Title: Bright Light in a Dark World
Author: violetstar198
Summary: After Riku gets into a big fight, his mom sends him to live with his dad in Destiny Islands. where he is repeatedly abused. but when Riku is with Sora none of that even matters anymore. Is Sora his light? The light that will lead him out of the Darkness once and for all?
A/N- oh and I actually started my first chapter yester day!! I accidentally put today's date instead!!
Chapter two!!! I hope that people will like it!!! I'm still trying to find when I should end a chapter so sorry for any inconvenience at the end of chapters!!! ~enjoy!~
Feedback: like I said I'd love it!!!!
Date started: March 10, 2010
Date posted: March 11, 2010
Ch.002__ First Day
It was 6:15 in the morning and I was scrubbing the downstairs windows clean. My dad had waken me up at five and told me that school started at 7:30, told me I had to take the bus, and gave me two lists of chores, and five dollars.
The sun was already peeking through the morning clouds, and I caught sight of my reflection, my silver hair shining in the newly shown light. I yawned as I grabbed a broom and swept the kitchen. When I was finally done with my morning chores it was 7:15. Damn, I'm gonna be late for school. I ran up the stairs and quickly slipped on a shirt and jeans, I ran out of the house stuffing my feet in my shoes, and barely caught the bus. I paid a dollar for a week's worth of bus tokens, and sat at the closest bench. It took ten minutes to get to the school, and an additional five just to find my way to the office in the large school. I took a deep breath and stepped into the bright flower scented office.
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"Sora did you hear? There's a hot, and I mean H-O-T hot, new student!!! OhMyGod, I was only able to catch a small glimpse, but-" I blocked out the rest of Kairi's rant. If I let her, she would go on and on for HOURS. I had a good ten years of practice to master this full art. I could now not only block out her rants, but also look like I was somewhat interested and actually listening, rather than that blank stare I had had for a few years. She had not been convinced, and I still had the bruises to prove it, but this matter was even more delicate. When Kairi finds a new boy obsession, she will go on for days, gushing about every single detail. After every boy gush I knew basically everything about them, and several things I could have gone my life without ever knowing. And just because I was gay did not mean I wanted to gush over every single guy in the school, which is the truth, because Kairi had not had a new obsession for months.
Hearing that Kairi had stopped talking to me and moved on to her sister Namine, who unfortunately sat next to her, I pulled out a book and leafed through it until I found my part. I vaguely heard the door click shut, I was so absorbed in my book that if it weren't for Kairi's elbow connecting with my side, I would not have noticed that the new kid came in until half way through the period.
Rubbing my slightly sore side, I put the book down and looked to the front of the class, and I sucked in a breath. Kairi had not been exaggerating; there stood the most beautiful person I had ever seen. He had that rarely seen silver hair, which seemed to shine in the light and his blue green eyes, they were somewhat cold, but so amazing that once you took one look, you were hooked. He was a head taller than me, and had amazing muscles; that were outlined beautifully by his black shirt. I wasn't the only one gawking, but I was a little less noticeable, everyone else had their mouths wide open and eyes wide. If I wasn't so mesmerized I would have laughed, and made some crack about flies.
He shifted and rubbed a hand nervously behind his neck, the clearing of a throat shocked us all out of our trances and we looked to our teacher. She looked somewhat sheepish at having everyone turn so suddenly towards her, but she gathered herself and spoke
"Everyone this is our new student, Riku Masaki……Riku would you like to say anything to the class?" He stared at us for a few minutes before opening his curved lips.
"Hey." He said and turned to the teacher expectantly. She seemed somewhat flustered again, but looked down at the seating chart in her hands.
"You can go sit in front of Leon. Leon, can you please raise your hand?" My brother had been talking to Cloud, and the both of them had been trying unsuccessfully to ignore Yuffie, who was babbling about something or other. The teacher sighed and pointed him out, and Riku made his way over to the chair in front of Leon. They both looked up, looked Riku up and down, smiled and said something to him before going back to talking
"Hey Riku!" I turned around to see Leon, Cloud, those two girls Selphie and Yuffie who were talking pretty loudly again, and a guy who's name I think is Tidus. "Why don't you come eat lunch with us?"
"Sorry, I'm already going to eat lunch with someone." Leon's eyebrows scrunched in confusion.
"Who?" slightly panicked I grabbed the arm of a pretty brunette who just happened to be passing by
"With him, right Sora?" I looked down at the slightly flustered brunette, he looked too confused to speak, and I was beginning to worry, when the red headed girl walking with him spoke up.
