, before she erupted into new tears.

*~*~*~*

He sat and held her until she stopped crying again. Then he picked her up and carried her over the threshold, into their apartment, and to their bedroom. He gently set her down under the covers and then got into the bed with her.

*~*~*~*

Olette felt him pick her up, and the next thing she knew, she was on the bed, and his arms were wrapped tightly around her.

He always knows how to make me feel secure.

*~*~*~*

"I'm sorry." Riku whispered into her ear. "It's just so hard for me to care for anyone after everything that's happened to me. Earlier, when you said that you loved me, I was scared. Scared that something would happen to you. And I felt like I didn't deserve love from you, or anyone else, because of what I've done. I'm so, so sorry. And if you never want to see me again, I'll understand. If you give me this night, I'll leave in the morning if you want me to." He kissed her ear, sending shivers down her spine. "I just need you to know that I love you, too."

*~*~*~*

A/N: First time ever writing anything with a fight in it. Or attempting to. This is just practice. I just can't seem to make it end on a sad note, no matter what I do… I think that's just how I am. Like? Dislike? Want more? Want me to take it down? Comment.