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Try as she might, Alya just couldn't hold onto the lady-like facade. Nikai was just too handsome to look at, and he'd come to see her. The dark girl gave a little wiggle of delight, and then quickly averted her gaze, not sure how she was going to get through this without humiliating the both of them. How was she supposed to act, anyway?

When he mentioned the ocean, all pretenses fell to the wayside. "No!" she exclaimed, spinning in an excited circle. "D'ya mean - are we going to the beach?" she asked, nearly begging. She'd wanted to go to the ocean for some time, but it seemed sort of big and scary. Whenever she'd seen it - always from a distance - it'd just seemed too far to fathom.

"Will you take me?" she asked, giving Nikai her best puppy-dog stare.