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Sora's POV

Leon gave me one of his trade mark looks and I backed down. I couldn't help it, my brother scared me, in fact, he scared everybody. He was dressed in all black leather all the time, with a bunch of different studded belts, he also had this nasty scar on his forehead from when he had gotten mugged in the street, he beat the guys (all three of them) into a pulp and almost got arrested but he can also give a puppy dog look that some how is more irresistible then mine. He's weird but I love him.

I loved him but I didn't want to meet his boyfriend and his little brother. You see, I hate them, or just Cloud. He takes Leon away from me and I spend hours in our big house all by myself. It's creepy because this house is old and makes some weird sounds but it only happens when Leon isn't around. Even the house is afraid of my big brother.

"Fine." I grumbled. I still didn't want to go, but looking back on that day I'm glad I did.

"Good, just throw your shoes and jacket on. Leave your phone here, I don't want you on the thing the whole time your there with Roxas. You spend to much time on that thing." Leon told me gruffly. Great, I couldn't even bring my phone with me. I grumbled again and dropped it on my bed. His gaze, which a second ago had scared my house, was now softer. "Sora, I know you don't want to go but this means a lot to me if you can be friends with Roxas. And you know why? Because I think Cloud is The One. Please?" And, like I already said, his looks just make you do what he wants, I've never met a person who was immune, not even our jackass father.

"Okay Leon." I said and got off my bed and walked up to him, he was blocking the door way. He moved aside and I walked down the stairs and grabbed my jacket off the usual spot off the couch and picked up my sneakers and slipped into them. "Let's go." I said, not really wanting to meet them but I wanted to meet them more then before Leon gave me his look.

Roxas' Pov:

"Roxas, pick up your room! Leon and his little brother are coming over, make the house clean!" My brother fretted. He was more like my mom sometimes though, and no offense to him but I've seen the pictures of Leon and I think I know who's getting it and who's giving in that relationship. It's not something I want to know.

"Okay Mom." I said, teasing him a bit. He looked up from cleaning our table to give me a glare and threw his sponge at me. I ducked but the tip of my spiky blond hair got wet. That same spiky blond hair was on the head of my brother, it was weird, if he was my height( which it sucks to be, I'm small) then we could be twins. I picked up the sponge and threw it back to him.

I trudged back to my room and began to pick some of the things laying on the floor up and throwing them under my bed, Cloud didn't care where it was as long as it was out of sight. I picked up one sock and I reeled back in horror, my gecko was there and it had bit me!

"Stupid Horned GECKO!" I yelled at it as my finger began to bleed. I rushed to the bathroom to clean it and stick a band aid on it. I could hear Cloud laughing in the background, he never wanted me to buy the gecko, he said I should buy a dog but I wanted this prickly mother f***er.

"That's what you get for not picking a DOG!" My older brother called to me. He couldn't see me( and good thing he didn't) so I flipped him the bird. Whatever.

After about another half hour of cleaning and general tidiness Cloud's boyfriend and little brother showed up. Good, finally.

Cloud ran over to open the door and as he did he swung it wide open. To wide, I assumed because I heard a crash and that meant the door had finally cracked the annoying family picture that he had there. "Hi Leon!" Cloud said, embarrassed about the photo cracking. He still managed to fling his arms around his boyfriend.

"This is Sora, Cloud. Sora, this is my boyfriend Cloud."Leon told them and they shook hands. Sora looked scared and, it was a bit shrouded but..., he also looked angry; resentful.

"Nice to meet ya' Sora." Cloud said and beamed at the spiky brunette. He smiled faintly back but that resentful look stayed there. "Roxas come here!" He called to me and I walked over from throwing away a dirty wipe that I had used to clean the television with. "Sora, this is my little brother Roxas. Roxas this is Leon's little brother Sora. Say "Hi." He told me. I put on my best smile but really I didn't care about Sora, all I cared about was Leon because that made my brother happy. For the longest time he wasn't so Leon was good for him. I guess being nice to Sora would make him happy so I was nice to him.

"Hi, I'm Roxas, night to meet ya'. Why don't you come in you two? Or is Cloud just gonna let you guys stand outside all day?" I joked and then it dawned on Cloud that he was being a bad host(ess).

"Oh crap, sorry! Come in, Come in!" He ushered, blushing madly. Haha, I laughed at my brother in my head. It was funny but only because I was nervous. I didn't much like new people.

