... sometimes. It's more that... um. [ her smile turns very crooked and a little sad. ] Do you remember what I told you about Riku? How he left, and came back? Like Richard did? He... We were dating, until... something went wrong. So we stopped dating, but then he disappeared like that...

[ a deep sigh. it's still painful to think about. ] I'm glad he came back, but things have been kind of strange between us ever since. It's better now, but it's still not like it was. And now that we're living in the same place... [ she trails off with a little shrug of her shoulder. ]