lol, repost.


"Well how about you—"

"No. Marluxia. I am not making it pink."

"But I wasn't even going to s—"

"Yes. Yes you were."

"Fine."

Riku was not about to give him permission to further girly-fy their science project. It was enough that he'd given in and let Marluxia pick out the plants to grow (which were roses, by the way. fucking roses.). But now Marluxia wanted the project display to be pink.

"D-Don't you have anything else to do?"

"..No."

"Alright, well can you at least let me finish it on my own?"

"..No."

"Fine, but I'm not listening anymore."

"When did you ev—"

"Not. Listening."

And so Riku had about fifteen minutes of peace and almost-quiet, until Marluxia felt the need to share his opinion again. "I mean, since we used flowers," he began, saying it like it had been Riku's idea to grow those fucking roses in the first place. "It would only be fitting if we made it p—"

"Okay, you know what? If you want it to look like a fucking Valentines Day card, you can finish it yourself!" And as he stormed out of the house, all he could hear was,

"..don't have to be such a weenie about it. It was just a suggestion."

But, you know, since Riku was gone, Marluxia figured he'd finish the project his way.

-x-x-x-

The next day, at school, Riku was beginning to get impatient. The science fair judging was in less than half an hour, and he really hoped Marluxia'd been the bigger person in their argument and had decided to finish the project even though Riku had been an ass about it. He was starting to think that, as long as the project made it in time, he wouldn't even care if it was p—

"Oh, dear god," breathed Riku, who had just caught sight of something from across the gym, and it just had to be the— no. It couldn't be the… Oh, god, no. Marluxia had just come into view from behind the monstrosity that was thei— Riku couldn't even bring himself to think it. He was waving him over now, like 'hey, come here, I have this great gay science project to show you!'

Once he was within speaking range, the first thing that came out of Riku's mouth was, "When did you get h—"

"About twenty minutes ago."

"But I didn't see you co—"

"Back door."

"So… This is the project?"

"Yeah, it's—"

"..Gay?"

"Shut the hell up, man."

"But… I-It's so…"

Riku was interrupted by an announcement on the PA, asking everyone to clear the gym because judging was about to begin.

"You know it looks good," said Marluxia matter-of-factly, grabbing Riku's wrist and leading him out the double doors and into the foyer.

-x-x-x-

Two hours and seventeen minutes later, the assistant vice principal unlocked the gym with instructions to 'go directly to your display, where you'll find your score and the winners will find their ribbons' and to 'be ready for the awards ceremony later'. All of the students flooded through the doors, some more eager than others.

As Marluxia dragged him down the rows of tables and posters and models and charts, Riku observed some of his other friends. Apparently Tidus and Sora had only gotten honorable mention and, while Tidus muttered something about how the 'stupid judges don't know anything', Sora seemed perfectly content and smiled at them as they passed. Kairi and Naminé had apparently placed third, according to the paper they were waving around. Axel and Roxas had placed second, which he concluded after they had highfived and exclaimed things like 'yes!', 'haha!', and 'in your face!' at neighboring contestants.

That only left—

"Hey, Riku, check it out," said Marluxia, pointing to a golden ribbon which was stuck to the side of their display. "I think the pink won it for us, don't you?"

"..God damn you, Marluxia."