I don't own anything but my OCs. Sora, Kairi, Roxas and Namine are 20 in this whilst Vanitas and Ven are 24. By the way, I high doubt the way I describe the CEO of Vogue would be the way I did; she's probably a different person. I want to try and do longer chapters from now on.
He's the One
Name: Riko Crescent
Age: 21
Height: 6ft
Appearance: Fair skin, rosy cheeks and rosy full lips, beauty spot on her left cheek, brown straight hair up to her waist, choppy bangs which end at her eyebrows, brown almond shaped eyes and curvaceous body.
Personality: Confident, intelligent, passionate, popular, cheerful, blunt, cocky, smug, bossy, mischievous, stubborn, short tempered, emotional and sassy.
Family: Riku (older twin brother), Sephiroth (older brother, 25), Lucrecia Crescent (mother, 45), Vincent Valentine (father, 48).
Voice: Scarlett Johansson
Chapter 1: Single Pringle
Riko got out of her bathroom and walked into her bedroom. She was brushing her and started singing Careless Whisper loudly. Her mother downstairs couldn't help but smile at this and giggled; she sang every morning and so well at that. Her stepfather was reading the newspaper and had a small smile on his face. Sephiroth who sat across him, placed his hands on his head and huffed.
"She does this every morning." He mumbled. "I'm surprised one of us hasn't gone deaf yet." Vincent placed the newspaper on the table and sighed.
"Sephiroth, your sister has a lovely voice. It's blessing." He stated.
"Yeah but does she have to do it every morning?" Sephiroth asked.
A very sleepy Riku walked into the kitchen whilst yawning and rubbing his eyes.
"Good morning, darling." Lucrecia kissed him on the cheek and he saw with his brother and father.
"So sleeping beauty finally woke up." Sephiroth smirked.
"She's like a damn alarm clock." Riku mumbled and slammed his head on the table. "She's the reason why I fall asleep in lectures."
"The reason you fall asleep in lectures is cuz you go to sleep late." Vincent commented.
"Cut me some slack, Dad." He mumbled.
Riko finished brushing her hair. The young woman got changed into a white tank top tucked into a pair of bright coral floral shorts, a brown belt, a short sleeved jean cardigan and white strappy heels. She put on mascara, bronzer, highlighter and a nude lipstick. She wore golden hoop earrings and a simple golden necklace with a jasmine pendant on it. She pulled most of her hair back but left some to her right side. The young woman got her books and her black satchel.
The brown haired woman slid ran down the stairs and went into the kitchen with a huge grin on her face.
"Good morning everyone." She said.
"Good morning, Princess." Vincent smiled.
"Good morning, sweetheart." Lucrecia hugged her daughter and kissed her head. Riko sat between Riku and Sephiroth and their mother served a stack of 5 pancakes drizzled with maple syrup and a small cube of butter on top to her children and husband and sat down.
They all started to eat and when Sephiroth and Riko would try and steal Riku's pancakes without him looking, their mother would shoot them both very scary glares. When they were done, Sephiroth gave his mother a hand with clearing up the table. Riku was sleeping on the chair and Riko was tying her father's tie for work.
"Alright are we all ready to set out?" Lucrecia asked as she put on her white lab coat. The young mother was a lead scientist of a very successful pharmaceutical company and Vincent was one of the business directors of that company, whilst Sephiroth worked as a pharmacist. The twins went to university, with Riku studying Medicine and Riko was studying Fashion.
"Yep." Sephiroth said.
"Wait, Riku's still asleep." Riko stated whilst running up to her brother. "Riku! Wake up, you lazy cow! We're gonna be late for our lectures!" She shouted.
"Mmmm." He groaned and she huffed.
"Riku! Come on, wake up!" She whined and then grabbed his ear. She dragged him by the ear and went outside whilst the rest of her family members followed laughing.
"Owwww! Riko!" He exclaimed.
"I told you to wake up, but you didn't, you lazy bum!" She shouted.
Vincent kissed his daughter's head and Lucrecia kissed her son's cheek, much to his embarrassment. Sephiroth rustled their hair to which Riku whined that he'd mess it up and his sister laughed goofily at this. The oldest child got in his parents' black Range Rover to go to work and they would drop him off and pick him up on their way. The twins got in their white Audi R7 convertible and the youngest sibling drove.
Riko drove around and noticed her brother was half asleep in the car and went into a drive through Starbucks. She got an Americano for her brother and a Mocha for herself. She gave him his drink and he looked up at her with a smile on her face. The younger twin paid for their drinks and drove to University. She parked outside in the car park. They were always 40 minutes early just in case there would be traffic before. The 2 siblings went to their respective buildings for their lectures after fist bumping each other. The brown haired woman greeted the University security guard with a smile as she showed him her ID card. As she walked through the halls, everyone greeted her and she greeted them too. She was popular because of many reasons; her beauty, her kindness and her intelligence. She took the lift which went to the 3rd floor of the building and went to her lecture hall.
