--chapter three playing go fish with bipolar disorder
When the reached the school it was surprisingly still lunchbreak, loads of people stared at them like mad, when suddenly Axel appeared.
„Where have you been? I was worried!" he hugged Saïx.
„Oh nothing, really." Saïx tried to calm the red haired.
„You look like you had a steamy make-out session." Axel pouted. „Without me!"
„Get down, things are not always as they seem to be." Riku said, the bell rang and everybody went to his classes.
„You´ll have a whole lot to explain!" threatened Axel as he vanished into the hall.
Riku and Saïx looked at each other for a second and smirked both, the hugged briefly before splitting up and going to their own classes.
Riku came a bit too late and apologized „I am not used to such a great schoolbuilding and I got lost on the way. I am sorry sir."
His teacher looked at him in disbelieve „Did you went for a walk in the park, or what?"
His teacher smiled and told him to sit down. The rest of the lession was rather boring, some of the other students watched Riku. Tried to guess what he had done in the lunchbreak, „steamy makeout-session" was the main thought. Riku held back a smirk and said nothing.
After class Axel was waiting for him in the hall.
„What the fuck have you done to my mate?!" some of Riku´s classmates backed away from the red haired in an instant.
„Hello, yes I am fine. Why?" teased Riku.
„He got wounds all over his body!" Axel seem really worried.
Riku said nothing just showed his arm to Axel, it was sore but the wound had closed, it just looked horrible.
„What the... are you some sick fetishist?" Axel touched the wound carefully, it would make a awesome scar, once healed.
„Nope, it some kind of accident."Riku explained
„I don´t care, you will tell me what happened. Now!" Axel grabbed Riku by the shoulders and shook him.
„Why so rough?" Riku asked, he didn´t wanted to explain the whole situation.
„Because he said completely nothing! I feel like an outcast! You come up and he clungs to you like he had never done anything else! I had to talk to him for weeks, so he would let me touch him! And you, you say hello and he immediately forgets me!" Axel was gesturing wildly through he air.
„You got Roxas." said Riku calm.
„I know but he and I were best friends for so long and now you, some guy he met years before, show up and I am nothing to him!" Axel was nearly shouting.
„He´s just a friend of yours. You can´t tell him how much affection he should give to who." Riku stayed calm while Axel became even madder.
„That´s not he point! It´s just unfair, he forgets me and anybody else as long as you´re near." Axel pouted
„It´s your problem, I can´t help you." Riku wanted to leave and look for Saïx.
„Yes you can! You could just stay away from him, let us be happy. No you have to ruin everything!" Axel stamped like a kindergarten kid.
„Who are you talking about?" Saïx had appeared out of nothing next to Riku.
„About nobody." Axel pouted.
„How long have you been listing?" Riku asked.
„Since „What the fuck have you done to my mate!?"." Saïx said.
Axel pouted even more „I hate you two!" and vanished into the crowd.
„We have been talking about you." Riku blinked a little tired. „Why haven´t you told him what happened?"
„I told him we went on a walk through the park, that you tried to smoke, but ended coughing like mad and so on, y´know."
„Why aren´t you sick anymore?" Riku asked suddenly.
„I never was sick, I just acted as like so you would be happy and hung up." Saïx started to play with Riku´s silver hair.
„Why were you in the park in each case?" Riku normally didn´t liked it when people played with his hair, but he let Saïx do as he wanted.
„I don´t know, I thought I might meet somebody else who skipped."
„And did you?" Riku asked.
„No, I was happy when you phoned because I was so bored. I am very moody when I am bored." Saïx said apologizing.
„I am sorry for what I said. I never been much of a good negotiator." Riku and Saïx said in the same moment.
They looked at each other in surprise, Saïx smiled and Riku blushed.
„Got any idea why Axel is acting so strange?" Riku asked, skipping the silence that normally rose after something like this.
„He sometimes starts to talk about how much he needs me and how much he loves me and that he would do anything for me and stuff. I don´t know maybe he is envying you."
„But we are just friends, if he would want to be with you, I wouldn´t say anything."