Sora hadn't really said anything and everyone noticed it, he just stayed behind his big brother. Aww, what a baby.

Leon nudged him with his hand and he stumbled toward Cloud, my brother, caught him. "Don't break him Leon!" Cloud teased and the older brunette gave him a small smile.

"You know Cloud, we should get going, I know that I haven't really got to know Roxas yet but we have reservations to get to..." He trailed off, not wanting to sound to pushy.

Cloud looked up at the clock on the wall and nodded. "Oh yeah, your right Leon." He said, throwing him a small smile, he had let go of Sora after Leon mentioned the time and the small brunette walked over to me. "You two behave, don't set the house on fire, be in bed by..." He trailed off, not knowing how long Sora usually stayed up to.

"Ten thirty sharp." Leon finished and Cloud nodded.

"The emergency numbers are on the fridge and the money for a pizza is on the table. I know." I told them.

"Harhar Roxas. We'll be back by eleven." Cloud said before he and Leon turned to walk out of the house, closing and locking the door. I nodded my head but he didn't see that either.

The next few minutes could easily be described as awkward but that's giving awkward a bit to much credit, it was more like...very awkward. I can't think of a better word.

Sora just stood their looking at me and I stared back at him, I knew that I was taking him in and sizing him up but i'm not sure what he was doing. He had on bright colors; red's and yellows and a tint of blue but even his black was bright. His t-shirt held the majority of bright red and yellow while his shorts where mainly black and blue. His shoes where obnoxiously yellow. "So..." I prompted conversation but he didn't respond. Maybe he was sizing me and all my scene/emo/goth/punk look.

Sora's Pov:

I felt Leon jab me in the side and I tumbled towards his boyfriend, Cloud. It was embarrassing and even more so because he held me in his arms to stop me from falling. "You know Cloud, we should get going, I know that I haven't really got to know Roxas yet but we have reservations to get to..." Leon told his blond boyfriend. If that was me he was talking to he would have said " Cut the crap Sora we have to go." But since he was being nice that's not what he said.

Cloud let go of me and, again, I stumbled towards the smaller blond Strife. He kinda scared me. His hair and eyes where just like Clouds and I couldn't help but stare into them. So intently was I staring at them that I didn't even hear what Cloud and my older brother said. I did hear Cloud say his parting words though. "Harhar Roxas. We'll be back by eleven." I don't know if that was a warning or what but he closed the door after that.

There was an awkward silence as Roxas stared at me and I stared at him. He was dressed in black. Lots of black. His pale skin was a real contrast to his clothes but with all that black his blue eyes where really accented. I just kept staring at them, feeling stupid. His shirt was black with long sleeves that clung to his skinny arms, he had a black vest with a high collar that went all the way up to the bottom of his ear. He had on black pants, but with a tint of purple, skinny jeans and orange and purple Osiris Bronx. He looked, well, scary but at the same time you couldn't help but be attracted to him in a way. In a word? In a word, I would describe him as Byronic...except he's short like me.

"So..." He said, trying to break the ice and I noticed that he had a small band-aid on his finger.

"What happened to your finger?" I asked him, I was shy so i'm pretty sure I mumbled.

"My gecko bit my finger. Want to see it?" He said.

"You have a pet? Leon won't let me have any. And, sure, I'd love to see it!" I told him, it sucked not having a pet but oh well, I guess I could live without one. He motioned me to follow him as he began to

walk out of the living room.

At the very end of the hallway and to the right was his room. Guess what color his walls where? You guessed it. Bright freakin pink. Not really, it's black. His sheets are black, his blankets are black, his carpet is black but the only source of a different color in that room was the gecko (and Roxas' shoes). The gecko was a brown/ tan color covered in spikes.

"Wow." I gasped as I saw it. The little thing looked viscous as it tore apart a small bug. "That's gross." I said, and I almost barfed, it was gross but interesting to... "What's its name?"

"That little mother f***er's name is Reptar." He told me and he looked dead serious. I couldn't help but laugh. "What? You think I'm kidding, that guy's name really is Reptar." He told me, giving me a slight glare.

"Um..." I tried to think of something but couldn't stop laughing and soon he was laughing to, a very light sound, almost feminine but not quite.

We settled down after a few moments. "Can you show me a tour of the house now?" I asked him. If I was gonna be here until tomorrow I wanted to know where things where.