The lecture hall was completely empty because of how early she was. She settled down in the middle row of the hall and took out some of her folders from her bag and her laptop. She started to type some notes and re-read her booklet.
"Rikoooo." She heard 2 familiar voices sung and looked up to see her 2 best friends; Xion and Aqua.
"Hey girls." She grinned and both girls saw side by side.
"How are you?" Aqua asked.
"I'm okay, just re-reading my dissertation report for the millionth time." She laughed.
"Ugh, can you believe the deadline is next week?" Xion asked. "Aqua and I had ours checked by some of the professors."
"I had mine checked by my work colleagues in Vogue and the professors." Riko replied.
"Ah, how is your presentation for your dissertation going?" The blue haired woman asked.
"I'm finished with it, just need to do it next week. I'm so nervous." She sighed. "Aren't you guys worried about your dissertations?"
"Of course, I think the past few months have been the most stressful months of my academic life here." Xion stated.
"I think the past few years have been the most stressful years of my life." Riko stated.
"Don't worry Riko, you'll be absolutely fine. You're a smart girl and everyone knows it." Aqua reassured her and she smiled at her with a nod.
"Yeah, probably the nerves are just getting to me." She said.
"Just think, after Monday, we'll be completely free from University." The dark haired woman sighed whilst stretching. "Sweet freedom."
"I think we all deserved a break. All of us have been working like cattle." Aqua stated.
"I can't remember the last time I actually relaxed." Riko sighed.
As time went on, more and more students came in and greeted Riko. Before they knew it, their lectures and tutorials passed by so quickly.
At lunch time, Riko, Aqua, Xion, Axel, Terra, Riku and a girl called Kailani who was Riku's girlfriend, sat and ate lunch together. Kailani was a beautiful and warm hearted girl. She had teal mid length straight hair, fair skin, freckles and sea green eyes. All of them were couples; Aqua and Terra, Axel and Xion and Riku and Kailani.
"I can't believe you're the only single pringle now." Axel smirked.
"Ha-ha rub it in my face why don't you?" She said with sarcasm dripping from each word.
"I'm surprised since you're so popular with everyone." Terra added. "You'd think a guy would make a move on you by now."
"They do, it's just I have 2 idiotic overprotective brothers who scare 'em away." She said glaring at her brother. "It's embarrassing, the worst was one a guy was giving out free ice cream and Riku and Sephiroth thought he was flirting." The others laughed at this, including Riku. "In the end I didn't get any free ice cream. But I don't really need a boyfriend."
"Yeah, but all of us are couples. Even Sora and Kairi as well as Namine and Roxas are couples. You're the only single one of the group." Aqua stated.
"No, stay single don't let any guy ruin your life." Riku said and she pouted.
"I'm not gonna stay single forever, okay? I'm capable of getting a boyfriend if I want to, it's just you and Sephiroth are unnecessarily overprotective." She crossed her arms.
"Then we'll get you a cat for your birthday to begin your crazy cat lady future." Axel laughed.
"You can start with one kitten and grow your army." Kailani grinned.
"Crazy cat lady with her army of kittens." Riku stated.
"Shut up, Riku." She flicked his head.
"Hey, what about Ven?" Aqua asked.
"Ven's not single, he's already in a relationship." She said.
"How 'bout Vanitas?" Terra asked.
"I haven't seen Vanitas in 11 years. I heard he's can get any girl he wants around his finger." Riko stated and looked down with pink cheeks. "Besides, he's my best friend, it would be awkward if I made a move on him." They all noticed her shy behaviour when Terra mentioned Vanitas and knew that she had a crush on him. She looked up at them and noticed them all staring at her. "Why are you all staring at me like that?"
"You like him." Kailani smirked.
"Oh c'mon, I haven't seen the guy in 11 years." She said.
"But you're blushing." Aqua sang.
"I have rosy cheeks." Riko corrected.
"You're just in denial." Riku stated. "I bet you do like him."
"Yeah, IF I do what would you?" She asked.
"Nothing, he's my best friend too. But if does anything to hurt you, I'd beat the living shit out of him." He said.
"Anyway, I don't like him." She said. "Vanitas is my best friend."
"The first stage of love is denial." Xion stated and Riko laughed at this.
"Okay, you're getting a bit ahead of yourselves." She said and checked the time. "Guys our lecture starts in 10 minutes. We better get going. C'mon! Last lecture of the day." She said whilst standing up. The 3 girls went to their lecture whilst the others went to the library to return their books.
After lectures were finished, Aqua and Xion went straight home whilst Riko met up with her twin brother and his girlfriend. She returned all her books and took one last look around the library. She remembered all the late nights she spent here, studying and doing work. The librarians would give her more time to do her work and a few were nice enough to make her coffee and bring her biscuits and cakes. They all got in the car with Riku sitting at the back, Riko driving and Kailani in the passenger seat.
