Kairi felt Riku pull her closer into his warm embrace. Thier kisses became more passionate as he put his large hands around her tiny waist.
Thud.
The two broke apart in a split second after being interrupted by a soft thud echoing from the corner of the room. Kairi's face turned from pure delight to immense horror in a matter of seconds. Riku met her eyes puzzeled as he turned slowly around to discover what had her frozen and stiff.
Sora just stood there gaping at the sight that his eyes had stumbled upon unsuspectingly. His best friend caught in a passionate kiss with Kairi, his current girlfriend and other best friend. Riku was holding Kairi in his toned arms while she had her arms draped around his neck and as she met Sora's nautical eyes a look of horror and guilt spread across her face.
Sora slowly backed out the door and turned to run down the long winding staircase nearly knocking Riku's Mom, who had come to check on them, over in an attempt to head for the front door to escape the painful scene.
"Riku, what is going on?! Riku's Mother scolded.
"It's nothing Mom. I'm dealing with it." Riku protested as he rushed down the stairs grabbing the ornate handle on the front door to try and chase Sora down and try to settle everything.
Even though Sora was no match for Riku physically, having a broken heart can make you do unspeakable things. At this point Sora was just about capable of anything, and Riku knew that.
Riku spotted Sora from behind his spikes blowing in the light breeze, trying to make an escape. Riku darted after him and grabbed him by the shoulder, then-
BAM!
Riku felt Sora's knuckle come sweeping across his chin, he felt this warm liquid come trickling down his chin. Riku put his hand up to slowly wipe the blood away as he foresaw another blow coming and he stopped Sora's hand in the nick of time. He used more strength than he usually would have to block Sora's punch and push him backwards. Sora started stumbling backwards then moments later regained his posture as he came running towards his best friend at full speed.
"How. Could. You. Do. This. To. Me. Riku?!" Sora managed to breathe between punches.
"Sora, if you would just stop punching me and listen for a sec instead of jumping to conclusions, maybe you could actually hear the whole story!" Riku gasped.
Suddenly the pitter patter of dainty footsteps came sounding from behind them and Sora felt the soft small arms come and grab Sora from behind.
"Sora, please just listen!" Kairi pleaded as tears rushed down her face .
Sora didn't want to but Kairi's voice was so pitiable that Sora softened and just collapsed on the soft green grass in front of Riku's elegant house, listening to the long tale of dishonesty, betrayl, and mistrust that had been occuring over the past 6 months.
Sora took and deep breath in as he brushed his slender fingers through his chocolate spikes trying to absorb all that his two friends had been telling him. The rage that had been consuming him for the past hour had dimmed and turned to sadness and feelings of betrayl.
"Sora, I never wanted to hurt you. I was just so confused, I still am!" Kairi confessed.
Sora took a deep breath in as he prepared to ask the all inevitable question that could end up making the whole inside his heart grow bigger.
"Do you love him?" Sora asked bluntly.
Kairi let out a gastp and an awestruck look came across Kairi's face, its not as if she hadn't thought about this question night after night ever since that first fateful kiss. But the fact that Sora was asking her straight out caught her off guard.
"I-I don't know, Sora. I just-I might. But I love you too Sora!" Kairi exclaimed.
Sora's face exhuberated disappointment. That was definitely not what he wanted to hear. He slowly pushed himself up off the ground.
"Well, Kairi. Until you figure out your feelings. Come and find me. That's if I still want to talk to you. Have fun with Riku." Sora said with such anger and venom.
"Sora, I-" Kairi tried to get out.
" Kairi, I'm sorry I can't talk to either one of you right now. Honestly its just too painful to even look at either one of your faces right now. When and If I want to talk I'll come find you guys." Sora interrupted.
With a quick turn Sora walked away into the distance, his head hung low. Kairi felt her body go limp and lost all feeling as her body sunk to the ground. All the emotions she had been holding in the past months started to errupt and the tears started to flow down her face. When her eyes started to clear she glanced up to see that Riku had balled his hands into a fist.
"Riku...Why are you so angry?" Kairi asked concerned.
"Well Kairi, I'm not angry at anyone but myself. I was the one who kissed you, multiple times. But even after that we should've stopped. Honestly its both of our faults that our best friend is hurting so much. What were we thinking? Why did we think we could go through with this with all parties unscathed?" Riku replied.
"I don't know. Maybe we wanted something that felt like a dream, yet it was real. I don't even know. It could be that we felt something with eachother that we didn't feel with anyone else. Then again maybe we never gave anyone else a chance." Kairi said solemnly.
Riku just stared into the distance, deep in thought as Kairi stayed on the ground in the fetal position awaiting Riku's response. Riku suddenly loosened his fists and turned his body towards Kairi.
"Kairi, the way I see it there's only one option. You have to make a choice! We can't keep playing these games. We can't keep messing with our best friends heart. Its not right! I don't care who you choose,I just want you for once and for all to make a choice and stick to it!" Riku said seriously.
Kairi was a little ataken back by Riku's bold statement, to be completely honest she was terrified. Kairi's personality was more along the lines of a pleaser and wanting to make everyone happpy. But this choice wasn't going to be easy. Someone was going to get hurt no matter what choice she made. The situation was so overwhelming she just couldn't think straight. She mustered all the strength she could managed and walked down the hill into the sunset, leaving Riku in the distance behind her. There was only one place she could go the think clearly. The Island.