"Yeah, hey Riku, we were looking all over for you!" she answered enthusiastically, smiling slightly I turned back to Leon.
"Sorry man, maybe next time?" I didn't feel like eating with people that were more than likely going to be really chatty, and by the scary looks the girls were shooting at Cloud and Leon, extremely noisy.
"Yeah; sure, and Sora I'm going to be late coming home, tell Dad so he doesn't hunt me down." Leon seemed kind of happy that I had said I was eating with Sora, and I was still slightly shocked to find out that Leon was Sora's older brother.
"Yeah, sure, um we better go in and eat now, see you later Leon." Sora said with a heart stopping smile, and grabbed both me and the red head, I had a suspicion that her name was Kairi but I didn't want to sound stupid and get it wrong. He dragged us into the lunch line, grabbed a tray and handed it to the girl, I declined mine.
"So why did you lie about eating with us? Leon and everyone are nice, not stuck up like a lot of popular guys are." Sora asked after a bit, looking up at me with startling bright blue eyes
"I really didn't feel like eating with people who were going to end up being loud, which after having several classes with Yuffie, and Selphie, I now fear my life going to eat with them." They both laughed, and handed the lunch lady three dollars for the food, well it looks like I'm not going to be eating lunch here anytime soon.
"What's the cheapest item in the vending machine?" I asked as we passed several big vending machines.
"Um that would be a bag of chips, they are 50 cents a bag, but why-" I shuffled in my pocket for a dollar, and slipped it in, choosing a bag of Doritos. I practically ripped the bag open, in my frenzy for some food. I hadn't eaten since the plane ride I was starving. I noticed after a few seconds that they were staring at me. I swallowed and cleared my throat
"Sorry, I haven't eaten since the plane ride over here, so I'm severely starving." I popped another chip into my mouth and they shrugged, going to sit at a table with another Red head, whose hair defied all the laws of gravity, and another blonde who was trying to ignore the red heads babbling, and a girl who I think is Kairi's sister.
"Hey guys! Riku this is Namine, Kairi's twin sister, the guy who looks like he's going to go on a mad killing spree is Roxas, and next to him is Axel." Sora said, chuckling slightly as he pointed to each of them.
"Hey." I said as I sat down in between Sora and Kairi, everyone at the table looked at me like I was an alien from mars. So I shifted my attention to Sora, who was pulling out a book I immediately recognized.
"Hey, you like the Harry Potter series too? I just finished reading the last book not too long ago; it took me forever to get it." Sora looked slightly startled at my outburst, but answered enthusiastically
"Yeah, this is my like third time finishing the series." So Sora and I spent the rest of the lunch period going over the books, and how the movies cut out so many important parts. I had a feeling Kairi was exasperated that I liked the series too but I mean who doesn't? We didn't even notice the bell had rung, signaling that lunch was over, we had to be dragged by Kairi to our next class, which we saw I had with the both of them.
****After school*****
It turns out that was the last period I had with them. I went to language arts and P.E, and was glad when the bell rang and we went to go change. I was walking out of the school, fishing for my iPod in my backpack when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I practically jumped out of my skin, but when I saw it was Sora I relaxed.
"Sorry, hey do you want to walk home with us?"
"Yeah that'd be cool, but I go home on the bus." I said, slightly disappointed
"Oh that's good!" I shot him a confused look as I found my iPod and flipped through it for a song
"I- I mean because we do too…..s-so…."
"Ha-ha anyways, I think that is Sora's way of saying 'nice, now let's go catch the bus before it leaves our sorry butts behind'." Kairi said as she ran ahead of us to the bus; that looked ready to pull away. We both ran to catch up with the surprisingly fast girl. We paid the fare and sat down. After some attempts at small talk I slipped in an earpiece and lost myself in the song.
"You like Metallica too?" wow, here we go again. So it turns out that not only did Sora like the Harry Potter series but we had the same taste in music, we spent the rest of the ride talking about favorite songs, bands, books, and we were right in the middle of arguing about which one had the best songs on our iPods when Kairi, exasperated again at our similarities, practically pushed us out of the bus. We walked for a few minutes before I noticed my house. Sad that I had to leave I lingered outside a bit, still talking with Sora, this time though Kairi joined in. She and Sora had tagged teamed me in an argument about Twilight, when I heard a voice I wish I hadn't heard
"Riku, who are your friends?" I jumped, and saw my dad standing next to us.
"No one." I said quickly. They looked at me confusion etched on their faces
"Um, bye guys, see you tomorrow."
"Yeah, bye Riku." They waved, and we watched them walk away.
"Get in the house, you have chores to be done." I sighed and followed my dad inside.