Fitting in.
Sora is a boy of 16 years old. He lives with his mother and older brother, Roxas, in Twilight Town. Before he moved to Twilight Town, he lived with his father. But his father has several problems like drinking problems and couldn't take care of Sora anymore, so that's why Sora's mother insisted on Sora moving to Twilight Town and living with her and his brother.
CHAPTER 1
"Sora! Would you get up already?! You're gonna be late on your first day on Twilight High!" A voice yelled from downstairs.
Sora always had trouble with getting out of his bed, he liked sleeping way too much. And that's the reason why he always came late on his previous school.
"A few more minutes…" Sora muttered to himself.
"No Sora, get up now! If you want the school to get a good first impression of you, you should get out of bed!" A woman said to him, with a hard voice, while standing in his doorway this time.
"Whoa!" The hard voice of the woman made Sora scare and he fell out of his bed. "Mom, I'd appreciate it if you didn't scare me like that!"
"I'm sorry honey but you really need to get up now. Roxas already left!" His mother left Sora's room. "I'm going to get my things ready and head off for work! Don't be late Sora!"
"That jerk could've waited for me!" Sora said frustrated.
"He could, but then he would be late too and he was also going to pick up Naminé and you know how Roxas when things are about Naminé." His mother yelled from downstairs.
Naminé was Roxas' girlfriend. They'd been dating for half a year no and he was totally obsessed with her.
Sora wondered how his mother could've heard what he said. He decided that it was indeed the right thing to do if he didn't want to be late so he got out of his bed. And he walked, still half sleeping, to the bathroom. The following half an hour, Sora was busy getting his hair done.
"Argh, stupid hair. You never are in the position I want you to be!" He muttered complainingly. Then, finally, his hair got right. Sora looked at himself in the mirror and smiled satisfied. He looked better at himself and eventually was looking at his own eyes. His eyes made him remember his father. He thought back at the time he lived with his father. This was a time he would rather have erased from his mind.
Sora looked at the clock on the bathroom wall and realised he was already late. "Shit!" He whispered and ran out of the bathroom, down the stairs and into the kitchen.
He noticed the kitchen was empty, like the rest of the house. His mom was already gone, heading of to work. Sora quickly grabbed an apple and went on his way to school.
When he arrived at Twilight High, he looked around and saw that nobody was there. He figured the classes must already have started. Sora looked at the school. The building probably was 50 years old, or even older. It still was in good shape though.
Sora entered the building and noticed a desk with a woman sitting behind it. He walked to the desk.
"Can I help you sweety?" The woman asked kindly.
"Uhm yeah.. I'm new.." Sora muttered and started to blush. He wasn't very good at these kind of things.
"What's your name then? We have several newcomers and I don't know every one of them by name." The woman said with a warm smile.
"My name's.. Sora.. Sora Haruno." Sora was still blushing and looking at the woman. The woman had long brown waivy hair, up in two tails. Her eyes weer deep greenblue, like the color of a very clear part of the sea. You could drown into them. The expression in her eyes was very warm and overall, the woman seemed so kind and warm. She would make an excellent mother.
"Oh, I see here you're the younger brother of a student here. Roxas, right?" The woman asked. "Yes, that's right." Sora replied.
"How nice! Well one second," the woman said and grabbed some papers. "Here is your timetable," the woman pointed at one of the papers. "And this is a copy of the schoolrules," she pointed at the other paper. "I assume you're not going to break any rules!" She gave again that warm smile.
Sora was feeling more comfortable because of the woman's smile. "No, of course not. I'm not a rule-breaking kind of person." Sora said chuckling. "Okay, that's settled then!" The woman said. "Thank you for everything." Sora said to the woman, trying to give his most warm smile. The woman saw the smile and gave an even bigger smile. "No problem sweety! By the way, my name's Aerith. If you have any questions or remarks, let me know so I can help you out!" "If I have questions or remarks, you'll be the first one I'll go to!" Sora replied, gave a smile and left.
"Okay.. according to this timetable.. My first class is.. Math. Ah, eww. Math.." Sora said disgusted and went on looking for the classroom where his Math class should be.
While walking through the hallways, he was trying to remember his timetable by heart. So he didn't looked in front of him and bumped into someone.
Sora fell to the ground and let go of his paper, which where spreading all over the floor. "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm such a klutz, I didn't watch where I was going.." Sora brought out, not looking at the person he bumped into in.
"It's okay. I wasn't also paying attention." A male voice replied.
Sora looked up and looked at the guy he had bumped into. His eyes where deep blue, they were kinda like Aerith's but this guy's eyes where more blue, deep ocean blue. The guy had blue-greyish hair without any model in it. The moment Sora looked into the guy's eyes, he felt a warm rushing feeling from his stomach up to his neck. As a result, Sora started blushing.
"Are you feeling okay? You're kinda turning up red.." the guy noticed.
"Oh.. uhm, yeah I'm feeling fine.." Sora muttered while getting up.
"Riku." The guy said and held out his hand.
