My own stab at writing a full fic. Be gentle, it's my first time (sexual innuendo not intended….much)
Disclaimer: I own nothing, but it would be damn interesting if I did.
Life lesson number 1: Love is not simple and straightforward. Love is difficult, confusing and full of twists and turns, which can stray you from what you truly care about.
The sun slowly began to rise over Destiny Islands, waking everything that it came across. Plants blossomed, the sea shimmered brightly as the sun reflected off the clear blue water, and the sky was almost completely void of all clouds. It was the first sunny day in a week, and no doubt everyone would be heading to the beach. What most people would not be doing, would be kicking their younger brothers door open and yell at him.
"Oi Venny! Get up! Time for school!"
Ven, known annoyingly as 'Venny' by his older brother Vanitas, barely had time to lift his head from the pillow before having said older brother sit on his head. After a few loud though muffled yells from Ven, Vanitas sat up and snickered cruelly, leaving the room and shouting, "Go get a shower, you smell like an ass!"
Muttering swears at random and imagining Vanitas being beaten by a bunch of brick filled pillowcases, Ven slid himself out of bed and went to the bathroom. After 'relieving himself of duty' as Vanitas called it, he showered and went to get changed, the obvious blazing heat outside meant that the light uniform could be worn today, which consisted of a thin white shirt, blue pants and white shoes with a blue trim. The tie was optional, and Ven had decided to modify his shoes by drawing black and read squares along the sides of the shoes, leaving the top of them white.
"Ven, breakfast is ready."
Grabbing his phone off the counter and his bag at the end of his bed, Ven left his room and went downstairs, dropping his bag near the front door as he made his way to the kitchen. Vanitas was already there, devouring what looked like pancakes, to which Ven was amazed that Vanitas hadn't already destroyed his uniform with syrup. Carefully moving past him, Ven sat down and pulled his own stack of pancakes towards him, eating them with a lot more manners than Vanitas possessed in his entire body. It was the creepy munching sounds that finally got on Vens' nerves.
"Van, if you don't stop chewing like a cow, I'm going to string you up like one."
Vanitas mostly ignored him, only showing Ven he heard him by giving him the finger. Ven entertained the idea of having a pair of scissors to chop off said finger, but his mother coming into the kitchen from the sitting room and catching Vanitas doing the rude gesture was good enough.
"Vanitas! What have I said about swearing and rude hand gestures?" Their mother scolded him, Ven suppressed a snigger, while Vanitas hurriedly put his hand down, though obviously getting caught was routine to him, as he didn't seem too worried about it.
"I know mom, never do it in front of you." The way Vanitas said it made it sound like he was reading it out of a book for the millionth time, but it always satisfied their mother. As she got her own breakfast and made her way back into the sitting room Ven felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He pulled it out, ignored Vanitas when he asked 'what does your boyfriend want?' and saw it was a text message from Aqua.
Hey Ven, want to walk to school with me? I'm passing your house in about 2 minutes.
Trying his best to be unexcited about it and making Vanitas curious, Ven got up and slid the rest of his pancakes on Vanitas' plate, causing him to make some sort of squealing noise and begin devouring the second helping of food laid in front of him. Ven walked out into the hall, grabbing his bag off the floor and opened the door and went outside. As expected, there was Aqua walking up the path. Ven smiled and walked out to the road, smiling at her as she approached. He stole glances at her uniform, it was similar to the boys' uniform, except instead of pants, the girls wore skirts, and had knees length socks that matched the skirt. Ven thought he was imagining it, but the uniform, coupled with her natural hair and eye colour, made Aqua look incredibly cute.
"Hey Ven, looks like it's going to be hot today. I so hope that we don't have gym outside today, that'll be torture."
"You think that's bad?" Ven began, not even noticing that he and Aqua had begun walking towards the direction of school, "Three week ago we had to go outside and do push ups and jumping jacks and everything, and this was during the pouring rain and the gale force wind. Mr. Lexaeus still wouldn't let us back inside, he said it builds character. All I built up was my immune system, got a damn cold off it afterwards."
Ven and Aqua had walked all the way to school, talking about anything such as school, life at home (where Ven gave many examples of how Vanitas was a gigantic idiot) and the upcoming summer holidays. As they reached the entrance to Destiny Departure High School, Aqua turned to Ven with an expression that Ven knew all too well.
"So Ven, any girlfriend I should know about?" She said slyly, giggling as Ven rolled his eyes and sighed.
"For the four hundredth and ninety sixth time, I do not have a girlfriend, and neither is there any girl at the moment asking me out that I want to go out with." Ven smiled as Aqua pouted playfully, she was always asking him about his love life, or rather his lack of one.
"You need to start looking for a girl Ven, pretty soon they'll all be gone, and you'll have to spend the rest of the year single again. And I always wanted to go on a double date. It'd be so cool! You, your date and me and Terra!"
Vens train of thought quickly slipped away into masked jealousy, as much as he liked Aqua, and he didn't have any dislike towards Terra either, he hated when their names plus anything about relationships came up. He knew full well he liked Aqua as more than a friend, and it wasn't Terra's fault, but Ven felt so much better when he decided it was because of Terra that he couldn't ask Aqua out on a date.
"So what do you think?" Aqua asked, causing Ven to snap out of his train of thought and pay attention.
"Uh yeah sure. No problem." Ven smiled at her, his mind working furiously to check whether or not he had caught any of the conversation and figure out what he had just said yes to. His mind went blank a few seconds later, as Aqua had just hugged him, and he felt like holding her forever.
