"Zexion! You know very well that I don't want ANY sort of marriage. And even though you may look like it, you're not my brother; and I need a brother right now." Riku almost sobbed in irritation. No matter how much he loved the younger male, he still cut right through his nerves and most often sent him straight to a tantrum. only now, it was worse.
Much, much worse.
Riku was going to get married, to a girl he'd never met. And his family expected him to have sex with her. Real sex.
The biggest problem, Riku's best friend in the entire world, even better than Zexion, (though that was kinda hard) was actually from the same family as the girl he was supposed to meet. In fact, Riku's best friend was this supposed girl's brother, if Riku got his math right. That would be downright awkward.
Not even counting the innocent kisses and passing words of casual love the two had shared years ago, before the brunette had moved away.
"Besides, where's your girlfriend? Playing guitar?"
The shorter of the two swooned slightly in memory of the beautiful young woman. "Yeah, she is..."
"Then why aren't you watching her?"
"You need friendly support, helping hands, words of encouragement! Someone to buy condoms for you, 'cause you're too much of a coward to get them yourself!"
"Zexion!" Riku shrieked in horror. "I have condoms, thank you very much! Now go away!"
"No! I got nowhere else to be, the band kicked me out! They didn't want me listening to their new hit single yet!"
"Then go find Namine! She's probably waiting for Demyx, and you two both like your quiet time! Ask her what she's been drawing lately, or ask her to draw something for you! She'll be occupied for hours! And she'll let you watch. Win, win." Riku sighed dramatically. "NOW GO AWAY!"
"Aww, I kinda wanted to meet your newest conquest."
"She's not a conquest, you pervert. Besides, I've never met her before, so she's not exactly a date either."
"Either way, I don't wanna watch that blonde draw me a pictu- hmm..." Zexion let a look of thought drift across his face. "I guess I could ask her for something specific... How good is she at sexy stuff? Or girls?"
"I'M NOT LISTENING!" Riku shoved his palms in his ears and started to sing obnoxiously loud "Lalala!"s to avoid hearing the next words out of his friend's mouth.
Hesitantly, Riku stepped into the cafe. the place was run by a mutual friend of Hikari and Cartwright corporations. Just a small downtown cafe, that happened to be empty.
"Hey Terra, how are Aqua and Ven?" Riku tried to make a casual conversation with the man behind the counter, trying his hardest to calm his nerves.
"They're doing fine! How 'bout yourself?"
Riku loved this place, tiny, bright, open, full of the wonderful smells or honey, coffee and baking bread. He came here often for lunch if he was in town. "I'm doing okay, I guess. Quite nervous. You know what's going on, right?"
"That's why there's no one in here, just us so far. And whoever you're supposed to meet from Hikari." Terra smiled warmly. "You curious what she looks like?"
"Greatly, and yet also quite terrified. If she looks anything like her brother though, I might think she was gorgeous."
"You met the Hikari boy? Is he a nice kid?"
"Very nice, very very nice. Too nice for his own good. But a wonderful person otherwise too." Riku smiled and thought a moment. "He and I are great friends, but I never met or even saw any of his sisters."
"Where'd you meet him?"
"Uh, not far, actually. He and his uncle came to town for a visit and I met him at the pool. We were very small back then. We got along great, and then they had to leave."
"Ever see him again?" Terra glanced at the door and smiled, wiping down the counter and picking up the tips jar.
"Only twice. Once more here, and once we bumped into each other not too far from his house. I caught a glimpse of the place by accident, and he jumped out of nowhere."
"Well cool, sounds like you know him well, that won't be too awkward. Getting to know his sister should be a little more difficult, though." Terra bit his lip, thinking hard about something. "I'd offer you some advice, but catching Aqua's eye wasn't even a conscious thing, I just realized that she adored me and went along until we got married. I really do love her though." He sighed and grinned down at the younger male. Gettin' hitched yourself, not too long from now, no?"
"Ah, s'what I'm told. I'm still unsure I wanna be anywhere near the country right now."
Laughing Terra walked out of the room. "I'll be right back!" He called.
Silently, Riku picked at the coffee drink Terra had handed him not five minutes ago. Biting his lip against the hot bitter liquid and cream, he wondered which sister he'd be presented with today. "I'm sorry Sora..." he muttered to himself.
"What for?"
"Gyaugh!" Standing up to see the person behind him, Riku nearly spilled all his coffee onto the floor. In managing to save it at the last minute, some of it still managed to escape him and make it's way to the tiled floor of the cafe. "Shit..." Riku muttered.
Sora laughed, giggling like crazy as his friend fumbled to regain his cool. "Hey, how you doing?"
"I'm doing great! I was just-OUCH! Ow... I was just waiting. Hey, what are you doing here?"
"Waiting for someone, I think. I still dunno what you have to be sorry for, Riku. Tell me!"
"Uhh... You know... don't you?"
"I think I just covered that."
From the other room, Terra heard the commotion, but in peaking around the corner decided not to come into the room. He decided that now was the perfect time to become scarce instead. So he quietly made his way upstairs to await the sound of the bell, announcing their departure.
"Uhh... Really? I thought you were in on this?"
"I dunno what you're talking about right now. I'm here to meet your sister or cousin, I think. Why are you here?"
Riku froze, thinking over the brunette's second to last sentence carefully. "Uh-oh..."
"What? What!"
"I think someone made a mistake somewhere... I thought I was meeting one of your sisters." Riku bit his lip, g;lancing at the clock. "It's still noon, we can fix this!"
"Oh..." Sora looked a little creeped out. "Really?"
"Yeah, come on!" Grabbing Sora's hand, Riku fled the little sun-lit cafe and made his way to the car, as fast as his legs could carry him. Sora pretty much flapped in the wind behind him.