Saïx looked at him a little confused „And I don´t get asked if I want to be with him, or with you?"
„Don´t misunderstand me, you are nice and you may be my closest friend but I don´t love you like I would love a Lover. I love you like a brother." Riku blinked a little confused, wasn´t that easy to see?
„Oh, and I wanted to ask you if we could marry once you´re eighteen." Saïx smiled brightly.
„Oh, what a pity. If I invite you to my wedding, will you invite me to yours?." Riku smiled back.
The two of them broke down in laughter. The surrounding crowd backed away from them even more. Two guys talking about weddings wasn´t perfectly normal, despite the fact this school was used to Axel´s and Saïx´s makeout sessions.
The two calmed down, but still giggled. „I think we should look for Axel and say sorry." Riku said.
„You´ll do nothing, he is my best friend, not yours." Riku blinked several times.
„And what about me?" Saïx smiled and patted Riku head.
„You are too young to understand the friendship between men."
„I didn´t mean that. I meant, does that mean I am only second best friend?" Riku pouted.
„You can´t compare Axel and you. You are so different. I love you in different ways. I can´t say who I like more or less."
Riku looked at Saïx in disbelieve „You really like this loon?"
„Yes, why not? We share a lot of memories. He helped me several times when I felt bad, he was always there to comfort me, just because he acts a little weird sometimes doesn´t mean I don´t like him. Nobody is perfect, y´know." Saïx nodded.
The rest of the day was rather boring. Riku and Saïx sticked together and rumors made their way that they were a couple.
The next two days were food for those rumors. When Saïx and Riku first met, the hugged and kissed like the hadn´t seen each other for years, then they talked, talked and talked like they wanted to catch up what they had missed in the years of department.
When they departed to went to their classes, some girls nearly cried because it looked so dramatic.
When they met again, they hugged and kissed and the same girls (they seemed to be a sick fanclub) nearly cried again. They were taking millions of pictures.
Riku couldn´t really imagine this as his day-to-day life but he kind of like the idea.
It was th second day and they spent the lunchbreak together, the two of them having a tale alone like the day before, the fanclub was seated on tables nearby, the still took photos and giggled like on the first day. Riku wasn´t sure if they had multiplied or minimized.
Again they two of them laughed and felt happy. Riku started to feed the rest of his fries to Saïx, who smiled lewdly. Every now and then he touch Riku´s fingers with his lips. The girls where nearly dying with envy.
„What are you guys doing? I haven´t seen you much the last two days.." said Axel, he had appeared at the table.
„What perverted games are you playing?!" he backed away reflexively as he saw Saïx munching his fries happily and Riku wiping the spit of his fingers.
„I am feeding him with french fries, want some?" Riku reached out to give some of the fries to Axel.
Before Axel even blinked, Saïx had grabbed the fries with his mouth. Badass as he was, he had cought some of Riku´s fingers too and sucked them gently. He smirked very mean.
„Bad Saïx, Axel surely wanted those fries." Riku held back a laugh.
„No I didn´t." Axel backed away even more.
„So what do you want from us?" Saïx asked, he had swallow the fries and let go of Riku´s fingers.
„I just wanted to tell you that you can have the flat this afternoon, no this night, no the whole week. I am going to stay with Roxas!" with a hint Axel was away.
„What flat?" Riku asked.
„We share a little apartment. We moved away from our hometown because he couldn´t stand being near his parents anymore." Saïx ate the rest of the fries.
„Why did you move with him?"
„I didn´t wanted to leave him alone. I suggested it, because I saw how much he suffered, from being with his parents. We did move here, because the apartment was the cheapest we could find." Saïx explained simply.
„Oh." Riku replied simply.
Silence rose from between them.
Riku thought about taking Saïx´s hand and telling him how much he had missed him or something like this when suddenly a manic blond appeared out of nowhere.
„Heya! What did you blokes do to Ax, he is a walking puddle of disgust." The blond moved even as he talked. He talked fast, somehow outdrawn and connected words to sentence snakes, little australian like.