They drove to an ice cream place in the City Centre where they met Sora, Kairi, Roxas and Namine. The 4 friends went to another University but were Riko, Riku and Kailani's friends since High School. They all sat together and got each couple shared an ice cream sundae. But the only single girl had an ice cream sundae just for herself; a mix of toffee crunch, caramel and vanilla ice cream with hot caramel and toffee sauce, caramel pieces, whipped cream, Florentine wafers and Vivaldi cigar wafer.
"You sure you're gonna finish that all by yourself?" Roxas asked.
"You ask me that every Friday and I prove you wrong." She answered with her mouth full with ice cream.
"So you guys are almost finished, huh?" Namine stated and the 3 older friends nodded. "What's it like to finally finish?"
"It's like you're finally free from any responsibilities or reports or essays." Kailani stated. "The hard part is over."
"Yeah but you guys still have to find a job." Kairi pointed out.
"Lani and I don't have to worry, we've been offered a full-time job at the hospital." Riku stated.
"That's great, congrats you two!" Sora exclaimed. "What about you, Riko?"
"Well I'm still working as a stylist and still will since I've been working there for 3 years. But it's so hard, I don't know how to get my designs out there." She stated.
"Riko, you work for Vogue which is the most popular fashion magazine in the world. Just propose your ideas to management." Kairi said.
"I have and they absolutely adore my designs. But they don't call the shots and don't have enough power to take up my designs." Riko explained.
"Unless you propose your designs to the CEO." Namine said and she shook her head with a chuckle.
"No one in our team has even met her. Only the higher members of management have met her in monthly meetings. Besides, I've heard she's ruthless and so strict with her decisions. She's hard to impress and even talk to." The young woman stated.
"So she's like Miranda from Devil Wears Prada?" Kailani asked and the others laughed at this.
"Guys, don't be so mean. That's the CEO you're talking about." She crossed her arms.
The others started talking about things to do with couple stuff whilst Riko ate her ice cream. But then something caught her eye and she felt her heart stop. She saw a group of 3 male Calvin Klein models she had to style for 2 months ago sitting at another table. She had to see them shirtless and was so flustered to even make eye contact. One of which wanted to get to know her more and she thought he looked the most attractive; his name was Zack.
"Eeek!" She squeaked and lowered her head with her hands on top of it. The others stared at her weirdly and noticed how red her cheeks were.
"Riko, what's wrong?" The blonde haired woman asked gently.
"Remember when I told you I had to style for these 3 sexy models? Well they're here and they're sitting right there." She stated quietly and they looked up. Even the girls' cheeks went bright red; they were absolutely beautiful.
"See I don't understand how you're still single if you're surrounded by beautiful sexy models whenever you're at work." Kailani stated. "Or are you too shy to approach them, eh?" She asked smirking.
"N-no way! I'm as cool as an air conditioner on a hot day." She said and they sweat dropped at this; she made the weirdest comparisons. "I'm totally not shy."
"Miss Valentine?" She heard a voice and her cheeks went red when she turned to see Zack standing there with a huge smile on his face.
"O-oh, hi." She smiled.
"What a coincidence I find you here." He stated. "It's been a while, how have you been?"
"I've been okay, how are you?" She asked.
"I'm fine." She giggled and they knew she was getting flustered.
"I just want to say what a great job you did styling for us. You're an amazing stylist." He stated.
"Ah thanks." She blushed. "You're a great model too."
"Haha, I do try to be." He blushed. "Ah you got some ice cream on your cheek." He took out a handkerchief and wiped her cheek. "Don't worry I'm a messy eater too. Anyway, I'll be seeing ya." When he waved, she noticed something and then grinned whilst waving and then he walked off.
"Oh, he is so into you." Kairi giggled.
"He is so married, did you guys not notice his ring?" She asked.
"Oh wow." Kailani said. "That kinda sucks for you."
"Not really. That just means I won't be forced to ask him out by you lot." She said whilst getting up. "Come on Sleeping Beauty, we need to go grocery shopping."
"Stop calling me that." He whined.
"Never, Princess." She giggled whilst poking his head. "Bye guys!"
The twins paid for their ice cream and left. They got into the car and drove to a huge supermarket. After an hour, they got out of the supermarket and loaded their car with many bags of groceries. They drove home and went took the groceries in with them. Riku cooked whilst Riko was reading a book. Lucrecia, Vincent and Sephiroth got home and Riku had finished cooking.
Riko got out of the shower and dried her hair with a towel then brushed it. She got changed into an black oversized t-shirt dress, black shorts underneath and wore flip flops. She went downstairs and sat with her family at the dinner table. They started eating the Pasta Bake Riku made and were talking about their day.
"Ah, I heard Vanitas and Ventus are moving back to town." Lucrecia stated and Riko looked up at her mother. "It's been so long since we've seen them. I invited their family around for lunch and dinner. So, we'll be having a barbecue." She stated.
"They're really coming?" She asked with pink cheeks and Lucrecia nodded.
"So I want you all to wake up early and help your father and I." She stated and they agreed.