Draco sighed and said, "So exactly how does eating like a fat pig prove that someone is tough? Oh well, I know Daddy is most likely to win since he eats more food in a day than 5 cows can in a week, so I'm betting on him." Draco wasn't really interested in watching the pie eating contest, she didn't see the appeal in competing to see who can eat the most food and end up getting sick to their stomach because they ate too much. To her, eating contests were the equvilant of trying to see who can make themselves vomit the most. Draco then stood up and walked outside the building were the pie eating contest, as well as other competitive activities, to see what other things there were to do.<br/><br/>Draco had been walking on the beach by herself when she noticed someone with an art easel on top of a large cliff that was looking over the resort. Draco decided to have a closer look since she had nothing else to do and she had her art bag with her. Whoever was up there might even enjoy a little company while they painted. Draco then began to trek up the path that lead towards the cliff that the mystery person was painting on.<br/><br/>Draco had reached the cliff and saw that the person who she had seen painting was actually the man she had bumped into yesterday. Draco took a deep breath and said, "Would you mind if I join you? I've been meaning to find a good place to draw." The man replied without looking at her, "Not at all. Feel free to do so." Draco said, "Thank you very much." Draco then sat down on a rock on the left but slightly behind the man and began to draw. They were working on each of their pieces silently when Draco said, "So, do you have a name or should I just call you Mr. Stranger?" The man chuckled and said, "My name is Ryuu. And who might you be?" Draco's heart stopped for a moment when the man said his name was Ryuu, Draco was on the verge of jumping for joy but then decided that she should find out if this man really was the same Ryuu she knew or if he was a different Ryuu that just looked similar to her old friend. Draco said, "Just call me Crystal, it's a nickname that my friends use sometimes." Draco felt bad about lying to the man but she had to use a fake name to make sure that the man really was Ryuu without giving away that it was really her. Afterall, if it really was Ryuu he might end up running away as soon as she told him her name since she had attacked him and most likely killed him. The man said, "Nice to meet you Crystal. So tell me, what kind of art do you make? Paintings, pottery, sketches, oil pastels, or some other type of art?" Draco replied, "I like to branch out and do all kinds of art, I don't really have a favorite media for my art, I like all art styles." The man chuckled and said, "You sound like a friend I had when I was a child, she was an art geek and had wanted to do all kinds of art, from A to Z. I haven't seen her in years, and I don't plan on going to see her anytime soon." Draco's heart began to beat faster and faster as he talked about his childhood friend who loved art, she was about to tell him her real name but when he said that he hadn't seen her in years and didn't plan on seeing her she stopped herself. Draco then asked, "Why not? If you haven't seen her in years then she might be worried about where you are and what you're doing." The man sighed and said, "Because she thinks I'm dead and she was the one who had tried to kill me. We were attacked by some man and he had hurt me since I tried to protect her, and how did she repay me? By not only killing our attacker but she tried to kill me as well. I never understood why she would want to kill me when I was the only friend she had, so when I woke up in the hospital my parents had the doctors tell everyone that I had died and make sure that word got to my killer's family before we moved away so that she wouldn't discover that I was alive. I hated art for years after that but I wanted to know why she did it, what drove her to want to kill me, so I became an artist to try and find the answer there." Draco felt her heart stop again as he spoke about what his friend did to him, and how things led up to him becoming an artist to try to find out what had drove his friend to want to kill him. In that instant, Draco knew that this man was, indeed, her old friend Ryuu. Draco took a deep breath and said, "Maybe she didn't want to kill you at all. Maybe she wasn't the one in control when she tried to kill you." Ryuu said, "What makes you say that?" Draco replied, "Well, if I had been in her shoes and had only one friend, I wouldn't have wanted to kill that friend at all. Perhaps the only reason that she killed you was that something else was controlling her when she did it. And if that really is the case with your friend, then she probably blames herself for your death and she is still in agonizing pain because she thinks you are dead because of her, even if she knew that she wasn't the one who was really in control when it happened. She's in so much pain and misses you so much that there isn't a single day that goes by that she doesn't think about you and what she did to you without blaming herself." Ryuu sighed and said, "So what you're saying is that she is probably blaming herself for killing me and that she probably wasn't the one in control when she did that and that I should risk her trying to kill me again just to find out if that's really what happened?" Draco nodded and said, "That's exactly what I'm saying. She won't try to kill you though." Ryuu looked at her strange and asked, "What makes you so sure that she won't try to kill me?" Draco set her sketchbook down and took a deep breath before replying, "Because she's sitting right next to you." Ryuu then looked confused for a brief moment before his face plaed as he processed what she had said. "Draco?...Is that really you?" Draco nodded and said, "It is..." Draco felt tear starting to drip down her face after she had revealed herself to him as his childhood friend. Draco and Ryuu stared at eachother in silence.