Lake Time [Lucky || Lucy]

Riku's gentle brown eyes searched the surroundings in front of her. She knew she had heard someone or something move out there. Or had all of a sudden she gone crazy again? Like when she was a kid? She recalled her parents telling her that she wasn't in the right mind when all those Skin-Walkers went rabid and killed 15 people, two of which had been her childhood friends. Riku's smile turned into a frown as she realized those two little girls she played in the park with as an infant never got to see how beautiful life truly was. Then after snapping out of her thoughts she noticed the pink clothes and blonde hair of another human being. Gingerly she raised her hand a waved a friendly wave and started smiling again. So she hadn't gone crazy which was good. Quickly she pushed herself onto her feet and started to walk toward the girls hiding place. "Hello! I'm Riku." She exclaimed happily. Now that there was another being here she didn't feel so alone. "Why are you hiding? Are you playing a game with your friends? Like tag? That is such a fun game I used to play it all the time in the park with my friends! What's your name?" The words just spilled out of her mouth before her brain could even stop her actions.

There was an uneasy feeling this blond stranger gave off and Riku wasn't sure as to why. The eighteen year old smiled and tucked her hands into the pocket of her jean shorts. "It is nice to meet you Lucy." She acknowledge pleasurably. Honestly she didn't know whether she wanted to stretch out her hand and try to get a hand shake out of the blonde or not. Subtly she decided against it and looked around for any other people hiding in the foliage. She was surprised to see nobody and looked back at Lucy. "Are you out here alone Lucy?" She asked rather confused, a bit of concern formed in her brown eyes. "How old are you?" Certainly this girl couldn't be any older than a young teenager and even that was pushing it.

Riku pushed her hair back and looked at Lucy. The answers where shocking and in a way she felt bad for the blonde Skin-Walker. "You're only a child!" She exclaimed, her hands naturally flew up in the air before they came back to her sides. "You shouldn't be out here alone! It's dangerous! There are wild animals that could hurt you! Where are your parents? Do they even know you're out here?" Once again the words just spilled out of her mouth as she took a step back, spun on her heal and paced about. Clearly she was not used to dealing with children of this age, well there was her brother but he was a bit older than her and family so it didn't count. She stopped facing Lucy again and sighed. Maybe she was just over reacting a bit.

Silently Riku listened to Lucy speak, she tucked her hands in her back pockets and spread her feet apart. Casually she shifted her body weight to the left and looked at the ground. She felt bad for the younger girl because it was terrible to be alone. Or at least in her own opinion it was terrible to be alone. "Oh." Was the only word that she managed to find and naturally it came out. Uneasily she looked back at the '13' year old. What exactly did she mean that her mother wasn't here? Did this little girls mother move away or did something happen? The simplest way to find out would be to ask of course but for once Riku didn't feel right about pushing obnoxious questions any further into this girls life. Then on a whim the athletic young adult spun around and ran back to the other side of the lake. She snatched up her white zebra print back with a quick hand and unzipped the largest place. She pulled out a soccer ball and held it up with her left hand while letting her bag drop. "Do you play soccer?" She mused aloud. Well maybe she wasn't done pushing her obnoxious questions out on this young blondie, at least this wasn't an extremely personal question.

Riku dropped the ball to the ground and placed her foot on the sphere to prevent it from rolling into the lake. She watched curiously as Lucy tilted her head to the side. She resembled a curious cat that had just seen something new. Odd. She looked at the ground and the ball before looking back up at the blonde child. How had anyone not played soccer before? That was the only question that popped into Riku's head. She sighed gently and smiled while lowering her head. She placed her thumb and middle finger across her temple before putting her hand at her side. "Well its a game generally played with a larger group of people but smaller groups play with each other from time to time." She started out looking around at the surroundings, there wasn't much room to play an actual challenge between the two. "Basically you kick the ball around with your feet and your not allowed to use your hands at all unless you are the goalie, we don't have one of those right now though." Lazily she rolled the ball under her foot while continuing to explain, "The point of the game is to make it across the field and score goals in the rival teams net. Whoever has the higher score by the end is the winner."

Gingerly Riku kicked the ball toward Lucy and watched as it rolled away. "We can't play an actual game because there are only the two of us I'm afraid." She replied gently, "However, we can kick the ball around." Her brown eyes flickered towards the lake a bit afraid that her soccer ball would accidentally make a splash. The young adult really didn't want to go for a swim today, she didn't wear the right clothes for any water activities besides just letting her feet soak in the water. "How come you're not hanging out with your friends?" She asked, trying to make a bit of small talk.