Sora shook his hand and while doing so, he felt the feeling in his stomach, growing bigger and bigger. It felt like his stomach would explode and would release all kinds of butterflies. "I.. I'm Sora.." he brought out.
"Well, hi, Sora. I guess you're new around, huh?" Riku asked.
"Yeah I am."
"Well, you do know you're already late?"
"Yeah, I figured.."
Riku reached to Sora's papers on the ground. "Can I?" Riku asked gently. Sora's stomach was feeling to explode even more each time Sora heard Riku's voice. "Yeah sure.." Sora muttered. Riku grabbed the papers and took a look at them. "Oh, it says here you're in the same class as me!" Riku said enthousiastic. Okay, Sora's stomach was ready to explode. In the same class as Riku? Sora could watch him all day long, this felt like heaven, even though he had only met Riku. "Oh, that's great!" Sora said, trying to cover up his butterfly feelings for Riku.
"Well, I'm already late too, so come on, I'll walk you to Maths." Riku said with a warm smile.
Sora's stomach was building up more and more butterflies.
"I hate Maths.." Sora said with a difficult face.
Riku chuckled. "I do too, but I guess no one likes Maths, huh?"
Sora nodded once. He looked at Riku while Riku was looking forward, leading the way too Maths. He looked at his silver hair. How could hair become so silver? Sora didn't care, he liked Riku's hair. And those eyes of Riku, Sora could just drown into them. When Riku noticed Sora was looking at him, Sora quickly looked away, but what he didn't notice was that Riku was smiling.
"Well, we're here. Prepare yourself." Riku said.
Sora looked confused. "She isn't one of the most sympathic persons on this school. And she hates students getting late, she really hates it." Riku said.
Riku opened the door of the classroom and entered. Sora followed Riku into the classroom. All the students looked up when they entered the classroom. Suddenly a woman's voice rose up from behind.
"Ah, Riku, I'm glad you decided to accompany us." The voice said hard and sarcastically. "And I see you brought a friend. Who are you, young man?" The voice demanded.
"My name's Sora.. I'm new." Sora muttered.
"And Sora, do you also have a last name or is it just 'Sora'?" The woman asked.
Sora was already frightened by the woman and he only had been in the class for like two minutes. "Sora Haruno.." Sora muttered again.
"Oh, you're the younger brother of Roxas. I see, well, you can sit next to Yuffie over there." The woman pointed to a empty seat next to a girl. The girl had short black hair and deep brown eyes. What was it here with everyone having deep colored eyes? The girl gave a warm smile to Sora. "And I'm Mrs. Yakano, I'm trying to teach you young teenagers the beautiful arts of Maths." She said cocky.
Right, the beautiful arts of maths, like that ever could excist, Sora thought to himself.
"And you, Mr. Riku, go to your seat next to Kairi, you have interrupted my class enough already. If I hear any word of you the next half an hour, I'm sending you to the principal's office." Mrs. Yakano said grumpy.
"Guess she's having her period again.. She has those like, three times per week!" Riku whispered to Sora. Sora chuckled and felt the butterflies becoming wild.
"What was that Riku?!" Mrs. Yakano asked angry.
"Nothing ma'am!" Riku answered and quickly moved to the seat next to the girl with the brown hair called Kairi.
Sora walked to the table where the girl called Yuffie was sitting and seated himself next to her. She was paying attention to the explination Mrs. Yakano was giving. Sora looked at her. She gave Sora the impression that she could be a ninja. Sora didn't know why he was thinking that but she just could be a ninja. Then suddenly she looked at Sora.
"Hi! I'm Yuffie." Yuffie whispered.
"My name's Sora. And why are we whispering..?" Sora whispered back.
"Because if she catches us talk-"
"YUFFIE! IS IT TOO HARD TO PAY ATTENTION?!" Mrs. Yakano screamed from the front of the classroom, which made everyone scare and look up.
"I'm sorry ma'am…" Yuffie apoligised and looked down. Mrs. Yakano nodded once and went on with her explination.
"That's what happens when she catches students talking during her explination…" Yuffie whispered. "We'll talk when class is over, 'kay?" Yuffie whispered.
Sora nodded and Yuffie smiled at him. People where being very nice to him on his first day, something he didn't expect at all. At his first day on his previous school, people weren't nice at all. They called him names like 'fag' or 'gay' because he liked being friends with girls.
Sora decided that paying attention to Mrs. Yakano's explination was the bets thing to do, after all, he didn't want to miss anything because he already missed some things when transferring schools. The whole hour passed on with Mrs. Yakano's explination. When finally the hour was over, a bell rang, which made Sora scare.
"That's the bell, silly!" Yuffie said laughing.
Sora started blushing. "I'm sorry, it's not the kind of bell I'm used too, the one on my previous school was way too different." Sora said and laughed a little bit too.
Yuffie smiled at him. "Well, let's start over! My name's Yuffie!"
"Well, like I said, I'm Sora. I don't know if you know Roxas? But I'm his younger brother." Sora said.
"Roxas.. Hmm.. Isn't that Naminé's boyfriend?" Yuffie asked.
"Yes! Do you know Naminé then?" Sora asked suprisingly.
