"Fugushita?"
"You don't have to feel the same way, if you want you can pretend I never said anything and we could act like we don't know each other. I mean, if that's what you want," I said knowing that rejection and shunning would come next. It just had to, Riku was the most popular guy in the school. Every girl wanted him, and it's not like he would say yes because he couldn't possible be gay. Could he? I knew for a while that I was gay I guess, I never really thought about it considering I had a crush on Kairi for the longest time. But recently, I felt less and less attracted to her.
First came a, "Hm, well then," and then a smirk.
"I knew this was gonna happen. I guess I'll just leave then," I said about ready to walk out the door. That's when I felt him grab me by my arm again.
"No, you don't get it do you? You really wanna know the reason I don't have a girl friend, or why I offered to help you study?"
"You mean?"
"Yeah, I like men. The moment I saw you, I thought you were just too adorable to leave alone. Sadly I didn't have the courage to talk to you, then all the girls started falling all over me," he said loosening his grip now that he knew I wasn't gonna run out the door, but still had a hold of my arm.
"You? Mr. Perfect, the one who has practically every girl on the island wrapped around his finger, afraid to talk to me? Let alone gay? Not that it's a bad thing, I mean I'm gay too. But I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would have never even thought you like that. Well until I got to know you a little more, I mean sure we've only just become friends and all. You get what I'm trying to say don't you?"
"You're cute when you ramble."
And with that he pulled me in and gave me my first kiss. The thing that I had always hoped would be between me and Kairi, was now just me and Mr. Per-, no. Not Mr. Perfect, my boyfriend, Riku. And it was the most amazing thing I had even experienced. Nothing else mattered in the world, it was just us. No school, work, girls, parents, teenage drama, none of that mattered now.
Pulling away from the kiss Riku gave out a little giggle, "What? What's so funny?" I said pouting a little bit.
"Oh it's nothing," he said ruffling my hair. "It's just, for the longest time I had always seen the way you looked at Kairi and I hoped that some day you would look at me like that."
"Come on, lets go get some ice cream," I said taking Riku's hand and walking out the front door into the bright sun, and things looked brighter than ever for me.
Later at the ice cream/candy shop, we got a triple chocolate sundae to share. Sitting down to eat, who else should we run into but the ever infamous Roxas and Axel. "Hey Sora!" Roxas said entering the shop.
"Oh hey, I didn't know you guys where gonna be here," Axel said walking up and avoiding eye contact with Riku.
"Come on guys, don't be too mean. You won't be when you find out-. Ya know, go get something and come back," I told them. Watching them walk away, I waited till they were out of ear shot. "Don't take it personally."
"Don't worry, I'm used to it. A lot of the guys give me the same treatment," Riku said with a mouth full of chocolate ice cream. Smiling I didn't notice that Axel had come back with two sea salt ice creams and Roxas with a over sized bag of strawberry cotton candy.
"So, you were saying something earlier?" Axel said pulling up a couple chairs for him and Roxas.
"Yeah, man how do I explain this one?" I said swallowing a bite full of strawberries, whipped cream, banana, and ice cream.
"Hm, how about that I'm gay?" Riku said which made both Roxas and Axel choke on the cotton candy.
"You're what?" Roxas said a little too loud.
"Shhh, don't announce it to the whole island!" I said leaning into them.
"Yeah, I mean it's not that we're trying to hide it or anything, but we just don't want a bunch of rumors out right now," Riku said taking a drink of his watermelon pop.
"Plus on to of that we're dating," I said giving a big grin. This time it was the same thing, only a little less dramatic.
"Next time make sure we aren't eating. Are you trying to kill us or something?" Axel said jokingly.
"Well I guess that you're not as bad as I thought you were Kinami," Roxas said to Riku, "But if you do anything to hurt him, you're in deep there."
"Roxas, stop it! You may be older, but that doesn't give you the right to say stuff like that!"
"Wait? What?' Riku gave us a confused look.
"Oh yeah, most people don't know since we don't live together, but we're twins. Dad got Roxas, and I live with mom," I said remembering that most people couldn't really tell all too well that we were twins since we didn't look alike.
"Yeah, I'm surprised that most people don't realize it. We do look alike, share the same birthday, and have the same last name," Roxas said trying to take a bite of cotton candy when Axel bit it from his hands. "Hey!"
"Ahahahahaha! Don't get so mad Roxy, you still have like an entire bag left, and the rest of your ice cream!" With that everyone at our table but Roxas laughed.
"Don't get too glum about it Roxas, Axel can always go buy you more," Riku said nodding towards Roxas.
Taking the last bite of the sunday, Riku got up and walked towards the counter. Sitting there with Axel and Roxas I wanted to know what they thought.
"Well, I personally think now that we know him a bit better he's a really cool guy."
"I agree with Axel, I always thought he was kind of a jerk who didn't care about anyone but himself, but now I wish we had been friends long ago," Roxas said now sitting in Axel's lap.
"Hey, I'm back. Here," he said tossing Roxas a bag with something in it.
"What's this?" Axel said trying to work his way around Roxas to open the bag.
"A paopu treat," he said smiling. "I got one for me and Sora too."
"Oh yeah, aren't these new to the shop?" Roxas said holding up a small paopu fruit covered in strawberry and chocolate syrup, along with a few bits of crushed candy sprinkled on top of the syrup.
"What flavor is the candy?" Roxas taking a small bit of the strawberry syrup on his finger then sucking it off.
"Oh you guys have strawberry 'cause I notice Roxas like strawberries, and I got us watermelon," Riku said holding up a fruit about the same sized, same syrup covering only with small bits of green candy. With that, my story as Sora the average tenth grader ended and a new story began. The story of Sora and Riku. Each of us taking an end, and Roxas and Axel doing the same, we took a bite of our sugar covered paopu fruit.
"Hey guys, do you know if the fruit will still work even when it's laced in sugar like this?" Roxas asked. That time everyone, even Roxas, laughed.
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EmoCosplayer: Hey guys! Well this is the final chapter of School Life. I know I normally do more chapters but I thought this one didn't need to many. Thank you for reading! I really hoped you enjoyed this, and I'm glad you liked it. Mainly because I felt like I was barely trying and that no one would read this….again thanks!
Roxas: mmmmmm, Strawberries…*drools*
EmoCosplayer: Oh yeah, I based Roxas' like *cough obsession cough* of strawberries off a friend of mineXD Yeah, she won't ever read this so I don't think she'll mind. Oh and I own nothing but the story line! Everything else belongs to the rightful owners!