"Sure, come on." He said and got off his bed and walked out of his room to show me around. As you first enter the Strife house you see the living room, a large spacious room with a comfy feel and a large flat screen with book shelves filled with movies on both sides of it. A large velvet couch is in front of that. To the very left of the door is a small kitchen, comfortably large enough for two people. If you walk straight from the door and pass the tv you see a hallway. The first door on the right is the bathroom, the first door on the left is Cloud's bedroom. After Cloud's bedroom there is a study and then, finally a basement entrance. The second door on the right is Roxas' sound studio. Apparently he has a band with two guys named Demyx and Axel. The last room on the right is Roxas' room but I already knew that.

"And that, Sora, is the Strife household." He told me. I couldn't help ask the next question, I was thinking it was the same reason on why Me and Leon live by ourselves.

"Where are your parents?" I blurted out.

Roxas' Pov:

"Where are your parents?" Sora asked me and I couldn't answer him right away. At first I was going to hit him, my parents are a real sore spot to me and Cloud.

"We left. Actually, we got kicked out. After they found out we where gay, yeah, we kinda both dropped the bomb to them in the same day. I guess it was to much to take but they kicked us out. People show their true colors under extreme pressure, I guess I know who they really are. But that's a story for a rainy day, a really depressing rainy day. Let's watch a movie." I said, quickly changing the subject.

Sora scared me after I said that. He started shaking and crying, tears spilling out and he was sobbing to. Oh god, I don't know how to deal with emotion like that. I wanted to comfort him but I had no idea how, like I said so I just put my arm around his shoulders awkwardly. "What's the matter?" I asked him, I couldn't say "It will be all right" without knowing what the problem was.

"I-I-I f-f-feel bad for you guys." He sobbed. He was crying like that because he felt bad for us ?

"What? That's ridiculous Sora, you don't need to feel bad for us. That's stupid, we're over it, okay? It's all water under the bridge. Way under the bridge, so don't cry, okay?"I told him, looking into his eyes that where blurring with tears.

He shook his head slowly. "I'm just that kinda stupid I guess Roxas, I feel bad for other people, i'm not so selfish." He joked, poking me in the side. I let out a small 'eek'. It surprised me. "Did you just 'eek' Roxas?" He asked, laughing, wiping away all his tears.

"No." I said defensively, the fact that I did it was embarrassing, I wouldn't let Sora know about it. "Want to watch a movie?"

"Sure, what do you want to watch? I'll go make the popcorn." I told him and we both walked to our respective destinations. I found the popcorn, threw it in the microwave after unwrapping it, and waited two minutes.

"Did you find a movie yet, Sora?" I called to him. He shook his head slowly. I nodded mine.

After two minutes a I grabbed a large enough bowl and after I took the popcorn out of the microwave dumped it all into the bowl. I grabbed a few pieces off of the top before I brought it into the living room. Sora was just putting a movie into the DVD player. "The Grudge." He said, answering my unasked question.

"Cool." I said and relaxed into my couch, Sora followed and we found ourselves on opposite sides of the couch, making it just a bit uncomfortable, I put the popcorn in the middle of us but there was still a big space. Oh well.

I've seen the grudge a few times so I am not scared of most of it...just a few parts. But Sora...well, I don't think he is allowed to watch horror movies...

Right at the end of the movie, where Karen see's the hand of the Grudge, Sora really freaks. Throughout the movie he has been grabbing my arm and burying his face into my shoulder, but this time is different. After every scary part of the movie was over he would return to his side of the couch, I had moved the popcorn the first time he lunged at me and barely missed the bowl. So, this time, he lunged at me and almost tackled me off the couch. He was shaking and crying and everything.

"Holy crap! Sora, dude, it's a movie. Just a movie." I told him as I wrapped my arms around his slender frame which was still shaking. He looked up at me and my heart broke, his eyes, which are bluer then blue, where fogged with tears. His skin had lost its tan color and was pale with fear, sweat and tears flowed down his face. I cuddled up to him and I swear to you he purred a bit.

"Sora, don't cry, I'm here. It's alright. I'll protect you." I said, I didn't know where this was coming from, we barely knew each other at all and I'm telling him that I'll protect him, that's something best friends say. Or lovers but we where neither. None the less though I was on instant guard mode.

"P-Promise?" He asked in a whisper that was broken with sobs.

I nodded my head vigorously. "Of course Sora, I wouldn't lie to you. I'll protect you from everything."

Sora smiled and I wanted to kiss his lips just then.