Another Chance

Roxas rolled over the floor towards Sora. "Hey Sora, what do you want to do?

"I don't know," he answered flipping through the channels on the TV.

Sora was at Roxas' house this weekend. They were currently laying on the floor with nothing to do waiting on Cloud and Leon to bring dinner which would probably take hours. His parents were out tonight, so the boys had the house to themselves.

"Why don't we make cookies and you can tell me how you ended up with Riku?" Roxas asked.

"Fine by me. Plenty of chocolate chips?"

"Yup, come on."

They headed into the kitchen and began pulling out the ingredients needed for cookies. They mixed ingredients in silence for a while.

"Well?" Roxas finally asked as he finished putting the cookies on the tray.

Sora put the tray in the oven, turned towards Roxas, and sighed. "Well, what happened," he began.

Sora was walking down the hall laughing with Ollete and headed to first period. He was excited for his first day of high school. Out of the corner of his eye he sees a flash of silver rushing by. Then he turns to the side to look and walks straight into the guy. He looks up into the guy's face and instantly his face turns a shade of red

"And you are?"

"S-Sora."

"Well, S-Sora, do you want to go out with me?"

"I d-don't even k-know your name."

"I'm Riku, so how about it?"

"Well, um…I don't know."

"Do you have a reason not to?"

"No, but-"

"Alright, well then I'll take that as a yes."

"……."

Riku moved away from Sora and started down the hall. "See you around," he smiled.

"And that's what happened," Sora finished lamely.

Roxas just stared at him. "Are you joking me? What the hell? You didn't even know this guy; you'd never seen him in your life and you just walk into him, now you're dating. This is unbelievable! You know nothing about him! Sora, this guy could be a psycho for all you know."

"I know Roxas, but think of the courage it takes to ask someone out knowing they might reject you. Roxas, I couldn't just say no, that could have hurt him!"

"Sora, that's how you always think, that's why you get stuck with all these people you don't like."

"I'm sorry, but it's okay Riku really isn't that bad."

"From what you know," Roxas muttered. He shook his head. "Let's wash up the dishes."

30 minutes later, Roxas and Sora were munching on fresh from the oven chocolate chip cookies, sprawled on the floor watching TV. Cloud and Leon walked through the door with Chinese takeout in hand.

"Yea guys, spoil your dinner with cookies especially after all the trouble we went through getting you dinner," Cloud said sourly.

"Well, you guys were taking hours. I mean it doesn't take that long to run to the Chinese place. You've been gone two hours," Roxas replied.

Cloud glanced towards Leon. "Well, we're here now and that's all that matters."

"Hm. I bet."

"Yea it is, so come eat whether you're hungry or not," Cloud said turning towards the kitchen. Leon trailed along after him. They all entered the kitchen and Leon picked up a cookie.

"Not bad."

"Leon, don't eat that!" Cloud exclaimed, "You don't know what they put in those cookies."

"Hey!" Sora and Roxas both chimed indignantly.

"Well, they taste pretty good to me."

"Think about what makes them taste that good."

"Shut up Cloud," Roxas said shoving past him and taking the noodle container.

They ate in relative silence before Cloud announced he was going to have a small get together in 2 weeks. He was inviting a couple of people because Demyx wanted them to get to know each other a bit better and he decided to humor him.

"Am I invited," was Sora's immediate question.

"I don't know," Cloud replied. "It's more of an older thing, not for short people running around.

"Hey! That's not fair. It's not our fault we're short," Roxas scowled.

"Well, I guess you can come, but on one condition. You have to play cards against me and Leon, winner picks prize." Cloud turned and gave Leon a quick smile.

"Deal!" They yelled in unison.

"Alright, now be quiet and eat. That's enough talking for one dinner."

Later that night, as they were up in Roxas' room, lounging on his bed before going to sleep.

"Hey, Sora?"

"Yea," he answered.

"What do you think of Axel?"

"Well….he seems nice enough, but like you said looks can be deceiving. He's a bit too forward, but I guess he's alright."

"Okay, thanks," Roxas said turning over. He was glad they were close enough that Sora knew what was going through his head sometimes. Because he really didn't want Sora to ask any questions and thankfully he didn't.

"Sora, wake up! Wake up!"

"Huh? Wha? What's up?" Sora mumbled groggily.

"Get up, Sora. You're going to be late for school."

Sora glanced at his clock. "Oh no!" It read 7:00 a.m. Sora sat up throwing off his covers and hurrying to get dressed. The weekend at Roxas had been fun, but now he had to go back to school and face Riku again. Riku hadn't seemed too happy when Sora had turned down his date. But then again, why should he seem happy? Sora knew he would probably be unhappy too, if his own boyfriend turned him down for a date.

He headed out the door and down the street grabbing an apple on his way out. He looked down at his watch and saw that if he hurried, he would have a chance of making it to class.