„Hello Demyx. We just offered him some french fries. How would you like coming over to my place after school and playing go fish?" Saïx smiled friendly.
„Oh my god! Go fish! I really looooove go fish! Of course not! I will play my new song to you! Who else is coming?" Demyx bounced around like a rubber ball. The excitement letting him talk even faster and less understandable.
(it sounded like this ohhhhmyhhhgohhhdgohhhfihhsh!)
„I thought about Riku if you want you could bring somebody and I´d love to hear your new song."
„Yay! I´ll ask Zexy! Bye then!" Demyx bounced away sing some kind of strange song „(...)I am going to Saïx´s place with Zexy and Riku and we´ll play go fish! Oh joy!(...)"
„What was that?" asked Riku.
„Demyx, he is manic, he is like this all time, the only one who can stand this longer than a hour is Zexion, you´ll meet him today as it seems." Saïx seemed to be amused by the thought.
The rest of the day passed fast.
Zexy turned out to be one of the emos in Riku´s poetry club. The leader-emo as it seemed. It was depressing just to look at him.
Zexion was th child of two famous scientist, from his birth on he had been drilled to become one too. He had been taken away from his parents because they had nearly killed him. He had, in a test, with 100 points possible, only reached 99 ¾. It was a mistake from the teacher and corrected later, but they had nearly killed him because of this.
His depression (it really was one) came from that he had never be so good to be praised from his parents. They always had said „Good, but you can make it better if you would study harder." and never cared him. Always just studied and worked.
He lived in a hostel with other kids, like Demyx who spend a year away from his family to see the world.
He didn´t talk much and if he talked very low and fast. He practically whispered. How Demyx could understand even a single word was a mystery to Riku.
Demyx really was manic and hyper-active but he could play his instrument like it was part of his body.
He told Riku a little about his live: he had been born in Australia as kid of a Dutch and an American. Both of them played Sitar, the strange instrument he played. He had been teached how to play since he was three, back there he practiced 16 hours a day. Now because of school and stuff he only practiced 4-6 hours. He wanted to become a great sitarist as Vilayat Khan. His dream was to go to india and find a teacher who could teach him how to let it rain.
Because if you play indian music the right way something strange happens, this songs weren´t composed just for fun but to heal and to let it rain, it was Demyx dream to let it rain and he practiced all day just for that goal.
The song he played was slow. He gave each note it´s own personality, it´s own live, complete with family, enemies, friends, haters, lovers, past and future. Each note. It sounded amazing. When he picked up speed those notes started to dance, friends with friends, family with family even haters seemed to dance with each other in harmony.
Riku was amazing in playing go fish. He had never played before, but it seemed like he was very talented.
In each case it got late and Demyx and Zexion left. Riku phoned his parents and told them he would spend the night with a friend. They seemed overly happy.
He went home and picked up his things while Saïx cooked something undefinable with noodles. Surprisingly it tasted good.
Because Axel didn´t seem to come home tonight Riku slept in his bed. Which made little difference to sleeping on the floor because both beds stood in the same room. This long day had made him tired, he fell asleep immediately.
--Author note
Yes I play Sitar too. Kinda obvious isn´t it. Oh and in India there really do exist kids that learn this instrument since the are three and the really learn 16 hours a day. Ravi Shankar (you may know him if parents are hippies or so) had learned 20 hours a day for more than ten years, and he can´t let it rain. He plays notes, but doesn´t give them life, he is disrespecting them, thinks he is better but we are all made of sound. I think Demyx is short for reaching his goal, because he can make the notes sound. For example when I play it sounds like I am raping my sitar, if my teacher plays it sounds like he is talking to his sitar (he plays for about 40 years) if Ravi Shankar plays it sounds like he is kissing his Sitar (he plays for 60 years) and if my teacher´s favorite Vilayat Khan plays it sounds like he jacking off because this instrument is part of his body (he is dead and I got no idea how long he played) sorry for my language but it´s the only way I can describe it. And I think Demyx is something in between Ravi and Vilayat, maybe fucking a waterclone or I don´t know.
