Chapter 1 – Lost Lust and Coffee Stains
"You fucking liar!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, his own face staring back with shock and soon, anger. I turned around and started running, him following me. I pushed the recently opened door to keep it from closing on me. He must have ran into the girl who had opened it because she cursed, but he didn't stop to apologize. He had made me furious this time.
The distant patter of footsteps echoed behind me. 'He's getting closer.' I sped up my pace and ran around the corner. I was almost to the coffee shop where he worked, but slipped. "Shit!" I struggled to get up, but my legs were persistent about that idea. I got up and hobbled a little farther and leaned against a wall. I was about to continue to the coffee shop, but he had caught up with me now.
He put his hands on my shoulders and shook me. "What did I do! Fucking tell me!" I took his arms and threw them off me. "Dammit Axel!" My voice seemed to reach throughout the town. His eyes looked into mine, like he was stealing my very soul.
"What did I lie about, babe." He got closer to my face. I could feel his breath on my frozen nose...I looked back into those eyes I had never come to trust. The very same ones I thought would come to understand what it means to deeply care. The ones that proved me wrong. The ones that I always saw lies in. My bottom lip quivered, I couldn't take it anymore.
"Don't you even... I heard you talking to him in the bathroom. Telling him "He won't find out." and "He doesn't mean anything." I gave you so many chances. I know how you are and I'm finished with your petty games and your bullshit!" I looked at his eyes, which seemed to look into my soul and steal all I had ever thought of him. He crinkled his brow.
"I don't understand what I did wrong, but fine." He picked up his book bag and walked off. I was in shock. I stumbled over to the door of the coffee shop. What he did...That was the last straw.
Riku pushed the door to the coffee shop open, saw Sora cleaning tables and hobbled in quiety. He looked over to a table merely four or so feet from where he was standing. Deciding that was a good place to sit and rot, he stumbled over to the chair and plopped into it. He commenced to stare at the coffee stain on the table. He had cooled down after knowing Sora was there.
Sora looked up from cleaning cappuccino foam off of the counter over to the table Riku was at. He noticed that his hair was covered with snow and blood was stained on both knees of his pants. He dropped his towel and ran over to Riku.
"What happened! You're a fucking mess!" Riku glanced up at Sora and his ocean blue eyes.
"I finally got rid of that bastard, that's what happened. Hey, can I have a cappuccino?" Sora's eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"I thought he said he stopped being a cheater!"
"Well he lied now didn't he?"
"God damn." Sora hit his hands on the table and got out of the chair. He walked over to the cappuccino machine and pushed the 'French Vanilla' button and let the cup fill. Sora looked around the dingy old shop. Nobody was in there other than Sora, Cloud, and Riku...Probably because Sora forgot to change the closed sign to open 'accidentally'. He looked back over at the cup and it was overfilling. Riku was watching him and started busting out laughing. Cloud was shaking his head, looking at the mess.
"Shit..." Sora grabbed about twenty paper towels, wrapped them around the cup, walked over to where Riku was sitting and sat the cup right in front of him. Riku frowned and looked at the cup, then up to Sora with his arms crossed and then down to his 'Coffee Junkie' store apron.
"Oooh, aren't you spiffy with your gaytastic apron?" He pulled the paper towels off of the cup and splatted them on the table. Sora picked them up and tossed them at Cloud, who was behind the counter pointing and laughing.
"Sora, you are soooo gaytastic!" Cloud was chanting 'gaytastic' as he dodged the wads of paper towels.
"So, Riku. What did he tell you?" Sora leaned on the table.
"He told me that he didn't know what he did wrong." Riku sipped on his cappuccino.
"WHAT?" Sora slumped down into the chair and Cloud jumped over the counter to Riku's table.
"Are you kidding?" Cloud watched Riku take a long drink.
"Nope."
"Damn...Well, I'm gonna go you guys. Lock up the place, Sora." Cloud walked out of the door and waved. Sora waved back at Cloud and looked back to Riku.
"So..what are you gonna do about it? Like, go and kill him or something?" Sora tilted his head.
"Actually, I thought about that, but I figured I would be sent to jail and I don't wanna be ass raped by some thirty-four year old convict that fucked up and killed his wife after popping to many Prozac into her strawberry daiquiri. I came up with a better idea though." Riku drank the last bit of his cappuccino and tossed the cup onto the floor.
"Ahh, I see. So, what's your plan, oh so disturbed cappuccino drinker?" Sora watched the cup roll around in circles. Riku smirked and looked at Sora.
"I was going to ask you if you to go out with me."