He entered the school just as the warning bell rung. Sora was almost to his class when he felt someone sharply pull him aside. Sora looked up into Riku's sparkling emerald eyes.

"So, how was your weekend with Roxas," Riku asked. He smiled when he said this, although a small frown crossed his face when he said Roxas.

"Uh, it was fine," Sora stuttered.

"Glad to hear it. Because even though I was unable to see you this weekend like I wanted, I still wanted you to have a nice time." Riku smiled down at him.

"Yea, I had a nice time." He answered, not meeting Riku's eyes.

"Well, you don't have any plans for this weekend, do you?"

"Uh, no." Sora cringed internally and wondered why he hadn't lied.

"Perfect, then you can go out with me Saturday night. There's a carnival in town and you seem like the type of person who likes carnivals."

After a hesitant moment where he considered his options, Sora finally agreed."Okay, Friday at 7?"

"Sounds good to me," Riku smirked at him.

Sora heard a chime overhead. He hit his hand to his forehead before it was grabbed by Riku who proceeded to drag him down the hall.

"It's cool, Sora. I have connections," he laughed. "Ah here's your class, come on."

Riku pushed the door open and pulled Sora inside with him.

"Sorry Ms. Lulu, me and Sora got held up."

"It's fine Riku. Sora, come in and take your seat.

Sora walked back to his next near Kairi and slid into it. Kairi was throwing him curious looks that he was ignoring. With a final parting wave to Sora, Riku left the class shutting the door behind him. Sora pulled out his stuff for the class and continued studiously ignoring Kairi. But after a while, his thoughts began to drift away from the class.

Sora liked going to carnivals, but he liked having fun at carnivals too. He didn't think he could have fun at a carnival with or without being on a date with Riku there. He had never been to a carnival on a date before. It had always been as a group of friends just having fun. Now it would be one-on-one time with Riku. He wasn't exactly comfortable being alone with Riku yet. At least there would be a lot of people around if something were to happen.

Riku strolled into class 5 minutes late. He gave the teacher a smile and a quick apology and she nodded him to his seat. He slid in between Hayner and Seifer with a wide smile on his face.

"Well, don't you look happy," Hayner commented.

"That's because I am," Riku replied.

"What, did you have a make-out session with the kid? Is that why you're late?" Seifer asked raising his eyebrows.

"No, but I did get him to agree to go out with me to the carnival Friday night."

"Really? Did you force him into it?"

"No," Riku said annoyed, "He agreed to go of his own free will. Although, part of it might have been because it was a carnival."

"And let me guess, kids like carnivals? You should be ashamed playing on his weaknesses, Riku." Hayner said shaking his head.

"Well, if we end up together and happy, it won't matter because we'll both be thankful that I was forward enough to initiate the relationship."

Axel began dialing a number on his phone.

"Who are you calling, Axel?" Larxene asked from her spot across from Axel. They were in the courtyard of the school having lunch.

"Roxas," was Axel's short answer.

"Why are you calling him? How do you even have his number," Larxene asked.

"Demyx gave me his number. He got it from Cloud. I'm calling him because I want to know if he wants to go to the Paramore concert with me this weekend."

Larxene just looked at him. "Hello, you could have asked me, I'd have wanted to go. You're picking some snot nosed kid who is probably not interested in you, over me?

Axel shot her an annoyed look. "It's not like that Larxene and you know it."

"Yea, yea," she said waving her hand, "you like him and just want to see if it'll "work," good luck with that."

"Shush, it's ringing." Larxene just rolled her eyes.

"Hello," came a mid-pitched clear voice over the phone.

"Hi, this is Axel."

"Axel?" Roxas said with distaste, "How did you get my number?"

"Demyx gave it to me, but anyway that doesn't matter."

"Well, if someone giving my number out to strangers isn't something that matters, go ahead Axel, tell me what matters."

"First off, I'm not a stranger, you met me Friday. And what matters is I have two tickets to a Paramore concert this Friday which I happen to know you like."

"And how would you know that," Roxas asked suspiciously.

"Let's just say I have connections. So what do you say will you go?"

"No."

"Why not? What do you have to lose?"

"Why would I go out with someone and I don't even know their last name."

"So..."

"So, obviously I know nothing about you and I don't trust you."

"As angry as that makes me feel. How about if Demyx comes? Then would you come?"

Roxas paused for a moment and then answered, "Yes, I would."

"Fine then, I'll see you Saturday."

Roxas hung up without so much as a goodbye.

Axel looked over at Larxene and smirked,"I knew he would go out with me."

"Yes," she answered, "but now you just have to convince Demyx to come along. As a third wheel on your date, no less."

"That will be easy once I tell him Zexion is coming." Axel laughed and headed back inside the school.

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