There are two kinds of popular, the kind where you have lots of friends, and the kind where people just want to be near you.

Chapter 2, Being Non-Violent Sucks

Entry Numero Dos

Well, at least Mom's still letting me go to sleepovers!

"Morning Riku."

"Morning Master." I hissed.

"Fine, I guess I won't let you sleepover at Kairi's house, Mrs. Ito called and said Sora can't go unless you do, but I guess they can postpone…"

"Did I say something completely rude and out of character? I'm sorry; it's my lack of sugar, about that sleepover?"

"Well…."

I quickly did puppy-dog eyes, come on Mom! Resistance is futile!

"Okay, but that means you can't leave the house until your chores are all done."

"Fine, but I want my wallet back; I need it for a date!"

"Nope, nice try, and get rid of that look, you're going to make me cry, that or wonder what your sexuality is."

"Oh, nice way to put it." I mumbled, getting back to my French-toast (I gave up on cereal after yesterday's unfortunate event).

'Mrow!'

Oh god, please smite me.

'MEOW!'

Now would be nice.

"GODDAMMIT LEAVE ME ALONE YOU STUPID FREAK!"

"RIKU! ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?"

"No! It's that stupid cat!"

She ran into the room and saw me screaming blue murder and attempting to kick that other thing off my leg, I think I have an artery on my leg, cause the moment the cat stabbed me I started gushing blood.

"Oh no! Don't hurt Fluffy! Stop that you're getting blood on the carpet!"

I sighed, yep, that's my mom, she cares more about her carpet and her evil demented reincarnation of Satan (named Fluffy) than me.

I'm her son for goodness sake!

So after patching my leg up (I swear one of these days I'm calling child services) and doing my chores I headed to the islet…

"Sail away where no ball and chain
Can keep us from the roarin' waves
Together undivided but forever we'll be free
So sail away aboard our rig
The moon is full and so are we
We're seven drunken pirates
We're the seven deadly sins
We're seven drunken pirates
We're the seven deadly sins"

"Envy and its evil twin
It crepy in bed with slander
Idiots they gave advice
But sloth it gave no answer
Anger kills the human soul
With butter tales of lust
While pavlov's Dogs keep chewin'
On the legs they never trust"

I watched Sora, Kairi, and Cho wild dance to Flogging Molly's 'Seven Deadly Sins' (Cho was singing in an imitation of a pirate).

Cho was spinning so much she didn't notice me standing there…

"We're seven drunken pirates
We're the seven deadly sins
We're seven drunken pirates
We're the…oomph!"

She smacked into me with enough force to knock us both over the side of the dock and into the water below.

As we fell she cuddled into my chest and I wrapped my arms around her and crashed through the water back first, Cho (of course) was unhurt.

Once under the water Cho started struggling, I kept a tight grip on her and kicked my feet fiercely. Then I slipped my hands onto her hips and launched her with all my might, then propelled myself to the surface.

Kairi and Sora pulled Cho up on the dock as I climbed (withOUT help from the others might I add) up next to them.

I thumped Cho's back as she coughed.

"Dude, you suck at swimming." I joked, but Kairi got this funny look on her face and glared at Cho, who looked up and blinked innocently.

"Come on Cho, let's go and set up for the sleepover, 'kay?" Kairi grabbed Cho's arm and jumped into their boat. Kairi paddled off in a hurry.

"Awkward. Anyway, are you going Riku? Cause my mom was all like 'you can't go unless Riku's there, he'll keep you two from misbehaving"

"I don't know, when you put your mind to something I usually can't stop you…"

"What are you implying?"

I shook my head, "I'm going to be blunt with you, no stealing of virginity while I'm there, alright?"

"THAT'S GROSS YOU PERV!"

I ran like shit as Sora chased me with his keyblade drawn.

"Geez, someone's permanently PMSing."

After an hour of fighting off the insane Sora (VICTORY IS MINE) and beating sense back into him we headed back to the main island to get him medical help and prepare for the party (what the hell were we celebrating anyway again? I still need to ask Kai)

"Sora, stay still, 'kay mon?" I smirked as Sora twitched against Tidus' hold while I rummaged through my stuff, looking for a potion.

"Hey Riku mon, is that a diary?"

I froze, oh shit.

"No, my mom gave me that stupid journal and told me I wasn't ever going to get my wallet and keys back unless I learned 'self-control', lame huh?"