"She's been my best friend for 10 years now!" Yuffie said enthousiasticly as they walked out of the classroom.
"Seriously? I never heard her talk about you!" Sora exclaimed while he was looking around him, looking for him.
"Oh, well, I never heard her talk about you either! So I guess that makes us even, huh?" Yuffie said smiling and noticed Sora was looking for something, for someone. "Are you looking for someone?"
"Yeah.. Uhm.. That Riku guy, I wanted to thank him for this morning." Sora said. Yuffie asked what happened this morning and Sora explained about first getting papers from Aerith and eventually bumping into Riku and Riku walking with him.
"You like him." Yuffie suddenly brought out.
"W-what?!" Sora yelled surprised.
"You. like. Riku. I can tell already. The way you were looking at him in class, yes I saw you were looking at him, and the way you were looking for him when class ended. You like Riku." Yuffie said with a soft voice.
Sora didn't know what to say. Was it that obvious? He didn't even talk about Riku in that way. Yuffie really must have observating eyes or something? All he knew now is that Yuffie probably notices everything.
"It's okay. I'm not homophobe. I think it's rather cute actually! And if you'd like, I can find out what Riku thinks of you?" Yuffie asked.
"N-no.. I'ts okay, you don't have to do that. He's probably straight and stuff, so it's okay." Sora muttered.
"Well, okay then! And I should get going, my arts class starts in a few seconds and I really don't want to get late!" Yuffie said and started running to her arts class.
Sora looked at his timetable and saw he had a free hour. He didn't know where to go though so he just went back to the main building, where Aerith was. When he walked through the hallways, he saw all kinds of kids. He wondered how all those people where going to react at him, about him being gay. People would get to know soon. Yuffie would keep it to herself, right? He seriously hoped so much she would keep it to herself.
"Hey Sora!" A voice said from behind. Sora turned around and saw his older brother.
"Hey Rox." Sora muttered.
"How are you? Sorry I didn't wait this morning but I didn't want to get late too, I'm sorry." Roxas apoligized to his brother.
"It's okay Rox," Sora smiled, "I just had my first Maths class. That teacher.. Mrs. Something, is really scary. She was so grumpy, it wasn't even funny!" Sora exclaimed.
"I know, Mrs. Yakano is always grumpy, I think it's something permanent!" Roxas said. "So, where are you heading?"
"I got a free hour, so I don't know. Where do you guys go when you have a free hour?" Sora asked.
"Oh, I got one too. And it depends where people go. Some go the school library to do their homework," Sora made a puke face, which made Roxas laugh, "But some go outside and some just go sit somewhere. But, come with me. I'll show you some places of the school and I'll take you to the place where I always go when I have a free hour." Roxas said and started walking.
Sora followed Roxas to several places in the school. Roxas showed him some classrooms where always was given one kind of subject, like the biology classroom. And after that, Roxas took Sora to the cafeteria, where people sat during the breaks between classes.
"The cafeteria is only open during the breaks?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, but we've got machines too. You know, where you can get chocolate and stuff. We also have a coffee machine. Most people love coffee when they're stressing because of their homework or something." Roxas said and chuckled. " Come, I'll show you now where I always sit." Roxas walked to the school doors and went outside. Sora decided to follow his older brother.
After a five minute walk, they arrived at a building next to the school. "This was made for students who have free hours or stuff. It's some kind of lounge, so students can relax." Roxas entered the building. "It's called Twilight High Lounge." Roxas said. " Pretty dull name, huh?" Sora said. "Kinda yeah. I don't know who came up with it." Roxas continued. "But here's where I always sit with some friends of mine. You remember Hayner, Pence and Olette, right?" Roxas asked. Sora nodded.
They walked up the stairs and got on the second floor. Sora followed Roxas to a room where several people where sitting.
"Hey all!" Roxas said loud.
"Seriously Roxas, everytime you come here, you always yell. If you just say you're here, we'll understand too. We're not deaf, you know." A dirty-blonde guy said complaining.
Sora chuckled and entered the room too.
"Oh you brought Sora!" A black-haired girl said enthousiastic. "Hi! Do you remember me? I'm Olette! Roxas told us you were transferring to Twilight High and I've really been looking forward you coming here!" The girl said.
Sora blushed and chuckled. "Hi Olette. Yeah I remember you." Sora said smiling.
"Well, I guess you remember Pence and Hayner too, huh?" Roxas asked and pointed to the dirty-blonde and a guy with black hair.
"Yeah, I'm not that forgetful." Sora said laughing.
"Well, you know dad was, so maybe it has passed on to you?" Roxas said laughing.
When Roxas mentioned their dad, Sora became silent. He was thinking of his dad again. Sora looked at his arms and the marks where very light, it has been a long time ago and the physical scars were fading but the emotional ones weren't.
"Helloooo. Sora, earth to Sora?" Roxas waved in front of Sora's eyes.
"Yeah, sorry. I was day-dreaming." Sora lied and thought of something else.
Then, all of a sudden, people where yelling outside. The whole gang looked up and ran down the stairs, leaving Sora behind. Sora wondered what was going on.