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Riina looked up as she walked. 'The bottom of the tree doesn't look quite right...' she thought, staring off, far in front of her. 'Oddly.. human..-'"Jussi?!" she called out, her voice half a prayer as she ran forward, just in case.

As Riina had figured, Jussi didn't answer her. She walked out the open door, finally shutting it, and looked for Jussi. She was probably walking in circles but, honestly, she didn't care. She always looked for Jussi and she wasn't about to break tradition.

Riina felt miserable for being a b***h to Jussi- he hadn't done anything wrong. She went back to the cafe, more than a little scared when she found the door wide open and Jussi gone. Falling onto a seat by the bar, she called his cell, knowing he wouldn't answer but hoping he might. 'Searching for the things to say to keep you right here..'

Riina took her headponhes out and looked up at Jussi. There was nothing she could say, nothing she could do, that would get her point across, so she simply stood and walked off to the back of the building. "I'll be back," she mumbled so he could hear if he wanted. She walked out the back door, walking a little bit away from the Black Rose. She knelt down, curling in on herself, and screamed- loud and long. Out of breath evenually, she fell back onto the snow. 'Just when I think I've escaped it...' she thought, smirking with dark humour.

Riina glanced up at Jussi, greeting him with a "Hey" and returning to her chai. "I know the crash is coming, I smell the fuel in the morning," she sang, her headphones back on.

Riina listened to him walk away, pushing herself up off of her knees to follow back to the bar. Once inside, she went to her floor to change into dry clothes. Returning to the main cafe, she walked behind the bar to grab yet another chai and wandered over to the couches.

Riina took a deep breath, hesitantly reaching out her hand. She kept her gaze upon his face, afraid that if she looked away he'd truly disappear. 'Reaching out and to take you, nothing else can touch me.' As her hand pressed against his own, she sighed in relief that he was still there. Riina shut her eyes as she closed her fingers around his hand; she didn't want to let go, she didn't want to lose him for real. "I know, you miss him," she said as she looked down to the snow, ashamed she couldn't find stronger words to match how he felt.

"Jussi!" Riina called. She blinked against the blanket of snow, not paying attention to where she was and stumbling over something. "Jussi..." she breathed, kneeling down in front of him. She reached out to touch his shoulder, afraid that he wouldn't be there, as she watched him disappear.

Riina was sick of waiting. 'I always jump into things whether people want me to or not, why should this time be any different?' she thought. She walked over to the bar, sticking her mp3 back under it and leacing through the back of the Cafe. "Jussi?" she called out, pretty sure she wasn't going to get a response. "Come on, it's cold, come back to the bar," she pleaded, rubbing her bare arms as she kept walking, determined to find him. It was snowing kind of hard and she couldn't see too far in front of her past the thick wall of white, but she kept walking anyway.

Riina walked back to the couch, curling up with her chai and listening to music. She closed her eyes and rested her head on her arm, singing softly. "I know how much you need your space, it’s a lonely place to find what you’ve been looking for. You strayed off the beaten path and making your way back is harder than it was before. Somebody got the best of you and left behind the rest of you. Who used up your heart and kept you in the dark?"