"Dude, mere words cannot express how much I love your mom." I glared at Tidus

"Tank GOD! Does this mean dat you're goin' to stop beating up Sora mon?"

"Wakka, it's pronounced 'thank', and no, Riku is never going to learn any form of self control, EVER. Hey, let's read the diary!"

None of them happened to notice my eye twitching, but after the 'let's read his diary' comment I stopped, strode up to Sora, and gave him a good smack on the head.

"Shut up while I'm trying to find your potion! And for the last time leave the journal thing alone!"

Tidus blinked, Sora gaped and Wakka laughed, "Why so defensive mon? But fine, how 'bout dat girl staying with Kairi, she's fine, ain't she?"

"Who Cho? Yeah, to bad she doesn't talk to us, I wonder what her problem is."

"She's a good singer, it was fun 'cause we were dancing to this one song, until she slammed into Riku and knocked them both off he dock. You should've seen Kairi! She was so pissed! I don't think Cho can swim."

"HA! I found it you guys, here you go Sora, I knew I stashed a few somewhere!" I handed him the little green bottle, he took of the cap and swallowed the contents in one gulp. Then he tossed the bottle on a pile of clothes I neglected.

"By the way, you should leave; Kairi's having that stupid sleepover soon, I got to get ready."

"I'm not going Riku mon, nor is Tidus."

Sora sighed, "I can't believe you're ditching us like that dudes!"

"Well, it's either blitz-ball, or girly sleepover, weigh the options!"

"Yah mon! Maybe you can ditch too!"

We shook our heads, "Kairi's going to kill us if we don't go. That and Riku wouldn't want to leave Cho all alone with us…"

I smacked my forehead, "I get it dumbass."

After chasing them out and packing my stuff I walked down to the mayor's house, being the last one to arrive.

"What's up?" I asked as I put my gym bag next to Cho (who sat there staring off into space), I knelt down and waved my hand up and down until she flinched and shrunk back against the couch.

"Sora and Kairi are in the other room."

I pulled my knees to my chest and leaned back casually so we were sitting side-by-side.

"I actually wanted to see how you were doing, are you okay?"

"Why wouldn't I be?"

I laughed and nudged her, "You suck at playing dumb, so don't even try it, leave it for the people who aren't pretending."

She flushed and hid behind her knees; I reached out and stroked the side of her hair, "How are you? Kairi seemed pretty worried, can't you swim?"

She shook her head, "Mom didn't want any risk of me getting hurt, seeing as I'm a hemophiliac…"

She let out an 'eep' and got up and ran out.

Hemophilia, so Cho's a bleeder, "I had no idea." I whispered.

"Hey Riku, what are you doing there alone?"

I smirked and got up, "Your mom said you were upstairs, but I had no idea where. So I just sat and waited for you to come to me."

"Well come on then, other people are coming, but you guys are the only ones sleeping over."

I left my bag there, then walked into the game room.

"Jeez Kai, what're we celebrating? I know (and hate) most of the people in the room!"

She looked at me strangely, "Umm, we're celebrating the last 2 days of summer, remember what they said at registration?"

Wait, SCHOOL STARTS IN TWO DAYS?

"Not fair huh? By the way, have you seen Cho? I think she's hiding from all the people she doesn't know."

I smirked, "I was talking to her earlier, but she ran out after accidentally admitting she has hemophilia, why?"

Kairi looked at me, shocked. I continued, "So technically Cho ISN'T seductive, but you just wanted me to stay away from her in order to protect her, correct?"

"Well, look, I had to…"

I held up my hand, "It's fine, I understand completely, anyway, you go look for Cho and I'll stay here and try not to kill anyone, I think she went into an upstairs room."

She turned around and left, I strolled across the room and got a soda from the mini-fridge, leaning against the counter casually, sipping the cola and trying hard to ignore Kairi's swooning 'girlfriends' or whatnot.

Sora was over talking to one of the people I hated to the extreme, so scratch the idea of talking to him, Wakka and Tidus ditched so that's out, no way in hell am I going to hover around Kairi for an hour, so I guess I'll hang out alone.

Not in an emo way of course, because Riku is not emo, Riku is sexy, kickass, and a lady killer who needs to stop thinking in the third person.

"Hello emo."

