And It Begins...

Riku

It had been two years since Riku Masaki had moved away from Destiny Islands to move to another island farther away. In those two long years, the silver-haired boy never once had been given the chance to see his best friend, and crush Sora Harada. He wanted to see him so badly, though only had a few phone conversations before their communication seemed to be broken between each other. Everyday he regretted never telling the cute brunette about his secret crush. Even a word about it before he left would have been better than never. He was currently a very attractive 17 year old and all he could think about now was Sora, Sora, Sora…and he hadn't even spoken to him. He felt like maybe the 16 year old boy forgot about him or something, and was a bit afraid to make contact himself. He never knew for sure whether or not the boy was gay, or would accept his feelings at all.

Riku finally decided at the beginning of his third year on his island to make some sort of contact with the boy he felt he truly loved. Sure, his plan was to send anonymous 'secret admirer' letters, but it had to b e far better than no contact. Maybe his cute friend would even respond, or be even a bit excited about such letters. He sat down at the black desk in his room and pulled out a piece of paper and pen, setting off to write his first letter. Once he was finished, the now full piece of lined paper read:

Dear Sora,
I will let you know now that my identity will be kept secret from you, at least for now. If this creeps you out, I'm sorry…but I can comfort you with the fact that I guarantee that you know me. I have always adored you. You are so beautiful with such cute spiky, cinnamon colored hair…and the most amazing blue eyes I could ever see. When you blush I can't help but smile at how adorable it is, you being all flustered like that. Well, instead of rambling…I'll just let you know that I care deeply for you and will be writing many more letters to come. Expect to hear from me, gorgeous.

Love,
Your Secret Admirer

Riku read over the letter again, thinking that it was a bit pathetic…yet not really caring. He figured again that it was far better than nothing, and wondered what his love would think of it. He hoped that he didn't appear to be too scary…he wasn't some strange, unknown stalker or something. He wondered if the brunette still even looked the same. He might sound like a retard, or turn out to obviously be Riku if the boy had changed his appearance in any way since he had left that island. The aqua-eyed boy let out a sigh as he put his letter into an envelope, fill the envelope out, then ran out to the mail box to leave his letter there and have it sent away to his old home.

When the boy got back inside, he returned to his room and let out a little yawn, looking at the clock to see that it was 3:00 in the afternoon. He figured that maybe it would be a good time for a nap before he would need to eat dinner, so he walked over to his bed and laid down before curling into a ball. He lay comfortably for a while, soon falling asleep…hopefully to stay that way until dinnertime which was a few hours later.

Sora

Sapphire eyes searched through the room, spotting the clock that read 3:13PM on it. It was still a perfect afternoon where he could be out with friends or doing something at least…yet Sora Harada was sitting up in his room. Actually he was sitting and thinking….about Riku. It even amused him that he missed the silver-haired boy so much, but he never wrote him, or called him, or emailed him or anything anymore. He was afraid Riku had found some cool new friends and didn't want to talk to him anymore, so it seemed they broke connection with each other. As childhood friends, Sora became attached to the gorgeous older boy, and fell in love. He wouldn't admit it, though because he had a feeling that Riku either wasn't gay….or Riku would be horribly disturbed by his best friend loving him.

True, Sora still missed Riku. True again that the same cinnamon haired boy still loved the boy, yet was afraid to contact him. He regretted it everyday not even speaking a word of his crush to the boy, but he couldn't do anything about it then. He had decided, though that when he got old enough he would take a trip to Palm Island (Riku's new home) and visit him, and hopefully confess his feelings.

Sora was deep in all of these thoughts when there was suddenly a knock at the front door. He let out a groan, being brought out of his mainly wonderful thoughts. He didn't want to answer the door, but he was the only one home and knew that he had to. He sighed as he stood up, hearing more knocking at the door.

"I'm coming!" Sora yelled angrily. Who could have possibly disturbed him like that? So rude. He opened the door, pouting cutely…not that he knew that he pout was cute.

"Hey, Sora!" came the greeting.

It was Cloud Strife, somewhat new kid to the island. He had moved there about a half a year before, a whole year and a half after Riku moved. Sora had become friends with the blonde, as they were the same age.

"Hi, Cloud!" he replied with a smile, wiping the pout away. Even though he was still pissed, he always managed to look happy for his friends. He stepped aside, inviting the boy in then shutting the door.

"Yeah…I was bored so I kind of invited myself over. I didn't interrupt anything though, right?" the blonde asked with a grin.

"Right, I'm just home alone doing basically nothing." He replied. He really wanted to growl and kick all disturbances out of the house.

"So, what do you want to do?" Cloud asked.

Sora let out a little sigh. He really liked Cloud, but it could be annoying when he was disturbed by a friend that invited himself over, then had to come up with something for them to do.

"Uhm. How about we play video games? Then later I'll make us like…macaroni or something for dinner. My parents won't be home until late, so I might as well make something for both of us." Sora replied with a shrug.

Cloud nodded enthusiastically. "Okay!" he replied, instantly heading for the TV with the game systems, Sora following close behind.

The two boys settled on the couch by the TV, controllers in hand. They played fighting games, racing games, and plenty of other random games until Sora was just about gamed out.

"Hey…you want me to make dinner now?" he asked, hoping to take a break from all the games for a bit.

"Okay…do you need any help?" came the reply.

"Oh…no. Just stay here and play, or watch TV or something." Sora replied with a smile.

The sapphire-eyed boy headed to the kitchen. He had told the boy he didn't need help really just to be by himself for a bit. He got out a box of macaroni and cheese, as well as a pot and other needed items as he began to make them dinner. Thoughts of Riku came back to him and he smiled, thinking again about the thoughts he did in his room.

'I'll see you again one day soon, Riku. I promise…'

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