Chapter 4

I walked out of my room and into the hall. I saw my mom walked past the entryway downstairs and my beloved Riku fallow her. I assumed they were either headed to the living room or our back porch. I smiled as I almost ran down the stairs. Which was probably a bad idea. Just as I was about to reach the last few step I tripped and came tumbling into Riku and onto the floor. You good hear my mother giggling to herself on the other side of the room. "Oh my god, Riku! I'm so sorry," I got up and pulled him to his feet and told him to turn around so I could make sure he didn't hit his head to hard.

"No, its ok. I don't think I've been severely injured," he lightly smiled and started rubbing the back of his head. I looked at him with worry probably scribbled all over my face. "But you just hit your head on the hard wood floor!," I tried to inspect him again before my mom walked over and help dishevel the dizzy Riku. "Zexion, honey he's fine. There's no blood or broken bones. The worst thing that could happen is him falling asleep with a concussion," she smiled and walked over to the kitchen most likely to get some ice for my poor Riku's head. I walked Riku to our couch and sat him down. Once I knew he was comfortable I sat next to him and held his hand, squeezing it lightly as if to ask again if he was ok.

He returned the gesture and then smiled up to my mom as she handed him some ice in a zip lock baggy. "I'm sure I'm not going to be sleeping until tomorrow, so no need to be so worried, Zex." I blushed as Riku called me by a new pet name and put the ice on his now probably bruised head. "What I want to know is why the hell were you running down the stairs in the first place?" You could tell my mom was genuinely worried about what I did about ten minutes ago. She knows I get excited, but I have never ran down the stairs knowing about my clumsiness. "I was…just…so happy, yeah I was happy that Riku was here," I blushed and moved my gaze from them to the floor.

"Well, lunch is almost ready," my mom said breaking the few seconds of awkward silence in the room, "Riku, would you mind coming into the kitchen and helping me?" I lifted my gaze to look at her questioningly. She gave me one of those, 'I'm going to have a talk that you don't need to be concerned with until later,' looks before walking out of the room and into the kitchen. I looked over to Riku and he smiled as he got up slowly, afraid of hurting his head by moving to fast. "I'm sure it will be fine," he said giving me a smile and kissing my forehead before making his way toward the kitchen with my mom. I loved it when he smiled like that. If always made me feel like I made him happy. But, I was still concerned with my mother and her keeping me in the dark.

Riku's POV

After I left my little Zexion on the couch I walked into the kitchen and greeted his mother with a smile as she took what looked to be pork out of the oven. She set it on the cooling rack above the stove closed the stove and returned her gaze to me. "You aren't going to be a problem are you?" her face was stern looking, but looking in her eyes you could tell she only had concern for her son's safety. I hadn't a clue why she looked that way though. "I'm sorry, but I'm not quite understanding your question," I gave her a confused and hopefully a trusting look. Her eyes softened and she gave me a light smile before she turned and started to open the fridge and pull a salad out. "How many relationships have you been in, Riku?" she looked at me, seriousness filling her face as she looked back to the silverware drawer and started to pull forks out.

"I haven't had many, why?" I watched as she pulled the bread out of the cupboard and started to get plates. I don't know if she heard what I did, but I heard someone walking to the entrance of where the kitchen was. And I knew, Zexion was on the outside of the doorway listening in to us. "Zexion, is my only son, and I haven't willed up my courage to find another man after his father left us," she talked about his father with complete hatred. I could understand how she felt, my father killed himself after he claimed my mother a whore and me not his son because I told him I was gay.

"I understand, you guys feel hurt and you don't want Zexion to be abandoned anymore, right?" I looked at her with a face that I hope showed her that I wouldn't do that to him. She continued preparing the lunch and I could hear Zexion shifting to lean on the wall.

"Its not that I don't trust you," she continued, "Its just that before his father left…he had two previous relationships that weren't at all what he deserved." I looked down and thought about what she told me. I realized why every time I saw Zexion and he didn't notice me he was always alone and sad looking. I looked up at her and gave her a warm smile as to assure her I knew what she meant and I wasn't going to hurt him, at least not on purpose.

Zexion's POV

'Shit, why would she be telling him about my personal problems," I hurriedly walked back to the living room and sat in my spot trying not to look like I knew at all what we were talking about. I looked over to the entryway as Riku walked in. He motioned me to fallow him onto our back patio. "I know you heard us…," he looked at me with sadness and understanding in his eyes. I looked at him and slowly nodded to him. "I hope you know she didn't tell me everything. Just that you have had bad relationships and didn't want it to happen again." I looked at him, smiled lightly and gave him a hug. "Thank you for not persisting me to tell you what happened."-"Of course, its not my business. You can tell me on your own time. Just remember…Ill always be here if you need to talk," Riku had a smile on and looked over to the sliding door as my mom came out with food. She sat it down on the table and we enjoyed the meal as we shared stories about her work and our school.

"All right you two," my mom gave us each a hug before escorting us to the door, "have fun. And Zexion, remember what I told you in the car yesterday." I looked at her wide eyed and turning a light shade of pink as I remembered what she asked of me when she picked me up from school yesterday. I quietly nodded as Riku gave each of a us a confused look then shrugged and waved to my mom as she shut the door and we went toward his car. "I assumed we were walking?" I looked at Riku confused. He smiled and opened the door for me and then walked around and got into the drivers seat. "Well, your house is a bit farther away from mine, and I didn't want to make you walk there," I smiled at him and put my seatbelt on and he did the same. He started the car and we headed toward the other side of town.

As we pulled into the parking lot of a rather nicely decorated apartment complex I took my seatbelt off and opened the door after he parked and turned the car off. I walked around the front of the car and looked at the afternoon sun starting to set and become and evening sun. Riku shut his door and went over to the trunk and unlocked it pulled out a plastic bag that appeared to be from our towns movie store. "What's that?" asking as I tried to sneak a peek into the bag. "You'll see in a when we get inside, until then why don't you grab the other bag your mom grabbed for you?" I nodded grabbed the bag and closed the trunk so he could relock it.

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