DAMMIT, okay, no killing, no killing, no pulling out my keyblade and smashing him into a bloody pulp…

"Aww, what's the matter, out of friends?"

I glared over at the asshole that interrupted my pep talk.

"It really is pathetic that somebody who's 'soooo sexy' doesn't even have a girlfriend, much less more than 2 friends…"

"Oh, there you are, you really didn't have to wait for me like that Riku, you could've hung out with your friends, ya'know?"

I looked up (or down) at Cho; she gave me tiny wink behind her hair. I nodded, getting the message.

I patted her on the head, "Hey, it's no problem, besides, I have all the drinks to myself anyway."

I looked back at what's-his-face, "You were saying?"

He mumbled something that sounded like 'never mind' and walked off. I turned to Cho and gave her a smile, "Thanks."

"Are we even now? You saved my life and I kept you from getting in a fight."

I shook my head, "Not just yet, I'm afraid that was a large deed, that saving your life, but tell you what, if you hang out with me for the remainder of the party, we'll call it even, how about it?"

She nodded, obviously relieved, "Better than meeting new people and having to sit through fashion tips."

My eyebrows furrowed at her jersey-style shirt (it was grey with red sleeves), baggy blue jeans, and red flip-flops, "What's wrong with what you're wearing? You look cool."

She shrugged, "I guess it's too different from those sluttish outfits."

I chuckled, "Thank god, you know how to insult someone; I was beginning to think you were Mormon or something."

"What's wrong with being Mormon?"

"Nothing, I was kidding, should I hold up 2 fingers when I crack a joke?"

She giggled, "It would help."

She opened the mini-fridge so I looked around, Kairi and Sora kept stealing glances at me, so I gave them a little wave, and some of the sluts began looking at me funny too (but Sora and Kairi stopped).

They headed over and I mentally braced myself.

"Hey Riku." One of them purred in a way they must've thought seductive, why on earth did Kairi invite these creatures?

Cho closed the fridge door, holding a club soda, "Sorry about that, Kairi promised she'd put one in but it was way back…ompfh!" Her head made a sickening 'thud' as it hit the cupboard; I turned back to the sluts, not even bothering to conceal my anger.

"Nobody cares weirdo, get a life. Anyway Riku, why don't you come and hang out with us? We're more popular than that thing." One of them hissed.

"Okay, this is the second time I've been bugged today, do I have a sign on my back that says 'hi my name is Riku please piss me off and shove my friend against a wall'?"

She started commenting on my looks when I noticed Cho was gone again, darn!

As she began talking about herself I crept off in search of my friend, of course I had no idea where to look.

I walked upstairs, hoping I'd find her crying or something (I'll win both ways, I'll find her and cheer her up, yay!), unfortunately I had no idea where anything was and found myself helplessly lost.

No! Riku is not lost! Riku doesn't get lost, he just, sometimes oesn't know where he is and starts giving himself annoying little pep-talks in third person!

My ears perked up at the sound of an opening box, then a running faucet, and a sharp intake of breath.

I got to the door right as the water stopped.

"Cho?" I knocked three times, "I know you're in there, remember, you promised?"

Her door opened slowly and Cho walked out, applying a bandage to her arm.

"Sorry, I guess it was my fault you got cut."

She shrugged and closed the door, "The only thing I can think of you doing wrong is being attractive, and that's not your liability, so there's no reason to be worried."

"Geez, you could be a public speaker on television or something!"

She giggled, and I noticed we were back in the room, Kairi and Sora looking at us with concerned expressions, I gave them a little 'ok' sign.

Cho walked over and grabbed another club soda and opened it.

"Well, fifteen minutes down, one hundred and five left to go."

I laughed, "Not only is she pretty, but good at math too, who knew?" I teased, then held up 2 fingers…

…Cho's going to our school too! Well dur, I mean, there's really no point in addressing that seeing as SHE LIVES WITH KAIRI! But anyway, hanging out with her wasn't that bad (psh, more like not bad at all), soon the party ended and I kept my promise to Kairi (who seemed pissed at me for some stupid reason)…

I wonder, why?

School equals less time to write (bleh), anyway, this was a little less jokey-jokey, we can't have ourselves not being serious at all, can we?

By the way nothing in this story has anything against hemophiliacs or Mormons, so if I've offended you in any way I'm sorry.