"That's great Ven! I can't wait to see who you're going to ask out for our double date!" Aqua broke the hug, smiling at Ven, who was now horrified at the fact that he had just agreed to ask a girl out on a date, and not just any date, a double date with Aqua and Terra. He was smiling back at her, but on the inside he was screaming in despair. He watched as Aqua went inside, not being one to be late for class. Ven just stood there, replaying Aqua's words in his mind, until he suddenly realized their meaning. He tried to figure out some way to express his feelings, only to fail and think up two word.
"Ah balls..."
Aqua walked into class, heading straight to her seat and sitting down. The teacher still wasn't there yet, so she turned to talk to her friend and cousin Kairi, who looked somewhat like Aqua, only her hair was longer and was a dark red. Kairi was busy talking about her new boyfriend Sora who, after years of waiting, had finally mustered up the courage to ask her out. They had only been going out for about two weeks, but Kairi still couldn't get over the feeling, and Aqua just knew that they would be happy together for a long time. They finally stopped talking when their biology teacher, Mr. Ansem, came in and settled into his chair behind the desk.
"Alright class, today we will be talking about the functions of the heart."
After class ended, Aqua went to her locker and grabbed her History books, only to squeak in surprise when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her. She tilted her head and saw the familiar brown hair of Terra and smiled. She turned around and hugged him before looking at him sternly.
"I thought you weren't coming to school today? You were being lazy again weren't you." It was a statement, not a question, but Terra just smiled.
"I don't know, is being lazy and not wanting to listen to Mr. Ansem's ramblings about some organ having some sort of special purpose the same thing?"
Aqua shrugged in agreement, not a lot off people enjoyed Mr Ansem's lessons, especially when he started being philosophical about the body. She felt Terra's lips against hers, and she kissed him back, though only for a few seconds, as Mrs Lockhart was sure to suddenly appear around the corner and tell them off for making out in the middle of the hall.
"I'll see you at lunch okay?" Terra said, letting go of her, kissing her cheek and walking to class. Aqua smiled and walked to History class, too busy hoping for lunch to come soon.
Ven yawned as he sat in class, waiting for the bell to ring so he could get lunch. He was stuck in Mr. Vexens' computer class, and was completely tuned out as he explained firewalls and proxy servers. Ven wasn't really interested in the inner workings of computers. As long as he was able to chat with his friends online and play games he wasn't too bothered with it. Once the bell rang Ven leapt out of his seat, ignoring Mr. Vexen reminding everyone to revise what they had learned, and made his way to the cafeteria. He was one of the first few to get there and got his lunch quickly, heading to the usual table he and his friends always sat in. As he ate, more students came into the cafeteria, with most of his friends coming to the table. Vanitas, Axel, Riku, Sora, Kairi, Xion, Aqua and Terra had all arrived. Ven had frowned when he saw Terra, as he was currently holding Aqua's hand.
"Hey Ven, you got something on your face. Looks like jealousy." Vanitas whispered to him, sniggering and wincing after Ven had punched him in the shoulder. Nobody paid any attention, as Ven hitting Vanitas was normal by now. Ven wished that Vanitas wasn't one of the few people to know that he liked Aqua, as he had gotten a lot of sly comments from Vanitas, and had to hit him extra hard before he promised not to tell anyone. Ven would have even preferred that Terra knew over Vanitas.
"So guys, any plans for the weekend?" Kairi asked, looking around at the group, mostly at Ven, who continued to throw glances at Terra and Aqua, the jealousy evident in his eyes. Kairi felt bad for Ven, of all the people he could have liked, he ended up liking a girl who was in a relationship. She thought Terra was a nice guy, but she really would have liked to see Ven and Aqua going out with each other.
"Eh, me and Axel are going to try and get into the Worlds End nightclub, see if we can get a couple of pretty college girls." Vanitas smirked, giving Axel a highfive. Everyone rolled their eyes, knowing full well that it would fail horribly.
"Well me and Xion are going to go see a movie or something, and probably go for something to eat afterwards." Riku said casually as if he was talking about the weather. Xion on the other hand was blushing lightly, thrilled that she was spending a day with Riku. "What about you two?" Riku asked.
"Oh, well me and Sora were thinking of going to Twilight town for the day, he has a cousin over there so we have a place to stay." Kairi said before glaring at Vanitas, who was whispering to Axel and laughing. Whatever he was whispering to him, Kairi didn't want to know.
"Well me, Terra and Ven are going on a double date." Aqua said, failing to notice the surprise on most of their faces. Ven looked down into his food, desperately wishing he could have drowned himself in his now empty bowl of soup.
"Well there's a shock." Vanitas said sarcastically, "So when're we going to meet the unlucky lady who has to go out with you?"
Ven refrained himself from leaping over the table and strangling Vanitas, and just nodded in agreement with Aqua. "Yeah, she asked if I'd go on a double date with her and Terra, so I just have to ask a girl if they'll be my date for Saturday."
Aqua smiled brightly, but Terra kept his eye on Ven. He had it on very good authority that Ven liked Aqua more than he let on. He never did anything because he liked Ven, and Ven never did anything to get on Terras' bad side. But despite the fact Ven was a nice guy, Terra couldn't escape the feeling that he should be suspicious.
"How about this" Terra began, getting Ven and Aqua's attention. "We'll all go out, get something to eat, see a movie or something, and then head to Wonderland for the night."
Wonderland, a teen hotel where the rooms were awesomely insane, the only adults were the workers, and the only rules being boys couldn't share the same room with girls and illegal substances weren't allowed. It was one of the best places to go on a night out and usually resulted in kids talking about it for weeks afterwards.
Ven suddenly felt his mind start working fast, thinking up a pile of little thoughts and ideas, until he came up with one final solution. At Wonderland, during the entire insanity of being a teenager, Aqua would know everything. The only gamble was if she felt the same way.
And that's the first chapter down. Hope I did okay and that you guys like it. Please review. I want to get feedback on what I can improve on before I put up more chapters. Go on, write a review. Please? :3